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3JDEKSON ;WAY TO ntral kOLINA Twenty-fourth year CONCRESS CONTINUES MKHIMEHT ON COURT NEW TESTS AWAIT. IN STRIKE FRONTS OVERJHE NATION Sitdown “Still Effective,” Homer Martin Says, De spite Reverses Dur ing Week MINNESOTA THREAT TO SEIZE UTILITIES Governor Says He Will Take Over Strike-Bound Plants If Law Will Allow; Martin Becomes Defiant Toward Governor of New Jersey Over Strikes \ix The Associated Press) a -roublous week on the wide labor conflict front ended today with new "'■•"of strength indicated. \Vr- ( an estimated 30,000 workers till ;die because of controversies, n -anv of which involved the sitdown, President Homer Martin, of the U. A. \V A took occasion to assert this 'trike weapon was “still effective. ' His remarks in New York appa rently were motiviated by setbacks to -downers during the week at Wau kegan. 111., and Santa Monica, Cal. Governor Elmer Benson, of Min nesota. championing the cause of striking utility workers in Minneapolis announced through his secretary he was prepared to take over the strike bound North States Power Company plant if he finds authority in law. The first outbreak to mar the peace ful mood of a score of Detroit labor disputes resulted in injuries to a wo man and two men at the Ferro Stamp ing Company when lead pellets were hurled in a row between union and non-union forces. In the continuing argument over the sitdown strike, at least three governors have voiced op position to this technique. Governor Henry Horner, of Illinois said there was "no warrant in law to justify a so-called sitdown strike,” and Governors Wilbur Cross of Conecti cut and Harold G. Hoffman of New Jersey warned they would tolerate no sitdown strikes in their states. Governor Hoffman’s announcement drew from Martin a rejoiner that sit down strikes would be conducted "whether he likes it or not.” Martin said the governor would “move out of the way” if he doesn’t “join with us.” STRIKES AT A GLANCE (By The Associated Press.) Strikes at a lance: Waukegan, lU. — Two C. I. O. organizers jailed in aftermath of tear gas attack routing 61 sitdown strikers from Fansteel Metallur gical Corporation plant. Newark, N. J. —Homer Martin, auto union head, defies Governor Hoffman's warning against sit down strikes; C. I. O. launches Now Jersey unionization drive. Janesville, Wis. Union and company officers seek settlement of dispute between union and non union workers which closed two General Motors plants. Santa Monica, CaL — Strike lead ers forecast tight picket lines to prevent reopening of Douglass Aircraft Corporation plant next week. Northrup plant plans re opening Monday, Smoak Set 7 o Die In Poisonings w 1 .gton, Feb. 27.—(AF)—Attor ni ' 1 Edgar Smoak, accused poi ■l of his two wives and 16- y“ai < 'laughter, mapped plans to an appeal after a jury con f' :nr •> ‘he ttolid carpenter to die. wa s tried on a charge of his daughter, Annie * heh,l! < !)ut the state charged he al- E-E >n> <T his wives, who died 14 ycar ' ! <p.H t, to collect SSOO in insur “l,f‘ poheieg on their lives. f11 a five-day trial, the jury con j. 1 ' the 39-year-old defendant of degree murder, a verdict which , Jrn '• m automatic sentence of : ea;h and Judge J. H. Clement sen leace.j him to die April 23. or John Burney said, in view g verdict, he did not plan to try p ! ! on a second indictment charg him with the poison murder of 1 < ond wife, Mrs. Alice Mason ’"ho died in July, 1935. Urttiteramt Hatlg Otspalrh _ ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS! Compacts Collapse Brings A New Crisis To T obacco Grower Huge Crop, With Low Prices, Seen As Almost Certain, With Another March on Washington Probable When Markets Open At Starvation Prices Dally Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By HENRY AVERILL. Raleigh. Feb. 27—Legislators from tobacco growing counties are freely predicting a new and severe “crisis” as the result of the collapse of com pact legislation. The only hope of avoiding such a crisis lies with the companies which buy tobacco, these law makers believe, and most observers do not expect much in that direction. The result is likely, in fact prob ably, to be another “March on Wash ington such as embattled growers staged in 1934 when short opening prices brought a closing of all ware houses in the State, largely through the vigorous action of Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus, whose course through out the previous tobacco “crisis” ’is Deck Is Being Cleared For Early Adjournment For State Legislature Mysteriously Slain j Humphrey Pearson, 40, prominent Writer of film scenarios and radio scripts, was found shot to death in the bedroom of his Palm Springs, Cal., home. Police refused to divulge the details of the tragedy, and ques tioned his widow and the Pearson butler. <Central Press) Revolt Over “Must” Bills Is Weakening Hoey’s Persuasive Powers Working Wonders; but Way Is Not Clear Yet Dally Dispatch Bnreas, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKERVIIAi Raleigh, Feb. 27. —The mild but de termined revolt which has been in evidence in both houses for several days against some of the administra tion measures—especially against the old age pensions and free textbooks bills —is giving signs of weakening. Accordingly, most observers are in clined to believe that when the House and Senate members come back Mon day afternoon or night they will just about have recovered from the rath er bad case of leislative jitters they developed this week and will be more in a mood to head the wishes of Gov ernor Clyde R. Hoey. This means that the House will go ahead and pass the old age pensions bill just albout in the same form as it was passed by the Senate and that the Senate will ap prove the free textbooks bill, which has already passed the House, obser vers believe. Good Trouble Shooter. While it is agreed that the General (Continued on Page Four.) HENDERSON, N. C„ SATURDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 27, 1937 being more and more vindicated every day. Huge Crop Certain The views of Representative W. E. Fenner, Nash, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, are illumi nting and characteristic of th e reac tion of most legislators from the weed belt. “It’s now too late to do anything at all about the 1937 crop,” said Mr. Fenner in discussing the tobacco sit uation. “With Georgia and South Carolina definitely in opposition, compacts be tween the tobacco-growing states are obviously out of the picture. “The Federal government’s hands are tied by the Supreme Court’s AAA decision. Congress can’t enact any on Page Four.) Tax and Appropriations Measures Passed by Both Houses During Week Just Ended LOCAL BILLS~BEING RUSHED TO PASSAGE Fight Over Social Security and Reorganization of Highway Commission Are Major Bills Remaining; Child Labor Bill Must Also Be Acted On By RALPH L. HOWLAND Raleigh, Feb. 27 (AP)—The General Assembly continuing its record-setting clip, disposed this week of the $76,- 000,000 revenue bill and the $145,000,000 appropriations measure. The tax measure passed the House on third reading early today, shortly after th e representatives had approv ed Senate amendments to the spend ing proposal. Major items now standing in the way of adjournment are reorganiza tion of the highway commission, free school textbooks and old age assist ance and child aid bills. So sure were legislators of early adjournment that they asked presid ing officers to appoint a calendar committee and child aid bills. Old committees would be discharged. Such action under precedent is not taken until the closing days of the session. Bills Pass by Score Committee and floor sessions con tinued at top speed as bills were act ed upon by the scores. Representa tives introduced measures in a steady (Continued on Page Four.) 19 BfLLSPASSED BY STATE SENATE House Not In Session After Post-Midnight Revenue Passage Raleigh, Feb. 27.—(AP) —Eight sen ators passed 19 bills at a perfunctory legislative session today. Measures enacted into law would ban sale of gasoline to intoxicated drivers in Cumberland and Johnston counties, and prohibit sale of alcoholic beverages in a Wilkes township. One sent the House would prohibit sales of intoxicants near a church in Union county. House members rested after an early morning meeting a few minutes after midnight at which they finished work on the $76,000,000 general fund biennial tax bill. Next meetings of the legislative di visions will be held at 8 o’clock Mon day night. Among the bills the Senate passed and sent to the House was HB 414, iby Eagles of Edgecombe, to change pen alties for public drunkenness in Edge combe. “Liquidated” Ras Desta Remtu, last of the pow erful Ethiopian chieftains opposing Italian seizure of Ethiopia, has been captured and executed on orders of Premier Mussolini of Italy. The Ras was a son-in-law of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia. Ireldlnds ONLY PROMT OF COUNTYROAD JOBS Its Money Taken for Other Purposes, Highway Com mission Has No Alternative BOND ISSUE MUST BE VERY LIMITED New Constitutional Amend ment May Hold It to $lO,- 000,000; Only Way Out Is Bonds, Says Waynick, Who Has Opposed That Course Up to Now Dully Dispatch Burean, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. B4SKERVILI- Raleigh, Feb. 27. —A new highway bond issue offers the only hope for any material improvement in the sec ondary or county highway system in North Carolina, now that the General Assembly has already adopted a rev enue bill which earmarks $4,500,000 of highway revenue for possible diver sion into the general fund to be used for current State expenses, it is gen erally agreed here today. As a result, Chairman Capus M. Waynick, of the State Highway and Public Works Commission, said today he would no longer oppose a bond issue to be used on the secondary roads, but instead would actively support such a bond issue proposal. It is also reliably re ported that Governor Clyde R. Hoey will support a bond issue proposal, provided the bond issue does not ex ceed $10,000,000. $10,000,000 Bonds in Sight. Accordingly, it is expected that Sen ator W. I. Halstead, of Camden coun (Continued on Page Four.) DR. TOWNSEND ASKS FOR ANOTHER TRIAL Washington, Feb. 27 (AP) — Dr. Francis Townsend asked today for a new trial on a charge of con tempt of the House of Represen tatives. He was convicted of the eharge Wednesday in Federal district court. Sentence will not be passed until disposition of the request for re-trial. Arguments on the re quest probably will be held next Friday. OUR WEATHER MAN FOR NORTH* CAROLINA. Cloudy and rain tonight and Sunday. WEEKLY WEATHER. For South Atlantic States: Fair and colder first of week; increas ing cloudiness, rain and warmer middle period; fair and colder latter part. State Revenue Is 24 Percent Above Same Period 1936 $21,607,306 Collected, Com pared to $16,795,804 Cor responding Period Year Ago HEAVY GAINS ALSO IN MOTOR VEHICLES $22,142,817 Now Compared With $18,506,706 Last Year, All Figures Being for Eight Months of Fiscal Year Through February; Beer Taxes Higher Raleigh, Feb. 27 (AP) —A. J. Maxwell, State commissioner of revenue, released figures today showing a 23 93 percent increase in collections for the eight months ending February 28, 1937, as com pared with the corresponding pe riod last year. A 359 percent increase was noted in February alone. The revenue division collected $21,- 607,306.14 for the eight-months period ending tomorrow, as compared with $16,975,804.37 during the similar period last year. The motor vehicle division, during the current eight months per iod, collected $22,142,817.74, as compar ed with $18,506,706.34 in the like pe riod last year. That the State is drinking more beer was indicated in an increase from $392,852.16 for the eight months period ending February 28, 1936, as compared with revenue from that source of $634,095.43 during the"'eight months ending tomorrow. Effect of Hot Weather on Legislation May Be Very Unfavorable By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Feb. 27.—Congress un doubtedly will be in session away on into the summer. This prospect gives the horrors to many a lawmaker. It is the consensus on Capitol Hill that Washington weather, from about mid-May until the end of September, is perfectly fiendish. As a matter of fact, tempera tures here are not very high. They do not get into the 100’s, as they often do in the prairie country. But it’s true that it’s sticky. “It isn’t the heart; it’s the humidity.” I’ve (been more uncom fortable on Pennsylvania avenue at 99 than ever I was in the Dakotas at a dozen degrees higher than that. With his lame duck amendment to the Constitution, Senator Norris of Nebraska had more than any other individual to do with increasing the chances of extending sessions into the torrid months. In stead of getting started in December, as heretofore, the legislators do not now convene until 30 days later. Con sequently they cannot get through so soon. PROTRACTED CONTESTS And the current session promises to be an unusually long one. The Supreme Court issue will have to be fought out first. If the admin istration seems likely to win, its op ponents will strive for delay. It will he a protracted contest either way, for (Continued on Page Four.) Local Bills Being Pushed Before Close Dally Dispatch Boreas, In the Sir Walter Hotel By HENRY AVERILL. Raleigh, Feb. 27.—The panic is on. Adjournment is in the air and every legislator who has a pet project is rushing madly, wildly about the busi ness of getting it enacted into law be fore it gets caught in the jam that always develops in the dying days of the session. Os course all this unseemly haste makes for the enactment of half-bak ed, unnecessary and ofter positively vicious legislation, (but nobody seems to think about it that way, or to care about it even if he does. Friday’s session in the House was a good sample of what’s on. For more than one and one-half hours the (Continued on Six) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Sentenced as Spy :7. i x fix l :-; iii :5 .i 7 'll /< IllPlllll m John S. Farnsworth, former lieu tenant commander of the United States Navy, has been sentenced to serve from four to 12 years in prison for. conspiring to sell United States naval secrets to the Japanese. After pleading nole contendere, Farnsworth asked permission to withdraw that plea and plead innocent, but the re quest was denied by the court in Washington. Kidnap Baby In Argentine Is Murdered . Body of Wealthy Pa rents’ Infant Found on Estate Not Far from Villa La Plata, Argentine, Feb. 27.r-(AP) —The unclothed body of baby Eu genS£> Irao(la, whose three-day kid naping stirred Argentine as the Lind bergh case gripped the United States, was found today in the grime of a pigpen on the baronial villa of his wealthy parents. The little body, bearing a scalp wound and a cut on one leg, was dis covered in an outlying part or his parents’ villa about a mile and a half from the house. The chubby arms were crossed over the chest. The clothing was not found. An immediate examination was be gun where the blue-eyed two-year-old baby lived with his parents and six (brothers and sisters to determine the exact cause of death. It was believed he had been killed. Thursday, the day after he was kid (Cont,**ued on Page Five) MATTSON KIDNAPING CLUE IS DISCOVERED Officers Skeptical of Redlands, Cal., Man’s Tale of Seeing Man and Boy In Seattle Redlands, Cal., Feb. 27. —(AP) —Of- ficers studied somewhat skeptically today a possible clue to the kidnap slaying of ten-year-old Charies Matt son at Tacoma, Wash., given by a man who may have seen the boy with the kidnapers while still alive. Police Sergeant Bert Parr said Dan Early, 42, of Los Angeles, told of meeting a man in Seattle last Jan uary 6 who had a young (boy in his car and talked of kidnaping. Early’s description of the man, who he knew only as “Frank”, correspond ed with that of the kidnaper. Little Charles was abducted December 27 and was found slain near Everett, Wasji-, January 11. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY SENATOR DONAHEY, OF OHIO, LINES UP WITH PLAN’S FOES / Says Matter Should Be Re ferred To People and Not Settled by The President OPPONENTS NOW 33, PROPONENTS NOW 26 Half Dozen Counted for Plan Say They Are Non- Committal; Only 25 of 700 Letters to One Sena tor in Single Day for Plan; Retirement Measure Passes Washington, Feb. 27. —(AP)—'Sena- tor Donahey, Democrat, Ohio, spoke out today against President Roosevelts reoranization program after his col league, Senator Bulkley, Democrat, Ohio, endorsed it as an effort to “re store our form oi government.’’ Donahey, in his first public state ment on the court issue, said: “This entire controversy vitally af fects the judiciary, a coordinate branch of the government, and should be referred to the people—the source of all political power.” Bulkley, also a Democrat, declared in a radio speech last night opponents “should frankly take the position which they are really supporting— that of unqualified judicial supre macy.” Not Niew Gain. Donahey’s declaration did not add to the total of senators publicly com mitted, however, because earlier word had come from his office on his stand. Bulkley had indicated his views pre viously. The number of senators publicly op posing the chief executive’s proposal remained at 33, but the list of those openly favoring the plan dropped to 26. Half a dozen of those once counted for the President asserted during the last few days they were non-com mittal. Two Bills Passed in Week. Congress had two much-discussed new laws to show today for its week’s work, but still faced a puzzling stale mate in the dispute over enlarging the Supreme Court if older justices do not retire. While the Senate passed the reciprocal tariff act in almost routine fashion, the House dawdled on minor matters, and many members of lboth branches put in real work pre paratory to an historic struggle over judiciary reorganization. Court Occupies Thoughts. The speed and ease with which President Roosevelt’s tariff bargain- Continued on Page Five.) 2 NATIONAL GUARD FLIERS ARE KILLED Training Ship Crashes Near Chicago Ten Minutes After Leaving Flying Field Chicago, 111., Feb. 27.—(AP)—Two National Guard aviators were killed today, Chicago police reported, in a crash of their training ship shortly after taking off from the municipal airport. Officers identified the fliers as Sec ond Lieutenants Clyde Wood, of Chi cago, and John Spake, of Berwyn. Insignia on the plane indicated it was a training ship of the 33rd Observa tion Squadron, Illihois National Guard Witnesses said the plane fell about ten minutes after had left the mu nicipal airport. It landed in a prairie far from neighboring buildings. Spain To Hurry To Beat Ban Madrid, Feb. 27.—(AP)—Insur gent big guns sent shells scream ing into mid-Madrid again today. Breaking five weeks of com parative tranquility in the besieg ed city Itself, the shells Ibegan breaking in downtown streets and against business buildings. At least one man was hit. Madrilenos, believing themself ves safe from bombardment be cause of the cold, cloudy day, ran screaming for shelter. Children playing in the streets scattered. Several passerby picked up the wounded man and carried him in to a basement. Madrid, Feb. 27.—(AP)—Govern ment leaders here, in Barcelona and in Valencia, declared today approach ing international supervision to block outside military aid for Spain called (Continued on Page Four.)
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