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To Offer Congress, And Says
It Can Adjourn When Ready
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“Kuhn’s yellow!” asserts ex-Magistrate Joseph Goldstein (pointing) as
he appears in New York court to press libel charges against Fuehrer
Fritz Kuhn, local Nazi boss. Kuhn (left) countered by calling Goldstein
“a liar.*
General Assembly Facing
Critical Week Os Session
Open Revolt on Revenue Bill Possible, But Un
likely; Diversion Foes Still Smarting and Wish
ing Opportunity To Save Road Funds
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter lloteL
BY HENRY AVER ILL.
Raleigh, March 6.—North Caro
lina’s General Assembly today be
gins the most critical week of its 1939
session.
With the highly controversial rev
enue bill to be threshed out in com
mittee of the whole House, almost
anything can happen between now
and Saturday. The legislators can de
cide to enact a money bill about as
it came from the finance committee,
and thereby put adjournment sine
die on the calendar for a compara
tively near date, or they can kick
Money Bills
Practically
Untouched
Apparent Attempts
To Steamroller Fi
nance and Appropri
ations Measures Halt
ed in House
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By LYNN NISBET
Raleigh, March 0. —Although the
House of Representatives had the
biennial appropriations bill in hand
at the first of the week, and receiv
ed the formal report of Ihe finance
committee on Friday morning, the
week passed with only about thirty
minutes actual consideration of the
only two laws which the General
Assembly MUST enact.
House leaders adopted the strat
egy of considering the revenue Dill
ahead of appropriations, with the al
leged purpose of preventing any
boosting amendments to the spend
ing bill. The idea was that any
such amendments could be headed
off by the assertion that the revenue
bill had already been passed and
that it did not carry enough money
lor any new purpose. For the
same reason effort was made to ram
the revenue bill through without de
bate or amendment.
Lid Blows Off
Pursuant to this plan, the House
went into committee of the whole
Friday morning to consider the fi
nance bill. Matters ran more or
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over the traces, upset the precarious
budget balance and turn the session
into a go-as-you-please and stay-as
long-as-you-like affair.
There were faint, but distinct rum
bles of impending showers of wrath
and indignation over the revenue bill
as last week ended, and the House
refused to trail docilely along behind
its leaders in racing through the 400-
page bill without its members having
had time to read and inwardly digest
some of its provisions.
Foes Without Leader.
Nevertheless, there isn’t now on
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Negro Victim Os
O’Daniel’s Drive
Huntsville, Texas, March 6.
(AP) —Winzell Williams, 19-year
old Dallas Negro reprieved by
Governor O’Daniel in a fight a
gainst capital punishment, was
electrocuted at State Prison today
for the murder of an aged dairy
man.
O’Daniel stayed Williams’ exe
cution a month ago, “in order that
Winzell Williams may suffer this
dreadful punishment, cert ain
death staring him in the face day
and night for 30 days before he
is relieved by death in the electric
chair.”
Criticized widely, O’Daniel said
he had made that statement to
arouse public opinion against cap
ital punishment. He asked the
legislature to abolish the extreme
penalty.
Fervor For
Vote Reform
Cooling Off
In tfte Sir Walter Hotel.
Daily Dispatcli Bureau,
By HENRY AVERILL.
Raleigh, March 6.—An almost re
ligious fervor for election law reform
in evidence on all sides some weeks
ago, seems to be cooling off quite
perceptibly as the necessity of trans
forming some of the good intentions
into practical action faces the cur
rent session of North Carolina’s Gen
eral Assembly.
It is true that the House has pass
ed and sent to the Senate a measure
which abolishes the absentee voting
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HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 6, 1939
President Takes Per
sonal Charge of Cam
paign To Stimulate
Business; Bankhead
Says Business Should
Feel Safe To Go
Ahead
Washington, March 6. (AP)
President Roosevelt, who has taken
personal charge of the administra
tion’s campaign to stimulate business
gave White House callers the im
pression today that he is willing for
Congress to adjourn as soon as it
clears up its current slate.
Representative Rayburn, of Texas,
House majority leader, and one of
the Congress chieftains at the week
ly White House conference, said Mr.
Roosevelt reiterated that he* has
nothing new to submit to Congress.
On that basis, Rayburn predicted a
“reasonably earlv” adjournment.
Speaker Bankhead, who attended
the conference, said afterwards that
with all the recent “reassurances”
from the administration, business
should be justified in “going ahead.”
He told newsmen that the lowa ad
dress of Secretary Hopkins, recent
statements by Secretary Morgenthau
and repeated assertions that no new
taxes were in prospect should as
sure business of “new cooperation on
the part of the government.”
What went on in the conference,
no one would say. Those attending
did have an opportunity to discuss
an economy bloc contention that only
by reducing expenditures can the
government create industrial con
fidence.
A second development was the
President’s fixing of the opening
meeting of the American Federation
of Labor-CIO peace committee at
2:30 p. m. tomorrow. The conference,
in Mr. Roosevelt’s office, will be at
tended by representatives of the two
labor organizations, and by Secre
tary of Labor Perkins.
The White House announced that
Colonel Edwin M. Robinson, Presi
dent Roosevelt’s military aide, would
be appointed a presidential secre
tary to succeed James Roosevelt
about April 1.
SCHOOL LOANS FOR
TWO COUNTIES MADE
Raleigh, March 6. (AP) The
State Board of Education approved
loans of $34,000 today to Beaufort
and Martin counties for school im
provements.
The Old Ford and John Small
schools in Beaufort got $30,000 and
the Williamston school, in Martin,
$4,000, at four percent interest, to be
repaid over a ten-year period. The
money comes from the State literary
fund.
Revenue Act
Up In House
For Debate
Raleigh, March 6.—(AP) —A per
manent revenue bill designed to pro
vide a balanced budget and finance
a proposed $154,360,000 appropria
tions bill had the right of way in
the House of Representatives today.
The House is expected to require
several days to consider the bill in
committee of the whole, and the
measure will have to pass three
readings on separate days. Gover
nor Hoey, over the week-end, reit
erated his prediction the legislature
would adjourn within a month, and
most sources interpreted his state
ment to mean that he is satisfied
with the budget measure.
“I’ve said all along that I thought
the session would last 90 days or
less,” Hoey said, “and I see no rea
son or development which would
make me want to change the state
ment.
Appendicitis Deaths
Called U. S. Scandal
BY STEPHEN J. McDONOUGH,
Associated Press Science Writer.
Atlanta, Ga., March 6.—(AP) The
death rate from appendicitis was de
clared today to be as great a national
scandal as the death rate from auto
mobile accidents.
In a discussion before the south
eastern surgical conference here, Dr.
M. R. Reed, of the University of
Cincinnati, declared the American
death rate from appendicitis “is a na
tional disgrace,” in vi£W of medical
knowledge and public educational
measures available.
“The annual toll of this disease
is between 25,000 and 30,000 people,
and the victims are mostly young,
healthy adults,” he declared. “At the
present time we have the highest
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After colorful ceremony in Boston,
Governor Leverett Saltonstall signs
document expressing Massachusetts’
ratification of the Bill of Rights of
federal constitution. One hundred
and fifty years ago the state legis
lature failed to ratify the Bill. Over
sight was discovered by Saltonstall.
Britain May
Intervene In
Gandhi Fast
Viceroy to India Ex
pected To Take Hand
as Mahatma Becomes
Weaker and Weaker
Rajkot, India, March G.—(AP) —
The possibility of intervention of the
British viceroy of India in Mohandas
K. Gandhi’s dispute with the native
rulers of Rajkot strengthened
today as Gandhi grew weaker on
the fourth- day of his “fast unto
death.”
A morning medical bulletin said
that the frail little leader was so ex
hausted that any attempt to sit up
brought attacks of giddiness. The
viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow,
broke a tour of the Rajputana states
and hurried back to New Delhi after
appeals from Gandhi’s nationalist
followers and nationalist controlled
provincial governments for pressure
on behalf of administrative reforms
in Rajkot.«.
Scores of protests against the
adamant attitude of the native ruler
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UAW To Ban
Communists
From Ranks
Detroit, March 6.—(AP) — The
United Automobile Workers Union
convention, called by Homer Mar
tin, today entertained resolutions
which would, among other things,
ban communists from the union, al
ter the union’s name, and set up
machinery to push organization in
the aircraft industry.
The convention, called by Martin,
elected UAW president in defiance
of a majority of the union’s elected
executive board, which is supported
by the CIO, is in its third day. The
opposing group’s convention is set
for March 27 in Cleveland.
The credentials committee’s report
at Martin’s convention indicated the
delegates represented a maximum
membership of 62,500 in 120 locals
officially represented. Seatings of
“rank and file” delegates from locals
which have voted to support the CIO
faction w r as expected to increase the
convention’s strength today. Exact
membership of the UAW prior to the
factional split has not been disclosed
but Martin estimated yesterday that
it did not exceed 225 locals and 200,-
000 members “in good standing.”
death rate from appendicitis of any
civilized country in the world.”
Addressing more than 600 sur
geans from southeastern, southern,
and many northern states at the
opening of the national congress, Dr.
Reed said more than half the annual
death rate from appendicitis could
be prevented.
While in Sweden the death rate
from the disease has been cut to
three persons per 100,000 and the
death rate in America has jumped
from eight to sixteen per 1,000 dur
ing the last 30 years, he added, health
education work in Atlanta, Cincin
nati and Philadelphia has reduced
their death rates by one-third, com
pared to other industrial cities of
the nation.
Coup In Madrid Might Result
In Speedy Peace For Spain;
Negrin Resignation Big Help
Explains Stabilization Fund
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Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., appears before the
banking and currency committee of Senate to explain workings of the
$2,000,000,000 stabilization fund. Left, is Senator Carter Glass, of Vir
ginia. chairman of the committee; Morgenthau, standing, and Henry
Morgenthau, Sr., veteran of the diplomatic service, who sat on sidelines
as his son testified. . (Central Press)
Labor Board Winner
In Court’s Refusal
To Review Order
Labor Body Had Ord
ered Reinstatement of
147 Discharged Em
ployees, Entitled to
$185,000 Back Pay;
No Decisions Given by
the Court
Washington, March 6. —(AP)
The Supreme Court refused today
to review an attack by the Carlisle
Lumber Company, of Onalaska,
Wash., on a labor relations board
order requiring reinstatement of 147
discharged employees, with $185,-
000 back pay.
Without explanation, the tribunal
refused to pass on a decision by the
ninth circuit court upholding the
order.
No opinions were delivered by the
court. This postponed, at least un
til next Monday, a final decision on
the right of the government to de
port an alien communist. Joseph G.
Strecker, of Hot Springs, Ark., is in
volved
Action on the Carlisle case had
been up for several weeks to await
rulings on three labor board cases
which were decided last Monday. In
those cases the court set aside Tabor
board orders directing the reinstate
ment of striking employees. In ad
dition the tribunal condemned the
sitdown strike.
The board found that the Carlisle
company had discharged employees
who were members of the lumber
and sawmill workers union, and had
dominated a pretended labor organi
zation known as the Association of
Lumber Employe.es of Onalaska, Inc.
The company contended the strike
in question started in 1935, two
months before the labor act became
effective, that the plant was closed
indefinitely, and that there was no
employer-employee relation when
the act became effective
TWO MEN DIE WHEN
PLANE CRACKS UP
East Northport, N. Y., March 6.
(AP) —Two men, Alfred Beach, Jr.,
of Glendale, and William Denmark,
a high school student of Woodhaven,
were killed today when a rented
monoplane struck a high water tow
er after circling for 30 minutes in a
thick fog trying to land.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy and colder to
night, preceded by rain in ex
treme east portion earlv tonight;
, Tuesday fair and colder.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Sutherland Freed
Os Pitt Contract
Pittsburgh, Pa., March 6.—(AP)
—Chancellor John G. Bowman to
day accepted the resignation of
Dr. John Bain (Jock) Sutherland
as head football coach at the Uni
versity of Pittsburgh, effective
immediately. The chancellor made
the announcement without com
ment by releasing his letter by
accepting the resignation offered
unexpectedly by the noted coach
last week.
“I have no immediate plans for
the future,” Sutherland said upon
receipt of the letter from Bow
man. He has been in contact, how
ever, with officials of Mississippi
State College, which needs a foot
ball coach.
State Tariff
Gets Setback
In High Court
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, March 6. Several
state legislatures have been trying,
for a number of years past, to hit on
some scheme for
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establishing an in
ter-state protective
tariff system in
this country.
Thus crassly ex
pressed, of course
it’s an unconstitu
tional idea. The
inter-state protec
tionists, however,
have sought to dis
guise it in a fash
ion to fool the Su-
preme Court into giving it to the
high tribunal’s indorsement. The oth
er day the august bench served notice
that it isn’t one little bit slim-slam
med—that it fully comprehends the
nefarious nature of the various local
legislatures! attempted funny-busi
ness and won’t stand for it for a min
ute.
( Justice Felix Frankfurter, the lat
est addition to the group of “nine
old men,” handed down the opinion,
and it was a deal more significant
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New Defense
Body To Sue
For Peace
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publican Ministers Re
ported Under Arrest;
They Had Constantly
Demanded Fight To
Finish; Casado Makes
Appeal
Paris, March 6.—(AP)—Dip
lomatic reports from Madrid to
day said that General Casado,
head of a new defense council in
republican Spain, had offered to
sue for peace with the Spanish
nationalists, provided republican
leaders were guaranteed safe
conduct outside of Spain and no
Italian troops were permitted to
enter Madrid.
Paris, March 6. (AP) —Diego
Barrio, president of the Spanish
Parliament, declared today that the
seizure of power in republican Spain
by a national defense council “must
lead to peace.”
Informed quarters expressed be
lief also the way for republican
Spain’s surrender to the nationalists
had been paved by the formal re
signation of the government of Pre
mier Negrin. A radio broadcast from
Madrid said Negrin had accepted his
cabinet overthrow by a six-man “de
fense council,” thus legalizing the
coup by which power was seized in
Madrid.
Despite the pledge of the “defense
council” to continue resistance, in
formed quarters declared it would
sue for peace. Some quarters express
ed belief that peace talks might al
ready have been started. They based
this on a radio speech by General
Casado, leader of the uprising a
gainst Negrin, in which he declared
to the nationalists that his followers
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Violent Deaths
During Week-End
Eight for State
Charlotte, March 6.—(AP) — At
least eight persons died violently in
North Carolina over the week-end,
four of them as a result of auto
mobile accidents. Today’s violent
death developments:
Mrs. Lonnie Harper, of North Bel
mont, died in a Gastonia hospital
early today from injuries sustained in
an automobile accident in South Gas
tonia Saturday night.
Fred W. Brown, 41, a former Char
lotte firemen, died today of injuries
received last night when he was
struck by a railroad train.
Legion Will
Battle For
U. S. System
Post Officers in Shel
by Meeting Pass Reso
lutions Dedicating Le
gion Anew to Defense
and Perpetuation of
American Democracy
Shelby, March 6.—(AP)—Resolu
tions dedicating the American Le
gion to the perpetuation and defense
of the American democratic system
of government were passed at the
annual Legion post officers confer
ence of North Carolina here today.
Approximately 1,000 Legionnaires
were in attendance.
The three-day conference of offi
cers of both the Legion and its Aux
iliary will close tonight with ad
dresses by National Legion Com
mander Stephen Chadwick, of Seat
tle, Wash., and Mrs. James J. Mor
ris, of Bismarck, N. D., head of the
auxiliary.
Bruce Stubblefield, of Washing
ton, D .C., field secretary of the na
tional rehabilitation committee,
spoke today and a parade was on
the program this afternoon. Com
mittee and board meetings were also
.held today.