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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR CHRYSLER Federal Judge Is Accused Os Taking Fee While Serving Chicago Judge Alleged To Have Accepted $35,000 From Chicago Concern SUPREME COURT IS UP WITH ITS CASES Court Clerk Tells Senate Judiciary Committee Court Has Carried Over No Com pleted Cases Since 1929; Opinions Given During Term of Case Washington, March 30.—(AP) — Representative Kelly,, Democrat, Il linois, told the House today Federal Judge John Barnes, of Chicago, re ceived a $35,000 fee from the Chicago Title and Trust Company, while sit ting on the bench. Meanwhile supreme court officer advised the Senate Judiciary Commit tee the court would decide all cases in the term in which the are submit ed. The information from the court clerk Charles Crople reached the com mittee studing President Roosevelt’s plan for reorganizing the tribunal just a day after the court had experienced one of its heaviest opinion sessions in months. Cropley’s letter, which accompanied tabulation showing a total of 667 case 6 disposed of last year, told the com mittee the carrying over of cases from term to term disappeared in 1929. Since, he said, “The court has de cided all cases argued and submitted and have carried none under advise ment into a subsequent term. ’ Another development on the court front occurred when the Justice De partment expressed regret that Sen ator Holt, Democrat, West Virginia, had interpreted its action in a judi cial appointment as a patronage move to gain support for the presidents court bill. Close Seven CCC Camps Over State Location of Others And Also Camps of Different Kind Are Related Washington, March 30 (AP) ~^ ob ' ert Fechner, emergency conservatio work director, announced today the closing of seven civilian conservation corps camps in North Carolina for the April I—June 30 quarter. A camp will be reestablished m Mount Mitchell State Park at Black mountain in Yancey coun y, • and the 54 CCC camps remaining will be only six less than operated in the previous quarter, Fechner said. The camps to be closed are as to - lows: Old Fort, in McDowell county, Globe, in Caldwell county, and Troy, in Montgomery county, in the Pisgah National Forest; Rainbow Springs, Clay county, and Highlands, Macon county, in the Nanthala National For est; and soil conservation camps at High Point and Polktown. Os the camps to be operated during the spring, 14 will be located in Na tional forests, one in a state forest, six on private forests, two on wild me conservation projects, is on soil con servation projects, four in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Four in State parks, three on conser vation projects on military reserva tions, and two on projects in the Ten nessee Valley authority area. A list of these camps and their post offices follow: National Forest Camps Marion, Mortimer, Hot Springs, Barnardsville, Balsam Grove, Asheville, and Canton, in Pisgah National Forest; Aquone, Tellico Plains, Franklin, Otto and Robbinsville, in Nanthala National Forest, and New Bern and Maysville in Croatan National Forest. Private Forest Camps—Fort Bragg, Morganton, Southport Brevard, Wash ington and Elizabethtown. Wild Life Conservation Camps — Swanquarter and Manteo. Private Conservation Project Camps —Mt. Airy, Yanceyville, Lexington, Salisbury, Gastonia, Oxford, Burling ton, Durham, Newton, Monroe, Madi son, Lillington, Franklinton, Ramseur, Statesville, Rockingham, Shelby, For est City. Great Smoky Park Camps—Two in (Continued on Page Three.) Urttitersim tlaihi Dtsmtfrlt LEASED WIRE THE ASSOCIATEI?PR]f ss OP Graziani Expels Chain Store Head Rome, March 30. (AP) The Giornald D’ltalie disclosed today the Mohammed Alii, head of Ethi opia’s largest chain store organi zation, have been expelled from the country by Italian viceroy Roldo Graziani on charges of spying for the British intelligence service. At the same time the French merchant Besse, director of Bessc and Company, a large commercial house with many branches was fined 1,500,000 lire (about $75,000), placed in jail, and then expelled for alleging having engaged in the arms trade during the Italo-Ethio pian war.. He also was accused of currency speculation after the Ita lian occupation. Intangibles Contentions Far-Fetched Skinner Contends Exemptions by Leg islature Are Uncon stitutional Daily Dispatch Bnreati, In th«* Sir Walter Hotel. By HENRY AVERILL. Raleigh, March 30. The cry now being raised that the “exemptions” al lowed in the new taxes on intangibles are unconstitutional appear to many lawyers and laymen as more or less far-fetched. Chief instigator of the “unconstitu tional” outcry is John L. Skinner, Warren county, who is executive sec retary of the North Carolina Associa tion of County Commissioners. The very word “exemption” is anathema to Mr. Skinner and his outburst against the intangibles has occasioned no sur prise in any quarter. It would have been really surprising if he had not started some such hallaballoo, despite the fact that he said last fall the con stitional amendment on the subject, was a “blank check” giving the as sembly full authority to do whatever it wished. Amendment Involved. Whatever merit there may be in Mr. Skinner’s theorem will have to he decided by reference to the amend ment adopted last fall in connection with the tax and exemption provisions left unchanged in the Constitution. The matter is being studied by the at torney general’s office and it is like ly that Attorney General A. A. F. Sea well will have something to say in the near future. “Off-Record” Decisions. Meanwhile, there is nothing to pre vent unofficial law lights, or even am bitious laymen, from expressing their “horseback” or “popeyed” opinions re garding the matter and the consensus of these off the record decisionss seems to indicate: First: That it would be very dif ficult to get the matter before the Supreme Court, assuming the so-call ed exemptions to be unconstitutional. Second: That they are not uncon stitutional and that the Supreme Court will so decide if the matter ever gets before if. On the first conclusion the point is made that no taxpayer who is taxed on his money in the bank could be heard to complain that SIOO of his de posit has not been taxed. That would he an obvious absurdity. 'Then there is a line of court de cisions that no taxpayer who has no money to be taxed can complain that his taxes on other property will be laised by the exemptions because the effect on such a taxpayer would be iso insignificant as to give him no standing in court as a complainant. The old law maxim of “de nonimis lex not curat” is applicable, these de cisions say, meaning in plain English that the law will not concern itself with trifles. Obviously, the effect of exempting some small sum class of intangibles would have only an entirely negligible effect on the taxes to be paid by Taxpayer Jonthan Zilch for example, Who has no in tangibles but does own an acre of "bottom land" in Dare or Cherokee. Beal Issue Needed. The question might, some believe, be raised by a board of county com nfissklners who might seek a “declare tory judgment” without formal action, but even in that case there would Continued on Page Two.) - LY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. STRIKE END BELIEVED IN SIGHT kSmderof CHARLESMATTSON New Mexico Sheriff Fred White Expects Early Developments In The Case SHERIFF AND G-MAN WORKED ON CASE Neither Will Amplify State ment Made by White; De velopments Expected Else where; Vern Charlton, of Washington State, Being Held Tucumcari, N. M. March 30 (AP) — Sheriff Fred White, who arrested and held Vern Charlton, of Washington State, in connection with the kidnap slaying of Charles Mattson, said to day “We expect that this thing will clear up by tonight.” The Quay county peace officer who has worked closely with Alexis Street, veteran department of justice opera tive from El Paso, would not amplify the statement. It was taken to mean, however, de velopments were expected outside this eastern New Mexico town. Street, who locked himself in his hotel room last night and refused to answer any calls was equally tactiturn today. YOUTH CONFESSES 18-Year-Old Buffalo Boy Admits Slaying Mary Ellen Babcock Buffalo, N. Y., March 30.—(AP)— Police Commissioner James Higgins announced today an 18-year-old Buf falo youth had confessed that he kill ed Mary Ellen Babcock, 18, whose knifed body was found in a field here February 6. District Attorney Walter Newcomb, to whose office the youth was taken, said he was booked as Thomas Smith, who lived several blocks from the South Buffalo field in which the Bab cock girl’s body was found. Newcomb said the young criminal had made a “complete statement ad mitting the killing.” He said no charge had been placed against him, however. OURWtfTHgPMAN I *,| FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy tonight; Wednes day generally fair, not much change in temperature. HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 30, 1937 Freighter Goes Down in Heavy Seas as Crew Rows to U. S. Cutter if jjp ...... ■.. ... I ' ' I ' :• . . V,. . ' . 111-fated Norwegian freighter Bjerkli foundering in heavy seas A dramatic picture taken on the high seas —the Norwegian freighter Bjerkli sinking as first boatload of crew of 16 rows away to the Crop Insurance And Aid To Farm Tenants Discussed Washington, March 30 (AP) —Con- gressmen considered aid for the far mer today in the Senate debate on “crop insurance’ and a showdown opinion of a house committee study ing farm tenancy. Administration leaders, excepting minority leaders McNair, Republican cf Oregon, trying to swing Republican support behind the crop insurance proposal, predicted that it had met with almost no oppdsition. U. S. COURT BACKS ~ ATTORNEY GENERAL Reverses State Courts and Rules Veterans’ Money Not Taxable Dally Dispatch Bnrean. In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKFRVIM, Raleigh, March 30. —Attorney Gen eral A. A. F. Seawell and his asso ciates in the attorney-general’s office must he chuckling to themselves over the recent United States Supreme Court decision in the case of L. J. Lawrence vs. John A. Shaw and other members of the Hertford County Board of Commissioners, although of course they can’t come out openly and grinningly tell the superior and su preme courts of North Carolina, “I told you so.” High Court Approves. Reason for this restrained mirth lies in the fact that Chief Justice Hughes and the other eight “old men” have confirmed an opinion of the at torney-general’s office, given in 1930, and have overruled the opinions of Superior Court Judge E. H. Cranmer and the North Carolina Supreme Court as written by “Connor, J,” as •the law reports have it. In everyday language, here’s what happened. The attorney general’s of fice rendered an advisory opinion that money in bank to the credit of a World War veteran and which is the .proceeds of payment of federal com pensation is not taxable by the county or by any other governmental agency. (Continued oc Page Three.) KEIMIECH OF CARTER GLASS Declares Radio Address As sures Passage of Court Plan in Senate Washington, March 30. —(AP) —Re- presentative Kery, Democrat, North Carolina, said today that Senator Car ter Glass, radio address against the Roosevelt court .plan had assured Senate approval of the proposal. The North Carolinian, a former su perior court judge, described Glass’ speech as “the most vicious and un warranted attack ever made against a President of the United States.” “It will do more to win Senate ap proval of the President’s plan than to defeat it,” Kerr said. “It means the Senate will pass the bill.” | U. S. coast guard cutter Chelan, standing by. The rescue cutter I is not shown in the picture. The scene. 750 miles east of New York. Senator Pope, author of the SIOO,- 000,000 bill to set up a corporation to insure the wheat crop beginning in 1938, said he would oppose ef forts to make the bill effective this year. Senators Nye, Republican of Rofth Dakota, and Frazer, Republi can of North Dakota, both favored im mediate insurance. The house agriculture group was called together to decide its policy on sale of farms to tenants. Representative Sabath, Democrat Executions Halted For Six Weeks Raleigh, March 30.—(AP)—Twenty men are on death row at State’s Pri son, four slated to die Friday, and 10 by May 7, but there will be no execu tions for a month or six weeks. Edwin Gill, parole commissioner and Governor Hoey agreed it would be best to postpone any deaths until after reconstruction work now under way on death row can be completed. In the list of Gill’s record for exe cution by May 7, all of whom will re ceive reprieve and some may get com mutations, are George Exum, Wayne and Melvin Coggins, from Nash, both sentenced for murder. ROTATION WILL NOT HALT TOBACCO WILT Destruction of Weeds Most Effective Weapon,) Moss Declares Dally Dlfipatch Barem, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKERUIiL Raleigh, March 30. —Rotation of crops will not save tobacco from the dreaded Granville tobacco wilt unless “carrier weeds” that are susceptible to the disease are destroyed, E. G. Moss, superintendent of the State De partment of Agriculture tobacco test farm at Oxford, announced today. “Granville wilt of tobacco” ranks a long with “blue mold” as one of the most deadly and destructive diseases of tobacco. Intensive studies of Granville to bacco wilt are now being conducted at two locations in the Creedmoor area on wilt-infested soils. “The primary studies have been made to find how many host plants— carrier plants—are susceptible to this disease,” Mr. Moss explained. “In making such studies, it has been found that a large number of weeds are hosts to the wilt organism. There fore, in order to control the wilt, it is necessary that fields be kept clear of all of the common weeds.’’ Weeds Common Carriers. Weeds most susceptible as Gran ville wilt carriers—those that retain the disease and transmit it to tobac co unless they are destroyed—are rag weed, stick weed, Jimson weed, cockle bur, croton, horse nettle, Spanish nes (Cont’nued on Page Three)* PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. of 111., dean of the house, who nearly collapsed during a speech yesterday, was reported better. The Judiciary committee met to consider his bill to correct abuses in connection with real estate bond holders reorganiza tion oommittee. Raymond Stevens, of New Hamp shire, resigned today as member of the tariff commission to “take an ac tive part” on behalf of President Roosevelt’s supreme court reorganiza tion program. _ Witness Suggests That To Dodge Extremists from Either Angle By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, March 30.—Professor Edward S. Corwin, Princeton univer sity expert on constitutional law, tes tifying recently before the Senate Judiciary Committee, in connection with President Rocfevelt’s plan to reorganize the Federal Supreme Court made a really constructive suggestion, which has gone, practically unnoticed. He proposed a scheme that never will -be adopted, to he sure, and wouldn’t work, anyway. If it were a possibility, however, it would have some sense in it. FROM THE RANKS Dr. Corwin argued, in short, that selection for seats on the supreme bench should be made, as far aa practicable, from the ranks of law college professors rather than from those of veterans long experienced ini actual practice at- the -bar or as ad visers to private clients, big or little. Parent!heiticalßy, the Brincetonfian meant big clients, of course; feiw isl any legal advisers of petty clients are chosen for Supreme Court honors. The point is, Dr. Corwin wants (Continued on Page Two). PLOTS DISCLOSED AMONG INSURGENTS Widespread Executions Car ried Out; Resentment Against Italians (By The Associated Press) Reports of dissension and execu tions within the ranks of Spain’s in surgent army came simultaneously with government claims of advance on three fronts. Antipathy to the Italians, who have played an important role in the insur gents fight to win all Spain, said re ports reaching Bayonne, France, caus ed plotting within the insurgents’ own ranks. Widespread executions followed dis covery of the plot, which were believ ed directed not at General Francisco Franco, but against Italian influence in Spain. Insurgent sources emphatically de nied the report as “fantastic.” 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY CONFEREESAPPEAR IN AMIABLE MOOD AT NEGOTIATIONS Soft Coal Miners Agree ment Ends Tomorrow Midnight; Negotia tions Underway SITDOWN STRIKERS IN VIRGINIA PLANT Momentous Questions Be ing Discussed That Affect Lives of Half Million Workers; Advocates of Minimum Wage Laws for Women Plan Intensive Campaign Lansing, Mich., March 30 (AP) — Conferees seeking settlement of strikes which have kept Chrysler au tomobile plants idle for more than three weeks assembled in amiable mood today for the seventh day of negotiations as informed sources said an agreement was “in sight.” Walter Chrysler, chairman of the board of the Chrysler Corporation smiled broadly as he entered the exe cutive chamber of Governor Frank Murphy. STRIKE IN, SOFT COAL FIELDS LOOMS HEAVILY (By The Associated Press.) Momentous questions bearing on the daily lives and destinies of nearly half million American workers were today in the foreground of a nation wide picture of industrial unrest. Continuance of work by 460,000 soft coal workers beyond their wage and hour contract with operators at mid inight tomorrow hinged upon negotia tions in New York. Last minute efforts to break a per sistent deadlock between the United Mine Workers officials and the opera tors of mines, in view of previous eleventh hour agreements, may prove successful, some observers believed. Persons close to negotiations in Lansing Mich., where Chrysler offi cials and leaders of the United Auto mobile workers are trying to reach, an accord, said they believe settle ment was imminent. ofi minimum wage laws for women an nounce intent to model legislation in many states in conformance with the Washington statute upheld yesterday by the United States Supreme Court. At Covington, Va., meanwhile, sit down strikers, estimated to number between 250 and 750, barred the gates and suspended operation in the In dustrial Rayon Corporation’s plant in a move which qaught unaware both (Continued on Page Three.) WAYNEWILLASK FOR LIQUOR GALES Petitions Circulated * In Goldsboro to Get Senti ment of Citizens Goldsboro, March 30.—(AP)—M. D. Fields, fruit dealer here, said today that petitions would be filed with the Wfayne county commissioners Monday asking a county option liquor vote be called in the county. Fields said petitions, intended to show the board the public desires an opportunity to vote on the questions, were being circulated here and in Fre mont and Mt. Olive. IN GAME BILL Eure Says Two Amend ments to Bill Apply to One Section Raleigh, March 30. —(AP) —Thad Eure, secretary of state and Laurie McEachern, in charge of the legisla tive enrolling office, said the legisla ture in its adjournment rush, made errors in amending the gasoline and petroleum inspection laws but it was Inot believed, they would invalidate the measure. The senate amendments were pre pared "for the original drafted bill, without taking cognizance of house amendments which eliminated a whole section, so identical changes intended for two consecutive sections applied only to one in the ratified act. Eure and McEachern said they had found no major errors in other measures.
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