HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR
ROOSEVELT Will GO ON WITH COURT PUNS
Inland Steel Declines Any
Contract With Lewis Union
As Jones & Laughlin Signs
11.0. MEANWHILE
STARTS BIG DRIVE
FOR OTHER GROUPS
Sharon Company’s Workers
Voting on Whether To
Select It As Bar
gain Agency
A. F. OF L CHIEFS
LAY PLAN OF WAR
Campaign Chest To Be Aug
mented; Metal Trades
Chief Says Reds Active In
C. I. O. With Idea of Ulti
mate Domination of This
Big Group
Pittsburgh, Pa., May 25. —(AP)—
Chairman H. E. Lewis, of the Jones
& Laughlin Steel Corporation, signed
a contract today recognizing the steel
workers organizing committee as ex
clusive bargaining agency for the
company’s 27,000 workers.
INLAND STEEL REFUSES
TO SIGN ANY CONTRACTS
Indiana Harbor, Ind., May 25. —
(AP)—lnland Steel Company, largest
independent employer in the industry
in the Chicago area, refused today
to sign a collective bargaining con
tract with the steel workers organiz
ing committee.
LEWIS UNION PUSHES TO
NEW FIELDS TO CONQUER
(By The Associated Press.)
The John Lewis steel workers or
ganizing committee pushed their drive
for recognition into new sections to
day. , ,
The American Steel Foundry of
Chicago and the Crucible Steel Com
pany fell into line yesterday by ac
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Crime Put
On Girl By
Ex-Sweetie
Jersey City, May 25 (AP) —Red-hair-
ed Donald Wightman, 19, counter-ac
cused Gladys Mac Knight, his former
sweetheart, today on the witness stand
of killing her mother with a hatchet
last July 31.
In a dramatic court session, the
youth flatly denied the story to which
she stuck through eleven hours on the
witness stand, placing the blame on
him.
“The blows (that killed Mrs. Helen
Mac Knight) were struck by whom?”
questioned his counsel, George Vick
ers. * x. v»
“Gladys,” he replied.
Meantime, confronted with admitted
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PRESBYTERIANS TO
KEEP WAR CLAUSE
Not Enough Presbyteries for
Ban To Bring It Up In
Assembly
Columbus, Ohio, Ma'.y 25 (AP) The
Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A.,
has declined to withdraw its sanction
of war.
The church’s 276 presbyteries failed
by nine votes to approve? a proposed
amendment which would have delet
ed from the church’s confession of
faith, or constitution, this sentence:
“Christians x x x x majT lawfully
lender the New Testament wage war.’
Defeat of the proposed amiendment
will be reported June 1 by the commit
tee on policy to the 149th Gen exal As
sembly of the church meeting here
from Thursday until June 2.
The proposal, which originated in
the Presbytery of Cayuga, whose' seat
is Auburn, N. Y., was ratified bjr 175
presbyteries. Ratification by two
’hirds of the presbyteries, or 184, was
Necessary to bring it before the £.s
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country's great oil industry, was made on his 97th birthday at Lakewood,
N. J., The multi-millionaire who died in his sleep at his Florida winter
home wou; 1 have been 98 in July. (Central Press)
Roosevelt in Bed
With Severe Cold
Washington, May 25. — (AP) —
President Roosevelt cancelled all
of his appointments today and re
mained in the White House nurs
ing a slight head cold. His personal
physician, Captain Ross Mclntire,
advised him to remain away from
the executive offices during the
day to rest.
A White Hjouse secretary an
nounced, however, Mr. Roosevelt
would hold his regular press con
ference, scheduled for 4 p. m.
Stephen Early, secretary to the
President, said the chief executive
caught cold on a week-end trip on
the Potomac river.
DR.RIDDICK WILL
REM A DEAN
Aged N. C. Professor To
Remain on Faculty
There, However
Raleigh, May 25.—(AP)—Dr. W. C.
Riddick, oldest member of the faculty
of North Carolina Stafe College, and
a former president of the institution,
will retire next week from the dean
ship of the school of engineering.
Riddick has been at the college 45
years, and will continue as professor
on the faculty of the engineering
school, although he is 72.
Years ago he coached the college’s
first football team and the football
stadium is known as Riddick Field.
He served for years on the faculty
athletic committee.
It was in 1892, after two years prac
ticing his profession of civil engineer,
that Riddick joined the faculty at
State. He became president in 1916
and served until 1923, when he be
came dean of the school of engineer
ing.
Colonel J. W. Harrelson, dean of
administration at State, said Rid
dick’s successor as dean would be an
nounced within a few days.
CCC WORKER GOES
ON HUNGER STRIKE
Rossville, Ga., May 25 (AP)—
Bearded Philip Bumgartner kept
right on shunning food today in
an effort to obtain more money
for his CCC work, despite blunt
warning from Major OeneraJ Van
Horn MostJt-y tflat he better
start eating three meals a day.
cS' IRE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
HENBteiON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 25, 1937
PRISON SYSTEM IS
AT STAKE IN FIGHT
Enmity Between Old and
New Powers in Set-Up
Is Becoming Clear
NEW IDEAS APPROVED
More Humanity Introduced Under 1
Jeffress and Waynick; Ousted
Groups Join With Unsuc
cessful Contractors
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, May 25. —The fate of the
North .Carolina prison system, now re
garded as one of the most efficient
and humane in the nation, is hang
ing in the balance as in intense be
hind-the-scenes fight /smoulders be
tween two factions with two opposite
points of view, for control of the pri
son system, a good many here are
convinced. For there are indications
that a wheel within a wheel has come
into being in connection with the re
organization of the State Highway
and Public Works Commission and
that a group regarded as being more
interested in the dishing out of politi
cal pie than in the efficient and hu
mane management of the State Pri
son system, is working quietly but
persistently behind the scenes to
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Crop Year
Outlook Is
Amongßest
College Station, Raleigh, May 25.
Heavy rains earlir in the season al
most brought despair to North Caro
lina farmers, but subsequent favor
able weather is giving hope for a good
crop year.
E. C. Biair, extension agronomist
at State College, reports that in all
sections of the State farmers are look
ing forward to one of their best years.
Irish and sweet potatoes have pro
duced good stands, and large yields
are expected. Last year’s short crop
of spuds sent prices soaring to the
highest points in years.
Because of heavy rains, much corn
has had to be replanted, Blair stated.
The second planting is now up and is
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Stanley Baldwin is scheduled to resign as British prime minister on Friday, May 28, four days
after entertaining the new king and queen his last function in connection with the coronation. Bald
win will be succeeded by Neville Chamberlain, Conservative leader, now chancellor of the ex
chequer. Sir John 'Simon is expected to succeed Chamberlain as chancellor of the exchequer.
Baldwin will be given a peerage and will sit in the house of lords in his retirement. He is 70.
Big Piccard
Bag Burns At
Flight Field
New Stratosphere
Ascent Just About
To Start Near Brus
sels, Belgium
Brussels, Belgium, May 25.—(AP)
Prof. August Piccard’s $35,000 stratos
pheric balloon was destroyed by fire
today as final preparations were be
ing made for a new ascent.
Flames from a gas burner used to
heat air for lifting the balloon touch
ed a pocket or fold in the bag just
as the ground crew attaching the bas
ket in which Professor Piccard was
to have explored the sub-stratosphere.
A fiercely burning fire engulfed the
14,000 cubic-yard rubber silk bag in a
few seconds and it was reduced to a
heap of charred wreckage.
No one was hurt. Both Piccard and
Max Cosyns, his young associate, were
standing close to the balloon when the
lower part of the envelope burst into
flames.
Double Ring
Ceremony At
Monts Event
Monts, France, May 25.—(AP) —
The Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wlallis
Warfield will be married with a dou
ble ring ceremony in the music room
of the Chateau de Cande, a source
close to the household disclosed to
day.
The rings to bind the troth of the
abdicated monarch and the woman
for whom he gave up his throne will
be exchanged during the French civil
ceremony to be performed by Dr.
Charles Mercier, mayor of Monts,
June 3.
The wedding party, the source de
clared, will assemble to the music of
a wedding march played by the fa
mous organist Marcel DuPre on the
organ in the library.
Wedding gifts continued to pour
into the chateau.
Gifts from donors unknown to the
bridal pair were returned whenever
there was an address on the package.
OUR WEATHER MAN
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair tonight and Wednesday.
Highway Board Is Told
By Governor To Plan As
Single Statewide Unit
55 Executed Upon
Purge by Soviets
Moscow, May 25 (AP) —Eleven
persons were reported today to
have been executed at Khabarovsk
in the Far East, bringing to 55 the
number put to death in Siberia
within the last few days on charges
of sabotage under the direction of
Japanese intelligence agents.
The death sentences -were an
nounced in a terse communique
published in the newspaper Pacific
Star, published at Khabarovsk on
May 15, but the news reached Mos
cow only today.
SENATEPULLSfOR”
ROKONJN COURT
Good Authority Is That
Roosevelt Promised Him
First Opening
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, May 25.—N0 chicken
ever was counted oftener before being
hatched than the Senate’s majority
leadership is being counted on by
prominent Democratic senators, on
the supposition that Senator Joseph
T. Robinson of Arkansas will be boost
ed out of his party’s present sena
torial leadership into a seat on the
United States supreme bench, to suc
ceed retiring Justice Willis Van De
van ter.
The list of possibilities, who have
been suggested forth coming Su
preme Court vacancy is half a column
long, hut Capitol Hill’s consensus is
that Senator Robinson is, by all odds,
the strongest probability.
The prediction doubtless is, to a
certain extent, the offspring of the
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SOUTH SEEKS CUT
IN FREIGHT RATES
Governor of Alabama Leading Fight
Before Commerce Commis
sion in Washington
Washington, May 25 (AP) —Law-
yers prepared today a final draft of a
petition asking lower freight rates on
southern products.
Governor Bibb Graves, of Alabama,
chairman of a southeastern governors
rate conference, said it was possible
but not probable that the petition
would he in form to file late today
with the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. : flk-
PUBLISHED lIVBRY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Governor Again Urges Study
of Road Program Before
Making Personnel
Changes
DISTRICT MEN ARE
CONTACT AGENCIES
Should Represent Full Com
mission and Carry Local
Problems to Full Board, He
Tells Commissioners at
Meeting; Five Engineers
To Be Named
Raleigh, May 25.—(AP)—Governor
Hoey told the highway and public
works commission today that under
the new set-up there should be “one
autonomy combining the ten districts
and representing the whole state,”
and again urged a study of the high
way program before personnel chan
ges are made.
'The commission engaged itself in
routine matters afterwards. Hoey had
not previously outlined his views to
the new commission of ten members.
• Chairman Frank Dunlap said per
sonnel matters might be reached late
in the afternoon, but it was not cer
tain. Five division engineers at least
must be appointed, as there were only
five divisions under the old set-up,
and there are now ten.
Governor Hoey told the commis
sioners “I do not favor the creation
of the impression that our road sys
tem is a sectional or local function of,
the government,” as he said he asked i
the legislature to create ten road dis
tricts with the view of securing more
united support on the part of all the
people.
The governor said he felt the com
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Daughter Os
Drown Talks
For Defense
Durham, May 25. —(AP) —Charlie
Brown’s 11-year-old daughter, Doro
thy, denied in superior court today
the statement of her older sister that
Brown knocked down his wife, Lona
Fish Brown, during an argument
Christmas eve. Brown, a local barber,
is on trial for his life charged with
the murder of his wife sometime in
the early morning hours of Monday,
December 28.
Tears in her eyes, the little girl
said she had never seen her father
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Compromise
LAWS NOT WRITTEN
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X.
Long-Time Planning Policies
Constitute Basis df Presi
dent’s Fears for Future
Court Reversals Unless
Liberalized; Wants Secur
ity Act Stronger
Washington, May 25.—(AP) —An
administration official said today
Fresident Roosevelt, with an eye to
the future of laws yet unwritten, was
going ahead with his plan to revamp
the Supreme Court unless older jus
tices now on the bench retire.
The President, the official said, in
discussing speculation which follow
ed yesterday’s validation of the so
cial security law, has given no indi
cation he would compromise on his
proposal.
Speculation was, since the admin
istration has won twelve important
victories and suffered no defeats be
fore the court this year, the President
might be content, either to comprom
ise on the appointment of two new
justices other than the five now pos
sible under his bill, or let his bill
slide entirely into the background.
The official said a number of long
time planning policies of the Presi
dent were involved in the court fight.
The President was represented as
feeling by increasing membership in
the court as he contemplates the
chances of having such policies
scrapped will be reduced proportion
ately.
Almost simultaneously with these
administration statements, the White
House disclosed the President had
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Lindbergh
Silent On
New Baby
London, May 25 (AP)-Oolonel
Charles Lindbergh established a pro
tective veil of silence today about his
wife and their newborn son, whose
birth on the night of May 12 was dis
closed only yesterday by the famous
flier to American Embassy officials.
After his disclosure, Lindbergh re
treated into hiding from even his
closest friends who wished to extend
congratulations.
The only definite information in
England was that cabled from the
United States, was the announce
ment made by an aunt of Mrs. Lind
bergh, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Miss Annie Cutter, the aunt, said
Mrs, Dwight Morrow, Mrs. Lind
bergh’s mother, who is with her in
England, had sent a letter that "only
stated a son had been born” on the
night of King George Vi’s coronation.
At Cardiff, Wales, additional confir
mation of the birth came in a brief
announcement from a British relative
of Mrs. Lindbergh.
Twin Drive
For Bilbao
Will Start
insurgent Capture of
Town of Yurre
Opens Way for De
termined Thrust
Hendaye, Franco-Spanish Frontier,
May 25. —(AP) —General Mola's in
surgent army was reported today to
have captured the town of Yurre and
a wide region to the north, opening
away for & double thrust against a
strategic highway junction southeast
of Bilbao and key to the city’s "iron
ring” defenses.
With two insurgent columns ham
mering toward it, this highway junc
tion, Galdacano, seemed destined to
be the center of the crucial battle for
possession of the Basque capital.
Basque fighting men and their Aus
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