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Court Flan Termed Long Step Toward Dictatorship
PRESIDENT DODDS
OFPRINCETOKSEES
DANGERINSCHEME
Says Roosevelt Hopes By
His Proposal To Control
Opinions of High
Tribunal
NOT JUSTIFIED BY
ANY EMERGENCIES
Senator Wheeler Declares
Objectives Can Be Attain
ed Without Increasing
Court or Amending Consti
tution; Authoritarian Rule
Is Feared
Washington, March 24. (AP) —
Preident Harold Dodds, of Princeton
University, condemned the Roosevelt
court bill today as “a first step and a
long step” toward “authoritatian gov
ernment without popular or judicial
restraint.
Dodds appeared before the Senate
Judiciary Committee a short time
after Senator Wheeler, Democrat,
Montana, declaring many Roosevelt
t jectives could be attained without
change either in the Supreme Court
or the Constitution, proposed legisla
tion to subject child labor products
to the “laws of the states into which
shipment has been made.”
In hits ttesttimony, the Princeton
University president asserted “Mr.
F.oosevelt has invented a scheme by
which he hopes to control the opin
ions of the court.”
"If granted to one President,” he
dared, “the power cannot reasonably
be denied later presidents and prob
ably will not be, for the step is too
radical to avoid being fixed as a pre
cedent for a long while to come.”
The educator pleaded for a “heal
thy skepticism toward the existence
of an emergency justifying revolu
tionary proposals.”
Gov. A llred
Asks Facts
On School
Austin, Texas, March 24. —(AP) —
In a precedent-breaking move, Gov
ernor James Allred sought recommen
dations today from the military court
of inquiry which investigated the
blast death of 455 teachers and chil
dren at the London community*
school.
Adjutnat General Gaston Howard,
who headed , the investigation, re
sponded by asking preliminary state
ments from assisting officials. Or
dinarily only the record of testimony
in filed with the governor by the
military authorities.
Captain Edward Clark, of Austin,
as a member of the court, said un
officially he believed the evidence de
finitely established the explosion last
Thursday was caused by accumula
tion of gas between the ground and
the concrete slab of the first floor,
perhaps from a broken pipe or loose
connection. The school was heated
by gas.
12 Os 16 “Must” Measures
Urged By Hoey Become Law
Party Stalwart and Master Strategist That He Is, Gov
ernor Got Nearly All He Asked of Legislature;
Summary Compare s Recommendations
Raleigh, March 24 (AP)--Gover
nor Hoey, as head of the dominant
Democratic party, steered the 1937
General Assembly to sine die adjourn
mept over the shortest course travel
er! by a legislature since North Caro
lina went into the big business of run
ning its schools, and pri
son on a Statewide basis.
North Carolina is the only State
in which the governor has no veto
power. But since the inauguration
pledges of the chief executive fre
quently are the promises of the Dem
ocratic party, “must” measures are
usually enacted into law.
One hundred and sixty of the 170
members of the legislature were Dem
ocrats.
Governor Hoey, a seasoned states
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A conference was held in Lansing
today in the office of Governor Frank
Murphy, of Michigan, between Wal
ter P. Chrysler, head of Chrysler Mot
ors Corporation, and John L. Lewis,
C. I. O. chief, in an effort to find a
solution of the strike that has tied up
Chrysler plants for weeks.
GOVERNOR HOEY IS
HIGHLY SATISFIED
WITH LEGISLATURE
Much Gratified That Nearly
Every One of His Re
commendations Was
Enacted
PRAISES MEMBERS
OF THE ASSEMBLY
They Showed at All Times
Deep Insight into and Un
derstanding of Problems
Before Them, Governor
Says; Social Security Was
Greatest Job
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
ID- JT. C. BASKHRVILI-
Raleigh, March 24—Governor Clyde
R. Hoey today gave sincere and
hearty commendation to the 1937 ses
sion of the General Assembly, which
adjourned yesterday after having
been in session only 66 legislative days
and only 77 calendar days. He express
ed gratification that almost without
exception, the assembly had enacted
most of his recommendations into
law. In fact, the only two specific re-
Continued on Page Two.)
man, a vetran party leader, a master
strategist, fared even better with the
assembly than have most of his re
cent predecessors.
On inauguration day, in a speech
which was almost unanimously ac
claimed by the State’s press, he out
lined 16 specific recommendations.
Observers, 'who rate governors’ pre
tige on the success of “must” legisla
tion, today had chalked up the follow
ing score for Hoey:
Won, 12, last 2, compromise 1. In
doubt 1. „ „
Governor Hoey successfully advo-
Ca -L Free basal textbooks for elemen
tary school children. A bill calling for
(Continued on Page Six.)
DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
WILL INTERVENE HI STRIKES
Six Carloads of Heavily
Armed Officers and High
way Patrolmen
Spreading Net
PAYNE IS REPORTED
SEEN ON HIGHWAY
Red Springs Man Says Fugi
tive Tried To Block Him on
Road, Supposedly To Take
His Car; Chase Leads
Through Miles of Dirt
Roads in Country
Fayetteville, March 24 (AP) —Six
carloads of heavily armed officers and
highway patrolmen from Scotland,
Harnett, Cumberland and Robeson
counties were searching the area be
tween here and Lillington today for
Bill Payne, escaped desperado report
ed seen at Red Springs this morning
with two companions.
A Red Springs man, whose name
was not known at the sheriff’s office
here, reported a man answering the
description of Payne, who escaped
with several others in a daring break
from Caledonia prison farm several
weeks ago, had sought to block him
on the highway, apparently with the
intention of taking his car.
Officers throughout the area were
mobilized quickly and took up the
chase at Wagram, in Scotland county,
where the trio was reported seen in
a mud-spattered car.
The chase then led through miles
of dirt secondary roads in the area
between Fort Bragg and Lillington,
and officers were trying to spread a
fan through a section of Harnett and
Lee counties to intercept the fugitives.
WIDE VARIANCE IN
WAGES BEING PAID
High of $1.56 and Low of 2.3 Cents
an Hour Reported by Em
ployment Service
Raleigh, March 24. —'(AP) —Mayne
Albright, acting director of the State’s
Employment Service, reported today
a check of hurly wages paid 5,027
persons placed by the service during
February showed a variation from
$1.56 an hour down to 2.3 cents an
hour.
Albright said persons placed in
jobs involving the manufacturing of
machinery got $1.56 an hour, while
agriculture workers in the eastern
part of the State got as low as 2.3
cents, with the highest wage in the
group 31.2 cents an hour.
Building and construction workers
got wages varying from $1.15 and
domestic and personal servants got
from 36 down to four cents.
HOEY WILL DECIDE
I
Governor Has Many Offices
To Fill and Will Do It
Very Shortly
Doily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, March 24—Governor Clyde
R. Hoey expects to start making some
of the many appointments he must
make as a result of legislation enact
ed by this assembly, within the next
few weeks, he indicated today.
“Now that the General Assembly
has adjourned, I expect to concen
trate on these various appointive pos
ition created by it and to announce
my appointments as rapidly as pos
sible.” Governor Hoey said today.
“Since the Statewide liquor control
law is already in effect, I shall prob
ably announce my selection of the
chairman and the two part-time mem
bers of the State Alcoholic Beverages
Control board among the first ap
pointments I shall make. I hope to
reach a decision with regard to these
appointments early in April.”
Governor Hoey declined to give any
intimation, however, as to whom he
expects to name chairman of the ABC
board or the wo members of the
board.
Since the new highway commission
reorganization law goes into effect
May 1, the governor must appoint the
eleven members of the commission, in
cluding a new chairman, before that
date. He indicated he would probab
ly announce his new highway com
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HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, MARCH 24, 1937
Freak of the School Blast —Mother Child Victims
■n •
Auto crushed by flying concrete—mother, child victims
One of the most unusual, and tragic, freaks of the
New London, Tex., school blast was this one. A
mother, accompanied by a small child, drove up in
front of the school a few minutes before closing
Insurgents
Dig In For
Long Siege
Spanish Rebel War
ship Shells Coast
City and Seven Re
ported Killed
London, March 24.—(AP) —The
European “hands-off-Spain com
mittee, pressing suddenly ahead to
counter the continued threats of
Italian participation in the civil
war, tonight removed the last ob
stacle to a land-sea blockade of
Spain by naming 16 key admin
trators.
Madrid, March 24.—(AP)—(Insur
gent# Spanish armies in the new role
of the besieged, dug in to withstand
government assaults northeast of the
capital, today while a sudden insur
gent sortie left men, women and chil
dren dead and dying in a Catalan
coastal town.
An insurgent warship was said by
reports of a Spanish news agency to
have bombarded a place 40 miles
north of Valencia, early Tuesday. One
shell fell in the central plaza, killing
seven persons and wounding 30, many
of them women and children, this re
port said.
The attacking ship lay 48 miles
north of Valencia.
Air attacks predominated in the
military actions on the northern
Guadalaraja and Jarama river lines,
where General Francisco Franco’s in
surgents were entrenching to with
stand government siege.
ruralTetterlman
CONFESSES KILLING
Howard Shoemake, 26, Said He Fired
When Threatened by Frank
Crisp and Another
Lenfor, March 24.—(AP) —Sheriff
J. C. Tolbert announced here today
Howard Shoemake, 26, rural mail car
rier, had admitted firing shots which
killed Frank Venoy Crisp, 28, in the
middle of the highway near Edge
combe last night.
Sheriff Tolbert who said Shoemake
who called him immediately after the
shooting, and the father of four chil
dren claimed to have been accosted
by Crisp and a group of others as he
was returning home from a picture
show.
Shoemake said he and Crisp en
gaged in a quarrel that ended in a
fight during which he shot Crisp as
the other man appeared to be about
to draw a gun.
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Cloudy, showers and scattered
thunder squalls this afternoon and
tonight, probably ending Thurs
day morning; warmer tonight.
time to take home another youngster of the family.
When the explosion raked the building, a huge slab
of concrete thundered down into the auto. Both
mother and child were crushed to death.
Pickets At hum berton
Cotton Mill Fired On;
Warran ts Sworn For 2
Lumberton, March 24. (AP)—
Douglass Prevatt and Ada McLean,
mill strikers, swore out assault war
rants today against Cliff Taylor and
Purley Thompson, mill employees,
after reporting a party of pickets had
been sprinkled with shotgun pellets
■ar. they sat around a fire before day
light.
Prevatt said the group of about
ten pickets, which he headed, escaped
more than a few scratches when some
one fired from the mill yard. He said
he and the other pickets ran in the
direction of the shots and captured
Taylor and Thompson. Preyat said a
Argentina
Kidnaper
Suicides
Buenos Aires, Argentine, March 24.
—(AP) —Jose Gonzales, accused in
Argentine’s “Lindbergh case,” hanged
himself today in the jail in which he
was awaiting trial.
He strung himself from the bars of
his cell at Dolores, near Mar del
Plata, where he had been held since,
police said, he confessed the kidnap
ing and killing of two-year-old Eu
genio Iraela.
The baby, son of a rich Argentine]
cattle man, was found strangled Feb
ruary 27 in a pigpen on his father’s
estate, where Gonzales had worked.
Already held, the peon started to*
re-enact the crime for officers, but he
halted in the middle and repudiated
his confession.
He had told police a story of how
he led and carried the child a mile
and a half from the home of the
father, Simon Iraeola, acting on an
“inexplicable impulse.”
WILSON WILL SELL
STORES IN MOORE
Wilson, March 24.—(AP) — Luke
Lamb, attorney, said today plans were
complete for the sale by the Wilson
county ABC board of two whisky
stores at Southern Pines and Pine
hurst to the Moore County ABC Board
11 Cases Whisky
Stolen From Nash
ABC Store Stocks
Nashville, March 24.—(AP) —
Thieves broke into the Nash
County ABC store here last night
and took eleven cases of whisky,
assorted stocks, as nearly as of
ficials had been able to determine
today.
The robbery, first at this store
since it was created, was affect
ed by prying apart two bars at a
window and raising the windows,
officers reported.
No clues to the robbers’ iden
tity had been found early this
afternoon, but fingerprint experts
from Wilson had been called to
examine the windows.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTHKNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
shotgun found under a nearby build
ing with an exploded shell nearby,
was identified as belonging to Thomp
son.
Prevatt said the shooting was ap
parently intended only to frighten
strikers, whem he described as de
siring a peaceful strike to obtain
shorter hours and higher wages.
About 125 of the mill’s 175 workers
struck Monday.
Meanwhile, the Jennings mill here
continued to operate with a few weav
ers still refusing to work after a brief
strike Monday night which shut down
the weaving department for a time.
CAPITOLCLEANSUP
Attaches Busy Straightening
Out After Legislature
Adjourns
Raleigh, March 24 (AP) —Straggling
legislators went home today after 66
days of law-making, the shortest ses
sion since 1929 arid the legislative halls
were placed in order to be closed.
Many attaches were busily engaged
in cleaning up odds and ends.
The enrolling office, deluged with
some 500 or more new laws during the
last ten days of the session, was
straightening out all the kinks deve
loped in the last-minute rush.
Figures on the actual number of
laws enacted still were not available.
Speaker Gregg Cherry, of Gastonia,
prepared to go home this afternoon,
and President W. P. Horton, of the
Senate, said he was going to Pitts
boro and “sleep until Monday at
home.”
ONEWIL
ENACTED INTO LAW
So Changed, However, It
Falls Far Short of Mark
Aimed for It
Daily Diapatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel'.
By HENRY AVERILL.
Raleigh, March 24.—50 “pickled
and mortified,” as one of its original
supporters expressed it, as to turn
friends into foes and foes into friends,
one so-called Ickes bill (the revenue
bond bill” has been allowed to become
a law.
In words of one - syllable, the bill
will let municipalities issue revenue
bonds for revenue-producing under
takings provided they do not compete
with private enterprise.
Its original sponsors now assert
that the bill is entirely unsatisfactory
to Federal PWA officials, that no
funds can be expected from the Fed
eral government as grants in aid, and
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coiKm
WITHOUT ACCORD
Meeting With Governor
Murphy Recesses For
Lunch To Resume In
Middle Afternoon
congresTsteps in
ON STRIKE IMPASSE
Investigation of Sitdown
■ Strikes Is Proposed And
Hearings Set; Governor of
Michigan Denies Washing
ton Reports of Strike Set
tlement
Washington, March 24.—(AP)—In
formed Senate sources said today
President Roosevelt had agreed to
meet congressional leaders for a dis
cussion of the sitdown strike situa
tion when he returns from Warm
Springs, Ga., this week-end.
Majority Leader Robinson, Demo
crat, Arkansas, previously had said a
conference of congressional leaders
would be necessary this week-end if
the situation was not “cleared up” by
that time. He declined to confirm or
deny the report of a conference with
the President.
Those who said such a conference
would be held reported the President
•had agreed to meet leaders in re
sponse to numerous requests from
them that he intervene in the situa
tion.
Meanwhile, Congress stepped
squarely into the sitdown strike situa
tion.
Besides Senator Robinson’s state
ments, there was heard on the House
side a statement by Representative
Dies, Democrat, Texas, who said the
rules committee would hold a hearing
next Wednesday on his resolution to
investigate sitdown strikes, which
have already aroused the ire of many
congressional leaders.
The Washington developments
came about the time John Lewis, C.
I. O. chief, and Walter P. Chrysler,
the car manufacturer, met with Mich
igan’s Governor Murphy in an effort
Con. in led on Page Two.)
SHIP Is^AFIRE IN™
MIDDLE OF PACIFIC
Motor Ship Fijian Damaged by Gaso
line Explosion Far From
Possible Help
Honolulu, March 24. (AP)—
Battling flames far out in the
Pacific, the motor ship Fijian re
ported today the fre was brought
iipder control after most of the
crew had taken to lifeboats.
Meagre radio messages receiv
ed by the coast guard here indi
cated a gasoline explosion In the
forward hole seriously injured
two Chinese of her crew of 30 and
forced most of those aboard to
take to lifeboats temporarily
while a skeleton crew fought the
flames.
Increase Os
Eight Prct.
In Tobacco
Blue Mold Damag
ing Plantbeds, But
Seedings Are High
est on Record
Raleigh, March 24 (AP) —North
Carolina farmers planned on March 1
to reduce their corn slightly and in
crease their tobacco and potato acre
ages, the Federal-State Crop Report
ing Service announced today, with no
figures given for cotton.
The corn crop was indicated at 2,-
280,000 acres, compared with 2,350,000
last year, a cut of three percent in the
State, though the nation is increasing
its corn acreage two percent.
Flue-cured tobacco growers indicat
ed they planned to plant eight per
cent more land in tobacco, or 654,500
acres, while the farmers in the whole
belt indicated an increase of ten per
cent.
Troubled with tobacco plants caused
by blue mold and other diseases was
noted, but it was pointed out “the
area of plantbeds is probably the
largest in the history of the State.”
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