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fHENDEKSON Utewayto CENTRAL CARQI-JNA I TWENTY-FOURTH year CUMMINGS WITNESS AS COURT PUN OPENS legislature Flooded With New Bilik As End Approaches 10 MEASURES GIN HOUSE, WITH 3 1 IN THE SENATE Assembly Plans To Co To Edenton Tomorrow and Elect University Trustees Friday COMMITTEE KILLS COURT RESOLUTION House Calendar Group Takes Position Legisla ture Mas No Business Tell ing Congress / What It Should Do; Will Seek Vote on Floor of the House Ralei.eh, March 10v —(AP)—Scores o fr.e\v bills hit the legislative hopper today the deadline for introductions except under suspension of the rules. The House quickly got 80 new measures and the Senate 37, and at intervals legislators sent in other bills. Senators vigorously debated a pro posal to create a State water policy hoard to protect streams from pollu tion then tabled it on motion of Sen stor Larkins of Jones. Gravely, of Nash, described the measure as “one with impossibly, un reasonable restrictions,” and Sanders, jf Alamance, supported him, while lay, of Northampton, introducer, ar -jed the bill was needed to preserve the purity of the streams. A resolution calling for a joint ses sion of the assembly at noon Friday to elect trustees of the University of North Carolina was adopted. The legislators will forget regular business tomorrow and make a trip to Edenton, one of the State’s first capi tals, for a one-day session. . House members passed under sus pension of the rdles a bill by Gard ner. of Cleveland, regarded as a spokesman for Governor Hoey, an “emergency bill” to transfer the ad ministration of the capital issues law (Continued on Page Three.) IBIiSETIP PASSES JUICY PIE Many District Workers Will Get Good Salaries As Administrators Hally Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By HENIRY AVERILL. kaleir'h, March 10.—North Carolina Has adopted a scientific plan for the reformation and rehabilitation of its wizens who fall into criminal paths f° r the first time. Enactment of a law providing for Probation of first offenders has been completed by the assembly, bringing *ith it a real revolution in the meth- of dealing with criminals who have r ‘°t become habitual defendants in the toUr ts of the State. The probation bill enables the court the State to exercise powers they “ av e never before enjoyed. Previous fContinued on Page Three.) Sees Senate Digging Grave For N. C. Democratic Party Refusal to Reform Election Laws Interpreted As Effort to Give Local Politicians Strangle Hold on Coun ties at Times of Election Hnli,« Dlioatel Boren*. In the Sir Walter Hotel. *Vv IIKNRY AVERILL. March 10.—The Senate has ' ofnvn into which the Demo }*«rty may well fall in the not :' J 0 dl ■'■■■: t future. It dug this grave ' ,in ‘ 1 ft to perpetuate the stran j>.' " ;r! which innumerable local po !'H| 'machines have on county af fai.rs - ■ j, dug this grave by disdainfully the appeal of the Democratic ■; llr .Executive Committee, by quietly •‘wing ihe wishes of the State’s f h JVH •■’>[ and by scornfully shelving “ ah.iei of the chairman of the 1 ' Hoard of Elections. w,,t " i surprisingly, it dug this * d " without so much as a dissent- n S voice. i . . Xo Remedy Attempted. f bd this by its action in adopting Unut dissent and almost without Hmtiteramt Ha ilit tHsrmtrli LEASED WIRE SERVICE OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Robbers Get About $2,000-$4,000 From Troy Bank Hold-Up Reported Doomed * JlinMfflj In a rebel broadcast, Gen. Queipo de Llano, one of Franco’s aids, declared that Ignacio Zuloaga (above) world* famous Spanish painter, was sen- . tenced to death in Bilbao, held by the Loyalist forces. The report has not been verified by government sources. (Central Press) Much Debate Might Delay Adjournment Deaf Ear to Pleas for “Poor” Judges; May Hold On Until About April 1 Dully Dispatch Rnrena, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Hr Jb-C. BASKERVILI' Raleigh, March 10—A highly argu mentative and talkative House with an inclination to argue at length over every bill that comes up, is caus ing it to bog down rapidly in a mire of words, seriously threatening the outlook for an early adjournment. While the House is managing to keep its calendar cleared of local bills, the number of Statewide bills on the pub lic calendar is getting larger every day, and the Senate is twiddling its thumbs across the rotunda waiting for the House to send it some work to do. ' When the House recessed Tuesday afternoon, it left 52 bills on its public calendar still to be considered, after having spent three hours in which only nine bills were acted upon, in ad dition to the local bills considered. At the same session 97 new bills were introduced. At the Mondfay night session, 114 bills were on the calendar for consideration, of which 61 were Continued on Page Two.) discussion a bill introduced by Sena tor A. Hall Johnston, which imposes the absentee ballot upon every county in North Carolina, even upon those counties now exempted. Its author, the Buncombe senator, said: . ... “I have absolutely no pride in this bill.” Explaining the measure, Senator Johnston said that it makes manda tory a complete new registration throughout North Carolina, not even exemp*ing those counties which have had new registrations within the past twelve months. This, obviously, pro vides another “piece of pie’ foi ie £~ istrars all over the State, many of whom are economic “lame ducks’’ who subsist largely on such crumbs as they can pick up as political “hangers-on.’ Members of the election law com- Continued on Page Two.) — QNLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. One of Desperadoes Be lieved To Be Bill Payne, Caledonia Escaped Prisoner CAR OUTSIDE TAKES PAIR AWAY RAPIDLY Third Man Waited There; , Cashier Harris Says He Is Positive Man Who Raked In Cash Was Same Payne Tried in Court There Few Years Ago . Troy, March 10. —(AP)—-J.. A. Har ris, Jr., cashier of, the Bank of Mont gomery. reported today two armed men entered the bank shortly after he opened its doors at 8:30 a. m., and took between $2,000 and $4,000. Harris said one of the men, whom he said he believed was Bill Payne, escaped convict, sentenced in Mont gomery County Superior Court for robbery several years ago, entered the door shortly after the tank opened and asked for change for a $lO bill. “I attended to his request, and then another man entered the side door of the bank and forced us to fall on the flooi of the building. He said I. F. Russell, bank vice president, Mis. Bennie Brown, a de positor, and M. Butler, Negro janitor, were in the bank at the time. The pair then took all the currency and cash in sight, the cashier said. Harris said he was “quite positive” he saw the ipan who entered the front door of the bank on trial as Payne in superior court several years ago. He said the man had dark complexion sunken eyes, and was dressed in a shabby blue overcoat. - • • •. The other man who entered the side door, Harris said, wore a hat which covered his eyes, and heavy shoes. The cashier said he notified the Troy police and the Federal Bureau of Identification at Charlotte imme diately. J. W. Dennis, officer in charge of the county jail, said witnesses told the sheriff two men emerged from the bank with a sack and entered a black coach occupied by a third man and left for Biscoe. Later, residents said, the car had turned north toward Lexington. statesTrecting BARRIERS ON AUTO Scramble for Road Taxes and Against Untaxed Goods Growing By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, March 10.—As I had occasion to remark recently, the Unit ed States is trending toward condi tions under which it will foe almost necessary soon for a traveler by au tomobile to have a passport to cross a state line. . “That,” commented an official of the National Highway Users Confer ence, with headquarters in Washing ton, after reading this prediction, “isn’t half of it.” Producing’ <1 little booklet of tne conference’s sponsorship, he read from it this paragraph: “Early in 1937 (right now) the leg islatures of 43 states will have con vened to consider a mass of new leg islation. much of which in some man ner will affect the motor vehicle op erator. In the face of 9,000 bills intro duced in the last regular sessions, and the apparent tendency of legislative thinking during the past year, it is abundantly evident that the motorist must develop the watchfulness of a hunted animal if he is to survive.” REASONS FOR IT? The conference attributes agitation i in favor of automotive restrictions in large part to the influence of rail • roads, as rivals of the motor car in ■ the field of transportation. l In part also it is attributed to the t influence of merchants, who object to > the competition of salesmanship from : adjoining states. Especially has such - competition been resented in states - where stiff sales taxes are levied, in f comparison with neighboring states > which levy none, or lighter ones. The r overly taxed states would like to erect • tariff barriers but that would be un • constitutional; the nearest they can (Continued on Page Four.) HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, MARCH 10, 1937 Green Lines Up His Guns for a G L O. Barrage N •. . .. • •:•• i * Imm ■ "' !;;; • • Wm .; <?.• ImeFm. §llll -j{ j|fl Jijk Jfi| gjgfc JJ,: piplll||l| ffiih ! 11 ' §yff K > ' t SHI President William Green, of the American Federation of Labor, is busy mapping his fight to the finish with the Committee for Industrial Organization, headed by John L. Lewis. Here is Green (front, center), shown at Washington, I), C., preparing to lay the barrage. Others in the picture are (front) W. Schellenberg, president United Cement Workers Union, Chicago; Green; H. A. Barclay, Akron, 0., general organizer of the A. F. of I* Rear; D. Williams, president of the Council of Aluminum Workers. Pittsburgh, and D. Sieman. of the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor. <Central Press ) Final And Full Settlement For General Motors Nearing Highway Department Will Have $8,350,000 Less If Full Funds Are Diverted Dally Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, March 10—The State High way and Public Wbrks Commission will have $8,350,000 less to spend on road work during the coming bien nium than it had this past biennium, if it really becomes necessary to di vert $2,100,000 a year from the high way to the general fund, or a total of $4,200,000 for the biennium in addi tion to the increased charges made against the highway funds soy this aSSion Any County That Votes Wet Can Have Liquor; Border Groups Hope Birmingham, Ala., March 10. —(AP) —Repeal forces of Alabama, for 22 years a citadel of bone dry” prohibi tion. stepped into the lead in scattered unofficial returns today from the Stair’s county option liquor election. Abrentee boxes of nine counties and three precincts gave: For liquor legalization, 1,041; a gainst, 544. Lgeal sale of liquor will be only permitted in counties returning re peal majorities regardless of the State wide vote, and moist areas bordering dry Georgia, Tennessee and Missis sippi already were contemplating pos sible benefits from an influx of visi tors from legally arid communities. Prohibition leaders conceded two counties —Mobile and Birmingham— would be in the wet column. If one county returns a wet ma jority, Alabama will be the 43rd state to legalize whisky since repeal of the eighteenth amendment. FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Thursday; wanner tonight and Thursday. General Assembly, it was estimated here today. But even if not a single dollar of highway money is diverted under the terms of the revenue bill— and Governor Hoey is convinced that none will have to be diverted—the highway department still has $4,150,- 000 more in charges against it this coming biennium than during the past two years, either in the form of loss revenue from license cost reductions, (Continued on Page Two). Huge Loan By France On Defense Paris, March ]lO (AP) —Socialist Premier Leon Blum’s plan to float a huge loan for national defense in 1937 moved toward final parliamentary approval today as Finance Minister Auriol agreed t.o finance the loan up to 10,500,000 francs (about $479,850,-) 000.) The Senate Finance committee ap proved the measure for government al borrowing passed by the Chamber of Deputies last night. The Senate (Continued on Page Four.) MRS. SIMPSON NOW IN NEW QUARTERS Has Made No Plans Yet To Go To Paris To Buy Trousseau To Marry Windsor Soon Monts, France, March 10.—(AP) — French police left Mrs. Wallis Simp son today to the protection of a sharp eyed woman lodge keeper in wooden shoes. She hid the gate key of Chateau de Cande, Mrs. Simpson’s new abode, un der her apron and telephoned the chateau for instructions every time any one rapped on the portals. Three policemen withdrew, leaving only Jules Baldy, of the surate gen erale somewhere in the Touraine neighborhood. Mrs. Simpson slept until noon to day. Hermen Rogers, her Riviera host, who accompanied her here yes terday, said she had made no plans to go to Paris to get her trousseau for her spring marriage to Edward Duke of Windsor. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTBBNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. But Deadlock Continues As To i Chrysler Motors Plant in Detroit, 65,000 Idle GREEN AND LEWIS UNIONS LAY PLANS Battle Lines Drawn Tighter As Two Contending Fac tions in Labor World Seek Control; Drive ill Textiles Due in ABout Two Weeks Hence (By The Associated Press) Final settlement of General Motors Company-union differences appeared imminent, but the deadlock between the C. I. O. and the Chrysler man agement remained unbroken, with 65,- 000 idle. Union labor battle lines between William Green’s A. F. of L. and John Lewis’ C. I. O. were drawn tighter with receipt of orders from Green’s office to “lift” the charter of the aluminum workers union at New Ken sington, Pa. The union, largest in the industry, recently aligned itself with the Lewis faction. A new sitdown strike started in the Crowley-Milner & Company de partment store in Detroit. The doors were locked and customers denied en trance or service. The committee for industrial organ ization today steered a course toward unionization of 2,200,000 workers in the oil and textile industries, and cre ation of a union structure to rival the American Federation of Labor. The committee’s move for autonomy came at a time when many of its af filiated groups were participating in strikes affecting more than 100,000 workers. One of them, the U. A. W. A,, was engaged in a struggle at Detroit with the Chrysler Motor Corporation. It kept 55,000 Chrysler Automotive work ers idle. Conflict over the form of union or ganisation—by craft or by industry — split the ranks of the A. F. of L last year. Supporters of the latter form organized the C. I. O. under the aegis of John Lewis. The C. I. O.’s decision to charter local and State central labor bodies led to the belief the A. F. of L. would oust ten unions backing Lewis. President William Green, of the fed eration, said it was long apparent cre ation of the C. I. O. was Lewis’ ob jective. Textile labor leaders said the drive to enlist 1,250,500 textile workers un der C. I. O. auspices would start in New England in about two weeks. Start of the campaign to sign up about 1,000,000 oil workers awaited perfection of plans for procedure. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY ATTORNEY GENERAL CLAIMS ROOSEVELT IDEA BEST REMEDY Declares Government Ma chinery Has Gotten Out Os Balance In United States SAYS PLAN BETTER THAN AMENDMENTS Lashes Out at “Tortured f Construction df Constitu tion”; House Foe Says He Is Not Converted; Cope land Food, Drugs Bill Passes Senate Washington, March 10. —(AP) —Sup- porters of President Roosevelt’s reor ganization program carried before a Senate committee today his conten tion the Supreme Court had adopted super-legislative powers. Attorney General Cummings, who helped the President perfect, his bill, was the first witness. The President’s frequent reference to court decisions and to legal his tory in his “fireside” chat by radio last night laid a legal background for the testimony. But the President’s challenge to his listeners, “You and I will do our part’* —brought this comment from Repre sentative Lammeck, Democrat, Ohio, one of his opponents on the issue: “I am not converted!” Attorney General Cummings told the Senate Judiciary Committee to day President Roosevelt’s court re organization plan “is the most effec tive remedy” for eliminating what he conceived to be the ills of the Su preme Court. “It aims at the restoration of the fiiTT legislative power,” he said, “so that the Congress may perform its constitutional function. What we de sire to avoid is a ‘tortured construc tion of the Constitution’.” “Our governmental machinery has gotten out of balance, and that bal ance must be restored before it can effectively function.” Cummings was the first witness at the committee’s hearings on the Presi dent’s bill to increase the size of the Supreme Court by a maximum of six justices unless those now over 70 on the bench retire. Cummings said the plan would be better than a constitutional amend ment, wnich he declared would foe de layed by bickering until possibly it suffered the fate of the child labor amendment. He said there was noth ing unconstitutional about the plan the President proposed. The Senate which yesterday passed the Copeland bill to give the govern ment new power in regulating food, drugs and cosmetics, was in recess. The House considered public land bills. The House Agriculture Commit tee ordered new legislation drafted to give rnilk producers and distributors authority to enter price and sales ag reements, and it hoped thus to avoid the possibility of an adverse decision of the Supreme Court on that phase of the farm program. Government Troops Fall Back Slowly Madrid Says Italians And Spaniards Number 15,000 In Drive in East (By The Associated Press.) Spanish government troops north east of Madrid fell back today before an insurgent force which government commanders said consisted of “15,000 Italians and Spainards.” The insurgent headquarters at Avila reported the advancing army had shattered government opposition along the Guadalajara-Zaragoza high way and reached a point less than 50 miles from Madrid, moving up 15 miles. Government accounts, admitting Madrid’s soldiers had yielded some what in heavy fighting against a me chanized insurgent army, did not give the distance of the insurgent force from Madrid. The mystery of the Spanish muni tions transport Mar Cantabrico still was not cleared up, as reports at Arcachon, France, said she had been conveye dto an insurgent point by the insurgent cruiser which shelled her in the Bay of Biscay. Previous accounts had said the ship sank. A French steamer reported she was bombed by an airplane in the Medi terranean, but sustained only slight damage.
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