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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR STRIKE ORDERED IN CALIFORNIA PLANTS OPERATED BY FORD Pickets Placed Around Buildings of Richmond, Cal. t Factory by U. A. W. A. Group REPUBLIC STEEL FACED BY TIE-UP Many of Its Factories In Ohio Already Shut Down by Strike Following Re fusal To Accept C. I. O. as Bargaining Agent; C. 1. O. Chiefs Assemble Richmond, Cal., May 26 (AP) A strike was called at the Ford assem bly plant here today and pickets were placed around the buildings by the U. A. W. A. Frank Slaby, president of the East g av U. A. W. A., affiliated with the C I 0., announced only two votes were cast against the walk-out. He said the day crew voted 628 for the strike and the night shift 268 for quitting work. "The Ford company discriminated against ou>- members for union acti vity and attempted to form a com pany union,” Slaby said. COMPLETE SHUTDOWN NOW r FACED BY REPUBLIC STEEL (By The Associated Press) The Republic Steel Corporation faced complete shutdown today while workers in factories of two other ma jor concerns awaited the official call to strike. With seven of eight Republic units at Canton and Massilon, Ohio, already closed, Homer Downer, president of the All-Nations Lodge of 'the steel workers organizing committee, said Republic plants extending from Ala bama to Minnesota “will be down to day.” Ten thousand workers were affected by the Republic plants’ closing in Ohion last night, and 45,000 others would become idle if all plants are closed. The strike call followed the Repub lics refusal to sign contracts with John Lewis’ C. I. O. to bargain for its members. Similar refusal came from officials of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company, fourth largest independent. I (Meanwhile, Philip Murray called his C. I. O. counsellors to Youngs town, Ohio, today to map the organi zation's war against both concerns. Mac Knight Case Neat Its Close Jersey City, May 26 (AP)— The defense rested today in the murder trial of Donald Wightman and Gldays Mac Knight, with each of them accus ing the other of striking the hatchet blows that killed the 17-year-old girl’s mother. The action came after long and sharp cross-examination of 19-year old Wightman had ended without shaking materially his story that Gldays killed Mrs. Helen Mac Knight while he held the woman’s arms. Gladys similarly had accused Don ald of the actual slaying, which she asserted occurred as she struggled with her mother for possession of a kitchen knife after Mrs. Mac Knight had surprised the young couple in a love-making scene in the kitchen. Donald told the jury 311(1 P rose " (Continued on Page Three.) Road Chiefs Dates Os Hearings In This District At Wilson on Second Saturdays; Special Dates Made Raleigh, May 26 (AP)—The ten new highway commissioners notified boards of county commissioners in th e 100 counties today they would be Evailable on stated days to discuss highway matters in the divisions un der the new set-up. Each commis sioner set monthly meetings to suit his own convenience, though announce ment of pla.ns for the *sixth district was withheld temporarily. The ten division engineers named yesterday discussed highway matters ■with the commission. Chairman Frank Dunlap said the (Continued on Page Three.) ~ HmJirrsmt Hath; Btsuafrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. A Rare Picture Vs W?* | \ '•£:£ <£'■ Wi Rarely indeed is a photographer permitted to approach close enough to the Emperor of Japan to secure a picture as excellent as this one, probably the best study ever made by a press photographer. The mon arch is shown astride his white charger during a review of his troops at Tokyo. (Central Press ) Hoey Blocks Division Os Road Power Many Pet Political Plans Nipped By Governor Speech to Commission In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. ■BASKERVIIX Dally niupntrh Bnrenn. Raleigh, May 26. —Governor Clyde R. Hoey threw a flock of brickbats into the plans of some of the mem bers of the new State Highway and Public Works Commission and some of their political friends when he told the commission quite bluntly in its meeting here Tuesday that he expect ed it to continue to be a State high way commission, and had no inten tion of permitting it to delegate its powers to the ten individual commis sioners, so that each commissioner would become the virtual highway and prison dictator in his own divi sion, with full authority to hire and fire both highway and prison per sonnnel in his division. Until the meet Continued on Page Two.) TRADERS CAUTIOUS IN STOCK TRADING Fractional Declines Predominate in Afternoon; Wall Street Watches Strikes t New York, May 23.—(AP)— Stock tiiecrs trod a ea'itio is path today. Activity to early afternoon was so thin analysts were rOvctant to inter pret the fractional declines which predominated. While Wall Street kept a close eye on strike news, particular ly in the steel industry, it apparently offered little in the way of cues on share trends. Transfers approximated 606, (DO shs<rps« American. Radiator 21 3-8 American Telephone American Tob B >•> 79 J" Anaconda *4 7-8 Atlantic Coast Line 48 1-4 Atlantic Refining & Bendix Aviation £ Bethlehem Steel r? * Columbia Gas & Elec Co 11 5-8 Commercial ... • • Continental Oil Co ... * lg7 DuPont ******* IRI-9 Electric Pow & Light General Electric " General Motors jjj Liggett & Myers B ... Montgomery Ward & Co Reynolds Tob B Southern Railway Standard Oil Co N J [u S Steel 98 7-8 L^f^ D *^ VIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON MAY 26, 1937 LAST RESTING PLACE OF OIL KING Rockefeller burial plot in Lake View cemetery, Cleveland This tall obelisk-like monument marks the last resting place of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. The burial plot, which embraces graves of 14 relatives, including those of his wife, mother and daughter, is in Lake cemetery in Cleveland. The graves are in a semi-circle around the simple monument. —Central Press Nation’s Crop Outlook Finest In Years, Except In Some Small Regions Most Sections Have Had Sufficient Rain, But in Few Localities Considerable M oisture Is Needed Immedi ately To Assure Good 1937 Harvests Chicago, May 26 (AP) —The American farm crop picture, tragically darkened in 1936 by the great drought, carried bright er, more optimistic tints today. Although farm experts said the long summer ahead may al ter the current outlook, a survey of the broad mid-continental ag ricultural belt showed most regions this had experienced weather conditions warranting expectations of a good harvest. Only in a few important producing ■ areas in the west were timely and abundant rains within the next few crucial weeks considered necessary to erase farmers’ fears of a third serious drought in four years. Many farm lands where vegetation withered in 1934 and again in 1936 have had heavy rains this spring, and crop conditions in these localities were reported the best in years. Ironically, moisture has been so plentiful in some sections in the Great Lakes and Ohio and Mississippi valley re- that field work and the crop start have been seriously delayed. Elsewhere soil lacks the fortifica tion of sub-surface moisture reserve to tide vegetation through the hot, dry summer days, the survey showed. Ob servers feared the possibility of seri ous losses in these regions unless near ly ideal weather prevailed. SURVEyFnEGRO SCHOOLS BIG TASK Commission Named by Gov ernor To Tackle Large. State Need Daily DKpatrh Bareaa, In the Sir Walter Hotel By Jr C. BASKERVII.Ii Raleigh, May 26. —The new commis sioner just named by Governor Cyde R. Hoey—a commission whose au thorization by the 1937 General As sembly had been almost forgotten— to study the State’s educational pro gram and facilitaties for colored peo ple, has been handed a big assign ment, in the opinion of most obser vers here. The commission is compos ed of State Senator J. W. Noell, Rox boro newspaper man and chairman of the Senate Education Committee in the 1937 Senate; Senator J. M. Mc- Daniel, Mt. Pleasant insurance man in Cabarrus county and former school man; and Representatives Hugh G. Horton, Williamsboro; F. H. Brooks* Smithfield and George Uzzell, Salis bury, Representative Horton was chairman of the House Education Committee in the 19)37 session of the (Continued on Page Three.) Cochrane’s Chahces Are About Even New York, May 26.—(AP)— His skull fractured in three places, one of them dangerously near one of the sinuses, Mickey Cochrane, star cat cher and manager of the Detroit Tigers, fought for his life today with chances for victory reported as even. Danger of infection of the sinuses had caused added concern as three physicians and surgeons tried to save Mickey’s life. He had been struck in the right temple by a ball thrown by Irvine Hadley of the New York Yan kees yesterday in a game. Cochrane’s condition had been pro nounced satisfactory in a bulletin is sued at St. Elizabeth’s hospital, but the danger of infection was noted. The bulletin read: “Mr. Cochrane has a fracture of the skull and a mild cerebral con cussion. At the present he is com (Continued on Page Two) ALLEGHANY BEATS LIQUOR STORE IDEA Sparta, May 26.—(AP)—A pro posal to establish liquor stores in Alehany county met defeat when opponents mustered 1,225 votes and proponents 1,050 in yester day’s election. OUR WEATHERMAN .9 * FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair tonight and Thursday, Secretary Perkins Proposes Board Instead Os Make Wage-Hour Huge French Transport Plane Downed By Shells Os Spanish Insurgents French Pilot and Spanish Passenger of Pyrennes Air Liner Injured in Incident ATTACK OCCURS IN THE BILBAO SECTOR Mola’s Insurgent Armies Press to Within Eight Miles of Besieged Basque Capi tal in North; Foreign Con sul at Bilbao Is Shot As Spy Bilbao, Spain, May 26. —(AP)—Ma- chine gun bu’.lets from an insurgent Goet of war planes downed a French “Air Pyrennes’’ transport plane near '.his besieged Basque capital today, and wounded the French pilot and a Spanish passenger. The plane was damaged badly by the bullets and a forced “pancake” landing on sandy soil 13 miles north of here, behind Basque government war lines. All thg passengers were Spaniards. The plane was approaching the mouth of the Nervion river toward the coast from Bilbao when seven in surgent planes, described by Basques as a German-built fleet, were report ed to have raked it with machine gun fire. Elsewhere, at Hendaye, on the Franco-Spanish frontier, a new insur gent advance was reported to have shoved General Mola’s front lines within eight miles of Bilbao. The advance, an insurgent com munique from the Salamanca head quarters reported, carried the north ern insurgent offensive to within eight miles southeast of the besieged capital and half way to the next ob jective. Meantime, at Bilbao, a foreign con sul, it was learned, had been shot as an insurgent spy by the Basque gov ernment. Neither the consul nor his country was identified, but it was learned he was caught carrying mili tary maps out of the beleaguered Bilbao. Basque secret police who had trail ed the man for weeks arrested him as he was about to board a British destroyer en route to France. TAX COLLECTOR OF WAYNE PASSES ON Goldsboro, May v 26. —'(AP) —Clar- ence Peacock, Sr., 60, Wayne county tax collector, died at his home here today after a long illness. Funeral services will be held here tomorrow. DURHAM ABC STORE TO OPEN ON JUNE 15 Durham, May 26. (AP) —John Har ris, chairman of the Durham ABC board, said today liquor stores prob ably would be opened around June 15. CONVICT NASH MAN IN ABORTION DEATH Wilson, May 26.—-(AP)—A Nash county superior court jury today con victed Melton Baker of complicity in the death of a Nash county woman who died, the State charged, as the result of an illegal operation. Baker was alleged to have paid for the operation. Judge Paul Frizzelle gave him from three to five years in State Prison. SENAMBANE of MANY PRESIDENTS All Presidents In More Re cent Years Have Had Unruly Senators By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, May 26.—Presidents have many more of their fights with the Senate than with the House of Representatives. A. president who has an actual nia jority against him in the lower house cannot but have trouble with that house too. President Hoover, for ex ample, had a Democratic majority of the representatives to combat during the latter half of his term. That was awkward, of course. But a representatorial majority which partisanly is in accord with the White House generally Is toler (Continued on Page Two) PUBLISHED BVBRY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Hindenburg Crew Man Sobs Regret Lakehurst, N. J., May 26.—(AP) —The elderly chief electrician of the Hindenburg, Philip Lenz, broke down and cried in an Asbury Park hospital room today as he describ ed to the Commerce Department investigating board the last mo ments of the great German Zep pelin. He was the first of the num erous crew survivors questioned to give way to his emotions- WAGE, HOUR DRIVE IN CONGRESS FANS OLD NRA DISPUTES Some Think Greater Elasti city Now Makes for Great Improvement In New Set-Up BETTER CONDITIONS EXPECTED BY LABOR Some Business Men See Im pediment in Recovery Movement, Though Agree ing With Some Phases of Plan; Many Big Indus tries Already Complying New York, May 26.—(AP)—The ad ministration drive in Congress for Federal control of maximum hours and minimum wages in industry has fanned anew embers of the old debate over NRA codes. A survey disclosed today a fairly wide diversity of opinion among eco nomists, labor leaders, business men and* industrailists as to what the pro posals actually would mean for the sprawling American industrial ma chine. Some pronounced the program an improvement over NRA because more elasticity would be provided. Labor leaders saw in it an impor tant stei* in stabilizing employment and promoting better working con ditions. Some business men, although pro fessing agreement with certain phase, were critical of others and thought the drive might seriously retard re covery at a strategic point on the up- Continued on Page Two.) FRENCH AVIATORS ARE FORCED DOWN Pair Attempting Hop from Paris To Tokyo Injured in Landing in the Far East Tokyo, Japan, May 26 (AP) —The Japanese (Domei) News Agency re ported today the French aviators Mar cel Doret and Francois Micheletti made a forced landing along the To bara coast in Kocht prefecture at 7:30 p. m. tonight (6:30 a. m., eastern standard time). Both were slightly hurt and taken to a hospital at Kochi, on Sjikoku Is land seaport. They were trying a Paris to Tokyo flight. FOUR VERDICTS IN BROWN CASE OPEN Judge Hunt Parker Charges Jury in First Degree Mnrder Case of Durham Barber Durham, May 26 ,<AP)— Superior Court Judge R. Hunt Parker told a Durham jury today it could return one of four verdicts in the case of Charlie Brown, Durham barber, charged with killing his wife. The jurist said Brown could be found guilty of first or second decree murder, or manslaughter or could be found not guilty. Solicitor Leo Carr, concluding argu ment in the case last night, told the jurors to put aside their and asked them for a verdict of first degree murder. The defense had contended Brown was a home-loving man and never harmed his wife. Th e State charged Brown knocked down his wife, Lona Fish Brown, in a fight Christmas eve, a week before her body was found in a creek. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Congress Standard LABOR IMF FROM CABINET TESTIFIES AT HOUSE HEARING Would Have Board Say What Top Hours and Bottom Wages for Industry Shall Be WANTS CONGRESS TO GIVE UP ITS RIGHT Senate Gets Eight Interna tional Agreements With South American Nations Designed To Maintain Peace in the Americas; FDR Wants Them “Now” Washington, May 26 (AP)--Qecre tary Perkins said today an adminis trative board, rather than Congress, should fix the specific labor stand ards foreseen for industry under the administration’s proposed wage and hour control law. Testifying before a House labor sub committee on a bill to regulate the textile industry labor standards, the labor secretary said: “If the way had not been so recent ly opened to a more general approach, I should have said regulation by in dustry was the best approach to the problem.” The textile bill would apply only to that industry. Administration lead ers have indicated it would be shelved in the interest of the general wage and hour law, which would include textiles as well as all other inter state industries. A board would be created to ad minister the law and /the secretary indicated she believed fixing of mini mum wage and maximum hour pro (Continued on Page Two). Warren Is Speaker Os U. S. House Washington, May 26 (AP) —A 47- year-old North Carolina Democrat, who still wears the same kind of pom padour he displayed as a boy, is hold ing the gavel over House debate this week. He is Representative Lindsay War ren, elected speaker protempore while Speaker Bankhead is at his Alabama home. During his seven consecutive terms in Congress Warren has won for him self a reputation as a stern and able parliamentarian, and for southern barbecue a reputation as one of the best dishes served in the House res taurant. » As chairman of the House accounts Committee, he has put'the restaurant on a basis where it just about makes expenses. Warren says his only diversion is fishing, preferably deepsea fishing. When Congress is not meeting he frequently persuades his colleagues to try their luck in North Carolina 'wat ers. ’ 16 Wedding Guests Are Announced Some British Offi cials Included In Group for Windsor- Warfield Event Monts, France, May 26. — (AP) — Sixteen wedding guests, several of them holding British official positions were announced today for the June 3 marriage of the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Warfield by Herman Rogers, their American spokesman. The guests include Hugh Lloyd i Thomas, first secretary to the British embassy in Paris; Sir Walter Monck ton, attorney general of the Duchy of Cornwall, and Lady Wallford Sel by, wife of the British minister at Vienna. Major E. B. Metcalfe, who will at tend with Lady Metcalfe, will be the Oootinued on Page Two.)
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