HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR
FDR REORGANIZATION PUN TO RE PRESSED
Steel Operations Crippled
By Strike That Brings Out
70,000 In The Middle West
C. 1.0. ACTION IS
TAKEN TO ENFORCE
BARGAIN DEMANDS
Fires Banked in Great Furn
aces That Have Been
Operating at Rec
ord Speed
first tests show
UNION’S STRENGTH
Came at 11 O’Clock Last
Night and 7 O’Clock This
Morning With Changing of
Shifts; Union Denies Re
public Steel’s Claim Plants
Operating
Youngstown, Ohio, May 27 (AP)
An orderly strike of more than 70,000
workers called by the C. I. O. to en
force its demand for bargaining con
tracts crippled steel operations today
in five states.
Fires were banked in great furnaces
that had been operating for weeks at
the highest production rate since 1929.
In Ohio s Mahoning valley alone
32.000 workers were idle and the steel
workers organizing committee claim
ed a 100 percent tie-up of plants of
Republic Steel Corporation and
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company,
vast independent steel producers
which have expressed willingness to
bargain with the C. I. O. affiliate, but
have insisted signing of a contract
would lead to a closed shop.
In the Chicago area, where 25,000
were affected, the strike order from
S. W. O. C.,s Chairman Philip Murray
shut down plants of the Inland Steel
Company, third of the independents
against which S. W. O. C. was aiming
in its current chapter of organizing
effort.
Fifteen thousand more men were
idle in Ohio plants outside the Ma
honing valley.
Republic spokesmen said several of
its mills were operating, but union
leaders countered with claims only a
few'm >n remained in the plants.
The first test of the strike’s effec
tiveness came at 11 o’clock last night
when the shifts changed. The second
test was at 7 a. m. today, time for
anothe rshift change. At both times
only minor skirmishes occurred at
niost places.
MacDonald
Turns Down
An Earldom
London, May 27. —(AP) —Ramsay
MacDonald, thrice Britain’s premier,
refused an earldom and was cheered
in Commons today—the eve of his re
tirement from official status, after 42
years with the government.
The earldom was offered him by
King George VI, but in an unselfish
gesture toward his son and heir, Mal
colm, he declined it.
He preferred to remain plain James
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U. N. C. Faculty Posts
Are Recommended By
Trustees ’ Committee
Raleigh, May 27.—(AP)—The exe
cutive committee of the board of trus
tees of the University of North Caro
lina voted today to recommend to
ihe full hoard June 4 that Dr. Wil
liam Deßernier MacN'der, be named
f lean of the medical school to succeed
Rr. Charles S. Mangum.
President Frank Graham recom
mended the change, saying Dr. Man
gum had asked to be relieved of the
dean ship so he might devote his en
tire time to teaching.
Dr MacNider, a native and lifelong
resident of Chapel Hill, has been on
the University faculty some 30 years,
a nd is now professor of pharmacology
The committee also recommended
to thp full board that Professor Harl
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With recent supreme court decisions favorable to the New Deal’s
wage and hour program, administration leaders plan to speed
through a new NRA policy. Leaders in the movement are Senator
Hugo L. Black, left, of Alabama, and Representative William Con
nery of Massachusetts. The two are seen in Washington as the new
bill is presented to both the house and the senate.
—Central Press
Prison Work
Will Remain
As Separate
But Will Correspond
to Highway Set -
Up; Waynick’s Plan
Continued
Dally Dlapatrk Rnreai,
In the Sl«- Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKERVIBIi
Raleigh, May 27.—The number of
prison divisions will he increased
from five, the present number, to ten,
so that they will correrpond with the
ten new administrative divisions of
the State Highway and Public Works
Commission, but the centralized ad
ministration of the prison system will
remain as it now is here in Raleigh,
the highway commission decided in
its meeting here Wednesday. Accord
ingly, five additional prison super
visors will be added, so that there will
be one prison supervisor in each di
division, who will work and cooperate
with the division commissioner and
engineer, but who will have full au
thority over prison matters, such as
disclipiine, prison management, and
so forth. Each division engineer will
continue to have full authority over
the woiking of prisoners on the high
ways, however, and in laying out the
work for the prisoners to do, just as
the> now do. .
Before the commission started its
two-da> meeting on Tuesday, there
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Douglass, noted teacher of secondary
education at the University of Min
nesota, succeed Dr. M. R. Trahue, who
is leaving the University.
Approval was voted a change at N.
C. State College to make George Wal
lace Smith a full professor of engi
neering mechanics and head of the
department of engineering mechanics.
The work has been done as a division
of the department of mathematics.
George Ross, secretary of State
College General Alumni Association,
and Irvin Tucker, of Whiteville, a
State alumnus on the executive com
mittee, presented recommendations
that N C. State have an athletic
council of 15 members to handle all
intercollegiate athletic matters. A fa
culty council would have veto powers.
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LEAD DRIVE FOR NEW NRA
Senator Hugo L. Black
HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 27, 1937
Representative William Connery
Rare Malady Kills
Asheville Youth
Asheville, May 27 (AP) —Edward
Newton, 6, son of Mrs, Reatha New
ton, of West Asheville, died at a
hospital here today of a rare dis
ease, which results in dissolution
of the bones.
Blood transfusions and the at
tention of several noted physicians
failed to check the disease, known
to the medical world as a plastic
anemia.
The child wa.s found to be suffer
ing from the malady when he was
taken to the cripple children's clin
ic at All Souls parish house, Bilt
more, last Saturday. Physicians
explained the disease sets up a
parathyroid condition that results
in the dissolution of the bones.
WAGE-HOUR ACT IS
TO PASS QUICKLY
Fletcher Says Child Labor
Provisions Won’t Change
N. C. Act
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Waiter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKERVH.Ii
Raleigh, May 27—Enactment of the
President’s new minimum wage and j
maximum hours bill by Congress is
expected within the coming 30 days,
Commissioner of Labor A. L. Fletcher
said today. He believes the bill, when
enacted, will provide for a 40-hour
work week with a minimum wage of
sls a week in the South and sl6 a
week in the North. Under the old
NRA wage code for the textile indus
try, the minimum wage was sl2 a
week in the South and sl3 a week in
the North, Fletcher pointed out.
“Indications are that Congress is
already willing and ready to enact the
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seeklTfth trial
OF ALABAMA NEGRO
One of Nine Defendants in Famous
“Scottsboro Case” Already
Tried Four Times
Montgomery, Ala., May 27.—(AP)—
Counsel for Heywood Patterson, Ne
gro defendant in the “Scottsboro
case”, argued today before the Ala
bama Supreme Court he was denied
“constitutional rights” in his fourth
circuit court trial.
Patterson is under a 75-year prison
sentence. He was one of nine Negroes
indicted in 1931 for allegedly attack
ing two white women aboard a freight
train near Scottsboro, Ala.
The Supreme Court, after less than
two hours of argument, took the case
under advisement. Court attaches said
it was likely a decision would be
reached before June 30, when a sum
mer recess begins.
ITALY ACCUSED BY
MMOFMjWELY
“Most Scandalous Viola
tion” of Law Since World
War, League of Na
tions Hears
DATA SEIZED FROM
UTAHAN PRISONERS
Plan in London for Armis
tice in Spain Is Virtually
Abandoned; Both Sides To
Be Implored “To Human
ize the War”; Russia De
lays Conference
Geneva, May 27 (AP)—The Spanish
government today accused Italy of the
“most scandalous violation” of inter
national principles since the World
War, in a League of Nations “white
book” intended to show the Fascist
state as a “truly belligerent power”
in violation of the League covenant.
The “white book” is a compilation
of documents, one of them purport
ing to be a “secret” and “most urg
ent” order from the Italian war office/
to the corps commanders of the gene
ral staff. The documents allegedly
were captured from Italian soldiers
fighting on the side of the insurgents
in Spain.
Meantime, in London a plan for an
armistice in Spain was virtually aban
doned.
This disclosure was made along
with plans for a simple plea to both
sides in the Spanish civil conflict* to
“humanize the war.” This was put
in first place on the agenda of the
European non-intervention committee.
Previously a truce to permit the
withdrawal of all foreign fighters in
Spain had been suggested by the Brit
ish:.
Soviet Russia’s members of the com
mittee yesterday ’Mocked immediate
dispatch of an appeal t<s Sf>ain when
the non-intervention body tried to ex
tend the note beyond a mere request
to Spaniards to stop bombing of
“open” towns.
A new draft of the note will be con
sidered by the committee Friday for
final action.
Elsewhere from Hendaye, Franco-
Spanish frontiers, came word to this
effect: Paving the way with a dawn
strafing of Basque lines by field guns
and airplanes, insurgent forces on the
southern Bilbao front renewed fierce
attacks to close the Basque capital’s
“back door” to central and western
Spain.
VIRGINIA DISCARDS
SUNDAY BEER BANS
State Liquor Board Believes* Ban Has
Encouraged Public Disregard
for the Law
Richmond, Va., May 27—(AP) —The
Sunday ban on beer and wine sales in
Virginia, which would have been
.three months old tomorrow, was or
dered lifted today by the State liquor
board.
Adopted February 28, the Statewide
regulation will cease to exist May 29
because, the board believes, “the ban
has encouraged that type of antagon
ism on the part of a large number of
citizens which leads inevitably to pub
lic disregard of law.”
CORNELIUS PAYROLL
ROBBERS AT LARGE
Band of Three Hold-Up Men Get $3,-
500 Payroll from Cotton
Mills Wednesday
Charlotte, May 27. —(AP) —Officers
of several counties patrolled all roads
today in a hunt for three youthful
bandits who held up the Cornelius
Cotton Mills late yesterday and took
a $3,500 payroll.
Charlotte police said several hours
after the hold-up the robbers’ car had
been found abandoned near Moores
ville, and the officers expressed be
lief the men were not far away. They
said the hold-up appeared to be the
work of amateurs.
The bandits, wearing white, striped
overalls and dark glasses, went to the
mill while three young women were
putting the money into envelopes.
Whipping out pistols, two of the men
scooped up the cash while the third
remained in the car and kept the
motor running.
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FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy tonight and Fri
day.
WALLACE APPROVES
NEW AAA PROPOSAL
OF FARM AGENCIES
Comes Out Flatly for Ad
justment Act in Testify
ing Before House
Committee
URGES PASSAGE OF
MEASURE SPEEDILY
Says It Will Safeguard Na
tion’s Food Supply and
Protect Farm Income; Will
Cost 250 to 750 Millions
Yearly; Would Protect
From Droughts
Washington, May 27 (AP)—Secre
tary Wallace came out flatly today in
support of the proposed agricultural
adjustment act of 1537 sponsored by
major farm organizations.
The secretary urged Congress to
"•ake it law “at the earliest possible
date.”
Appearing before the House Agri
culture Committee on the “proposed
new AA”, laid before Congress last
week by the American Farm Bureau
Federation, the secretary said:
“I’m strongly in favor of the prin
ciples and purposes of the bill.”
Wallace said the measure had two
fundamental aims:
“Safeguarding of the nation’s food
supply and protection of the farm in
come.”
Officials of the Farm Bureau Fede
ration have estimated the program
would cost between $250,000,000 and
$750,000,000 annually.
Wallace outlined features of the bftl
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1. To protect consumers against
drought disasters such as in the years
of 1934 and 1936.
2. To minimize wide fluctuations
in the prices of basic farm commodi
ties in the itnerest of both consumers
and producers.
3. To stabilize farm income as far
as possible at a “fair” level.
DANCER DISCOVERED
DEAD IN NEW YORK
Edward Donalan, 57, Female Imper
sonator, Is Found in Room
of His Apartment
New York, May 29. —(AP) —Edward
Donalan, 57, dancer and female im
personator, was found beaten or stran
gled to death in his apartment in the
“House of All Nations” today.
Dr. Milton Helphern, assistant
medical examiner, said the actor’s
throat was discolored and swollen and
his head badly .tattered, and that
death might have resulted from either
cause.
Boris Pachscowich, who lived di
rectly below Donalan, told Building
Superintendent Miglori he heard fight
ing and furnithre banging late last
night in Donalan’s apartment.
MICKEY COCHRANE’S
CONDITION BETTER
Detroit Tiger Manager, Hit by Pitched
Ball in New York Tuesday,
Has Good Night
New York, May 27 (AP)—An offi
cial bulletin said today Mickey Coch
rane, manager of the Detroit Tigers,
who was struck on the head by a
pitched ball Tuesday, had passed a
“good night” and his condition “had
improved.”
Signed by Dr. Emmett Walsh, Yan
kee physician, the bulletin, as issued
by St. Elizabeth hospital at 7:55 a. m.,
read:
“Cochrane has passed a good night.
His condition is improved.”
Dr. Bryan Stookey, brain specialist,
said:
“The outlook is fine.”
BOYS SCHOOL DEAN
HELD ON 110,000
Veteran Massachusetts Edu
cator Accused of Assault
for Murder
Greenfield, Mass., May 27.—(API-
White-haired Thomas Elder, one-time
dean of Mount Herman school for
boys, pleaded innocent today in dis
trict court to assault with intent to
commit murder and being armed with
a dangerous weapon, and was held in
SIO,OOO bail for hearing June 3.
The veteran educator and poultry
authority was charged with threaten
ing Allen Norton, former cashier at
Mount Hermon, night before last as
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ald Wightman (rear) are shown
leaving court in Jersey City, where
they are on trial for the ax murder
of Gladys’ mother. They snubbed
each other as they passed.
(Central Press)
WALLY’S AUNT IS
NOW CHATEAU BOSS
Mrs. Buchanan Merryman,
of Washington, Directs
Plans for Marriage
Monts, France, May 27 (AP) —Mrs.
Buchanan Merryman, Mrs. Wallis
Farfield’s “Aunt Bessie,” took over
the job today of superintending the
final preparations for the marriage of
her favorite niece and the Duke of
Windsor.
Attendants at the Chateau de Cande
where the former king and the woman
for whose love he abdicated the Brit
ish throne will be wed June 3, said
the American relative of the bride
elect, rolled up her sleeves and went
to work.
“She’s boss!” they added, in no un
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DURHAM BARBER IS
FREED OF CHARGES
Charlie Brown Acquitted of Murder
of His Wife and Throwing
Body Into Creek
Durham, May 27.—(AP) —Charlie
Brown, Durham barber, was free to
day of charges that he killed his wife,
Lona Brown, last December 28.
A superior court jury, after deli
berating nearly two hours, acquitted
him yesterday after a trial at which
the State tried to prove Brown blud
geoned his wife to death and then
threw her body into a creek near here.
Security Taxes Reported
Used In Current Expenses
I. O. U.’s Allegedly Chucked Into Cash Drawer To Rep
resent Them; Wagner Labor Act Not Getting Re
sults; Economy FDR Promised Is Lacking
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, May 27.—Quite a num
ber of things in Washington are fail
ing to evolve themselves as had been
expected.
For one item, the labor relations
board has on its hands a much more
complicated task than was anticipat
ed. When the Supreme Court upheld
the Wagner law, under which the
board was created, it generally assum
ed that the labor situation was all
straightened out.
Instead, strikes continue right
along.
The labor relations board can force
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DEPARTMENTS ILL
BE FULLYJEBUILT
House To Proceed on Basis
of Four Separate and
Distinct Reorganiz
ing Bills
ONE WILL BEMADE
FOR SENATE ACTION
Whole Project Will Be Sub
mitted in Same Act in Up
per House; House Has
Spasm Over Effort To Pre
vent Strikes in Govern
ment Relief Organizations
Washington, May 27. (AP)— A
joint congressional committee revived
the President’s long dormant govern
mental reorganization plan today by
deciding on prompt introduction in
both houses of legislation to rebuild
scores of executive agencies from top
to bottom.
Senate Majority Leader Robinson
announced the joint reorganization
committee had agreed to split into
House and Senate groups, each of
which would draft its own legislation.
The House group was expected to
submit at least four bills designed to
carry out the President’s program
piecemeal.
A single Senate measure embody
ing the whole reorganization system
was being drafted by Robinson him
self, who said it would be ready to
lay before Congress within ten days.
Elsewhere in the Capitol a storm of
controversy broke on the House floor
over an attempt to write into the sl,-
500,000,000 relief hill an amendment
denying relief workers the right to
strike.
Although the proposal by Repre
sentative Fuller, Democrat, Arkansas,
was shouted down, it precipitated a
flood of criticism.
“This is the most ridiculous thing
I ever heard of,” declared Represen
tative Maverick, Democrat, Texas.
“What arc we? Are we the House of
Lords, back in 1518? Why we must
must be crazy to listen to things like
that.”
Meantime, Secretary Wallace re
commended early enactment of the
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GOLDSBORO CHILD
' INJURED BY AUTO
Goldsboro, May 2f.—(AP)—Peter,
five-year-old son of Talbot Patrick,
Goldsboro publisher, was injured by
an automobile while on his way to
kindergarten. Physicians said the
child suffered a perforated liVer. They
gave him an even chance to recover.
Blood transfusions were arranged.
Liberty Is
SoughtFor
Jersey Girl
Jersey City, May 27 (AP)--Counsel
for 17-year-old Gladys Mac Knight ap
pealed to a jury today to acquit her
of a murder charge in the hatchet
slaying of her mother, and “send her
hack home to her father.”
In a quiet summation lasting an
hour and 40 minutes, Lewis Kennedy,
attorney for the girl, referred to her
co-defendant, Donald Wightman, 19,
and said:
“It is not my desire to prove Gladys
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employers to negotiate with their
workers collectively, but it canno*
force an agreement on terms. Lack
ing an agreement, a strike :i as much
.n order as ever.
A HARASSED BOARD
Then again, what group of workers
is to do the collective bargaining on
the workers’ side?
The board is empowered to super
vise elections to decide that ques
tion. But the workers are not all
ready for elections. If an employing
plant’s workers are but imperfectly
organized, those who are trying to
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