I HENDERSON
! gateway to
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR
FDR MIST COMPROMISE TO RET COURT Sill
FRANK L. DUNLAP IS
NOW THOUGHT PICK
FOR HIGHWAY POST
Reports Seemingly Reliable
in Raleigh and Wash
ington Point Toward
That End
WAYNICK BELIEVED
DEFINITELY GONE
He and All Members of
Highway Commission, in
Final Meeting Friday, Ex
pect to Lose Jobs in Ap
pointments \to Be An
nounced by Hoey Tonight
Daily Dispatch Bnrean.
In the Sir Walter Hotel
Uy J. C. BASKERVIL.fi
Raleigh, April 24. —Frank L. Dun
lap, present assistant director of the
budget, is expected to be appointed
the new chairman of the State High
way and Public Works Commission
to succeed Chairman Capus M. Way
nick, who is now not expected to be
reappointed by Governor Clyde R.
Hoey. Until the last two or three days
friends of Waynick have been con
vinced that he still had a good
chance to be reappointed chairman,
despite the fact it was agreed that
Governor Hoey was trying to find
some one else for the highway job,
had offered it to one or two others.
But they felt that in the end the gov
ernor would come back to Waynick
and reappoint him, by a process of
elimination.
But in all of the speculation in
dulged in so far, the name of Dunlap
has not been mentioned until the last
day or so. Yesterday, there were re
pels both from Washington, D. C.,
and from sources close to the gover
nor that Dunlap was now regarded
as nv re likely to be named chairman
of the new highway commission than
any one else, that Waynick definitely
would not he reappointed. The belief
that Waynick would not be reappoint
ed was materially strengthened by
those who talked with Waynick here
yesterday and observed him with the
other members of the old commission
which held its last meeting here,
journey last night to Wrightsville
Beach for the “wake” and funeral ser
mon over the week-end. It was very
plain here yesterday that not a single
member of the commission, not even,
Waynick, expects to be reappointed.
There were also very definite indica
tions that some of the members of
the retiring commission expect Frank
Dunlap to be named chairman of the
new commission.
Accordingly, those here who have
been following the highway situation
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STATE IS LEADING
IN PRISON REFORM
I‘itts Says Recommendations in Illi
nois Are Already Very Large
ly in Effect Here
*
Raleigh, April 24.—-(AP) —Oscar
Pitts, acting director of the penal di
vision, said today the North Carolina
prison set-up compares favorably
with the recommendations recently
made for a reorganization of the Il
linois penal program.
“This State,” Pitts said, “is lead
ing the nation in its new classifica
tion system, whereby felons are plac
ed in camps especially provided for
different types of prisoners accord
ing to their previous record, crime,
background and age.”
Among other things Pitts said
North Carolina already has in effect
are the following things recommend
ed for Illinois: Segregation of pri
soners of the pre-parole type or best
parole material; use of civilian em
ployees instead of prisoners in con
fidential work; a close check on pro
gress of prisoners.
Says Tariff Holds
The South’s Future
Memphis. Term., April 24 (AP) —
Ben j. Williams, of New Orleans, pres-
Mfrit of the Southern Cotton Shippers
Association, predicted today the South
would reach the American standard of
-iv'ing when the tariff problem is pro
periy handled and industrial prices
<in ' permitted to seek a common level
'vhh agriculture.
Williams, making the President’s
n nual address, sounded a plea for a
'Ubsidy for cotton production to off
p ’ the high tariff of our creditor na
-10 n” adding shippers should not ap
for payment for idleness and
non-production.”
Be said there “was no doubt” of
ailUre to regain lost cotton markets
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
Daylight Saving
Daylight saving time will begin
at 2 a. m., Sunday,'"April 25. It
has been extended this year so
that it will include 18 states of
the United States as well as New
Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Labra
dor, Newfoundland, Ontario and
Quebec. »Tt will be observed also
by 10 other countries or territor- 1 ,
ies, five of which are in Europe J
In changing the clock, 2 a. m. be
comes 3 a. nuy
Liquor Board
Finds Plenty
Work To Do
It Has Wide Powers
and Will Begin Its
Duties [At Capital
Immediately
Dally Dispatch Bnrean,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BA SKER.VII.Ii
Raleigh, April 24.—The new State
Board of Alcoholic Control, already
generally referred to as the State
ABC Board, or the “State Liquor
Board,’’ just appointed by Governor
Clyde R. Hoey, is going to have plen
ty of work to do, according to those
who have been studying the act creat
ing it and outlining its powers. The
new hoard also has very wide powers
in that it is charged with the admin
istration and enforcement of the li
quor control law throughout the en
tire State, with authority to remove
the members of the various county
liquor control boards or of law en
forcement officers in the counties
serving under this act.
The board, composed of Cutlar
Moore, Lumberton, as chairman, and
of F. Webb Williams, Elizabeth City,
and Thomas J. Murphy, Greensboro,
as part-time members, is expected to
meet here Tuesday or Wednesday of
next week to be sworn in and to hold
its first meeting. It must supervise
the opening of any additional liquor
stores in any counties which may vote
for such stores under the 1937 act.
The duties of the State liquor board,
as set out in Section 4 of the 1937 li-
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“unless we take into account immedi
ately the financial and economic sit
uation of the world, and until we are
willing to accept more goods in ex
change for cotton.
“The South’s normal export of cot
ton is 8,000,000 bales,” he said, “and
the general increase in world consum
ption should now make it about 11 mil
lion, but our exports have now dwind
led to approximately five million
bales. n
“It is important to mention that
our exports of manufactured goods
have increased,” he said, and our im
ports of manufactured goods have de
creased, both trends being at the ex
pense of our agricultural products.
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS:
HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY,' AFTERNOON, APRIL 24, 1937
To Coronation
Mr. and Mrs. Homer S. Cummings
Sailing from New York for the
coronation in London, Mrs. Homer
S. Cummings, wife of the U. S.
attorney general, is pictured say
ing “goodby” to her husband.
Mrs. Cummings is among many
Americans now en route to the
May 12 ceremonies.
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OF FORD EVACUATED
Peace Parley Held in Riot
ous Cannery Strike Also
In California Strike
Center
RAIL WORKERS MAY
QUIT IN NEW YORK
20 Cents an Hour Wage
Boost Demanded; Labor
Board Prepares To Super
vise Election in Packard
Motor Plant, First Since
Wagner Decision
New York, April 24.—(AP) —
Five persons were injured, one
seriously, in a fight between police
and striking reporters and sym
pathizers in front of the Long Is
iand Daily Press at Jamaica to
day.
(By The Associated Press.)
Evacuation of a Ford Motor Com
pany plant by sitdown strikers and a
peace parley in a riotous cannery
eased tension in two major California
labor disputes today.
At the opposite end of the con
tinent, New York, union officials dis
cussed the possibility of a strike by
25,000 railroad employees in a dipute
over wages.
The GOO sitdowners at the Ford as
sembly plant in Richmond, Cal., made
their exodus today eleven hours after
taking possession as a protest against
alleged discrimination in the depart
mental transfer of 12 unionists.
U. A. W. A. officials, who urged the
strikers to evacuate, said the dispute
would be settled in a day or two. A
representative of the American Fed
eration of Labor, said the federation
had sought recognition as a bargain
ing agency for Ford employees.
A tentative agreement on wage in
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FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Mostly cloudy tonight; possibly
showers, slightly warmer in north
portion; Sunday cloudy, with
showers.
WEEKLY WEATHER.
South Atlantic States: Fair and
cooler first of week, period of
warmer weather with showers
about Wednesday or Thursday;
end of week generally fair.
Tradition, Not Love,
Caused Abdication!
How much did Mrs. Simpson have to do with King Edward’s
abdication of the British throne? English blue bloods, symbolic
of English tradition, comprised the real factor, before the woman
Edward loves appeared on the scene, according to the first of six
colorful articles on the coronation, beginning today.
B. L. SMITH WINS
OF SCHOOL GROUP
He Succeeds Dr. W. C. Jack
son, Who Becomes Pres
ident, Both Being
From Greensboro
TEACHERS TO PUSH
FIGHT FOR SALARY
Want 1929 Levels Restored
and Some Form of Social
Security Granted Them.
Mrs. Mabel Young, Kit
trell, Secretary of Mathe
matics Group
Durham, April 24. —(AP) —B. L.
Smith, superintendent of the city
schools of Greensboro, was the choice
of the North Carolina Education As
sociation for vice-president, it was re
vealed on announcement today of the
results of yesterday’s balloting.
He succeeds Dr. C. Jackson,
who advanced by custom to the presi
dency. 1
W. B. Halracre, North Wilkesboro,
and Mrs. Hanna Stack, of Fayette
ville, were named to the association’s
(board of directors, completing the
slate of officers for the new year.
Public school teachers of the State,
at the closing session of the annual
convention here today, pledged them
selves to continue the fight for full
restoration of the 19E29 pay schedule
and the campaign for the adoption of
some form of social security for mem
bers of the profession.
Pointing out changing conditions
have created new problems in the edu
cation of youth, Dr. Carl Douglass, of
Minneapolis, Minn., delivered the
main address of the final session, dis
cussing “The New School for the New
Era.”
Departmental groups held elections
yesterday and a partial report on
them by Jule Warren, association sec
retary, showed:
Elementary 'school, priricipals: J>
£!. Millet, Washington, vice /presi
dent.
Mathematics department: Mrs.
Mabel Young, Kittrell, secretary.
Modern language teachers: Alexan
der Seibert, Wake Forest College,
vice-president.
High school principals: P. A. Reid,
Roanoke Rapids, president.
Spanish teachers: Frances Pulley,
Kinston, vice-president.
HOSPITALS SWAMPED
WITH AUTO VICTIMS
Convention Hears Doctor Declare
Compulsory Insurance Need
ed To Pay for Bills
Raleigh, Aprjl 24.—(AP)—Dr.
Fred Hubbard, of North Wilkes
boro, told the tri-State Hospital
Conference today that caring for
victims of aiitom<(bile accidents
is “the greatest problem*’' with
which American hospitals Have to
contend.”
In 1935, Dr. Hubbard said, 265,-
000 patients hurt in automobile
accidents were treated at the hos
pitals. They were billed $17,000,-
100, he said, but only $8,870,051 of
it was ever collected.
The physician urged “compul
sory automobile Usability insur
ance,” and said the car was simi
lar “to a frankenstein monster
that threatens to destroy its mak
er.” He said it was “a fore© both
for good and evil.” <
The three-day conference ended
at noon.
COTTON IS HIGHER
BY SMALL MARGINS
Spot Market Steady, Middling 13.85
Cents Per Pound on Day’s
Last Transactions
New York, April 24. —(AP) —Cotton
futures opened steady one to four
points higher on Liverpool cables,
trade and foreign buying. July sold
off from 13.25 to 13.18 and was with
in a point of the low after the first
half hour, when prices generally
showed net losses of, one two points.
Futures closed steady, 1 to 6 points
higher. Middling 13.85. Spots steady.
Officers of Educ ation Association
: : xdl
B. L. SMITH
Vice-President
Dr. Jackson was advanced to the
presidency of the North Carolina Edu
cation Association at the close of its
annual convention in Durham today,
FUTURE IS SQUALLY
FOR FDR IN SENATE
: i
Byrnes, Harrison, Robinson
Oustanding Leaders,
Inwardly Resentful'
ROBINSON SUBMISSIVE
Majority Leader Has Almost Beached
Breaking Point at Times in
Past Few Years, Those
, Who Know Say
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, April 24.—Signs are
increasingly squally for President
Roosevelt in the Senate.
There are some such signs in the
House of Representatives, too, ibut
presidential influence is more potent
over the weather at that end of the
Capitol building than at the Senate’s
end.
If a regular storm breaks in the
upper congressional chamber, it may
spread to the lower one but at pre
sent the senatorial sky is the more
threatening of the two. It is not yet
completely overcast but it is blacken
ing, with occasional streaks of forked
lightning.
FIRE BUILDING
Senator James F. Byrnes’ attempt
to put the White House on record in
opposition to sitdown strikes distinct
ly was an electrical discharge of this
character. >
Byrnes has been regarded as pre
eminently the executive, mansion’s
spokesman among senators. The time
came when he wanted the executive
mansion to do a reciprocal good turn
for him on the sitdown strike issue.
Sitdowns would raise particular hades
in the textile industry in his home.
State of South Carolina.
He must have known that the Pre
sident had good political reasons for
preferring not to take a position in
the matter; so he undertook, as the
saying is, to “build a fire’’ under the
latter.
The fire wasn’t hot enough. Byrnes
failed to get what he was after. 13 he*
disgruntled? He is, if he’s human.
AND HARRISON
As chairman of his chambers fin
ance (tax) committee, Senator Pat
Harrison of Mississippi is one of the
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Civil Rule
Is Restored
ForMadrid
(By The Associated Press.)
Civil rule came back to Madrid to
day.
General Jose Miaja, the military
dictator, was deprived of hie civil
powers over the city of half a year’s
siege and instructed to devote all his
energies to fighting Francisco Fran
co’s insurgents.
A heterogeneous anti-Fascist city
council took command of the city’s
civil affairs.
Low black clouds stopped a viciotts
12-day insurgent artillery bombard
ment, which has taken the lives of 250
Madrilenos.
In the north the insurgents, reput
edly reinforced by 1,500 regular Ital
ian artillerymen, pressed on to El
Orrio, one of the obstacles to their
capture of Bilbao.
New food ships left France with
supplies for Bilbao. The city’s Basque
defenders already were cheered by the
arrival of food on three British freigh
ters which got in yesterday, running
an attempted insurgent sea blockade.
In Rome, it was announced Spain
would be one of the subjects which
German General Herman Goering and
11 Duce will talk about Monday. Some
thought Mussolini was reconciled to
a coVnpromise on Spain and would
not help Franco any»more.
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DR. W. C. JACKSON,
President
and B. L. Smith, superintendent of the
Greensboro city schools, was elected
vice-president, a stepping stone to the
presidency a year hence.
Death of Brevard
Youth Is Mystery
Brevard, April 24. —(AP)—Rich-
ard Frad.v, 17, Brevard high school
student, died in a hospital here to
day shortly after a car had passed
over his body on a highway, but
the cause of death was termed a
mystery by his physician.
Dr. C. L. Newland said the boy’s
body showed neither scratches nor
bruises and was without indicat
tions of internal injury.
Harry Piekelsimer, of Brevard,
reported his machine ran over
Frady as the latter lay in the Hen
dersonville-Brevard highway about
2:45 o’clock this morning.
His account was corroborated
by Frank Morgan, of Cherryfield.
Death Toll
Exacted In
Bad Storms
Tornado and Light
ning Fatal in Ar
kansas and Alaba
ma During Night
Benton, Ark., April 24. —(AP)—Tor-
nadic winds, lightning and hail left
two dead, more than a score injured,
and thousands of dollars property
damage today in widely separated
sections of the south.
The dead:
Herman Zinn, 50, Benton, Ark.,
farmer.
J. H. Howard, 46, Cullman, Ala.,
farmer.
Zinn died when a tornado demolish
ed his home and swept through the
north section of this town of 3,445
population last night, leaving about
30 persons injured and a block of the
residential section in ruins.
Howard was killed by lightning
yesterday near Cullman, bringing Ala
bama's April storm death toll to 11.
Seevre hail stones were reported in
other sections of Alabama.
STOCKS CRUMBLeTIN
RUSH FOR SELLING
Rapid Decline Slightly Checked Be
fore Close, However, by Mild
Support in Spots
New York, April 24. —(AP)—'Stock
market prices crumbled in a selling
rush today, but met mild support be
fore the close. At the worst numerous
leaders were off one to more than
three points, some at new lows for
the year, or longer. Extreme declines
were pared in many instances in the
final hour.
Denhardt Defense
Scores On Ruling
Newcastle, Ky., April 24 (AP)—Cir
cuit Judge Charles Marshall today
overruled the commonwealth’s motion
to strike from the record George Bak
er’s statement Brigadier General
Henry Denhardt “could not have kill
ed” Mrs. Verna Taylor.
Commonwealth’s Attorney H. B.
Kinsolving, Jr., moved to expunge the
statement upon convening of court to
day for the second day’s testimony,
and the State’s efforts to convict the
bald war veteran for the murder of
his comely fiance on a road near here
last November 6. For half an hour op
osing counsel and the judge argued
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COMMITTEE IS NOW
AGIST PROPOSAL
PRESIDENT SEEKS
Unless Minds Are Changed
It Will Go to Senate
Floor With Unfav
orable Report
WOULD BE WITHOUT
APPROVAL WITH TIE
Unless President Accepts
Modification, There Is Lit
tle Likelihood Even Com
promise Will Get Majority
Vote, New Survey of Com
mittee Shows
1 Washington, April 24.—(AP)— A
new survey of the closely divided Sen
ate Judiciary Committee disclosed to
day administration supporters must
compromise in order to win prelimi
nary approval of the court reorganiza
tion bill, unless some members change
their minds.
Nine senators, or half the commit
mittee membership, said they would
vote £\gainst the measure as it stands,
although not all would be quoted by
name. Another was non-committal.
Even if the administration should
win the non-committal vote, it could
muster only a tie. Ten votes would be
required in the committee of 18 to re
commend passage of the bill.
If the non-committal senator
should decide to vote against the bill,
it could get to the Senate only with
an unfavorable report. A tie vote
would send it to the floor without re
commendation.
Unless President Roosevelt agrees
to modification, the count showed
there was little likelihood a compro
mise would receive a committee ma
jority vote.
Meanwhile, proposals to slash all
Federal appropriations by ten percent
and to slice $500,000,000 from Presi
dent Roosevelt’s relief estimates gain
ed fresh support in the Senate Ap
propriations group.
Although some committee members
described a fixed horizontal cut as
unscientific, a majority said they
Would accept it if it proved the only
means of balancing the budget by
July, 1038.
MOUNTAINEER NEAR
DEATH FROM FAST
Stooping Oak, Tenn., April 24.
(AP) —Jackson Whitlow, 49, moun
taineer, grew weaker today while
he entered what he says is the
46th day of a fast started after a
“call from the Lord.” ■
Mrs. Whitlow said her huSband
was “in poor condition" and
fainted yesterday when he tried
to arise from his bed in their hill
home.
She quoted him as saying, “I
may die if it is the Lord’s will, but
I am ready."
BLUE MOLD MENACE
LESSENS) SLIGHTLY
Warm, Sunshiny Days Against Plant
Disease, E. G. Moss, Oxford
Specialist, Says
Raleigh, April 24.— (AP)— E. G.
Moss, tobacco specialist of the
State Agrileulture Department,
said today “the past few warm
sunshiny days have temporarily
retarded the spread of blue mold
in North Carolina.”
It was cloudy again, however,
in most of the area.
The department again warned
there “is no control known that
will kill the disease," and caution
ed farmers against the use of any
“so-called remedies that have been
offered for sale for the control of
blue mold."
The tobacco specialist said in
formation received from the Kin
ston and Snow Hill areas indicat
ed the blue mold infestation “is
serious."
in an ante-room, and then the judge
came out and refused to strike out
the statement.
Baker, a farmer, had testified Den
hardt came to his home that night to
telephone for a mechanic to repair his
car, which was stalled. Baker said
he heard two shots, a loud one and a
“pop”, as he described the second one.
His statement made at Denhardt’s
examining trial and reiterated yester
day, was:
“I don’t know this man (Denhardt)
and I don’t know this woman (Mrs.
Taylor). But Mr. Denhardt couldn’t
have killed her because I was with
him when the second shot was fired.”