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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA twenty-fourth year AKTI-STRIKE WORKERS IN SOLEMN THREAT Roosevelt To Talk With Democrats In Senate And House President Summons Parti sans To Seclusion of Chesapeake Bay Is land Club House THIRD OF MEMBERS TO COME EACH DAY Significance Attached To Gatherings; House Com mittee Backs Off Probe of Mails Interference In Strike Area; Relief Bill Strings Urged tv-’ 'vmvtnn. June 16.—(AP)—Pres ident Roosevelt turned today to the seclusion and informality of an island clut) in the Cheaspeake Bay for a sen- s of significant conferences with his party members in Congress. For three days, beginning June 25, the White House announced, the chief executive will visiF the Jeffer son Island club at the invitation of Senate Majority Leader Robinson, president of the Democratic Fish and Gun Club. A third of the -107 Democratic members in the Senate and House will go to the island each day while the President is there. The White House said Mr. Roosevelt would dis cuss with them any legislative or other problems they wished to bring up. There was no immediate indica tion of any specific problem to be brought up, but there was expectation the discussions might include the court reorganization controversy, in which many Democratic senators have sided against the President. Offshoots of industrial"troubled ift steel manufacturing centers brought new developments in both administra tive and legislative quarters here. The House Post Office Committee recommended against passage of a resolution asking the postmaster gen eral for information on charges that service had been denied to operators of strike-bound plants. The action was taken, however, on (Continued on Page Six.) G-Men Join Search For N. Y. Lady Stony Brook, N. Y., June 16.—(AP) —The Federal Bureau of Investiga tion, with a noteworthy record of so luctions in the Lindbergh, Weyer hauser, Stoll and other spectacular kidnapings, today, tackled the mys terious disappearance of Mrs. Alice McDonnell Parsons, north shore Long Island society matron. Even as the Federal men swung in to action there came reports, quickly denied, however, by the government agents, that a definite contact had been established with the supposed kidnapers. Outwardly the Federal men concentrated on the third day s search of the dense woods near the farm house from which Mrs. parsons vanished a v/eek ago today. Behind the scenes they veiled their activity with utter secrecy. Selections in Judiciary Are Finished \ State Now Has Larg est Judicial Division Ever In Its Entire History \ Dally Dlipalrh In the Sir Walter Hotel. T»y J. C. BASKEIIVILL Raleigh, June 16.—8 y appointing two regular superior court judge s, one solicitor, two new associate ju ytices of the State Supreme Court, one new special judge and reappointing three other special judges, Governor Cl'vde It. Hoey cleared his desk within 12 hours of some of the biggest problems he has had to face since he came in«to office. The appointment of Edward C. Bivens as the new superior cou.’t (Continued on Page Two), j* WvttSvtmn Hftiltr H t sir afrit Jean’s Resting Place v v&yjj 'Jgrc j||f £ J| >:V i View of crypt in mausoleum Here is the last resting place of Jean Harlow, screen actress. It is a mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial park at Glendale, Cal. Miss Harlow’s crypt is at the left end of the sanctuary. The costly burial place was purchased by William Powell, screen actor who many believe was to have Lpen Jean’s next husband. BLUM GOVERNMENT WINS CONFIDENCE IN BIGGEST FIGHT French Cabinet Given Tre mendous Authority by Chamber of Deputies Decision VICTORY SNATCHED FROM NEAR DEFEAT Senate Must Yet Pass Bill Giving Cabinet Power To Take Whatever Finance Measures It Deems Wise to Protect Savings, Money And Credits Paris, June 16. —JAP) Socialist Premier Leon Blum’s government rode out the worst crisis in its year old history today and won the Cham ber of Deputies’ approval of its de mand for extraordinary financial powers. Just when communist dissension within the ranks of Blum’s own fol lowers seemed to presage the cab inet’s resignation, the break was re paired and Blum gained victory in what amounted to a vote of con fidence. Tomorrow the Senate was to begin debating the measure adopted in the Chamber after a 21-hour nightlong session, during which Blum appealed to the deputies to be “faithful to me.” Specifically the bill would author ize the government, for a month and a half, “to take by cabinet decree any measures necessary for the recon struction of public finances, as well as the protection of savings, money and the public credit.” COTTONIiTEADY AT MODERATE ADVANCE Higher Cables and Favorable Finance Developments in France Fac_ tor in Rise New York, June 16. —(AP) —Cotton futures opened steady, up 12 to 16 points on higher Liverpool cables, fa vorable French finance developments and on foreign and commission house buving. October, which had reacted from 12.09 to 12.04, was at 12.05 short ly after ,■ the first half hour, when prices were 10 to 13 points net higher. October eased to 11.98 by midday, when prices were about 8 to U points under the early highs, tout 3 to 7 points net higher. Futures closed steady 4 to 10 points higher. Spot steady middling 12.43. sted ■ y ’ Open Close _ . 12.00 12.94 Ju Y 12.08 12.00 October j 12t0 6 11.97 December 12 .08 11.97 January 12.13 12'.04 ?? arCh 12.15 12.10 , May .••• * ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. le t a h s I d a Z^ t e a service of IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C., [WEDNESDAY AFTERNO ON. JUNE 16, 1937 Lewis Moves to Shut Oft Coal Supply of Defiant Steel Empires HB m§ JBmhWmlk^mlßPP 8 jP Iw a JmU BK' Top, left to right, John L. Lewis, Eugene G. Grace, William Chapman Potter, Tom L. Girdler; below, coal miners and closed steel plane. Ordering strikes by 10,000 United Mine Workers in 17 subsidiary coal mines owned by Bethlehem Steel, Republic Steel and the Youngs town Sheet & Tube, where steel workers are striking, John L. Lewis, leader of the C. I. 0., which is backing the steel strikers, moves to cut off the coal supply of the independent steel companies. At the same time Lewis demanded federal government action in the steel strike and declared that Tom L. Girdler, Republic’s board chairman, should be “disarmed and, restrained by the government before he NEjn Baise and Pitts May Be Given Regular, Perman ent Appointments Dally Dispatch Rareaa, ’ln the Sir Waller Hotel. By J. C. BASK.EH.VUiI, Raleigh, June 16.—The State High way and Public Works Commission is in session here today to approve the low bids submitted in yesterday’s let ting and to complete its organiza tion plans so as to be ready when the new district plan goes into effect July 1. Wihile all of the ten division com missioners have already completed the organization of the division of fices and personnel, these offices will not open and start functioning until July 1. Neither has a chief engineer nor a director for the prison system been named yet, although ten division ngineers and ten prison supervisors have already been appointed. Most observers are expecting the commission to name a chief highway engineer today and are expecting W. Vance Baise, the present chief high way engineer, to be the one appointed. A good many are also expecting the commission to name Oscar T. Pitts, for several years acting director of the prison division, as full director of this division, despite the fact that the special committee authorized by the commission to investigate the prison (Continued on Page Two). FORUM WORK TO BE SHOWN IN REPORTS Washington, June 16 (AP) —The of fice of education said today a com parison of work of public forum dem onstration projects conducted in 19 states will not be available until the Various reports are compiled this fall. Directors of the forums, which in clude one at Goldsboro, N. C., are meeting here this week, making plans for preparation of final reports. Ray Armstrong, director of the Ooldsboro forum is attending the meeting. BRUNSWICK KILLER WAITS JURY DECREE Donald Skipper Admits Slaying How ard Scott, But Claims It Was Self-Defense Southßort, June 16.—(AP)—-A jury weighed today the facts in the case of Donald Skipper, who admitted the fatal shooting of Howard Scott eight months ago, contending he shot in self-defense. Solicitor John Burney asked a ver dict of second degree murder. Evidence given in the superior court trial was that the killing result ed from a quarrel. Germany And Italy Back In Spanish Coast Patrol Meanwhile, Spanish Insurg ents Tighten Their Circle of Steel Around Bilbao FALL OF CAPITAL OF BASQUES NEAR Franco Predicts It In 24 Hours, But His Officers In Front Lines Expect It To Take Several Days; Troops Sent At Capital From the West Bayonne France, June 16 (AP) —.Both Basque government and insurgent radio stations in north ern Spain today told of a furious Basque counter-attack to stoj? the insurgent drive at the gates of Bilbao. (By The Associated Press.) Germany and Italy formally re joined the international non-interven tion patrol to keep arms and meri from reaching Spain today while Spanish insurgents tightened their circle of steel around besieged Bilbao. Both nations quit the neutral pa trol May 31 after their warships had been bombed by Spanish government planes. This also led to a reprisal bombing of Almeria, Spain, by Ger man vessels. Now, Britain, France, (Continued on Page Six.) MANTEO-BEAUFORT BUS LINE REFUSED Washington, June 16. —(AP)— A joint board of the Interstate Com merce Commission recommended dis missal of the application of the Vir ginia Dare Transpoi cation C .mpriny. Manteo, N. C., for authority to op erate as a common motor carrier be tween Elizabeth Cmy and Beaufort, N. C. __ OUR WEATHERMAN I ** - - FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy and somewhat un settled tonight and Thursday turns the steel districts into a bloody shambles and looses all the pent-up forces of human passion.” At a press interview in Wash ington Lewis struck out at Eugene G. Grace, president of Bethlehem, and William Chapman Potter, chairman of the Guaranty Trust com pany of New York, charging they are exerting pressure on Girdler to continue his resistance to C. I. O. demands for contracts. Potter denied any knowledge of the basis for Lewis’ charges concern ing him. , — Central Press Johnston Towns Opposing Stores Raleigh, June 16 (AP) —Cutlar Moore, chairman of the State Alco holic Control Board, announced to day he would hold hearings here tomorrow on protests against open ing liquor stores at Kenly, Four Oaks and Princeton, in Johnston county. Johnston recently author ized stores by a referendum. Moore said Four Oaks voted dry by a two to one margin, Princeton by a 14- vote margin and Kenly by 16 votes. The county liquor board announced it planne to put a liquor store at each place. M. M. Powell, of I’rineeton; Rev. 11. B. Baum of Four Oaks, and Rev. Mr. Allen, of Kenly, asked the hearings, Moore said. Meantime, three more North Carolina eounties will get liquor stores within a week as the result of recent elections. POPE STRIKES AT NAZI GROUP AGAIN Says Churchmen Persecuted In Germany Because They Love Christ Castel Gandolfo, Italy, June If..— (AP) —Pope Pius spoke out again to day to assail “the bl-i’d battle against the Church of Christ,” which ho said rages on in Nazi Germany. He gave his “spej> il great blessing” to a group of graduate priests of the German - Hungarian seminary in Rome. He spoke of his "hour of perseeu- on Page Five) GOVERNMENT BUYS POTATOES IN STATE Raleigh, June 16.—(AP)—The Fed eral Surplus Commodities Corpora tion began purchase of early commer cial Irish potatoes in Pamlico county this afternoon, Randall Etheridge, chief of the Department of Agricul ture’s markets division, said. He said the purchasing was expected to be extended throughout the early com mercial area toefore the end of the week. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. CONGRESS RESENTS ROOSEVELT SCHEME Opposition to Departmental Reorganization Is Be coming Bitter MORE POWER FOR FDR And Just That Much in Pie Taken From Congressmen; Executive Branch Trying to Domi nate Government By CHARLES P. STEWART • * Central Press Columnist Washington, June 16.—A couple of Washington streets exploded from the heat the other day. The concrete pave ment simply bulged up about two feet high and cracked open under the sun’s rays. That’s the kiqd of weather con gress is being kept here in, until' it disposes of the legislative program which President Roosevelt insists on before adjournment. And how those lawmakers do howl! The senatorial and representatives’ chambers are air conditioned but the solons’ offices and committee rooms are not, nor are many of their apartments, scattered about town. And no one even hopes that they wlil get through with their job be fore Labor day. In fact, it’s suggested that the session may continue until it merges into the next one, after the first of 1938. Another Fight. The fight over governmental reor ganization is developing into a con test at least as stiff as the one over reorganization of the Supreme Court. The former hasn’t yet been as well (Coatinued on Page Six.) LUMBERTON MILLS RESUME OPERATION Labor Board Examiner Promises De cision in 30 Days on Charge cf Discrimination Lumberton, June 16.—(AP)) —Ma- chinery in the Mansfield mill hummed today, cloth moved in trucks to buy ers and the village awaited the find ings of Examiner Henty Hunt, who conducted a Federal Labor Relations Board hearing into alleged discrim inations against representatives of the textile workers organizing com mittee. Hunt, who presided over a four day hearing, in which mill officials contended employees were discharged for poor business conditions or un satisfactory services, said a decision could be expected within 30 days. Meanwhile, Frank Sutton, a TWOC member, and a complainant in the action against the mill, faced a re corder’s court trial today on charges of drunkenness and disorderly con duct. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY GROUP IMPATIENT AT BEING KEPT OFF STEEL PLANT JOBS i Youngstown Sheet President Promises To Reopen Fac tories As Soon As Permitted JOHNSTOWN~ASKS ROOSEVELT HELP Dynamiting and Kidnaping Added to Horrors Already Attendant on Bethlehem Steel Strike There; Presi dent Asked To Remove “Murderers” Youngstown, Ohio, June 16 (AP) — A warning that some 10,000 strike idle steel workers in the Mahoning valley are “becoming impatient” and that there would be "serious trouble soon” if they are held back from their jobs was placed today before Frank Purnell president of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. Purnell declined any specific answer, except that he will act “as rapidly as the circumstances permit to reopen the mills.” With the apparent collapse of the back-to_work movement in Youngs town, another “danger spot” in the big strike area Pa.—saw Mayor Daniel Shields appeal to Pres ident Roosevelt to intervene in the Johnstown strike to “remove the mur derous element that now infests the city.” The mayor said kidnaping had been added to a dynamite bombing in the disorders during the six-day strike at the Cambria works of Steel. “The situation has grown so bad,” Mayor Shields wired the President, “that the strikers have resorted to the most dastardly crime in our nation today—that of kidnaping.” The warning to Purnell in Youngs town was voiced by Ray Thomas, at torney-spokesmen for the independ (Contihued on Page Six.) Refuses To Recognize CIO Chief Lumberton, June 16. —(AP) —H. B. Jennings, president of three Lumber ton cotton mills, refused today to negotiate with Roy Lawrence, Caro •linas director of the textile workers organizing committee, on working conditions in his mill, all of which have been beset by labor troubles re cently. In a signed statement, Jennings an nounced Lawrence did not represent a majority of the employees of the mill, and that, therefore, the management did not recognize him for collective bargaining purposes. Lawrence was not available for a statement immediately. Jennings heads the Mansfield mill, scene of a weavers’ strike, which ha 3 not stopped operation; the Jennings mill, closed by a strike, and Ada McLean mill, where a strike was set tled several weeks ago. Woman May Head House Labor Body Mrs. Norton, of New Jersey, May Suc ceed Connery As Committee Chair man Washington, June 16. —(AP) — The death of Representative William Con nery, Democrat, of Massachusetts, may place a second woman in an im portant government labor post. Representative Mary Norton, Dem ocrat, New Jersey, is entitled by seni ority to succeed Connery as chairman of the House Labor Committee, a po sition which requires frequent con ferences with Miss Frances Perkins, secretary of labor. Mrs. Norton said she was too shock ed, however, by Connery’s unexpected death late yesterday from food poison (Continued on Page Six.)
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