HENDERSON
gateway TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
twenty-fourth year
COMMITTEE IS 10-8 AGAINST COURT OKI
AMERICAN SOLDIERS
FIGHTING IN SPAIN
SUFFER BIG LOSSES
Have Been Used Continual
ly as Shock Troops and
Have Lost About
Third of Number
OVER 500 THOUGHT
KILLED THUS FAR
16th Infantry, Known As
Abraham Lincoln Batta
lion, Recruited in United
States; Most of Them
Lacked Previous Experi
ence; New Cabinet Formed
Madrid, May 18.—(AF)—American
volunteer battalions used continually
as government shock troops in the
Spanish war were estimated today to
have lost almost a third of their num
ber in deaths.
Reliable sources placed the number
of United States citizens killed while
fighting on the government side at
more than 500, or 30 percent of the
1.700 reported to have enlisted since
the conflict started ten months ago.
A few of the volunteers were pro
fessional air pilots and technicians,
and a few soldiers of fortune, but the
overwhelming majority lacked pre
vious military experience.
The largest oontingent of Ameri
cans in the service of the republic
has been the 16th infantry, or Abra
ham Lincoln battalion, which mem
bers of the unit said was recruited in
the United States.
Meanwhile, at Valencia, Dr. Juan
Negrin's “win the war” cabinet, as
sumed command of the Spanish gov
ernment's armies in a plan to coor
dinate civil and military defenses a
gainst the ten-months-old war.
Negrin briefly outlined the cabinet
policy of his government to his min
isters early today, disclosing a plan
to abolish the superior war council.
COURT INQUISITIVE
IN EXTRATION CASE
State’s High Tribunal Members Ask
Many Questions in Appeal
From New York
Raleigh, May 18 (AP)—Chief Just
ice W. P. Stacy and Associate Justice
George W. Connor, of the North Caro
lina Supreme Court, asked many ques
tions of counsel during oral appeal
(arguments today, then the court took
under consideration the case in which
Alfred Malicord is resisting extradi
tion to Warren county, New York.
The State court will hand down deci
sions tomorrow and then on days it
sets to suit its convenience.
The State moved to docket and dis
miss two capital case appeals, includ
ing one of Melvin Coggin, sentenced
to ddith in Nash county, for the mur
der of H. J. Fogleman. $
PLANE CRASH KILLS
PAIR AT FRANKLIN
Western North Carolina Town Scene
of Disaster; Florida Man
Among Victims
Franklin, N. C., May 18. —(AP) —
Robert Williams, of Jacksonville, Fla.,
died early today of injuries received
in a plane crash yesterday that killed
Harve Shiddles, Franklin taxi op
erator.
WilPams was pilot of the plane and
Shiddles was the passenger.
The f lier suffered a crushed chest,
frartuies ts Loth legs and lacerations.
Nineteen, he was a son of Mrs. Cath
erine Dexter, of Jacksonville.
Shiddles, his skull crushed, died. eii
route a hospital.
Matiy Firms
Resist New
State Levy
i *
Raleigh, May 19 (AP) —The State
Unemployment Compensation Com
mission has received from W. C. Pat
terson, of Charlotte, branch manager
of the Ford Motor Company, a letter
stating the Ford concern is paying
the State’s unemployment compensa
tion tax “under protest.”
The letter, 'addressed to the three
members of the commission, claims
the law is “repugnant to the Consti
tution of North Carolina and of the
United States.”
9; Powell, commission chairman,
said "seventy-five percent” of pay
ments to the commission were being
made under protest.” The law was
Passed at ;a special session of the Gen
eid* Assembly la3t December.
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
“Gas” Queen to Wed
twm.
Julia Ellen Leathers
Blonde Julia Ellen Leathers, 22-
year-old “gas well queen” of Ak
ron, 0., who has brought in two
valuable gas wells near Norwalk,
0., in recent weeks, has an
nounced her engagement to Vince
Burns, 30-year-old engineer asso
ciated with her gas enterprises.
When Miss Leathers’ gas lines
are completed in a few weeks, she
will have an income variously es
timated at from SI,OOO to $2,000
a day.
—Central Press
Expect Fund
ForParkway
To Be Voted
If $5,000W Is De
nied, Roosevelt Will
Break Faith, Dun
lap Says
Dally Dispatch Bnreaa,
In the Sir Walter Hotel
By J, C. lIASKERVIL.fi
Raleigh, May 18. —Chairman Frank
L. Dunlap, of the State Highway and
Public Works Commission, believes
that the recommended appropriation
of $5,000,000 for the Blue Ridge and
Natchez Race parkways, as contain
ed in the Department of the Interior
supply bill, will be restored and that
of this amount, at least $4,500,000 will
be made available for work on the
Blue Ridge Parkway in North Caro
lina and Virginia. For the time be
ing, Chairman Dunlap is not concern
ed over reported efforts being made
by Tennessee politicians to get the
parkway diverted from North Caro
(Continued on Page Three.)
FAYSSOUX INQUIST
FURTHER POSTPONED
Gastonia, May 18 (AP) —Coroner C.
C. Wallace s<aid today the inquest into
the death of T. M. Fayssoux, 45, found
dead here on the porch of his mother’s
home last Friday had been postponed
until Friday night so that an analy
sis of the dead man’s stomach might
be introduced.
The inquiry originally was set for
tonight.
C. A. Veitch and Banks and Ever
ett Howell are under SI,OOO bonds
each in connection with the death.
MBB
School Commission Secre
tary Most Likely Will
Be Re-Appointed
’ Dally Dispatch Bnreaa,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKKRVILL
Raleigh, May 18.—The appointment
of the eleven members of the State
School Commission, expected to be
announced by Governor Clyde R.
Hoey early this week, is not now ex
pected until the latter part of the
week, perhaps not until next week, as
ia result of the death of S. Ernest
Hoey in Shelby yesterday, brother of
Governor Hoey. Governor Hoey is not
(Continued on Page Three.)
LE r£?£ D WIRE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 18,1937
Resigns As Justice
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Justice VanDevanter
FORNEWMEMBERS
IN FORD FACTORIES
Motor and Steel Industries
Objectives of Strenuous
Efforts of Lewis
Unions
STEEL PIXnTS ARE
BEING PUSHED HARD
Republic Steel To Shut and
, Keep Shut Its Plants “Un
til Civil Authorities Clear
Streets” in Event of Picket
ing; Film Boycott Spreads
Slowly
(By The Associated Press.)
John Lewis’ C. I. O. leaders pushed
today with drives for new members in
automobile and steel industries.
The U. A. W. A. asked the “200,090
organized automobile workers in De
troit” to help bring employees of the
Ford Motor Company “into the fold.”
Mobilization of union organizers
and a plan to “protect new members”
was announced.
The steel workers union projected a
threat of “sign or we strike” against
the Crucible Steel Company as a con
ference on a collective bargaining
agreement began at Pittsburgh. Cru
cible, with 18,000 employees, was the
first of the five big independent pro
( Continued on Pasre Thre*i>
AMMUNITION HOUSE
AT MOREHEAD BURNS
Morehead and Beaufort Fire Depart
ment Rush to Blaze at
Camp Glenn Grounds
Beaufort, May 18.—(AP)— Fire
destroyed the ammunition build
ing at Camp Glenn, the State’s
National Guard training site, to
day, and damaged two other
buildings.
• Fire fighters from Morehead
City and Beaufort cooperated in
fighting the blaze.
Cleveland Smith, camp care
taker, said he believed the fire
was started by sparks from a pass
ing locomotive.
This was the second fire since
May 1.
Aluminum
Strike Is
In Offing
Alcoa, Tenn., May 18 (AP) —Fred
Wetmore, president of the aluminum
workers union at the Alcoa plant of
the Aluminum Company of America,
announced today 3,000 workers in the
company’s fabricating plant would go
on strike at 10 o’clock tonight.
He slaid the union was seeking eli
mination of an 18 cents an hour wage
differential between the company’s
Alcoa and New Kensington, Pa.,
plants
About 1,000 employees in the reduc
tion plant, Wetmore added, would
not be called out at present.
The union official said “tail other
means of settlement were exhausted
before we decided on this last re
source.”
Wetmore said the basic hourly wage
for employees at Alcoa is 45 cents an
hour. At New Kensington, he said,
the wage was 63 cents an hour.
Justice Van Devanter Quits
Place As Associate Justice
Os Supreme Court On June 2
JUSTICE, PAST 78,
AND CONSERVATIVE,
WRITESPRESIDENT
Decision Announced Just
Before Senate Judiciary
Committee Votes
on Court Bill
NO OTHERS TO QUIT
AT PRESENT MOMENT
Southerland May Resign,
However, Before Start of
Fall Term; Hughes, Mc-
Reynolds, Brandeis and
Butler All Eligible;
Hughes Lauds Van De
• vanter
Washington, May 18.—(AP) —Asso-
ciate Justice Willis Van Devanter in
formed President Roosevelt today he
would retire from active service on
June 2.
The 78-year-old jurist, who has
been known as a member of the so
called conservative wing of the court,
made his intention known in a letter
to the President shortly before the
Senate Judiciary Committee met to
vote on Mr. Roosevelt s court reform
bill. .
The chief executive’s demand for
new blood on the court has created an
epochal national controversy.
At the same time officials vested
with high authority said there prob
ably would be no more retirements
from the court at this time. But oth
ers said before the beginning of the
fall term of the court in October, Jus
tice Sutherland might take advantage
of the retirement act.
Four other justices are eligible for
retirement, Chief Justice Hughes and
Associate Justices Mcßeynolds, Bran
deis, and Butler.
Chief Justice Hughes called the re
tirement of Van Devanter a most
serious loss” to the court.
In a statement the chief justice
said:
“His long judicial experience, his
extraordinary memory and grasp of
precedents, his acumen and fairness
enabled him to render a service of in
estimable value in our deliberations,
while his equable temperament, his
tact and unfailing kindliness made
him an ideal associate.
“We shall greatly miss him.”
NEW BERN’S AGED
PAPA NEAR DEATH
New Bern, May 18 (AF) —George
Isaacs Hughes, 97-year-old Con
federate veteran, who is the fath
er of two children under three
years of age, was critically ill to
day at his home here. Suffering
with a heart ailment and infirmi
ties of old age, he was uncon
scious this afternoon and Dr. H.
B. Wadsworth described his con
dition as “the beginning of the
end.”
INLAND WATERWAY
AT HARKER ISLAND
Graham Barden Gets Appropriation
In Congress for $50,000 for
Dredging Work
Washington, May 18 (AP) —Repre-
sentative Graham Barden, of New
Bern, N. C., said today army engineers
have’ approved a proposed $50,000 ex
penditure to cut an inland waterway
from Cape Lookout harbor through
Back Sound to Harker’s Island, N. C.
Barden said he would ask the House
Rivers and Harbors Committee to in
clude the item in this year’s rivers
and harbors hill.
Barden said the cut would eliminate
the necessity of inland waterway traf
fic traversing dangerous waters be
tween Cape Lookout and Harker’s Is
land. »
OW WITHER MAH
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Increasing cloudiness tonight,
followed by showers Wednesday.
Aces Call on the President
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Dick Merrill (left) and his co-pilot, Jack Lambie, are shown leaving the
White House after describing their epochal round-trip transatlantic
commercial flight to the President. They flew to Washington from New
York to give the President a special “cover” with stamps cancelled in
New York and London. (Central Press)
Duke And Wally To Wed
At Monts, France, June 3
Formal Announcement of N uptial Plans Says No Mem
ber of Royal Family Will Be Present; Date Is Birth
day of Edward’s Fathtr, Late King George V
Monts, France, May 18. —(AP) —
Wallis Warfield and the Duke of
Windsor will be married quietly at the
Chateau de Cande on June 3, with no
member of the British royal family in
attendance.
The man who chose to be husband
rather than king chose the birthday
of his father, George V, for his wed
ding to the Woman he could not have
as monarch.
The announcement, which made no
mention of the coincidence in dates,
said the wedding party would be con
fined to “those who have been with
them”—the duke and Mrs. Warfield
—“during the past month” and added
tersely:
“There will he no members of the
royal family present.”
Right up to the moment of the an-
WHEELER LEMINr
Montana Liberal Lined Up
With Conservatives in
Strange Set-Up
By CHARLES F. STEWART ’
Central Press Columnist
Washington, May 18.—Senator Bur
ton K. Wheeler has developed surpris
ingly into the real leadership of the
opposition to President Roosevelt’s
policies.
Not that the Montana solon was an
obscurity previously but he was pretty
much a free lance. Although Demo
cratically labeled, he was too radical
for most congressional Democrats.
Yet because of this same label, he did
not’classify exactly among the pro
gressive Republicans. He did, indeed,
accept the vice presidential nomina
tion as a Progressive, on the ticket
with the late Senator Robert M. La
Follette in 1934, but after that he be
gan calling himself a Democrat again.
He was overly Democratic to be any
kind of a Republican, conservative or
nrogressive. He was overly advanced
to be an orthodox Democrat. He
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
nouncement many had supposed the
Duke of Kent, Edward’s youngest
brother, would be best man.
The official announcement of the
wedding, handed to reporters at the
gates of the chateau by Herman Rog
ers, said: f
“His Royal Highness the Duke of
Windsor announces that his marriage
to Wallis Warfield, daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Teakle Wallis War
field of Maryland, will take place at
the Chateau de Cande at Monts, on
Thursday, June 3.”
The long-awaited wedding date,
curtain call for the last act in an un
surpassed drama of empire, love and
abdication, comes just 20 days before
Edward’s 43rd birthday. His father,
the late King George V, was born
June 3, 1865, and died January 20, 1936
Negress Is
Heroine Os
House Fire
Fayetteville, May 18. —(AP) —
Jumping from the second story
wii'dow of a burning house with
a baby under each arm, Mamie
Spearman, a Negro maid, became
the town’s heroine here today.
Discovering a fire in the first
floor of the residence of Mrs.
Weighhauser, the Negress rushed
to the second floor, waked Mr.
and Mrs. A. M. Fleishman and
took three-months-old Bernice
Fleishman under one arm, four
year-old Joel under the other, and
jumped.
Little Bernice was the only one
(Continued oc Page Three.)
GREENVILLE GIVEN
REFUNDING PERMIT
Raleigh, May 18 (AP)—The Local
Government Commission executive
committee authorized the City of
Greenville today to issue $55,000 worth
of refunding bonds and $15,000 in
equipment bonds.
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SENATE JUDICIARY
GROUP VOTES DOWN
PRESIDENT’S PLAN
I
All Amendments But Few
Clarifying Text Rejected
One After Anoth
er in Ballots
ALL COMPROMISES
ARE TURNED DOWN
Line-Up in Final Vote To
Senate Floor Is As Expect
ed; Seven Democrats For
And Seven Against; One
Republican for and Three
Vote Against It
Washington, May 18 (AP)
The Senate Judiciary Commit
tee voted ten to eight today to
report the Roosevelt court bill
adversely to the Senate.
First members to emerge
from the committee session said
all amendments except a few
clarifying changes were reject
ed by the dominant opposition
majority.
The vote, taken in executive ses
sion shortly after the announcement
of the retirement of Justice Van De
vanter, came out just as it had been
forecast for more than a week.
For nearly two hours the commit
tee voted down compromise after
compromise.
Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho,
one of the leading foes of the Presi
dent’s bill stepped out of the commit
tee room to tell newspaper men:
“Ten to eight adversely."
The line-up on the final vote, Borah
said, was just as it had been forecast,
with seven Democrats and three Re
publicans opposing the presidential
measure to increase the size of the
Supreme Court.
Seven Democrats and Senator Nor
ris, the lone independent, voted for
the bill.
Elsewhere counsel for the Ameri
can Farm Bureau Federation declar
ed Supreme Court decisions uphold
ing the Wagner labor relations aot
had convinced the organization con
stitutional crop production control
legislation could be drafted.
Frederick Lee, special counsel for
the federation, told the House Agri
culture Committee' the Wagner act de
cisions broadened the scope of the
Constitution’s interstate commerce 1
clause in such a manner he believed
the Federal government could now
regulate agricultural production.
Committee Chairman Wheeler
'Continued on Page Three.)
COTTON ADVANCES
AFTER EARLY DROP
Net Gains of 11 to 17 Points Shown
at Day’s Close; Spot Steady,
Middling 13.27
New York, May 18.—(AF)Coltton
futures opened barely steady, down
one to two points in response to lower
Liverpool cables and continued favor
able weather. Shortly after the first
half hour, prices showed net losses of
one to four points. October rose to
12.59 and at midday was selling at
12.57, when prices showed net gains
of five to ten points.
Futures closed steady, 11 to 17
higher. Spot steady, middling 13.27.
. Open dose
July 1263 12.77
October 12.45 12.64
December 12.45 12.62
January 12.47 12.64
March 12.52 12.70
Origin For
Hindenburg
Fire Given
Lakehurst, N. J., May 18.—(\P)--
The outbreak of the disastrous Hin
denburg fire was dafinitcly plavd to
day inside gas cell ho. 4 in he* stern
by a member of the crew, who had
all five tail gas cells in his line of
vision when the first explosion oc
curred.
A brilliant light aDpeared inside the
No. 4 cell, simultaneous with the ex
plosion, said the witness, Helmut Lau,
a helmsman, who was at his landing
station in the lower vertical fin at the
start of the disaster.
A short time after the bright re
flection appeared, Lau told the De
partment of Commerce investigating
board, he saw fire inside the forward
bulkhead of the cell, and then flames
became visible on its outer surface.
The explosive sound, he testified
later, was, in his opinion, the gas cell
bursting at the top. He was 20 yards
from the fire, he said.