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fuENDERSON rATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA [ -fourth year senate VOTES FOR DEATH PENALTY ON STATE KIDNAPINGS ■Constitutional Amendments I Asked for That and Four- Year Terms for I Sheriffs | sl ot machine bill I ESCAPES changes I gearings Held on Election I L aW Changes Asked By I State Committee; Another I “Scrap ’ Tobacco Bill In ■ troduced in Senate Dur- I jng the Forenoon 1 paioisrh. March 3. —(AP) —The Sen- I ~e passed and sent to the House this I -■•err.oo:’. i bill to submit a constitu- I : na i ana r.dment in 1938 to empower I i-e legislature to impose the death I penalty for kidnaping. 1 ’'patois also sent to the House an- I ..;. er prt.;>.isod amendment to extend H , :T . of office of sheriffs from two - four years. ■ Final approval, 30 to 7, was given ■ vHab:. id bill to allow issuance of ■ (5,000.000 « f bonds for secondary road S improvements. M Fijhtiny. off all amendments, Sen- I Flar.r.agan. of Pitt, secured ap ■ pr o val of his measure which he said ■ w ali ' d si>lutely prohibit gambling m slot machines," and it went to the B House. Jj Senator Gold, of Guilford, sought Ito exempt marble and pin tables,” I je:..- ;• Sparger of Stokes tried to ex- I tr.rt his home county from the en ■ bill. Senator Ewing, of Cuber ■ id. opp.-s.-d suspension of the rules ■ pass the measure finally, and I ; :.'ht re-: •d'erence of the bill to com ■ mittee. All lost. 9 Th Vi.'te on the Aberneth kidnap I Erasure was 38 to 6, and on the I ceriff's measure it was 4 to 0. ■ ?."!■:e.'entatives worked slowly, but ■ irious committees reported nearly m ::: Dills to the legislative floor. s 9 S i*.' passage of the House-ap -1 rill to name a commission to ■ rudy the feasibility of creating a H'V- ihp.itment of justice was re ■ commended. 1 Senator Britt, of Robeson, intro— ■ duced a measure to regulate the sale ■ o? leaf tobacco, and another to pro ■ ::b:t sale of “scrap” tobacco found to I if unfit for human consumption. | The Senate Election Laws Commit- I tee heard arguments today on bills to 1 cr.ir.?e primary and elections laws of I the State, hut took no immediate ac- I tion on the measure. 1 J. M. Broughton, of Raleigh, ap- I pearing for the State Democratic I C mmi'tee explained a measure back ■ ed by the party group which would: Change primaries from Saturdays J to Tuesdays; limit hours of voting to 1 oetween 6 a. m. and 7 p. m., instead I (Continued on Page Three.) I NEW YORKER HELD IN HEINOUS CRIME I 26-Vear-OM Long Island Man Charg ed With Rape and Murder of Child Only Four I "'V. York. March 3 (AP) —Howard i 26, was charged with the I vu.fi. ; i rape of four-year-old Joan I Morva:. today as police reconstructed ■ or ' of the most savage crimes in ■ '•- county history. ■ ’ Morvan, 24-year-old father of ■ da-k-haired child who died Mon- I % if’* : noon, and Mrs. Norma Gat ■ a wi'h whom he had been living in I dueens, were booked on charges of I :1 , , ;* ssault and improper guard ■ Unship. were taken to the Man | police line-up. Arrangement ■ later today. ■ Magi:u.-sen is Mrs. Gatto’s brother. B ./bssi.-Ot! • district attorney said Ma tt acknowledged the criminal 9 £- au -' or the Child Sunday afternoon. 9 / ' ■ was committed at the home ■ wo.o < n’s parents on Long Is ■ «nd. ISCHOOLICIERY BILL IS REVAMPED I bwin Will Not Be Given b.i Control of Spend ing by State DiMpateh Btireun, p,, the Sir Walter Hotel. ! 4, : I ifh 3.—The*, school ma j. 1 ‘ 1 >l, reported out favorably ’ Wfjr.'K by the House Committee f w, 'if ion, with the provision that off , k , K ' k ’be lieutenant governor | School Commission and I>,T t,<; Superintendent of Pulhlic I in V Clyde A. Erwin chairman I p , f ; d is now before the House I thai . " Committee. Indications are I vis ,i * will be considerably re pii ' " 1 'bunged before being re- Mirj V, 1 ' ut by the finance committee ly u r *ne of the “operations” like- I mitt ’ performed on it by this com wii) he the removal of the sec- I Continued on Page Five.) Urttftersmt UtitLt tltsuatrlt LEASED WIRE SERVICE OB* THE ASSOCIATED PRESS? * Durham Will Vote On County Liquor Durhagm, March 3.—(AP)—Dur ham county's commissioners today ordered a county liquor referen dum under the new State local option law. It would be possible to hold the election April 20, but in view of the fact the Durham city primary takes place then, it is like ly said W. S. Lockhart, chairman of the county board of elections, the liquor stores ballot will be held April 27. KS New and Heavy Artillery, Tanks and Shock Troops Charge Government Soldiers THEIR CASUALTIES STAGGERING TOTAL Thousand Estimated Dead in Assault on Loyalist De fenses Covering Reputed Mass Retreat from Ma drid ; Government Claims Defenses Holding Madrid, March 3.—(AP) —Insurgent besiegers battered at government lines guarding the Valencia road at two points today, with new and heavy artillery, repeated tank charges and masses of shock troops. The fighting continued without a pause after a night-long battle south east of Madrid. (Insurgents said the government had moved all of its big guns and most of ita troops to the road sector to protect a seeming attempt at a mass retreat from Madrid toward the Mediterrean coast.) The insurgents rolled up their heav iest guns in the assult on the net 'Continued on Page Three.) Charlotte Liquor Case Dropped Due To New State Law Charlotte, March 3 (AP) — Charlotte’s first liquor trial since the State county option law went Into effect resulted today in a nolle prose for a defendant ar rested when police found a quart of stamped, tax-paid whisky in his quarters. City Solicitor Brock Barkley an nounced the new law left him no other course, and Judge Ben Whiting ordered the liJquor re turned to the defendant, Joe Orr. Barkley said a number of other similar cases involving not more than a gallon of liquor would be stopped. C. L O. Head Held xj.ay X: Moyer Adelman (above), C. L O. leader, sought three days on a coin ■piracy charge, was arrested in a hotel at Kenosha, Wis. With the conspiracy charge is one of con tempt of court in connection with tha Fansteel Metallurgical strike at Waukeegan, 111. (Centrml Pr.est). ONLY DAILY Steel To Continue To Deal With Employees;La horHappy Pittsburgh, Pa., March 3.—(AF) — The Carnegie Illinois Steel Corpora tion declared today it would continue to deal with its employee representa tives as well as with John Lewis’ steel union. An official announcement was is sued by the company following a statement by Phillips Murray, chair man of the steel workers organizing committee, that signing of a contract with the union “definitely marks the end of the employee representation plan in the steel industry.” MOVE FOR CONCILIATION OVERSHADOWS DISCORDS (By The Associated Press.) The vast steel industry’s momen- House Foes Os Pensions Bill Fading Counties Will Be Re quired to Pay Their Share Under This Measure Dali? Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKERVIIiL Raleigh, March 3—The icy opposi tion to the old age pensions and chil dren’s aid bill which enveloped it more than a week ago when it arrived in the House from the Senate, and where it was been frozen tight in the House appropriations Committee ever since, is now believed to be melting almost as rapidly as the snow which covered the State this past week-end. With Governor Clyde R. Hoey and his lieu tenants applying the heat in no un certain manner in an effort to “un freeze” this bill and get it before the House and enacted into law, the be lief is that it is likely to come from the committee and be enacted almost any day in pretty much the same form as it was passed by the Senate. The snag upon which the old age pensions bill has been and still is hanging up is the matter of county participation in paying the cost of the fContinued on Page Six.) hortWMls BEINGROAD HEAD Lieutenant Governor Re portedly Refusing to Become Chairman Dally Dlapatrh Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, March 3. —The administra tion’s highway department reorgani zation bill has struck a snag—two snags, in fact—in committee, and it now cannot be foretold just when the measure will get out onto the floor of either House or Senate. The difficulties are the question of what counties shall compose what dis tricts and whether the lieutenant gov ernor shall be made chairman ex-of ficio of the department with an exe cutive secretary to act as full-time ad ministrative officer. The first problem has been keenly in evidence ever since the bill was introduced, with almost every county in the east dissatisfied with ite group (Contlnued on Page Three.) NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, MARCH 3, 1937 OREGON TOWNSEND SPENDER BESIEGED BY SALESMEN • i ♦ , Henry Folz, standing on his porch, besieged by salesmen From the looks of things here, Henry Folz, 78- year-old Eugene, Ore., trial Townsend spender, won’t have to worry about getting rid of his S2OO | in a month. Everybody here is trying to sell Folz I something. One farmer even tries to sell him a I cow. tous move toward better relations with organized labor overshadowed the discord wrought by strikes in scattered sections of the nation today. One after another the big steel cor porations announced wage boosts, shorter hours and other concessions, probably forestelling labor disputes in the entire industry. A contract between the Carnegie Illinois Steel Corporation and the steel workers organizing committess, an offshoot of the Lewis C. I. 0., signed last night at Pittsburgh, was hailed by union officials as laibor’s greatest victory. The contract, considered a guaran tee of peace in the industry, estab lished a 40-hour week and a $5 a day ONE DEAD IN CRASH NEAR YOUNGSVILLE Sumter Man’s Car Collides With Truck; Truck Driv er is Freed Youngsville, March 3. (AP) —< A man identified as Vernon Fort, of Sumter, S. C., from papers in his pocket and automobile, was instantly killed this morning when his car crashed into a large truck near Youngsville. Coroner R. A. Bobbitt, of Frank lin county, investigated the accident and freed B. L. Speer, truck driver, of any blame. Speer lives in Hammon ton, N. J. Speer testified at the coroner’s heal ing the car approached him zigzagg ing from one side of the road to the other and he drove his truck off the roadway to try to avoid -it. DECEASED WAS EMPLOYED BY SHEET METAL CONCERN Sumter, S. C., March 3.—(AP)—Ver non Fort, killed in an automobile ac cident near Youngsville, N. C., this morning, was employed by the Fort Sheet Metal yVbrks here. His brother, \Milliam Fort, left for the scene of the accident early today. Fort was believed to have been re turning from a trip to Richmond, Va. ROADIWE^ Halstead’s Measure Killed Monday Night and Re vived Overnight Dally Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, March 3.—Senator W. I. Halstead’s bill to authorize a bond issue for construction and mainte nance of secondary roads now seems destined for ultimate enactment into law, with the amount of the issue sliced from the $25,000,600 originally provided for to a mere $5,000,000 for the coming biennium. Even this partial victory, however, would represent one of the greatest comebacks staged by any legislative project during the current assembly session, as on Monday night the Hal stead plan was defeated by the Senate 25 to 20. Tuesday, on motion of Senator H. P. Taylor, Anson, the vote was reconsid ered and the hill passed with an amendment limiting the bond issue to $5,000,000 and gving the governor and Council of State discretionary power as to issuing any at all. The favorable vote was 35 to 10, (Continued on Page Three.) minimum wage, and recognized the organizing committee as the bargain ing agent for 120,000 employees who are members of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. Fourteen other companies announc ed wage and working adjustments in volving about 250,000 men. Organized labor leaders figured the pay boosts would fatten workers’ pocketbooks by $100,000,000 a year. Settlement of two strikes involving an estimated 2,500 men further brightened the industrial picture. Some 2,000 sitdown strikers evacuat ed the Detroit plant of the Motor Products Corporation after an agree ment between the management and the U. A. W. A. Virginia To Test “Dry” Sunday Rule Richmond, Va., March 3. —(AP) — While Virginia cities faced the pros pects of “dry” Sundays for an Inde finite period under a State Liquor Board ruling prohibiting the sale of wine and beer on the Sabbath, Buck roe Beach prepared today for a test of the Sunday (blue law as a guage of local sentiment. Although the regulations provided for local exemption where court tests or (hoard investigations indicated sen timent was opposed to its enforce ment, the board has indicated the ban will not be lifted in incorporated towns and cities for a month or six weeks pending a study of the effects of the ban on week-end liquor store sales and law observance. In the case of unincorporated com munities which are not mentioned in the local option provision, the board said test cases would be considered for exemption where the population and police power warranted. RDDSILfiN’T SEEKJIRD TERM But Will Want to Name Successor and Dictate His Actions By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, March 3.—Students of what’s doing at the White House (mostly newspapermen, well-informed members of the two houses of Con gress, executive officials in the upper brackets and miscellaneous politicians of sufficient prominence to consider themselves in touch with the inside of affairs at 1600 Pennsylvania avenue) have about reached the conclusion that President Roosevelt, after all, has no intention of seeking a third term. For quite a while after his last vic tory many guesses were heard to the effe<jjt that, breaking every precedent, he would lie a candidate again in 1940. Now the guessing is the other way. HASTENING EFFORTS The up-to-the-minute theory is that the presidential incumbent would not be in such haste to get the authority of his office intrenched if he were not expecting his influence to end with his current White House tenancy In fact, he has intimated, if not out right said, that he believes he can put his program through before the end of his present term. The inference might seem to be that he does not hope to complete his (Continued on Page Three.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY BITTER OPPOSITION TO NEUTRALITY BILL SHOUTED IN SENATE Husband-Slaying Woman Now Dead Salisburg, Md., March 3 (AP) —Mrs. Jeannette Trader, accused of slaying her husband, Clarence Trader, died at Peninsula General Hospital at, 9:35 a. m. today. Mrs. Trader accused of murder ing her husband, owner of an elec tric light plant, was operated on yesterday. She had been reported sinking steadily since the opera tion. Earlier Chief Judge Benjamin Johnson, of the circuit court, who would have tried Mrs. Trader if she had lived, said he doubted ex tremely if she would ever come to trial. 80 NEW SHIPS FOR COS! 1525,325,000 That Is Its Part of Nation’s Re-Armament Program of 1937, Parlia ment Is Told THREE BATTLESHIPS TO HEAD THE LIST Each To Have 35,000 Tons Displacement and Carry 14-Inch Guns; Two Air- Craft Carriers Also In cluded, With 16 Destroy ers and Many Others London, March 3 (AP) —The Brit ish Navy announced to parliament today its share of Britain’s huge re armament program for 1937 would cost $525,325,000 and ; nclude construc tion of 80 warshins. At the top of the list detailed by Sir Samuel Hoare, first lord of the miralty, were placed three additional battleships of the type of the King George V and the Prince of Wales, now building, with a displacement of 35,000 tons and carrying 14-inch guns. Sir Samuel told the House of Com mons the stepped up naval and air programs would add 11,000 officers and men to bring the total naval per (Continued on Page Three.) OURWIgniERMAN FOR NiORTH CAROLINA. Fair, possible scattered frost to night; Thursday partly cloudy and wanner. Time Stench Bomb : # a?:- ; v : v=-: • ••‘ V ■ ■afc %stSssHß&' '• H n 9 jx'iv '.'V: H ■lk * 1 BiSlli Ji i■ . i Here is the latest style in stench bombs, boasting a timing device to set it off hours after it has been placed. This bomb was discovered in a New York City movie house after a series of tear-gas bombings had sent thousands of moviegoers weeping into upper Broadway, in juring twenty-seven. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Johnson Says Pittman Meas ure Means Congress Ab dicates Its Last Function IT GIVES~PRESIDENT POWER TO MAKE WAR Lamont Defends Morgan Relations With Rail Em pire of Van Sweringens; All Amendments to Neu trality Measure Are Voted Down In Senate Washington, March 3 (AP) —Smould ering opposition to the Pittman neu trality bill blazed into searing criti cism today when Senator Johnson, Republican, California, said the mea sure would impose on America a “scuttle and run” policy. Urging re-enactment of the present neurality law placing a ban on muni tions exports in time of war, the Cali fornian asserted the Pittman bill would fail in its purpose of keeping Americans out of war. The bill would ban arms shipments to warring nations and lay down drastic restrictions for shipment of other American commodities. Johnson said with enactment of the bill, Congress would abdicate its “last and most important function,” the right to declare war, and place it in the hands of the President. Thomas Lamont, senior partner of J. P. Morgan and Company, assured Senate investigators relations between his firm and the railroad-building Van Sweringen brothers, began “without solicitation.” Representative Johnson, Democrat, Oklahoma, predicted Congress would “find the money" to increase the COC permanently to $400,000,000. An extra $100,000,000 would be required. John son said it would come from other appropriations asked in the budget. Limitation on Debate Placing of a limitation on debate in the Senate hastened the Pittman neu trality bill toward a vote today, de spite two attempts to amend it. The measure would place a ban on arms shipments to belligerents and impose drastic restrictions on ship ment of American goods. Senator Vandenburg, t Republican, Michigan, sought to strike out of the bill discretionary power for the Pres ident to decide whether vessels of the United States could carry goods to fighting nations. Senator Bone, Democrat, Washing ton, asked American shipß trading with belligerents be denied the gov ernment protection in recovering losses. Roosevelt Asks More Laws Aside from this, President Roose velt's declaration late yesterday new wage and hour regulations “ought” to be enacted at this session held the attention of Congressmen. His com ment followed publication of the re port of his committee to review NRA. Debate continued over Mr. Roose (Cont*" ued on Page Five) OIL BARONS DENY VIOLATION OF ACT Thirty at Madison, Wis., Plead In nocence to Flouting Sherman Anti-Trust Law Madison, Wis., March 3 (AP) — Thirty men prominent in the na tion’s oil industry walked to the bar of the Federal district court here today and placed Innocence to charges they violated the Sher man anti-trust act. They were the first group of 67 named in indictments charging conspiracy to six retail gasoline prices and jobbers’ margins of profit. Judge Patrick Stone, who said “these are not ordinary defend ants” ordered the usual finger printing of defendants omitted. Death Os Girl Still AMystery Charlottesville. Va., March 3 (AP) — Police today looked to a 17-year-old girl to provide several major points of evidence in their investigation of the mysterious chloroform death of Cleo t Sprouse, pretty high school senior. Ethel Sealock, a chum of Cleo’s, disclosed to Sheriff Mason Smith her friend had called by her home at 7 p. m. Moncfay to invite her to go auto mobile riding. This was the last time Cleo was re ported seen alive. Her body was found yesterday in a leaf-strewn declivity near the great stone wall separating from the school’s golf course, the University of Virginia cemetery Her mouth and nose were packed with medical cotton. <Albermarle authorities said Ahey were working today on the assump tion the girl was slain.
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