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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-23

Just Ended
UnusualOne
Under Pressure from
Washington, Its So
cial LIE gis | a ton
Was Extensive
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY j. G. BASKERVILLE

Raleigh, March 23-One of the
most unusual and business-like legis-
lative sessions ever held in North
Carolina came to a close today. The
General Assembly was in session Sc
legislative dayS-Only six more than
the period during which members re-
ceive pay-while the members were
here for II calendar days-makings it
the shortest session in more than a
decade. During these sc legislative
days, the assembly has made appro-
priations totaling approximately &c.,
100000 for the first year and $73,0O0,
900 the second year-the largest ap-
preparations any legislative session
has ever authorized It has also levied
taxes which the finance committees
and Department of Revenue regard
as sufficient to produce the revenue
to meet the appropriations.
The 1887 session of the General AS
sembly is not as noteworthy for what
it has done as for the State of mind
and attitude of it's members and the
manner in which it has done it's work
and the harmony and good feeling
which prevailed. It has not only been
the most buSlneSS-llke session which
any one can recall-it has likewise
been the most liberal and social-mind-
ed in the history of the State. For of
the total appropriated, approximately
$35,OOO,000 year has been appropri-
ated for the poorer or underprivileged
classes in the State.
Pressure From Washington
There are some who maintain that
this would never have been done but
for the pressure brought by Washing
ton in favor of social security legis-
lation and for thep romises made by
Governor Clyde r. Hoey as result
of the pressure brought to bear on
him during the primary campaign by
DR.. Ralph w. Mcdonald and his fol-
lowers. There is no doubt, of course,
but what these factors had some in
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-23
House Concurs in Senate
Maximum Hours Bill,
and Orders 1t Rati-
fled into Law
1T EXCLUDES MANY
KINDS BUSINESSES
Clocks in Halls of Both Sem
ate and House Are Stop
ped Before Noon So Re-
cords Will Show Adjourn
ment at That Hour Unless
Later Changed

Raleigh, March 23.-(AP)- The
1887 General Assembly showed under
its enrolling office with another batch
of new laws today and forced post
ponement of sine die adjournment I'M
til o'clock or later this afternoon.
After the Senate and House had
sent close to 40 more measures to the
enrolling office, the House recessed
until o'clock as the Senate orked
on.
Clocks in the halls were stopped
before noon, and the officials records
will record that adjournment is taken
at noon unless a new resolution is
adopted to set a later time.
Early in the afternoon the Senate
adopted the conference report on the
bond bill and then recessed until 3:45
p. m.
The House concurred in the Senate
maximum hours bill today and order
ed it ratified into law as one of it's
last act of the session.
The measure excludes many types
of business and all firms employing
less than eight persons, and limits
work hours for men to 55 week and
WOlHeH W 10 d WCCh III SCAACA eAA' - -
the first State law limiting hours OF
men and cuts those for women by
seven a week.
Representatives also accepted Sen
ate changes in a bill to give the COM
missioner of labor 5000 a year and
the commissioner of agriculture and
adjutant general $4,000 each. Now
each gets $4,000.
Ratified was an act to permit the
State to participate in the New York
Worlds Fair of 1929.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-23
Texas Rural
Schools Are
Giiuen Tests

New London, Texas, March % (AP)
Rigid inspection of every rural
school in the east Texas oil field was
the expected aftermath today of the
disastrous London school explosion,
caused, experts agree, by accumulat-
ed gas.
School doors were shut as safety ex-
perts began search for possible sim
liar conditions that killed 455 here.
Extreme caution pervaded the area,
especially after Gordon Hawley, chief
engineer of the State fire insurance
department, told a military inquiry
court yesterday he had located anoth-
er school in the vicinity endangered
by escaping gas.
"a test a few hours ago." Hawley
told the investigators, "at the Carlisle
school, near here, showed gas was
escaping underneath the place at the
rate of 720 cubic feet a day, all of
which makes this occasion all the
more omnipotent."
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-23
Prisoner Suicide
In Forsyth's Jail

WinstOn-Salem, March 23.-(AP)
Using a crude moose fashioned
from his underwear LOnnie Wright
rs, of Allegheny county hanged
himself in the city Jail here be-
tween one and three o'clock this
morning.
Cleared of completely i'm the EIva
BrannOck murder only a few hours
before, Wright was last seen alive
at one o'clock by, officers who
noticed nothing unusual in his con-
duct then.
Wright, who escaped from For
syth prison farm Friday was recap
tured Sunday, and was under SEN
tcnce to serve 80 days on nuisance
charges.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-23
ChryslerAndLe1uis ToMeet
As Sitdowners Critics Grow

Detroit, Mich, March 23.-(AF)-
Governor Frank Murphy today pinned
hopes for settling the Chrysler auto
mobile strike on meeting tomorrow
at Lansing between Walter P. Chry-
sler and John L. Lewis.
Murphy indicated he had assur-
ances both would attend the II a. m.
conference, which he said would seek
to avert extreme and costly measures
with possible unfortunate consequences
in the strikes. Six thousand union sit
downers are holding eight automobile
plants at Detroit
Lewis accepted the invitation to-
day, at the same time informing the
governor his message suggests that
1 confer under duress."
A formal reply from Chrysler was
awaited.
Governor Frank Murphy announc-
ed today a conference would be held
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-23

Governor A. B. Chandler, of Ken
lucky, joined Mayor Neville Miller, of
Louisville, in a statement terming sit
down strikes unlawful and warning
sitdowners will be evicted. Previously
governors of Illinois, New Jersey and
Connecticut had condemned the sit
down strategy.
At Detroit United Automobile Work
ers Union leaders coupled a call for
a huge mass meeting near the county
building with a warning they were
not "bluffing" about projected city
wide automotive strike. The walk-out
was planned as a protest against po-
lice eviction of sitdown strikers.
More than 5000 sitdowners con-
tinue to defy court order to evacuate
Chrysler Motor Corporation plants
while union and companion represen-
tatives sought to settle the strike in
volving $4,000 Chrysler employees.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-23
One of Original GRAIN
Trust" Gang Advises
Senate Committee
Against Plan
AUTHORITY, PRESTIGE
WOULD BE WEAKE"ED.
American Method and Ame-
rican Tradition of Govern
ment Would Be Upset;
Bailey Objects to Wheeler
Statement That Opponents
Are In Accord

Washington, March 23!-(AP)-A
One-time counselor of President
Roosevelt advised Senate investiga-
tors of the administration judiciary
reorganization bill today that enact
ment of the measure would weaken
the Supreme Court.
Both "the authority and prestige of
the tribunal would be shaken" said
Raymond Moley, whose counsels were
an influential force in the early days
of the Roosevelt administration. He
finally resigned his position as as
sistant Secretar of state after policy
differences with Secretary Hull.
Meanwhile, another administration
proposal ran afoul of difficulties in
the House Agriculture Committee.
There Democratic opposition had for
ced delay in congressional action on
the Presidents farm tenancy program
Resp nsible sou''e a said a majority
OF the committee opposed the Presi-
dents tenancy program, contending
it would make the government too
large & land owner and lender.
Raymond Moley, once one of Pre-
sident Roosevelt's closest advisors, OPP
posec the chief executives court bill
Continued on Page FOur)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-23
Legislature Adjourns Sine Die Late In Afternoon
Holt Says Patronage Whip
Being Used In Court FIGHT
West Virginia Democratic Senator Tells Chapel Hill
Audience There Was No Mandate in Election Re-
Iating to Court; Accu ses Roosevelt, Farley

Chapel Hill, March % (AP)-Sena-
tor Rush Holt, Democrat, West Vir-
ginia, said today President Roosevelt
and Postmaster General Farley are
Cracking the party whip" for the
Presidents court reorganization plan.
He said in a prepared address "the
report has gone abroad throughout
the land that recognition and patron
age will be taken from members of
the House and Senate of the Congress
simply because they dare to differ
with the President and Mr.. Farley on
this great question"
Holt spoke under the auspices of
the North Carolina Political Union,
nonpaltisan student organization at
the University of North Carolina, in
answer to an address by Postmaster
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-23
LAWRENCE TAKES
POLITICAL TURNS
State Labor Head bitches
Labor Bill to Force
His "Black Book"
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Rv HENRY AVERILL.

Raleigh, March 23.-If Roy Law
renee, president of the North Carolina
Federation of Labor, had spent more
time working for labor measures and
less in playing politics in an effort
to put certain legislators ION the
spot" the workers of North Carolina
might we'll have secured more favor
able consideration at this session of
the General Assembly, many Raleigh
observers believe.
For example, on Monday afternoon
with the Senate vote on the 55-hour
bill only an hour or two off, Mr. Law
renee was still running around with
the notorious "Black Book under his
arm trying to get legislators to sign
their names to endorsements of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's court proposals.
Asked by a representative of this
bureau what he thought of the So
hour bills chances he said:
"I'm not interested in that. I don't
care whether they kill it or pass it,
While many weakening amend
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-23
SERIOUS BLAZE AT
HARBOR IN BOSTON

Boston, Mass, March 23.-(AP)-
Four alarms sent sea and land fire
fighting apparatus to Boston docks
today as an electric crane operating
in a drydock between the United
States Fruit Company's boats San Gil
and San Bruno burst into flames
threatening both vessels.
The San Gil caught fire soon after
the first burst of flame.
Firemen, enveloped in a dense
cloud of black smoke, pourned water
not only on this vessel but on the San
Bruno as well in an effort to keep the
sparks from spreading the fire.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-23
NEW BERN MAN HELD
ON ASSAULT CHARGE
Capt. David Lancaster, 70, WAVES
Examination at Hearing Be-
fore Magistrate

New Bern, March % (AP)-Accus-
cd Of an attempted criminal attack on
a ten-year-old girl, Captain David
Lancaster, 70, of this city, was given
private hearing last night before
Justice of the Peace ]. H. Smith and
was oroered held for superior court
under 81 1000 bond. This had not been
posted early this afternoon.
Ernestine McCotter, daughter OF
Ernest McCotter, the victim, told OF
the alleged attack on the witness
stand. Lancaster entered a plea OF
not guilty, but waived examination.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-23
Daily Dispatck Bareau,
In the Sir Waiter Hotel.
BY HENRY AVERILL.

Raleigh, March 23-Instead of end
ing today this session of the North
Carolina General Assembly might very
well have gone meandering on far, far
into April, had it not been for the
firm hand with which Lieutenant Gov
ernor Wilkins P. Horton ruled the
Senate and the diligence with which
he held the members noses to the leg
islative grindstone.
With none of the clustering, below
ing, wise-cracking qualities of Speak
er Gregg Cherry, the serious-faced
saturnine Chatham county product
was just as dictatorial, just as peremp
tory and just as much "slave driver"
as the Houses boss across the ro-
tunda.
There was never the slightest hest
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-23
Five Persons Die
When Home Burns
In Jersey Hamlet

Baldwin HarbOr, N. j., March
23.-(AP)-Five persons died ear
ly today in the blazing interior OF
a two-stOry frame house which
was swept by fire apparently
starting from an old-fashioned
coal stove converted to burn kerO-
Sene.
The volunteer fire department.
from nearby Baldwin responded,
hut was able to rescue only one OF
the five victims, Barbara Morse
4, LdI,,
She had been burned SO badiy
she lived only few minutes.
The other dead were children OF
M-s Rose van Orden Morse, 45.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-23
Presiding Officers Are
Due Credits For Speed

tation on the part of the lieutenant.
governor. When he was called upon
to make a ruling, he made it and
made it in such manner that every
body knew there was no use disput-
ing about it.
When members began to speak
endlessly and aimlessly the Senate's
presiding officer frequently recalled
them to the straight and narrow path
of relevancy.
When it was proposed to take an
unusually long recess, the lieutenant
governor was ever ready to call atten-
ton to the fact that there was bust
ness to be attended to.
When committees Jagged in report
ing bills referred to them, they were
firmly reminded that they were given
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-23

General Farley before the union two
weeks ago.
The young senator said Farley in
his Chapel Hill speech and the Pres
ident in his Victory Dinner address
appealed for support of the court plan
on partisan grounds.
If the Democratic National Conven-
ton had proposed reorganization Of
the Supreme Court, Holt said, the
verdict might be accepted by a party
verdict.
But this was not attempted, and
it is too late now to speak of the
mandate when the matter was not
discussed" he said. when the OPP
position tried to charge that the court
would be tempered with, members
of the Democratic campaign staff
were quick to deny such a move"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-23
Duce Denies
Furnishing
Of Soldiers
Mussolini, B a c k
From Libya, De-
tends Italy Empire
Building Program
CIV The Associated Press.


Fascist Italv. accused by SPANS
government of waging an "undeclared
International war on the side OF the
Spanish insurgents" told Great Brl,
tain today the only Italians to lana
in Spain since an international neu-
trality accord went into effect were
volunteer doctors and nurses.
The answere came as II Duce, BACK
from his Libyan tour, gave Fasclst
celebran is a strident defense of Italys
empire building in the face of Angli-
can pulpit criticism.
Italy's flat denial of reports thous-
ands of italian troops had landed at
Cadiz March 5, thirteen days after
Italy and rs other nations agreed to
stop sending men to Spain, was IN re-
ply to urgent British inquiries. The
diplomatic exchange, however, did not
CONTINUED on Page Four.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-23
Bryant Is
LeudimgAS
39Speaker
Daily DispatCh Bureau
I'm tho Cir "NvfnP Hotel

IN t4G SH WdltCE 11ONCAs
Raleigh, March 23.-As the current
General Assembly session comes to
an end, Victor S. Bryant, representa-
tive from Durham, has clear edge
in speculation over speakership Of the
1889 House of Representatives.
Of course, that's two years off, and
anything can happen between now
and then, but there seems to be gen.
eral agreement among members of the
present House that the chairman of
this years finance committee will step
right up the ladder to the topmost
post in the lower branch.
The present speaker, Gregg Cherry,
advanced to the position via chairman
ship of the finance committee and
many think that Mr.. Bryant will fol-
low in the footsteps of the Gastonia
'Iron Major
The serious-minded, concise gentle
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-23
SITDOWN STRIKES DRAW
INCREASING OPPOSITION
(By The Associated Press.)

(By The Associated Press.)
Widespread manifestation of the
sitdown strike technique incurred the
censure of a growing number of city
and state officials today.
At Chicago law enforcement Off
Gals invoked a 75-year-old law to
dislodge more than 1000 sitdown
strikers from three establishments.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-23

here Wednesday between Walter
Chrysler, chairman of the Chrysler
corporation, and John L. Lewis, head
of the c. 7. o.
Although formal replies to his in
vitation to the conference have not
been received, it was understood the
governor had assurance both Chry-
sler and Lewis would attend the meet
ing.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-03-23

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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-03-10
THE WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY

20 Years Ago Today-The recent
German ambassador in Washington,
Won Bernstorff, arrived in Christiana,
Norway, and was asked if he knew
of plot by German agents to cripple
American industries and Samper war
said
In Washington, the contents of pa
pers of Wolf Won Igen, who was de-
scribed as presiding genius of a spy
system in the U. S., were released in
part. The papers, obtained by theft
by American secret operatives, indi-
Gated that Won Bernstorff was COM
pletely aware of almost every step
taken by German agents in America,
whose offenses included taking pass
ports, causing explosions on Ameri-
can ships bound for Europe, sabotage
in factories. The paper also showed
that secondary offensive had been
prepared against the U. S. and it's pos
sessions in the event of a war, and
that full details had been worked out
for more than a year for acts of VIC
lence intended to cripple the military
effectiveness of the United States.
From Copenhagen that day came
another German statement more to
the point. 1t quoted Berlin news
paper to the effect that the Prussian
food controller, DR.. George Michaelis.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-03-10
ANSWERS

1. In 1771 when the assembly passed
an act establishing Queens College,
later renamed Liberty Hall, provisions
was made for a special tax on all Ii
quors sold within Mecklenburg Coun-
support of the institution.
2. AS an inducement to settlers the
legislature of 1740 offered in cases
where parties exceeded forty persons
one body or company that they should
be exempt from taxes for a term of
ten years.
3. 1t applied to the seeding states
only. Thirteen parishes and the City
of New Orleans, in louisiana, Seven
counties and the Cities of Norfolk
and Portsmouth, in Virginia, and all
the counties of West Virginia were
excepted. It did not apply to Tennes-
see.
4. The following fees were in effect
IN 1850; For marrying by license, 20
shillings; banns Church wedding by
proclamation) five shillings: for pub
fishing banns and granting certificate
one smiling. The fee for preaching
funeral sermon was 40 shilings.
o. The statement made in speech
IN Greensboro in 1905 while he was
secretary of War, that "in. my judg-
nent the republican party in North
carolina would be much stronger as
otlng party if all the Federal office
7ere filled with democrats" and hi
prominent in June 1909, while pres
dent' Of Judge Henry C. Conner, i;
emocrat, to the Federal judgeship c
ne Eastern North Carolina district.
o: AT the time of his death, July II
'oZ, Governor Johnston was thirteer
ears IN arrears in the payment of his
wn salary. He was a highly educated
cotchman but poor business ma
no politician He was sent to Mort
aroma from London and becam
'oVernor November 2, 1874. He wa
.oVeTnor Of the colony for Is years.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-03-10
IT'S TRUE

IT'S TRUE
The average person of 20 has slept
% years! And eaten SO tons of food :.
You're wrong if you believe red
noses are a sign of intemperance.
They may be caused by poor circula-
ton, changes in temperature, ner-
vOuSneSS.
Footnote to Gone With the Wind:
Disease caused the deaths of twice
as many soldiers of the Union Army
as were killed in action or died of
wounds during the War Between the
States.
Giocomo Rossini composed his ia
nous operas while under contract to
a gambling-house to provide musical
entertainments that would be attrac-
lions for customers!
In ancient Greece men who ran
away from military service were
forced to stand daily in public squares
dressed in women's clothes. And the
punishment for women convicted OF
adultery was to stand without clothes
in the public square.
Pomponeous Atticus, richest and
latest man in Rome in his day, be-
came hopelessly i'll an decided to kill
himself by starvation. The abstinence
cured his disease and restored him tc
perfect health!
There's no such thing as a "skele-
tom or master keys for pin-tumbler
locks, regardless of how many times
you've seen movie detectives use
them.
The first man to be U. S. Social
Security <leficiary in New York
City is a British citizen!
No two persons ever see the same
rainbow. This aural phenomenon is
caused by the breaking up of the
Suns rays into the colors of the spec
trum into circle which has no end
The rays of light have to focus in the
individuals eye and since no two
persons can ever get their eyes al
exactly the same point no two per-
sons ever see rainbow alike.
The Sun when it is high in the
heavens warns the ground more
than when it is lower.
And you're wrong if you believe
that the Equator always gets more
neat than the North Pole.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-03-10
STATE is WATCHING
FIGHT ON TENANCY
Nearly Half Farmers in North Caro-
lima Are in That Glass That
Stands To Get Aid
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Whittier Hotel

IN tne S1r waiter HOtGI.
Raleigh, March 10.-With AZ per
cent of all the farms in North Caro-
lima operated by tenants this State is
watching with close interest the con-
certed attack on farm tenancy and
the movement of the President and
leaders in Congress to aid the farm
ers at the bottom of the agricultural
ladder Vance E. Swift, State direc-
tor of rural rehabilitation for the Re
settlement Administration, said today.
According to the latest agricultural
census figures, there are approximate
ly $4,000 tenant farmers in North
Carolina, he pointed out.
can important beginning in the
movement to reduce the prevalence
of tenancy and to provide a basis for
increased farm ownership already has
been made through the Rural Reha-
biliation program" Mr.. Swift stated.
"More than 5000 farmers in this State
a majority of whom are in the tenant
class, have been assisted through
loans, supervised farm and home plan
cooperative services and farm debt
adjustment. It is recognized that these
services will go far toward helping
thousands of farmers take the impor-
tant upward step from tenancy to
farm ownership.
"Under the system of the past, the
lack of opportunities for ownership of
land and the evils resulting from in
stability of land tenure have brought
about a rapidly increasing depletion
of the soil and growing rural poverty
in many sections"