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Foes Os Court Plan Now Talking Os Compromise
AGREEMENT COULB
BE HAD IF BILL OF
FOR WERE DROPPED
Senator Burke Suggests
Hatch Plan of One Just
ice Annually for
Present Time
ENLARGEMENT IDEA
A STEMPORARY ONE
Vote Before May 18 Unlike
ly, Although Many Foes of
Plan in Senate Committee
[Are Ready for Showdown
Any Time; Ten to Eight
Against Now
YVajshingjton, May 3. —(AP) —Talk
of a possible compromise on court or
ganization sprang up suddenly today
among opponents of the plan propos
ed by President Roosevelt.
Senator Burke, Democrat, Nebras
ka, said, following a closed meeting
of the Senate Judiciary Committee,
that ‘'there might be a real chance
to get together if the President’s bill
were scrapped for a compromise sug
gested by Senator Hatch, Democrat,
New Mexico.
Under the President’s plan the ex
ecutive could appoint a total of six
new justices to the Supreme Court
bench as soon as the bill became ef
fective. Under the ’Hatch plan, ap
pointment would be limited to one
justice a year except for normal
vacancies.
Hatch also has offered an amend
ment to the Roosevelt bill to make
any increase in the size of the court
temporary.
Some members of the committee in
dicated a willingness to vote imme
diately on the court bill, but held lit
tle hope the date already fixed could
be advanced.
It would require unanimous agree-
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minis up
PURCHASING DUTIES
One of Biggest Immediate
Tasks Is to Buy New
School Buses
Dally Dispatch Bareni.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Hy .1. C. TIASKIiRVIIL
Raleig!., May 3. —“The one thing I
tun sure of in taking over this new
job is that I have a lot to learn and
am going to have to do a lot of study
ing at night as well as during the day
to get a grasp on the things I am go
ing to need to knorw,” Capus M. Way
nick said today as be started “digging
in’ 1 as the new director of the division;
of purchase and contract. “While I
have supervised all highway pur
chases for more than two years and
so became pretty ■weld acquainted with
values and market trends in highway
supplies and materials, I now must
find out about values, market trends,
(Continued on Page Two)
Parker ; Sr.
AspiredFor
Hoover Job
Newark, N. J„ May 3. —(AP)—The
government attributed to Ellis Park
,r in his Wendel kidna.p-conspiracy
Inal today the statement that “the
captuie of the Lindbergh kidnape* - ”
by him “might give me Edgar Hoov
or ’ s job, and make Governor Hoff
man vice-president of tiie Unitgd
States.”
' nited States Attorney John Quinn,
told the jury the statement was made
by Parker, chief of Burlington county
detectives, to one of the three Brook
>n men accused of conspiring with
him t' kidnap and torture Paul Win-
J- :1 * nto making a false confession to
be Lindbergh kidnaping.
Quinn charged the Wendel con
spiracy was “a deliberate attempt Ay
“e Parkers to commercial the death
0 little Lindbergh baby.”
The three co-defendants of Parker
<! son, Ellis, Jr., suddenly .chang
their pleas to guilty, thus leaving
.. 0 tv ° Parkers to be tried alon.e. The
ice are Murray Bleefeld, Martin
oossmann and Harry Weiss.
Hroiirrsmt Satin Hi snatch
52d Day of Fasting
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His face showing the effects of his
ordeal, Jackson Whit
low, Stooping Oak., Tenn., mountain
eer, is shown on the fifty-second day
of his “God-inspired” fast, awaiting
the “call rom the Lord.” Physicians
say that even after breaking his fast
his chances of survival are slim.
T
W orkers At
Studios Now
Join Strike
6,000 Members of 11
Motion Picture
Unions Ordered To
Go Out Today
Hollywood, Cal., May 3 (AP) —Six
thousand studio workers were swept
into the spreading film industry strike
today as guild actors arranged a
week’s delay in joining the walkout.
The 6,000 members of the eleven
unions of the Federated Motion Pic
ture Crafts were ordered not to re
port to work this' morning, and 3,500
of them were assigned picket duty.
Basis of the dispute, which first
flared into a strike last Friday night
is the Federated Crafts’ demand on
nine major companies for sole bar
gaining rights.
Saying the “dress rehearsal is over”
Charles Lessing, of the crafts’ ar
ranged picket lines not only at the
studios but at Los Angeles theatres
showing their product.
For the first time in years, the
United States’ $2,000,000,000 motion
picture industry faced a serious pro
duction stoppage.
Skobs
Fears Allayed As New Com
mission Decides Against
Changes
Dally Dispatch Bnrean,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
IIV J C IJASIvEriVILI,
1 Raleigh, May 3—Employees of the
various divisions of the State Highway
and Public Works Commission breath
ed more easily today as a result of
the resolution adopted by the new
commission in its first meeting here
Saturday, announcing that no changes
would be made in any of the divisions
and that all personnel would remain
as it has been until after July 1. Thef-e
has been considerable uneasiness
among some division heads and em
ployees that there might be many ad
diticnal changes made in the person
nel of the commission following the
change made hy Governor Clyde R.
Hoey in the chairmanship and in the
members of the commission. But the
action of the new commission as con
tained in the announcement made by
Chairman Frank Dunlap has proved
reassuring and allayed this uneasi-
As to what will happen after July
1 no one knows. It is expected that
after that date some changes will be
made here and there in the various di
visions of the commission. On the
other hand, the fact that the new com
mission and chairman have definitely
agreed not to make arty changes be
fore July 1, but to devote their time
and attention to studying the present
s/up and personnel, is regarded as
indicating that a good many will be
retained who otherwise might not he.
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
LEASED WIRE SERVICE OP
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
DECISION DELAYED
BY SUPREME COURT
High Tribunal Also Declines
To Pass on Kerr-Smith
Tobacco Produc
tion Control
KENTUCKY~GROWER
ASKS FOR RULING
Government Contends Cir
cumstances Do Not Justify
This “Extraordinary Pro
cedure;” Unemployment
Ruling May Come Two
Weeks Hence
Washington, May 3. —(AP) —'The
Supreme Court delayed today at least
until May 17 a final decision on con
stitutionality of the Federal social
security act, and declined to pass on
unusual litigation to test the consti
tutionality of the Kerr-Smith tobacco
production control act, repealed Feb
ruary 10, 1936, after the similar agri
culture adjustment act was invalidat
ed.
A final decision on the control act
was sought hy C. M. Smith, a Fayette
county, Kentucky, tobacco grower,
who won in the western Kentucky
Federal district court a suit to re
cover from the government $607 of
taxes paid on tobacco sales during the
crop year 194-35.
He told the Supreme Court that
collections under the act aggregated
$4,260,805 to February 1, 1936, and
that all claims for refunds are barred
unless suit is filed within two years
after the claim is rejected by the com
missioner of internal revenue. In re
ply, the government said “the circum
stances do not justify resort to this
extraordinary procedure.” Solicitor
General Stanley Reed explained that
legislation was pending in Congress
to authorize the refund of collections
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COTTON EDGES UP
ON DAY’S TRADING
Liverpool Cables Firmer and Trade
and Commission House Buy
ing Boost Demand
New York, May 3.—(AP)—Cotton
futures opened steady, 9 to 12 points
higher on (better Liverpool cables,
trade and commission house buying.
July fluctuated between 13.01 and
13.05 during the first half hour and
shortly thereafter was selling at 13.04,
with prices generally 8 to 13 points
net higher. July recovered from 12.95
to 13.01, and at xqidday prices were
about 10 to 11 points net higher.
Cotton futures closed steady, 1 to
12 higher. Spot steady; middling 13.50.
High Close
May 12.96 12.89
July 13.05 13.00
October 12.77 12.78
December 12.75 12.75
January 12.77 12.77
'March 1\2.80 12.80
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Geoffrey Dennis
This is a recent portrait of Geof
frey Dennis, author of “Corona*
tion Commentary”, which the
Duke of Windsor forced from dis
tribution in Great Britain when
he objected to certain passages
pertaining to his brief reign as
King Edward VIII. The duke has
filed suit against Dennis. The vol
ume has not been withdrawn in
the U. S.
HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 3, 1937
Biggest Spanish Battleship
To Shell Rebels At Bilbao
Meantime, British and
French Warships Patrol
Bay of Biscay To
Protect Refugees
CRUSHING BLOW ON
REBEL SHIPS SEEN
Huge Warship’s Guns Have
Only Recently Been Re
turned to Her from Madrid,
Where They Helped Repel
Invaders for Months Dur
ing Siege
St. Jean de Luz, France, May 3. —
(AP) —Diplomatic quarters heard to
day that the Spanish government had
sent its biggest battleship, the Jamie
Primero. to the Bay of Biscay, off
Bilbao, apparently in a move to shell
insurgent lines around the Basque
capital.
British and French men of war pa
trolled the bay today to protect mer
chant vessels bringing the first re
fugees out of Bilbao.
Diplomats asserted the Jamie Pri
mero, carrying 12-in guns, probably
would be able to strike a crushing
blow against insurgent vessels operat
ing in the bay, particularly since the
sinking by government planes of the
insurgents’ heaviest warship, the Es
pana.
In addition, these sources pointed
out, the Jamie Primero would be in
position to turn its big guns on the
insurgent land forces at Bermeo, near
Bilbao, and afford protection for ships
evacuating noh-combatants from the
fc'esieged capital.
The recent apparent inactivity of
the government fleet was explained
as due to the fact that the Jamie Pri
meio’s big guns had only recently
been returned from Madrid.
When the siege of Madrid started
last July, the heavy guns were dis
mounted and secretly taken from the
cruiser to the capital to shell insur
gent lines. Meantime, operations of
the ships with smaller calibre guns
had been confined chiefly to the
Mediterranean Sea.
While secrecy surrounded the plan
lest Spanish insurgent warships in
terfere, diplomatic reports indicated
(Continued on Page Two'.
FAVORITES BID UP
BY SLOW TRADERS
Steels, Oils, Bails, Aircraft and Spe
cialties in Demand During
Dull Session
New York, May 3.— (AP)—While
buyers nibbed at selected stocks in
today’s market, the acquisitive ap
petite was far from voracious. Favor
ed steels, oils, rails, aircraft and spe
cialties were bid up fractions to two
points in unusually slow dealings, but
there was an assortment of losses
around noon. With corporate state
ments and dividends highly satisfac
tory, sellers were timid throughout.
Bonds were quiet and slightly im
proved. Commodities were uneven.
The French franc pushed up briskly
in foreign exchange transactions, and
sterling gave ground.
Trends were conflicting at the
close. Transfers were around 650,000
shares.
American Radiator 22 3-8
American Telephone 167
American Tobacco B 81 1-2
Atlantic Coast Line 58 1-8
Atlantic Refining 31
Bendix Aviation 21 5-8
Bethlehem Steel 85
Chrysler H 3 5-8
Columbia Gas & Elec Co 13 7-8
Commercial 16
Continental Oil Co 16 1-8
DuPont 154 7-8
Elec Pow & Light 19 3-4
General Electric 53 3-4
General Motors 57 7-8
Liggett & Myers B 98
Montgomery Ward & Co 54 5-8
Reynolds Tobacco B 50 3-4
Southern Railway 37 3-8
Standard Oil Co N. J 67 1-4
U. S. Steel .4 101 1-4
FOB NOBTH CABOLINA.
Partly cloudy tonight and Tues
day; possibly occasional rain in
extreme southwest portion; not
much change in temperature.
Sunk by Loyalist Planes
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Bilbao reports that one of the Spanish Rebels’ best warships, the Espana,
formerly the Alphonso Sd, was sunk by Loyalist air bombers off Bilbao.
The ship, once flagship of the Spanish navy, was one of the rebel craft
participating in the blockade of the Basque seaport.
(Central Press)
Roosevelt Gain?
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George L. Berry
Gov. Gordon Browning of Tennes
see was expected to name George
L. Berry, federal co-ordinator of
industrial co-operation, to fill the
vacancy in the U. S. senate caused
by the death of Senator Nathan
Bachman. Berry, for years a
strong force in the American la
bor movement, would add to
Roosevelt majorities in the-senate.
—Central Press
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Myron Taylor, of “Big
Steel”, Heard From Fi
nanciers on C. I. O.
By CHABLES P. STEWABT
Central Press Columnist
Washington, May 3. —Myron C.
Taylor, chief executive of the United
States Steel Corporation, is being ad
vertised as the captain of industry
who forced his huge concern into
coming to terms with John L. Lewis’
labor organization on vertical lines, as
distinguished from the A. F» of L.’s
plan of craft unionization.
The story is that the lieutenants of
Captain (of industry) Taylor were
prepared to “go to the mat with
with Lewis' C. I. 0., but that Taylor
overruled them.
Weil, it is true that he did overrule
them, but I have it from reliable au
thority that Taylor, in turn, had his
orders from higher up; that is to say,
from Wall Street. The House of Mor-
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Faster Is
Waiting On
Lords Call
Stooping Oak, Tenn., May 3 (AP) —
Dr. R. E. Standiscr Dunlap, physician,
said Jackson Whitlow, who broke
what he said was a 53-day religious
fast Saturday, was “much improved"
today.
“He is stronger, and unless compli
cations set ip will recover,” declared
the doctor.
Whitlow appeared much brighter
than during the past three weeks and
told relatives, “I will be able to go
fishing within a few days.”
He is still waiting, he said “for the
Lord to reveal to me what great task
I am to perform.”
“I know that the call will come be
fore long,” he declared. “I met the
devil and bested him. I passed the
great test. The Lord will speak soon.’”
CHOWAN VOTE UPON
LIQUOR IS ORDERED
Commissioners Reverse Previous Re
fusal To Call Election and
Do Just That
Edenton, May 3 (AP)—The Chowan
county commissioners today reversed
their former stand and called a coun
ty liquor election to be held on a date
to be set by the County Board of
Elections.
The voting cannot take place until
the middle of June because 50 days
are required for public notice of elec
tion registration.
The commissioners had previously
declined to call an ABC election with
out a petition from 15 percent of the
voters. Such a petition was drawn
but never was circulated.
BURLESQUE SHOWS
ASK COURT RELIEF
Mandamus Sought To Compel Issu
ance of License To Operate
In New York City
New York, May 3 (AP)—Burlesque
grasped at a legal straw today when
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Rosen
man said a jury would decide next
week whether License Commissioner
Paul Moss used proper discretion in
denying license renewals to the city s
14 burlesque theatres.
Attorneys for three of the theatres
appeared before Justice Rosenman
today and asked for a writ of manda
mus ordering Moss to issue licenses
immediately for the 1937-38 season.
This request the justice denied.
POPE PIUSIUFFERS
RELAPSE OF ILLNESS
Castel Gandolfo, Italy, May 3
(AP) —Pope Pius has suffered a
marked setback, it was learned to
day. It was said he was too tired
to grant audiences today and rest
ed in the apartment of his sum
mer residence here, receiving his
secretary for only a few reports.
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Duke Manifestly Elated At
Granting Final Divorce
Decree for Approach
ing Nuptials
DROPS EVERYTHING
TO RUSH TO FIANCE
Wedding Will Likely Be
Solemnized After Coro
nation May 12, But Can Be
Performed Any jMinute
Now; Court Proceedings
Last 25 Seconds
London, May 3. —(AP) —The precise
machinery of the British divorce
court clicked off Wallis Warfield
Simpson’s final divorce decree today
and Edward of Windsor, the man.
who deserted the throne for “the wo
man I love,” lost not a minute in
closing the gup between St. Wolfgang 1 ,
Austria, and the French Touraine.
They are free to marry now when
ever they choose, perhaps at a Bri
tish consular office in France or at!
a French town hall, but probably not
until after the pageantry of state that
will put Edward’s crown on the head
of his brother, King George VI, nine
days hence.
These swift developments thiv
morning and this noon brought ever
closer the union of the lonely duke
and the Baltimore-born woman,
whose love changed the empire’s
crown arid thrilled the whole world.
London, 10:30 a. m.—Presiding
Judge Sir Boyd Merriman in the di
vorce court nodded his head over 7fli
final divorce cases, one of them “Sim
pson W. vs. Simpson, E. A.” and said:
“I pronounce the decree absolute."
The action took 25 seconds and only
ten persons witnessed it from the gal
leries.
St. Wolfgang, Austria, noon-Ed-;
ward of Windsor, dressing for a maun
tain hike, answered the telephone,
then announced through his adjutant,
“The duke is taking the four o'clock
train at Salzburg, destination Tours”
The Chateau de Cande, France de
Tours —Mrs. Simpson, in seclusion aa
deep as before, let her attorney*
handle the decree and awaited her be
trothed. She will not wed him, her
spokesmen insisted, until after the
coronation.
But the fact remained that Mrs.
Simpson, who married Ernest Simp
son, her second husband, on July 2i,
1928, was legally free to marry the for
mer king at any moment.
EDWARD TOLD BY WALLIS
TO “HURRY UI’;” HE DOES
St. Wolfgang, Austria, May 3.
(AP) —Edward of Windsor bade this
Austrian beauty spot goodbye today
and hastened toward his newly-freed
betrothed in France.
Wallis Simpson told him by tele
phone, “Hurry up.”
Just before the noon the telephone
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DuPont And
Raskob Are
Defendants
New York, May 3.—(AP)—Two of
the nation's biggest industrialist*
and financiers, Pierre DuPont and
John Raskob, appeared ktefore the
United States Board of Tax Appeal*
today to face charges that they en
gaged in ficitious stock sales to each
other to establish losses in their 1929
income tax.
The government contends DuPont
owe* an extra assessment of $617,316
and Raskob $1,626,340 on their 1929
tax.
The government contends the two
financiers sold stocks back and forth
at losses to establish deductible losses
for their income taxes.
Among the stocks included in the
sales were those of General Motors,
in which both are heavily interested,
Anaconda Copper, Warner Brothers.
National Cash Register, Checijgr Cab
and Otis Elevator.
In opening the government’s case,
Chief Counsel Mason Leming, of the
Pureau of Internal Revenue, charged
that DuPont and Raskob entered into
an agreement in November, 1929,
whereby they would sell the stocks to
each other and buy them back at the
same price later.
Leming said the alleged losses en
tered by PaPont and Raskob were not
bonafide losses.