HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
twenty-fourth year
Crown Os Pasteboard Placed
Upon Head Os Duke In Final
Rehearsals For Coronation
GREAT CROWDS IN
LONDON SEE DRILL
FOR BIG CEREMONY
Cold Rain and Gloomy Fog
Envelope Milling Throngs
Watching Last
Preliminaries
POOR GETTHRILLS
DENIED THEM LATER
Special Trains from Pro
vinces Hourly Bring More
Thousands To Jam Great
City; Complete Tie-Up of
Transportation by Strikes
Threatens
London, May 10. —(AP)—The young
Duke of Norfolk, earl marshal of Eng
land, was crowned with a pasteboard
imitation today as an understudy of
his monarch in a final make-believe
ceremony in Wastminister Abbey that
brought to a close the months of care
ful preparation for the coronation on
Wednesday of King George VI.
Great crowds milled alkmt in cold
rain and gloomy fog, while in the
vaulted interior of the stately abbey
the characters who will play all but
the two most important parts in the
ceremony moved about and spoke
their lines as in a play.
The steady drizzle that brought the
end to days of unseasonal sunshine
failed to daunt the jostling good-na
tured throngs jamming (London to
capacity for the final act in the great
drama of empire.
The poor, unable to pay the prices
for Wedn<=day’s big show, sought
vicarious thrills in the (last-minute
check-up that gave them a preview of
the trapping of royalty and the court,
although the central figures were ab
eent.
They huddled under newspapers
and sodden blankets and stamped the
blood back into their clammy feet.
Special trains from the provinces
hourly brought more and more per
sons to swell the already over-crowd
ed metropolis, threatened with the
strike of busmen to include street car
and subway workers that might tie
up all transportation facilities during
the empire show.
Members of the central committee
for the 25,000 striking bus drivers and
conductors predicted the walkout
might spread through the allied or
ganizations as the strike appeared lit
tle nearer a settlement.
SELLING DEPRESSES
PRICES FOR COTTON
Futures Close 15 to 20 Points Lower
on Steady Sag in Mar
ket’s Trading
New York, May 10.—(AP)—Cotton
futures opened barely steady, one
higher to four lower with steady Liver
pool cables partly offset by scattered
liquidation and hedge selling. Prices
sagged to net losses of 6 to 8 points.
July sold off from 13.08 to 13.01. By
midday July, which had sold off tot
12.93, was quoted at 12.97.
Cotton futures closed steady, 15 to
20 lower.
High Close
May 13.04 12.88
July 13.08 12.91
October 12.85 12.70
December 12.82 12.67
January 12.85 12.69
March 12.90 12.74
Duke Makes
Final Plans
*
I orW edding
Complete Arrange
ments To Be An
nounced After the
Coronation
Monts, France, May 10 (AP)—The
Duke of Windsor began the British
empire’s coronation week today bus
ied with the final plans for the wed
■;ing he chose instead of the British
crown.
Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Simpson,
IJi w hose love he gave up the throne
hi s brother, George VI, added a few
n ames to the short list of selected
quests who will attend the wedding
ceremony.
T.e list was understood to be one
last details of the simple wed
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Hcnftcrsmt Haily tl tsmifch
A Tragic Bulletin Board
An official at the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, N. J., posts on the
bulletin board the results of the latest check-up on victims and sur
vivors of the Zeppelin Hindenburg, which exploded in mid-air over the
only a few hundred yards from the mooring mast which would have
marked the completion of her first 1937 voyage from Germany to America.
(Central Press)
Tax Problem Nightmare To
Congress; New Levy Coming
Leaders in Dark As to Proposals They Think Near,
but Unbalanced Budget Is Causing Uneasiness;
National Lottery and Radio Tax Talked
This is the last of three articles
by Charles P. Stewart on the tax
situation as seen from Washing
. ton.
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, May 10. —Congress is
in a truculent frame of mind; ready
to squabble over almost anything, and
the big problem yet to be solved is.
taxation. It is characteristic of the
President to make an executive ap
proach a step at a time, and leaders
in both houses appear to be in the
dark.
They will not even admit that a
tax till will be presented, although
they know that one must be brought
out. Everybody with a soft lead pen
cil has taken a shot at the Issue. The
Big Changes
For Security
Act Probable
Advisory Body of 24
Named by Senate
Committee Starts to
Make Study
Washington, May 10.—(AP)—Rep
resentatives of employers and the
public composed today an advisory
committee to study possible major re
vision of the Federal social security
act.
The 24 members of the committee
were appointed by the Senate Finance
Committee and the Social Security
Board, which administers the act.
Chairman Harrison, Democrat, Mis
sissippi, of the Senate Finance Com
mittee, said no fundamental changes
would be recommended to this session
of Congress, but there were indica
tions that revisions might be proposed
to later Congresses by the advisory
group.
The committee will study possible
changes in both the old age system,
and the unemployment compensation
system.
Meanwhile, at the Capitol, the court
reorganization controversy produced
new efforts on the part of Senate
Judiciary Committeemen to bring
forth a proposal.
Senator Burke, Democrat, Nebras
ka, made the latest suggestion, say
ing he would submit tomorrow a con
stitutional amendment proposal,
which would include a provision for
compulsory retirement of justices at
the age of 75.
Senator McAdoo, Democrat, Cali
fornia, suggested to the Senate Judi
ciary Committee an unconditional in
crease to 15 in the number of Su
preme Court justices and a constitu
tional am’endment fixing the court at
that size for 25 years.
The committee will vote on the bill
a week from tomorrow.
LEASED WIRE SERVICE OP
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 10,1937
Brookings Institution recently issued
a report showing a heavy increase in
housing requirements for Federal
agencies. In 1933 offices and quarters
for this purpose in the 'national capi
tol occupied 12 1-2 million square feet.
In 1935 the space had increased to al
most 16 million (15,844,957 as against
12,552,138 in 1933.) Outside of Wash
ington the increase jumped, over the
named period, from 56,239,294 square
feet to 102,409,199. Between December,
1934, and September, 1936, the civil
personnel increased more than 1,000
each month except two. The personnel
outside of the capital is 85 per cent
of the total.
It is beyond credulity to expect a
cut in these figures large enough to
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PACKARD’S ACCORD
PLACED IN EFFECT
First Major Auto Agree
ment Reached Without
Strike Preceding
Detroit, Mich., May 10 (AP) —The
first major automobile plant agree
ment between labor and management
reached without a strike became ef
fective today with ratification of the
Packard Motor Car Company pact, in
which the United Automobile Workers
of America represent all employees.
The sole bargaining rights was won
previously by the union in a plant
election held under the national labor
relations act.
Packard employees voted approxi
mately four to one in favor of repre-
by this union. Packard
workers voted acceptance of the agree
ment last night after a minority ob
jected to the proceedings, particular
ly with respect to wage rates.
The Packard management and a U.
A. W. A. committee drew up the
agreement last Friday.
GREENSBORO LEADS
IN SHORTER HOURS
Year-Around Business Day
Shortened by Agreement
of Merchants
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKF.RVILL
Raleigh. May 10.—One of the big
gest steps ever taken in North Caro
lina towards shorter working hours
for employes in mercantile establish
ments has been taken hy the Greens
boro Merchants Association, which to
day will put into effect a 46 1-2 hour
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ROSENDAHL GIVES
EYE WITNESS VIEW
OF AIRSHIP CRASH
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1
U. S. Commandant of Lake
hurst Station De
scribes! Destruction
of Hindenburg
HAS NO KNOWLEDGE
OF ORIGIN OF FIRE
Atmospheric Conditions for
Landing Entirely Satisfac
tory and Ground Crew Pro
ceeded in Normal Manner,
Rosendab* Tells Commerce
Loard
Lakehurst, N. J., May 10. —(AP)
Commander Charles Rosendahl, the
navy’s outstanding lighter-than-air ex
pert, and an eye-witness to the Hin
denburg’s fiery destruction, today told
a Department of Commerce investigat
ing board thgt “a small burst of
flame on the after part of the ship on
the top’’ was the first sign of the
disaster.
“My feeling was at once that it
spelled doom for the ship,’’ he declar
ed. Himself a survivor of one of Am
erica’s major airship disasters, the de
struction of the Shenandoah, Rosen
dahl was the first witness called as
the investigation opened in the han
gar. Rain drizzled down on the Hin
denburg wreck, on the south field, a
third of a mile away.
“It is, of course, obvious that I have
no knowledge of what was the origin
of the fire,” Rosendahl said.
Commandant of the United States
naval air station here, Rosendahl pre
ceded his description of the actual
disaster by telling the three-man in
vestigating board that the Hinden
burg car e down to her last landing
under atmospheric conditions that
wore “entirely satisfactory,” and with
the ground crew proceeding in a nor
mal manner. The ship’s pre-landing
maneuvers were rothing unusual, he
added.
After noticing the first small puff
flare from her stern, Rosendahl said,
“I saw practically the whole stern of
the ship take fire first. Then the fire
spread progressively forward.”
“Spy Ring”
Probe Asked
For By Nye
Washington, May 10 (A'P) —'Sena-
tor Nye, Republican, North Dakota,
urged in the Senate today an investi
gation of what he called a “spy ring
in this country serving the Spanish
General Franco and his Fascist state.”
Nye smiled with the Senate trans
lators’ letters which he contended
showed former Spanish diplomats and
members of a New York shipping firm
were involved in “activities which vio
late and threaten American neutral
ity.”
Nye sugested that the proposed in
vestigation should include “all agen
cies foreign to our country which are
participating in the present struggle
to win American favor for one side
or the other as represented in the
lines drawn in Spain."
Defense For
Bilbao Given
Into Council
Five High Army Of
ficers Included, All
Under Basque Pres
ident Aguirre
Bilbao, Spain, May 10.—(AP) —The
Basque government of Bilbao, besieg
ed by an encroaching ring of insur
gent armies, stripped its military high
command of power today and set up
a defense council to take over the con
duct of the war.
President Jose Aguirre of the auto
nomous Basque government, was nam
ed head of the defense council, simi
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WRMjjamSPMilir
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair tonight and Tuesday; cool
er tonight and on the south coast
Tuesday.
Merrill And Lambie Arrive
At London For Coronation;
Left New York Sunday 3:30
Merrill and Lambie Reach London
Dick Merrill, shown right in picture,
and Jack Lambie, at left, landed safe
ly in London at 12:38 p. m., eastern
time, this afternoon for Wednesday’s
coronation ceremonies, after flying
Hl sethestate
New Commission to Set Up
Ten Districts at Meet
ing Tomorrow
Dally Dispatch Boreas,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKEBVILL
Raleigh, May 10—The ten newly ap
pointed members of the State High
way and Public Works Commission
will meet here tomorrow morning
with new Chairman Frank L. Dunlap
to go into an all-day huddle in the ef
fort to divide the into ten dis
tricts. For while Governor Clyde R.
Hoey appointed ten district commis
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BACKWARD TILT IN
STOCKS IS EVIDENT
Only Slight Push Necessary To De
press Market; Declines of One
to Four Points
New York, May 10.— (AP)—Merely
a slight push was necessary to tilt fi
nancial markets backward today. In
extremely slow dealings, stocks yield
ed fractions to around three points,
and there was little comeback in evi
dence near the fourth hour of the ses
sion. There was no little pressure on
bonds. Major commodities found the
going difficult. ...
Stocks leaned backward for losses
of one to four or more points. Trans
fers were around 750,000 shares.
American Radiator
American Telephone V?
American Tobacco B “ “
Anaconda ill
Atlantic Coast Line ir ZJ.
Atlantic Refining f
Bendix Aviation
Bethlehem Steel **
Chrysler •••••*■•
Columbia Gas and Elec Co 13
Commercial ~,
Continental Oil Co “ r?
DuPont
Electric Pow & Light
General Electric M
General Motors 58 3-4
Liggett & Myers B 97 1-2
Montgomery Ward & Co 51 3-4
Reynolds Tobacco 50 1-8
Southern Railway 37 3-8
Standard Oil Co N J 66 1-2
U. S. Steel 99 I_^
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
non-stop from New York where they
took off Sunday afternoon about 3:30
p. m. Their plane is shown above.
They plan a return hop, arriving in
New York Thursday of this week with
photographs of the coronation.
Mitchell Must Pay
$728,709 Back Tax
New York, May 10 (AP)—The
United States Circuit Court of Ap
peals today ruled unanimously that
Charles Mitchell, former president
of the National City Bank of New
York, must pay $728,709 taxes on
his income for the year 1929.
Another item of additional taxes
in dispute was based on the fact
that Mitchell had received $666,-
666 from the National City Bank
as Compensation for services dur
ing the year 1929, but had omitted
to report it as taxable income.
PROBERS USUALLY
GRIND THEIR AXES
LaFollette Has “Prosecut
ed” Harlan Coal Inquiry
In Its Horrors
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, May 10.—Conservative
critics find a deal of fault with con
gressional investigations.
Most of them are dominated by li
beral inquisitors—or even downright
radicals, according to conservative
folk, That, doubtless, is why the con
servatives resent them so bitterly.
It stands to reason that liberals
generally start them. The conserva
tives are satisfied with things as they
are. They cannot understand why
what they consider o. k. already
should be “put on the pan”, ne has to
he a liberal to suspect that whatever
is may not be right.
“VENTILATION” NEEDED
The conservative contention, how
ever, is that a liberal, urging an in
vestigation, simply is trying to pub
licize himself.
Perhaps that does figure in his cal
culations.
But what of it? Having launched
an inquiry, he must make out a good
case or he won’t get his desired pub
licity. And if he does make out a good
case, it would appear that the condi
tions he wanted to ventilate needed
ventilation, regardless of the motive
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Pair Plan To Pick Up Pic
tures of Coronation
Ceremonies and Bring
Them Home
TRIP VERY TOUGH
ONE, MERRILL SAYS
Flew Blind Entire Distance
and Through Rain Most of
Way; American Girls at
Croydon Airdrome Kiss
Two Men as They Leap
From Machine
Croydton Airdrome, England, May
10 (AP) —The American coronation
fliers Dick Merrill and Jack Lambie,
landed at Croydon at 6:38 p. m., (12:38
p. m., eastern standard time) to com
plete the eastward leg of an ambitious
trans-Atlantic flight that may put
them back in New York by Thursday.
They landed first at North Weald air
drome, 15 miles outside London, to
repair damaged radio apparatus and
then sped on to land here 21 hours,
two minutes after the take-off from
Floyd Bennett field in New York Sun
day. A large crowd greeted them
upon their arrival.
The pair planned to pick up pic
tures of the coronation and fly back
to New York after the ceremonies
Wednesday.
Neither showed the slightest sign of
fatigue.
Merrell popped out of thei plane
first and was rushed by a woman ad
mirer, who planted three resounding
kisses. He took some minutes to re
move the lipstick and remark it was
a “'pretty tough trip.”
“We flew blind the entire way,” he
said.
Both fliers said they felt fine and
expected to land back in New York
Thursday.
The first land they saw, Merrill said
was the southwest corner of Ireland.
An air ministry official greeted the
fliers and gave them an unusual
permitting them to fly anywhere they
desired while in Ireland.
The girl who kissed Merrill was
Dorothy Daye, American correspond
ent here for the Philadelphia Inquir
er. Peggy Reed, of New York, was
with her and kissed Lambie.
The latter commented that they
flew through rain most of the way,
though they were short of fuel whan
they set down at North Weald.
The fliers first touched English soil
15 miles outside London at 6:10 p. m.
repaired their radio and resumed the
flight to Croydon at 6:20 p. m., (12:20
eastern standard time).
It was Merrill’s third trans-Atlantic
crossing in a year. With Harry Rich
mon, New York night club singer, he
made the eastward crossing last year
in 17 hours, 45 minutes, but was forced
down in South Wales. The westward
hop also ended in a forced landing in
Newfoundland.
A.F.ofL.To
Try To Sign
State Labor
Clash With C. I. O. to
Begin After Cincin
nati Meeting Next
Week
Dully Dll patch Baream.
In the Mir Walter Hotel.
By J. O. UAMKKRVILL
Raleigh, May 10.—The American
Federation of Labor is expected to
start a new organization drive in
North Carolina in the near future,
both to strengthen its ranks in the
State and to combat the intensive or
ganization work which the C. I. O.
has already started under the direc
tion of Roy R. Lawrence, former A.
F. of L. organizer and president of the
•State Federation of Labor, according
to reports being heard here today. But
the belief in most circles is that any
intensive organization efforts on the
part of the A. F. of L. in the state will
probably be postponed until after the
general “council of war” called by the
A. F. of L. leaders to meet in Cincin
nati May 17 and 18, at which plans for
its counter offensive against the C. I.
O. will be formulated.
Observers here feel that the A. F. *
of L. has a splendid opportunity in
North Carolina to build up its craft
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