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r HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR POWERS DEFT REBELS IN BILBAO RESCUES 14 State Officials Just Appointed Are Given Their Oaths Governor Advises Road Commission To Study Job Before Chang ing Any Personnel . OATHS ARE GIVEN BY JUSTICE STACY Waynick as Purchasing Chief Is First, Followed by Dunlap as Highway Chair man and His Ten Assist ants; Deyton Becomes Bud get Bureau Chief Raldigh, May I.—(AP)—Fourteen newly appointed State officials took their oaths of office today before Gov ernor Hoey, and the chief executive! advised the new highway and public works commission to “study your jobs (before you make any sweeping chan ges in personnel.” First to be sworn in by Chief Jus tice W. P. Stacy, of the Supreme Court, was Capus Waynick, retiring highway chairman, who this morning became director of the division of purchase and contract. I Frank Dunlap, retiring as assis tant director of the budget, then took oath as highway chairman, and the ten new commissioners were sworn Then Robert Deyton, succeeding Dunlap as assistant director of the budget, and Buren Jurney, re-appoint ed member of the Industrial Commis sion, were sworn. After pictures were made, the gov ernor spoke briefly to the highway group. ‘T am delighted to have you asso ciated with me in this capacity,” said the governor, “I know changes will come along, but I would advise that you not start in by making changes in personnel. I think those ought to wait until you study your jobs and iontact the people.” The commissioners then held their 1 first executive session a few minutes later, and announced there would be no immediate personnel changes. Tom Dixon .New Clerk U. S. Court Raleigh, May 1 (AP)—Tom Dixon, 73, author, lawyer, legislator, preacher and lecturer, became clerk of the eastern North Carolina Federal Dis trict Court by appointment of Judge I. M. Meekins, a Republican, today. Dixon, a Democrat who campaigned in North Carolina last summer and fall for Alf Landon, Republican pres idential nominee, claims Currituck county as home, though he has spent much time in New York in recent years. The State Republican Com mittee reported last year it paid his campaign expenditures. “I need the money for a backlog of security, as I carry on my program I have followed for 20 years,” Dixon said when asked why he decided to take the job. The post of clerk was relinquished yesterday by Captain Samuel A. Ashe, 97, Confederate veteran, and himself (Continued on Page Five) Harlan, Ky., Clean-Up Is Looked For Senate Investigators Hear of Moves Taken. by Governor to J hat End . Washington, May I.—(AP) Senate. liberties investigators expressed belief today their inquiry would e i n a clean-up of labor condi lons In Parian county, Kentucky, de -11 ,p -d by one 1 of their witnesses as v scene of “a tryanny which has no 'l a * in the civilized world.” pi n Piankforh, Ky., Governor A. B. Co !■ , 1 e^an efforts to revise the Ui ‘ ya law enforcement system un- Continued on Page Five.) HwuVrium Mg Btspafrir ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. His Art to Public Jules S. Bache (above), New York banker, has donated his famous col lection of classic art to the public, ! along with his New York home in which to house it. The collection is valued at more than $20,000,000. (Central Press) \ UNIFORM PRICEOF LIQUOR GOES INTO EFFECT ON MAY 14 New Seven Percent State Sales Tax to Be Includ ed in, Not Added to, Sale Price NEW PRICES BASED ON BORDER STORES These Are About in Line With Virginia Liquor Sales; Interior Counties May Experience Price Slash; Further Reductions May Come Later Dally Dlapntch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. CJ. BASKWRVIMi Raleigh, May I. Uniform price lists for all the State-county liquor stores operating in North Carolina will become effective May 14, it was announced today by Chairman Cutter Moore, of the new State Alcoholic Beverages Control Board. The de cision was concurred in by F. Webb Williams, of Elizabeth City, and Thomas J. Murphy, of Greensboro, the two other members of the board. It was also decided that the new seven per cent State sales tax would be in cluded in these prices and not added to them, despite the fact that many of the county hoards in the 18 coun ties already operating stores wanted to add the seven per cent State sales tax to the uniform prices that will be fixed by the State board Bu.t the board decided that since the county (Cont , ~ ued on Page Five) Faster Is Preparing; For Meals Stooping Oak, Tenn., May I.—(AP) —A fruit jar full of choice out-up steak and a pot of greens boiled to dav a + the home of Jackson Whitlow while the emaciated religious faster prepared for his first “real meal” id 52 days. ... He was ready to eat, but none could say how his weakened body re act to the food doctors have warned may prove fatal unless carefully taken Whitlow broke his fast yesterday morning by drinking a half cup of what he said was grape juice. The neighbors who brought it said it was elderberry wine. . , . , “My faSt is over; my trial is end ed. I know God is with me and I am not afraid,” Whitlow saad when he set his wife, Florence, to boiling the greens for ■•iatlikker- and cutting the juicy steak into hits for beef broth. leased wire service of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOO N, MAY 1, 1937 F lora MacDonald’s Children Enshrined | t From obscure graves in Richmond county, the bodies of two children born to Flora MacDonald, the Scottish heroine, have been removed to Red May Day Observed Throughout World By Many Thousand Maxwell Presses Wine Enforcement Raleigh, May 1 (AP) —Allen J. Maxwell, revenue commissioner, said today the entire organization of his department had been thrown into a drive to enforce the new wine law. Under the act, effective today, it became illegal to sell wine by the drink anywhere except in hotels, restaurants and cases with grade “A” ratings from the State Board of Health. HIGHWAY RADIO TO BE READY JUNE 1 Houses and Towers Com pleted; Service to Start Month Hence Dolly Dispatch Bnreaa, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. *»ASKERVILL Raleigh, May I—All of the houses and steel towers for the five highway patrol radio stations in the State will be completed by May 15 and be ready for the installation of the transmitters and interior equipment. Captain Char les D. Farmer, commander of the pa trol, said today. He hopes that all five; Continued on Page Five.) QUIET STRENGTH IS SHOWN FOR STOCKS Many Issues, However, Fall Back After Sharp Ascent of Friday’s Brisk Trading New York, May I.—(AP) —Quiet strength was shown in parts of to day’s stock market, but many issues fell hack after yesterday’s sharp as cent. Selected oils, farm implements and specialties trudged upward for gains of fractions to one or more points. Steels, however, gave ground easily. Transfers were in the neighborhood of 553,000 shares. American Radiator 22 3-4 American Telephone 164 1-4 American Tobacco B .81 Anaconda 'sl 1-4 Atlantic Coast Line 48 Atlantic Refining 31 Bendix Aviation 21 3-4 Bethlehem Steel 85 1-2 Chrysler 113 3-4 Columbia Gas & Elec Co 13 3-4 Commercial 15 1-2 Continental Oil Co 16 DuPont ... 154 1-2 Electric Pow & Light 19 5-8 General Electric 53 5-8 General Motors 58 Liggett & Myers B 97 1-2 Montgomery Ward & Co 55 1-4 Reynolds Tob B 50 1-2 Southern Railway 37 3-4 Standard Oil Co N J 66 1-2 U S Steel 101 I Springs, N. C., and enshrined on the j I campus of the college which bears her j name. They died during the Revolu- j j tionary War and soon afterwards ! One Bomb De&th Occurs in Warsaw, Poland, Child Being Victim, With Others Hurt JAMMED BY CROWDS Cossacks Parade Moscow’s Red Square and In Berlin Hitler Gnashes Out Fire and Brimstone to Oppon ents; Celebrations In the United States (By The Associated Press.) Thousands marched, cannons roar ed, and hands blared the interna tionale over the world today in tradi tional May Day demonstrations. One bomb death occurred in War saw, where Polish socialists and com munists engaged in a turbulent cele bration. A child was the victim. Sev eral ethers were hurt. Huge throngs jammed streets of European capitals and what was termed the biggest May Day parade in New York’s history proclaimed proletarian solidarity. There and in many other American cities all police were held in reserve. Cossacks parade in Moscow’s Red Square before Communist Chief Joseph Stalin; a half million persons gave the clenched fist salute in Paris: and German workers heard from Adolf Hitler in Berlin the time for higher wages had not yet come. At Chicago labor and pplitical Continued on Page Five.) FINANCE FIRM WILSON CHARTERED Raleigh, May I.—(AP) —The South eastern Finance Corporation, of Wil son, which will engage in a general financing business, secured a char ter today from Thad Eure, secretary of str te. Incorporators who subscribed SIOO,- 093 of the $250,000 authorized capital stock, are: P. T. Watson, F. S. Nooe and H. G. Connor 111, and David W. Isear, all of Wilson. OWMMMPMAII FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair and somewhat warmer tonight and Sunday. WEEKLY WEATHER. For South Atlantic States: Con siderable cloudiness with rather frequent showers most of week; somewhat warmer beginning of week, moderate temperatures thereafter. IS O<H- Flora MacDonald and her husband returned to Scotland. This picture shows the crowd grouped around the new graves on the campus at the en shrinement ritual. Judge Stabbed "IIIr ■; KIMg -term i Municipal Court Justice John Fran cis O’Neil, 50, was mysteriously stab bed on a Greenwich Village street cor ner, in one of the most populous street corners of New York City last Tuesday and died today. The stab bing occurred in broad daylight. NEW YORK JUDGE” DIES FROM STABS \ f. Attacked on Way to Office Last Tuesday by Uniden tified Man New York, May 1 (AP)—Justice John O’Neil of the municipal court, died today of stab wounds inflicted by an unidentified assailant. The Justice’s condition had been critical almost from the start, blood transfusions bringing only temporary relief. Hope was revived yesterday, however, when he showed more strength and declared: ‘T’ll pull through; I’ll make it, all right.” Justice O'Neil was stabbed in the back last Tuesday while waiting for a bus enroute to his office. As the assassin ran, the justice stiffened, said not a word, but walked back to his apartment slowly, inform ed his wife he had been attacked and was going to a nearby hospital. He Continued on Page Five.) SLIGHT DECLINE IN THE COTTON MARKET Moderate Liquidation and Disappoint ing Liverpool Cables De press Prices New York, May I.— (AP) —Cotton futures opened quiet, one to five low er 'on , disappointing Liverpool cables and • under moderate liquidation. July recovered from 12.96 to 13.08 and shortly after the first half hour was 13 G? when the market generally was 2 to 5 points net higher, t Futures closed steady, 9 to 12 lower gpot quiet, middling J 3.41. • Open Cl is? Ma v 13.00 12.88 j ul * y 12.97 12.93 October 12.71 12.68 December 12.71 12.65 January 1275 12.65 March 12.78 12.69 PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON 1JWI? rC'M'TO DV EXCEPT SUNDAY. U IViji OJjjJN 1 b UOl Y Duke and Wallis To Visit Austria St. Wolfgang, Austria, May 1 (AP)—A report the Duke of Wind sor and his bri:le would honey moon a'. Count Paul Muenster’s castle, near the Yugo-Slav-Italian- Austrian frontier, was current here today. It was thought they would re main there several months amid the Alphine beauties of a southern Austrian province. The 40-room castle, a vast pile of gray masonry, stands near Arnoldstein, Carinthia. MASS STRIKES FOR HOLLYWOOD MOVIES THREATEN STUDIOS Many Prominent Players In cluded in Possible Walk out of 10,000 Union Workers FULL EFFECTS MAY BE SHOWN MONDAY Conciliator for Film Pro ducers Says Extent of Strike Will Be Awaited Be fore Deciding on Union Demands for Recognition and Closed Shop Hollywood, Cal., May 1 (AP) — A strike that threatened to par alyze the huge motion picture in dustry, sending 10,000 studio work ers from their jobs, gathered mo mentum slowly today. Saturday ordinarily is a slack period and the effect of employees already called out on strike was scarcely noticeable. There w T as a scattering of pick ets at the major companies, but otherwise the situation seemed normal. Hol’jyWood, May I.—(AP) The multi-fcillion-dollar movie indus try was confronted today by a possi ble mass walkout by some 10,000 union employees of studios, including many prominent players Four unions were called out on strike last night when representatives of studio executives withheld decision on union demands for a closed shop as well as union recognition. The other unions in the newly-formed Federation Motion Picture Crafts, strike-sponsor, voted to defer until to day any decision on joining the strike More than 2,500 members of the scenic artists, painters, draftsmen and hair dressers unions were involved in last night’s strike call. They were instruct ed not to go to work today. President Charles Lessing, of the federated crafts, declared other union ists would not go through picket lines of the striking union. He said, however, full effect of the (Continued on Page Eight.) ADDERTON DEATH IS RULED AN ACCIDENT Fayetteville, May 1 (AP) —A cor oner’s jury decided today there was no evidence of foul play in the death of Ernest Adderton, West Durham youth, whose body was found in his room in a lodging house here Thurs day night. W. F. Fowler, Adderton’* room mate, told the jury the 19-year old roofer, was intoxicated Thursday night and expressed the opinion he had caught his head under a heavy bureau and snapped his neck in strug gling to free himself. The jury found death was ‘the re sult of a heavy bureau resting on his jugular vein,” and added there was no evidence to warrant criminal action. Fowler and Ora Ross, who had been held were released. Hitler In Warning To German Clergy About Activities Berlin, May 1 (AP)—Arolf Hitler, threatened bluntly today to “with draw the clergyman license’ ’from any “who try to disturb our community spirit.” He lashed out at opposition, Catho lic and otherwise in a speech at the Luftgarten, often the scene of wildly cheering Nazi gatherings. But today’s .reaction was one of moderate ap plause. Some 50,000 workers gathered in the huge square between the museum and the former imperial palace. An un broken wall of swastika banners flank o PAGES OTODAY VESSELS THAT RAN BLOCKADE TO,TAKE. THE POPULACE OUT British Warships To Protect Evacuation of Civilians Regardless of Warnings FRENCH BAY PORTS TO TAKE REFUGEES Franco Curtly Notifies Bri tain Insurgent Men of War Will Not Be Pledged To Respect Foreign Ships Re moving Civilians From Bilbao. Hen day e, Fran co-Spanish Frontier, May I.—(AP) —The captains of nine British merchantmen, ignoring Span ish insurgent refusals for vessels to respect any foreign ships inside their Bay of Biscay blockade, agreed to evacuate as many children as possi ble from Bilbao. The captains of the nine ships, which already have reached Bilbao through the insurgent sea gauntlet, said they hoped to be able to remove between 4,000 and 5,000 children tot St. Jean de Luz, around the bend of the Bay of Biscay in France. They announced their plan after a conference with the British consul at Bilbao, R. C. Stevenson. (In London authoritative sources disclosed British merchantmen, aid ed by British warships, would remove Bilbao’s civilian population whether or not Insurgent General Francisco Franco consents. Wlarships have been (Continued on Page Eight.) J. B. ROBINSON NEW ROCKY MOUNT MAYOR Veteran A. C. L. Railroad Official Wins; One New Alderman Elected on Board Rocky Mount, May I.—(AP) —John 'Quincy Robinson, veteran Atlantic Coast Line official, and member of the board of alderman, stood as the new mayor of Rocky Mount today after a spirited Democratic primary here yes terday. Robinson defeated his only oppon ent. Mayor T. W. Coleman, by a mar gin of 328 votes. One new alderman, J. R. Bobbitt, veteran business man, was chosen. He defeated J. W. Thurman, who had been a member of the board for near ly a score of years. Burlesque Shows Cut In Gotham New York, May 1 (AP) —(License Commissioner Paul Moss brought the city’s burlesque situation to a head today by flatly refusing to renew the license of 14 theatres where strip teas ers were practicing their art. Strip teasers and male comics, too, more than a little alarmed in the past week by the gales of protest ranging around them, had turned contrite in the last few days and tried to temper their shows. But the commissioner took heed from Catholic, Protestant and Jewish religious leaders and turned down the licenses of the burlesque shows. In a statement, the commissioner specified the old Eltinge theatre in 42nd street, but explained what he said about this theatre was applicable to the other 13. ed the square on both sides. Many women and some men faint ed under the hot sun. “If anybody tries through encycli cals, sermons or other religious mea sures to disturb our community spirit, we will simply withdraw the clergy men’s license from such,” Hitler cried. “It will not do for certain circles to criticize our morals when ’ they have the greatest reason to be concerned about morals in their own ranks.” Hitler’s speech provided further re percussions of the fight between Nazi ism and Catholicism.
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