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GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
twenty-fourth year
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UPHELD IN RULING,
By CIRCUIT COURT
District Court Decision At
Salisbury Affirmed by
Higher Federal
Tribunal
decision WRITTEN
BY JUDGE PARKER
Case on Appeal by White
Packing Company of Salis
bury Holds Company Had
Shifted Burden of Taxes to
Buyers and Could Not Re
cover
Richmond, Va.» April 6 (AP) The
fourth Federal circuit court of ap
ial„ today upheld the constitution
ality of the “windfall” taxes in af
firmin'* the decision of the district
court at Salisbury, N. C., in the case
of the White Packing Company, vs.
the Collector of Internal Revenue.
The opinion in the case, written by
Judge John J. Parker, upheld the dis
trief court's dismissal of a suit
brought to enjoin collection of the 80
percent tax under title three of the
revenue act of 1936.
The court declared the White Pack
in'* Company came under the classi
fication of those processors who had
shifted the burden of the processing
tax. later declared unconstitutional,
without paying it.
Farmer,4B,
OfGuilford,
Slays Wife
Greensboro, April 6 (AP) —Sidney
H. Lemmons, 48, was locked in Guil
ford county jail here at 10 o’clock
this morning after confessing, Sheriff
Joe Phipps said, he had fatally slash
ed his wife’s throat with a pocket
knife sharpened to razor-edge fine
ness at their home eleven miles south
east of here, in the Mount Hope
church community, two hours earlier.
Lemmons was quoted as saying he
did not know why he killed his wife,
whom he married in 1912, and who is
the mothei of his eleven children.
The sheriff said Lemmons told him
he sat with his wife on a bed in an
upstairs room in their home about 8
o’clock this morning, put his left arm
around her neck, and with a quick
motion of his left hand, in which he
was holding the knife, slit an eight
inch gash in her throat.
S AYS DOCTOR COULD
NOT BE CONVICTED
Charlottesville Prosecutor Says Abor
tion Suspect Not Guilty In
First Degree
Charlottesville, Va., April 6. —(AP)
—Commonwealth’s Attorney William
Fife, today explained his willingness
to accept a plea of second degree
murder from Dr. R. G. Miller, accused
of causing the death of 18-year-old
Cleo Sprouse, by saying developments
since the indictment of the dentist
showed a first degree murder charge
could not be supported before a jury.
The 53-year-old dentist was indicted
on a charge of first degree murder?
after the pretty high school junior’s
tody was found near the University
of Virginia cemetery, but both Mr.
Fife and Robert E. Taylor, of defense
counsel, announced this week a plea
of guilty to second degree murder
bad been agreed' upon.
Under Virginia law conviction for
second degree murder calls for pri
son sentences ranging from five to
20 years.
Suspect Is
Being Held
In Killing
Lancaster, Pa., April 6 (AF*) —Lan-
caster police said today they had noti
fied New York detectives a hitch
hiker found in a parked car was ar
rested today because he resembled
Hebert Irwin, sculptor, sought in the
investigation of the Gedeon triple
murder case.
Rooming houses hunted
IN SEARCH FOR IRVIN
New York, April 6 (AP)— Through
the shabby, dim-lighted rooming hous
es of the east Fifties, detectives roam
• d today in search for a madman of
Hstoteric philosophy, accused of mur
der in triplicate.
•),^ omew here on Manhattan island’s
-2 square miles police believed sulk
ed Robert Irwin, theological student
•md one-time inmate of an insane
asylum, who was named as killer of
eronioa Gedeon, her mother and a
roomer at the home.
The motive as police gave it, was
cvenge for a frustrated love. The
' udence: A hastily vacated room near
e Gedeon apartment; a glove, a hat,
a diary. p
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
OVER 125,000 STILL
IDLE IN STRIKES IN
AUTO, COAL PLANTS
NEW U. S. MINISTER
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Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, Demo
cratic national committeewomar,
for the District of Columbia, has
been selected by President Roose
velt to be American minister to
Norway, succeeding J. Drexe)
Biddle of Philadelphia. Biddle ia
scheduled to become ambassador
to Poland.
REYNOLDS ERIENDS
ARE NOT WORRIED
Think He Could Handle
Himself Capably Against
Mr. Doughton
IS GOOD CAMPAIGNER
Reynolds Is Colorful Political Figure
and Knows North Carolina
Psychology as Few
Others Do
Dolly Dispatch Bareaa,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. 'itASKERVILL
Raleigh, April 6. —Friends of Sena
tor Robert R. Reynolds are not great
ly worried by the reports which have
been current for several weeks now
that Congressman Robert L .Dough
ton is planning to oppose him for his
sea't in the Senate in the Democratic
primary next year. For while they
agree that “Farmer Bob” Doughton
is a campaigner of parts and a vote
getter of note, they maintain that he
cannot compare with “Our Bob” on
either count and that Doughton can
not possibly get a following big
enough to out-vote the following Rey
nolds already has or will have by the
time the 1938 primary rolls around.
If Congressman Doughton were
planning to oppose almost any one
else but Senator Reynolds, it is gen
erally agreed he would stand an ex
cellent chance of winning the nomi
nation. For his record in Congress,
especially as chairman of the House
Ways and Means Committee, and the
manner in which he has stood by the
President and supported his program
has admittedly made him one of the
strongest and most influential men
in Congress and one of the most pop
ular here in North Carolina. It is also
agreed that Doughton is one of the
few men in tlhe State who enjoys the
confidence of the big business inter
ests, of labor and the farmers, all at
the same time. Many astute political
observers still are confident that if
Doughton had decided to become a
candidate for the Democratic nomina
tion for governor last spring, that
Mr. Hoey would not have run and
that Doughton would have been nom
inated with ease over Dr. Ralph W.
McDonald —if McDonald had been a
candidate —since he seems to b
popular with the McDonald “liberal
Democrats” as he is with the “re
gulars.’ It is reported that on a re
cent visit to the State, Doughton told
a friend that he would have been a
candidate for governor last spring if
he had known as much then as he
did now about sentiment.
But Senator Reynolds is no /novice
in politics, his supporters maintain,
and has just as many factors in his
favor as Congressman Doughton has.
In the first place, they point out that
Senator Reynolds has supported Pre
sident Roosevelt on his Supreme
Court reorganization proposal from
the very outset, that he has also stood
with the President on most off his
other New Deal measures since he
has been in the Senate. They admit
that Senator Reynolds has not always
seen eye to eye with the President on,
everything, and that he differed with
him on the World Court matter and
on immigration, but that in so doing
Senator Reynolds was representing a
majority of the thought in North Car
olina on these matters. But m all of
the more important matters advocat
ed bv President Roosevelt, Senator
Reynolds has given him wholeheart
ed support, it is maintained.
But it is as a campaigner and in
his understanding of the people of
North Carolina and what they want
S Senator Reynolds is expected to
surpass Congressman Doughton, his
IrieSds maintain- For while Doughton.
• Emitted to be* an unusual political
one b» ever said he was
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 6, 1937?
Motor Industry in North and
Coal Mines in Alabama
and Tennessee
Affected
MINOR DIFFICULTY
IN OTHER REGIONS
Governor Murphy Declines
To Predict Date for Chrys
ler Settlement. But Says It
Will Be Soon; Hudson and
Reo Strikes Depend On
Chrysler
(By The Associated Press.)
Labor troubles in automotive plants
of the north and coal mines of the
South kept more than 125,000 wage
earners idle today.
Between the geographical extremes
in the nation were scores of minor in
dustrial disturbances.
Prospects for a quick settlement of
the Chrysler Motor Corporation strike
involving 80,000 workers were bright,
hut 20,000 Alabama miners and 7,000
around Knoxville, Tenn., faced the
possibility of a long lay-off pending
approval of a new contract.
All mines of the Pittsburgh Coal
Company and Pittsburgh Termaninal
Coal Company remained idle, too,
pending negotiations on agreements
covering working conditions. The
Alabama and Tennessee miners, >a
union spokesman said, would demand
time and a half for overtime and a
wage increase.
Governor Frank Murphy, of Mich
igan, occupying the role of peace
maker in the Chrysler dispute, de
clined to predict when an agreement
would be reached, but there were re
ports a pact would be signed in time
to permit resumption of operations
next week.
Observers felt settlement of strike©
involving 10,000 Hudson Motor Car
employees, and 2,200 Reo Motor Car*
Company workers hinged on the out
come of the Chrysler parley. It affect
ed 65,000 Chrysler workers and 20,000
employees of automotive firms selling
to Chrysler.
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Keeps Dopesters Guessing
About All Jobs He Is
Soon to Fill
Dally Dispatch Boreas,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKERYELiIi
Raleigh, April 6. —Governor Clyde
R. Hoey is keeping the political dope
sters more up in the air these days
than has any other governor in years,
due to the fact that he seems to be
better able to keep his own counsel
than have previous governors with
regard to the appointments he expects
to make. As a result, no one here has
anything but pure speculation with
regard to those Governor Hoey is go
ing to appoint on the liquor control
commission, the highway commission
and the many other boards and com
missions he must soon name. For so
far Governor Hoey has kept silent in
seven languages with -regard to these
appointments and has not told any
one anything, in spite of repeated at
tempts by hundreds of persons to
draw him out and get him to commit
himself.
So while there is the usual amount
of speculation with regard to who he.
will name chairman of the new liquor
control board and its' two members,
also with regard to the personnel of
the new highway commission and its
chairman, it is generally agreed that
no one really knows anything de
finite concerning who he is going to
appoint to these jobs. For Governor
Hoey has apparently not told any one
of his intentions yet.
“Most governors usually have one.
or two or even three friends they
consult with and talk to freely about
their forthcoming appointments, with
the result that one of these friends
usually talks too freely to some one
e l ge and then some newspaper man
gets hold of it and the public knows
in advance what the governor is go
ing to do,” an observer remarked
here today. “But Governor Hoey
seems to be the exception, in that he
apparently has not even indicated to
one person what he plans to do. The
result is that all the boys who in the
past have always prided themselves
on knowing what was going on before
any one else, are all up in the air
and don’t know where to land. They
will just have to wait, like every one
else.” *
a dolorful political figure—and no
one can deny that Reynolds is a color
ful figure, probably the most colorful
figure in North Carolina politics.
“Boh Reynolds just naturally has
a personality and a knowledge of
North Carolina psychology that gets
votes and keep them,” one of his ad
mirers said here today. “And when
he comes back here next year and.
starts campaigning from one end of
the state to the ether in another old
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Six Escape Death
On Wilson Trains
Wilson, April 6. (AP) Two
trainmen were injured today when
they and four others leaped from
the engine cabs of a double-header
freight train as it plowed into the
rear of another standing in the
Norfolk Southern yards here.
Wilson, April 6 (AP)—Six Nor
folk Southern railroad employees
leaped to safety here today when a
freight train plowed Into the back
of another standing in the yards.
One of the men was injured and
taken to a local hospital, where
efforts were being made to deter
mine the extent of his hurts.
A caboose and one box car were
telescoped by the first engine of a
double-header, which overturned
and set fire to the debris.
The men who jumped were H. M.
Godwin, of Raleigh, engineer, who
was hurt; S. O. Richardson, of Ra
leigh, fireman, and a Negro brake
man, on the first engine of the
doubleheader; and J. T. Boykin,
engineer; G. M. Dodson, fireman,
and a Negro brakeman, all of Ra
leigh, from the second engine.
WESTERN POWERS
READY TO LINE UP
BALKANSAS AIDES
Britain and France Consid
er Southeastern Europe
Alliance Against
Mussolini
ITALY THREATENS
QUIT NEW ACCORD
Charges France Has “Flag
rantly Violated” Hands-
Off - Spain Agreement;
Meanwhile, Both Sides In
Civil War Claim Successes
on Different Fronts
(By The Associated Press.)
Great Britain and France were re
ported ready today to try ■ line up
the Balkans against Italy if Premier
Mussolini -moves to> quit the
tional “hands-off-Spain” agreement.
That plan was recounted by an in
formed, Paris source as the Spanish
insurgents, friendly to Italy, claimed
new important successes on the north
ern front. Their commanders assert
ed 2,000 government soldiers had been
killed in recent fighting for Durango
and Bilbao.
The possibility Italy might quit
the non-intervention accord was rais
ed by an Italian spokesman as an
oujtgToWlth of auftbari’ta}&ve UtaJian.
charges France had “flagrantly violat
ed” it, allowing aid to be sent to the
Madrid-Valencia government.
Britain and France would act to
isolate the Balkans from Italy only
as a “last resort,” the Paris source
said, as they are not anxious to try
a major politicial realignment in Eu
rope.
The insurgent successes in north
ern Spain brought a “final ultima
turn” from insurgent General Mola to
the Basque defenders of Bilbao.
Mola’s men were within sight of
one objective, Durango.
WAYNE CONSIDERS
VOTE UPON LIQUOR
Goldsboro, April 6.—(AP) — The
Wayne county commissioners will con
sider calling an election on establish
ing liquor stores at a special meeting
here April 12.
Brunswick
Man Named
As Slayer
Southport, April 6.—'(AP)—lrman
Clemmons, 32, of Supply, was indict
ed for murder in the torch death of
Hobson (Hobby) Sellers, 21, truck
driver of Supply, by the Brunswick
county grand jury here today.
Allegedly Clemmons poured gaso
line on the clothing of Sellers as the
latter lay ill beside the Shallotte-Sup
ply highway several months ago after
the two had been drinking beer at a
gas station.
Clemmons is expected to come up
for trial Friday afternoon.
OURWATHEPiMAN
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair and cooler tonight and
Wednesday. '
Senate Leaders Are Agreed
On Declaration Policy For
“Sitdown ”Strikes Situation
Hawks’ New Mystery Plane
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The mystery plane in which Capt. Frank Hawks, premier speed ace, hopes
to set many new speed records, is shown above the skyscrapers of Mid
town New York City, with the Empire State tower as a fitting back
ground. Hawke was photographed as he gave New Yorkers their first
glimpse of his ship. (Central Press)
Airman Is
Killed In
Plane Fall
Winston-Salem, April 6.—(AP) —
John ~(Red) Harmon, pilot attached
to Miller airport here, was killed this
morning when he leaped from a spin
ning plane and his parachute failed to
open.
Harmon, who got his flying license
in 1927, was testing a 1933 biplane,
and at a height of about 5,000 feet
went into a spin. At 2,500 feet, obser
vers said, he leaped from the plane
and hurdled to earth. The plane
crashed about two and a half miles
from the landing sidle. Harmon’s body
was found nearby.
Cause of the plane’s spin was not
known, although Department of Com
merce investigators were busy this
afternoon.
INSTITUTE BALKED^
Kept Local Officials In
formed Throughout of
Bills Introduced
* Dally Dispatch Bareaa,
In-the Sir Walter Hotel
By J. C. BASKERVILI,
Raleigh, April 6.—Much credit is
being given here to the Institute of
Government in Chapel Hill for help
ing to prevent the enactment of bad
local legislation for cities and towns
in the 1937 session of the General As
sembly. Observers here generally ag
ree that fewer bad local bills were in
troduced this time than in any pre
vious session and that those which
were introduced were given unfavor
able committee reports more prompt
ly than heretofore and that the In
stitute of Government played a big
part in this, due to the information it
supplied city and county officials with
regard to bills introduced and acted
upon every day.
“The fact that the Institute of
Government was able to put out its
mimeographed lists of new bills in
troduced every day, with a brief analy
sis of the contents of each bill and
its purpose and the fact that these
lists were in the hands of every board
of county commissioners and of city
officials the next day, kept these of
ficials constantly informed of what
was going on in the General Assem
bly,” a state official remarked here
today. ‘Thus, whenever a bill was
introduced which they did not know
about or to which they were opposed,
' (ConU” ued on Page Five)
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCIfIPT SUNDAY.
EXPECTING TO FIND
MISSING AIRPLANE
Belief Persists Craft Is
Wrecked With Eight
on Board
Albuquerque, N; M., April 6.
(AP) Major A. J. Smith, divi
sion superintendent of the Trans
continental & Western Air, in a
radio message to the airport here
at 10 a. m. today, said the wreck
age of an airplane was sighted
northwest of Mount Baldy in east
ern Arizona.
The veteran pilot, flying a tri
motored transport, said the wreck
age was in an inaccessible region.
He said his ship was circling the
spot until Major Victor Bertran
dias could arrive from Winslow
with his ship, which had been
held on the ground there for an
emergency.
Winslow, Ariz., April 6 (AP)—Be
lief persisted today an air liner miss
ing for three days with eight persons
aboard would be found in rugged
snow-covered cofintry along the Ari
zona-New Mexico border—probably
wrecked.
Major Victor Bertrandias, export
manager for Douglas Aircraft Cor
poration, which built the plane for
sale to the Royal Dutch Air Dines of
Holland, held to such a conviction de
spite a two-day plane search of the
area.
The huge plane left Los Angeles
Saturday, and was being “ferried”
to New York for transfer to' Holland.
Although searchers had not aban
doned all hope, Major Bertrandias
shook his head after a flight over the
Mount Baldy region.
DEMOIISBADLY
SPLIT IN CONGRESS
Each Group Fears Other
and Handful of G. O. P.
Might Be Balance
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, March 6. Congress
has investigated unprecedentedly
since it met, early in the year.
It has done no legislating of any
consequence, however.
After accumulating whole libraries
of facts, assembled with a view to
the intelligent enactment of new laws,
it has not enacted the laws, intel
ligently or otherwise.
The truth is that the folk on Capi-
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Industrial Spy System Also
Denounced In Measure
In Its Original
Language
CALLS COURT PLAN
SHABBY ENTERPRISE
Former New York Bar Head
and Friend and Admirer of
Roosevelt Says President
Has Made Great Blunder
And Should Retrace Steps
Speedily
Washington, April 6{. —(AP) —'Sen-
ate Majority Leader Robinson, Dem
ocrat, Arkansas, said today he had
agreed with other administration,
chiefs on a “declaration policy” orr
sitdown strikes. It will be brought be
fore the Senate for speedy action
Wednesday, he said.
Robinson said a group of Demo
cratic senators had decided that a
prolonged conference this morning on
a modified version of a resolution of
fered yesterday by Senator Pittman,
Democrat, Nevada.
In its original form, this resolution
condemned sitdowns as “illegal and
contrary to sound public policy” and
also denounced “the so-called indus
trial spy system” used by some em
ployers to combat labor unions.
Elsewhere in the capital a former
New York Bar Association president
attacked the President’s court reform
proposal as a “shabby enterprise."
Appearing before the Senate Judi
ciary Committee, Charles Burlingham
said “as a supporter and admirer and
a friemf of the President* I cannot re
frain from saying that I think he has
made a great blunder and should re
trace his steps and proceed on the
road charted for him hy the Consti
tution —I mean by amendment."
Although the committee hearing!
went forward, the, the Senate itself
was not in session and the House took
up a calendar of minor bills.
The President arranged to review
a military parade on Army Day and
the 20th anniversary of American en
trance into the World War.
One of the President’s problems,
what to do about relief, was pointed
up by a group of representatives, who
demanded a $2,400,000 work relief pro
gram for the next fiscal year. They
met in the office of Representative
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Claim Votes
Secured For
Farm Bills
Move Launched Also
To Hike CCC
Strength to 350,000
Men Permanently
Washington, April 6. —(AP) —Advo-
cates of government sale of farms to
tenants contended today they had won
over a majority of the House com
mittee which last week rejected the
proposal 11 to 13.
These members, declaring they had
changed the views of two members
of the Agriculture Committee, said
they were prepared to demand recon
sideration.
Chairman Jones, democrat, Texas,
said if the committee restores tha
land buying and land selling feature,
it might endorse other parts of the
bill.
The House voted yesterday to con
tinue the Federal government’s com
plete control cf soil conservation pay
ments to farmers until 1942, because
states have failed to enact laws to
take over part of the work.
President Roosevelt’s request for a
permanent CCC to continue the work
of soil conservation and forestry
brought from some congressmen a de
mand for a larger enrollment than the
suggested 300,000.
Although Representative Rayburn,
Democrat. Texas, agreed with the
President. 350,000 men and boys
might be hard to find, Representative
Johnson. Democrat, Oklahoma, said
he hoped to keep the CCC at that fig
ure —its present .authorized strength.
The Guffey-Vinson coal control bill
went back to the House for approval
or rejection of amendments which
the Senate inserted yesterday before
passing the bill.