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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR COURT RULINGS WONT HOLT FDR PROGRAM Rebels Tighten Steel Ring Around Bilbao In Attempts To Starve City To Submit GOVERNMENT SAYS CITY CAN HOLD ON FOR MANYMONTHS Hungry Population Has Risen Above 300,000 Mark With New In flux of Refugees BRITAIN DECLINES CARGO PROTECTION Withdraws Support from Own Merchantmen in Spanish Waters, Where upon Insurgents Strike Out To Force Submission; Re bels Repulse Loyalists (By The Associated Press.) Spanish insurgents tightened rings of steel around the port of Bilbao, Basque capital, in northern Spain, to day, trying to force surrender by “starving out” government troops and civilians. The city’s hungry population has risen above the 300,000 mark with the influx of refugees. The basque government offered protection of government ships with in ten miles of the coast to any ves sel that would run the insurgent ■blackade and bring in food. Insurgents solidified their block ade of Bilbao after Great Britain re fused protection to her merchantmen within Spanish waters. Bilbao’s defenders, however, de clared they could withstand a siege for months. They declared the land drive on the city by insurgent armies ihad been slowed down and a counter offensive begun. Insurgents consolidated positions south and east of Bilbao. Unconfirmed reports said an Ital ian flag was seen over their advance line. , In the south, at the doorway to Madrid, reinforced insurgents fought off government troops trying to an nihiliate 3,000 of General Francisco Franco’s men in University City. ELLIS PARKER CASE IS HALTED BY JUDGE Temporary Restraining Order Given For Accused Kidnap-Tor ture Leader Philadelphia, April 13. —(AP) Federal Circuit Judge Whitaker Thompson issued a temporary order today restraining the government from trying Ellis Parker and his son, Ellis, Jr., at Newark, N. J., next Mon day on charges of conspiracy in the Paul Wendel kidnap-torture case. The judge granted the order after a hearing at his home, where Jie is confined by an illness. The appeal, the eighth legal move against the trial in Newark Federal court, was from Federal Judge Philip Forman’s refusal in Trenton to re strain the trial in Newark and open the way for its being held in the Bur lington county court house at Mount Holly, where the Parkers live, or in the Camden or Trenton Federal courts. insuranceMs ON COTTON LOWER Charges Slashed for Staple in Storage in Ware houses in State n.-iily Dispatch Bnrenn, In the Sir Walter Hotel By J. C. BASKERVILI- Raleigh, April 13.—North Carolina cotton growers will be given the bene fit of a 15 per cent decrease in fire insurance premiums on hales stored in 1938, Commissioner of Agriculture W. Kerr Scott announced today. “Under the ‘new deal’ for the far mers in this State, a reduction in fire insurance costs on cotton stored in warehouses under the supervision of the State Department of Agriculture will result in lower storage' rates in some cases and in most cases the pro ducer or depositor of cotton will be assured of no increase in storage (Continued on Page Three.) Hrtt&rrsmt Hath) ihsrmtrh __ ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Tug Death-trap For Seven ———————————» . >■ ... * ■HBn • '(Mite ,- n :&:vy. . .. w Mary Robinson, 15, (left) and her uncle Ira Robinson, (right) were among the 7 persons who were drowned when the tug, Radiant, foundered in the Delaware River at Camden, N. J. The girl was making her first trip with her father, Alfred Robinson, first engineer, who with the captain escaped death. The ill-fated craft is shown on the river bottom, (Central Press) Hoey Sifts Highway Job Applicants Governor Will Hear Last Delegations Thursday; Decis ions Next Week Dally Dtapatnh Bnreai, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, April 13.—Although Gover nor Clyde R. Hoey has as yet given no indication as to who he expects to appoint either as chairman of the new State Highway and Public Works Commission or as members, he said today that he has already begun thei process of elimination among the 70 or more applicants or “endorsees,” and that he hopes to announce his fi nal decision with regard to the high way body some time next week. He had at first planned to announce some of his appointments this week, but has since decided to postpone all ap paintments until next week, includ ing the members of the new State li quor board, he said today. “I find there are still some indi viduals and delegations Who want to be heard, with the result that I have decided to postpone all appointments until after April 15,” Governor Hoey said. “But after that date I do not intend to hear any more delegations or consider any more endorsements. In fact, I have already heard most of the delegations that wanted to be heard and the pressure is already be ginning to let up somewhat.” Waynick To Stay. The conviction continues to grow (Continued on Page Three.) REYNOLDS VISITS at ROCKY MOUNT Rocky Mount, April 13 —(AP) —Sen- ator Robert Reynolds, en route from Plinston to Washington, spent an hour here today in conference with offi cers in charge of the air encampment located near here. The senator, a member of the Sen ate Military Affairs Committee, was instrumental in bringing the Langley Field detachment here. He left about noon for the national capital. HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 13,<1937 13,854 Drivers Are Now Barred Under N. C. Law Dolly Dispatch Bnreai, la the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. 9ASKERVILL Raleigh, April 13.—A total of 13,854 persons are now barred from driving automobiles in North Carolina as a result of the operation of the drivers’ license law enacted by the 1935 Gen eral Assembly, and which was not changed in any detail by the 1937 as sembly, it was revealed today in the report for the month of March made public by Director Arthur Fulk of the highway safety division. For the pe riod ending April, the licenses of 9,- 494 drivers had been revoked, the li censes of 1,706 had been suspended While the applications of 2,654 drivers had been refused, either because of 'bad previous driving records or be cause they failed to pass the examin ations required in order to obtain drivers’ licenses, the report showed. There are at present 773,834 licens ed drivers in the state, of which 117,- 951 have been licensed since Novem ber 1, 1935, when the period for secur ing drivers’ licenses without charge ended. Since that time, a charge of $1 has been made for each driver’s license issued. During the month of March the division issued 7,204 new licenses out of a total of 7,491 paid applications. The licenses or 522 drivers were re voked during March, chiefly follow (Continued on Page Three.) ™onses Farmers Who Sell Certifi cates on 1934 Cotton Losing Heavily College Station, Raleigh, April 13. — Sliek-tongued men have been work ing to defraud North Carolina farm ers of part of their AAA cotton pay ments, J. F. Criswell, of State Col lege, revealed today. ✓ A group of men with automobiles bearing Washington, D. C., and east ern state tags, he said, have been buy ing up farmers’ 1933 cotton option certificates for less than they are worth. These certificates yellow slips (Continued on Page Three.) 22 INJURED WHEN OIG BUS PLUNGES INTO CREEK BEDS Miami-New York Car Goes off Roadway In Fog Near Brun&wick, Ga., in Early Dawn WOMAN IS MISSING FOLLOWING RESCUE Bus Turns Over on Its Side In Five Feet of Water; Rescue Force of Eight Men Works Feverishly in Small Boats To Extricate the Passengers Brunswick, Ga., April 13.—(AP) Twenty-two persons were injured by the plunge of ; a Miami-New t’ork motor bus into White Oak creek, 20 miles south of here, during a fog ear ly today. Rescued by White Oak boatman, passengers said a woman they believ ed to be a Mrs. Stewart, of Charlotte, N. C.. wife of a ic.us driver, operating between Charlotte and Raleigh, was missing. She boarded the vehicle at Jacksonville, Fla. The bus left the highway at 3:30 a. m., near a small bridge and turned upon its side in five feet of water. A rescue force of eight men secur ed small boats and worked rapidly to extricate the passengers. S. L. Matthews, of North Augusta, Ga, driver of the bus, sustained a cut in the face and a head injury and de scribed the accident as follows: “I| had pulled out to pass a car,” ihe said. “Unable to see because of the fog, I failed to cut. back into the high way sufficiently to strike the center of the bridge spanning the creek.” FURTHER DECLINES IN COTTON MARKET Futures Are Weak and Drop 6 to 11 Points During Day’s Trad ing to Noon New York, April 13 (AP)—Cotton futures were weak at the opening, down 13. to 20 points on lower Liver pool cables and foreign liquidation. July recovered from 13.60 to 13.75 and later sold at 13.68, with prices generally 10 to 13 points net lower. July, which had rallied to 13.75, was selling at 13.72 and the market gener ally showed net losses of about 6 to 11 points later in the morning. CONDEMNED NEGRO GRANTED REPRIEVE Raleigh, April 13 (AP)— Governor Hoey announced today he had grant ed a 30-day reprieve to Sylvester Grier who had been scheduled to die by gas at State’s Prison Friday for murder in Mecklenburg county. The action set June 4 as Grier’s death date. FARM BUREAU SETS PEANUT MEETINGS Series of Five Conferences Also To Discuss Control of Truck Crops in East Raleigh, April 13. (AP) The North Carolina Farm Bureau Federa tion announced today it would hold five meetings in Eastern North Car olina for discussion of crop control programs for peanuts and truck grow ers. E. F. Arnold, executive secretary, said W. R. Ogg, secretary-treasurer' of the American Farm Bureau, and J. E. Winslow, president of the State organization, would speak at each. The first gathering will be at Rocky Mount Thursday night, then at Elizabeth City Friday and Rich Square Saturday. Monday afternoon at New Bern and Monday night at Wilmington, E. Y. Floyd, N. C. State College tobacco specialist and soil conservation director, will also speak. Irwin Suspect Is Reported Seen In Columbia April 1 Columbia, S. C., April 13 (AP) —Po- lice Chief W: H. Rawlinson said today he had notified New York officers two Columbia automobile salesmen were convinced Robert Irwin, one-time in sane asylum inmate being sought in New York’s Gedeon murder case, had bought a car here April 1. The salesmen, J. j. Hollis, and E. L. Dickerson, saw a news picture of Irwin April 6 and reported he had re sembled the man to whom they had JL F. OF L. PLANS INTENSIVE DRIVE ON COURT RULING Green Says (Campaign for Craft Unions To Be Pushed In Wake of Court Decision HE PREDICTS END OF COMPANY UNIONS U. A, W. A. Chief Says Court Has Given Ford “Something To Think About;” Roosevelt Mes sage on Minimum Wages, Maximum Hours Coming Washington, April 13. —(AP) —Pre- sident William Green, of the Ameri can Federation of Labor, announced today the federation’s executive coun cil would meet next Monday to lay the foundation for an intensive member ship campaign among the craft unions (By The Associated Press.) t'v —workers and their bosses in the nation’s industrial cen speculated alike today on how the Supreme Court’s validation of the Wagner Labor Relations Act will af fect their positions. The historic decisions arrested the attention of labor leaders and work ers who have been embroiled for weeks in sitdown controversies. Interest turned to the comments by (Continued on Page Six.) HEALTHY GAINS IN THE STOCK MARKET Buying Forces Take Over Helm and Leading Industrials Ride to Higher Levels New York, April 13 (AP)— Buying forces took over the helm in the stock market and leading industrials rode the tide for gains of fractions to three or more points. Dealings were livelier than usual). Near the fourth hour, there was a little profit-selling but advances were well maintained. Traders seemed much relieved the long-awaited Supreme Court decisions had been received calmly by markets generally. Bonds were slightly mixed and com modities displayed diverse trends. ANGIER MAN DIES OF CRUSHED SKULL Fayetteville, April 13 (AP—Paul Moore, 21, of Angier, died last night in a local hospital, where he was brought early Monday with a ham mer-crushed skull. The injury was inflicted at or near Angier, but further detains were not available here today. CHEMISTS TOLD OF HORMONE ISOLATION First Discovery of Male Sex Hormone Produced by Woman De scribed at U. N. C. Chapel Hill, April 13.—(AP)—The first isolation of a male sex hormone produced by women and the astound ing discovery that this feminine chemical is a mote potent influence toward male characteristics than man’s own natural hormones was re ported to the American Chemical So ciety here today. The discovery was interpreted as meaning many of the aspects of sex ‘are more chemical and less physical than has been believed. The new point of view is that the important hormone controls of sex or chemical reactions. Instead of the chemicals themselves that permeated the body’s tissues. The report was made by a group of Pennsylvania State College chem ists, the same men who last summer succeeded in artifically making the female sex hormone theelin. sold a used car five days previously. They said a highly, nervous young man, well dressed but needing a shave came to the used car lot. He appeared to be in a hurry, they said, and did not want to talk or wait around. The man, they stated, bought the first car they showed, paying S4OO in cash from a large roll of bills and asked that it be filled wits gas and oil. The receipt he signed showed the name “W. W. Gaston.” PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY Variable Opinions Os Single Justice Held Insufficient Norfolk Southern To Abandon Lines Washington, April 13.—(AP) — The Interstate Commerce Commis sion authorized the Norfolk South ern railroad today to abandon 3.1 miles of its line from Morehead City to Beaufort, N. C. The I. C, C. also authorized the railroad to abandon operation of the line of the Atlantic & North Carolina railroad extending 95.81 miles from Goldsboro to Morehead City, N. C. The commission dismissed an ap plication of the Atlantic & North Carolina railroad company for au thority to operate the line from Goldsboro to Morehead City. Lobbyists Report On Their F ees Expense Accounts Also Shown by Those Appearing Before Legislature Raleigh, April 13. —(AP)— D. E. Henderson, of Charlotte, registered as a legislative lobbyist for the variety stores during the 1937 General Assem bly, reported today to Secretary of State Thad Eure that he received a fee of SI,OOO and $607.47 as expense money for his work. Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company reported it paid a $1,200 fee and $31.30 expenses to its {legislative counsel, Fuller, Reade & Fuller, of Durham, and Harriss Newman, of Wilmington, reported receipt of $1,250 for “actual expenses” for his work for the North Carolina Terminal and Transportation Company. R. D. Coleman, representing the Champion Fibre Company, of Camden said his expenses of $637.84 included “meals for self and friends” and also “cigars, refreshments, et cetera.” Hunter Marshall, Jr., reported $215.25 expenses working for the North Carolina Cotton Manufacturers Association, of Charlotte, and R. Grady Rankin listed $306.75 for the Duke Power Company of Charlotte. SEARCH FOR IRWIN PRODUCES NOTHING Easter Triple Murders of Beekman Hill Remain Much of My stery to Police New York, April 13.—(AP) —Cap- tain of Detectives Reynolds said to day the search for Robert Irwin, 29- year-old sculptor and a former theolo gical student, in connection with the Easter triple murders on Beekman Hill, has still produced nothing. The detective captain said he was uncertain whether he and other de tectives would be called to the dis trict attorney’s office, today for an other conference On the possibility of seeking an indictment against Irwin for the slayings of Veronica Gedeon, model, her mother, Mary, and their lodger, Frank Byrnes. juryTTears CASE OF RAPIST-SLAYER Riverhead, N. Y., April 13 (AP) The Suffolk county grand jury today began to hear evidence in the case of Howard Magnussen, 26, pudgy-faced Long Island candy-maker, accused of the rape-slaying of four-year-old Joan Morvan on February 28. The tiny victim’s father, George Morvan, now held on SIOO,OOO bail on a charge of felonious assault, waived immunity before entering the grand jury room, where he testified for an hour. i raiawATitipMiU* FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair and warpier tonight and Wednesday. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Monday’s Decisions “New and Additional” Reasons for Change, Ash urst States ROBINSON ALSO IS NOT YET SATISFIED New York Federal Judge Testifies at Hearing Against Roosevelt Propos als; Condemnation of Sit down Strike Approved by House Committee. Washington, Apasl 13.—'(AP)—-In sistence that yesterday’s Wagner la bor act decisions would not alter Pre sident Roosevelt s plan for reorganiz ing the Supreme Court came today from several admir nitration leaders. Chairman Ashurst, Democrat, Ari zona, of the Senate Judiciary Com mittee, said Just before that body re sumed hearings on the court bill the tribunal’s action in upholding the Wagner law and in five separate cases afforded “new and additional rea 'sons’ 1 ’ for enacting Mr. Roosevelt’s program. He said, for one thing, the court “might change its mind’’ on some fu ture legislation. Opposition spokesmen have wet corned the Wagner decisions as ob viating any necessity for changing the court in order to have so-called liberal laws upheld. On the House side, Speaker Bank head said the President’s bill “is not out, of course.” An informed administration offi cial, who declined to be quoted by name, likewise declared there was no indication of a compromise in the court’s plan. Federal District Judge John Knox, of New York, testified before the Sen ate Judiciary Committee “the real is sue” in the court controversy “is whether certain reforms x x x x shall be secured in an orderly, constitu tional procedure, or through a pro gram which, if not unconstitutional, is definitely and positively anti-con stitutional.” The Supreme Court’s Wagner de cisions also figured in House Labor Committee deliberations on the Sen ate-approved resolution jointly con demning sitdown strikes and certain “unfair” labor practices of employees. The committee approved the re solution seven to four, and Chairman Connery, Democrat, Massachusetts, said he would seek to bring it up In. the House next Tuesday. Before the vote was taken, the com (Continued on Page Eight.) vice~group gains NEW MEMBERSHIPS Kinston, April 13 (AP) —Dr. B. F. Huske, rector of St. Mary’s Episco pal church and. president of the As sociation for Suppression of Organ ized Vice, announced today 516 per sons had joined the group. HAWKS TRIES FOR NEW SPEED RECORD East Hartford, Conn., April 13— (AP)—Frank Hawks, called upon his new speed plane today to carry him on a 2,600-mlle round trip which included a stop for lunch this noon at Miami, Fla., and supper this evening in Newark, N. J., on his way back to the home field here. Hawks said he should complete the trip, 1,304 miles each way, in 12 hours. u. s. to keeFpeace MUST HOLD ALOOF France and Britain Want U. S. in on Discussions to Hook America By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, April 13.—1 f ever two policies contradicted one another Un cle Sam’s policy to keep out of the next world war and his policy to exercise moral suasion on the rest of the world to prevent another world outbreak are mutually contradictory. Supposing that war does come, it undeniably will fce mightily difficult for the United States to remain neu tral. But non-participation will be prac tically impossible if we have had a (Continued on Page Three.)
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