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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA twenty-fourth year COURT POSTPONES RUG ON WAGNER ACT GOVERNMENT ARMY TURNS LEFT FLANK OF REBELTR OOPS One Village Captured and Way Opened for Direct Attack on Large Coal Mines SWEEPING DEPLOY CUTS RAIL LINES Army of 15,000 Insurgents Threatened With Trap and Cut Off from Retreat; On Far Southern Coast Insur gents Are Being Slowly Pressed Back Madrid, April 5 (AP)—The govern ment's southern army turned the in surgent left flank norjth of Cordoba today, capturing the -village of La Granjuelga and opening the way for direct attack on the Penarroya coal mines. The sweeping movement around the northern end of General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano’s insurgent army cut the railroad running between Belmex just south of the coal fields, and Al marchon, division point linking the branch line that serves the fields and trunk lines to the deeply held insur gent fields to the west. The fall of La Granjuela followed the capture of Valesquill, three miles to the north, which had been the first objective of the flanking columns. Five columns of the government’s southern army smashed against the insurgent lines, threatening to trap General de Llano's army of 15,000 men, and cut them off from retreat. Pivoting on a base established by direct attack of the two southernmost columns, the northern columns swept (Continued on Page Three.) DIVINITY STUDENT SOUGHT IN KILLING Desire To Question Him Does Not Mean He Is Suspect in Gedeon Slaying, However New York, April 5 (AP) —Police said today they were seeking a St. Lawrence University divinity student for questioning in connection with a triple murder, in which Veronica Gedeon, artist model, her mother and a roomer met death. Acting Lieutenant Thomas Martin, of the Manhattan homicide squad, said “the police are very, very anx ious to question” Robert Irwin, 39, but emphasized this did not mean he was a suspect. PORTSMOUTH MAN HELD AS SLAYER Fatally Stabbed Member of Faculty of Suffolk High School on Ferry To Norfolk Portsmouth, Va., April 5 (AP) — Portsmouth detectives arrested Sid ney Peele, 28, at his home here to day on a charge of fatally stabbing William Daughtery, 25, faculty mem ber and coach of the Suffolk high school, on a ferry boat last night. De tective Sergeant P. A. Talbot and De tective C. W. White said Peele told them he slashed Daugherty, a promi nent Hampden-Sydney College ath lete of a few years ago, and seriously wounded J. E. Brooks, a sailor at tache to the U. S. S. New York. The attack occurred on the Norfolk- Port.smouth ferry as the boat was en tering its slip here about 9:10 p. m. Saturday. WreckageOf Plane May Be Missing Ship Douglass Air Liner Started East From Burbank Saturday; Eight on Board Gallup, N. M., April 5.— (AP)— •be sheriff’s office of St John’s -Wiz., reported today the» wreck- a ffe of an airplane had boon locat ed a mile and a half from Alpine, *»0 miles from there. Searchers for a Douglas air liner lost since Saturday with ' persons asked for quick de tails. Winslow, Ariz., April s.—('AP) A Possible clue developed in tlve White ountains of Arizona today* to thq (Continued on Page Throe.) 'Ofrr, - Hr nil era mx Batin iD ianatrlt leased wire service op THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Miners Get New Contract After One-Day Tieup a Ilf g§K| •: f tyssSsSSgß&ist HI '-A.. J|| - ■ fcfcjtelgbfr:. -- .... M . ...... . Mmm John L. Lewis for the miners and Charles O’Neill for the operators More than 400,000 miners in the soft coal industry are back at their jobs following a new two-year mine pact ratied by the joint commission of opera tors and United Mine Workers representatives in New York. Wage increases and time and a half pay for overtime work are include din the new agree ment, signed by John L. Lewis, left, president of the United Mine Workers of America, and Charles O’Neill, representing the bituminous coal operators. There was merely a one-day tieup.—(Central Press.) Pending Major Problems May Keep Congress Busy Throughout The Summer Many Matters Already Settled, but Barrage of Roose velt Measures May Follow Conclusion of Court Issue; Wage and Hour L egislation Coming ‘ Washington, April s.—(AP)—Con gress started its fourth month today with an imposing legislative record, but it still faces enough major pro blems to necessitate a late summer Bession. Each house has passed almost a score of important bills, but many of them still are tied up while commit tees are trying to revise different pro visions in the Senate and House ver sions. The Roosevelt court bill, proposed two months ago. is the key to the leg islative situation in both houses. Still tied up in Senate hearings, it alone is Open Bids April 8 On 650 Buses Dally Dispatch Boreas, In the Sir Walter ' Hotel. By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, April 5. —The State School Commission will open bids on some 650 new school buses Thursday, April 8, it was announced today by Lloyd Griffin, executive secretary of thq commission. The number actually purchased will depend upon the price© (Continued on Page Four.) Six Drowned As Two Boats Upset At San Antonio Sah Antonio, Texas, April 5. (AP) —Gale-tossed Marina Lake was dragged for bodies today after a woman, a girl and four men were drowned by the capsiz ing of two boats yesterday. Laughter which had greeted a Sunday race only a few minutes before, was replaced by screams as a sudden storm churned the surface, turning over one boat and drowning three occupants. An other boat set out to the scene where victims were pleading for help. It UP*** and three . "^ re drowned. A fourth man made two h A o girr e from S, the first boat swam through the chilly waters and SP Fieme h n two bodies before darkness prevented further rescue work. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. almost enough to assure a long slim mer session. While the court bill overshadows all other controversies, there are plenty of additional ones to worry* icongressional leaders. Among them are such troublesome problems as farm tenancy, relief, wage and hour legislation, government reorganiza tion and taxes. Major bills so far passed and sent to the White House include Spanish neutrality, extension of R. F. C., monetary powers and reciprocal trade (Continued on Paere Three). ° D S™orise Coan Now Is Believed Out * of Running for High way Chairmanship Dally Dispatch Bareai, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, April s.—The betting odds that Capus M. Waynick will be reap pointed chairman of the reorganized State Highway and Public Works Commission continue to rise here, due to a number of factors. The foremast of these is regarded as the almost complete collapse of the boom for George W. Coan, Jr., pre sent 'State administrator of the Works Progress Administration, for the chairmanship. For the 'belief of (Continued on Page Four.) MOTHER, DAUGHTER BEATEN TO DEATH Brickbat Killer in Los Angeles Sought by Police With Only Meagre Clues As Yet Los Angeles, Cal., April 5.—r(AP) — Smudgy fingerprints and the outline of a man’s foot speeded search today for the brickbat killer who crushed the skulls of Mrs. Edna A. Worden, 48, WPA worker, and her 12-year-old daughter, Marguerite Estelle. It was the sixth case since Jan uary of brickbat assaults against wo men here. Mother and daughter were slain early Sunday morning in their small Hillside apartment a block and a half from downtown Los Angeles. Appar ently neither victim was criminally attacked, an autopsy surgeon said. HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 5, 1937 WHAT EVICTED SITDOWNERS DID TO PLANT : & * ... --jjip..-I; ||| % llffisv «§ ■BHn|i .0 a . ip r ,^. t. "T-sWKm MmMm&mmm FiJP Mb MSmbmlhH "q How infuriated mob raided plant at Albert Lea, Minn. Evicted by deputies under court order and infuriated by the arrest of union leaders, strikers at American Gas Machine company’s plant in Albert Lea, Minn., are sympathizers did this and a great deal more to the plant and then stormed the jail. Gov. Elmer A. Benson of Minnesota, rushing to the scene, ordered the men in jail released and brought a truce. MAXWELL WILLBE Re-Appointment by Hoey Means He Will Be in Absolute Command EMPLOYEES DELIGHTED With Maxwell’s Pledge There Will Be No Firing, Personnel of Of fice Buckles Down to . Hard Work Daily Dispatch Bnreoi, In the Sir Waiter Hotel. By J. C. BASKEBYILL Raleigh, April s—Commissioner A. J. Maxwell of the Department of Reve nue, the first major state official to be either appointed or reappointed by Governor Clyde R. Hoey, will in fact as well as in theory be the head of the revenue department for the next four years, with full and complete authority to hire and fire its person nel. During the administration of form er Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus, Com missioner Maxwell was actually in charge of departmental policies only, since the personnel was almost en tirely under the control of Assistant Commissioner of Revenue M. C. S. Noble, Jr., and regarded by most ob servers as the direct representative of the governor in the revenue de partment. It is no secret that many employes were fired and hired by Dr. Noble’s plans for the reorganization of the revenue department were put into effect often times with only the briefest sort of “conference” with Commissioner Maxwell. But these conditions will prevail no longer. For in announcing the re appointment of Commissioner Max well, Governor Hoey said: “Mr. Maxwell will be the executive (Continued on Page Three.) DENTIST TO PLEAD TO SECOND DEGREE Agreement Beached on Charlottesville Doctor in Death of Pretty : Cleo Sprouse Charlottesville, Va., April 5. —(AP) —Commonwealth’s Attorney W. O. Fife, announced today Dr. R. G. Mil ler, Charlottesville dentist, would en ter a plea of guilty to second degree murder in the death of Cleo Sprouse, in Aibemarle circuit court Wednes day morning. Fife said Judge Lemuel Smith agreed today to hear the plea Wed nesday at . 9:30 instead of today, as originally planned. He declined tio say whether he had reached an agree ment with defense counsel on the length of the dentist’s sentence, which under Virginia law, might be from five to twenty years for second de gree murder. OtJRWAniEPMAjjj 4 • I for NORTH CAROLINA. Showers tonight, Tuesday part ly cloudy and cooler.. „ . Thousands Resume Jobs In Auto Plants In West . As Coal Miners Return Labor Picture Especially Bright in Lansing and Flint; Early Settlement of Strike Troubles Predicted; Ala bama Miners W ant Raise Also (By The Associated Press.) » Shrill blasts of automobile factory whistles called thousands of men back to their jobs today. The labor picture was especially bright at Lansing and Flint, Mich., where officials predicted an early set tlement of strike troubles in the auto mobile industry. Approximately 15,000 men in nine Chevrolet plants at Flint went back to machines and assembly lines, while 2,200 were to take up their jobs in a Ford plant at Kansas City. A large army of soft coal mine workers went back to the pits. The Appalachian contract ag r e ement reached Friday directly concerns 300,- 000 miners. In Alabama 20,000 union miners re mained idle. William Mitch, district DECLARATION QNl^ed Byrnes Alters Proposed Congressional State ment on “Sitdown” Washington, April 5 (AP) Sena tor Byrnes, Democrat, South Carolina changed today the form of his pro posed congressional declaration on sitdown strikes. He withdrew an amendment he of fered to the Guffey coal control bill, which by indirection would have con demned the use of the sitdown tech nique in the coal industry. In its stead he proposed a new amendment specifically condemning such strikes in general. “It is the sense of Congress that (Continued on Page Three.) Six Children Are Burned To Death When Home Burns Fort Alleghany, Fa., April 5 (AP)— Six children were burned to death today in a fire which swept the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ger ald Sweasey, near here. The dead were Marjorie* 13; Mary Ellen, 11; Geraldine, 9; Gerald, Jr., 5; Leola, 3, and Max ine, five months. Their father and mother were seriously burn gcL Sweezey and his wife were awakened at 3 a. m. by the heat which had already shut them off from their children. PUBLISHBID EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. president of the Unitod Mine Workers of America, announced at Birming ham the union would seek the same pay increases for the Alabama miners that were granted in the Appalachian field. Declaring there was nothing to in dicate further serious trouble, Gover nor Murphy of Michigan planned in the next day or two to confer with representatives of the other automo bile labor controversies in Michigan, particularly those concerned in the Hudson and Reo strikes, while John L. Lewis, union leader; Walter P. Chrysler, chairman >f the automobile corporation, and t> -overnor were in conference yester members of the United Automobile orkers Union pa raded around the State Capitol at Lansing. DEBATE BENEFITS f ROBERTS’ FLOP Open Question Which Side Gained by Justice’s Switch On Ruling By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, March 5. —It is an open question whether supporters or opponents of President Roosevelt’s plan for Supreme Court reorganiza tion profited more by Justice Owen, J. Roberts’ recent flop on the issue of the constitutionality of minimum wage legislation. It will be recalled that, originally, the court was 5 (Justice Roberts, Wil lis Van Devanter, James C. Mcßey nolds, George Sutherland and Pierce Butler) to 4 (Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and Justices Louis D. Brandies, Harlan F. Stone and Ben jamin N. Cardozo) against such leg islation. Now Roberts has gone over to the side of Chief Justice Hughes, et al, leaving what was the majority group in a minority. PRO ANkD CON Folk who oppose the presidential proposal to modernize the court ar gue that Roberts’ flop proves the pre sent court’s ability to do its own mod ernizing. On the opposite hand the reorgam zationist faction reasons that the court’s reversal of itself demonstrates that its own membership is none* too sure of its own wisdom And it does seem like an erratic tri bunal. However, what guarantee is there that it would be any less erratic with • (Continued on Page Four.) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY MINOR DECISION ON DISTRICT AFFAIRS ONLY RULING MADE Supreme Court Statement Read by Justice Stone, When Adjournment Is Taken GEORGIA POWER’S REQUEST REFUSED Company Had Sought Right To Fight TVA Acti vities Outside Own State; Court Refuses To Review Another Challenge of Wagner Labor Statute Washington, April 5. —(AP)—The Supreme Court deferred today until at least next Monday a decision on the constitutionality of the Wagner labor relations act. After deciding a minor District of Columbia case in a decision read by Justice Stone, the tribunal ended its decision session until next Monday. Action also was postponed by the justices on an appeal filed by Angelo Herndon, Cincinnati communist or ganizer, seeking to escape a peniten tiary sentence imposed by Georgia courts under an anti-insurrection law enacted during Reconstruction Days. The tribunal rejected a petition by the Georgia Power Company for per mission to carry on agitation outside of Georgia in its efforts to stop the Tennessee Valley Authority from ex panding its activities in that State. At the same time the court refus ed to review another challenge of the Wagner labor act, filed by the Mara thon Electric Manufacturing Com (Continued on Page Three.) Ministerial Student Now Named Killer New York, April 5 (AP)—Police today designated Robert Irwin, 29, sculptor and divinity student, as the killer in the triple slaying on Easter morning as they sent out a general alarm for his arrest. Detectives watched subways, railroad stations, air fields apid all transport lines. Irwin, recently “asked to leave” St. Lawrence University at Can ton, N. Y., after taking mental treatment three years in the Rock land State Hospital at Orange burg, N. Y., was last seen in the city two days before the murders. TARBORO STRIKERS RETURN TO POSTS Women Workers Name Grievance Committee To Confer With President of Mill Tarboro, April s.—(AP)—Twenty nine women strikers at the Runny mede mill here returned to their ma chines today after a grievance com mittee had been named to present wage demands to Rawls Howard, mill president. The women left their machines Fri-* day, demanding a wage increase of half a cent a dozen in looping sox. “All of the strikers are back at work today,” Howard said. "I expect to receive their own committee of twelve in the next few days, when we will try to work out a satisfactory ar rangement for every one in the mill. I refuse to deal with one department at the expense of all." Permanent CCC Asked For Nation Washington, April 5. —fAP) —Presi- dent Roosevelt recommended to Con gress today on the fourth anniversary of the CCC the creation of a perma nent Civilian Conservation Corps of 300,000 members. Under the present law, the corps, created April 5, 1933, as a means of employing youths on such projects as reforestation, road building and park development, will expire June 30 1937. Actual CCC enrollment at the pre sent time is about 300,000 men, in cluding war veterans as well as the young men recruited from scores of American cities. In his message to Congress, the President praised the work of the corps, and said its continued function ing “would not be contrary to the normal course toward recovery.”
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