HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR
PROBE OF U. S. FASCISTS ONER APPROVAL
HOUSE COMMITTEE
FAVORS INQUIRY OF
HITLER MOVEMENT
New York Congressman
Says He Can Name 125
Spies Leading 200,-
000 Fascists
MICHIGAN LAW DEAN
FIGHTS COURT PLAN
Says Roosevelt Scheme Is
Not Liberal or Progressive
and Leads to Theory of
Government Triumphant
In Parts of Europe at the
Present Time
Washington, April 1 (AP)
A proposal for an inquiry into
un-American propaganda, aim
ed chiefly at a reported Fascist
movement in this country, won
today the approval of the House
Rules Committee.
It was put forward by Chair
man Dickstein, Democrat, New
York, of the House Immigra
tion Committee, who said he
could name 125 spies working
in behalf of a fascist state in
America.
In his early testimony before
the committee, the New Yorker
also asserted a Nazi army was
being drilled in this country,
complete with uniforms and
swastinka and a Detroiter, Fritz
Kuhn, had an organization of
200,000 Nazi sympathizers.
The investigation proposal will go
from the rules committee to the House
for final determination.
Another committee which recently
had heard considerable testimony
about the American form of govern
ment and the preservation of demo
cracy, the Senate Judiciary Commit
tee, heard Dan Henry Bates, of the
University of Michigan Law School
testify in opposition to President
Roosevelt’s court reform plan.
He declared it was “not liberal and
progressive” and would) “to
ward a theory of government trium
phant in part of Europe at the pre
sent time.”
Many of his remarks were directed
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Jury Probing
Frisco’s Vice
Is Dismissed
San Francisco, Cal., April 1. —(AP)
—A “sitdown strike” of a grand jury
prying into charges police were paid
$1,000,000 annually to protect voice
and gambling was answered today by
summary dismissals.
“Neither this jury nor any other”
can “sitdown” on the public interests
of San Francisco, Superior Court
Judge Steiger as saying in
a story copyrighted by the Chronicle.
“I believe the jury has destroyed
public confidence in the outcome of
the current proceedings by inexplic
able and incessant bickering and con
fusion within its own ranks.
“Furthermore, it has been brought
to my attention that at least four of
the personnel of the jury are subject
to removal from the jury in view of
the disclosures associating them di
rectly or indirectly with certain
phases of the matter under investiga
tion.”
The njattars undjer investigation
are data assembled by Special Inves
tigator Atherton, former Department
of Justice agent.
Big Strike
In Calcutta
Is Serious
Calcutta, India, April 1. —(AP) —
Confronted by a swiftly-spreading
general strike, India’s vast corps
of police and soldiery was held in
tense readiness today to put down
any violent opposition to the birth
of constitutional semi-home rule
for eleven legislative provinces.
The new constitution for India,
which nationalists oppose as not
giving them enough independence,
went into effect today.
All commodity markets were
closed along with numerous shops
and mills, and nationalist news
papers suspended publication.
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“Dutchess,” a seven-year-old carnival lion, underwent an emergency operation in Charlotte, N. C., because she ate
too much meat —together with the canvas bags wrapped around the meat. Securely strapped and put to sleep
with hypodermics, she scarcely flexed a muscle while veterinarians reihoved her stomach and retrieved the bags.
Barring complications, “Dutchess” is expected to recover. (Associated Press Photo).
Spanish Rebel Soldiers
Flee On Three Fronts In
Face Os Federal Drives
Duchess .the Lion
Dies of Operation
Charlotte, April I.—(AP)—Duch
ess, the Lion circus performer,
whose last days of life after an op
eration attracted attention such as
might have been accorded a human
star, died today.
Stimulants administered thro
ughout yesterday and last night
failed and attaches said the daugh
ter of Lindy, an actual jungle king,
died without recovering from the
coma into which she fell yesterday.
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FARLEYPONDERED
Seen as Possible Definite,
Conclusive Break With
Administration
Dally Dispatch Bareaa,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, April I—The bitter attack
made by Senator Josiah W. Bailey in
his speech in Chapel Hill Tuesday
night on Postmaster General Jim Far
ley, in the course of his speech de
fending his own position in opposi
tion to the President’s Supreme Court
reorganization program, is causing
much more interest here than the
portion of the speech in which he de
fended himself and in which he main
tained that he said, “I have voted for
the administration oftener than the
State has —nine administration meas
ures have been passed by Congress
this year and I voted for every one
of them. . .
In the course of his speech, Sena
tor Bailey also paid his respects to
Secretary of the Interior Harold L.
Ickes, who was the principal speaker
at the “correct the record” second
Victory Dinner here, following the
“Sad Tidings” dinner at which Sena
tor Tydings, who had been invited to
make the address by Senator Bailey,
made a speech regarded as a very
thinly veiled attack upon the Pres
ident and his court reorganization pro-
Sr “i m ‘am so cold on Ickes it would
take four hundred million degrees of
heat to make me feel him, Senator
Jim Farley, Senator
FISTS taik about
lovalty? Farley threw his party in
New York, in Wisconsin and in other
states When he comes talking loy
aUy to me. I’ll ram his words down
here are wondering at the
of Senator Bailey’s language
wUh regard to Jim Farley, who is not
onlv the President’s right hand man
“‘/chairman of the National Demo
cratic Executive Committee,, but a s
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH; CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOO N, APRIL 1, 1937
Bitter Revolts Reported
Spreading in Rebel Ranks
Despite Drastic
Punishment
MANY EXECUTED AS
OTHERS ARE JAILED
Revolts Against Insurgent
Leaders, First Breaking
Out in Morocco, Have
Spread to Key Cities In
Spain Proper; Some Re
bel Gains Seen
(By The Associated Press.)
Spain’s government troops pushed
their pursuit of Generalissimo Fran
co’s insurgents on three widely separt
ed fronts today.
Bitter revolts, despite mass execu
tions and arrests to crush them, were
reported to have spread in new sec
tions of insurgent-held Spain.
The counter revolts against the in
surgent leaders, first reported in
Spanish Morocco, may have engulfed
the key centers of Villadoris and Al
geciras, and even Salamanca, seat of
Franco’s government.
The government disclosed smash
ing successes in drives against insur
gents in the Guadalajara and Cordoba
sectors and toward Franco’s erst
while headquarters, BUrgos, 135 miles
north of Madrid.
But Franco’s men gained ground in
,a new assault on the Bilbao sector
of the northern front. Insurgent air
men who bombed Durango, 16 miles
southeast of Bilbao, killed 60 persons*
and injured 150.
Europe saw these repercussions:
Both Italy and Germany apparent
ly were still in agreement not to per
mit bolshevization of Spain.
Folger, Father and Son,
Also Talked for New*
District Post
t
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel
By J. C. BASKEBVIL.L
Raleigh, April I.—A brisk contest
is developing as a result of the' crea
tion of the new twenty-first judicial
district by the recent General Assem
bly and the fact that Governor Clyde
R. Hoey will have to appoint a new
superior court judge and a new solici
tor for this district before July 1. The
new district is composed of Caswell,
Rockingham, Stokes and Surry coun
ties and was carved out of the eleven
the and twelfth judicial districts.
While Governor Hoey is bung flood
ed wiith endorsements for would-be
candidates for both the judgeship and
solicitorship in this new district, most
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HOEY DELUDED FOR
NEW APPOI NTHiENT
Coan’s Lieutenants Appjy
r ing Heat to Governor
for WPA Chief
liquor Jobs" up, too
But Chief Interest Centers; in High
way Places* Bailey Is Anxious for
Coan To Get The
Appointment
Dally Dispatch Bareaa.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKERVIM,
Raleigh, April I.—The blow-torch
bearers are applying - the heat on Gov
ernor Clyde R. Hoey with regard to
ihis forthcoming appointment, of ten
inew members of the . State Highway
and Public Works Commission and a
chairman, also with regard to the
chairman of the new Alcoholic Bever
ages Control Board and the two part
time members. But while Governor
Hoey has announced he will make the
liquor board appointments in the very
near future and before he makes the
highway commission appointments, a
great deal more interest is being
shown in the highway commission
posts than in the liquor board jobs.
Most of the delegations, telegrams
calls and letters hieing received by the
governor —and these are coming in by
‘the hundreds —are in behalf of dif
ferent candidates for membership on
the new highway commission or as
chairman.
Just about the only thing Governor
Hoey has done since the General As
sembly adjourned has been to read
hundreds of letters pertaining either
to the highway or liquor commission
jobs, and to listen to delegations urg
ing the appointment of various indi
viduals. Until Tuesday of this week,
most of the endorsements were con
fined to letters, telegrams and tele
phone calls. But since the governor’s
office re-opened following the Easter
holidays, there has been an almost
uneding line of delegations going in
to and coming out of his office.
Indications are that the contest for
the chairmanship of the hew high
way commission has now simmered
down to a contest between George W.
Coan, present State administrator of
(Continued on Page Eight.)
GEDEON GETS VIEWS
OF MURDERED WOMEN
Detectives Watch His Reactions as
Slain Art Model Daughter and
Wife Are Buried
New York, April I.—(AP) —While
detectives watched carefully his re
actions, Joseph Gedeon was taken to
day to view the bodies of his artist
model daughter, Veronica, and his
wife, Mary, slain with a boarder,
Frank Byrnes, Easter morning in the
triple murder on Beekman Hill.
Gedeon, upholsterer who discovered
the baffling crime, has been question
ed almost continiously 6ince District
Attorney Dodge announced yesterday
“police have a definite suspect.”
Captain William Reynolds, in
charge of 50 detectives working on
the case, said Gedeon faced a charge
of violating the anti-firearms law be
cause of the finding of a revolver in
the apartment where he lived near
his estranged wife and daughter.
Reynolds said detectives were or
dered to accompany Gedeon to fun
eral services for the two women in
the Roman Catholic church of St.
Gregory the Great this morning.
Both Sides In Court Battle
Claim Monday Decisions Aid
For Their Side Os Question
400,000 Soft Coal
Miners Wait Order
To Launch Strikes
Unless Operators Capitulate to Wage and Hour De
mands, Strike Will Come, John L. Lewis Declares;
Negotiations Continuing in New York
(By The Associated Press.)
Four hundred thousand soft coal
miners today commemorated institu
tion of the eight hour day, while an
apprehensive, strike-wearied indus
trial world faced the possibility of
another widespread strike.
Their leader, John L. Lewis, said
•that unless operators capitulate to
wage and hour proposals offered them
in a new working contract there
would be no resumption of bitumin
ous mine operations tomorrow.
Negotiations between heads of the
United Mine Workers and coal pro
General Motors Strike Is
Receding Around Detroit
Other Walk-Out* Occur In Area, However, To Offset
Gains Made in Settlemen ts Returning Workers to
Jobs; Over 100,000 M en Are Still Idle
Detroit, Mich., April I.—(AP) —A
sudden outbreak of strikes in General
Motors plants that affected 81,400 men
at its peak, receded today a3 the com
pany announced 7,20° men had return
ed to work in the Fisher Body plant
at Cleveland.
Offsetting that settlement, how
ever, was' the strike that closed the
plant of the Yellow Truck & Coach
Manufacturing Company at Pontiac,
Mich., this morning. The company is
not a General Motors unit.
Also closed by strikers were the
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Moreover, Uncle Sam Dis
likes Idea of Kissing Is
lands Goodbye
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, April I.—Ever since
the United States took them away
from Spain the Philippines have been
clamoring for independence.
Now that they are about to get it
they do not seem to like the prospect.
President Manuel Quezon has been
touring the United States, making
frequent remarks implying that he
prefers not to have his people’s inde
pendence overly unqualified.
Next it is suggested that President
Roosevelt will make a trip to the is
lands next autumn or in the spring of
1938 (as soon as Congress lets him
get away) to look over the situation
there. Nor is the impression given
that, if he does so, he will do it in
order to kiss the Filipinos a con
clusive goodby.
Rather, it is hinted, the idea is to
prevent, by modification of the inde-
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U. S. Youth Group
Rents Buildings
From Rutherford
Hickory, April 1- -* ( , AI^” An ‘
nouncement Rutherford College
buildings and physical equipment
in Burke county, near here, have
been leased to the National Youth
Administration of the Federal
government for use as a school,
for girls was made today by
George Ivey, of Hickory, secre
tary-treasurer of the trustees of
the Methodist institution.
Arrangements are being made
to open the new government
school about April 12,
one girl from each of the 100
counties of the State enrolled.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
ducers continued in New York.
hpon a conference today at Oshawa
Ontario, hinged developments in an
embryonic strike threat of employees
of the General Motors plant in the
Canadian city.
Governor Frank Murphy, of Mich
igan, asserted he would press “day
and night” for solution to the Chry
sler strike. A conference will be re
sumed tomorrow at Lansing.
At Covington, Va., the textile work
ers organizing committee assumed di
rection of the sit-in strike at the Cov
ington Industrial Rayon Company
plant.
Fisher Body plant at Pontiac and the
' Chevrolet Motor Company’s final as
sembly line at Flint, Mich. Closed, or
partially closed, because of strikes in
other plants were the Pontiac plant
and Fisher Body plant No. 2 at Flint.
General Motors officials here said
the strike in the Cleveland plant,
caused by a wage dispute, was of brief
duration.
Approximately 17,400 men still were
idle.
Today’s strike developments in
creased the number of automobile
workers idle to more than 100,000.
ASSAULT
BY YOUTHFUL NEGRO
12-Year-Old White Girl At
tacked in Woods Near
Home at Marion
Marion, April I.—(AP)—McDowell
Sheriff Grady Nichols said today
Mann Smith, 17, Negro, arrested here
late last night, had confessed that he
criminally assaulted a 12-year-old
white girl yesterday afternoon in a
wooded section near the child’s home.
The sheriff said the “situation look
ed bad” when he slipped the Negro
out of the McDowell county jail and
whisked him in an auto to the jail at
Asheville, in Buncombe county, for
safe-keeping.
A large crowd gathered before the
court house shortly after midnight
when word went around that officers
had captured a suspect. A posse had
searched the Negro section in the
town throughout the early part of the
night.
HUGE LIQUOR STILL
SEIZED IN HALIFAX
Roanoke Rapids, April 1. (AP)
Sheriff J. C. Stephenson and deputies
reported today they had destroyed a
large still of the steam type and 3,-
000 gallons of beer at Bradley’s, near
Henrico, last night.
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Re-Writing of Laws Set
Aside by Supreme Court
Back Before Senate in
Guffey Coal Act; Sitdown
Probe Considered In De
bate by the House
Washington, April I.—(AP) —Both
sides in the court reorganization fight
continued today to contend their ar
guments had gained new strength
from Monday’s Supreme Court de
cisions.
Senator Wheeler, an opposition lead
er. said the court’s approval of the re
vised Frazier-Lemke farm mortgage
moratorium showed the need for care
in drafting new laws.
Dean Henry Bates, of the Univer
sity of Michigan Law School, express
ed a similar view in the statement
!he prepared for the Senate Judiciary
Committee hearings today.
Attorney Ge'neral Cummings declar
ed, however, the court’s decision on a
minimum wage law as constitutional,
overruling a previous adverse deci
sion, illustrated the merits of the
Roosevelt measure.
The House Rules Committee ap
proved a resolution for a congress
ional inquiry into alleged propaganda
against the American form of govern
ment.
The re-writing of laws found un
sound by the high court came before
the Senate today in a new coal con
trol bill designed to replace the in
validated Guffey-Vinson law. Propon
ents predicted the new bill would pass
without major amendments. It already
has passed the House.
House committees considered pro
posals for investigation of sitdown
strikes and of labor conditions in the
shipbuilding and other industries. A
vote on the sitdown inquiry project,
intended to provide a basis for re
gulatory legislation, was expected be
fore nightfall.
The House Agriculture Committee,
which rejected yesterday an adminisr
tration proposal for assisting tenants
and share-croppers to buy farms on:
easy credits, turned today to two
other suggested aids for small income
farmers.
VOTE ON LIQUOR IN
ALAMANCE IS ASKED
Burlington, April I.—(AP) —Albert
Pearson, of Haw River, said today he
would circulate petitions asking the
Alamance commissioners to call an
election on the establishment of
whisky stores.
Death For
Enemies Is
Stalin Aim
Moscow, April I.—(AP) Joseph
Stalin, called upon Russia today
for “merciless” extermination of
all bolshevist enemies in what was
interpreted as a virtual death sen
tence for hundreds under arrest
as counter revolutionaries.
The demand of the Soviet leader
regarded as an ultimatum to the
Communist party, was made in
the Kremlin March 5 before the
closing session of a plenum of the
central committee of the party,
and was published today.
“I think it is clear,” the secre
tary of the central committee de
clared, “that the present wreck
ers and diversionists, no matter
whether they have masked them
selves under the flag of Trotzky
ism of or Bukharinism, have lost
their influence in the workers’
movement, and have become sim
ply an unprincipalled and idealist
band of professional wreckers, di
versionists, spies and murderers.”