HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR
SmnWNQtS LEAVE CHRYSLER FACTORIES
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Farm Spokesman Assails Court Plan
CONFERENCES ARE
BEGUNFOR ACCORD
ON MEN’S DEMANDS
6,000 Defiant Workmen
Evacuate Motor Shops
In Swirling Snow
storm Outside
LABOR TROUBLE IS
APPROACHING CLOSE
And Without Bloodshed or
Loss of Life, Governor
Murphy Says; Other
Strikes Still Torment Oth
er Sections of Upper Half
of Nation, However
(By The Associated Press.)
A n''w victory for peaceful negotia
tions stirred hopes for further inroads
today on the nation’s wave of indus
trial disputes.
Six thousand sitdowners quit in
swirling snow the eight Chrysler
Motor Company plants they had held
in Detroit since March 9, after ap
proving an agreement looking toward
ending Lheir differences with the firm
exit of the strikers was a sig
nal for resumption of conferences be
tween Walter Chrysler, head of the
firm, and the C. I. O.’s chief, John
Lewis. They will thresh out the un
ion’s demand for exclusive bargaining
rights.
Governor Frank Murphy, who sum
moned the two to confer at Lansing,
Mich., said labor troubles were ap
proaching their end “without blood
shed or loss of life.”
Proposals for wiping out the wave
of “sitdowns” continued.
The mottled labor horizon turned
a more roseate hue today as hun
dreds of the 6,000 workers in strike
bound Chrysler motor plants ratified
an agreement to evacuate, and gov
ernment leaders indicated they would
act soon to restore industrial har
mony.
Strikers, in possession of the Chry
(Continued on Page Four.)
West Coast
Earthquake
Heavy One
Los Angeles, Cal., March 25. —(AP)
A heavy earthquake shook Los An
geles at 8:30 a. m. today.
It was a double shock felt strongly
through a large area in southern Cali
fornia, but no damage was reported.
Buildings shook in downtown Los
Angeles, Glendale, Santa Monica, and
Anaheim reported the strong tremor
immediately but observers said it was
not enough to cause damage in those
areas.
At San Diego a series of three
earthquake shocks were felt at 8:50
a. m. Doors and windows rattled in
(Continued on Page Three).
Liberals In
State Given
Ammunition
“Outs” Have Plenty
on Which To Raise
Issues for the Next
Campaign
Dully DiMpntch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By HENRY 'AVERILL.
, Raleigh. March 25. —The General
Assembly just adjourned presented
political “outs” of the State (the so
called McDonald or anti-administra
tion forces) with five almost brand
new issues upon which they can ring
the changes in the next Statewide
campaign.
In addition, the just-departed law
makers did exactly nothing at all look
ing to the elimination from the “outs”
agenda of five good old standbys in l
the way of issues.
The added entries in the political
Continued on Page Two.)
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[ above, left, Pedro Campos, convicted Nationalist leader; right, Gov
ernor Blanton Winship.
“ Deaths of seven Nationalists and injury of 40 others in clash at
Ponce, chief city on the south coast of Puerto Rico, when police
| broke up a forbidden Nationalist parade, has created tension on the
island. Gov. Blanton Winship, right, above, has taken personal charge
of the investigation. It was the first serious clash since the National
ist leader, Pedro Albizu Campos, left, above, was convicted in San
Juan last summer on charges of sedition. The Nationalists assert
that the United States is crushing a legitimate movement for com
plete freedom. —Central Press
Britain Supports
France In Ban On
II Duce’s Soldiers
Sudden Disappearance of I talians from Ranks of Insur
gents Reported by Spanis h Government Sources;
Madrid Bombed for F ive Hours by Rebels
London, March 25.—(AP) — Great
Britain backed up forceful action by
France today to halt any further land
ing of Italian soldiers in Spain, agree
ing, if necessary, to a warship black
ade of the war-torn peninsula.
An accord by the two powers thro
ugh Foreign Minister Delbos of
France and the British ambassador
to France, Sir George Clerk, was dis
closed today.
They agreed with full knowledge
of other European powers within the
non-intervention committee on all
HOEY PROGRAM IS
MOSTLY ENACTED
Liquor and Reapportion
ment Only Inaugural
Proposals Failing
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By HENiRY AVERILL.
Raleigh, March 2£—The program
laid down by Governor Clyde R. Hoey
in his inaugural address was enacted
into law by the General Assembly al
most in its entirety, the chief execu
tive meeting outright defeat on only
two issues—reapportionment and the
liquor question.
When the governor took office
back in January he made clear his po
sition and gave his advice on taxation
•education, social security, highways,
constitutional amendments, laboj
laws, agriculture, development and
(Continued QC Page Three.)
ONLY DAILY
points of the program to make non
intervention completely effective and
decided it was imperative to prevent,
even by force, any further Italian
landings.
MADRID BOMBED FOR FIVE
HOURS BY REBEL PLANES
Madrid, March 25. —(AP) —Insur-
gent bombers rained bombs on Madrid
for five hours today, halting their sky
attacks only when artillery batteries
(Continued on Page Seven.)
Outlook Is
Excellent
For Roads
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By Jf. C. BASKBRVILI:
Raleigh, March 25.—The outlook
for the highways of the State, espe
cially for the county roads, is unus
ually good the next two years, due to
the increase being shown in both high
way and general fund revenue, mak
ing the need for the diversion of any
highway revenue to the general fund
unlikely, Governor Clyde R. Hoey
pointed out today. He believes that
the provision written into the appro
priations act by the General Assem
bly, making it impossible to divert
any highway funds to the general
fund until all general fund revenues
and surpluses have been exhausted,
(Continued on Page Eight.)
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY-1 AFTERNOO N, MARCH.2S, 1937
MANY BIG OFFICES
IN HANDS OF HOEY i
FDR APPOINTMENT
No Single Legislature Ever
Was Kinder to Gover
nor In That Parti
cular Way
MANY OF THEM ARE
WITH FAT SALARIES
Highway, Liquor, Social Se
curity and Other New Cre
ations Afford Opportuni
ties for Passing Around Pie
To Seekers of Governor’s
Patronage
Dnli,« aisDatch Bnrcnn,
In the Sir Wiilter Hotel.
11, ./ C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, March 25. —Never has a
single session of the General Assem
bly presented a governor with a more
lucious assortment of appointive jobs
to pass around them the 1937 assem
bly has given to Governor Clyde R.
Hoey, those who have been checking
over the list agree. In addition to the
35 to 40 more or less important ap
pointive positions already in existence
which the governor must fill fc-y di
rect or indirect appointment, the re
cent session of the General Assembly
created at least 25 additional appoin
tive positions of which at least ten
carry salaries ranging from $4,000 to
(Continued on Pajge Seven.)
°?rB|IEED
Generally Favorable for
Other Types, However,
Washington Says
Washington, March 25. —(AP) —
The Department of Agriculture said
today the market for tobacco grow
ers this year was generally favorable.
Tdbacco consumption fi|S increas
ing, the Bureau of Agricultural Eco
nomics reported, and stocks of most
types of tobacco are expected to be
less at the start of the new season
than last.
The bureau said tobacco growers
expected to increase plantings this
(Continued on Page Seven.)
Lumberton
Strike Is
: Now Ended
i
Lumberton, March 25. —(AP) —Ada
McLean Cotton Mill resumed opera
§ tions here today on a full-time basis
_ after a strike which had closed the
1 plant since Monday.
j After a conference with mill of
-3 ficials, Ben Edwards, representing the
strikers, said the mill made no con
cessions other than to promise to in
. crease pay of workers ‘*as soon as it
could be worked out.”
Mill officials voluntarily took off
part of the speed of machines Mon
day after the strike began.
Edwards said “everybody was hap
py and glad to get back to work.”
Cliff Taylor and Furley Thompson,
meanwhile, were at liberty under SIOO
bond each for a recorder’s court hear
ing Monday on Charges of a secret
> assult growing out of the strike.
Douglas Prevatt, a striker, swore
to the warrant yesterday after , a
group of pickets reported they were
peppered with birdshot while sitting
around a fire in the early morning.
”otJRWEAni|RMAM
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy, possibly rain to
night; Friday fair; decidedly cold
er tonight and Friday; near freez
ing.
OFUNISSs
TO BE PROBED INTO
Head of German Storm
Troopers in United States
Willing To Testify
at Hearing
PLEDGED OBEDIENCE
UNTO ADOLF HITLER
Roosevelt Supporters Claim
So-Called Impotence In
Strike Situation Is Linked
With Court Reorganiza
tion; Kennedy Maneuver
ed Into New Job
Washington, March 25. —TAP)
Chairman O’Connor, Democrat Nev
York, predicted today the Housi
Rules Committee would recomment
an investigation of Nazi and othei
un- American propaganda.
He said Fritz Kuhn, described fc.j
Representative Dickstein, Democrat
New York, as head of the Nazi storrr
troopers in the United States, had an
nounced his willingness to take par
in an investigation of his activites
Dickstein, concluding testimony or
Ihis request for an inquiry, told th<
committee yesterday members of th<
Nazi group pledged obedience to Adol
Hitier.
In the Senate adoption of a specia
resolution removed objection t<
Joseph Kennedy’s appointment a
chairman of the now maritime com
(Continued on Page Four.)
PINNACLEYOUTH, 18,
HELD FOR ROBBERV
Jailed in Greensboro In Default o
SIO,OOO Bond in Mount Airy
Bank Hold-Up
Greensboro, March 25 —(AP) —Haij
Christian, 18, of Pinnacle, was hell
here today on a charge of robbing th<
Surry County Loan & Trust Compan;
at Dobson Monday after waiving «
preliminary hearing.
Christian, alleged to have taker
$423 from the bank by covering Mis:
Eva Hancock, the treasurer, with i
gun, was captured Tuesday.
When he failed to furnish SIO,OOI
ibond for his appearance in Unitei
States District Court in Winston
iSalem at the May term, he war
brought here from Dobson by Unitec
States deputy marshals and lodged ir
the Guilford county jail.
Worst Snow
Os Winter
Over West
Chicago, March 25—(AP) —Crip-
pled communication lines, isolat
ed communities and paralyzed
highway transportation provided
evidence today of the winter’s
worst snowstorm in sections of
the Middle West.
While winds whipped snow into
big drifts in Minnesota and the
Dakotas, rain sleet, hail, dust, tor
nadoes and freezing temperatures
played a wide expanse of the mid
continent.
A 22-inch snowfall deluged
(Continued on Page Four.)
Three Survivors Os
Bus Crash Fatal To
Twenty Passengers
Salem, 111., March 25. —(AP) —Three
men remained alive today as sur
vivors of the nation’s worst motor
bus accident, which claimed the lives
of twenty members of a professional
roller-skating - troupe.
With two others they were hurled
throug-h open windows by explosions
following the crash of the privately
owned vehicle into a bridge abutment
near here yesterday.
Their clothing aflame, they stood
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
PLAN THREATENING
AND ALSO COERCIVE
TO SUPREME COURT
Makes Concession
JOHN L. LEWIS
Head of the new C. I. 0., Lewis ac
ceded to demands of Walter P. Chrys
ler Wednesday that all sitdown strik
ers must be removed from Chrysler
automobile plants in the Detroit area
before any union demands would be
discussed or considered. The sitdown
ers left the plants today.
Mhorst group
pi PAYNE’S PALS
Officers Make Hasty Inves
tigation on Reports Dur
ing the Night
Pinehurst, March 25.—(AP) —Night
Policeman C. F. Townsend said today
officers here were “satisfied” Bill
Payne, escaped desperado, and two
companions were not the persons who
overturned a stolen car near here and
escaped into the woods nearby.
Townsend said bloodhounds were
used in the search last night when
several persons escaped after steal
ing an automobile from in front of
a hotel and overturning the machine
near here. The trail was lost near
the. railway station, he said.
Later, Townsend said, the officers
arrested a youth they believed has
been one of the automobile thieves,
(Continued on Page Seven.)
CHARLOTTESVILLE’S
CASE MAY BE ENDED
■ ■ ■
Prosecutor Says It Would Be Well for
All Concerned If Compromise
Is Beached
Charlottesville, Va., March 25. —
(AF) —Commenting on statements by
counsel for Dr. R. G. Miller, Char
lottesville dentist, charged with mur
dering 18-year-old Cleo Sprouse, Com
monwealth Attorney W. O. Fife said
today he believed a compromise be
tween defense and prosecution “would
be more satisfactory to all concerned
if the ends of justice can be met.”
Fife said no definite proposals were
advanced by him or E. V, Walker,
chief counsel for Miller, at a confer
ence yesterday after Judge Lemuel
Smith set the trial date for April 12.
, by helplessly as 18 others burned to
death in the inferno of blazing wreck
age.
At the Salem community hospital,
two of the survivors Mrs. Emily
Thomas, wife of the driver, and Ted
Mullen, Portland, Oregon, announcer,
died early today.
John “Schoolboy” Creekmore,
Miami, Fla.; Dick Thomas, Chicago,
(Continued on Page Three.)
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TWO SECTIONS.
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Attempt To Intimidate High
Tribunal, Grange Repre
sentative Tells
Committee
COLUMBIA SCHOOL
MAN IS WITNESS
Professor Says It Would De
stroy Court’s Independence
And Might Kill People’s
Confidence In It; “Sit
down” Bill Offered in
Congress
Washington, March 25.—(AP)—. A
farm spokesman and a college pro
fessor argued against President Roo»se
velt’s court reorganization plan to
day. They contended it was both
threatening and coercive toward the
Supreme Court.
Fred Brenckman, representative of
the National Grange, told the Senate
Judiciary Committee the President’s
bill was “an attempt to intimidate
and coerce the Supreme Court.”
Dean Young Smith, of Columbia
University Law School, first law col
lege head to appear against the plan,
said Mr. Roosevelt’s proposed court
enlargement unless justices over 70
retired would “threaten the indepen
dence of the Supreme Court, and
might permanently impair the con
fidence of the people in that court.”
The first bill dealing directly with
“sitdowns’ was prepared today by Re
presentative Dies, Democrat, Texas,
who recently proposed an investiga
tion of the new labor weapon. Die*
would declare the sitdown striker to
be a violator of the Federal anti-trust
laws subject to a fine of $5,000, a
year’s imprisonment, or both.
The offer of an art gallery which
Andrew Mellon made to the govern
ment several weeks ago was formally
accepted today when President Roose
velt signed at Warm Springs a con
gressional resolution to that end.
2 Brothers
Succumb In
Wilderness
Havre St. Pierre, Quebec, March 25.
—(AP) —(Canadian Press). —A sodden
diary told today the agonizing story
of slow death from cold and starva
tion by two youthful brothers, lost ini
the wilderness of northern Quebeo
since last August.
Death prevented Willie Collin, 23,
and his brother, Edgar, 20, from com
pleting their scrawled record of pri
vation; hunger, illness and pain.
Their bodies, almost skeletons,
were found by trappers in an old
shack where apparently they camped
to wait out a summer storm. Willie
the diary showed, cut his leg and was
unable to walk. Meanwhile, as their
meagre provisions dwindled, new
storms .buried the bushlands and they
were trapped.
Word of their death, apparently
late in January, finally reached here,
and an official sent to investigate
found the diary.
Seven Die
When Home
Is Burned
Jersey City, N. .J., March 25.
(AP)—Mrs. Rose Burkhardt, 54-
year-old widow, her five youngest
children and a brother-in-law,
burned to death early today In a
three-alarm fire which razed a
three-story frame building.
All available firemen and ap
paratus in the city were called to
battle the fire. Police and firemen
awakened members of three fam
ilies sleeping in an adjacent build
ing and aided them in reaching
the street. Firemen kept the
flames from spreading to this
building and a garage on the
other side.
Rose Burkhardt, 20, another
daughter, was the only occupant
6t the frame building to escape.
Awakened by smoke, she ran
down the stairs and was carried
to the street by a passerby.