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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR GEORGE VI CROWNED KING COURT REFORM FOES SUGGEST RECALL OF ENVOY TO GERMANY Yan Nuys and King, Both Democrats, Say Dodd’s Letter Indicates Fascist Leanings abmassador gave WARNING OF TREND Says Billion Dollar Ameri can Citizen Backing Dic tatorship Move Here; Sen ators Would Have Him Re turn Home To Appear at Senate Inquiry Washington, May 12.—(AP)— Two senatorial opponents of the Roosevelt court bill suggested today Ambas sador William Dodd return'from his Berlin post. Commenting on Dodd’s letter to Senators Glass, Democrat, Virginia, and BulkleyJ Democrat, Ohio, urging support of the court reorganization bill because of a “dictatorship” threat to the United States, Senator Van Nuys, Democrat, Indiana, said: “The ambassador has over-stepped the boundaries of his official position somewhat. His letter was ill-timed, ill advised, unsolicited and out of keep ing with his function as ambassador.” If Dodd “continues” to make such charges, then Van Nuys added, we will ask, through the State Depart ment, that the ambassador be “invit ed back here to appear before the Senate Judiciary CommHtee or F'r cign Rektions Committee” Senator King, Detnrcra*. Utah, said Dodd’s letter indicated he had become “imbused with Fascism” and had shown he was “not a proper man to represent this country in Ger many. ’ Dodd's letter warned of an Ameri can billionaire who he said was pre pared to “control ’ a “dictatorship” in this country. REIDSVILLE TEXTILE STRIKE STILL OUT Decided Yesterday To Return to Work Then Changed Their Minds at Last Minute Reidsville, May 12 (AP)—Spinning room doffers of the Edna Cotton Mills remained on strike today, their differ ences with employers still unsettled. The workers went on strike Monday decided to go back to work yesterday, then changed their plans at the last moment and declined to return to their machines. DUPONT’S LEDGERS GIVEN IN EVIDENCE Records of Many Millions of Dollars in Security Holdings Open ed at Trial New York, May 12 (AP) —Pierre DuPont’s ledgers for 1929 and 1930, a tin box containing the records of many millions of dollars in security holdings, were entered into evidence today in the income tax case against DuPont and his one-time secretary, John Raskob, later his close business associate. The government seeks to collect 5617,316 from DuPont and $1,026,340 from Raskob in alleged deficiency tax es on their 1929 incomes'. It is the government’s contention the stocks, sold back and forth after the 1929 Wall Street crash, which al lowed the two industrialists to de duct a total of more than $7,000,000 from their income for the year were not honafide sales and were accom panied by a re-purchasing agreement. The stocks, the government contends, "were “earmarked” in each other’s ac counts so the same blocks could be re-purchased. Slaughter Unprecedented In Government Offensive, Upon Spanish Insurgents * _ Toledo. Spain, May 12.—(AP)~ "^ ave after wave of government in fantryman charged insurgent posi tioi,.-, south >of this ancient imperial Cl -y today in the face of what insur gents described as “unprecedented’’ slaughter. . official insurgent communique osoribing the combat of the last four as one of tne greatest battles on c °otrp.l Spanish front, quoted gov ernment prisoners rs saying 3,000 of lGir conjirades had been killed and Urnticrsmt Daily Biapatrf; ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. LEASED WmEJ SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Wendel Rings In Hauptmann Trial Newark, N. J., May 12.—(AP) Ellis Parker was quoted by Paul Wendel in the Parker conspiracy trial today as having asked him to seek new r evidence in the Lind bergh case because “the State po lice framed Bruno Hauptmann.” The Burlington county detective chief told him, Wendel said, that he was “taking up information I obtained with Governor Harold Hoffman.” “From the information I gave him,” W’endel added, “Parker would make deductions and see how it dove-tailed.” This testimony was given by Wendel in re-direct examination in which were reviewed events im mediately before the reprieve Gov ernor Hoffman gave Hauptmann January 16, 1936. ROOSEVELT’S PLEA ’ FOR COC IS AGAIN FIRMLYJEIECIED House Finally Turns Down President’s Request for Permanent Status * of Unit TALK COMPROMISE ON COURT REFORM Opponents of President’s Plan Offer Suggestions to Senate Committee; Court’s Attitude in Future Figures in Child Labor Committee Hearing Washington, May 12.—(AP) — The House firmly and finally rejected to day President Roosevelt’s recommen dation for a permanent CCC. It pass ed and sent to the Senate instead a bill to extend the CCC for two years only. The bill passed on a roll call vote 385 to 7. Administration leaders made no at tempt to reverse the ballot by which an insurgent membership voted over whelmingly yesterday to retain the agency on a temporary basis. Today’s action was a mere formal ity ratifying the decision reached yes terday. Meantime, Ambassador William Dodd became a target of criticism for some opponents of the Roosevelt court bill because of a letter he wrote urging two senators to support the measure. While this latest tempest over the court bill raged on, the Senate Judi ciary Committee continued its study of various compromises suggested for (Continued on Page Six.) TRUCK OVERTURNS, OCCUPANTS KILLED Salisbury, May 12. —(AP) —A. H. Ratteree, 37, of Charlotte died in a ihospital here today of injuries he suf fered a few hours earlier in the over turning of a truck-trailer of the Hor ton Motor Lines near the city limits on the Lincolnton highway. Officers said Ratteree was thrown out when the trailer turned over two and a half times after failing to take a curve. that the number of dead and wound ed was incalculable. When night fell, the report added, General Francisco Franco’s troops still held positions they captured four days ago on the Merida highway west of Toledo. Today’s combat was south of the river which skirts Toledo on. the south. . . . As the battle developed, insurgent commanders came to view the gov ernment attacks as a major offensive aimed at wresting Toledo from Franco. HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, MAY 12,1937 Britain Crowns New King And Queen gfv ||| WFJfW Ml m ISIm w x Y\ mMmw TWKImMi ~ <, bl.m m iiij .. 1«1 MWII v MSSSSsssA KING GEORGE VI AND QUEEN ELIZABETH Place Vance In 3rd Area Road Group District Works East With Wake, Nash, Wilson, Wayne, Johnston Counties Raleigh, May 12 (AP) —The State Highway & Public Works Commis sion divided the State into ten ad ministrative and maintenance districts for road purposes today. Each division will have an engineer and assistant engineer and three dis trict engineers and each wil be divid ed later into thre districts, Chairman Frank Dunlap said. Now there are five divisions and 25 districts. “There will be additional duties im posed on the division and district en gineers as ten are to be added to the personnel,” said Dunlap. The districting for the State, order ed by the 1937 legislature includes: First —Edgecombe and Warren. Second —Beaufort, Pitt, Greene and Lenoir. Third —-Vance, Nash, Wilson, Wayne, Johnston and Wake. GAINS ARE SHOWN IN COTTON MARKET Market Fluctuates During Day On Varying Reports From Home and Abroad New York, May 12.—(AP)—Cotton futures opened barely steady, one to seven points decline on favorable weather and under liquidation and Far Eastern selling, truly recovered from 12.68 to 12.77 and shortly after the first half hour was selling at 12.75, when more active positions were within a point either way of the close. July was selling at 12.73 at midday, when prices generally were 2 to 3 points net lower. Futures closed stead, 4 to 7 points higher. Spots steady, middling 13.31. Open Close May 12.70 12.76 July 12.68 11.81 October 12.51 12.61 December 12.50 12.59 January 12.51 12.60 March 12.56 12.63 Waterfront Unions Aid Striking Movie Workers May Refuse to Load Location-Bound Ships; Arson Sug geste dfor M-G-M Studios; Steel-C. I. O. Struggle Persists Unsettled In Pittsburgh Hollywood, Cal., May 12. — (AP)-- Striking movie craftsmen . recruited support today from two powerful waterfront unions in a boycott of oth er unions whose members passed through studio picket lines. The Federated Motion Picture Crafts asked the Maritime Federa tion of the Pacific and the Interna tional Longshoremen’s Association for help in the craft’s fight for union re cognition and a closed shop. If the maritime unions comply, Arrest 280 For Driving When Drunk Dully Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel By J O. BASKEIIVILI, Raleigh, May 12 —Highway patrol men arrested 280 drunken drivers on the highways of the State during the month of April, out of a total of 2,578 arrests, according to the monthly re port of highway patrol activities is sued today by Captain Charles D. Farmer, patrol commander. This is 14 fewer than the number of drunken (Continued on Page Three.) FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy, occasional showers Thursday and in central portion tonight; somewhat warmer tonight in north portion. they will refuse to load localation bound ships with film company equip ment and personnel. J. R. Robinson, in command of the F. M. P. C picket lines, reported strik ing pickets had spurned a proposal by “outside influences” to participate in an arson plot against the Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer studio. He said “sev eral strangers” approached pickets with the suggestion that M-G-M lum (Continued on Page Six.) mckoncooF Former AAA Chief, Now Federal Reserve Official, Speaks at Clemson Clemson, S. C., May 12. —(AP) — Chester Davis, member of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System, told a gathering of farm lead ers here today the Supreme Court, in its majority opinion invalidating the agricultural adjustment act, “abandoned the philosophy under which earlier problems had been met, and which made our Constitution a vital guide for a growing nation. In an address at the dedication of a $400,000 agriculture building at Clemson College, the former AAA ad ministrator asserted: “The questions considered in the (Continued on Page Four.) SILER CITY MAN IS DEAD OF INJURIES Fayetteville, May 12 (AP)—Fletcher Erown, 37-year-old Siler City automo bile salesman, died in a hospital here today of injuries he suffered Sunday when his car turned over on the Fay etteville-Raeford highway. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Just, Honest Rule Pledged To People By Their Monarch 7,500 Inside Westminster Abbey See Ac tual Coronation, Million Outside Cheer; Guns Boom, Bells Toll - London, May 12 (AP) —Exultant Britain crowned and con secreated its sovereign George VI and his radiant Elizabeth to day and hailed them with the thunder of a million cheers and the glory of a valiant past. Torrents of rain, threatened all day long, beat down on their triumphant, dazzling cavalcade at the end of the greatest day of splendor that England ever saw. London, May 12 (AP) —The empire that no night can dark en crowned and consecrated its ruler, George VI, and his Scottish Queen Elizabeth today in a solemn and beautiful ritual! from, down the proud centuries. Peak of the greatest show in 1,000 years, the Archbishop of Canterbury, venerable and erect, gave to the new king the crown that symbolizes the rule of 500,000,000 souls in almost a quarter of the earth. That was at 12:30 p. m. within the old gray walls of West minster Abbey. Across the channel at the Chateau de Cande in France, in the writing room of the suite of Edward of Windsor, the man whose abdication made George VI king listened by the side of Wallis Warfield to a broadcast of the ritual. Then, just at the peak of the solemn abbey consecration, his friends disclosed he and Mrs. Simpson have delayed their mar riage until early June because the royal family, desiring a public wedding, has disagreed with the British government, which wants a strictly private one. Sidelights of Coronation London, May 12.—(AP) —The first coronation baby, born shortly after midnight at Croydon, will be named George—a. girl born two hours later will bear the name of Elizabeth. In the East End of London, where getting food is a daily concern of the poor, the words “God Save the King” were formed by strings of sausages hung across the street by a local but cher. Amazon Leader, the only survivor of the eight cream horses which drew George V to his coronation in 1912, ■died in his stable on the eve of the coronation. A blackbird which had not heard of tonight’s celebration built a nest and laid four eggs in the coronation bon fire made ready in a Suffolk village to be touched off at dusk. REYNOLDS DECLARES DEFENSE PARAMOUNT U. S. Senator Speaas at Legion Con ference in Wilson; Mrs. And rew Pleads Peace Wilson, May 12 (AP)—United States Senator Robert R. Reynolds said to day national defense was “America’s greatest question” in a speech laud ing the American Legion and Auxil iary for a program promoting this de fcnßC• He spoke to about 500 delegates to the first area conference of the North Carolina Department of the Woman’s Auxiliary of the American Legion. His speech followed that of Mrs. C. P. Andrew, of Charlotte, State president, who called on the women of North Carolina “to join other women of our nation in a united prayer for peace.” Reynolds said the United States, be cause of a change of conditions in the past 30 years, was “no longer iso lated but was at the front or back door of every nation on earth today.” “It is an hour of need for national defense, se said, as he criticized for eign countries for owing money to the United States. Blast Within Caused Doom Os ‘Hindenburg’, Ground Expert Says Lakehurst, N. J., May 12. (AP) Lieutenant R F. Tyler, commander of th« ground crew which had to flee for safety when the Hindenburg crash ed in flames with a loss of 35 lives ’fst Thursday evening, told a Depart ment of Commerce investigating board today the first burst of fire to aonear on the dirigible’s cover seem ingly came from an txplosion within the dirigible’s hull. ‘I had a very clear view of the en tire snip at an angle,” Tyler, an air veterr n, related. “I saw the flames the 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Monarch Accepts Throne Speaking slowly and clearly, with no hint of impediment, the grave-eyed monarch in the abbey accepted the throne of British and pledged himself to a just and honest rule. The two-hour ceremony wag cli maxed when the 41-year-old sovereign was lifted reverently to the throne in the sight of 7,500 peers and peereee es, foreign rulers, diplomats and states men from all over the world. Million Outside Cheers Outside the abbey a million or more cheered. Guns in the tower of London boojn ed; Church bells pealed to signal that the priceless jeweled crown of Est. ~ , 2?) levied on Page Three)* CLIMBING PACE OF STOCKS VERY SLOW Bails, However, Lead Slight Advance In Early Market; Session Apathetic One New York, May 12.—(AP) —Ralls chugged upgrade in today’s stock mar ket, and other selected issues occupied choice seats in the parlor cars. While recoveries of fractions to a point or more were well scattered near the fourth hour, the climbing pace again was extremely slow and there were a number of losers in evidence. Bonds and commodities were some what uneven . It was one of the most apathetic sessions in the past year, transfers amounting to only about 600,000 shares. American Radiator 21 3-6 American Telephone 166 3-4 American Tobacco B 80 Anamonda 50 1-2 Atlantic Coast Line 49 5-8 Atlantic Refining : 29 S-4 Behdix Aviation 20 1-8 Bethlehem Steel 82 1-2 Chrysler 118 8-4 Columbia Gas & Elec Co 12 1-2 Commercial 15 Continental Oil Co 15 1-4 DuPont 156 1-2 Electric Power & Light 18 3-8 General Electric 52 General Motors 67 1-4 Liggett & Myers B 97 Montgomery Ward & Co 51 1-2 Reynolds Tob B 50 Southern Railway 37 3-4 Standard Oil Co N J 67 5-8 U S Steel . 99 1-8 moment it burst into tl.e outer air. “The flame was not so large. I would say it would cover an area pro bably ten feet by five feet. “My reac'ion would be it was an explosion flame.” The lieutenant said the first small flaming patch was preceded by a loud report just forward of the port fin and slightly dbove the longitudinal axis of the ship. He ruled out in his testimony the (Continued on Page Six.)
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