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PAGE TWO Many Bills Acted Upon Past Week (Continued from rage One.) week, and a measure calling for a $675,000 bond issue for a new State office building in Raleigh was amend ed by the Senate and returned to the House for concurrence, which that body gave. The board of health also got permission to issue $160,000 in revenue bonds for a building. A move by Senator Gravely, of Nash to increase the permanent improve ments allotment to more than $4,000,- 000 was turned back in the Senate by a narrow margin. Also ordered ratified into law was the important revenue machinery bill, under which municipalities and coun ties levy taxes. As the act stands, the property of homesteaders will not be exempt from taxation. Both houses agreed to a conference committee’s changes in the motor ve hicle code, and the proposal will be law as soon as it has passed third reading. As amended in the House. The bill calls for a reduction from 40 to 35 cents per hundred pounds of car weight in the price of automobile li cense iplatosi with the minimum charge cut from $S to $7. The House concurred in minor Sen ate amendments to the highway reor ganization bill, advocated by Governor Hoey, enacting the measure into law. It provides for the appointment by the governor of 10 highway commission ers and a commission chairman. The State then would be divided into 10 highway districts, with a commission member residing in each district. Another Hoey “must” measure ord ered ratified was a child labor bill, which will prohibit children under 16 years of age from working in industry and regulate employment of all chil dren under 18. Passed by the House and sent to the Senate was a resolution endorsing President Roosevelt's Supreme Court reorganization plan. The proposal was given a “without prejudice" re port by the Senate Calendar Commit tee, and may be acted upon by the higher branch before adjournment. A proposal which would have re quired all persons wishing to pur chase liquor at county alcoholic bever age control stores to obtain annual $1 permits reached the Senate, but was killed after brief debate. Killed in the House was a measure to regulate trade practices of tobacco warehouses, described by its sponsors as "similar to the old NRA code,” and a $5,000,000 road bond bill for secon dary roads. Enacted into law were measures to create a State bureau of identification tighten the present regulations for op tometrists; amend the 1933 fertilizer law; place a prohibitive tax on the sale of low-grade, scrap tobacco; cre ate a State planning board and impose a tax on agricultural lime. Cnder a resolution adopted two weeks ago, the legislature was to ad P^ one S Stage Show Sunday Night at 8:30 Also Monday and Tuesday Matinee and Night. Double attraction— On both Screen and Stage. do- 3 j Cove l£ou- ChouqU? FOhDA YOU ONLY U¥£ oN££ On the Stage in Person. The World’s Most Famous Mystery the Mysterious Smith. Show Starts 8:30 Sunday Night. 1:30. 3:30 5-30 7-qn o .on Monday and Tuesday. . ’ ’ / - JU ' 3 - d0 Prices: Matinee 10 and 25c; Night .... io and 35c Don’t miss the world’s greatest mystery show. Also one of the best pictures of the year. Sylvia Sidney and Henry Fonda in Walter Wanger's, production, “You Only Lire Once," released through United Artists, Vance Theatre Sunday, Monday and Tuesday journ sine die last Thursday. Present plans call for business sessions Mon day morning or afternoon, a “love feast" Monday night at which pre sents will be given to presiding offic ers and possible final adjournment Tuesday. Adjourn-m-diii For Legisla ture Now Seen Wednesday (Continued from Page One.) the assembly to adjourn tonight. But it soon became evident that it would be impossible to do this, even if the clock should be turned back. As a result, most of the members have al ready made up their minds to come back again next week, although some are announcing today they do not ex pect to come back. As a result, indi cations are that there will not be many more than a quorum in either house next week. A House quorum is 62 members, or one more than half its membership, while 26 members constitute a quorum in the Senate. Virtually all of the administration “must" bills have already been enact ed. as have most of the other State wide bills, such as the revenue and school machinery rills, the motor ve hicle regulation and tax bill, the om nibus board of education and justices of the peace bills. These are always among the last bills enacted in the session, since they are always held open until the more pressing and im portant revenue and appropriations bills have been passed. One of the things which has greatly delayed the General Assembly this past week, however, has been the larce number of efforts made by mem HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 193? bers to revive bills killed in commit tees earlier in the session and get them enacted and the tremendous drive for the enactment of local bills. Members who have been in previous sessions know that in the closing days of any legislature it is often possible to get the rules suspended and a bill transferred from the unfavorable to the favorable calendar when this could not be done before. They also know that in the closing rush it is often possible to get local bills enact ed that could* never have been put through earlier. This session, however, the calendar committees and the presiding officers have kept a very close watch on the closing rush and most observers agree that there has been a closer watch kept on legislation than usual. Barber Racket Is Balked In House (Continued from Page One.) used by the board for the employ ment of additional barber shop in spectors. The members of the State Bar bers’ Board, however, tried to get the bill through without any provision for the employment of additional bar bers and made a determined effort to alternate the Fenner amendment, which had the backing of virtually all of the journeymen barbers and of many of the master barbers and shop owners. For most of these barbers have been frankly disgusted with the manner in which the three members of the State Barbers Board —M. C. Whitney, J. M. Cheek and Sid R. High—-have not been carrying out the law and have not been enforcing the inspection provisions, they told the committees which heard the original bill. They agreed to support the bill, however, if the Fenner amendment to require all this additional money to be spent for additional inspectors was added. The bill and the amendment passed both houses some weeks ago. But the board members were not sat isfied to see the thousands of dollars in additional fees that otherwise would have been theirs to use as they pleased, earmarked for the employ ment of additional inspectors and the enforcement of the law, it was point ed out in the debate Friday. So a bill was slipped into the Senate and pass ed there, virtually repealing the pre vious bill and removing the effect of the Fenner amendment, so that the board members could do what they liked with the additional money. The bill did not get by Representa tive Fenner however, who showed the bill up and demanded that it be kill ed. It was. Burials Are Begun for 455 Victims of School Blasts (Continued from Page One.) cumulated gas as a result of inade quate radiator vents, another a nitro glycerine explosion. The casualty list showed 94 injured and two missing. The list, as relief workers checked it, still was subject to revision. The military court was convened while this stricken community and surrounding oil country prepared to bury its dead. Dr. E. P. Schoch, University of Texas chemist, held out a belief the, explosion Thursday was caused by gas forced into cells of the hollow tile school room walls by lack of proper vents for gas-fired individual radia tors. The Tyler Morning Telegraph quot ed Captain Z. Z. Coombs, member of the military court, as saying two oil field workers turned over to him short pieces of sewer pipe from, the blast ruins, which they said show traces of nitroglycerine. The pipes, they contended, had been blown to bits by a terrific explosion within. The captain explained other wit nesses discounted the men’s theory, but he said he would call them as witnesses and show their exhibits. Resolution Over Court Might Fail (Continued from Page One.) to a luke-warm indorsement. The general belief is that the committee would have preferred to report it un favorably, but hesitated to do so be cause of the fact that it had passed the House by a large vote —though without a record vote. Indications are that the action! of the Senate in re-referring to resolu tion to the calendar committee is noth ing more than an indirect method of killing the bill, since most observers doubt if the resolution will ever come back from the committee. In fact, the belief of many observers is that the Senate is only too glad to find this way out and escape from being put “on the spot" by the resolution. It' is no secret that a large proportion of the lawyer members of the Senate are opposed to the President’s Supreme Court reorganization proposal, but that they have no desire to be put on record by means of this resolution "" 1 ■ Beverly Roberts and Geo. Brent in “God’s Coun try and the Woman” Stevenson Mon. and Tues. i gap mm* Barbara Stanwyck and Preston Foster in “Plough and Stars” Stevenson Wednesday Only “Moma Steps Out” with Guy Kibbee, Alice Brady—State Sunday Only ms^i!c!P SMITH On the Stage at the Vance Theatre Sunday night 8:30 also Monday and Tuesday. Matinee and Night sinoe they know that most of the voters in their home counties and districts are for the President and his entire program. It was this same situation which re sulted in the final passage of the re solution in the House, and which prompted a good many of the anti court* reorganization members to vote i for the resolution —but without a re -1 cord vote. A good many of them knew that if they did not pass the resolution, they would be “in bad” with the voters “back home” and have a very slim chance ever to be re-elected. mysterious smith here AT VANCE THEATRE Among the many amazing illusions to be performed by Mysterious Smith the great American magician, who will open an engagement of three hays at the Vance Theatre on Sun hay night, 8:30 is his famous Coffin Mystery. To hear this described makes one think it impossible, and to see* it performed almost confirms the thought, despite the fact that it is done. Encased in a regulation U. S. straight-jacket, with every muscle rendered helpless, the Magician is placed in an ordinary casket to Be gotten from the regular stock of a local undertaker. The casket is then encircled by three straps, sealed by a local committee and then placed in side a cabinet. In less than three minutes Mr. Smith emerges, freed from both straight-jacket and casket. SIDNEY-FONDA TEAMED AGAIN IN NEW FILM As a result of hundreds of fan let ters received by the studio, Sylvia Sidney and Henry Fonda, the screen sweethearts of “The Trail of the Lone some Pine,” will be seen together again in “You Only Live Once,” the r.ew Walter Wagner production which begins a three day engagement at the Vance Theatre on Sunday night at 8:30. “You Only Live Once,” Wanger's first production for release through United Artists, is the starkly human drama of a woman whose boundless faith in the man she loved made her stick to him though the hand of every man was against him and he was hounded to the ends of the earth like a hunted animal. STEVENSON SUNDAY, MARCH 21st — Matinee, Night Matinee 2:30 r Night At 8:45 Children 20* All Seats 40( * Adults 35* I < T'vo Performances I ON THE STAGE) AllJ Si l \ 4i |LV>U i. 1 x jrjpi MU/K- MIRTH- Edward on the screen Arnold “JOHN MEAD’S WOMAN" STEVENSON MONDAY AND TUESDAY ■ SJMMN Plus Leon Novarros Orchestra—Star Reporter in Hollywood—News WEDNESDAY JACK POT $25.00 UGH\4|i Names to be drawn until someone answers or has attended the mati i ™ —’ 11 ■ ■ — - « THURSDAY AND FRIDAY The STATE Phone 817 TODAY 3 Mesquiteers in “iHt The Saddle" Last Chapter “Ace Drummond” t First Chapter “Dick Tracy” Admission 10 an J SUNDAY ONLY _FROM MAIIFsTREET SIS® with Betty Furness— Stanley Morn or— MONDAY TUESDAY Fred Mac Murray Jack Oakie—in “TEXAS RANGERS” Prices 10 and 25*
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