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HENDERSON gateway TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR COURT ORDERS Flood Os Money In Income Taxes May Even U. S. Budgets Treasury Experts Expect Today’s Revenue To Amount to About $840,000,000 SURFACE LULL OVER FIGHT UPON COURT Norris Offers Amendment To Curb Supreme Court’s Power; Senate Considers Acceptance of Mellon’s $19,000,600 Gifts of Art Washington, March 15. —>(AF) — A floodtide of income tax returns swept into the Treasury today, buoying ad ministration hopes that no additional borrowing would be necessary this fiscal year. Treasury officials said they expect ed March receipts of $840,000,000 If this forecast was correct, they declar ed, the government possibly could go on a balanced budget basis for the rest of the fiscal year. There was a surface lull in the fight over President Roosevelt’s judiciary proposals. Hearings by the Senate Judiciary Committee, now consider ing the program, will be resumed to morrow. Senator braska, drew up a bill and a const itutional amendment to curb the Su preme Court’s power. He would re quire a two-thirds vote by the court to invalidate the law. His amendment would limit appointments to Federal courts in nine years. The Senate considered the offer of (Continued on Page Four.) Approval Os Court Plans Due To Pass Ickes Speech 1 May Contribute to With ering of Opposition to President Daily Dispatch Bnrean, In the Sir Walter Hotel, fly .1. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, March 15. —House leaders who for a week have been playing a gam of political ne°k*-a-boo and hide and-.-eeii with Representative C. W. Spiuill and his small group of McDon ald Democrats, in an effort to keep from being put '‘on to<s spot” by the loint rciohirion introduced by Rep resentative Brooks Price, of Union, indorsing the stand of President Roosevelt in favor of the reorganiza tion of the United States Supreme Court, have decided to quit their fence-straddling and dodgdng and to permit this resolution to come to a vote in tonight’s session of the House, according to word going the rounds today. Indications are that the speech ■■ - \ (Continued on Page Four.) End Os Legislature ThisWeekUnlikely Calendars Jammed in Both House and Senate With Many Important Public Measures Yet to Be Act ed Upon; New Building Is Authorized Dully Dispatch Barena, - In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, March 15. —Adjournment by the end of this week is still re garded as possible by legislative lead ers, in spite of the jam-packed cal endars in both houses and the flood of hills still coming from ,the com mittees. But a good many seriously doubt if both houses will be able to clear their desks and slates and wind op the session by Saturday as much as the members want to get through and So home and as hard as Speaker tlregg Cherry is putting the spurs to s he House. Indications are that by tomorrow the Senate will be just hbout as deeply snowed under with hills as the House has been, due to 'he flood of measures being sent over from the House, and that Lieutenant Hrttiirrsmt Legislature Off On Home Stretch Rajeigh, March 15.—(AP)—The North Carolina General Assembly started down the home stretch to day toward a self-set goal of sine die adjournment by the end of the week. Although most of the major bills have been disposed of, between 300 and 400 bills remained on the calen dar or in the hands ©#AsAmmit tees. Most of them, how&dlr, are local measures. Still to be disposed of dire the im portant school machinery, revenue machinery, highway reorganization highway finance, permanent im provements and election bills. haTghTaysbill IS NOT AIMED AT LIBERTY OF PRESS I Wake Solon Ready To Ac cept Clarifying Amend ments to Controver sial Measure '•—-I BILL IS ATTACKED DURING WEEK-END Intended To Prevent Circu lation of False Statements by Insolvent Persons At tacking Character of Inno cent Persons, Hatch De clares Raleigh, March 15.—(AP)—Rep resentative Hatch, of Wake, told the lower division of the General Assembly this afternoon his bill to prohibit false and malicious statements “is not aimed at the freedom of the press,” and said he would offer amendments to clarifying the measure. Legislators and newspapers attack ed the Hatch measure over the week end as threatening the freedom of the press, and a Raleigh newspaper said it was described as “resembling the stringent California criminal syndi calism act.” “I have not been a party to any bill unfair to any person or group of per sons,” Hatch told the House. “The bill was not intended to infringe on the (Continued on Page Two). QUEEN MARIE ILL OF THE INFLUENZA Bucharest, Roumania, March 15. (AP) —Dowager Queen Marie is ill of influenza, her physicians an nounced after consultation today, while officials denied emphatical ly foreign reports that she had been poisoned. Governor W. P. Horton is going to have to borrow Speaker Cherry’s spurs if he is going to get the Sen ate out of the trenches by Saturday. 100 Bills Await House Tho House will find more than 100 bills on its calendar when it meets again '■today, while the Senate will al so have a large calendar as a result of the ibills which came over from the House Saturday and from commit tees. There were 101 public bills on the calendar Saturday, in ad dition to many local bills. the House and Senate both held pub lie sessions* Saturday, the House hold ing both morning and afternoon Ses sions, it left more than 50 public bills still to be acted on when it adjourn- Continuisd on Page Five.) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER ,J «SrWSSMPBa£* HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 15, 1937 SITDOWH STRIKERS TO QUIT Removing Bodies of 18 Miners Entombed by Blast m lakin Jm gfgjf If Bfw " mil j R * I—-J- UftHßr g: 1 MBMHL f |g JL Is*»V Wm. JUmb x|M y| ■ v. VjT | HHBPbI raff MMr Jm .: W 4 m Wi ** . liiw—ißllK %> I LL m I Hr WmMSm H . WEB nLh, Wt K&J RBWWWfcljffijPt ;&■: B- Body of one of 18 miners entombed deep down in the Mac-Beth mine near Logan, W. Va., following a blast, is shown being removed by one of the rescuers. The mine disaster, killing all 18 men, was the worst in West Virginia for more than a decade. Supreme Court Re fuses New Reviews On Wagner Measure Washington, March 15.—(AP) The Supreme Court stirred speculation a mong administration official’s today by refusing to review eight new cases challenging constitutionality of the Wagner Labor Relations Act which the government won in lower courts. At the same time the tribunal post poned until at least March 29 a final Offer Alibis For Beating Exemptions Social Security Land Tax Held Necessa ry; Keep Church Exemptions Dally Dispatch Bureaa, In *l»e Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh’ March 15—'Political pro phets are pondering the effect on the State’s voters of last Friday’s rejec tion by the House of any exemption whatever for home owners. There are those who predict that the rejection of what they call the “mandate of the people” will be very hard to explain to the folks back home, but at the present writing a majority of observers feel that those legislators who voted against the ex emption will be able to make out a satisfactory defense before their con stituents. Ready With “Alibis” Certainly more than two-thirds of the representatives who were in the hall when noes were counted believed they can “get by”, for the vote was (Continued on Page Three.) TRIANGULAR AFFAIR IN WOMAN’S DEATH Affair With 45-Year-Old Canton, Ohio, Divorcee Admitted By Con tractor-Husband Canton, Ohio, March 15.—(AP)—De tective Captain Elmer E. Clark, an nounced today Deuiber Caible, Canton contractor, had told of his companion ship with a 40-year-old divorcee held for questioning by authorities inves tigating the shotgun slaying of Cable’s socially prominent wife. Included in Cable’s account, Captain Clark said, was a statement he had shared an apartment in Akron with the woman, who today was held in jail. It was in this apartment, police de clared, Prosecutor A. G. Barth ernes reported the finding of evidence which he said pointed to a “jealousy” motive in the slaying and the possi bility a “hired assassin” fired into a window of the Cable home Thursday night the shotgun blast which fatally wounded Mrs. Cable. Hatlu Btsmifrh PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. decision on the validity of the Wag ner labor and railway labor laws as presented in five cases already argued Supreme Court attaches quickly em phasized today’s action in refusing to review the new controversies did not necessarily indicate the court’s views of the litigation. There are a number of reasons which might cause the 28 Dead In Fireworks Explosions Richmond, Va., March 15 (AP)— Virginia State Police headquart ers said two men were killed and six others injured this afternoon when a passenger bus occupied by students from Rollins College, in Florida, collided with a car on U. S. No. 1 near here. The Two killed were named as Don Cheney, of Orlando, Fla., and Malcolm Corliss, of Orange, N. J. Officers said the injured were Jack Hagenbach, of Newark, N. J. Don Cetrolo, of Newark; Gene Townsend, of Orlando; George Ful ler, of Mobile, Ala.; Oscar Earcar of New York, and Professor Roney of Winter Park, Fla. Headquarters offices said the bus, which they understood belong ed to Rollins College, sideswiped an automobile near Stop 23 on the heavily-travelled highway south of Richmond to ePtersburg. WILSON ABC BOARD CHAIRMAN RESIGNS B. J. Williams Was Also Formerly Chairman of State ABC Boards Association Wilson, March 15.—(AF)—B. J. Williams, chairman of the Wilson County ABC Board since its inception in June, 1935, resigned today. He was former chairman of the North Carolina Association of ABC Boards. The county commissioners, the county board of education and the county board of health were to meet late today to name Williams’ succes sor. FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy, snow or rain this after noon and tonight; colder tonight; Tuesday generally fair. court to decline to pass on litigation. A final ruling also was postponed for at least two weeks on constitu tionality of the Washington law es tablishing minimum wages for wo men. Action was delayed also on peti tion for reconsideration of the four-to four decision upholding the New York unemployment insurance act. rM CAR WRECK t Otis Parks, 30, of Whitak ers, Killed; Two Held Under SSOO Bonds Rocky Mount, March 15.—(AP) — Otis Parks, 30, of Whitakers, was killed almost instantly on the Battle boro highway near here early today when the car in which he was riding crashed into the rear of a trailer be hind a parked truck. Joe Stallings 38, of Whitakers, driv er of the car in which Parks was rid ing, and C. U. Ramsey, of Rocky Mount, truck driver, were formally charged with manslaughter and plac ed under SSOO bond each after local police and M. C. Gulley, Nash coroner, investigated the fatal crash. Police reported Ramsey had parked the truck, owned by S. T. Jones, of near here, near the edge of the high way, but a trailer attached to the truck appeared to extend over the pavement. When the Stallings car hit the trailer, officers said, several boards were ripped off it and were hurled through the windshield of the approaching car, striking Parks. Winter Hits Back Sharply At The South (By The Associated Press.) March winds whipped snow, sleet or rain over much of the South today, bringing an abrupt halt to springlike, weather. Temperatures dropped below the freezing mark in some sections of Tennessee and Arkansas, where the wintry assault threatened fruit, while white flurries also dotted sections of Virginia, with indications they would extend as far rruth as north Georgia. Snow wds falling in Nashville, Memphis and Little Rock, but melted almost as fast as it struck. Chilly rains slashed on the side walks of Knoxville, Atlanta, New Or leans and in the Carolinas. Official forecasts'indicated the but ton-up-yo.ur-over-coat wea.th.er would not at once relax its grip. Still lower temperatures were promised for some (Continued on Page Four.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Ruling Is Against Workers Quartered In Chrysler Plant Durham Woman Is Winner At Races Dublin, Ireland, March 15. —(AP) —Six United States ticket holders were drawn on Godien Miller, prime favorite in Friday’s running of the Grand National of the Irish hospital sweepstakes today. Royal Mail, the second favorite, went to eight Americans, including Mrs. F. w. Shields, 911 Holloway street, Durham, N. C. FOURTREMENDOUS BESIEGEDMADRID Insurgent Artillery Shells Also Rip Great Holes In Downtown Buildings ITALIAN SOLDIERS ARE FORCED BACK Compelled To Retire From Forward Positions in Guadalajara Section Northeast of Capital; Gov ernment Trying to Dislodge Franco Troops (By The Associated Press) Spanish insurgent forces laun ched heavy attacks on two fronts east of Madrid today in what, was reported to be a coordinated drive against the beleaguered capital. General Francisco Franco’s army on the Guadalajara front, re ported inflicting severe casualties on government troops. Insurgent dispatches said defense forces were routed in a wave of counter attacks. General Franco’s commanders reported at least 200 government soldiers were killed and ten air planes shot down in battles with insurgent squadrons. Madrid, March 15 (AP) —Four tre mendous explosions, apparently from government mines in battle-scattered university City, rocked Madrid today as insurgent artillery shells tore great holes in buildings in the downtown district's. Meagre reports from the University City zone, where government militia men and insurgent troops have con tested for weeks described the explo sive attacks as fresh attempts to rout General Francisco Franco’s forces from their barricade positions. Just after the explosions, a govern (Continued on Page Four.) WINDSOR WILL MEET MRS. SIMPSON SOON London, March 15 (AP) —The Duke of Windson is planning a trip to France next week to meet Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson, ad vices reaching London from a trustworthy Austrian source said today. Labor Backs Board In Restoring Jobs In Remington Firm Washington, March 15.—(AP) —The American Federation of Labor gave its support today to a national labor relations board order directing Rem ington-Rand, Inc., to put 4,000 em ployees back to work. The board said the 4,000 lost their jobs following a strike started last May in six Remington-Rand plants. Directing that their jobs be restored, the board also ordered the company to recognize the Office Equipment Wforkers Council, an A. F. L affiliate, as collective bargaining agency for the plant involved. William Green, A. F. L. president, asked Chairman Warren Madden, of Spaces today FIVE CENTS COPY Holds Wagner Labor Rela tions Act, If Valid, Does Not Authorize Seizures MORE THAN 130,000 WORKERS ARE IDLE Score of States Feel Effects Os Various Strikes As Peace-Makers Seek To Re concile Differences; Rem ington-Rand May Lose Its Contracts Detroit, Mich., March 15— (AP) Circuit Judge Allen Campbell granted today an in junction calling upon sitdown strikers to evacuate the plants of the Chrysler Corporation in this area, which they have occu pied since last Monday. The judge in his opinion held that even if the Wagner labor relations act “is valid,” it “still does not give the defendants (sitdown strikers) the right to occupy property.” OVER 130,000 WORKERS IDLE ALONG U. S. STRIKE FRONT (By The Associated Press) Officials in a score of strike-beset states grappled with complex labor problems today in renewing efforts to bring thousands of workers back to jobs. In scattered centers of industrial turmoil, more than 180,000 wage earn ers were idle as peace-makers sought (Continued oh Page Two) AMELIA EARHARTS FLIGHT POSTPONED Oakland, Cal., March 15.—(AD —Amelia Earhart today postpon ed the start of her 27,000-mlle globe-girding flight until tomor row because of a storm at sea. Two Killed 6 Hurt On Route One Manila, P. 1., March 15 (AP) — Twenty-eight .persons were killed in a terrific explosion today in a Chinese fireworks plant at Passay, a suburb of Manila. Some offi cials estimated 20 to 50 were miss ing. Fire followed the explosion. The force of the blast was felt over a two-mile radius. Most of the victims were Fili pino women who had no chance to escape through the one exit of the plant. Police reported a number jump ed from the windows into a swamp where they were trapped in the mud and water and were drown ed. The explosion tore the plant as under and numerous bodies were buried in flaming wreckage. When the embers cooled some what, firemen and soldiers dug into the twisted mass of debris. the labor board, to get a court order enforcing the board’s decree, which he hailed as a “complete vindication of the strike.” He asked the federation would try to block *sales of Remington-Rand products to State and local govern ments. Senator Norris, Independent, Ne braska, who has advocated simultan eous action on both legislation and a constitutional amendment, introduced an amendment proposal to limit Jud icial terms to nine years, and propos ed a bill requiring a two-thirds vote (Continued on Page Four.)
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