HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR
MOLEY DENOUNCES
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Legislature Adjourns Sine Die Late In Afternoon
CLOSING DELAVED
BY ANOTHER FLOCK
Os NEW MEASURES
House Concurs in Senate
Maximum Hours Bill
and Orders It Rati
fied into Law
IT excludesTmany
KINDS BUSINESSES
Clocks in Halls of Both Sen
ate and House Are Stop
ped Before Noon So Re
cords Will Show Adjourn
ment at That Hour Unless
Later Changed
Raleigh, March 23 (AP)— The
1937 General Assembly snowed under
its enrolling office with another batch
of new laws today and forced post
ponement of sine die adjournment un
til 4 o'clock or later this afternoon.
After the Senate and House had
sent close to 40 more measures to the
enrolling office, the House recessed
until 4 o’clock as the Senate v orked
on.
Clocks in the halls were stopped
before noon, and the officials records
will record that adjournment is tafcen
at noon unless a new resolution is
adopted to set a later time.
Early in the afternoon the Senate
adopted the conference report on the
bond bill and then recessed until 3:45
p. m.
The House concurred in the Senate
maximum hours bill today and order
ed it ratified into law as one of its
last act of the session.
The measure excludes many types
of business and all firms employing
less than eight persons, and limits
work hours for men to 55 a week and
women to 48 a week in general. It is
the first State law limiting hours of
men and cuts those for women by
seven a week.
Representatives also accepted Sen
ate changes in a bill to give the com
missioner of labor $5,200 a year and
the commissioner of agriculture and
adjutant general $5,000 each. Now
each gets $4,500.
Ratified was an act to permit the
State to participate in the New York
World’s Fair of 1929.
NEW BERN MAN HELD
ON ASSAULT CHARGE
C’apt. David Lancaster, 70, Waives
Examination at Hearing Be
fore Magistrate
New Bern, March 23 (AP)—Accus
< d of an attempted criminal attack on
a ten-year-old girl, Captain David
Lancaster, 70, of this city, was given
a private hearing last night before
Justice of the Peace J. H. Smith and
was oruered held for superior court
under SI,OOO bond. This had not been
posted early this afternoon.
Ernestine McCotter, daughter of
Ernest McCotter, the victim, told of
the alleged attack on the witness
stand. Lancaster entered a plea of
not guilty, but waived examination.
Duce Denies
Furnishing
Os Soldiers
Mussolini, Back
From Libya, De
fends Italy’s Empire
Building Program
fßy The Associated Press). (
Fascist Italy, accused by Spains
government of waging an “undeclared
international war on the side of the
Spanish insurgents,’’ told Great Bri
tain today the only Italians to lan
in Spam since an international neu
trality accord went into effect were
volunteer* doctors and nurses.
The atiswere came as II Duce, back
from hi» Libyan tour, gave Fascist
celebran ts a strident defense of Italy’s
empire building in the face of Angli
can pulpit criticism,
Italy’s -flat denial of reports thous
ands of Ctalian troops had landed at
Cadiz M;*rch 5, thirteen days after
Italy and 26 other nations agreed to
stop sending men to Spain, was in re
ply to urgent British inquiries. The
diplomatic exchange, however, did not
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SEVEN INJURED IN SOUTH CAROLINA TORNADO
Seven pet sons were injured and damage estimated at $50,000 was done by an early spring tornado that struck
Gaffney, SC. Spectators are shown around one.of the wrecked houses in which several were trapped and hurt.
Chrysler And Lewis To Meet
As Sitdowners’Critics Grow
Detroit, Mich., March 23. —(AF) —
Governor Frank Murphy today pinned
hopes for settling the Chrysler auto
mobile strike on a meeting tomorrow
at Lansing between Walter P. Chry
sler and John L. Lewis.
Murphy indicated he had assur
ances both would attend the 11 a. m.
conference, which he said would seek
to avert extreme and costly measures
with possible unfortunate conseqences
in the strikes. Six thousand union sit
downers are holding eight automobile
plants at Detroit.
Lewis accepted the invitation to
day, at the same time informing the
governor his message “suggests that
I confer under duress.”
A formal reply from Chrysler was
awaited.
Governor Frank Murphy announc
ed today a conference would be held
ADMINISTRATION IN
SADDLE AIL WHILE
Was Victor on Every Fiscal
Issue Decided by Gen
eral Assembly
Dali,« Dispatch Bareaa.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By HENRY AVERILL.
Raleigh, March 23. —No administra
tion in the memory of veteran obser
vers has exercised as complete con
trol over the fiscal measures enacted
by a legislature as has the govern
cental group headed by Governor
Clyde R. Hoey.
The revenue bill as passed contain
ed everything the Hoey ad
ministration stood for and virtually
nothing it opposed.
It was a complete, smashing vic
tory and perhaps the strangest fea
ture is the fact that in only one or
two instances was the- administra
tion’s strangle-hold in danger of being
(broken. On two issues—diversion of
highway funds and levy of a tax up
on building materials —the opposition
was so strong that so-called com
promises’’ were made, but in both
cases the “compromises” gave the
governor and his friends all the fruits
of complete victory and hardly con
tained even “face-savers” for the op
position.
The administration started out with
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Five Persons Die
When Home Burns
In Jersey Hamlet
Baldwin Harbor, N. J., March
23. (AP) —Five persons died ear
ly today in the blazing interior of
a two-story frame house which
was swept by fire apparently
starting from an old-fashioned
coal stove converted to burn kero
scnc+
The volunteer fire department
from nearby Baldwin responded,
but was able to rescue only one of
* the five victims, Barbara Morse,
4> She had been burned so badly
she lived only a few minutes.
The other dead were children of
Mrs. Rose Van Orden Morse, 45.
DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 23. 1937
here Wednesday between Walter
Chrysler, chairman of the Chrysler
corporation, and John L. Lewis, head
of the C. I. O.
Although formal replies to his in
vitation to the conference have not
been received, it was understood the
governor had assurance both Chry
sler and Lewis would attend the meet
ing.
SITDOWN STRIKES DRAW
INCREASING OPPOSITION
(By The Associated Press.)
Widespread manifastation of the
sitdown strike technique incurred the
censure of a growing number of city
and state officials today.
At Chicago law enforcement offi
cials invoked a 75-year-old law to
dislodge more than 1,000 sitdown
strikers from three establishments.
Prisoner Suicide
In Forsyth’s Jail
Winston-Salem, March 23. —(AP)
—Using a crude noose fashioned
from his underwear Lonnie Wright
25, of Alleghany county hanged
himself in the city jail here be
tween one and three o’clock this
morning.
Cleared of complicity in the Elva
Brannock murder only a few hours
before, Wright was last seen alive
at one o’clock by officers who
noticed nothing unusual in his con
duct then.
Wright, who escaped from For
syth prison farm Friday Was recap
tured Sunday, and was under sen
tence to servo 30 days on nuisance
charges.
LAMETAKEr
POLITICAL TURNS
i
State Labor Head Ditches
Labor Bill to Force
His “Black Book”
Daily Dispatch Bareaa,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By HENRY AVERILL.
Raleigh, March 23. —If Roy Law
rence, president of the North Carolina
Federation of Labor, had spent more
time working for labor measures and
less in playing politics in an effort
to put certain legislators “on the
spot,” the workers of North Carolina
might well have secured more favor
able consideration at this session of
the General Assembly, many Raleigh
observers believe.
For example, on Monday afternoon
with the Senate vote on the 55-hour
bill only an hour or two off, Mr. Law
rence was still running around with
the notorious “Black Book’’ under his
arm trying to get legislators to sign
their names to endorsements of Presi
dent Roosevelt’s court proposals.
Asked by a representative of this
bureau what he thought of the 55-
hour bill’s chances he said: v
“I’m not interested in that. I don’t
care whether they kill it or pass it.”
While many weakening amend
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COURT CHANGE PUNS
Governor A. B. Chandler, of Ken
tucky, joined Mayor Neville Miller, of
Louisville, in a statement terming sit
down strikes unlawful and warning
sitdowners will be evicted. Previously
governors of Illinois, New Jersey and
Connecticut had condemned the sit
down strategy.
At Detroit United Automoble Work
ers Union leaders coupled a call for
a huge mass meeting- near the county
building with a warning they were
not “bluffing” about a projected city
wide automotive strike. The walk-out
was planned as a protest against po
lice eviction of sitdown strikers.
More than 5,000 sitdowners con
tinue to defy a court order to evacuate
Chrysler Motor Corporation plants
while union and companion represen
tatives sought to settle the strike in
volving 60,000 Chrysler employees.
Texas Rural
Schools Are
Given Tests
New London, Texas, March 23 (AP)
—Rigid inspection of every rural
school in the east Texas oil field was
the expected aftermath today of the
disastrous London school explosion,
caused, experts agree, by accumulat
ed gas.
School doors were shut as safety ex
perts began a search for possible sim
ilar conditions that killed 455 here.
Extreme caution pervaded the area,
especially after Gordon Hawley, chief
engineer of the State fire insurance
department, told a military inquiry
court yesterday he had located anbth
er school in the vicinity endangered
by escaping gas.
“A test a few hours ago,” Hawley
told the investigators, “at the Carlisle
school, near here, showed gas was
escaping underneath the place at the
rate of 720 cubic feet a day, all of
which makes this occasion all the
more omnipotent.”
SERIOUS BLAZE AT
HARBOR IN BOSTON
Boston, Mass., March 23.—(AP) —
Four alarms sent sea and land fire
fighting apparatus to Boston docks
today as an electric crane operating
in a drydock between the United
States Fruit Company’s boats San Gil
and San Bruno burst into flames,
threatening both vessels.
The San Gil caught fire soon after
the first burst of flame.
Firemen, enveloped in a dense
cloud of black smoke, pourned water
not only on this vessel but on the San,
Bruno as well in an effort to keep the
sparks from spreading the fire.
OUR WEATHERMAN
Increasing cloudiness tonight,
followed by showers Wednesday.
Holt Says Patronage Whip
Being Used In Court Fight
West Virginia Democratic Senator Tells Chapel Hill
Audience There Was No Mandate in Election Re
lating to Court; Accuses Roosevelt, Farley
Chapel Hill, March 23 (AP) —Sena-
tor Rush Holt, Democrat, West Vir
ginia, said today President Roosevelt
and Postmaster General Farley are
“cracking the party whip” for the
President’s court reorganization plan.
He said in a prepared address “the
report has gone abroad throughout
the land that recognition and patron
age will be taken from members of
the House and Senate of the Congress
simply because they dare to differ
with the President and Mr. Farley on
this great question.”
Holt spoke under the auspices of
the North Carolina Political Union,
non-partisan student organization at
the University of North Carolina, in
answer to an address by Postmaster
BAILEY’S FINDS
, ARE STILL PEEVED
But Second Victory Dinner
Seen As Face-Saver
for Senator
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, March 23.—Friends of Sen
ator Josiah W. Bailey here are still
peeved at those who decided to hold
the second Victory Dinner to correct
the “Sad Tydings” affair and are in
sisting that the second dinner was
more or less of an insult to Senator
Bailey as well as to Senator Tydings,
who had been selected by Senator
Bailey to be the principal speaker at
the first Victory Dinner fiasco, at
which Senator Tydings did not once
mention President Roosevelt by name,
but instead made a thinly-veiled at
tack upon him and his Supreme Court
reorganization proposal.
Those who attended the second Vic
tory Dinner are convinced that both
Senator Bailey and his friends should
be extremely grateful to National
Committeeman A. D. (Lon) Folger,
Chairman R. L. McMillan of the sec
ond Victory Dinner committee. S.
Brown Shepherd, Jr., president of the
Wake County Young Democrats Club,
and others who decided to hold the
second dinner, instead of criticizing
them. Fort hey point out that this
dinner acted as a blow-off valve for
the indignation stirred up against
Senator Bailey by the first dinner.
One of Senator Bailey’s closest poli
tical advisors here is reported to have
admitted that if the second Victory
Dinner had not been held, scores of
smaller dinners would have been held
over the State, also that most of these
would probably have been out-and-out
anti-Bailey meetings.
In fact, those who know the inside
background of the second dinner here
agree that if Chairman Folger and
his assistants had not handled this
dinner with the greatest of skill and
allowed no opportunity for any one
not on the program to speak, that the
slightest slip might have turned it
into a rip, roaring anti-Bailey demon
stration Consequently, they maintain
that this dinner was so handled that
it actually eased the tension of feel
ing against Senator Bailey and that
those who backed it really did Bailey
a favor by holding it.
Bryant Is
LeadingAs
’39 Speaker
Dally Dlfcpatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, March 23.—As the current
General Assembly session comes to
an end, Victor S. Bryant, representa
tive from Durham, has a clear edge
in speculation over speakership of the
1939 House of Representatives.
Os course, that’s two years off, and
anything can happen between now
and then, bu*t there seems to be a gen
eral agreement among members of the
present House that the chairman of
this year’s finance committee will step
right up the ladder to the topmost
post in the lower branch.
The present speaker, Gregg Cherry,
advanced to the position via chairman
ship of the finance committee and
many think that Mr. Bryant will fol
low in the footsteps of the Gastonia
“Iron Major.”
The serious-minded, concise gentle
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PUBLISHED IVORY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
General Farley before the union two
weeks ago.
The young senator said Farley in
his Chapel Hill speech and the Pres
ident in his Victory Dinner address
appealed for support of the court plan
on partisan grounds.
If the Democratic National Conven
tion had proposed reorganization of
the Supreme Court, Holt said, the
verdict might be accepted by a party
verdict.
“But this was not attempted, and
it is too late now to speak of the
mandate when the matter was not
discussed,” he said. "When the op
position tried to charge that the court
would be tampered with, members
of the Democratic campaign staff
were quick to deny such a move.”
Legislature
Just Ended
Unusual One
Under Pressure from
Washington, Its So
cial Le gis 1 a tion
Was Extensive
Dally Diapatcb Bareaa,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. IIASKERVILL
Raleigh, March 23 —One of the
most unusual and business-like legis
lative sessions ever held in North
Carolina came to a close today. The
General Assembly was in session 66
legislative days—only six more than
the period during which members re
ceive pay—while the members were
here for 77 calendar days —making it
the shortest session in more than a
decade. During these 66 legislative
days, the assembly has made appro
priations totaling approximately $79,-
000,000 for the first year and $73,000,-
000 the second year—the largest ap
propriations any legislative session
has ever authorized. It has also levied
taxes which the finance committees
and Department of Revenue regard
as sufficient to produce the revenue
to meet the appropriations.
The 1937 session of the General As
sembly is not as noteworthy for what
it has done as for the State of mind
and attitude of its members and the
mariner in which it has done its work
and the harmony and good feeling
which prevailed. It has not only been
the most business-like session which
any one can recall —it has likewise
been the most liberal and social-mind
ed in the history of the State. For of
the total appropriated, approximately
$35,000,000 a year has been appropri
ated for the poorer or underprivileged
classes in the State.
Pressure From Washington
There are some who maintain that
this would never have been done but
for the pressure brought by Washing
ton in favor of social security legis
lation and for thep romises made by
Governor Clyde R. Hoey as a result
of the pressure brought to bear on
him during the primary campaign by
Dr. Ralph W• McDonald and his fol
lowers. There is no doubt, of course,
but what these factors had some in-
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Presiding Officers Are
Due Credits For Speed
Dally Dispatch Bareaa,
In the Sir Waller Hotel.
By HENiRY AVERILL.
Raleigh, March 23—Instead of end
ing today this session of the North
Carolina General Assembly might very
well have gone meandering on far, far
into April, had it not been for the
firm hand with which Lieutenant Gov
ernor Wilkins P. Horton ruled the
Senate and the diligence with which
he held the members’ noses to the leg
islative grindstone.
With none of the blustering, bellow
ing, wise-cracking qualities of Speak
er Gregg Cherry, the serious-faced
saturnine Chatham county product
was just as dictatorial, just as peremp
tory and just as much a “slave driver”
as the House’s boss across the ro
tunda.
There was never the slightest hesi
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ONE-TIME INTIMATE
OF ROOSEVELT SAYS
COURT WOULD LOSE
One of Original “Brain-
Trust” Gang Advises
Senate Committee
Against Plan
AUTHORITY, PRESTIGE
WOULD BE WEAKENED
American Method and Ame
rican Tradition of Govern
ment Would Be Upset;
Bailey Objects to Wheeler
Statement That Opponents
Are In Accord
Washington, March 23-—(AP) —A
one-time counselor of President
Roosevelt advised Senate investiga
tors of the administration’s judiciary
reorganization bill today that enact
ment of the measure would weaken,
the Supreme Court.
Both “the authority and prestige of
the tribunal would be shaken,’’ said
Raymond Moley, whose counsels were
an influentail force in the early days
of the Roosevelt administration. He
finally re-signed his position as as
sistant secret.ar of state after policy
differences with Secretary Hull.
Meanwhile, another administration
proposal ran afoul of difficulties in
the House Agriculture Committee.
There Democratic opposition had for
ced a delay in congressional action on
the President’s farm tenancy program
Respr nsible sou’ ■ e, : ! said a majority
ox the committee opposed the Presi
dents tenancy program, contending
it would make the government too
large a land owner and lender.
Raymond Moley, once one of Pre
sident Roosevelt’s closest advisors, op
posed the chief executive’s court bill
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Roosevelt
Is Against
New Taxes
Warm Springs, Ga. t March 23.
(AP) —President Roosevelt said
today he hoped there would be no
new taxes at this session of Con
gress.
The chief executive made the
statement at the second press con
ference of his vacation here as he
sat in his motor car in front of
a press cottage.
He did not expand the tax ob
servation. It was made in re
sponse to a request for comment
on the recent statement of Marin
er Eccles, chairman of the Fed
deral Reserve Hoard, that the
budget should be balanced, even
if it were necessary to increase in
come and profits taxes.
Asked to comment on credit and
control measures, if any were in
the making, he said that he was
evolutionary at present.
Asked if he would comment on
the letter of Chief Justice Hughes,
saying the administration’s pro
posal Supreme Court revision
would impair the efficiency ot the
highest tribunal, Jie refused to
make any statement.
tation on the part of the lieutenant,
governor. When he was called upon
to make a ruling, he made it and
made it in such a manner that every
body knew there was no use disput
ing about it.
When members began to speak
endlessly and aimlessly, the Senate’s
presiding officer frequently recalled
them to the straight and narrow path
of relevancy.
When it was proposed to take an
unusually long recess, the lieutenant
governor was ever ready to call atten
tion to the fact that there was busi
ness to be attended to.
When committees lagged in report
ing bills referred to them, they were
firmly reminded that they were given
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