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'’’^ug^UEßEON .ateway to CENTRAL CAROLINA | YEAR HEW PARTY ■ divorce laws of k : MED BY SENATORIAL VOTE I Two Years Separation Is Enough, Regardless of Mutual Agreement, I Under New Act I legislators can I SERVE ON BOARDS I House- Passed Bill Accepted Iby Senate After Amend- I ments Broaden It Sharply; I Legislature To Go to Eden- I to n Next Thursday for I Their Session 1 March 6 (AP)— Senators I todav t ii u ted into law a bill to permit I divorce in North Carolina on the ■ frour.d' of two years of separation ■-othor or not the separation is by ■ <atua i agreement. ■ Vrd.: mo present law, only the in ■ jred part v can sue for divorce ex ■ cases of mutual agreement. I The upper division wrangled for I „ ore than an hour on a House-passed 1t.,;; to permit legislators to serve as I •Kstees of the University of North I Carolina, then amended it to apply I to trust, os and directors of all State I institutions and returned it to the I House for concurrence. I Senator Bell, of Mecklenburg, led I the opposition, saying he thought it I allowed a man to act as judge in his I own cause when he served as a leg- I isiator in determining funds for insti- I tutior.s which he helps direct. Sena- I tors Pittman of Lee, Hill of Durham I ar.d Gravely of Nash, favored the bill, I say::._ they thought it was a help to I the legislature to have members who I knew institutional problems,. I The senators did not reach the free I sxtbook lull for final passage before I yy adjourned until next week. I Piar.s went forward for a one-day llesislative session at Edenton Thurs ■ day The trip will be made by spe 'c;al train and Governor Hoey will ac company the legislators. The Senate passed slightly more than 20 hills today with the House not xeecin.. as it held its Saturday session a: 12:05 this morning. ! Th bills were mostly local in na “Blue Law” On Liquor Dismissed Pdchmond, Va., March 6.—(AP) — -of the State Liquor Board said today dismissal of a Sunday beer rales test case under the Virginia hue law" in Phoebus trial justice’s wurt would be “considered” in con nection with possible exemptions, but under no circumstances” would the • r ew Sunday prohibition be lifted *’hin li s than 30 days from its ef fective date— February 28. A B. Clarke, public relations di f< i the hoard, said after con frere with Hunter Miller and R. Bulling?on. members of the Iboard, indicated trial justices decisions would t, ( helpful in guaging local “Cntirncnt, hut they hoped all test c& 3es would be decided in courts of record. "Thu board had not anticipated this si uat m, ■ Clarke said, referring to ‘ r ‘ Bu atof Beach dismissal. 'xpbdned it had been expected 11 >' justices would find defen ii I>y in test cases, so that the tetion of Sunday sales might be b-icud before juries. Asheville Girls Win Concession ~A M arch 6 (AP)— Striking j' f J f ' ! of Asheville Normal Col m?, W(JI, f ;ir; ulty consent today for dom in their personal as -11 their leaders said the sit c/ n '"Tcupation of the chapel would a 11 • until the promised reforms a , r " 111 y made effective, for which , , by the administrative board b Squired. ‘ ‘ho board’s three members 0 f ~ >i' d sick and another out th,, making it uncertain when would be considered. r , 1( , r( 7 1 a conferncq with (faculty boun/ *' representatives an ,,J they had been promised a Continued on Page Five.) MrmVranu Haifa tli-urntrl- LEASED WIRE SERVICE OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: AS $250,000 FIRE DESTROYED CHARLOTTE TEMPLE >| wEBBmmF MWmm 11. IIL m n Ilp i .:»■ I§s iHI- H fl| Hk IBb 7. f .jB6; H- I * jSbw 9smm Bursting through the roof and windows almost in one spurt, a $250,000 fire is shown destroying the Masonic Temple at Charlotte. N. C. Flying embers showered on three city blocks, but prin cipal damage aside from the Temple itself was confined to awnings. (Associated Press Photo) LEGISLATURE NEARS FINAL ADJOURNMENT ONLY 2 WEEKS OFF Social Security and Free Textbooks Bills Pass Both Houses During Past Week HIGHWAY~SET-UP IS YET TO BE SETTLED Changes in Election Laws Also Still Waiting, Though Convention Nomination of Judges Is Killed; State In stitutions Good “Askers” By W. JOYNES MacFARLAN Raleigh, March 6 (AP)—The North Carolina General Assembly hurdled so cial security and free textbooks prob lems this week but school and revenue machinery acts and highway finance and reorganization bills still must be enacted. Rushing toward sine die adjourn ment, which leaders persisted would come between March 13 and 20, legis lators continued their record-breaking speed. Senators late yesterday adopted a resolution calling for sine die adjourn ment March 18. The House refused to exempt coun ties from making contributions to the SI6|DOO,OC)D biennial social security program for the aged and indigent children, then made clarifying chan ges and returned the measure to the Senate for concurrence in amend ments. Free Textbook Bill Passes Senators in committee opposed the textbooks to provide a $1,500,000 bond issue for free texts for elementary pu- Continued on Page Five.) IPREPAREHEFENSE ' OF DENTIST CASE Meantime, Probe of Char lottesville Girl’s Death Continues Charlottesville, Va., March 6. —(AP) —E. V. Walker, Charlottesville at torney, said counsel for Dr. R. G. Mil ler would confer here tooay on plans to combat the State’s charge of mur der against the 53-year-old dentist in the chloroform death of pretty Cleo Sprouse, 18, a high school girl. He said he and his law partner, Robert Taylor, would meet with the third member of the defense battery, Commonwealth's Attorney Ratcliffe of Henrico county. Ratcliffe’s official position at Richmond does not inter fere with his taking part in this Al bemarle county case. Prosecutor W. O. Fife today was using scientific crime detection methods against what he termed un satisfactory parts of the signed state ment in Which he said Dr. Miller ad mitted the girl died of chloroform ad ministered as the dentist prepared to perform an abortion. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED UHE-UP PREDICTED FOR 1838 Bail Not Asked In Dentist’s Defense Charlottesville, Va., March 6. (AP) —E. V. Walker, of defense counsel, announced after a confer ence of defense attorneys today bail would not be sought at this time for Dr. E. G. Miller, charged in a warrant with murder in con nection with the death of Cleo Sprouse, 18-year-old high school girl. “We expect, of course, to do everything possible to see that Dr. Miller gets a fair trial, but the case is too new now to determine what our definite defense will be,” Walk er said. Legislators j Give Day Pay To McDonald Daily Digpatch Bureau, In the Sir Waller Hotel. Raleigh, March 6. —Many members of the General Assembly, forgetting all past political differences, are join ing in the movement launched in the House yesterday to give one day’s pay to a fund which will be sent to Dr. Ralph W. McDonald, of Winston- Salem, now in the Forsyth county tubercular hospital. Dr. McDonald was taken to the hospital here just a week ago, as a result of a relapse following influenza, Where it was found that one lung had a tubercular infection. He was taken from the hos pital here to the Forsyth county sani torium three days ago, where the doc tors say he will have to remain for at least six months. More than 20 members of the House have already signed the letter which (Continued on Page Four.) VERMONT INFANT IS MYSTERIOUSLY SLAIN Autopsy Conducted To Determine Pre cise Circumstances of Child’s Death Windsor, Vt., March 6 (AP) —Grim State officials gathered today at a bare undertaking establishment to perform &n autopsy on the battered body of four-year-old Beverly Ann Page, of Claremont, N. H., while po lice mentioned a “gang of young hel lions” as possible suspects. Police Chief John Edmond assert ed he was seeking members of a group of young boys for questioning. Simultaneously State’s Attorney Al bion Parker declared there was ‘‘evi dence of an attempte d criminal at tack.” As the child’s dazed father waited at the home of Mrs. Louis Thibault, Beverly Ann’s aunt, for State Patho logist Charles Whitney’s verdict, Mrs. Thiault told authorities she was cer tain the tiny tot had been murdered. HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY. AFTERNOON. MARCH 6, 1937 IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. IHINKjjIANyOEAO Spanish City Harassed Good Part of Night by Insur gent Planes Madrid, March 6.—(AP) —Many per sons were Relieved dead today in the government-held city of Aranjuez after a s night of terror in which in surgent planes, making repeated visits, dropped more than 50 bombs. The attack on Aranjuez, which start ed at the dinner hour last night and lasted intermittently until after 2 a. m. today, were the most severe of a series in a broad semi-circle of insur gent air raids on the central Spanish front. Aided by a star-studded sky, the bombing squadrons dropped ex plosives with telling accuracy onto one spot 15 miles west of Madrid; an other 15 miles to the east; a third 50 miles to the southeast on the Valen cia highway and other points near Madrid and the Valencia highway. Precise figures on the casualties were not available. speakejMiie^ But Closeness Indicates In spection s-Terminals May Rise Again Dally Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, March 6. —Speaker Gregg Cherry’s “No” Friday broke a House tie vote and defeated the gasoline inspection bill introduced by members of the Ehringhaus gasoline commis sion. The count by the clerk showed 46 ayes and 46 noes and so the pre siding officer was called upon to break a tie for the first time in many General Assembly sessions. The bill set up a gasoline inspection commission, provided for the ap pointment of inspectors, authorized the establishment of “ports of entry” on all main highways entering the State and laid down many rules and regulations surrounding the sale and distribution of petroleum products. , In view of the fact the vote was so close that more than twenty-five House members did not vote at all, it is generally considered likely that a revised measure will pass. Although sponsored by an Ehring haus-appointed commission, many of (Continued on Page Eight.) JAP GEISHA GIRLS WIN THEIR STRIKE Guild of Their Own Granted To Girl Entertainers in Oseka Cases and Clubs Osaka, Japan, March 6.—(AP)— Three, hundred gaily clad geisha girl entertainers in Osaka’s bright-lighted cases, ended their eight-day sitdown strike today with recognition of their rights to form a geisha guild. The striking girls, who spent more than a week of self-immolation in a Buddhist mountain temple, accepted a compromise agreement which police had labored to effect through the night. Their main demand, a guild of their own organization, was granted by harassed Osaka employers. FIGHT FOR CONTROL OF AMERICAN LABOR BECOMING INTENSE Company Unions In Steel Industry Join Battle and Seek A. F. of L. Alignment GREEN CAUTIOUS OF COURSE HE TRAVELS Declines To Attack Lewis C. I. O. Group Through Company Unions; C. I. O. Meets in Washington Tuesday To Map Union Drives in Other Industries (By The Associated Press.) The end of a week of momentous developments in the field of industrial unionization saw a quickening today of the struggle for control of labor. In the steel industry, the leaders of so-called “company unions” joined the battle, whose major contending forces heretofore have been the Am erican Federation of Labor and John Lewis’ C. I. O. Recognition of the C. I. O. as sole bargaining agent for its members in the Carnegie Illinois Steel Corpora tion gave Lewis’ supporters an early advantage, but their foes quickly gave a counter offensive. At Pittsburgh, leaders of the cor poration’s employee representatives drafted plans for combatting the C. I. O’s intentions of enrolling the na tion’s 550,000 steel workers. A com mittee was authorized to reorganize the “company union’ structure. Although at odds with the Lewis or ganization, President William Green, of the A. F. of L., declined to attack the C. I. O. through support of the Carnegie Illinois employee group. He told the latter it must be-wholly free from company influence before the A. F. of L. could recognize it afl an ally. The C. I. O. will meet in Washing ton Tuesday to discuss unionization campaigns in several large industries. Among them the textile industry, em ploying 1,250,000 workers. Arrests and eluggings marked the taxicab drivers’ strike in Chicago. Leaders claimed 1,800 Yellow Cab Continued on Page Five.) ' RAIL OF CHARLOTTE PASSES Edgar Thomason Was Head of Both Piedmont and Northern and Durham & Southern Charlotte, March 6.—(AP)—Edgar Thomason, president of the Piedmont & Northern Railway and the Durham & Southern Railway, died here today. The 69-year-old railway executive had been critically ill since February 22, when he suffered a stroke of paralysis in his office. A native of Cleveland county, N. C., Thomas started his railroad career in 1890 as an agent-operator at Earle for the Charleston, Cincinnati & Chicago railroad. After working In Blacks fcurg and Gaffney, S. C., he abandon ed railroading temporarily to man age the Gaffney Carpet Manufactur ing Company. In 1903, however, he re turned to his former occupation as an employee of the Seaboard Air Line railway at Atlanta. He became president of the Durham & Southern upon the death of B. N. Duke, who had held that post. Three years ago he was elected president of the Piedmont & Northern. Surviving are his widow and five children. Legislature May Endorse Roosevelt Court Plan As Result Os Tydings Speech Dally Diapatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, March 6—Every cloud seems to have its silver lining with the result that many now believe that the speech made here at the so-called “Victory Dinner” by Senator Millard E. Tydings of Maryland which turn ed out to be little more than a bit ter attack upon both President Roose velt and all “New Deal” Democrats, was one of the best things that could have happened. It has crystallized sentiment definitely in favor of the President and his program in almost every section of the State and shown that the bulk of the Dmocrats in North Carolina are definitely “Roose veltian Democrats”, instead. of “Lib erty League” Democrats, observers here are pointing out today. It has also stirred the long-smould ering sentiment against Senator Josiah William Bailey because of his continued opposition to President PUBLISHER) HVHRT AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Aluminum Workers Join Lewis Union Pittsburgh, Pa., March 6.—(AP) —•Representatives of union alumi num workers at the big New Kens ington, Pa., plant of the Aluminum Company of America announced today they have bolted the Amer ican Federation of Labor in favor of unionism under John L. Lewis. W. B. Gravatt, president of Local 18.356 of the Aluminum Workers Union, said the action was taken at a meeting at N<ew Kensington last night. The New Kensington unit is the largest in the aluminum industry. BRITAIN'S ARMING PROGRAM TO DRAIN CITIZENHOCKETS Populace Becoming Aware of Heavy Hand It Will Lay on Them In Their Taxes m PLANTS SWAMPED BY GOVERNMENT ORDERS Demand for Airplanes So Great Private Contracts May Have To Wait Three Years Whiles Government Is /Supplied; Five-Year Program On London, March 6.—(AP)—Britain’s $7,500,000,000 re-armament program promised today not only to nick tax able incomes by an extra 1.2 percent, but threatened to hamper normal in dustrial production for three years. The five-year program of perfecting war defenses with its prospective in roads into supplies of steel and other materials would take precedence over regular peace-time industry, Sir Thomas Inskip, defense coordination minister, suggested. “It would be no bad thing,” he de clared in a speech last night, “if some orders were postponed some two or •three years while contractors are busy on the government program.” The airplane industry, for example, is so busy with government orders Continued on Page Five.) OURWyTHEPMAN FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair tonight and Sun day. Roosevelt and his court program, to the boiling-over point. For it is now generally known and admitted that it was Senator Bailey who selected Sen ator Tydings to be the principal speaker at the Victory Dinner, while some are even saying that Senator Bailey wrote part of the anti-New Deal speech which Tydings made at the dinner, in which he did not men tion President Roosevelt by name a single time. Bill Is Expected One of the most immediate things expected to result from the Tydings speech is the introduction and pass age of a resolution by the General Assembly endorsing President Roose velt’s stand in favor of enlarging the United States Supreme Court, a good many observers here agree. While “the book” containing the names of all the members of the General As- Continued on Page Five.) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY ROOSEVELT COURT PROPOSAL CAUSING SCHISM IN RANKS 'i Foes Plan To Give President Blow for Blow in His Fight Before the Congress SURPRISE WITNESS AT HEARING TALKED Meantime, Chief Executive and His Friends Press Their Campaign To “Sell” Idea to Nation; Supporting Testimony at Hearing Planned Washington, March 6 (AP) —Sena- torial opponents of court reorganiza tion massed their attack today on two fronts: the President’s call for imme diate action in the approach of cru cial public hearings on the issue. Senator Burke, Democrat, Nebraska told reporters there would be a “new alignment of parties in this country by 1938," if Mr. Roosevelt should carry his point. The President’s foes, carefully pre paring to trade blow for blow, ar ranged a series of addresses ending i n a mass meeting next Friday at Carnegie Hall, New York. They also hinted they had lined up a “prominent surprise” witness to lead off their side of the case before the Senate Judiciary Committee. They could not disclose his name. Wbile Burke and his colleagues were serving notice of a “fight to the bitter end,” the President and his chief tains went ahead with their campaign to “sell” their program to the nation. Mr. Roosevelt worked on the “fire side chat,” in which he will make his second plea to the country Tuesday night. On Capital Hill, his lieutenants pre pared to follow up this speech with supporting testimony before the com mittee hearings beginning the next day. Opponents announced replies to the President as speeches would be given by four Democratic senators from as many sections of the country at the New York meeting. The speakers, they said, would in clude Senator Walsh, Democrat, Mas sachusetts, publicly at least a new recruit to their cause. The others are George, of Georgia, Copeland of New York, and Burke, all Democrats. France Asks Large Loans For Defense Paris, March 6.—(AP) Premier Leon Blum’s government swung into one of the nation’s greatest peace time drives today, asking patriotic Frenchmen to dig into their purees in support of a defense loan that may amount to $464,660,000 . While the terms had not been fixed, a cabinet communique saying the bor rowing would cover extraordinary credits for armaments in the French budget was interpreted as meaning the government expected to obtain at least ten billion francs. Blum will carry the appeal to the nation tonight by radio. Similar appeals were planned by President Albert Lebrun and other leaders of the Leftist government. A cooperation of bankers was sought and newspapers of virtually all shades of political opinion joined in whooping up enthusiasm. Legislature Safeguards Its Rackets Dally Dispatch Bureau, la the Sir Walter Hotel. By HENRY AVERILL. Raleigh, March 6—The Senate Com mittee on Constitutional Amendments Thursday afternoon voted to protect and perptuate two customs of long standing which many believe to be nothing more or less “rackets” of the worst sort. The vote for protection and perpe tuation came in unfavorable reports for amendments prohibiting special and local laws and prohibiting legis lators from filling positions created by assemblies of which they are mem bers. While in this “killing” mood the committee also voted to report unfa vorably amendments giving the gov ernor the veto power and providing a new school board. All the proposed amendments were (Continued on Page Four.)
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