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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-06
Enlightened" Interpreted
ton of Nations Organic
Law Is What Is
More Urgent
NRA PROBLEMS ARE
DECLARED PRESSING
Statute Outlawed, but Is
sues Remain, Roosevelt
Tells Congress in Annual
Message Delivered in Per-
son at Joint Session OF
House and Senate

Washington, Jan. 6 (AP)-
President Roosevelt called today
for an "enlightened" interpre-
tation of the Constitution to har
monte Congress and the courts
in meeting present national
needs.
Standing before a joint session of
the overwhelmingly Democratic 10Th
Congress Mr. Roosevelt, without men
tioning the Supreme Court by name,
said "a liberal Interpretation" rather
than alteration" of the Constitution
was needed. He reaffirmed his be-
lief NRA detectives were sound"
The statute of MIRA has been out
lawed." he told the assembled Senate
and House. 1.-THE problems have not.
They are still with u.s.
The President, greeted with shouts
and cheers by Congressman elected in
the November landslide that returned
him to office, said it was high time
for democracy to assert itself when
mitarism was leaping forward
abroad, adding:
The process of our democracy must
not be impelled by the denial of es-
sential powers of free government"
AS the first cargo of $7,284,OOO of
munitions and airplanes licensed for
export to Spain slipped out of New
York harbor, Mr.. Roosevelt urged
quick action to halt such shipments,
said some dying statutes should be ex-
tended quickly and a deficiency ap-
preparation swaftly made for relief
purposes.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-06
3 Condemned
Men Fail To
Win Appeals

Raleigh, Jan. 6.-(AP) = The
state Supreme Court found mo
error" today in two capital cases
and ruled unconstitutional law
providing for the licensing by the
North Carolina Real Estate Com
mission of eight real estate brOk-
erS and statesmen.
The licensing law had applied only
in certain designated counties.
In declining new trial to Alfred
Fuckett, of Richmond county, SEN
fenced to asphyXiation for the murder
Of Roy Rhyme, the court automati-
cally set his death date as January
p unless the governor intervenes
Charles Smith, Columbus Negro
found guilty of first degree burglary
who was refused new trial, also will
die on that date.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-06
CHILDREN PRAYING
FOR MATTSON BOY
Intercede for His Safety;
Strangers Visit G-Men
Headquarters

Tacoma, Wash, Jan. 6.-(AP)-
A visit by two southwest Wash
ingtOn men to kidnap investiga-
ton headquarters today revived
speculation the abductOrS of ten
year-Old Charles MattsOn may be
hiding near Shelton.
The pair was identified as
Shelton business man and a resi-
dent of HOOdspOrt, near Shelton.
They were clOseted with agents
at the Federal Bureau of inves-
Continued on Page Five.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-06

Seeks Quick
Control Bill
Action On
Tobacco Compacts
Is Sought in The
General Assembly
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Tex 4 q ma SE[ EcR VIII.

Raleigh Jan. 6-The North Caro-
lima Farm Bureau Federation is go
ing to seek to ram-rod a tobacco COM
pacts and crop control bill through
the 1897 General Assembly as quick
ly as possible This decision was
reached in a meeting of more than
100 directors and members of the Fed
GRAFTON here Tuesday, at which the
legislative program was outlined by
President J. E. Winslow and Execu
tive Secretary H. F. Arnold. Copies of
the model bill which will be present
ed. which was written in Washing
ton and which was said to have the
approval of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture and the officials
of the old tobacco division of the
-AAA. was distributed to the members
present and they were urged to go
back to their home cOuntieS-32 cOun-
ties were represented at the meeting
to call meetings of the tobacco far
mers in those counties, get them
indorse the bill and then apply pres
sure to the members of the legisla-
to force it's enactment as soon as pos
sible
Secret Committee Named.
At this same meeting a secret COM
mittee was appointed to call on Lieu
tenant Governor w. P. Horton and
Speaker r. Gregg Cherry to urge the
appointment of chairmen of the Sen
ate and House agriculture committees
who are "dirt farmers" and if pos
sible tobacco farmers, instead of to-
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-06
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By l. g. RASK ERVTLL

Raleigh, Jan. GA bitter under
cover fight has been in progress and
IS more and more intense for the
chairmanships of the House and Sen
ate agriculture committees, it was
learned here today. The reason for
this unusual interest in the agricul-
ture committee is the expectation that
a tobacco compacts bill will be in
troduced early in the session and the
forces for or against this bill are anxi-
Gus to have chairmen named who will
be favorable to them, according to
most observers here.
The two most influential farm or
CARNATIONS in the State, the Grange
and the North Carolina Farm Bureau,
arc already on record as favoring the
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-06
Mcdonald Men, Led by
Lumpkin, Move Early
for Election Law Re-
forms for the State
BOTH HOUSES OPEN
SESSIONS AT NOON
Principal Clerks Named and
Hall johnson Again Made
Senate President Protein;
Thomas of Arson Again
Heads House Rules Com
mittee, Cherry Says

Raleigh, Jan. 6 (AP)-Bills
to abolish the absentee ballot
and generally tighten election
laws, as we'll as one to abandon
the use of lethal gas in execu-
lions and return to the use OF
electrocutions, were dropped in
to the legislative hopper today
as the General Assembly open
ed its biennial session.
The House was convened by Speak
er G. egg Cherry, of Castor, at 1902
p. M, and the Senate by it's retiring
president, Lieutenant Governor A. H.
Graham, of Orange, at 1908 p. m.
The first three measures introduced
reflected charges of irregularities in
last summers primaries, when Clyde
Boey, of Shelby, defeated DR.. Ralph
Mcdonald, Of Winston-Salem, for the
guberna torial nomination.
Two Mcdonald supporters, Repre-
sentatives Lunpkin, Of Franklin, and
Spruill, of BERTHE, sent them up in
the House. Besides abolishing the
use of the absentee ballot in prima-
ries, they would abolish the use of
markers and assistants in primaries,
and would prohibit entrance of per-
sons into voting booths who are not
actually voting.
Representative Dellinger, of Castor,
sent forward the bill proposing that
the lethal gas chamber, placed in
operation last year, be abandoned,
and that electricity again be used in
legal executions.
Without opposition, w. A. Baker,
former assistant clerk, was elected
principal clerk Of the House, and Ray
Ryerly, received the same advance
ment in the Senate.
The Senate form lily elected Sena-
tor Hall Johnson, Of Buncombe, again
as its president protein.
Speaker Cherry announced Repre-
sentative Thomas, of Arson, 1895
chairman of the rules committee,
would again head that group
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-06

(By The Associated Press).
Soviet Russia and Socialist
Spain launched bitter new accu-
Stations at Fascist Italy and
Nazi Germany today, while
France considered rushing
troops to her Spanish border,
and Britain shifted $4,000 tons
of. fighting ships in the Medi-
terranean.
Another Soviet steamer the ninth,
was seized by insurgent sea forces in
the Straits of Gibraltar.
Geneva-The Spanish government,
protesting dual violation of her SOW
ereignty by Italy and Germany sought
League of Nations action.
Moscow-A government spokesman
CONTINUED on Page Six
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-06
HOPES FOR SETTLEMENT
TURN TOWARD WASHINGTON
lRxr The Associated PreSSl
(By The Associated TT

Hopes for settlement of the far-
flung automotive and marttinAe
strikes conferred today in the natlonai
capital.
Government leaders CONSIDERED
ways of adjudicating employer-worker
differences codting 10000 workers
emplovment in those two divisions OF
business and industry.
President Alfred Sloan, Jr, OF the
General Motors Corporation, left New
York for Detroit, where Federal con-
ciliators sought to bring company OF
ficials and union leaders together IN
an accord which would put 5OOOO Cen
eral Motor employees back to work.
Governor Frank Merriam, of Cali
fornia, w'~ed a request to President
Roosevelt for his personal interven-
ton" to help restore shipping ope-
rations on the strike-bound Pacific
coast, where a 69-day maritime walk
out made $4,000 men idle.
President Roosevelt and Labor Sec
retary Frances Perkins discussed the
automotive strike with the cabinet
Continued on Page FiVe.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-06

Raleigh For
Inauguration

Shelby Jan. 6-(AP)-Governo
Elect Clyde r. Hoey, accompanied by
Mrs. Hoey and their daughter, Miss
Isabelle Hoey, left Shelby at 10 o'clock
this morning by automobile for Ra-
leigh, where tomorrow he will be in
augurated.
Only one city traffic officer and a
State highway patrolman escorted
the car to the city limits in Difference
to the wishes of the governor-elect.
Il want to leave Shelby as private
citizen and without Formally" he
said.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-06
HELPS
AGRICULTURE WORK
Governors Administration
Also Noted for Friendli-
ness to Labor
MANY PRISON REFORMS
Local Government Units Have Been
Assisted in Lifting Themselves
Out of Their Financial
Difficulties
MANY PRISON REFORMS
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
D Il IL 9 IL LID NIII

Raleigh, Jan. 6.-'While the admin
istration of Governor j. c. B. Ehring-
haus is prCi3 ably better known for its
fiscal and educational reforms than
for anything else, much has been done
for agriculture, labor, for local gov
ernments, highways and along the
lines of prison reform, those who are
evaluating the accomplishments of the
past four years point out
The farmers have probably benefit
ted as much from the Ehringhaus adj
ministration as any one group. In ad-
dition 20 the large reduction in pro-
perty taxes which resulted when the
State took over the cost of maintain
ing the schools, it is now generally
conceded that but for Governor En-
ringhaus and the firm stand he took
with the AAA in Washington, the to-
bacco farmers would not have been
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-06
Many Sections OF
South Threatened
BY Flood Waters

forecasts for scattered precipitation
over the entire southeast kept con-
Germ alive today.
Conditions were worse in mid-South
Alabama, where the Cahaba river in
undated thousands of acres and fret
of small boats stood ready to evacu-
ate hundreds of families in the Selma
Uniontown area.
The Roanoke and other Eastern
North Carolina rivers also continued
a slow rise that has done consider
able damage to highways, crops and
a few sawmills. South Carolina
streams were receding after doing
minor harm.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-06
Bad Weather For
Hoey's Inaugural

Raleigh, Jan. g. (AP) = The
weather Bureau today forecast
Cloudy weather with rain at in
tervals'' for Raleigh tomorrow on
inauguration day.
Committees in charge of the in
augural ceremony for Clyde HOey,
of Shelby, who will become the 81st
governor of North Carolina elected
by the people, still predicted a huge
crowd would be here.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-06
Bitter Under-Couer Fights
For Agriculture Positions
Grange and Farm Bureau Have Their Men for Senate
and House Chairmanshi ps; Compacts by no Means
Favored by All, Not Even All of the Farmers

enactment of a tobacco control and
compacts bill, while most of the large
tobacco farmers are also interested in
the enactment of a bill of this nature.
They believe that it will limit acre
age, hence decrease the size of the to-
bacco crop and accordingly compel
the tobacco manufacturer to pay high
er prices for their tobacco. The COM
pact and crop control movement is
also regarded as having the full APP
prevail and cooperation of the United
States Department of Agriculture and
the Federal Agricultural Extension
Service.
Many Opponents.
But not all of the tobacco farmers
favor the bill, it is agreed. The small
CONTINUED ON Page Six.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-06
One Bill Proposes
ELectrOcufiOnS For
All Capital Cases
Business, Movies
Pay Highest Wage

Washington, Jan. 6.-(AP)-A
peek into the pay envelopes of
some of the nations big men and
women, afforded by a Treasury De
partment report to Congress, show
ed today that top salaries went 10
movie stars and captains of i'm
duStry.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-06
Hopes for Settlement, How
ever, Turn to National
Capital, Where Plans
Are Talked
ALFRED SLOAN OFF
TO DETROIT OFFICE
Motor Giants President
Hastens to Seat OF Trou-
BILE; California Governor
Calls on Roosevelt To In
tervene in 69-Day-Old Sea
Strike
(By The Associated Press,)

(By The Associated Press,)
Opposing leaders in the strug-
gle between the United AutomO-
bile Workers of America and the
General Motors Company in De-
troit showed no sign of truce
today in the labor conflict winch
has taken $4,000 men from their
jobs.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-06
(Bv The Associated Press)

Thousands of southerners anxious
ly watched cloudy skies today while
dozens of streams on the Gulf and At
lantic watersheds rolled along in the
flood stage danger zone.
A week of almost ceaseless rain IN
the holiday period submerged lowly-
ing lands and did extensive crop dam
age.
A generally clear Sunday and Mon
day gave brief respites, but resump-
ton of rain late in the latter day and
yesterday revived the threat. There
was some cessation overnight, but
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-06
Britain, Meanwhile, Hurries
Array of Fighting Ships
To Mediterranean
Region
RUSSIA AND SPAIN
HURL ACCUSATIONS
Bitter New Charges Aimed
at Italy and Germany; So
cialist Government Rushes
Reinforcements to North
west of Madrid as Fascists
Press Attacks

Madrid, Jan. 6.-(AP)-Fascist
artillery and air attacks disrupted
fine capitals celebration of the
Feast of the Magi today as insur-
gent gunners dropped six-inch
shells into the central district and
airmen bombed University City.
Sixteen tri-mOtOred bOmbers, es-
cOrted by "a pursuit planes, bomb
ed Socialist lines in the North
western University City area, and
a sector ten miles from the cap
itaL
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-06
NO REAL WORK PROBABLE
BEFORE FULL WEEK YET
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel

In the Sir Walter Hotel.
by j. G. 3ASE ERVILL
Raleigh, Jan. 6-The 1887 General
Assembly convened in it's regular ses-
sion at noon today, with Lieutenant
Governor A. H. (Sandy) Graham pre-
siding in the Senate, and with Speak
er r. Gregg Cherry, of Gastonia,
Continued on Page Five)
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Continued on Page Four.)
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-01-06

Continued on Page Six.)
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Continued on Page Five.)
Montana labor news., 1937-03-04
Labor Press

When One attempts to dndlyze the tx
tent Of political victory like thdt Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt several months otter it
occurs, he is impressed with the fact it
Wds also q victory against redctiondry
dolly newspapers. 1t hos been pointed
out in some directions that 30 to IS per
cent Of the dolly press wds dgdinst the
President. Some persons ossign the vic
tory to the use of radio broddcastinq. No
doubt. radio broddcdsting tended to off
set the blanket Of suppression by the
dolly press. On the other hand, one
must be cognizunt Of the fdct that the
labor forces Of this country have access
to millions Of INTELLIGENT readers. A week
lY paper like Labor" with its neurly q
million circulation. probably effects five
to six million readers each week, and
their power to affect others is no small
service. In addition. q recent undlysis
OF labor newspapers, trade union mdqo-
zines, liberal papers and magazines, in
dicdte there ore probably 600 such pub
locations thdt would go to the support of
labor T liberal causes. Labor weeklies
alone number 306, and there ore about
IS Influential trade union magazines with
q total circulation well beyond q million.
These papers generally ore not well
known to the so-cdlled intelligentsiu, but
they do represent q firm foundation for
sound public opinion. for they dispense
facts, economic information. and strdiqht
thinking to their readers. Their readers,
too, have faith in them. They do not Just
read them for entertainment or u
ment, to catch q quip from the axe OF q
columnist.
Montana labor news., 1937-03-04
|LAB0R'5 ATTITUDE
TOWARD PROPOSED
SOCIAL SECURITY
Sliding Scale TO Take Care of
Dependents Suggested.
By RALPH OWINGS

BY RALPH OWlNGo
Organized labor endorses the
idea of Social Security and Unem-
ployment Insurance advanced by the
Federal Government only because it
will provide a beginning for relief
of the unemployed in Montana. 1t
will not solve the problem in its
present form, but because of the
nature of the national legislation, it
is the best system as yet advanced
in America. Much will have to be
done in rewriting the laws which
will arise, rather than reduce the
standard of living of those who labor
for existence" such was the key
note of the public hearing conducted
by the Social Security Committee of
the Montana House of Representa-
tives last Saturday night.
Numerous labor leaders from
Butte, Great Falls, Anaconda and
Miles City were present and offered
suggestions to the committee. James
Graham, President of the Montana
Federation of Labor, represented the
Federation and led the discussion
and offered several amendments re-
quested by the labor groups of Mon
tana.
America wants a system of Social
Security that will bring honor and
genuine security to its working
people. It wants the kind of pension
system that will Danish forever the
shame and humility of poverty. 1t
wants recognition of its Divine spark
of life and appreciation for skill and
training that it contributes to the
industry of the nation.
1t is shameful that those who re-
ceive the benefits must subscribe to
a pauper's oath. If the sovereign
citizen has spent a lifetime of eco
nomic usefulness, has contributed to
the upkeep of society through taxes
and donations, has reared a family,
does not society morally W a living
to this person?
If, at the v of life, a citizen owns
a small tract of land, a home or a
few personal effects, is it not a
thankless society that wishes to COR
script these little things? Do the big
Federal Judges or the widows of
Presidents and Governors who are
the b%enefactors of pensions have to
sign over to the government the
stocks, bonds, real estate, iewelry
and other items of personal luxury?
Labor does not want any legisla-
Continued to Page a
Montana labor news., 1937-03-04

method OF curbing the court admit the
necessity for some curb-os for example,
an amendment TO the constitution.
But those who feel that the presidents
method is not adequate must not permit
themselves TO be divided by the reoc-
tionarY defenders of the courts reaction
cry justices.
For this reason we support the presi-
dents plan. as does the whole of the la-
Dor movement. the A. F. of L. and the
C. |. o.
We have supported q constitutional
amendment in the past, and we still do
SC. We do not believe thqt the two
methods ere contradictory and exclusive.
Both should be put into practice.
In the immediote present, the presi-
dents plan is the most practical. An
amendment requires the approval of SO
states. Long delay might be encountered
in securing this approved.
Thirteen states could block the amend-
ment. Il is no secret that the American
Liberty league and other pro-Fdscist eco
nOmlC rOYQIlStS nave been COncentrQtinG
their energies on blocking an omend-
ment in the less populous and more con
servotive states, especially the backward
southern ones.
The l3 leost populous stutes in
clude only 5 per cent of the people.
But this 5 per cent could block ON
amendment.
Furthermore. even if an amendment
Q to be adopted. the supreme court
might interpret it as it wished, ds it hos
m~isconstrued the 18th amendment.
The presidents pldn for "unpqckinq
the court" must therefore receive the sup
port OF oil who wish to curb the court.
But the fdrmerldbor and progressive
members of congress must not be con
tent with this. In view Of the fact thdt q
close fight is likely in the senate the
fdrmerlobor and progressive bloc should
extract from the president q promise thut
he will also favor an amendment. They
now have an excellent opportunity 10
Obtain q fundamental, as well as q tenn
pordrY reform. and this opportunity
should be exploited 10 the fullest extent.
Montana labor news., 1937-03-04
Unpacking the Court

The presidents proposal to enlarge the
membership Of the supreme court is not
q fundamental remedy for the courts
encrodchment on the Judicial and legis-
ldtive branches, but it nevertheless de-
serves the unanimous support of labor
and all progressive-minded citizens.
Our redders do not need to be con-
vinced Of the urgent necessity Of curling
the courts reckless use Of its usurped
power. Five redctiondrY justices con
nullifY dnY forward looking legislation
approved by congress and the president
and demanded by an overwhelming mo-
joritY Of the people.
Indeed, the court majority has done
just that repeatedly during the past two
years.
The reuctionurY majority Of the
court is destroying the foundations of
our democratic form OF government.
Time after time their prejudices have
overridden the will Of the electorate.
In consequence. the demand for
some curb on the court hos reached
tremendous proportions.
Even many Of those who object TO the
Montana labor news., 1937-03-04
Demand Leather
Workers Union Label

All men and women members of
organized labor and their friends
are urgently requested to demand
the Union Label of the United
Leather Workers International I'm
ion by w. E. Bryan, the General
President of this Labor Union.
The Leather Workers Union La
bel is applied with a steel stamp i'm
preston on all leather articles and
by a printed paper label to trunks,
fiber and fabric goods Harness and
saddlery goods, suit cases, bags,
ladies' handbags, pocketbooks, mems
and women's belts, and all kinds OF
small leather goods carry this Union
Label:
Montana labor news., 1937-03-04
Nine States Needed for Curb
ON Child Labor

With the action of the legislatures of
Kentucky. Nevddd. end New Mexico. 81
states have ratified the child labor
amendment to the federal constitution.
As 36 are needed to incorporate the
amendment into the constitution. nine
more states must oct fdvordblY.
The child labor amendment simply
gives congress the power to enact
legislation curbing ON oil too uppor-
emf evil. Because Ct reuctionurY mo
joritY of the supreme court threw out
previous congressional legislation. q
change in the constitution is neces-
sorry.
The only arguments the %reoctionorY
opposition to the amendment con think
of-theY dare not say they are in favor
of working children in sWeatshops for
private profits-is thdt it is an invasion
of "states' rights" and that each stdte
should pass q low keeping out goods
from other states that violated child
labor lows.
Both these representations ore
fakes. The child labor evil is q nu-
tionol problem and should be deolt
with through federal legislation. The
latter proposal would be font1stic.
with 48 standards set up for interstate
commerce..
President Roosevelt hos urged the
governors Of l9 states TO exert their in
fluence in favor of the amendment Even
Mr.. Hoover hos pointed out thdt for 30
years the individual stdtes have been
urged to eliminate this evil with stdte
lows and have failed to do Sc.
Let us hope thut the finol rutificu-
lion of the child labor amendment
by the 36th state will be one of the
achievements of 1887.
Progressive.
Montana labor news., 1937-03-04

Give us four years and then
judge us."-Adolph Hitler, Feb. 2,
1888.
Guilty Civilized World, Feb. 2,
1887.