HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR
MURRM TIPS COMMITTEE MMUNST BILL
SSOO MILLION NAVY
APPROPRIATION BILL
GETS FDR APPROVAL
Senate Judiciary Commit
tee To Vote Not Later
Than May 18 on
Court Proposal
SUPPORT SEEN FOR
MONOPOLISTIC CURB
Attorney General Cum
mings Submits Plan to
President for Checking
Unduly Rapid Rise in
Commodity Prices; Com
mittee Is To Be Named
Washington, April 28. —(AP) — The
White House announced today Presi
dent Roosevelt signed the $500,000,000 .
naval appropriation bill for the 1938
fiscal year before leaving early this
morning for a fishing cruise in south
ern waters.
Elsewhere in the capital the Sen
ate Judiciary Committee decided to
vote May 18 on the Roosevelt court
bill. Word came from the closed
meeting of the committee a proposal
by Senator Logan, Democrat, Ken
tucky, to vote May 11 had been ob
jected to, but all committee members
haa agreed to have the showdown by
May 18.
Many officials, meanwhile, predict
ed strong bi-partisan support for a
new curb of business monopolies sug
gested in a report by Attorney Gen
eral Cummings.
Before boarding his train for a (
southern vacation, President Roose- ‘
velt gave out Cummings’ recommen
dation that the anti-trust laws be re
vised because of “the present ten
dency to increase prices.’’
Questioned about Cummings’ sug
gestion a committee be named, Mr.
Roosevelt said something would be
done.
J
DANCE ORCHESTRA
PLAYER SUICIDES
I’asqual Fabris Leaves Note To
Frances Langford He Is “Not
Your Soul Mate”
I
Los Angeles, April 28.—(AP>—A
note to pretty torch singing Frances
Langford regretting “I am not your;
eternal soul mate,” was left behind
today by a dance orchestra violinist 1
whoso body was found yesterday in
a gas-filled garage.
Pasqual Fabris, 36, who was slump
ed in his car, a hose extending from ■
the exhaust to his mouth, had played
in Raymond Paige’s orchestra for a
nationwide (Hollywood Hotel) radio
program.
Detective Lieutenant Joseph Page
<=aid Fabris committed suicide after
writing a series of notes, in one of
which he averred the screen actress
refused to marry him, and to go to
Samoa, where he hoped to write his
“system of philosophy.’’
Miss Langford, recuperating from
an appendicitis operation, said she be
lieved Fabris to be the man who
wrote her several letters whiclr she
did not read.
SHARP DECLINES IN
THE COTTON MARKET
Spot Middling Closes at 13.55, With
Futures 17 to 30 Points Low
er for the Day
New York, April 28.—(AP)—Cotton
fututes opened barely steady 9 to 11
lower on disappointing Liverpool
cables and commission house and for
eign selling. July sold off from 13.17
to 13.10, and prices generally showed
net losses of 11 to 19 points after the
first half hour. July recovered to 13.07,
and at midday was 13 03, when prices
Were 12 to 15 points net lower. The
close was steady, 17 to 30 lower. Spot
quiet, middling 13.55.
Open Close
May 13.04 12.97
July 13.16 13.00
October .. .. 12.91 12.75
December 12.88 12.71
January 12.90 12.72
March 12.94 12.76
CABARRUS SLAYER
CASE GIVEN JURY
Fred .Joines, Kannapolis Taxi Driver,
Claims He Shot Claude Burris
In Self-Defense
Concord, April 28.—(AP)—The case
Fred Joines, Kannapolis taxicab
driver, charged with second degree
for the slaying of Claude
Burris, a textile worker, March 28,
'yent to a superior court jury early
uis afternoon. Judge Will Pless im
nuyUatoiy ordered a recess for lunch
con after which the jury planned to
efrin deliberations. Joines testified
Yesterday he shot Burris in self-de
ense - .
HmtiU'rsmt ©atlii til is natch
State Balance Is
Over $27,077,622
Raleigh, April 28 (AP) —North
Carolina’s State Treasury had a
cash balance of $27,077,622.06 on
March 31, the highest at a month’s
end in years.
The combined statement of the
auditor and treasurer, released to
day, showed a general fund balance
of $9,303,176.40, highway balance of
$12,755,357.18, and special fund bal
ance of $3,431,032.53.
The general fund received $37,-
489,803.24 during the fiscal year to
March 31 and had a balance of
$600,787.17 when the year started,
while its disbursements were $28,-
787,414.91.
highwaypurgeTo
GO STILLFURTHER
What Will Happen to Baise,
Ross Pitts and Others
Pondered
BAISE MAYTOSE OUT
Some Opinion Is Animosity Toward
Waynick Had Inception in
His Siding With Baise
on Many Occasions
Dolly Dispatch Bnrena,
5n the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. 'JASKERVILL
Raleigh, April 28. —Governor Clyde
R. Hoey’s broom swept clean as far
as the executive department of the
State Highway and Public Works 1
Commission was concerned and left
not a single member of the old re
gime. Will his broom or vacuum
cleaner extend into other divisions —
the engineering, legal and prison di
visions—and sweep as clean there?
Are Chief Engineer W. Vance Baise,
Chief Counsel Charles Ross and Act
ing Director Oscar Pitts, of the Pri
son Division, slated to get their walk
ing papers before the great Hoey,
purge of the highway department is
complete?
No one knows the answers to these
questions yet, of course, since the gov
ernor’s mind is inscrutable—and be
cause, theoretically, the chairman and
the new commission are supposed to
make all decisions with regard to per
sonnel, policies, division heads, and
so forth. But actually, it is known
that the new commission, including
the chairman, will do whatever the
governor asks —or tells —them to do.
For good soldiers in a good political
army take orders from the comman
der-in-chief without asking any ques
tions—it is theirs but to do or resign.
Waynick Foes Active.
Since it is known that the same
powerful political forces who demand
ed the removal of Capus M. Waynick
as chairman of the highway commis
sion and who for weeks boasted that
they had already “got" Waynick, are
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SCOTTISH MASONS
MEET IN NEW BERN
New Bern, April 28 (AP)—Lectures
and the administration of degrees
featured the annual spring reunion of
the Valley of New Bern organization
in the Orient of North Carolina, Scot
tish Rite Masons, here today. The
three-day meeting will end tomorrow.
Outlook Brightens
For U. S. Hospital
In East Carolina
Washington, April 28. (AP) The
North Carolina congressional jdelega
tion today massed its strength behind
a movement to locate a ve *; e^ s
pital in the eastern partof
The State’s two senators and two
representatives appear*! before Brig
adier-General Frank Hines, veteran
administrator, with a del6 gation re
presenting the American Legion in
Kh Carolina in behalf of the move
m Members of the express
pH ontimism over the possibilities.
“I feel a lot more encouraged over
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The Coronation Coach Leaves for a Trial Spin
Spiels---
England’s ornate and costly royal coach is shown leaving Deans Yard at i
London, on its way to the rehearsal of the Coronation ceremonies in
which the coach, drawn by its milk-white steeds, traveled the route which |
NEW HIGHWAY BODY
WILL H 0 LjD INITIAL
lETINGjATURDAY
Chairman Dunlap and Ten
Members of Hoey Com
mission Will Be Given
Oaths
MUST LEARN DUTY
FROM GROUND UP
May Take Months for Them
to Familiarize Themselves
With State Highway Sys
tem As Well As Waynick;
District Men to Have
Powers
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKEUVILL
Raleigh, April 28.—The ten new
members of the State Highway and
Public Works Commission, together
with Frank L. Dunlap, the new chair
man, will meet here Saturday morn
ing to be sworn in and officially to
take over their duties. Governor Clyde
R. Hoey said today. It is also expected
that the new commissioners will hold
several meetings soon after they take
office in o**der to survey the general
situation, become better acquainted
with their new duties and make plans
plans for future work. But the dates
for these future meetings must be
fixed by the commission itself after
the new members take office.
In addition to meeting in Raleigh
at least once a month, or whenever
the chairman regards it as necessary,
each member of the commission will
be required to spend several days a
month holding hearings in his district.
As a result, the members of this com
mission are expected to be busier and
to spend more time attending to high
way matters than have the members
of other commissions. For, under the
new district set-up, each district com
missioner will be more or less respon
sible for highway matters in his dis
trict will hear delegations from the
counties in his district whenever any
want to be heard. Only matters which
cannot be settled by the district com
missioner will be brought before the
entire commission here. This is ex
pected to reduce materially the num
ber of highway delegations which will
(Continued on Patr<> TbroAl
Hie prospects this morning than I
have ever before,” said Representa
tive Graham Barden, New Bern.
Barden, who has a bill pending to
locate a $2,000,000 veterans hospital
near Goldsboro, in Wayne county, said
the location of the proposed Eastern
North Carolina facility could be de
termined later.
“We want to be sure of getting the
hospital first,” he said.
The delegation contended there g.re
90,000 World War veterans in North
Carolina, and only one veterans hos
pital, at Oteen, in the western part
of the State.
Tension In Hood Areas Is
Eased As River Waters Fall
(By The Associated Press.)
Tension in North America’s flood
areas eased today as qnruly rivers
began slipping hack into their own
beds.
The Ohio river receded slowly at
Pittsburgh and held at a peak of 45.7
feet at Wheeling, W. Va. It was ex
pected to rise a few feet at points
downstream as it carried off the head
waters overflow.
SEARCH WITNESSES
AT SENATE HEARING
Some Kentucky Mountain
neers Wear Holsters
but No Firearms
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, April 28.—1 tis an
edifying thing to see Capitol police
“frisking” witnesses and suspicious
looking listeners at a Senate investi
gation for possible firearms.
We all know that there are local
backwaters in this country where
such searchers occasionally are deem
ed necessary at the entrances to dis
trict court rooms when hotly con
tested cases are pending.
But imagine rival groups of gun
men getting up and shooting out some
difference of opinion in the presence
of a congressional committee, in ses
sion in the Senate office building,
right here in Washington!
HOLSTERS WORN
Well, as news dispatches have re
lated, that’s What Capitol police were
apprehensive, of following the exam
ination, by Senator Robert M. Fol
lettc’s inquiry concerning civil rights
violations, of witnesses from the Har
lan county (Ky.) coal area.
The Capitol police didn’t find any
firearms. The witnesses apparently
had the good taste to leave their
'shooting irons” at their hotels, or
somewhere.
But the police did find holsters.
Need I say that, in referring to
such & situation as edifying, I speak
“sarcastical”?
OLD FEUDS
How such conditions can continue
to exist in the midst of a supposedly
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EX-GOV. POLLARD, OF
VIRGINIA, IS DEAD
Washington, April 28.—(AP) —
John Garland Pollard, former gov
ernor of Virginia, died early today
of bronchial pneumonia. He was
66. Pollard, chairman of the board
of appeals of the Veterans Admin
istration, had been ill some time.
His term as governor of Virginia
ran from 1930 to 1934.
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Cloudy tonight and Thursday;
probably scattered showers; war
mer Thursday.
will be followed May 12 when George VI is crowned King of England.
Thousands of Londoners lined the streets as the empty coach and its
military escort made the trip. (Central Press)
The Thornes river, which drove 6,-
000 from their homes at London, On
tario, and caused $3,000,000 damage,
dropped two feet in four hours after
being 28 feet above its normal stage.
It left large sections of London cover
ed with slime. Much farm land was
still submerged.
A large crew of WPA workers was
made ready at Wheeling to follow the
receding water with buckets, brooms
and mops for a clean-up. Some 700
Insurgents
Closing In
On Bilbao
Hendaye, Franco-Span ish Border,
April 28 (AP)—Grimly determined
Basques turned a Durango church in
to a fortress today in a dramatic at
tempt to stem the march of strong in
surgent northern armies on Bilbao,
their regional capital.
The Basques, members of three de
cimated battalions, crammed the
church of St. Maria and Durango, 16
miles fnom Bilbao, dragged their can
non within the walls and blasted at
insurgent attackers in ferocious sal
vos.
But insurgent advices indicated
their stand might be in vain. These
reports said the vanguard of one of
the insurgent columns which are
marching to the sea had encircled
Durango and already was virtually
unopposed along the broad highway
toward Bilbao.
In that Basque capital authorities
began to consider evacuation of every
woman and child.
Ten small towns had been taken by
the three advancing insurgent col
umns.
DENHARDT TO TELL .
STORY FROM STAND
Defendant Accused in Kentucky of
Murdering Fiance To Testify
In Own Behalf
Newcastle, Ky., April 28 (AP) —
Testimony in the murder trial of
Brigadier-General Henry Denhardt
today centered around a “fountain
pen pistor” which belonged to the
portly soldiery politician who the
State charges killed his fiance,
Verna Taylor.
Two farm youths who lived close
to the general’s large country farm
told of seeing the small red pistol
on a table in the general’s room
last spring and examining it.
Both boys, Emmett and Gilbert
Roberts, however, said they had
not seen the pistol since.
Newcastle, Ky., April 28 (AP)—
From the lips of Brigadier-General
Henry Denhardt will come the story
of the tragic tryst that ended in death
for his sweetheart, Mrs. Verna Tay
lor, of LaGrange, Ky.
Counsel defending Denhardt against
an indictment chargihg him with mur
dering his fianTce after an all-day au
tomobile ride last November 6 indicat
ed today the defendant will be plac
ed on the stand to testify in his own
defense tomorrow.
The commonwealth, trying to build
up a circumstantial murder case
against) Denhardt, had) additional
scientific testimony to present today
to the jury of square-jawed farmers
from the blue grass country.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTBKNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
residents of submerged Wheeling is
land were still being sheltered and fed
at Red Cross refugee centers.
Pittsburgh, uneasy about its future,
after three flood experiences, raised
its voice through the city council and
demanded of Congress the installa
tion of storage reservoirs in the Al
leghany and Monongahela basins so
that “flood control may become a
reality in as short a time as human
ly possible.’’
WORKERSEVACUATE
BIG INDIANA PLANT
r
Closed Shop Demanded by
Pickets Following Riot
ing Tuesday Night
Connersville, Ind., April 28 (AP)
Eyes bloodshot from lack of sleep,
about 600 workers marched from the
Rex Manufacturing Company’s plant
here today amid hoots and catcalls of
more than 300 United Automovile
Workers of America, who had patroll
ed the outside of the building.
Shouts of “We want a closed shop”
came from the U. A. W. A. pickets.
The exodus from the plant was in
decided contrast to the hand-to-hand
combat last night in which three men
suffered*injuries requiring medical at
tention.
Dozens of other workers were cut
and bruised in the rioting which fol
lowed the calling of a U. A. W. A.
strike.
Elmer Davis, U. A. W. A. organiz
er, announced a temporary truce had
been ordered pending a conference
with Thomas Hutson, State labor
commissioner.
Early in the day a conference of
labor leaders and company officials
ended without agreement. Another
parley was sent for 7 p. m.
Davis said he had issued a demand
for a closed shop. He asserted he
had pointed out the existence of two
rival unions in the same plant was
“impossible.”
BOTTOM DROPS OUT
FROM STOCK PRICES
Broad Selling Envelopes Market With
Losses of One to Over
Six Points
New York, April 28.— (AP)—Broad
selling enveloped the stock market
today and leading (issues crumbled
one to more than six points. The
ticker tape was behind as much as
four minutes at the top of the slide,
but ti&ding slackened later and near
the tour hour extreme losses were
moderately reduced.
Binds held fairly well.
Tranfers approximated 2,500,000
shares.
American Radiator 21 1-8
American Telephone 1-0
American Tob B
Anaconda 77. "
Atlantic Coast Line rs
Atlantic Refining on ft
Bendix Aviation JJ “
Bethlehem Steel 82 1-z
Chrysler - «
Commercial
Continental Oil Ip 1-8
DuPont
Electric U&L 1°
Montgomery Ward ”
Southern Railway 35 1-2
Standard Oil N J
U. S. Steel , 101 1-8
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Nevada Senator Wants Two
New Justices But Is
Strong Against
Roosevelt Plan
PRESIDENT SEEKS
ADDITIONAL POWER
Wants Authority ,To Cut
Federal Appropriations 15
Percent, If Necessary, To
Balance Budget; Economy
Move In Congress Is For
Flat Slash
Washington, April 28.—(AP)—Sen
ator McCarran, Democrat, Nevada,
the “balance wheel" member on the
Senate Judiciary Committee announc
ed opposition today to the Roosevelt
court bill. His action virtually assur
ed an unfavorable report to the Sen
ate on the measure, those close to the
committee said.
McCarran announced his position
to the committee today at an execu
tive session, at which it was decided
to vote on the bill and all amend
ments by May 1,8.
The Nevada senator strongly urged
the committee to accept his comprom
ise, which would provide for a flat In
crease in the size of the court from
nine to eleven members. He announc
ed positively he would oppose the
President’s bill as it now stands, pro
viding for the naming of as many a«
six new justices, unless those over 70
now retire.
ROOSEVELT ASKS POWER
TO CUT APPROPRIATIONS
Washington, April 28.—(AP) —Con-
gress learned today President Roose
velt favored a proposal to give him
discretionary authority to reduce
Federal appropriations by 15 percent.
Speaker Bankhead announced he
was authorized to state Mr. Roosevelt
favored the 15 percent discretionary
reduction plan.
That was the first inkling of what
the executive had in mind to give
force to the economy pronouncement
made in his recent relief message to
Congress. In that he forecast a deficit
of $418,090,900 for the next fiscal year
beginning July 1.
He asked all appropriations be kept
to budget estimates, and immediately
afterward called on department heads
to cut current costs all possible.
His action aroused economy en
thusiasm in Congress. Principal a
mong suggestions made was one by
Senator Byrnes, Democrat, South Car
olina, for a flat ten percent cut In all
of next year’s appropriations.
The President’s economy demands
were reflected in House Appropria
tions Committee’s action on the sec
ond deficiency appropriations bill In
slashing $18,828,605 from Budget Bu
reau estimates for the measure, it was
disclosed when the bill wae reported
to the House today.
NAMES DIRECTORS
OF STATE HOSPITAL
Seven Former Officials and Two New
Ones Appointed by Hoey for
Raleigh Institution
Raleigh, April 27(AP) -Governor
Hoey reappointed seven °
the board of directors of the State
Hospital for the Insane here today
and named two additional me "^®£ B ‘
Reappointed were Senator William
G. Clark, of Tarboro Mrs. Marshall
Williams, of Faison; N. Edward Ed
gerton, of Raleigh; Dr. Charles Man
gum, of Chapel Hill; Dr. W R. Stan
ford, of Durham; Dr. W. H. Crowell,
of Shawboro, and K. C. Council, of
Wannanish. „
New members were Dr. Russell B.
Beam, of Lumberton, and T. Spruill
Thornton, of Winston-Salem.
COURT REFUSES TO
HALT PARKER TRIAL
Father and Son Tried on Conspiracy
In Jersey Growing Out of
Lindbergh Case
Newark, N. J., April 28 (AP) Fed
eral Judge William Clark refused to
day to postpone the conspiracy trial of
Ellis Parker and bis son, and order
ed a jury drawn to hear the case,
which grew out of the Lindbergh
kidnaping.
Counsel for the chief of Burlington
county detectives and his son, Ellis
Parker, Jr., sought to delay after a
charge of attempted jury tampering
was made at yesterday s opening ses
sion of the trial.
Defense counsel also planned to
press for a separate trial for the Par
kers. They are charged with Martin
Schlossman, Harry Weiss and Murray
Bleefeld with a conspiracy to abduct
and torture Paul Wendel, former Tren
ton attorney, to get from him a false
confession to the Lindbergh kidnap
ing,.