HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
fWENTY-FOURTH YEAR LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
EMtHART
LEGISLATURE VOTES
TO CLOSE SINE DIE
NEXT TUESDAY NOON
COURT RESOLUTION
BACK IN SENATE TO
BE VOTED ON THERE
Motor Licenses at $7 Min
imum Voted by House,
Which Passes School
Measure
BILL TO LEGALIZE
CHANCE GAME LOST
Court Measure Reported
For Second Time “With
out Prejudice” by Senate
Calendar Committee And
Is Now on Calendar There
For Action
Raleigh, March 20. —(AP) —The leg
islature voted today to adjourn its
1937 session sine die at noon Tuesday.
Both divisions worked briskly on
odds and ends of legislation after
adopting the joint resolution setting j
the hour for quitting.
Early in the month the legislators
voted to stop March 18. but were un- j
able to complete their tasks.
Conferees on the school machinery
act completed their wqrk and report
ed at afternoon sessions.
The House accepted the school com
promise and adjourned until Monday
at 2:30 o’clock in the afternoon.
Representative enacted into law the
motor vehicle, finance and code act,
cutting license tags to a minimum of
$7 from $8 for private cars and re
writing the general automobile laws.
The House also accepted Senate
amendments to a bill providing ex
pense money for superior court solici
tors.
“Skill” Machine Bill Killed.
After warm debate, the House
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Resolution
Over Court
Might Fail
Dally Dispatch Burena,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, March 20 —The Senate is
still playing peck-a-boo and hide-and
seek with the joint resolution indors
ing the position of President Frank
lin Roosevelt in his Supreme Court
reorganization program and calling
upon the members of the North Caro
lina delegation in Congress to support
the President and his program. On
motion of Senator John H. McDaniel,
of Cabarrus county, the resolution was
for further consideration. It had been
reported out by the committee with a*
re-referred to the calendar committee
“without prejudice’ report, equivalent
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Many Bills
Acted Upon
Past Week
Solons Moved Rap
idly on Home
Stretch Drive To
ward Adjournment
Raleigh, March 20 (AP)— North
Carolina’s General Assembly, in a
homestretch drive for final adjourn
ment. cleared up odds and ends and
put finishing touches on important
legislation this week.
Leaders today predicted confidently
the 1937 session would be concluded
early n<;xt week, possibly by Tuesday.
Bills calling for a bond issue of $2,-
314,000 for permanent improvements
at State institutions and for payment
of $417,000 in back salary to State
employes were ordered ratified this
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Hath* Utsuafrit
Spring at Hand!
!§§| Spring begins
|ipP officially,
Saturday,
March 20,
at 7:45 p. m..
Eastern Tim^.
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ADJOURNMENT FOR
LEGISLATURE N 0 W
S E E N ON TUESDAY
Flock of New Last-Minute
Bills Makes It Unlikely
End Will Come
Any Sooner
MOST “MUST” BILLS
ARE ALREADY OVER
So-Called “Ickes Bills,” for
L%cal Bonds To Match
PWA Construction Funds
Causing Delay; Many
Members Won’t Come
Back Next Week
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel
By J. C. BASKKRVIMr
Raleigh, March 20.—With bills con
tinuing to come onto the House and
Senate calendars almost twice as fast
as they are being disposed of and with
both houses continuing to suspend the
rules and take ibills from the unfavor
able and putting them on the favor
able calendar, most of the veteran
members of both houses now agree
that it will probably be Wednesday of
next week before adjournment will be
possible.
“I don’t see any chance for adjourn
ment before Wednesday,” Speaker R.
Gregg Cherry said today. “The enroll
ing department can’t possibly get
caught up with its work by that time,
even if we pass very few more bills —
and the bills keep coming in every
day.”
Lieutenant Governor W. P. Horton,
who presides over the Senate, is also
inclined to agree that adjournment
will not be likely before Wednesday.
Until yesterday, a good many mem
.bers felt that there was a chance for
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CALENDARGROUPS
WORK LONG HOURS
Members Have Passed On
1,000 Bills Past Two or
Three Weeks
Daily Dispatch Bwrean,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
ID .1 C. BASKKKVILI.
Raleigh, March 20.—The chairmen
and members of the House and Senate
calendar committees have been doing
more work and putting in longer
hours than any other members of the
General Assembly for the past three
weeks. Every bill introduced in the
House and Senate during the last 21
days been referred to these com
mittees for consideration, while the
hundreds of .bills already passed on
by House committees and sent to the
Senate from the House, have been re
ferred to the Senate Calendar Com
mittee before going on the Senate
calendar for action.
As a result, Representative John
Hill Paylor of Pitt county, chairman
of the House Calendar Committee,
and the four other members of his
committee, have read and passed on
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ONLY DAILY
PUNE CRICKS UP IT HONOLULU
OPPOSING APPEALS
ON SUPREME COURT
ISSUE ARE VOICED
St. Louis Editor Says Demo
cracy Will Disapper Un
less Court Is Re
vamped
SENATOR CALLS ON
FARMERS TO SPEAK
Nebraskan Tells Them If
They Will Act, Program of
Progress Can Go On Un
der Constitution; Eccles
Warning of Inflation
Draws Attention
Washington, March 20. —(AP)—The
wordy controversy over President
Roosevelt’.s court reorganization pro
posals brought today two new appeals
for and against their enactment.
Irving Brant, St. Louis editorial
writer, told the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee if the Supreme Court is per
mitted to use “its arbitrary power to
thwart the aspirations of the under
privileged masses, the democratic gov
ernment we have known in the United
States will disappear.”
A short time later Senator Burke,
Democrat, Nebraska, a leading op
ponent of the President’s program, ap
pealed to farmers to join the opposi
tion. He asserted in a radio address
the purpose of the’ court bill fs “to
make reasonably sure the court will
never again dare to act as an inde
pendent tribunal of justice.”
Burke said “if the farmers of Amer
ica will make their voice heard now
in one thunderous demands ‘hands off
our Supreme Court,’ we can once
more move forward under the Con
stitution to better days.”
The problems of holding to indus
trial recovery and safeguarding Am
erica’s neutrality shared interest in
the Capital this week with the Su
preme Court controversy.
Chairman Eccles, of the Federal Re
serve Board, warned against a too
rapid upward swing of prices and
asked the budget be balanced with in
creased taxes on incomes and profits,
if necessary.
Congressmen who balked at the sug
gestion of the more taxes were heart
ened by a Terasury estimate that in
come taxes this month would prob
ably reach $840,000,000, nearly double
those last year.
Secretary Roper appealed for busi
ness initiative in studying means of
preventing a runaway boom, and Sec
retary Wallace said the government
has the power to influence, but not
to control a business boom.
Strikes, often associated with re
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Body of Another
Infant Found And
Barber Confesses
New York, March 20.—(AP)—
Within a few hours after discov
ery of the body of a nine-year-old
girl mutilated and stuffed into a
burlap bag, police today arrested
Salvatore Ossido, a Brooklyn bar
ber, father of two children, and
charged him with the crime.
Detective Lieutenant Ralph de
Marini said Ossido confessed he
attacked and killed the child.
The victim, Ema Sporrer, a
pretty blue-eyed blonde was found
by Kalman Yaskowitz, who saw
the crimson-stained bag on the
front porch of a two-story brick
house a short distance from the
girl’s home.
Many New Commissions Are
Authorized By Legislature
——
State ABC Board and New Highway Commission Prin
cipal Creations; Many Others Would License Deal
ers or Study Proposed Needs of the State
Raleigh, March 20.—(AP)—The 1937
General Assembly, which moved at
record-breaking pace, authorized the
appointment of a number of commis
sions and study-groups to investigate
varied State matters and file their
findings accordingly.
Bills and resolutions were intro
duced, which, if ratified would have
created 35 such units. A number, how
ever, died in committee or on the leg
islative floors.
Two of Interest.
Exclusive of the investigating
bodies, the assembly authorized crea
tion, additions to or reorganization of
a number of administrative hoards
and commissions. Among those which
created most interest among legisla
tors and voters were the State Board
of Alcoholic Control and the revised
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY I/AFTERNOO N, MARCH 20, 1937
Burials Are Begun For 455
Victims Os School Blasts
Great Procession of Funer
als Starts After Sun-Up
With Clocklike
Precision
MILITARY INQUIRY
IS NOW UNDER WAY
Merely Trying To Prevent
Such Disasters in Future,
Major Howard Says;
Seeping of Natural Gas In
to Hollow Tile Walls Is
Believed Cause
New 'London, Texas, March 20. —
(AF) —Burial of its 455 school blast
victims occupied this village of death
today while the full force of a mili
tary inquiry sought the cause of the
catastrophe of its kind in modern
times.
Soon after sun-up, the great pro
cession of funeral began. From
churches, private homes and funeral
chapels hearses streamed to burial
grounds. Volunteer ministers from
over the vast East Texas oil region
performed continuous services with
almost clocklike precision.
To a barnlike school hall adjoining
the ruins of the once imposing school
building, a military court headed by
Major Gaston Howard summoned
more than a score of witnesses who
it was hoped could explain the cause
of the tearing explosion.
“We are not here to conduct a
criminal court,” Major Howard said.
“We merely want to help by trying
to find out what caused the explosion,
and thus possibly do something to
prevent such future disasters.”
D. E. P. Schoch, an explosion ex
pert from the University of Texas,
was called upon to give a final op
inion on the cause of the blast at the
close of the hearing. He had said
there was no doubt natural gas had
seeped into hollow tiles in the school
walls, converting it into a veritable
bomb.
Nitroglycerine Rumored.
Toll of the London community
school blast was boosted to 455 by lat
est checks today as a military court
of inquiry convened to hear contrast
ing theories of the cause —one, ac-
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TalkeShouse
State Board Would Have
Pocketed Higher Fees,
Is Charge Made
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, March 20—The last-minute
attempt of the State barbers’ board
to get through a supplemental bill
which would have diverted all the
money from increased fees into its
pockets instead of for the employ
ment of more barber shop inspectors,
was knocked for a loop by the House
Friday when it defeated the bill by a
vote of 49 to 32. The House had pre
viously passed the bill, with an
amendment by Representative W. E.
Fenner, of Rocky Mount, bringing all
the barber shops in the State under
the Statewide barber shop inspection
law and increasing the fees the bar
bers pay the board each year, with
the provision that all of the money
accruing from the increase must he
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State Highway Commission.
The control board, unto which the
various county units will <be respon
sible, will consist of a chairman and
two associate members. The chair
man, to serve full-time three years,
will receive $6,000 annually, while the
associates will receive $25 per day.
The highway commission will be
composed of a chairman and 10 mem
bers. The governor will appoint the
chairman and three members for a
term of six years, three members for
four years and four for two years. A
member will be appointed from each
of the State’s ten districts.
To Classify Property.
Following approval of a constitu
tional amendment last November, the
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Supreme Court Justice Willis Van Devanter (left), and U. S. Circuit
Judge Joseph Buffington are shown conversing during the dinner at
Philadelphia in honor of former Senator George Wharton Pepper. What
they had to say doesn’t show in the picture.
(Central Press)
Sitdowners
Send Threat
Os Violence
Murphy Warned To
Avoid Ejection;
Governor Reports
Progress Is Made
Detroit, Mich., March 20 (AP)
Representatives of 6,000 stitdown
strikers defying court orders for their
eviction from Cnrysler automobile
plants, informed Governor Frank
Murphy today they were using “the
only weapon we have,” and warned
the use of State troops to eject them
would “lead to bloodshed and viol
ence.”
SATISFACTORY' PROGRESS
REPORTED BY GOVERNOR
(By The Associated Press)
Opposing forces in a number of in
dustrial disputes involving thousands
of idle workers sought to compose
their differences over the conference
table today.
Agreement between employer and
employee ended several strikes in
scattered parts of the nation, but ma
jor disputes remained unsettled/
Federal and State mediators press
ed for a settlement of the Chrysler
Motor Corporation strike that has
kept 60.000 employees idle two weeks.
Governor Frank Murphy, of Michigan,
said the dispute is moving along rap
idly and satisfactorily toward solu
tion.
Governor Murphy conferred with of
ficials of the company and the United
Automobile Workers Union last night
in what he called “preliminary con
ferences.” Secretary of Labor Perk
ins talked by telephone with the gov
ernor and Walter P. Chrysler.
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Showers this afternoon and ear
ly tonight; Sunday fair; some
what colder Sunday and tonight.
WEEKLY WEATHER.
South Atlantic States: Fair,
with moderate temperatures be
ginning of week; warmer with
rainy period middle of week; cold
er about Thursday and rainy' pe
riod again at end of week.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
State Revenue At
An All-Time Higli
Raleigh, March 20L—(AF)—State
income tax receipts continued to
mount today, passing the $9,770,-
428.53- mark to a new year’s record
last night, and Commissioner A. J.
Maxwell estimated only “small a
mounts” would drible in from now
on.
The previous high record was SB,-
200,000 in 1929, and the estimate
for this year was $8,600,000.
This month’s payments have
totalled $8,274,001.90, compared
with $5,891,541.36 inf the
period last year, while last year
collections for the fiscal period to
March 20 were only $6,913,860.18,
41.30 percent below this year’s re
cord.
outlook glim for
neutrality bills
Will Be Some Legislation,
But Ineffective; Another
War Coming
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, March 20—The chances
for any satisfactory neutrality legis
lation at this session of congress are
not a hit promising.
There will be sopie legislation but
not of a sort to guarantee neutrality.
Maybe American neutrality, in the
event (more than probable, too) of an
other big war is absolutely impossible
to guarantee, anyway. Pending talk
on Capitol Hill, however, does not fur
nish justification even for reasonable
hope of it.
EVEN PROPHETS FOOLED
For a dozen or more years before
the last World War broke out every
well-informed persons could see it
coming, indeed, it was easy to pre
dict what the European alignment
would be. It looked inevitable.
Nevertheless, the very prophets of
the conflict did not believe that it
really would eventuate.
The powers prepared for it, but the
fact was that few if any statesmen
actually expected it. They fancied
that peoples were too advanced for so
insane a struggle; were convinced, in
the hack of their minds, that the pro
fession of arms was an anachornism.
U. S. IN?—IMPOSSIBLE!
For all that, the war started.
Now, at that time, I had lived for
several years in Europe, and I think
I fairly can claim to have been one of
the cognicenti. I was surprised, of
course. Stilf, I had a semi-idea what
itw as all aibout. It made a certain a
mount of sense to me. •
But never, then, in my wildest mo
ments, could I see a prospect that the
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TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
ROUND-THE-WORLD
FLIGHT IS DELAYED
FDR MANY WEEKS
Plane, Skids on Wet Con
crete in Attempted Take-
Off and Left Tire
Blows Out
QUICK ACTION SAVES
LIVES OF OCCUPANTS
Amelia Flashes Switch Off
And Prevents Fire; De
spite Bad Weather, Wo
man Flier and Two Men
Companions Were Starting
on 1,532-Mile Hop
Honolulu, March 20 (AP) —Amelia
Earhart’s SBO,OOO around-the-world
plane crashed today as she was taking
off for Howland Island, but her own
quick action saved the lives of her
self and two men companions.
“A tire blow-out,” the tousle-headed
flier said to army officers who hur
ried to the scene of the wreck.
“No one was hurt; only our spirits
are bruised.
“I cut the switches.”
Her swift cutting of the switches of
the two powerful motors prevented
the plane fro m catching fire and ex
ploding more than 800 gallons of gaso
line in the tanks.
Amelia came through with only a
whitened face to reveal her feelings
and disappointment over the wreck
ing of her eight-ton craft.
“We were going about 50 miles an
hour when the right tire blew out.
This means postponement of my world
trip, but not cancellation.”
Paul Mantz, Miss Earhart's techni
cal advisor, estimated repairs would
take about two weeks at the factory
but about four months if done here.
PLANE SKIDS OVER WET
CONCRETE RUNWAY LINE
Honolulu, March 20.—(AP) —Amelia
Earhart's around-the-world plane skid
ded and crashed today while she was
attempting to take off for Howland
Island on her world flight, but she
and her two men companions escaped
injury.
The plane skidded on the wet con
crete runway and the left tire blew
out, wrecking the under-arraige.
There was a burst of flame from
the engine and ambulances raced to
ward the scene. They arrived to find
Miss Earhart, white-faced, climbing
from the wrecked craft.
“Something, ipqst have gone wrong”
she exclaimed.
Earlier in the day the Coast Guard
cutter Roger Taney, standing by 200
miles south of Honolulu had reported
skies overcast and intermittent show
ers, with visibility poor.
Earlier than that America’s No. 1
flier had announced plans for ala.
m. take-off on the second leg of the
round-the-world flight.
Howland Island is 1,532 miles south
west of here. The route is over a
part of the Pacific Ocean never be
fore flown in a plane.
Insurgents
Blast Into
Old Madrid
But Gove rnm en t
Bombers Harass
Rebel Guard A t
Guadalajara
Navalcarnero, Spain, March 20 (AP)
—'lnsurgent forces in the University
City sector at Madrid’s northwest cor
ner were reported today to have
smashed through the capital’s, de
fenses into northern Madrid.
Word of crumpled resistance and
a sudden thrust into the long-besieged
city was brought to this insurgent
base by persons who said they wit
nessed the incursion.
The troopers of General Francisco
Franco were said to have beaten their
way to positions near a large thor
oughfare bisecting the northern por
tion of the city from north to south.
GOVERNMENT AIRMEN LASH
AT REAR GUARD OF REBELS
Madrid, March 20 (AP) —Govern-
ment airmen lashed at General Fran
cisco Franco’s Guadalajara rear guard
today with and machine guns,
striving to complete what General
Jose Miaja a.lrgaidy termed the “im
placable-,. Ji'.gpl.F*'of that Madridward
offens^teP^
Officers daid the insurgent forces,
whom they described as Italian peas
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