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’ HENDERSON gateway TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR COURT BARS REFUND UR PROCESSING TAX PRESS OF BRITAIN ONIfS.WARFIELD Ore Newspaper Says King George Himself Will Announce Engage ment of Brother ANOTHER ASSERTS IDEA RIDICULOUS Sunday Paper Even Ven tures Form Announce ment Will Take as Given by George VI; Ecclesiasti cal Objections Again Brought into Argument London, May 17 (AP)—The British press today brought out into the open the controversy over royal recognition of Mrs. Wallis Warfield by a contro versy of its own over the possibility of formal announcement of her en gagement to the Duke of Windsor by King George VI himself. While the Sunday Referee reported the king was ready to extend the roy al family’s sanction to the match by announcing the betrothal of his broth er and the woman for whom Edward gave up his throne, the Express said such a move was impossible. “Ecclesiastical objections” to Mrs. Warfield as a twice divorced person, the Express said, prevented the king from taking any such action. The Sunday Referee, which has not always been correct in its information concerning the abdicated monarch and his American fiance, predicted King George would announce his brother's engagement this week. “It will be the royal family’s first public recognition of the duke’s asso (Cont*'' bed on Page Five) TRADING QUIET AS COTTON EASES OFF Further Net Declines of 8 to 11 Points Shown for Day’s Business on Exchange New York, May 17. —(AP) —Cotton futures opened steady, three to four points higher on trade and spothouse buying. Offerings were small. October soid off from 12.63 to 12.46, and at midday was quoted at 12.49, when prices were 9 to 11 points lower. After the first half hour October, which had sold up to 12.63, was quoted at 12.60. and prices generally were one to four points net higher. Cotton futures closed steady, 8 to 11 points lower. Spot quiet, middling 13.16. Open Close July 12.80 12.66 October 12.61 12.47 December 12.59 12.46 January 12.63 12.48 March 12.67 12.55 50 Dead In Hong Kong Explosion Hong Kong, China, May 17. —'(AP) —The explosion of a toiler aboard a Japanese launch made a sham V>les of the Hong Kong waterfront tc’hight, killing perhaps 50 persons and flow ing bodies over an area of from 200 yards to a quarter of a mile. The lunch was owned by a steam ship company. Every member of h.’.r crew was killed. Other victims were* numerous Chinese boatmen and pass ersby in the vicinity. Parts of several bodies were blown even to the veranda of the Hong Kong club from the Queen’s pier vicinity, scene of the blast. Several bodies were found on roofs of build ings in the vicinity. Auto Group Again Quit Their Jobs Detroit, Mich., May 17 (AP)—The Ki'iggs Manufacturing Company clos ed its Meldrum plant, employing 2,000 men, today following a walkout of maintenance workers. Officials con ferred with representatives of the mited Automobile Workers to adjust lh e dispute. H. A. w. A. leaders said the walk (njt, after wage demands were refus- Ct *> was not authorized. An agree- Continued on Page Five.) Imtitersmt Smtly Utapatrfy ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Spanish Cabinet Forming As Rebels Plan Blow On Bilbao Dr. Juan Negrin, 48, Medi cal Professor, Undertakes Sixth Civil War Government FINAL ASSAULT ON BASQUE PREPARED Insurgent Help from Sea Rumored for Attack on Loyalists in Northern Spain; Bloody Hand-to- Hand Fighting Occurs in Battle Outside City Valencia, Spain, May 17.—(AP) Dr. Juan Negrin, Socialist former minister of the treesury, began today an effort to form Spains sixth civil war government. President Mihugl Azana called from virtual retirement to find a “win the war” government after Premier Francisco Largo Caballero was forced to resign, selected Dr. Negrin as pre mier-designate after he had talked with both the treasury minister and the Diego Martinez Barrio, president -of Congress. Largo Caballero asked first to try a new government failed to obtain the support of all parties. Dr. Negrin, the new man of the hour, is 48 years old, and a former professor of medicine at the Univer sity of Madrid. INSURGENTS PREPARE FOR FINAL ATTACK ON BILBAO Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Frontier, May 17. —(AP) Spain’s insurgent armies of the north, creeping at snail’s pace toward their Bilbao goal for a month and a half, straightened their lines on a long and curving front some ten miles from the Basque capi- tal, today to clear the way for the final assault. . There were unconfirmed reports (Continued on Page Three)* veltontakTslp "OLD AGE” DUTIES New Director of Public Assistance Former Mitch ell .Schol Head • Daily Dlapatch Barena, f- tie Sir Walter Hotel, j. ” tfASKERVILL Raleigh May 17- —Nathan H. Yel ton of BakersviHe,. . MitcheH county today began his duties as director of the^Division of PuWic North Carolina Board of and Public Welfare. This division will be in charge of administering the yar phased of the old and aid to dependent children act adopted by the 1937 session of the General Assembly. Peabody Mr. Yelton, a graduate of Peabody College, Nashville, Tenn., was PP (Continued on Page Thre'6.) _ LE^? KD WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Death Decides a Swimmer’s Bet j George F. Spread, 39, made a bet that he could swim the turbulent Merrimack River at Lowell, Mass. He was carried by the current, wedged between two rocks, and drowned. Coast Guard surfman Robert H. Westcott, of the Newburyport station, is shown, in this remarkable picture, in a breeches buoy. He had fired 500 feet of rope with a hawser gun, lowered himself to the rocks, tied a rope around Spread’s body and hauled it to shore. (Central Press) HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 17, 1937 New York Mother Admits Killing Little Daughter Steel Waits Election On Ba rgain ing ii Pittsburgh, Pa., May 17 (AP) —The steel workers organizing committee, set to call strikes in the nation’s* in dependent steel producing firms un less it obtains collective bargaining agreements, turned today to an em ployee election in the Jones & Laugh lin Steel Corporation plants. The vote Thursday will determine if the committee shall be the collec tive bargaining agent for the firm’s 32,000 workers. The corporation agreed to give a contract if the union could prouce a majority in the bal loting. A 36-hour strike called in the midst of the negotiations for a collective bargaining agreement between Chair man H. E. Lewis, of the $200,000,000 corporation, and Chairman Philip Murray, of the steel workers organiz ing committee, led to the election. Both sides agreed not to electioneer on the company properties. Regional Director Ernest Dunbar, of the National Labor Relations Board, will have charge. S. E. HOEY, BROTHER OF GOVERNOR, DIES Official of Shelby Star Suffers Heart Attack; With Paper 40 Years; He Was 66 Shelby, May 17 (AP) —S. Ernest Hoey, 66, brother of Governor Clyde R. Hoey, died here today from a heart attack. He was associated with his brother in the launching of the Shelby Star and remained with the paper for 40 years. Funeral services will be held tomor row afternoon. In addition to the governor, he is survived by his widow, six children and a sister. C^jjE*THIPMAM FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Tuesday, slight ly cooler in north central portion tonight and on the north coast W T ednesday. Also Badly Wounded Small Son In Effort To De stroy Both of Them in Woods Sunday she wasTnTove AND NEEDED ROOM Apartment Wasn’t Big Enough for Intended Hus band and Children, Too; Gives Full Details to Po lice After Grilling Follow ing Varied Stories New York, May 17— (AP)— Police said today that Mrs. Ellen Hiernan, 28-year-old attractive waitress, con fessed she killed her eight-year-old daughter, Helen, and assaulted her five-year old son, James, in woods near Brookhaven, Long Island. Deputy Chief Inspector Francis Kear announced the confession. “She told me that she committed the acts because she was in love with a man, but could not accommodate him and the children in the small apartment the family lived in,” the inspector stated. Kear said the woman confessed that she alone did the deed. The girl’s body was found cut and burned yesterday afternoon at 2:30 p. m. Her little wounded brother was nearby. Kear said the love motive was sus pected and that questioning was push ed along that line. “She made a complete confession, Continued on Page Five.) MONEY SAVED DFF TEXTBOOKS BONDS Loan From State Surplus Saves $75,000 Year in Interest Charges Dally Dispatch Barcas, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J- C. I*ASKER.VII*Ij Raleigh, May 17. — The reason it was decided not to issue the $1,590,000 in bonds for free textbooks, as au thorized by the 1937 General Assem bly, was that the maturities of these bonds were fixed too far in the future, which would mean a high rate of in terest,, and because it was found that there was enough cash in the State’s I (Continued on Page Three.) SmTeaders American Farm Bureau and Other Organizations Sponsor Crop Con trol Proposal PARITY PRICES FOR FARMERS IS ASKED Government Loans Would Be Made if Prices Fell Be low or Approached Parity; Part of Crops Would Be. Turned Over to Govern ment for Loans Washington, May 17. — (AP) Farm leaders offered to Congress today a new agriculture adjust ment program which they said combined features of the invalidat e 1 AAA, Secretary Wallace’s ever liormal granary proposal and the old Hoover farm board. The American Farm Bureau Federation and other organiza tions drafted the bill, aimed at controlled production and parity prices for farmers. It was sent to the Hoifse and Senate Agricul ture Committees. Government loans would be made only if the market price ap proached or All below parity. If it went below, farmers could turn over part, of their crops to the Commodity Credit 1 Corpora*- tior* and receive a loan. They also would receive a parity represent intr the diffrence between the loan and the parity price. STOCKS APATHETIC FOR DULL SESSION Trading Slowest in Two Years as Leaders Give Ground Mod erately With Losses New York, May 17.—(AP)— The stock market’s pulse beat feebly today and efforts at a rally were unavail ing in most instances. With the ticket tape barely moving, declines of frac tions to a point or so predominated near the fourth hour. Business and industrial news, while not especially depressing, apparently lacked suffi cient sparkle to inspire trading forces to step out on the buying side of the market. Labor questions also continu ed to dim the picture. Smallness of volume and the gen erally restricted range of losses was encouraging to board rooms, although brokers seemed unable to impress cus tomers with the constructive elements attached to apathetic lealings. Bonds and commodities were un even but grains inclined to do better. Leading stocks gave ground modi erately in the slowest five-hour mar ket session in more than two years. American Radiator 21 American Telephone 163 American Tobacco B 75 Anaconda 48 Atlantic Coast Line 47 Atlantic Refining 29 Bendix Aviation 19 1-2 Bethlehem Steel 77 3-8 Chrysler 167 1-8 Columbia Gias & Elec Co 7 7-8 Commercial 14 1-2 Continental Oil Co 14 3-4 DuPont 153 Elec Pow & Light 15 7-8 General Electric 5° General Motors . 1 54 5-8 Liggett & Myers B 96 Montgomery Ward & Co 49 3-4 Reynolds Tobacco B 49 Southern Railway ... 35 8-8 Standard Oil Co NJ 63 7-8 U S Steel 92 3-8 Barnhill And Winborne To Go On Supreme Court Indications in State Capital Now Point to Their Eleva tion to High Tribunal by Govern6r Hoey, With Terms Starting Th is Coming July 1 • Dallv Dispatch B*ren«, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. ■aASKEUVILL Raleigh, May 17.- Judge M. V. Barnhill, of Rocky Mount, and J. Wallace Winborne, of Marion, are re garded as the best bets in the race for the two appointments to the State Su nreme Court, to be made by Governor Clyde R- Hoey before July 1 and just about the only really luscious appoint ments he has yet to make. Now that Hubert Olive, of Lexing ton has been neatly tucked into his berth as a special judge at SB,OBO a vear virtually the only remaining ob stacle in the path of the appointment to the Supreme Court has been eli PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Decision Deferred On Security Act By The Supreme Court Dr. Hugo Eckener, famous German dirigible expert and designer of the ill-fated Hindenburg, is shown as he arrived in New York on the Europa, where he rushed to the bed side of Capt. Max Preuss, the Zep’s commander, to get the latter’s own story of the catastrophe. <Central PressJ President’s Court Plan Again Loser Logan, Kentucky, Roosevelt Backer, (Comes '0 u t for Sharp Compromise Washington, May 17 (AP) —A Sen ate Judiciary Committeeman hereto fore considered a supporter of the ad ministration plan for reorganizing the Supreme Court, came out today for a compromise. Senator Logan, Democrat, Kentucky said he would propose changing the (Continued on Page Five) U. S. Department Checks Air Races Across Atlantic Lakehurst, N. J., May 17 (Al*^ Colonel Monroe Johnson, assistant secretary of the Department of Commerce, ,said today the Depart ment of Commerce had refused to issue licenses for the projected New York to Paris trans-Atlantic air race. Johnson is ‘at the United States Naval Air Station here attending the investigation of the dirigible Hindenburg disaster. Speaking of trans-oceanic air races, Jackson said: “We consider them extra haz ardous. We are trying to insti tute trans-Atlantic flying and don’t want to jeopardize it. We are in terested in commercial aviation that has no thrills.” minated in the opinion of most obser vers here. Some think that Whnborne may not want the appointment, if it is offered him, since he may prefer to stay in Marion and practice law, since most observers maintain that Winborne’s income from his law prac tice is considerably in excess of the SB,OOO a year he would get as*, an as sociate justice on the State Supreme Court. In case Winborne should de cline the appointment, Judge Felix E. Alley, of Waynesville, is regarded as being next in line. But most of those in political circles here who have been (Continued on Page Three.) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Will Come Certainly on Next Monday or on June 1, When Court Quits for Summer CHAIN STORES TAX UPHELD IN RULING Louisiana Levy Based on Number of Units Operated in State and Elsewhere De cided; Chief Justice Hughes Delivers Process ing Tax Decision Washington, May 17. —(AP)— The Supreme Court failed today to pass on constitutionality of the Federal so cial security act. Before adjourning until next Mon day, it announced opinions in nine cases. The social security decision will be delivered either next Monday or on Tuesday, June 1, when the court adjourns for the summer. The major decision today upheld provisions of the 1936 revenue act barring refund of $963,000,000 of pro cessing and floor stock taxes, collect ed under the invalidated agriculture adjustment act, unless the tax-payer proved that he bore the cost himself. Another decision held constitution al a 1931 Louisiana statute impos ing a graduated license tax on chain stoies based on the number of units operated throughout the Statfe and elsewhere. Nineteen decirfionls remained for delivery during the next two opinion sessions. Chief Justice Hughes, delivering the eight-to-one opinion on the AAA tax case, said “we conclude that the authorized procedure provides for a full and fair hearing and determina tion of all matters of fact and that through judicial review it provides for tlje protection of all the legal rights of the petitioner, including any con stitutional rights which it may be en titled to invoke with respect to the refund which it seeks.” U. S. Power Unit Asked By Bureaus Washington, May 17 (AP)—A pro posal to consolidate all Federal pow er activities under one agency reach ed Congress today in <a Brookings Institution report. Chirmn IBtyrd* Dcmocrt, Virgini, said the Institution, retained by his special committee on government re organization, had expressed the opin ion that substantial savings would re sult. The proposal would empower the new agency to fix nates and determine production for such “yardstick” power developments as the Tennessee Val ley Authority. This, the report explained was sug gested on the assumption that on op erating agency once functioning as a yardstick should not be permitted to regulate its own production or deter mine its own rates. Congressional leaders said, mean while, they expected the President tc recommend by Wednesday a national program for power development, flood control, reforestation and soil con servation. HINDENBURG MAN SUSPECTS SPARK Only Surviving Rigger Says Gas Cell Cause of Zep pelin’s Disaster Dakehurst, N. J., May 17. —(AP) One of the Hindenburg’s riggers who was on duty close to the spot where the destructive flames first burst from her stern gave the Department of Commerce investigating board to day his opinion that a gas cell started the disaster. Hans Freund, the only one of tha dirigible’s three riggers to survive, was the first witness yet called who was able to give any account of what took place in the stem when the first and explosion occurred. His story emphasized the speed and (Continued on Page Three.)
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