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PAGE TWO m rnmE Attorney General Beseeched ' for More Elaborate Rid ings Speedily ff Daily Dispatch nurean, ,;»■ In The Sir Walter Hotel, "Raleigh, July 14.— i Attorney Gen eral Seawell’s succession of opinions on the North Carolina beverage con i trol law have not clarified that sta f tute .sufficiently and both yesterday ; and today attorneys have been with Mr. Seawell seeking to get a clearer understanding of the State ‘law so that the dealers holding federal li censes do not run into trouble. Mr. Seawell’s series of opinions have come in response to specific cases calling for his opinion. There is so much of this "act that both the r . attorney general and the Supreme Court pass upon only such matters in a law as relate to the case in point. . There is a lot of law on the wine and beer question. The federal dealers’ li cense does not protect violations of the North Carolina acts, but just what they are the supreme court and the attorney general have not yet said. Many of these requests for a de partmental ruling come from ener getic drys who have a hunch that the dry cause has been wrecked by the heavily fortified wines and beers. Complaint is made that wines and other less hard drinks have been greatly hardened and that there is no chance to enforce the dry laws in ter ritory because so much alcoholic con tent can be found in these ferthent < ed drinks as to make the drinking of whiskies and brandies useless. But the federal dealers with their national protection will be in constant jeo pardy if they do. not know what the North Carolina law is and it is hard to know. Federal dealers may be punished federally. They can lose their permits to sell gnd fines may be laid upon them without actual trial by court and a jury. Then the state can soak the sinners, so that all jn all the manufacturers of beers and wines are having considerable trouble in North Carolina. They are asking for a state ment from the attorney general clear ing up the misunderstanding. The repeal of national prohibition did not stop the operation of all fed eral legislation done Under the old re gime. The Webb-Kenyon and Wilson acts are still available for federal use in the courts. As to the alcoholic bev ergge situation now shapes up there are powerful wines and beers which may be unlawful in North Carolina. Attorney General Seawell is asked to clear up the law. Advocates of beer and wines in the 1935 and 1933 general assemblies hop ped that the lighter drinks would les sen the consumption of hard liquors, but North Carolina history does not t verify the hope. The revenue receipts show a 40 per cent increase in these fermented drinks, but figures over the country make hard liquor drihkihg 200 per cent greater than it was five r~ years ago. And the drys do hot coiiiit those 50 per cent wines “intoxicat ing.” The drinking seems to ibe on the up and up everywhere, but North - Carolina uses a relatively higher per ' cent of the fermented drinks than it ~ . did two years ‘‘ago: The whole subject of liquor legisla tion seems to be in a mess and the average attorney chosen by a client whose business is selling and making drinks, does not know what to advise that client. There may be some cases }'. taken to the courts in the hope of getting final opinion on this subject. l COTTON FLUCTUATES IN A NARROW RANGE Prices Unchanged to flight Joints Higher at Close, With Mid dling Spot 12.97 „ New York, July 14.—(AP) —Cotton futures opened steady, seven to eight 'r points lower, owing to easier Liver pool cables and spot house buying. October, shortly after the first half ' hour, was quoted at 12.40, when prices were generally 4 to 7 points lower. The market moved in a narrow range later and at midday showed net losses -of one to seven points. Futures closed steady, unchanged to 8 points higher. Spot steady, mid dling 12.97. Open Close ' July 12.32 12.47 October 12.37 12.47 ... December 12.28 12.39 - January 12.30 12.39 March 12.35 12.43 H May 12.37 12.45 Republicans Enjoy Democratic Fight (Continued from ■page One.) judicial reorganization, either as ori ginally suggested by President Roose velt or on a compromise basis. How ever, their feeling on the subject of reorganization is completely over - Shadowed by the fun they are getting *•- out of the spectacle of the intra-Derh ocratic rumpus. They are not taking much part in the affair. About all that is heard from the Republican side of the Sen ate chamber is an occasional “sick ’im.” of encouragement to the Demo cratic disputants. . " How It’s Done. Behind the scenes it is said that anti-reorganizatiQn Democrats are in *•- debted to Republican solons for some fexciellent hints as to various of the meanest jabs they have taken at the -pro-reofganizationists. v Republican strategists want the jabs delivered but Itheir njbtion is that they can be most effectively de livered by insurgent Democrats. Accordingly* . when a Republican sees what he considers a vulnerable * spot in the administration defense, his policy is not to mention it in open debate, but to grab one of the insur • gents by the- button and whisper in his ear. “HUsh, don’t let anyone hear this. Yoti ban ha?B exclusive credit for it. BUt why donTfyou Say so-and-so?” Whereupon the insurgent rushes upon the floor and says it, grateful for having Had so good an idek put into his head. G. 6. P. Tactics. For that matter, it is alleged that Republican senators, who do not be lieve in court reorganization at all, have given helpful advice to Demo cratic senators who do believe in it. These Republicans hit on remarks which, coming from a pro-reorganiza tion Democrat, would be calculated to lacerate the sensibilities of an anti reorganization Democrat, I'cut which the former has hot thought of. Whereupon the anti-reorganization Republican whispers his poison into the pro-reorganization Democrats’ ear —and it is too good a kind of poison for the pro-reorganizationist not to utilize. Republicanism does not mean will be either group of Democrats. Its ixiotto is, “Go it, wildcat! Go it, hunter!” McNary’s Strategy. Senator Charles L. McNary, G. O. P. leader (of a mightily small fol lowing) in the upper house of Con gress, was the author of this system. The scheme manifestly is to split Democracy wide open. Next year, if the plan works, two kinds of Democratic candidacies will be in the field for congressional seats —a triangular contest, in which the Republicans hope to win, in many states and congressional districts. Fight Over Court Likely Too Mucji For The Arkansan vConlli'i'oa ‘ f °m Page One.) suffered several heart attacks in re cent months. Calver further said that when Robinson made the address which touched off fiery Senate debat» on the court issue, he became very pale and apparently cut his address short. Tentative plans were made to send Senator Robinson’s body to Arkansas tomorrow evening. As word of his death spread over the capital, many of his colleagues went to the Robinson home. The first to arrive were Senators Harrison, Democrat, Mississippi, and Walsh, Democrat, Massachusetts. The sudden death of Robinson shocked the capital and threw the ad ministration’s legislative program in to turmoil. Robinson had personally been in charge of the administration’s two major legislative campaigns to enact President Roosevelt’s bill to re organize the court and the executive department. His colleagues generally had expected his appointment to the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy cre ated by the retirement of Justice Van De van ter. Representative Warren, Democrat, North Carolina, said of Senator Rob inson’s death: “I am shocked at the untimely passing of this great Amer ican, whose close friendship I have valued and esteemed fqr years.” Three Offices in Two Weeks. Congressman, governor of his state, and United States senator within the brief space of two weeks was the Unique experience of Joseph Taylor Robinson, of Arkansas. With a wide political background in which this rather remarkable cir cumstance was the Outstanding epi sode, Mr. Robinson rose to the leader ship of his party in the Senate- I —a leadership virile and aggressive—and later came to be one of the “dark horse” possibilities in those turbulent days of the McAdcc-Smith deadlock in the 1924 Democratic national con vention. A diplomat as well as a fighter, the Arkansan was able as Senate leader to weld the conflicting forces within pis party Into a solid rank to meet the political enemy. He possessed the wide (parliamentary knowledge, the political sagacity and the driving power to make the most of every po litical situation that arose on the Sen ate floor. All in all, he probably was one of the most aggressive leaders the Dem ocrats of the Senate had within a gen eration. Possessing a robust physique and a tHiindering voice, he would charge down on the enemy across the aisle as though to rend them by sheer physical power. He could not be bluff ed, but he knew when he was licked and could retire from the field with grace. Born at Lenoke county, Arkansas, Aug. 26, 1872, Mr. Robinson was sent to Congress at the age of thirty, and was serving his fifth term there when on January 14, 1913, he resigned and was inugurated Governor on January 16. Twelve days later the State Leg istlature elected him to the United States Senab and he took his seat on March iO, IC±3. The people of his State were not wholly pleased at his sudden eleva tion to the Senate, but he made good there and the storm Tiad passed be fore he came up for reelection with a result that he was renominated over the opposition of one of the ablest and most popular men in the State. By that time Robinson had been in politics in nis home state for thirty years, having served as State legisla tor, at the age of twenty-two, and as Presidential elector in 1900, before go ing to Congress, where he spent ten years. He was a lawyer, and had built bp a fine practice in his State. Chosen as a delegate to the Demo cratic national convention in Sari Francisco in 1920, he expected to be rnoj’e active there than the thousand and one pther delegates, but the party leaders, facing a mad scramble by a score of candidates for the -nomina tion, decided it was necessary to have a tWo-fisted permanent chair rtiatt and the Arkansan got the call. Taking charge of the convention as if he had been born to the job, Rob inson stood up under the trying grind of forty-four ballots during days and nights. The record he made there had no small part in his selection three years later as the Democratic leaded in the Senate when Oscar W. Under wood laid down the reins. Before attaining to the leadership, the Arkansas put through a till fob reorganiation of the Interstate Com mence Commission; assisted with leg islation for creation of the Federal Trade Commission, and had charge of the child labor law which the Su preme Court subsequently declared unconstitutional. He also had been active in Indiah and military questions, and in 1915, jUst before this country entered the World War, he was instrumental in the reorganiation of the entire avia tion section of the Signal Corps. Seriator Robinson was especially in- HENDERSON. (N. C.) C.) DAILY DISPATCH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1937 |BBBy lilir• ' llllllk-: •' HBH i- M % *lll ■A E% - laaH JPf - . Rf im >' fli HHH mW JSf .J| wgm* * ;:; - x " 1 ipf™ |||K ; i jMSr BBILJDA mm • t||| There'S romance in the mooiilight for Virginia Bruce and Kent Taylor in Universal’s "When Love Is Young ” At The Vance Theatre Today and Thursday wim Governor Expected To Dis approve Whipping in Pri sons of the State Daily Disiiatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel, Raleigh, July 14. —Editorial coun sels to Governor Hoey that he declare his views in regard to the recent act of state highway and public works commission in publishing to state pri soners the notice of the lash as a means of discipline, is expected to bring a statement from his excellency this week. Discovery of that act was made after Governor Hoey left for his va formed regarding foreign affairs. His arguments against trie Four Power Treaty which Senator Underwood helped to frame as an American dele gate to the Arms Conference, were among the most memorable of his Senate career. While serving as Governor of his State for only a very brief space, his administration was attended by leg islative enactments of prime impor tance. including the corrupt practices act, the reorganiation and reform of the state banking system, and chan ges in the control of the penal insti tutions in the state. Like many other of the Americans who rose to prominence in his day, Senator Robinson found no easy way in his childhood. The son of Dr. James Robinson and Matilda Jane Robinson, he got his early education at home and in rural schools. At the age of seventeen he began teaching to earn money to enable him to continue his studies. He attended the State University and later studied law at the University of Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1896. A hard worker all his life, his habits were simple and temperate. Outdoor sports appealed to him strongly. He was especially fond of golf and of hunting and fishing. Uiclyou say T on account ? lep. . .on account of they’re MILDER... ' account of they TASTE BETTER Copyright 1937, Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. > . cation in Shelby. It is not known whether he was consulted as to the policy. The old law required the con sent of the governor and several of the executives, including Governor Max Gardner, plainly refused to sanc tion it. Recently it was found out that there had been a number of whip pings. That moved the commission to make a ruling and the whip is in the rules. W|hile the governor does not have power of veto over the acts of his commission, it is almost universally believed in Raleigh that he would be opposed to whipping prisoners. The style is entirely out of character for him, his friends point out. The lash harmonizes queerly with his gentle ness, it is further said. He speaks softly, in the language of the late Theodore Roosevelt, but he never car ried the Big Stick .because he did not: like the idea of putting the coarseness of the timber into the timbre of his voice. While the agitation goes on, Wake superior court is under the direction of Judge N. A. Sinclair who has op posed all his life whipping of prison ers as both unlawful and barbarous. Judge Sinclair has the distinction of having pronounced the longest sen tence ever given a prisoner in the State for beating prisoners. Once he sent a pair of convict guards in Edge combe to the State’s prison for 20 years. The judge enjoys the contro versy. He commends the persons who are objecting to the whip in prison discipline and expressing the belief that public sentiment can drive the lash out. British Commons Told Eng lish Ship Captured in Spain (Continued from rage One.) to enter Santander because of the danger of capture. “It may interest the House to know,” Duff Cooper asserted, “that a British ship was captured while at tempting to enter Santander this morning. RING OF FIRE BEING FORGED AROUND REBELS Madrid, July 14. —(AP) —From the sky and across the sun-baked plains west of Madrid General Jose Miaja’s combined air vnj land forces were iorgmg a ring of file today aroillld a great segrhent cf Gene.at Francisco Franco’s insurgent army of siege. The apparent strategy of the gov ernment offensive, now in its second week and mat ke i by :• • bat on Worl-1 War 'sea. • « encireir the insurgents by a curving westward salient, at the same time subjecting those within the oval-snap id trap to Perce frontel attack. Government captors of shell-raked Villaneuva del Pardillo at the sti.'l open bottle neck about 15 miles west and slightly north of Madrid, fortfied their positions today and launched a slight attack on the outskirts of the •.own. ■MIRRl HOT WEATHER LULL I SAFETY CHECK-UP I 11L L a OF^YOURJIRES ENJOY A TROUBLE-FREE VACATION TRIP BY EQUIPPING i—i skuariwuMS ATOUR POPULARPmCES_^^B^^W^ Extra-Value Features: .. « k COGWHEEL TREAD 11 ;; ; this famous traction prin- TIRES ROYALS ’ll f "lb * SAFETY-BONDED CORD BODY $lO 60 * «| U every ply a safety ply; . . gives fhl)7Q fclV Afi V you extra blowout protection. ■ w q) I 1 • 4 xvP you extra miles. mmmmmmmmmt SOLD IN HENDERSON BY SERVE-ALL SERVICE STATION CITY SERVICE STATION North William Street. South William Street GULF SERVICE STATION SCOGGIN CHEVROLET CO. Stopatthesign“U.S.Tires’* North Garnett Street South Garnett Street ft and let the personalized Distributed By: \ r io3Sbbbr. Master Tire Company—Henderson, N. C. 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