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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR TAX EVASION PROBE 10 START NEXT WEEK One Auto Strike Is Settled In Michigan, But Two Others Further Complicate Picture POWER STRIKE IN EASTERN EIEED IS DROUGHTTOCLOSE Union Claims Companies Stalling on Workers’ De mands in Two New Strike Plants both are units GENERAL MOTORS Steel Strike Marks Time as It Ends Second Week, With Eight Lives Already Attributed to Dispute; La bor Board Enters Lumber ton Picture Washington, June 9.—«( AP) —John Lewis, chairman of the C. I. O. an nounced today a settlement had been reached on behalf of the United Au tomobile Workers strikers in the southeastern Michigan consumer pow er company field. Lewis announced W-yndham Mor timer. first vice president of the U. A W., and a group of union men who have been conferring here with Lewis and associates would leave immediate ly for Flint, Mich., to complete ar rangements for ending the power company strike. NEW COMPLICATIONS FROM NEW MOTOR PLANT STRIKES (Bv The Associated Press.) Strikes at two Michigan automo tive plants added new complications today to national industrial conflicts. In Detroit the Budd Wheel Com pany and two Ternstedt Manufactur ing Company plants were closed. The reasons assigned for each strike were the same. Unionists said the the companies were stalling in Continued on Page Five.) Puerto Rico Nationalists Are Accused San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 9. — tAPi—Police sought a group of na tionalists today for an attempt on the life of United States Judge Robert A. Cooper. Judge Cooper, former governor of South Carolina, and United States judge for the district of Puerto Rico since 1931, recently sentenced eight Puerto Ricans to prison terms for conspiracy against the United States. They began their terms in Federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga., yesterday Between 12 and 15 shots were fired at the judge last night as he was re turning to his home in his automobile. As the judge’s car passed, a car wheeled and opened fire. One bullet Pteiei fi the windshield. The judge was not hit. Anting Governor Rafael Ramos at tributed the attack on Judge Cooper to notionalists. Edward May Take Wallis To England Hint of Return To I -ondon Comes from Honeymoon Castle Is Austria Nor-tsch. Austria, June 9. — (AP) - ‘ L»uke of Windsor’s equary in the rob of spokesman, declared today 1 uit the former king “wants to serve empire in any way the empire W; mts him.” Even the possibility of a return to 'Ugland was mentioned by the spokes man, young Dudley Forwood, but he (Continued on Page Two) Hfettitersmt tktiht TIB is patch Supreme Court Upholds Municipal Ownership Os Airport Site In Durham Realistic; Drama * El -• Kent Roessler, top, and Robert Douthitt A Wichita, Kas., high school play that called for the shooting of the leading actor as a climax ended tragically in a rehearsal when Kent Roessler, 17, top, shot and killed Robert Douthitt, 16, below, with an “empty” gun. Roessler was absolved of blame. —Central Press EMPLOYERS FACE ’ SECURITY PENALTY Unless They Make Unem ployment Returns, Way Will Be Hard One Dally Ulapatrh Rnrean, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Itv J r IXASKEsiVIIiI Raleigh, June 9—Penalties ranging from five to 25 percent in excess of the amount of tax called for and like ly to be imposed upon those employers of eight or more persons in North Carolina who are subject to the unem ployment insurance payroll tax under title IX of the Federal Social Secur ity Act, it was pointed out today by Collector of Internal Revenue Charles H. Robertson,. in a communication to this bureau. The social security act imposes a tax of one per cent on the 1936 payrolls of all employers who Continued on Page Twoj POTATO DIVISION PROGRAM PLANNED .Dean Sclpulb Announces Plans for Immediate Campaign To Start In This State Raleigh, June 9.-(AP)-Dean .1 O. Schaub, of N. C. State College, an nounced this afternoon the extension service would immediately put into effect an Irish potato diversion pro gram. acting for the Agricuitural Ad justment Administration in Washing to1 A E Mercker, of the AAA, and W. r Ockey, of the extension service, Schaub said, would come into the at on CP to work out plans and organize state and county committees. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. LE n^^ D WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON, JUNE 9,1937 Decision of State Tribunal Envisions Airports As Public Necessity In Future NASH SLAYER LOSES APPEAL FOR TRIAL 23 Cases Are Decided But Spring Term Is Not Ad journed; Durham Citizens Had Sued To Compel City To Sell Airport Site To Get Money Raleigh, June 9. —(AP) —The State Supreme Court held today purchase of land by the City of Durham for an airport did not violate North Car olina statutes and envisioned a future when airports would be regarded as public necessities. The court dismissed the incomplet ed appeal of Melville Coggin from a death sentence imposed in Nash coun ty for the murder of H. J. Fogleman. Twenty-three cases were decided, but the court did not adjourn its spring verm. C. B. Goswick, Nello Teer, Hubert Teer and other Durham citizens brought suit against the city asking that Durham be restrained from spending money to develop land it bought for $40,000 for an airport and that the court require sale of the land <Continued on Page Two) Selassie To Sue Mussolini To Get Railroad Rights Paris, June 9 (AP) —Haile Se lassie, who lost his country to the soldiers of Benito Mussolini, be gan suit against II Duce and Italy in the French law courts today. Through his attorney, Paul Weill the former emperor of Ethiopia began a legal action to establish his rights to sell the stock he holds in the name of the Ethio pian government in the French owned railway between Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Djibouti, French Somaliland. MANTEO, NAGS HEAD GET LIQUOR STORES Raleigh, June 9. —(AP) —Represen- tative Roy Davis, of Dare county, said here today two liquor stores would be opened in Dare, one at Nags Head, and one at Manteo, probably next week. Davis said that drys who in dicated they would contest the result of the recent referendum dn Dare which first gave a dry margin, but on official recount showed a wet ma jority, had decided not to appeal. Rich London Girl Returns In Mystery London, June 9L —(AP) —Scotland Yard sought today to learn Dianna Bayette’s own story of her strange eight-day disappearance that ended in sobbing collapse on a London door step. The wealthy 21-year-old society girl was found early today slumped on a step next door to her Oxford under graduate fiance, Michael Asquith. “She was not able to give an ac count of what had happened to her,” said friends of the family in relating that “Didi”, as her intimates knew England’s most “photographed beau ty,” seemed on the Verge of a nervous collapse. She was placed under doc tors’ care in the home of Michael’s mother, Lady Cynthia Asquith. Dianna’s mother, Mrs. Leonard Hackett, well known air woman, said: “The main thing is my daughter is safe. She is naturally very distressed, and the doctors say she is suffering from a severe nervous breakdown.” General Strike Ties Up Michigan Capital V K •x-.-v-b' Jlp &, s «k gw: w si Central Press camera is on the scene in Lansing, Mich., as a general strike ties up the city in the first general strike ever called by the C. I. O.’s United Automobile Workers union. Arrow shows Lester Washburn, U. A W. leader, as he addresses a large crowd from the roof of the jali. Union workers protested the arrest of eight union pickets, particularly a woman, taken from her home. OLD LINE SCHOOL BLOC OUT TO HAVE GRIFFIN DROPPED Trying To Obtain By Ap pointment What Legisla ture Refused to Grant To Them AFTER CONTROL OF SCHOOL COMMISSION Would Make State Superin tendent One of Most Pow erful Figures in State; Claim Teachers Supported Hoey Against MacDonald In 1936 Primary Daily Dispatch Rareaa, In the -Sir. Walter Hotel, fly J. O. RASKERVILL Raleigh, June 9.—The old line school bloc which believes that the control of the schools should be cen tralized under the State Department of Public Instruction with almost dic tatorial control by the State superin tendent, including control over the spending of the school appropriation of some $25,000,000 a year, is making another determined drive against the State School Commission and aganist Executive Secretary Lloyd Griffin, it was learned here today. Those who make up this bloc, generally conced ed to believe that the schools should be run for the benefit of those run ning the schools instead of for the (Continued on Page Two). RICH FLORIDA MAN KILLED AT RALEIGH Clarence Moore, 53, Prominent Lum berman, Dies in Head-On Col lision of Autos Raleigh, June 9.—(APJ-Clhrence Moore, 53, a wealthy and prominent lumberman of Jacksonville, Fla., was killed and three other persons criti cally injured in a head-on collision between two cars two miles from here today. Sergeant H. B. Williamson, of the Raleigh police force, and Deputy Sheriff Rufus Hodges investigated the accident and said that Joe Rogers, a Raleigh painter, was driving one ma chine and Moore the other. Mrs. Moore suffered critical in juries, the extent of which had not been determined this afternoon, doc tors said. Her West Indian maid, whose name was not immediately available, also was seriously hurt. OCR WEATHER MAH 1 FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy, probably scatter er thundershowers in east portion Thursday; slightly warmer in north central portion tonight. In German Spotlight HjHH jfln uy Cardinal Schulte (above) was ac corded a thunderous ovation at the Cologne Cathedral in Germany while Hitler was demanding that German Catholics and Protestants place the Nazi state above the church. Thousands, unable to get into the huge cathedral, jammed the streets in a demonstration unprece 4''"ted in Germany’s recent history. Pope Weeps Over Plight Os Germans Tells Bavarian Pil grims Conditions Under Naziism Is Grave, Menacing Castel Gondolso, Italy, June 9 (AP) —Pope Pius told a group of Bavarian pilgrims today conditions in Nazi Ger many were “so grave, so menacing and so dolorous” for Catholicism that “they cause one to weep.” “It is a consolation to us,” he told the pilgrims, “that we are able to weep with you and to console you as a father consoles his children. “We nave always done what is pos sible to alleviate these great suffer (Continued on Page Five) ARMER COMMITS SUICIDE Ramseur, June 9. —(AP) —William E. Allred, 69, prominent farmer and churchman, living three miles south west of her, committed suicide this morning about 9 o’clock by hanging himself in a barn at his home. No motive was given for the act, other than ill health. No note was left be hind. Sheriff C. E. King, of Randoph county, who investigated, termed the death suicide. Mr. Allred had been in poor health about three months. PUBLISHED IVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. sKeiin MINING DESTROYER Formal Pyoteft'— Is Sent To General Fralco About Incident Off Alme ria City EXPLOSION TERMED ACCIDENT, HOWEVER No Demand for Remuera tion Is Made But Right To Do So Later Is Reserved; Inevstigation Reveals Re bels Laid Mines Off Afri can Coast London, June 9 (AP)—The British government today blamed Spanish in surgents for the mine which the British destroyer Hunter hit off Al meria last May 13, with the loss of eight of her crew and injuries to 24. A formal protest was sent to General Francisco Franco. The foreign office instructed Sir Henry Chilton, British ambassador to Spain, now at Hendaye, France, to re lay the protest to the insurgent head quarters at Salamanca. It termed the TJunter explosion an Continued' on Page Two.) Earhart Prepares For Dash Across Heart of Africa Dakar, French Senegal, Africa, June 9.— (AP) —Ameliia Earhart bent her touseled blonde head over maps of Africa’s wild ex panses today while awaiting the favorable weather report that would send her on the next stage of her pleasure flight around the world. Assisted by flying officials and air headquarters, the American air woman set the course she and her navigator, Captain Fred Noonan, will take across Africa. Miss Earhart hoped to take off in her silvery monoplane some- * ttmei today, but /that dtepesnded upon the weather. Study Site In State For U. S. Hospital Washington, June 9 (AP) —The Veterans Administration announc ed today appointment of a sub committee of the Federal Board of Hospitalization to give considera tion to proposed additional hos pital facilities in North Carolina. The sub-committee will make its recommendations to the full board. Serving on the committee are Dr. Thomas Parran, surgeon-general, chairman; General George H. Wood and Colonel George E. Ijams 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY SENATOR COPELAND ASKS FOR GENERAL INQUIRY OF LABOR New Yorker Wants Solution of Problem Along Lines of Nation’s Rail way Act BUSINESS OPPOSES WAGE-HOUR SET UP Discretionary Powers Pro posed for Board To Fix Standards Is Criticized by Witness at Hearing; Cath olic Leader Favors Propos ed Legislation Washington, June 9 (AP) —Senate leaders decided today to accept the compromise resolution passed by tihe House for a congressional investiga tion of tax evasion and avoidance. The decision was made so as to speed the start of the inquiry next week. Elsewhere in the Capitol, Senator Copeland, Democrat, New York, call ed for a general Senate labor investi gation, covering not only the strike troubled steel industry, but other ma jor industries as well. The New York senator Said the in- „ vestigiators should seek a solution to general labor problems along the lines of the railway act, as applied to specific problem of railway labor. Copeland was commenting on a re quest by Philip Murray, of the steel Continued on Page Five.) MEDICAL STAND ON BIRTHS IS STUDIED Abandonment of Opposition To Con traception Means More Than Just That Atlantic City, N. J., June 9.—(AP) —-The birth control policy adopted by the American Medical Association means far more than contraception, as this change in medical policy was viewed today by some of the phy sicians who lead this association’s medical thought. It was a recognition of a change in biological thinking, based on many advances in knowledge of the human body, mind and spirit. It involved saving of life and questions of how to have children just as much as how to avoid them. The doctors who talked today would not permit use of their names. The long delay in recognizing birth control as legitimate and necessary medical practice, they said, was not wholly because of religious objections. repeaMead GEORGIA RETURNS Prohibition Is Apparently Abandoned by Vote In Tuesday Election Atlanta, Ga., June 9. —(API —A tabulation at 11:45 a. m. eastern standard time, today showed repeal ists leading by about 9,000 votes in yesterday’s referendum in Georgia. The vote at that hour was: For repeal, 73,550. Against repeal, 64,417. Earlier in the morning mounting returns from the referendum had in- Continued on Page Five.) Germany Is Bidding For Danzig City Surprise Visit and Speech by Hitler Is Planned on Border June 19 Marien Werder, East Prussia, Ger many, June 9 (AP) —The high com mand of the Nazi party was reported today to hayc completed plans for a June 19 “surprise Saturday” speech by Adolf Hitler in a Teutonic Kn%hts castle oji the frontier of the Free State of Danzig. The speech, to be preceded by a visit to the free city of Danzig itself by high German Nazi leaders, will be Continued on Page Two.)
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