HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR
CONGRESS SPEEDS ROOSEVELTS TJX SILL
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Britain Joins Italy, Germany In Protest To Spain
Loyalist Attacks
On Neutral Ships
Being Protested
Britain Gives Berlin and
Rome To Understand
Their Demands
Are Justified
ACTING TO BOLSTER
PEACE FOR EUROPE
Not In Any Way Intended
As Defense of German
Bombardment of Almeria;
No Government Willing to
Undertake Investigation of
That Affair
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London, June I.—'API—Great Bri
tain joined Germany and Italy today
in protesting Spanish government
violence against neutral shipping—ap
parently as a measure to bolster Eu
rope's peace.
The British stand, well informed
sources believed, was calculated to
give reassurance to Berlin and Rome
that their demands against the Span
ish government were justified.
At the same time it was intended
to obtain safety of shipping through
the creation by the Spanish govern
ment of safety zones for neutral war
ships.
British spokesmen Indicated 'the! 1 ;
government was not taking sides in
the controversy, but was trying only
to “reform the work of the interna
tional hands-off-Spain committees"
now weakened by Italian and Ger
man withdrawals after the bombing
of a German pocket battleship.
The British protest was based on
an attack on the British flotilla lead
er H. M. S. Hardy off Palma, Malora,
May 26. The foreign office said the
ship was almost hit by aerial bombs.
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden
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Beard Has
Scant Hope
From Chair
Austin, Texas, June 1 (AP) —One of
the three members of the Texas Board
of Pardons said today he had found
nothing in the 1 examination of records
to justify commutation for Dwight
Beard, North Carolinian, under sen
tence to be executed Friday.
T. C. Andrews, the pardon board
member, said h-e had read the recoi
of Beard’s trial and conviction. And
rews said the prisoner’s mother and
several friends had written letters
asking the death sentence be commut
er]. One allegation made, Andrews
said, was that a jahysician who testi
fied Beard was siane did not have a
license to practice medicine.
Beard was convicted of murder in
the slaying of Joian Roberts, former
Dallas detective, who tried to prevent
a garage hold-up .December 23, 1935.
Shake-Up At
State Prison
Is Expected
Warden Honeycutt
May Go; Baise and
Pitts Are Still on the
Anxious Seat
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Dally Dispatch .
In the Sir Wsilte r Hotel.
By J. C. BASKERVIDL
Raleigh, June I—A shake-u.p in the
personnel of Central Prison htsre is ex
pected in the near future, regardless
of whether Oscar T. Pitts, acting di
rector of the prison division of the
•State Highway and Public Worlis Com
mission, is reappointed or not, Jiccord
ing to many observers. There are in
dications that whoever is appointed
director of the prison division will
make a number of changes in so,%te of
the more important positions at"' the
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Frank Purnell
Frank Purnell, president of
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., ia
one of the executives of steel inde
pendents whom federal concilia
tors are trying to bring into
agreement with the Steel Work
ers’ Organizing Committee to
settle strike.
—Central Press
Roosevelt’s
Veto Killed
In The House
Issue Concerns War
Insurance of Vete
rans; Relief Bill
Further Argued
Washington, June 1. —(AP) — The
House voted today to override Presi
dent Roosevelt’s veto to extend the
time in which World War veterans
may renew their war risk term insur
ance policies.
Chairman Rankin, Democrat, Mis
sissippi, of the World War veterans’
committee, declared failure to pass
the measure would force -more than
20,000 veterans to drop their insurance
The chief executive, in a veto mas
sage Friday, said he did not believe
the extension was “warranted’* or
ultimately will prove profitable to the
individuals concerned.”
The hotly-debated $1,500,000,000 re-
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REYNOLDSGROWING
STRONGER IN STATE
Senator Expected To Be
Renominated, Probably
Without Any Foe
Dali? Dispatch Bnream,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
It* J C. UASKERVILL
Raleigh, June I—-The many visits
Senator Robert R. (Our Bob) Rey
nolds has made to the State recently
and the numerous speeches he has
been making, have helped him great
ly, with the result that most observers
here regard him as being in a very
strong position for winning the renom
mation in the Democratic primary
next spring. The suggestion made in
recent news dispatches from Washing
ton that former Governor-Senator
Cameron Morrison of Charlotte might
become a candidate against Reynolds
and seek, to wrest from Our Bob
the senatorial toga whl ch he took
a wav from Morrison in 1932, is being
more or less humorously received
h Those who attended the barbecue
eiven in Anson county last Saturday
afternoon in honor of Frank L. Dun
lap, new chairman of the State High
wa y Commissipn, and Jim Hardison,
former member of the old commis
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HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 1, 1937
FOUR KILLED, ONE HUND RED HURT IN STEEL RIOT
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Culminating four days of the far-flung steel strike, 175 police and 2,000 embattled workers staged a savage battle late Sunday near the gates of
the Republic Steel Corporation, which left four dead and one hundred and four injured in its bloody wake. This spectacular ivew shows police using
tear gas, Clubs and guns in their battle to rout the strikers.
EIGHT-MONTH TERM
FINALLY CONCLUDES
BY SUPREME COURT
Agrees To Pass on Federal
Loans and Grants to
Municipal Power
Plant Projects
WONT MEET AGAIN
UNTIL IN OCTOBER
Justice Vandevanter Sits on
Bench for Last Time as
Session is Ended; Refuses
To Intervene in TVA Trials
in Eastern Tennessee Dis
trict Court
Washington, June 1 (AP) —The Su
preme Court wound up an eight
months term today by agreeing to
pass on constitutionality of Federal
loans and grants to aid in financing
municipal power plants.
It then adjourned not to meet again
until October. Before that time, Con
gress may act on President Roose
velt’s controverted court reorganiza
tion proposal to “put new blood” on
the highest bench.
Before adjourning, the court declin
ed to review litigation filed by the
Electric Bond and Share Company
and 26 subsidiaries challenging con
stitutionality of the 1935 act, regulat
ing public utility holding companies.
That left, in effect, a lower court
ruling which required such companies
to register with the securities commis
sion, but did not involve constitution
ality of the legislation. A review was
sought without waiting for a custom
ary opinion by the circuit court df ap
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COTTON PRICES ~GO
HIGHER ON RALLIES
Late Trading Sees Sharp Recoveries
From Earlier Declines; Spot
Closes 13.22
New York, June I.—(AP)—Cotton
futures opened barely steady down 12
to 16 points on lower Liverpool cables,
the European political situation and
rains in the western belt. October,
which had eased from 12.60 to 12.56,
sold at 12.60 shortly after the first
half hour, and prices generally were
from 14 to 15 points net lower. By
midday prices were at or close to the
lows for the day.
The market rallide in late trading,
futures closing steady, 7 to 10 points
lower. Spot quiet, middling 13.22.
.Open Close
July 12.66 12.73
October 12.59 12.68
December 12.60 12.64
January 12.60 12.66
March 12.65 12.72
May 12.67 12.75
Probe Ordered Into Deaths
Os Five Chicago Strikers'
(By The Associated Press)
Contentious questions arising from
strike violence pushed the primary
dispute over collective bargaining on
the labor front today.
In the steel and motor industries
civil authorities tried to sift the blame
for clashes incident to the C. I. O.’s
drive for the right to represent the
workers.
At Chicago an inquest was ordered
into the death of five men in a clash
with police of a crowd, which surged
TSnornial
Planting Conditions For
Spring Have Been Irre
gular So Far
Dally Dispatch Barena,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, June I.—Stands of cotton
at present are below normal over the
State as a whple, W. H. Rhodes, chief
statistician for the North Carolina
Department of Agriculture, reported
today.
“While no report has been pre
pared for the 1937 cotton crop, plant
ing conditions this spring have been
very irregular,” he said. “Some sec
tions have been very dry, resulting in
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HOUR IS ARRANGED
FOR MONTS WEDDING
Monts, France, June I.—(AP) —
The wedding that will make
American-born Wallis Warfield
the duchess of Windsor will take
place Thursday at 11:30 a. m., 5:30
a.m., eastern standard time.
Herman Rogers, American
spokesman of former King Ed
ward VIII* announced the half
hour advance in time today.
He said the change was to give
the duke and Mrs. Warfield ample
time for their wedding breakfast.
OUR WEATHERMAN
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FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy tonight and Wed
nesday; preceded by scattered
thundershowers this altejmoon.
toward the Republic Steel Corpora
tion’s South Chicago plant. Investi
gators hoped to redetermine respon
sibility for the riot.
Meanwhile, 67 men accused a Po
lice Captain, Thomas Kilroy in Sun
day’s Carnegie clash were held in
custody for arraignment on charges
of conspiracy to commit an illegal act.
Van Vittner, regional director of
the steel workers organizing commit
tee, which called the steel strike, re
affirmed the union’s determination to
PAYROLL ROBBERY
HAS BEEN SOLVED
Mecklenburg Police Hold
ing Five Men for $3,800
Cornelius Snatch
Charlotte, June 1.-(AP)—Chief V.
S. Fesperman of the Mecklenburg
rural police, said today the $3,800 pay
roll robbery of the Cornelius cotton
mill at Cornelius, had been solved
with the arrest of George Brannon
and Roy Bumgarner, of Mooresville,
and Fritz Murphy, of Lexington.
The three were held in the county
jail today charged with the robbery.
Ralph Shue, of Mooresville, is be
ing held for complicity in the hold-up,
and Will Brown, of Huntersville, is
being held for investigation.
wage-lurlng
ECONOMIC PROBLEM
Minimum Work Time Even
tually Will Bring Less
Production
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, June I. President
Roosevelt’s minimum wage and maxi
mum hour regulation plan promises
to develop into a problem in econo
mics fit to make the human brain
reel.
As embodied in bills simultaneous
ly introduced in the Senate and House
of Representatives by Senator Hugo
L. Black and Representative William
P. Connery, chairmen respectively of
the labor committees in the two con
gressional chambers, the program is
one which may seem comparatively
easy to put through.
Thse bills seek the creation of a
Federal board of five members to
fix maximum hours in all interstate
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picket plants of the Republic and Is
land Steel Corporation and the
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company.
A clash at the Republic Warren,
Ohio, plant also provoked conflicting
charges from unionists and the man
agement.
Republic stated it would continue to
operate plants at Warren, Canton and
Niles, Ohio, and at Chicago and Buf
falo, because “thousands of men in
those plants want to continue at their
jobs.’’
Earhart At
San Juan On
First Jaunt
Famous Woman Flier
Starts from Miami
on Her Flight
Around the World
San Juan, Puerto Rico, June I.
(AP) —Amelia Earhart arrived at
San Juan, P. R., at 1:30 p. m. to
day on the first hop of her pro
posed “just for fun” flight around
the world.
Miss Earhart, flying at a pace
she called “leisurely” completed
the 1,033 miles from Miami in
seven hours, 33 minutes.
Miami, Fla., June 1 (AP) —Amelia
Earhart took off for San Juan, Puer
to Rico, at 5:57 a. m., eastern stand
ard time, today on a second attempt
to fly around the world “just for fun”.
The slim aviatrix waved a bare arm
in farewell and then gunned the big
twin-motored monoplane some 2,200
feet along the runway before she lift
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NEW CABINET FOR
JAPAN IS FORMING
Emperor Hirohito Commands Prince
Konoye To Constitute
New Government
Tokyo, June I.—(AP)—Emperor
Hirohito today commanded Prince
Konoye, president of the House of
Peers, to form a cabinet to succeed
the semi-military government of Pre
mier Hayashi, which resigned yester
day.
Prince Konoye was reported to
have been assured of the backing not
only of the major political parties,
which forced the downfall of the
Hayashi cabinet, but also of the army
parties as well.
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SPEEDY ACTION ON
MEASURE TO BALK
WEALTHY EVASIONS
Senate Acts Immediately on
Roosevelt Measure and
Asks Congressional
Inquiry
LAW MIGHT BRING
NEW 100 MILLIONS
Challenge to Power of the
Government Faced, Presi
dent Says in Special Mes
sage to Congress; Trans
mits Preliminary Report
on Findings
Washington, June I.—(AP)—Presi
dent Roosevelt asked Congress today
to stop tax dodging “by a minority of
very rich individuals.”
The chief executive in a message
saying evasion by the wealthy shifts
the tax load to those less able to pay,
urged legislation at this session “spe
cifically and exclusively aimed at
making the present structure evasion
proof.”
“We face a challenge to the power
of the government to collect uni
formly, fairly and without discrimina
tion taxes based on statutes adopted
ty Congress,” he said.
Mr. Roosevelt declared the full
power of the government would be
thrown behind a Treasury investiga
tion of income tax evasion and avoi
dance. He asked authorization to ex
pand the inquiry, giving the Treasury
full power to summon witnesses and
compel testimony.
The President transmitted a pre
liminary report on the investigation
and expressed confidence Congress
wouM share with him a feeling of in
dignation at findings of evasion.
The report, he said, “reveals ef
forts at avoidance and evasion of tax
liability, so widespread and so amaz
ing in their boldness and their in
genuity that further action without
delay seems imperative.”
The President asked Congress to
strike swiftly and directly at the
evasion or “unethical avoidance” of
income taxes by wealthy tax-payers.
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FARM BUREAU WILL
HOLD CO-OP MEETS
Truck Crops and Peanuts To Be Dis
cussed for Control Regula
tions During Year
Raleigh, June I.—(AP) —The State
Farm Bureau announced today it
would hold meetings of truck and pea
nut growers this week for the pur
pose of discussing possible crop con
trol legislation.
Truck crops and peanuts are not
covered under the proposed new Fed
eral agriculture act, said E. F. Ar
nold, executive secretary of the farm
bureau, and farmers will be given a
chance to express their views on pro
posals to put them under the act.
The truckers will meet at Wash
ington, N. C., Friday afternoon and
the peanut growers at Jackson Thurs
day afternoon.
J. W. Tapp, of the AAA in Wash
ington, will attend the peanut meet
ing, and E. Y. Floyd, in charge of the
State soil conservation program, will
be at . the truck crops conference.
Accusation
On Vatican
By Germany
Berlin Accuses Pope
of Endangerirtg Re
lations With Reich
Regime
Berlin, June 1. —(AP) —The German
government today formally accused
the Vatican of endangering relations
with the Nazi Reich by failing to
“disavow” the critical speech of
George Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago
A diplomatic note handed to the
Holy See by Diego von Bergen, the
German ambassador to the Vatican,
said:
“The Holy See must realize that its
unexpected and incomprehensible at
titude in this matter, so long as it
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