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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR DEFENSE PROBLEM WORRIES UNO GEORGE Huge Relief Bill Approved In Appropriation Committee Despite Cries For Economy 11,500,000,000 IS PASSED AS SOUGH! 0y THE PRESIDENT House Sub-Committee Cut Off Half Billion, or Third, But That Is Put Back ROOSEVELT CLAIMS MONEY IS NEEDED Evcnomy Talk Sidetracked In Senate for Debate on Ambassador Dodd’s “Bil lionaire” Dicta torsh i p Charges; Ever Normal Cot ton Crop Crged Washington, May 13. —(AP) —Art- ministration leaders successfully drove a $1,500,000,000 work relief ap propriation through the House Appro priations Committee today, despite belligerent opposition of economy ad vocates. The sub-committee which first studied the appropriation had slashed off a third of it two days ago. The full committee, however, restored that third, placing the allotment back at the sum originally asked by President Roosevel. The §1,500,000,000 appropriation, the President said, was needed to meet relief requirements for the fiscal year beginning July 1. Administra tion leaders expressed confidence the allotment would be approved by the House when it comes up. next week. Economy talk was temporarily side tracked in the Senate by the heated controversy raised by Ambassador William E. Dodd’s assertion in a let ter from Berlin a “billionaire” was ready to support an “American dicta torship.” Senator Nye, Republican, North (Continued on Page Six.) Sitdowners Tie Up G-M Plant Again Cleveland, May 13.— (AP)—General Motors Fisher Body plant here was shut down today by a sitdown strike affecting between 6,000 and 7,000 em ployees. Louis Spisack, president of the Fisher Body local of the U. A. W. A., said the strike was called to pro test lay-off in what he called a “speed up." “Fourteen men in one department have put the whole plant out of op eration,” said Lincoln Scafe, general manager. “The management will follow its usual policy in this manner and won’t talk to men who are sitting down at their jobs. So far there has been no move on the part of the union to nego tiate the issues involved. The manage ment is willing to do so as long as (Cant*‘->u*«3 mi l J asi p Three). Smith, Sloan Summoned In Tax Hearing New York, May 13.CAP)—Although subpoenaed by the Government, Al rcd B Smith will not be a witness in e income tax case against his poli c'd and business associates, Pierre DuPont and John J. Raskob. I he former governor and 1928 Dem ocratic presidential candidate, who mad' Haskob chairman of the Demo ciutic National Committee in 1928 and Was one of the leaders with Ras- Kob, DuPont and Jouett Shouse in hl organization of the American Lib- Bi ague, sails for Europe Satur- Lemming, chief of govern cnt counsel in the tax case, said to- Smith would not be called before sailed. i! " was subpoenaed as a formality cause he is an officer of the Em pir,: State Building Corporation, in (Continued on Page Two) Btttilersmi Daily Distmtrlr ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VI^INIA. LEASED WIRE SERVICE OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 27,000 Forced Idle In Pittsburgh Steel Mill; Movie Speed Quickened Jones & Loughlin Plant Sees First Major Strike In 19 Years; Nationwide Theatre Boycott Sought by Hollywood Striker s Not Realized Pittsburgh, Pa., May 13.—(AP) —Police hurled tear gas into a crowd of shouting, demonstrating pickets today at the strike-closed Aliquippa, Pa., works of the Jones & Loughlin Steel Corporation. One man was hurt In what Po lice Chief Ambrose said was an attempt to prevent him and Bur gess Morgausohn from leaving plant property after making an investigation of reported violence. The chief said he arrested a wo man on a charge of assault and battery and inciting to riot. The strike, called after the union and the corporation failed to reach a collective bargaining agreement, threatened to spread to other major independent steel producers. Pittsburgh, Pa., May 13. —(AP) Members of John Lewis’ steel union Rebels Driven Back On Front At Toledo Tobacco Growers Os Belt Warned Raleigh, May 13. (AP) Dr. Luther Shaw, plant disease special ist at State College, warned tobac co growers in the Old Belt today to observe extreme care if black shank had shown up in their fields No tobacco should be planted in your fields in which the disease has been developed in one year, and the disease may be carried on shoes, on feet of dogs and in soil or trash. He advised crop rotation and sanitation methods to control the disease. LIQUOR BOARD WILL GET 2 WAREHOUSES Supplies for All Cpunty Stores Must Pass Through * Them First Daily Dispatch Bareaa, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh. May 13.—The State Liquor Board is going to license several waxe houses —probably not more than two to begin with—and require all the county liquor stores to purchase their liquor stocks through these ware houses, also require all distillers and wholesalers to make all their ship ments to these warehouses unless county boards are able to buy in car load lots, Chairman Cutlar Moore, of the State Alcoholic Beverages Con trol Board, said today. The object of this plan is to keep Continued on Page Five.) CZECH CHAMBER IS SHOT UP BY MILLER Praha, Czechoslovakia, May 13. (AP) The Czechoslovakian House of Deputies was thrown in to tumult this afternoon when a man (Suddenly arose in the spec tators’ gallery and fired a pistol at the ministerial bench. “Half of the members of this house are communists and ras cals,” he shouted. Panic ensued until it was learn ed all of the bullets had missed their mark. The man was over powered by guards and jaded. he was identified as a coun try flour mill worker, Josef Sebec. HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 13, 1937 ranks forced a strike order today af fecting the 27,000 employees of the Jones & Loughlin Steel Corporation in the first major mill walkout in 19 years. While pickets, rain-drenched and tired by their long vigil, guarded the entrances to plants in Pittsburgh and Aliquippa, Chairman Philip Murray, of the steel workers organizing com *mittee, prepared to resume negotia tions with the company which ended last night in the strike call. Federal Labor Conciliator James Dewey also planned to participate in a new attempt to bring the company and union into agreement on Murray’s demand for a signed collective bar gaining contract. Jones & Loughlin, third largest steel producer independent of the Unit ed States Steel Corporation, was the (Continued on Page Six.) Government Columns Re portedly Steadily Ad vancing on Ancient Moorish Capital GOVERNMENT ARMY WEAKER AT BILBAO Falling Back In Front of In surgent Pressure Toward Basque Capital; Rebel Fliers Rain Shells on Town Near Bilbao; Germans Aid Rebels Madrid, May 13.—(AP)— Insurgent defenders of Toledo, once capital of the ancient Moorish kingdom in the Iberian peninsula, were reported to day to have been driven from front line trenches just south of the city. Government columns reportedly w ere steadily advancing in the major offensive to recapture Toledo, an im portant base for insurgent operations on the Madrid, or central, Spanish front. Toledo is 40 miles south and slight ly west of here. Insurgents in the old imperial city lost by the government last October were reported by the government to have been freshly reinforced by Moor ish and German troops. Bilbao, Spain, reports indicated in surgent fliers rained bombs on a town seven miles north of Bilbao and Gen eral Francisco Franco’s attacking army pressed closer to that Basque capital in fierce fighting. Meanwhile, information from Guer (Continued on Page Four.) Zep Blast Like Smash U. S. Blimp Lakehurst, N. J., May 13.—(AP) — A survivor of the disaster to the Amer ican navy dirigible Shenandoah told a Commerce Department investigat ing board today the first noise he heard when the destruction of the German Zeppelin Hindenburg began was much like that on the Shenan doah when her hull collapsed. The witness, Chief Boatswainsmate F. J. Tobin, was 59 feet from the point where the Shenandoah broke (Continued on Page Six.) Actual Crowning Os King George VI! plf|| v fev. V ; vraftafo.. ... : : Jj I: •: v- : : • • • <& i 'lilßßlliMßlliillr - "Jm SaLvvvw#' '-'s:■r'% E2: . : : i WwSsl&}y ' y [ Jfe : S WMR £|B§B§§£ ® » 1 ||||l: : W ||j BK . oH This picture is from an actual photograph of the act of placing the British crown upon the head of King George VI in Westminster Abbey yesterday. The symbol of power is held by the venerable Archbishop of Canter bury, who presided at the ceremonies. The photograph was radioed by sound photo to Central Press Association and forwarded by air mail special delivery to the Daily Dispatch. Youngstown Asks Inquiry From Senate Youngstown, Ohio, May 13. —(AP) — A request to investigate the Youngs town Sheet & Tube Company’s pre parations for a possible strike shut down—an inquiry which the company said it welcomed —sped to the LaFol lette civil liberties committee today as city and county officials asked De partment of Labor aid to avert a walk out. Steel workers organizing commit tee official.- here said the nation’s fourth largest producer independent of “big steel,” the United States Cor poration, had imported substantial a mounts of ammunition, tear gas, cots and food, and asked a Senate inves tigation to “prevent organized murder of the steel workers and their fam ilies.” The company which has 15,000 workers in the Mahoning Valley dis trict, said “necessary steps’’ had been taken to “protect lives of people in the vicinity of our plants and to pro tect property from damage and in sure prompt resumption of opera tions”. The steps were not explained. MORGAN IN LONDON HAS HEART ATTACK London, May 13 (AP) —J. P. Morgan, American financier, was disclosed today to have suffered a heart attack Tuesday that kept him from attending the corona tion yesterday at Westminster Ab bey. Thomas Lamont, a New York business associate of Morgan, said Morgan was better, and would soon return to the United States. MAH FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy, probably showers to night and Friday morning; cooler Friday. ) Ends Life With Bullet After Ship Grounds on Florida Coral Reef Jacksonville, Fla., May 13. —(AP) — Coast Guard headquarters reported Captain Otto Libert of the German steamship Wiegand died of a self-in flicted bullet wound today as his ves sel was hard aground on a coral reef 35 miles south of Miami. The cutter Pandora, which had tried for hours to float the ship, took the master’s body to Miami. Guardsmen said the officers of the Fandora investigated only to ascer tain that there had been no crime committed in United States territorial waters. The Wiegand is considered German soil, it was said, and any de tailed investigation would have to be made by the German consul. L. Kurz, German consul at Jack sonville, said the Miami area was un der the New Orleans consulate. ALLOTMENTBASIS FOR ROAD MONEY Area, Population, Mileage and Number of Cars Will Be Factors Dallr Dlipatrh Bwren«. In the bIIt Walter Hotel. By J. C. -HASKKIIVIM. Raleigh. May 13.—The highway ap propriations for both maintenance and the new construction will be al lotted to the ten administrative di visions on the basis of area, popula tion and mileage in these divisions, with the exception that the automo bile registration will also be consider ed in alloting the maintenance funds, p was decided by the new State High way and Public Works Commission before it adjourned late Wednesday. Some of the commissioners are of the opinion that the maintenance funds should be further broken down by counties, so that each county will know in advance just how mu#h mon ey will he available for road work in the county each year. Others, how ever, think. the funds should not be broken do vn beyond the division unit (Continued on Page Six) PUBLIBHHD EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Edward Will Demand His Nuptial Plan Wants Britisli Gov ernment To Stop Its Meddling in His Private Affairs London, May 13 (AP) —The Duke of Windsor’s pre-nuptial struggle with the British govern ment, (authoritative sources dis closed today is for recognition of Mrs. Wallis Warfield, his bride-to be, as “her royal highness the Duchess of Windsor.” The duke will not even be con tent to have Mrs. Warfield become the Duchess cf Windsor. So heated has the dispute be tween the former monarch and the government become that Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin’s cabi net to3|ay reviewed the whole question. Having yielded to Windsor’s de mands that Mrs. Warfield become a duchess, the ministers stood pat against allowing her to be addressed “Her Royal Higness,” it was report ed. A source close to the government (Continued on Page Four.) SELLING DEPRESSES THE COTTON MARKET Opening Is Barely Steady But Clos ing Is 13 to 19 Lower. With Middling 13.12 New York, May 13. —CAP) —Cotton futures opened barely steady, four to eight points down on lower Liverpool cables and under moderate liquidation Shortly after the first half hour, prices were 7 to 11 points net lower. July sold off from 12.76 to 12.73, and at midday was within a point of the low when prices were generally at 9 to 14 points net decline. Futures closed barely steady, 13 to 19 points lower. Spot quiet, middling 13.12. Open Close May 12.72 12.63 July 12.75 12.63 October 12.55 12.43 December 12.51 12.40 January . 12.54 12.41 March 12.56 12.45 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY STATESMEN FROM EAR FLUNG DOMAIN GATHER IN LONDON Seven Years Have Passed Since Last Empire Con ference Was Held Back In 1930 DOMINIONS DEMAND POLICY STATEMENT Want To Know Attitude of Government on League of Nations, on Europe, on Commerce and Trade and Defense; Post Coronation Events Begin London, May 13. —(AP) —Empire statesmen faced about today from the medaeval symbolism of the coronation of George VI as king-emperor of Bri tain, to the modern realities of the commonwealth's most pressing pro blems. Prime ministers and representa tives of the dominions and of India, having paid their tributes to their monarch and his Queen Elizabeth awaited the call of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin tomorrow that will open the imperial conference. Seven yea:3 of sweeping change have passed since the empire met last in formal conference in 1930. Atten tion has turned from internal pro blems of imperial relations and eco nomics to concern for foreign affairs and defense of the empire. Britain confronts a world obstruct ed by trade barriers damming the commerce which sustains the empire, alarmed by threats to its peace struc ture and re-arming competitively. Dominion prime ministers, now standing equally with officials of the United Kingdom, will ask for a clear Continued on Page Five.) italylees rising ENMITY OF BRITAIN Eventual Warlike Spirit Predicted In Rome in Hostility Toward * Italy, Germany Rome, May 13.—(AP) —Fascist circles' charged growing British hostility toward Italian and Ger man collaboration was endanger ing peace. Virginio Gada, often an inter preter of Premier Mussolini’s views, reflected official concern over possible consequences. In an editorial in Giornale de Italia, he termed Britain’s attitude toward Italy “an offensive maneuver, a preparatory advance guard to a truly warlike policy.” “It is evident,” Gada said, “that agitation in the British press is attempting, but in vain, to attack the Romo-Berlin axis and divide its vital parts.” Merrill Is Again Held Off Flight Southport, England, May 13. (AP) —Dick Merrill and Jack Lamhie got more bad news today while vexing cross winds delayed their return Atlantic flight. The company which previously had agreed to supply them with motion pictures of King George's coronation to be flown to the United States changed its mind, Merrill said. They will carry only still pio (Continued on Page Four.) ‘BIG IMSED IN HARLAN INQUIRY Some Wonder Why Gover nors Weren’t Asked About Conditions By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, May 13. —As far as it went, Senator Robert M. La Follette is given plenty of credit for his inves tigation of conditions in Harlan coun ty, Kentucky. Some complaint is heard on Capitol Hill, however, to the effect that the inquiry did not go quite far enough. Critics suggest that Gov. A. B. (“Hap py”) Chandler ought to have been in cluded in the La Follette committee’s grill. “Happy” had predecessors in the gubernatorial chair, too, whom many (Continued on Page Five)
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