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f'jjENPKKSON .aTEWAY TO CENTRAL CARO UNA \-fourth year (OUI CASE DECISION WON ST GOVERNMENT j nsion On Strike Fronts Is Eased As Operat ions Are Planned STRIKERS SET UP PICKET LINES AT SiTDGWN CENTERS 1,500 Furniture Workers on Strike in 24 Plants in Canadian Province of Ontario DOUGLASS AIRCRAFT plant is reopened J No Disorders at Santa Mon ico Factory, Though 500 Pickets Are on (Duty; Fan steel Plant in North Chica go Picketed; Woolworth Sales Girls Still Hold (15\ The Associated Press.) Strikes at a glance: Detroit —F. W. Woolworth store held by sitdown strikers; General Motors —l'. A. W. A. conference nears close. Santa Monica, Cal.—Douglass Aircraft Corporation plans re sumption of operations today as strike leaders rally 1,000 pickets. Cleveland Moving van and warehouse operations suspended at midnight after unionists and operators disagree over wages. Waukegan, lll.—Strikers pre pare for mass picketing; 80 sought on contempt warrants; C. I. O. or ganiser under arrest. (By The Associated Press) Tension on the nation’s strike fronts eased today as moves to resume operations despite pick eting were made at the sit down strike centers. Across the international line, how ever, 1.500 furniture workers walked out in 24 Province of Ontario plants. The furniture workers’ union called the strikes in a demand for new work hours and wage negotiations. The world's largest airplane manu facturing plant, the Douglass Aircraft Company reopened at Santa Monica, Cal. and company spokesmen said 3.890 workmen would be at work to day. /t subsidiary!, the (Northrop Continued on Page Five.) legislators Returning To Continue Job Raleigh. March 1 (AP) —Social se curitv and free textbook proposals stood out today as the most pressing remaining propiems as the North Carolina, legislature began to look forward to the possibility of clear- Ir ‘k it- docket within the next two and no! more than three weeks. °’her important remaining propo s;| - would divide the State into ten divn.i, for State Highway admin istration and make the superintend of public instruction chairman of School Commission with direct responsibility for expenditure of a ™ ut W 5 000,000 annually, kh. only apparent snags which P* event adjournment some (f'nntinued on Page Five) Snow Worst This Winter In The State Highways Clear But Hunger of Frozen laces Continues i raffic v ( I ’he Associated Press.) V ' "olina and a good portion 'olina emerged today from "j f ! first, snow blanket. p o|( ' in all sections were re ' ‘ ur, but in North Carolina j st ~ 1 Headquarters warned motor -Bu h' ” 'he effects of continued i n ,,’ Si' temperatures on remain - . inci , ln from one to nine ow fell Saturday night and ' inued on Page Five.) HJcttiteramt Sathj Btspafrh leased wire service of THE ASSOCIATED TRESS. SITDOWNERS HUDDLED IN JAIL Sitdowners jammed behind bars A few of the 343 sitdown strikers who were arrested when they peaceably evacuated the Douglas Aircraft company plant near Los Angeles are seen in cramped jail quarters. Charges of forcible entry and malicious mischief were placed against the men. Bail for each was set at SI,OOO and reputedly was furnished from funds of the Commitee for Industrial Organization. t—Central Press 19 Persons Dead In British Storm London, March I. (Al*) At least 19 persons were dead today after one of the worst storms in recent years lashed the British Isles, the coast of Western Europe and North Africa. A roaring gale reached 98 miles at Holyhead, North Wales, and at numerous other points was great er than hurricane force of 75 miles an hour. The death toll in Britain reached 12 over the week-end with most of the fatalities resulting from ex posure and exhaustion. Snow drift ed 20 feet deep In some sections, halting transportation and com munications and isolating many villages. LIQUOR LAW HARD YET TO INTERPRET I Judges not Familiar Enough With It to Rule on First Disputes Dally Dispatch Btircan, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, March I.—The county op tion liquor measure has been the law of North Carolina for a full week now, and there has been at least one effort to test its effect, but so far practically no judge, or layman so far as that goes, has any real idea of the exact meaning of its many sections. This is largely due to the fact that there has not yet been time. enough for printing and distributing the need ed number of copies of the statute. The language is in most instances plain as the English language can be, and there is not likely to be a great deal of controversy over it when it has had a widespread distribution. Transportation Is Issue. The principal provision which will be in controversy even before there are any elections held under its au thority is that pertaining tc the right to transport intoxicating beverages in to counties where there are no ABC stores. This is the point which came up last week in trial of a cause in Greens Continued on Page Five.) ROOSEVELTNAMES N. C. POSTMASTERS Washington, March 1. —(AP)— President Roosevelt sent the fol lowing nominations for postmas terships to the Senate today: North Carolina: Faison, James Faison; Halifax, Perry MiUikin; Tar boro, Theodore Thomas; and Trenton, George Heritage. HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 1, 1937 GovernorOn The Spot On School Bill Friends and Foes of Machinery Act Claim Hoey Would Give Erwin Powers Dally Dispatch Bnreas, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, March 1. —With the school machinery act at last on the calendar in the House, a bitter fight is expect ed when the members reach the bill and take it up for action —a fight that may put Governor Clyde R. Hoey on the proverbial hot spot before it is over with, many observers here agree. Two Controversies Stand Out. The school machinery bill contains two provisions which are expected to prove highly controversial, as follows: 1. The provision to remove the lieu tenant governor from the State School Commmission entirely and to make the State superintendent of public in struction its chairman and thus per mit the albsorption of the commission by the State Department of Public Instruction. 2. The provision which would per mit the levying of supplementary ad valorem taxes for schools in any school district with an enrollment of 1,000 or more children. Would Give Erwin Control. It is the first provision, which in Continued on Page Five.) HIGHWiERIN HITS OTHER STATES Maryland Also Bogged in Mud Because Road Mon ey Is Misused Dally Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, March I—'North1 —'North Carolina is not the only State having trouble over diversion of highway funds to other that road uses, with the result that roads are breaking up and the country roads becoming rivers of mud, it was pointed out today by Robert Grady Johnson, speaker of the House in the 1935 session and a bitter foe of highway fund diversion. The roads in Maryland have gotten into such shape, as the result of the diversion of approximately $4,000,000 a Continued on Page Five.) Eight More States Needed for Child Labor Law SHADED STATES HAVE NOT CHILD LABOR AMENDMENT. \/////{ VWYA Eight more states are needed to ratify the federal I child labor amendment. Twenty-eight already | Senate Debate Waxes Warm Over Neutrality Legislation Washington, March 1. — (AP) —A new dispute over mandatory or dis cretionary neutrality legislation broke out in the Senate today at the start of debate on the Pittman bill designed to keep America out of future ware. Senator Vandenburg, Republican, Michigan, and a leader of the old munitions committee that fa vors a mandatory said he would try to strike out the last major dis cretionary provision in the till. He opposed the discretionary pow ers in the measure would vest in the President to determine what commod- CANBALKCHANGE Certainly Enough of Them in Senate to Prevent Vote for President By CHARLES F. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, March I—The Roose velt forces may have the necessary bare majority to pass the presidential Supreme Court plan through the Sen ate and yet not have the required two thirds majority to choke off discussion of it, blocking a final vote all through the current session of Congress. The House of Representatives’ rules are different. In that congressional branch a bare majority can gag a bare minority quite easily. In the Senate, however, debate can not be limited unless at least 64 so lons demand it. As long as the re mainder have the stamina and the language to continue talking they can prevent a ballot. Indications are that the administration “antis” will have the number to do this, though they may not have the endurance. Still, 35 or 40 per cent of 96 sena tors, orating in relays, should be able to maintain themselves until next winter’s snow flies or later. It would be something unprecedented but it is theoretically possible. DILATORY TACTICS Anyway, assuming that the group opposed the Supreme Court reorgani zation has to recognize that it is in a Continued on Page Five.) DON SCOTT NAMED BRIGADIER GENERAL Washington, March I.—(AP) President Roosevelt nominated Brigadier General! Don ( Everett Scott, of the North Carolina Na tional Gi:*rd. today to be a bri gadier-general of the National Guard of the United States. FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight; Tuesday fair with slowly rising temperature. ities could be shipped to belligenents on American ships. “Any move after war has broken out,” he said, “would invite an un neutral interpretation, no matter how neutral the President was trying to be. “You can’t do anything after a crisis has arisen without being mis understood. The rules have got to be underwrtten ahead of time.” Chairman Pittman, Democrat, Nev., ada, of the fcreign relations commit tee, said he hoped lor quick approval of air 1 ill. Signs of oppesTion from others Edward Sets May 2 A s Day For Marriage London, March 1. —(AP) — The Duke of Windsor was reported to day to have set May 2 as the date for his wedding to Wallis Simp son causing fear the royal rom ance would overshadow the coro nation of his brother, George VI, successor, just ten days later. Former King Edward VIII gen erally was believed to have made it clear in week-end Inferences he intended to marry the woman for whom he abdicated his throne as soon as her divorce from Ernest Simpson becomes absolute April 27. The lights in Edward’s study at Enzesfeld castle, near Vienna, were said to have burned until 6 a. m. yesterday while he threshed out the question with his favorite brother, the Duke of Kent, and Lord Brownlow, who accompanied Mrs. Simpson on her flight from England. It has been (becoming daily more apparent the people of Eng land will not have forgotten their self-exiled ruler by May 12 when his brother, George VI, is to be crowned. RAILROADSMG OLD MIME OVER Opposition to Gasoline Pipe Lines Like Fight of Old Canal Lines Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, March I. —|The futile oppo sition of railroad corporations to gas oline pipe lines in North Carolina is exactly in line with the short-sghted and self-injurious policies the same carriers pursued in the matters of lower passenger fares and bus com petition, most competent observers here believe. As a result of this consistent oppo sition to progressive methods of trans portation and distribution the rails are certain to lose the sympathy of the people and are going to make it much more difficult for themselves to obtain favorafcle action upon any Continued on Page Five.) . have ratified. Thirty-six are needed. T’ .ap above is self-explanatory. than Vandenburg, hewtver, indicated the debate might iast several days. Little important legislation was be fore the House. It was considering minor bill« and even its committees were dcing little. The resignation of Eugene Vidal as director of the air commerce bureau brought a demand from Senator Cope land, Democrat, New York, for reor ganization of the agency. Vidal re signed last night, effective imme diately. Copeland said not Vidal, but divid ed authority, was responsible for the “mess” in the bureau. MAY SEE Further Study of Convic tions Indicated by Gill For the Governor Raleigh, March 1 (AP) —Edwin Gill, parole commissioner, said today he would confer during the week with Governor Hoey regarding the cases of three men scheduled to be executed Friday by gas. Gill indicatd the men would be fur ther reprieved to allow further .study of their cases. Scheduled to die Friday are Reed Coffey, sentenced in Avery county in July for the murder of his uncle, Hardy Coffey; A. W. Watson, con victed in Martin in December of the murder ‘of (Thomas Holliday;; and Fred Gray, Onslow county Negro, sen tenced in August for the death of his wife, Lettuce Gray. HIGH STATE COURT TO HEAR APPEALS Raleigh, March 1. (AP) —The State Supreme Court is scheduled to con sider 18 cases on appeal from the fourth and seventh judicial districts, starting tomorrow. Only fourth district cases will be heard tomorrow, but Wednesday all unheard on oral argument or petition will be taken in the order in which they were docketed. One fourth district cases involved a petition for certiorari to get the trial court records before the Supreme Court in the apepal of Mrs. Sina Pope Godwin, thrice married Dunn woman, convicted in Harnett county of the slaying of her third husband. She was sentenced to terj to fifteen years. FATHER OF STATE TREASURER PASSES Raleigh, March 1 (AP) —M. H. John son, 72-year-old father of State Treas urer Charles M. Johnson, died during the night at his son’s home here. The elder Johnson came from his home in Burgaw yesterday with his son to visit a few days and, while jok ing last night before he retired, said he hoped he died before his wife, but added he had never felt better in his life. Johnson is survived by his widow, three daughters and a son besides the State treasurer. Funeral services will be held at Bur gaw at 2:30 tomorrow afternoon. PUBLISHED HVHRY AFTERNOON EXCEPT BUNDAY. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY BULLION CONTRACT CAN BE PAID WITH CHEAPENED MONEY 1933 Congressional Resolu tion Prohibiting Pay ments in Gold Valid on Bullion PRESIDENT STUDIES PROBLEM OF RELIEF Will Hold Conferences With Governors on Pressing Needs; Robinson Denounc es Fight Against Court Plan; Fagg Succeeds Vidal As Air Director Washington, March 1 (AP) The Supreme Court held today that a contract for gold bullion could be paid off at its face value in present devalued money. It ruled the 1933 congression al resolution prohibiting pay ment of obligations in gold was validly applied to contracts for bullion as well as coin. The five to four decision was a vic tory for the government. The opinion was delivered by Justice Cardozo, with Justices Van Devanter, Mcßey nolds, Sutherland and Butler dissent ing. The high court affirmed a ruling by the Massachusetts first district Fed eral court and first circuit court <of appeals in a case brought by the Holyoke, Mass., Waterpower Company to collect more than $28,000 from the American Writing Paper Company. The problem of relief of unemploy ed claimed renewed White House at tention, with announcement the Presi dent would seek “an efficient and sound” solution in conferences with governors of six industrial statea Continued on Page Five.) 410 Asylum Folk Saved Fromßlaze Nashville, Tenn., March I—(AP) —Fire destroyed the central sec tion and two wings of the David son county asylum early today. The 410 im.-clos were evacuat ed safely. About 20 of the patten •» es caped, but Dr. H. B. Bracain, su perintendent, said none of them were considered dangerous. Dr. Brackin estimated the dam age at lietween $300,000 and $400,- 000, and said all of the medical equipment was destroyed. “The inmates were unusually or derly,” he said. “There was very little screaming or knocking on the walls.” The fire was discovered at the top of a passenger elevator shaft about 3:30 a. m. Several of the third floor rooms where members of the staff were quartered were enveloped in flames before eva cuation of the building started. Second Ship Damaged By Ocean Mine French Vessel Limps Into Port, However; Loyalists Claim Further Gains, (By The Associated Press) Spanish mines damaged a ’ second foreign vessel off Spain’s east coast today, Spanish government troops an nounced a wedge-like advance, into insurgent southern lines, and through out Europe rearmament remained the No. 1 concern of the powers. A French steamer limped toward Palamos after hitting a mine. Last week a British steamer had a similar (Cont’~ ued on Page Five)
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