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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-02-04
RUTLEDGE BIBLE CHURCH

Sunday services February Sun
day school, $50 a. m, all ages. Morn
ing service, 10 a. m. Everybody well
come.
r. DEURSEN, Pastor.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-03-09
Speech Is Revamped by
President After Finding
First Draft Unsat-
isfactory
A. F. L. WILL BEGIN
DRIVE FOR STEEL
Metal Trades Leader Goes
to Pittsburgh To Attempt
To Swing Anti-C. |. 0.
Union; House Substitutes
Own Neutrality Bill for
Senate Bill

Washington, March 9-(AP)-Pres-
ident Roosevelt worked over his latest
speech on the Supreme Court todaySto
point it toward the man on the
street"
Dissatisfied with the rough draft of
the address he will broadcast tonight
at 1870 o'clock, he cleared his calen-
dar of all except official engagements
and sat down to re-dedicate his argu-
ments in simple language.
White House aides said he wanted
to be sure "the man on the street" I'M
derstood his contentious.
AS the President worked, swirl of
labo~ developments commanded atten-
ton. In one leader of the American
Federation of Labor agreed to take
counsel with directors of an anti-C. L.
o. movement among steel workers.
John Frey, president of the labor
feGeration's metal trades department,
said he would go to Pittsburgh to-
night to meet employee representa-
tives of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Cor
Continued on Page FourO
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-03-09
REVIVAL UNIONS ARE
REPAIRING DRIVES
| FOR UN|ON|zAT|ON
Industrial Conflict Envel-
opes Large Segment of
Nations Automotive
Industry
NTDOWN ORDERED
IN CHRYSLER MILL
Detroit Still Center of Great
est Idleness Resulting from
Demands of Workers for
Concessions; uce in
Chevrolet-Fis her P lants
Reached

(By The Associated Press).
Industrial conflict enveloped
large segment Of the automo-
tive industry today, raising to
more than 100000 the number
Of persons made idle by strikes
from coast to coast.
While workers deserted scores of
factories and business establishments
70 enforce various demands, leaders
d rival labor groups drew plans for
hr-reaching unionization drives.
The United Automobile Workers Of
America baked in its efforts to gain
recognition as sole bargaining agency
for $1,000 Chrysler Corporation en-
ployees, called sitdown strikes that
closed nine Chrysler plants in Detroit.
In addition to some $4,000 Chrysler
workers in Detroit, 1000 at the COM
Eanys Newcastle, Ind, plant were
made idle. The plant closed for lack
Of supplies from Detroit unit. The
Briggs Manufacturing Company,
which supplies Chrysler with bodies,
Continued on Page SixO
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-03-09
House Amendments Are
Adopted and House Ac-
cepts Amendments on
Textbook Bill
CHEAPER AUTO TAG
is VOTED IN HOUSE
House Cuts Adult Educa-
ton Fund to SIS, 900, Half
of Amount Asked. Both
Houses Vigorously Attack
Calendars for. Speedy Ad-
journment

Raleigh, March 9 (AP)-The
legislature enacte dinto law to-
day the free textbooks and old
age and child aid bills.
Senators voted SO to 0 for the
social security measure on it's
final reading for adoption Of
House amendments. Senator
Bell of Mecklenburg voted
present" after opposing it orr
ginally.
The House without a record vote,
approved Senate change in the text
book act to remove the mandatory
provision that free textbooks be pro-
vided elementary school pupils next
year, with high school pupils continu-
ing to rent textbooks.
The Senate passed the bill by vote
of 38 to last night as both houses
reconvened for another weeks work
and vigorously tackled their calendars
in a drive toward sine die adjourn
ment by March Is.
The House passed the motor vehicle
bill cutting the price of license plates
from 40 to 80 cents per. hundred
weight. The bill now goes to the Sen
ate.
The House reduced a proposed $780,
600 annual appropriation for adult
education to $4,000 and sent it to the
Senate. The Senate killed a proposed
constitutional amendment bill to
abolish capital punishment.
60 Local Bills Pass.
More than go bills were quickly
(CNmtfs111n6 m PQOn CiY
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-03-09
FORMER MEMBER OF
RESERVE BODY DIES
George James, of Memphis, in LII
Health Since Resigning in
January, 1886

Memphis, Tenn, March 8 (AP)-
George James, former member of the
Federal Reserve Board, died here to-
day.
The 70-year-old financier and mer-
chant had been in ill health since
January, 1886, when he resigned from
the reserve board after years of SER
vice, and died this morning at AS
o'clock at his home.
He was chairman of the board of
William Moore Drygoods Company
here. He returned to Memphis last
April, after having spent the major
part of his time in Washington.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-03-09
Says Opponents Straining at
Gnat and There Is Ample
Precedent for Change
Asked
PRESIDENTS MOTIVE
DECLARED PATRIOTIC
Only Trying To Preserve
Democratic Institutions in
America; Farley Speaks
at New Reidsville Federal
Building and Also at Cha
pei Hill

Chapel Hill, March 9 (AP)-
James A. Farley accused oppon-
ents Of President Roosevelt's
court reorganization plan of
"straining at a gnat' today and
cited what he called ample pre-
cedent for a change.
"The question is constantly arising
as to where politics ends and where
patriotism begins" the speaker said
at the outset of his address. 1.-THE ans
wer is, of course, that, while loyalty
to the party is essential, the welfare
Of the nation is pre-eminent. How
ever, that situation arises only when
the two cannot be reconciled."
The chairman of the Democratic
National Committee made the state
ment in a speech prepared for deliv
cry here under the auspices Of the
North Carolina Political Union, non
partisan student organization at the
University of North Carolina A
broadcast ever a nationwide hook-up
was planned
Asserting those in the Democratic
party who oppose the plan agree with
his president Roosevelt's) diagnosis
of the evil, but fight against the me-
thod he offers to cure the evil" Far
ley said he had not heard any of them
offer ian adequate alternative.
He told his hearers three Demo-
cratic senators who opposed the plan,
Glass of Virginia, Wheeler of Mon
tana and Connally of Texas, had join
ed in attacking the courts "econo-
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-03-09
SAYS SOUTH NEEDS
ITS WINTER CROPS
Hugh McRae Says Section Will Be
Free Economically When
Fields Are Green

Atlanta, Ca, March 9.-(AP)-Hugh
McRae, of Wilmington, told the South
western Economic Conference here to-
day the South will be free from econo-
mic bondage when the South's fields
are green in winter.
He told the conference the South
needed greater planting of winter
crops to make the soil free from
erosion.
The meeting was called to center
study of southern leaders on sol
erosion, human erosion, the evils OF
one-crop and long continued row-croI
farming, farm tenancy and other pro-
blems of the South.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-03-09
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel
Rv HENRY AVERILL.

Raleigh, March 9-Desire Of county
political bosses to retain control of
their little local affairs is responsible
for flat failure of every effort to re-
form North Cardinals absentee ballot
law so as to correct abuses which are
almost universally admitted, in the
opinion of most clear-headed political
observers.
This fact, which sticks out more
and more like a sore thumb, is I'M
questionably causing grave concern, if
not embarrassment, to Governor
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-03-09
ROAD BONDS MIGHT
NOT Be ISSUED NOW
If Funds Are Sufficient,
There Will Be No Diver
sion, Hoey Says
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
Tn the Sir Walter Hotel

Raleigh March Ex-Governor Clyde
r. Hoey wants the 100000 road
bond measure, now on the House
calendar. enacted as a sort of insur-
ance polio with which to protect the
county roads, provided there should
he a decrease in either general or
highway fund revenues, he intimated
TODAY. For while Governor Hoey is
CONVINCED it I'LL not be necessary to
divert any highway funds to the gen
eral fund at the close of the first year
of the biennium, he believes that IL
will be a good thing to have the au.
thority to issue $5,OOO,OOO worm Oh
road bonds for the county roaos II re,
venues should slump any the second
1ear of the biennium or if unusual
weather conditions should again DC
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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-03-09
DIR. A. D. WILCOX, OF
LOUISBURG, is DEAD
Was Long Member of North Carolina
Conference; Widow and Two
Sons Survive.

Durham, March 9.-(AP)-Dr. A. D
Wilcox, president of Louisburg Col
lege, died at Duke hospital here at
12:45 o'clock this afternoon. He was
brought to Duke last night after be-
ing ill for several days. He was sc
and had been president of Louisburg
College for the past six years, and was
a member of the North Carolina
Methodist Conference 35 years. The
widow and two sons survive.
Funeral arrangements have not
been completed.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-03-09
ChI0r0f0m
Staying Up
NextM0nth

Charlottesville, Va, March 9.-(AP)
Charles Moran, clerk of Albemarle
circuit court, said today the trial of
DR.. r. G.. Miller, charged with murder
in the death of 18-year-old Cleo
Sprouse, "most likely will be the first
on the docket of the April term of
court.
Dr. Miller, held in Henrico county
Jail at Richmond, was indicted on
charges of murder late yesterday by
the regular grand jury of Albemarle
county.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-03-09
SCHOOL MACHINERY
TO PASS QUICKLY
Lieutenant Governor to
Continue Head, Instead
OF Mr.. Erwin
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
Tn the Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, March 9.-The school ma
chinery bill as amended by the House
Finance Committee, is expected to
pass with little opposition, especially
as a result of the inclusion of an
amendment suggested by Governor
CLYDE r. Hoey designed to bring a.
bout closer coordination between the
state Department of Public Instruc-
ton and the State School Commits
sion. The bill is expected to pass its
three readings in the House by Fri
day and then go to the Senate, where
it is expected to have less opposition
than it had in the House.
The bill, as amended, leaves the
lieutenant governor as chairman OF
the commission, as at present, in spite
of the insistence of the school forces
that the State superintendent of pub
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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-03-09
SEES PARTNERSHIP
FOR LABOR
Steel Agreement Marks
Epoch and Also En-
thrones John Lewis
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COlumniSt

Washington, March 9.-What may
be described as vertical unionism'e
newly-cemented partnership with cap
ital in the steel industry pretty effec-
lively establishes John L. Lewis SUI
premacy in a leadership of American
labor.
It is fair to call it partnership.
It long has been a commonplace
that capital and labor ought to be
partners, but, in fact, as we all know,
they by no means have behaved to-
ward each other as if they considered
Continued on Page Four)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-03-09
Roosevelt Hopes 1 Tonight
To Reach MAN On Street
In Plea To Change Court
Indict Nash Man
In Farm Staying

Nashville, March 8 (AP)-ThH
Nash county grandjury today in
dicted Melvin Coggins, farmer, on
a charge of numbering Henry June
Fogleman, Castalia farmer, ten
days ago.
FOgleman was found in the
woods with shotgun wounds in his
abdomen and severe blows on his
head. Nash Sheriff G. v. Faulk-
ner arrested COggin shortly aft
erWard.
The case was continued until the
May term of superior court.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-03-09
Continued on Page Sikh
Girls End
Strike At
ASheUiIIe

Asheyille, March 9-(AP)-Students
.. AsheVille Norman 81 Teachers Col
ege ended a five-day sitdown strike
"day after school officials acceded to
nelr requests for more liberal cam
guS regulations.
Settlement of the strike was an
aounced by a student committee,
winch carried on negotiations with
W. John Calfee, president of the girls
wlegc, and members of the schools
administrative board, at the supper
aour last night. A signed agreement
was delivered to the students by DR..
Calfee.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-03-09
County Politicians Are
Baking Ballot Reforms
Abuses in Absentee Voting Are Powerful Weapon in
Hands of Local Office-H olders in Election Cam
pagns State Auth critics for Change

Clyde Hoey and to prominent admin
istration leaders, and it would not
be surprising to find the governor ap-
ping some of the wellknown political
"heat" in an effort to break the stran-
gle hold these small-time and small
town politicians have applied to the
bills embedding the recommendations
of the Democratic State Executive
Committee.
AS the governor and man of his
leading advisers see the matter, there
is likel to be such a blOw-up as will
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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-03-09
Italians Are
Fighting For
RebelForces
Foreigners
Say They Reached
Spain After B a n
Was Clamped on
(By The Associated Press.0


With Spanish insurgents staging a
new major push on Madrid front the
northeast, the city's defense chief,
General Jose Miaja asserted today
three captured Italians had said they
belonged to "a whole Italian division"
participating in the drive.
Italy, along with 26 other nations,
had foresworn the sending of volun-
tecrs to Spain. The ban was effective
February 20, but Miaja said the pri
soner's declared they landed at Cadiz
February %.
The French governments fear
volunteers and arms might be con-
tiruipr to enter Spain, despite the Eu
rope-wide agreement, caused the
Paris administration to instruct its
CONTINUED on Page Four.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-03-09
Craze Crisis
ToBe ToLdM
Talk Tonight

Washington, March 9.-(AP)-Pres-
ident Roosevelt approached his second
appeal to the country for his court
reform today with assurances from
a group of organized labor leaders
that sentiment among their followers
were with him.
Labor's Non-Partisan League, which
was pro-Roosevelt in the 1896 support
for the Presidents proposal.
Friends said Mr.. Roosevelt's speech
at 1870 o'clock tonight would put
forth his program as the only prac-
Continued on Page Four.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-03-09
Reaction On
Bailey Aids
State Much
Means More Patron
age Power to Rey-
nolds, Doughton
and Congressman
Daily Dispatch Bureaus
In the Sir Walter Hotel.

poi ~ G. baskerville
/, .pplegh' March 9-The entire State
tbo already beginning to benefit from
Josid 'eactlon to opposition of Senator
dam 'an William Bailey to the Presi-
10 U.s. supreme Court program and
d., uie effects of the farcial Victory
'''er mere last week at which Sen
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Smyrna times., 1937-02-11
RESOLUTIONS

At special meeting of the Board of
Education of the Smyrna Special School
District, held on Saturday afternoon, Feb
ruary 6, 1887, the following resolutions
were unanimously adopted:
WHEREAS, An All Wise and All Loving
Providence has called to his long home. our
beloved superintendent: c. w. w. Schantz
AND WHEREAS, in his death, the Board
of Education, the Faculty, and the pupils of
the Smyrna Special School District have
lost most valued and devoted teacher,
since his devotion and loyalty to the well
fare and best interest of our Public Schools
were of the highest order;
AND WHEREAS, he enjoyed the respect
and esteem of the members of the Board
of Education, the Faculty. and the Student
Body
AND WHEREAS. this community will
search long to find a man more keenly
alive to, and more earnestly devoted to,
setting high the standard of Smyrna's
Public Schools;
AND WHEREAS, his excellent judgment
BE 1T RESOLVED, that we hereby ex-
press our deepest sympathy with the mem
bers of the family in this. their great loss /:
BE 1T FURTHER RESOLVED, that
these resolutions be spread upon our min
utes and that a copy of same be sent to the
family, and to the press.
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION
OF THE
SMYRNA SPECIAL SCHOOL
DISTRICT
Signed: George w. Wright,
Temporary Secretary.
Smyrna times., 1937-02-11
6 SUBMARINES
BUILT BY U.S.A.
Eight More Are Necessary To
Bring Number Up To
Treaty Limit
LIE AT PORTSMOUTH NH.

Portsmouth, N. Portsmouth
navy yard, principal birthplace of
Uncle Sans undersea craft. is bus
ier than at any time since the World
war.
Thirty-three hundred and fifty
skilled civilian workers are pushing
the construction program, stepped
up as the United States strives to
build its sea defenses TO treaty
strength. The wartime peak was
5,722.
Three sleek submarines lie at the
yards fitting-out berths. Two more
are on the stocks. Another pair
still is on the designers drawing
boards.
On the ways are the Snapper and
the Stingray. Both are 300 feet long.
have a twenty-five-foot beam, and
mount three-inch guns. Their keels
were laid in June and September.
The Stingray, when completed.
will be the twenty-sixth submersi-
BILE to slide from the yards ways in
the historic Piscataqua river. This
region has been famous m ship
building since early Colonial days.
The Piscataqua floated John Paul
Jones' famous Ranger in 1777.
For more than year the yard
has been building "pigs" in pairs.
The Porpoise and the Pike struck
the water in June and September.
1885. The Plunger and the Pollock
were launched this year.
The Portsmouth yard abandoned
ship repairing after the armistice,
and devoted all its facilities to sub
marine construction. Since the war,
al least one has always been under
construction here.
OF the six submarines now being
built under current congressional
authorization, two are at Ports
mouth, two at private yard at
New London, Conn.,, and one at
the Mare Island navy yard on the
Pacific coast. The sixth has not
been awarded.
After the six are in commission
Rear Admiral c. w. Cole, comman-
dant, said. the navy still will have
to build eight more to reach the
treaty limit.
Smyrna times., 1937-02-11
DOVER CUTS CURRENT RATE
New Council Reorganizes and Fills
City Posts; Passes Parking Rules

Dover's Town Council started its
new fiscal year Monday evening
when Mayor ]. Wallace Woodford
and Councilmen Millman, Downes,
Burton, and Hinkle, who were re-
elected January 1, were sworn in
by Herman c. Taylor, a Dover no.
tary public, the mayor for one year
and the councilmen for two year
terms. Organization followed the
swearing in of the members by the
election of the following officers:
City clerk, j. o. Willis; treasurer,
c. Burton Sypherd; solicitor, Mel
vim Hopkins; alderman, w. D. Bur-
ton. City Manager L. d. Shank,
in submitting his monthly report,
recommended the running of 784
feet of sewer for the British-Amer-
ican Export Company, new enter
prise that has started its building
there. Mr. Shank also recommend
ed reduction in the lighting rates
of the city effective March 1 as fol-
lows: 8 cents for first 20 XIV; 6
cents for next 80 XIV, and 4 cents
a XIV. for all over 100 XIV. Council
adopted the recommendation
Council discussed at some length
the parking proposition which has
been considered by Council for
many weeks and finally adopted an
ordinance to take effect April l.
The ordinance affects parking on
State and Loockerman Streets. On
recommendation of the State High
way Department, Council left with
City Manager Shank the right to
remove the house on South Cover
nor's Avenue known as pigeon
Hill' so as to enable sidewalks to
be constructed which the State
Highway Department has agreed
to do. This action was prompted
by a recent fatal accident which
occurred there.
Smyrna times., 1937-02-11
KENT FARMERS
TO HOLD MEETS
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bers of the county and state COM
mittees, assistance in filling out ap-
plications for the 1887 soil con-
servation program will be given by
district committeeman, including:
Ernest S. Mattiferd, Howard c..
Deakyne and w. F. David, 1st Dis
trict; r. Harry Wilson, Arthur F.
Dawes and James B.Keith, End and
5th Districts; H. Clifford Clark,
Dudley Crossley and James Row.
linson, 3rd District; Henry Will
liams, ]. Frank Smith and j. Sew
ard Daley, 4th District; Lyndon
D. Caulk and Ellwod B. Gruwell,
9Th District; Frank w. Richardson,
1. t. Cooper, Jr., and Herman l..
7th District; Laurence
E. Cain, j. r. McIllvaine and Ern-
est F. Killen, 9Th District; Herman
Peck, John F. Starkey and Edwin
9th District; Howard R.
Moore, c. Raymond Davis and Ira
]. Sharp, 10th District Those
farmers who signed up for the 1886
soil conservation program, how
ever, are not required to sign
again, but all others who desire to
in the 1887 program
must fill out applications.
Smyrna times., 1937-02-11

College and Secondary Schools of
the Middle Atlantic States. He was
a member of the Smyrna Rotary
Club. His wife, Mrs. Ruth Virginia
Satterfeld Schantz, a former Har-
rington girl, and daughter Fiji"
Margaret Fay Schantz), survives
him. Funeral services took place
Monday afternoon with services
largely attended at st. Peters
Episcopal Church with Bishop
Cook, Rev. Frederick Marks Bar
ton, rector of st. Peters Church
and Rev. Benjamin Fish Thompson,
rector of Christ Church, Dover, of
ficiating. Interment was in Odd
Fellows Cemetery. The honorary
pail bearers were: Hon. John Bas-
sett Moore of New York City; Hon.
Henry Ridgely, Dover; Hon. w. H.
Boyce, DR.. Charles M. Wharton,
Charles Terry, DR.. H. V. Holloway,
all of Dover; Walter w. Hynson,
DR.. c. J. Prickett, Harvey Clones,
Cummins E. Speakman, George 0.
Fearon, Smyrna. The active pail
bearers were: DR.. James Beebe,
Lewes; j. Morris Whiteside, Will
mington; DR.. R. F. Corley, Warner
w. Price, g. Leland Harmonson,
and Erwin R. Dick, Smyrna There
was a beautiful tribute of flowers.
Mr.. Moore and Mr.. Ridgely, men,
toned above, were unable to at
tend.
Smyrna times., 1937-02-11
TRAGIC DEATH
PROF. SCHANTZ
Continued From Pare one)

supervising principal of the Soud-
erton, Pa, schools, position he
held for two years. Following that
he became instructor in social sci
ence at the Browning School for
Boys in New York. Professor
Schantz went to Dover in 1915 as
the superintendent of Dover public
schools, where he remained until
1919, when he was appointed super
intendent of the Smyrna public
schools. He returned to Dover
again in 1925 to become manager
of the Elizabeth w. Murphey
School. In 1927 be resigned that
position to become superintendent
of the special school district of
Smyrna for the State Board of Ed
ucation. Always prominent in ed
ucational circles. Mr.. Schantz was
a member of the Association Of
Smyrna times., 1937-02-11

journ hoping that the sea air will
benefit her health.
Herbert Dickson is very i'll with
spinal meningitis. His many friends
wish him a speedy recovery.
Mrs. Loretta Niles is on an ex-
tended visit with her sister, Mrs.
Norbert Rock, and DR.. Rock in
Pittsburgh.
Miss Margaret Collins attended a
dance at st. Andrews School, near
Middletown, Friday night.
Smyrna times., 1937-02-11
FOOD SALES

Auspices Of st. Peters Church
Food sales will be held at the David
store property next to the Smyrna
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20; Sat, Feb. 81; Sat-, March 6;
Sat-, March 7. Pill 1t