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fHENDERSON gateway TO CENTRAL CAROLINA fWENTY-FOUR 1 ffliiirs LABOR Great $76,000,000 State Tax Bill Is Fin ally Made La w Largest General Fund Reve nue Measure Ever Pass ed In State Signed by Officials ACT IS PROOF-READ FULLY FOUR TIMES Race Track Bill For Rowan County Becomes Law With Passage by Senate Over Strong Opposition; Flannagan, of Pitt, Resists Its Passage Raleigh, March 13 (AP) Working hard trying to get in position to adjourn sine die next week, legislators passed more than 85 bills today and advanc ed a number of other measures on their legislative course. Raleigh, March 13 (AP) —The big rest general fund tax bill ever passed by a North Carolina legislature actu ally became law today. The $76,000,000 revenue measure was ratified into law by being signed by the president of the Senate and speak er of the House after being carefully proof-read four times. The General Assembly passed the Murphy-Uzzell bill to create a racing commission in Rowan county and per mit parti-mutuael betting if the voters approve of the act. This measure will become law when it is signed by the presiding officers. Senator Flannagan, of Pitt, opposed Senate passage of the bHI, approved ir the House Wednesday night, but on motion of Gregory, of Rowan, the rules were suspended and the mea (Continued on Page Six.) Governor Has “Sneak Bills” Read Closely Dally Dispatch Ttarenn, In the Sir Waller Hotel. Raleigh, March 13.—Governor Clyde R Hoey is in favor of speed and has helped to keep a full head of steam in the legislative boiler throughout ‘he present session. But he does not relieve in taking any chances or run ning any risks which might be costly to the .State later on. As a result, some two or three weeks ago, the governor as ked the attorney general to install a safety valve and speed regulator on the legislative machine to guard a ftainst the enactment of any danger ous or improper legislation. As a result, the attorney general has employed a temporary assistant whose business it is to read and study every bill enacted by both houses as soon as these bills reach the enrolling office and before they are enrolled one! ratified, in an effort to discover a ny defects or errors. This assistant Continued on Page Two.) Whole State To Share In Advertising T tlieridge to See That All Sections Get Publicity in $250,000 Sum Dally Dlsputch Bnrenw, In .he Sir Wnlter Hotel. By HENRY AVERILL. Raleigh, March 13.—A1l interests in Carolina will have a part in, r "" nirig a systematic advertising cam which will be designed to serve f entire State and not any parti , f,r section or sectioms, according to Wan. r) f pi g ruce Etheridge, director [“ Department of Conservation dn 'l Development. Etheridge will have the task of the big quarter-million dollar campaign to advertise North Carolina ' u „V n S s he next two years. ihe bill authorizing this campaign ** finally enacted into law at the (Continued on Page Six.) Hrttiirrsmt H YEAR Plane Is Downed With Explosives Cheyenne, Wyo., March 13 (AP) —Lost in a night snowstorm and flying a cargo of nitroglycerine, an airplane pilot made a forced land ing safely today at Fort Warren military reservation. The fiier, D. A. Mclntyre, said he was unable to locate the Chey enne airport in the storm. The snow was described by Weather Bureau officials as the most ex tensive of the season, blanketing a wide area along both sides of the continental divide. Government Troops Hurl Rebels Back Insurgents Driven Back Some Distance from Com munication Line (By The Associated Press.) Madrid, March 13.—(AP)—Govern ment troops, supported by planes which dropped 492 bombs on insur gent positions, drove enemy concen trations from a strategic place 12 miles north of Guadalajara, the Mad rid defense junta reported today. One complete artillery battery was seized in the government counter-at tack, commanders asserted. SPAIN PROTESTS AGAINST ITALY FURNISHING TROOPS (By The Associated Press.) Spain’s motorized divisions drove a gainst insurgent legionnaires at a spot 44 miles northeast of Madrid, counter attacking to disorganize the Guada laara offensive. Government reports said one com plete artillery battery was seized in a fierce bombardment of insurgent po sitions, achieving what General Jose (Continued on Page Three.) NASHFARMER FACES DEATH FOR MURDER Nashville, March 13 (AP)—Mel vin Coggins, 32, tenant farmer, faced a mandatory sentence of death today for the slaying of his neighbor, Henry Fogleman, less than two weeks ago. A Nash county jury convicted Coggins of first degree murder aft er deliberating little more than an hour late yesterday. The State charges Coggins shot the prosperous planter February 23. DEFENSE LOAN FOR FRANCE SOLD OUT Paris, Mareh 13 (AP)—France “has turned the elusive financial and political corner,” Premier Leon Blum’s supporters proclaim ed today as a result of the quick sale of the first installment of bonds for a 10,500,000,000 franc— about $479,850,000 —defense loan. North Carolinians In National Capital By PAUL BARKLEY Associated Press North Carolina Correspondent. Washington, March 13 (AP) —The path from the Capitol to the White House is being trod often by North Carolinians in Congress who are seek ing assurance the Great Smoky Moun tains National Park will be formally taken over by the National Park Ser vice this year. Representative Robert L. Doughton, of Laurel Springs, dean of the State’s House delegation, called at the White House this week in the interest of the park, coming away with the express ed belief away would be worked out for the government to assume juris diction. Previously, Senator Robert R. Rey nolds had trekked to the White House. Upon his return to Capitol Hill, he too, was optimistic over the park pos sibilities . The matter of land acquisition is ASD L the E Sssocistedp i r C lss OP HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY! AFTERNOO N, MARCH 13 1937 Draws U. S. Protest y| - Josef Goebbels Anti-American attacks made in Der Angriff, official Nazi organ, controlled by German Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels, have drawn a vigorous protest from the American government. Secretary of State Hull expressed amaze ment at the vile language used in the German press, following at tack of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia of New York on Fuehrer Adolf Hitler. —-Central Pres* LEGISLATORS HOPE FOR ADJOURNMENT IN ANOTHER WEEK ” ■ ■■■ :■■■- Several Obstacles to Sine Die Move Eliminated by Enactment in Past Week SOCIAL BILLS ARE ENACTED INTO LAW $2,345,000 Os Bonds for Permanent Improvements At State Institutions Will Likely Be Authorized; Capital Punishment Set-Up Is Unchanged By RALPH L. HOWL kND Raleigh, March 13 (AP)—The Gen eral Assembly, weary from the rapid pace at which it has been working, removed this week several obstacles to adjournment as leaders disagreed upon the exact time the final gavel will be sounded. Next week probably will be the busiest of the session as the calendars are cleared in attempt to dissolve the term by the week-end. A host of minor details await attention togeth er with the road reorganization, school machinery and permanent im provements bills. Even a pleasure trip to Edenton, scene of one of the first general as semblies, did not result in the loss of a day’s work Thursday as the legis lators received and passed measures in the historic town. Social Measure Enacted Enacted into law this week were the aid to blind, old age assistance and relief to dependent children mea sures, designed to cost $16,000,000 dur ing the biennium. Over the protest of Representative Ward, of Craven, the legislature retained the original (Continued on Page Six.) delaying formal transfer of the 400,- 000 acres of virgin forest to the park service. North Carolina has taken over acquisition of about 17,000 acres in Tennessee. Representative Zebulon Weaver, of Asheville, sought in a House bill this week to clear up the matter of the Blue Ridge parkway entrance to the Great Smoky Park. His measure would provide a right of-way through the Cherokee Indian reservation by giving the Indians other land in the park. « The committee for industrial organ ization’s drive to unionize the textile industry promises to give North Carolinians a first-hand observation of C. I. O. tactics. Francis Gorman, president of the United Textile Workers and a member of the C I. O. textile organizing com (Continued on Page Two). PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. GROUP REPORTS BK RAWS Germany States No Offense Meant By Attacks Upon U. S. If Newspapers Exceeded Their Bounds, It Was Done in Excitement of Occasion DRAWN FOURTH BY LAGUARDIA SPEECH New |York Mayor’s Outburst Against German Regime Created “Understandable” Indignation Throughout Reich, Which Was Not Any Insult Berlin, March 13 (AP) —Foreign Minister von Neurath, sources close to the Wilhelmstrasse said today, has answered United States Ambassador Dodd’s representations against Ger man press attacks with the explana tion they were not intended to oiiend. Von Neurath, they said, pointed out the strictures of Mayor Laguardia of New York against the German regime and said they created “understand able’ ’indignations throughout the Reich. If some German newspapers exceed ed proper bounds in their comments, the foreign minister was said to have asserted, it was because of their ex citement over the Laguardia remarks. Von Neurath assured the ambassador no insult to the United States nation was intended, it was said. In so far as the German govern ment is concerned, foreign quarters said, the incident is closed. DR. ELIHU THOMSON INVENTOR, IS DEAD Was Contemporary of Thomas Edison and Discovered Art of Elec tric Welding Swainpscott, Mass., March 13 (AP) —!Dr. Elihu Thompson, 83, of the General Eleptric Company, inventor of electric arc welding and contem porary of the late Thomas Edison, died today at his home. He had been seriously ill since January. The famous inventor, who received his first patent on electric welding in 1896, would have been 84 on March 29. Last fall engineers gathered in De troit and Lynn, Mass., to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his discovery of electric welding. Then he exchanged greetings over a special wire with the two celebrations. It was his last pub lic activity. FOUR MIGHT SEEK 1939 SPEAKERSHIP J Cherry Giving Them Chance to Show Their Capaci ties to House Dally Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, March , 13.—Several poten tial candidates for speaker of the House in the 1939 session of the Gen eral Assembly are being given work outs by Speaker R. Gregg Cherry, which gives the house members an opportunity to see how they work — and hear how they sound—in the speaker’s chair. Among those regarded as potential candidates for speaker in 1939 are Re presentative Robert H. House of Kin ston, who occupied the speaker’s chair during much of the Friday sfession; D. L. Ward of New Bern: Victor S. Bryant of Durham; W. E. Fenner of Rocky Mount, Nash county and Sam M. Blount of Washington, Beaufort county. Those who have heard and seen all of these preside over the house at the invitation of Speaker Cherry—the speaker may designate any member of the House to preside at any time— most observers agree that - Rouse Continued on Page Two.) FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy, occasional rain Sunday and possibly tonight; slightly warmer tonight; colder Sunday. WEEKLY WEATHER For the Carolinas and Georgia: Occasional rain first half of week and rainy period again at end of week; colder at beginning and somewhat warmer middle of week. BttUn BtsWcb SEEN AT COURT PLAN HEARING •• - ■ - BlllSsllL ? .socwKsg? JHa ™ ilv m Senators Borah, left, and Ashurst; below, left to right, Mrs. Conner, Mrs. Tydings and. Mrs. Ashurst. Among those caught by the camera in Washington at the publio hearing of the senate judiciary committee on President Roosevelt’s court plan are U. S. Senators William Borah, Republican, of Idaho, foe of the court change, and Henry F. Ashurst, Democrat, of Ari zona, who is chairman of the judiciary committee, and favors the change. They are shown top. Below, three Interested spectators, left to right, Mrs. Samuel Conner, national committeewoman from Kentucky; Mrs. Millard Tydings, wife of the Maryland senator who opposes the plan, and Mrs. Ashurst, wife of Senator Ashurst. -—Central Press Executive Reorganization Program Worries Some More Than Supreme Court Plans Roosevelt Seeks Some Pow ers Now Held by Congress As Well As to Clip Wings of Supreme Court; Re ference sto Buchana n Are Elaborated on By CHARLES F. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, March 13. Some alarmists are more perturbed over the presidential plan to reorganize the executive branch of the Federal gov ernment than over the proposal to in crease the number of United States Supreme Court justices. The judicial proposition has had practically all of the advertising but the other scheme promises to get its fair share of publicity when its ad vocates begin to push it vigorously, as DINNER SHOWS HOW THIS STATE STANDS Dyed-in-Wool Democrats Hear Ickes and Shout for Roosevelt Dally Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, March 13. —If there has ever been any doubt about the loyalty of most of the Democrats in North Carolina to President Roosevelt and their support of his entire New Deal program, including his plans for en larging the Supreme Court, there is no doubt of it today, following the "correct the record” dinner here last night, attended by at least 2,000 hon est-to-goodness New Deal Rooseyelt ian Democrats. And these Democrats applauded, shouted, yelled and even Continued on Page Fiv«.) PDBLISHBD^I^ERY^iLFMIINOON FIVE CENTS COPY contemplated by the administration in the near future. • The presidential reorganization pro gram should not be confused with the inquiry a congressional committee is conducting, also looking toward a compacting of the machinery of gov ernment and enhancement of its ef ficiency, incidentally including econo my, if possible. Congressional activities are not yet past the investigatorial stage. Presi- Continued on Page Five.) COURT FIGHT STILL” GRIPS WASHINGTON For Fifth Week Capital Is Thinking of Little Else Than That Washington, March 13. —(AP)—The torrent of testimony and speech-mak ing over the Roosevelt court bill shunt ed aside this week congressional con sideration of most of the administra tion social and farm legislation. - One bill intended to replace an act outlawed by the court did make pro gress. Almost unnoticed in the capital, the House approved the Guffey-Vin son proposal for regulation and price fixing in the soft coal industry. The Senate Agriculture Committee approved a crop insurance bill, hut there was no indication the Senate (Continued on Page Three.) 8 PAGES TODAY ULMSira S* CAMPAIGN Final Agreement With Gen eral Motors Does Not Get Wage-Hour Goals for C. I. O. INJUNCTION RULING PUT OFF TO MONDAY Steel Conferences To Re sume Monday; 18 Strikes In Chicago Involve 9,000 Workers; Police Guard Furniture Foctory in Mem phis, Tenn. (By The Associated Press) Industrial union enthusiasts counted one big gain in the automotive industry today and pressed campaigns in ohter fields. Final agreement in the Gen eral Motors strike, affecting 135,000 employees, brought wage, hour and other conces sions to an affiliate of the C. I. 0., but did not achieve the na tional minimum hourly wage nor 30-hour week goals. Rati fication by union locals was withheld temporarily. To tLj Wayr.c county court at De troit wds transferred temporarily the controversy between the U. A. W. A, a C. I. O. union, and the Chrysler Corporation. Arguments in the cor poration’s plea for legal ouster of 5,- 000 sitdowners from its plant jam med the court room and brought a picket line to the building itself. The court deferred decision until Monday. On the steel front, the Blawnox Company and four su-sidiaries an (Continued on Page Six.) Seek Last Os Bodies From Mine Logan, W. Va., March 13.—(AP) -—Rescue workers duge wearily today Into tons of slate blocking the way to nine bodies in the blast-torn Macbeth mine. Nine of the 18 who lost their lives in. the terrific explosion at the Hutchinson Coal Company shaft were above ground—lying in (Continued on Page Six.) VESSEL ON FIRE IN MIDDLE OF PACIFIC San Francisco, Cal., March 13— (AP) —The British motor ship Siiverlarch, with- a fire in her hold and 48 persons aboard, wire lessed today that the flames were being kept in check as the ship raced toward the United States navy cruiser northwest of Hawai ian waters. Globe wireless reported receipt of a message from Captain F. H. Henderson, of the Siiverlarch, ad dressed to all ships giving the ves sel’s position as northwest of the Hawaiian islands. Finding Os RedfernNow Anticipated Expedition To Sail March 25 for Brazil To Hunt Aviator Gone Since 1927 New York, March 13.— -(AP)—A pre diction the secret of Paul Redfern’s fate, locked up in the “green hell,” heart of the Brazilian jungle, for the past ten years, will be solved in the next four months was voiced here to day by Theodore Waldeck, the ex plorer. “On the strength of new private in formation, we are perfectly convinced we can locate Redfern, living or dead” (Continued on Page Six.)
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