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Evening star., 1937-03-28

down" strikes. Chairman James NJ
Lands OF the security and Exchange
Commission gives 1t . Boost Ferdinand
Pecora told Senate committee THAT
labor could not be blamed for their
actions in regard to "sit-down strikes. -
The latter two are mentioned As new
members Of the Supreme Court. The
President by his "say-nothing atti-
tude" adds encouragement to Lewis
and labor to continue to break the
law by "sitdown strikes" Can 1t be
possible that the President has in
mind the legalization of "sit-down
strikes" II he is given power to pack
the court? To the housewives-If
"sit-down strikes" are legalized your
servants can lock you out Of your
homes.
To the farmers-Your farm hands
can run you of Of your farms. To
men engaged in small and large buSi-
ness-You would not know from day
to day when you would be locked out
Of your ONCE, store or factory.
To laborers-You could never count
on receiving your weekly pay, as John
L. Lewis at any moment might give
orders for a "sit-down strike" His
salary continues, but your pay stops
There Is no assurance that II the
President sent over a must bill
legalizing "sit-down strikes" that the
Congress would not pass the bill.
EDWARD P. HUBBELL,
Evening star., 1937-03-28
WHEELER INDORSES
ROOSEVELT AIMS
Montanan Says, However, Cour
Plan Is Dangerous Pro.
nosalo

posal."
BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, March Ex-senator
Burton K. Wheeler, Democrat, Of
Montana said today he was "in accord
with President Roosevelts efforts to
obtain economic freedom for the small
wage Garner, the small business man
and the farmer" but termed the
Presidents Federal Court reorganiza-
ton plan dangerous proposal"
The people should have the final
say" in any change made in the
Supreme Court, Wheeler said In an
address
II have not changed my views with
reference to some Of the decisions Of
the Supreme Court but do not want
the court to be changed by packing
it," he asserted.
"A great deal has been said about
the three horses Of Government pull
ing together, but the trouble Is that
one Of them wants to get in the driv-
er's sea-"
Wheeler said he favored = con-
stitutional amendment that would
give a succeeding Congress power to
override by a two-thirds vote any
legislation of the prior Congress. not
involving the bill of rights, that had
been vetoed by the Supreme Court.
There can be no more democratic
way than this" he said. "The people
should have the final say.
1T Is not a question OF years.
Under article five Of the Constitution,
Congress can call electoral conventions.
It can set up either its own electoral
machinery or use that OF the indi-
vidual States. The people can vote
on the amendment and the whole
thing can be accomplished in matter
Of months"
Evening star., 1937-03-28
LABOR ACT RULING
LIKELY TOMORROW
Supreme Decision Anxiously
AWaited-5 Suits Attack
Wagner Measure.

With the attention Of the Nation
fixed on its attitude toward New Deal
legislation, the Supreme Court tomor-
tant ruling Of the year, decision on
constitutionality of the Wagner labor
relations act.
Five suits attacking validity Of the
labor legislation were argued during
the week Of February and will have
been under consideration by the
judges six weeks tomorrow.
The opinion Of the court on this
legislative effort of the Roosevelt
administration to regulate industrial
strife is being awaited with particular
interest in view of the ef1ors Of the
President to obtain passage Of = bill
empowering him to name six new
justices to the high court unless
incumbents over 10 retire. This bill
has been under consideration by the
Senate Judiciary Committee, which
will resume its hearings Tuesday.
Heavy Industries Affected.
Three of the five Wagner cases
awaiting decision involve labor diff
culties in the so-called heavy in
dustries. These suits, filed by the
Jones e. Laughlin Steel Co., the Frue-
hauf Trailer Co. and the Friedman.
Harry Marks Clothing Co., contenc
the act is an unconstitutional attempt
to regulate intrastate commerce.
In the past the Supreme Court ha:
held the Government can regulate
only matters having q direct ef1ec
on interstate commerce. In thes'
cases it was argued that labor trou'
bles in the three concerns affected
interstate commerce substantially, bu
indirectly, and the court must decide
whether an indirect effect come:
within the Federal regulatory power
All three of these cases were lost b!
the Government in the lower courts
The Government, however, ha!
been successful 50 far in the othel
suits, which were filed by the Asso
ciated Press and the Washington
Virginia Maryland Coach Co. TIL,
bus company contends the order o
the Labor Relations Board requiring
reinstatement of several employees vio
lates the due process of law claus
of the Constitution, while the Asso'
ciated Press is resisting the act on thu
! dual ground that 1t invades the free
dom Of the press and that the activi
ties of the press association are no
interstate commerce
Other Rulings Possible.
Other important steps that may b.
taken by the court tomorrow arc an
nouncement Of its decision on consti
tutionality of a Washington State Law
fixing minimum wages for women ane
ruling on petition for rehearinf
Of case involving the validity O
the New York unemployment insur'
ance law. This statute was, in ef
feet, upheld several weeks ago by {
4-to-4 vote Of the justices, Associ'
ate Justice Stone being absent be.
cause of illness.
Solicitor General Stanley Reed yes.
terday filed petition asking a speed,
review OF an Alabama suit attacking
validity of the Federal social security
act The suit was filed by the
Charles c. Steward Machine Co. ir
an effort to recover s46 paid as un.
employment insurance taxes. ......-...
Tho company lost in the love-
courts, and Reed asserted an earl,
ruling by the Supreme Court is i'm
portant to prevent . multitude" O
similar suits.
Evening star., 1937-03-28
BANKER WILL BE HOST
TO45 YOUNG DEBTORS
Oklahoman Finds Hobby Of Lend
ing to Farm Club Boys
Well Worth While.

By the Associated Press.
CYRIL, Okla, March 27-Forty.
five young debtors of banker T. D. Cal
will be guests at his annual party
Friday.
Calls hobby is making loans to farm
club boys and those he has helped
have selected the dav to pay thei
loans. This year they will return
So, ZOO he loaned them last year.
But no sooner Is the annual affair
over than Call begins loaning money
again.
"It doesn't matter how poor . boy
s," he said. "I'll help him.
Helping farm boys is the best way
I know to help community grow"
Evening star., 1937-03-28
committee HEAD
NAMED FOR DRIVE
Mrs. Samuel Herrick Named Resi-
Dental Group Chairman for
Goodwill Industries.

Mrs Samuel Herrick has been ap-
pointed chairman OF the Residential
Committee for the Goodwill Indus
tries drive to be launched April 13,
Ernest H. Daniel, general chairman
of the campaign, announced yester-
day.
Great interest in Goodwill Indus
tries is being shown in homes through
out the CITY," Mrs Herrick asserted
yesterday, consequently I shall need
$50 volunteers to work under my 80
vice chairmen to put the Job across. !"
Mrs. Herrick is one of the founders
of the Woman's National Democratic
Club and past president. She has
also been active in the American
Association of University Women.
Daniel yesterday styled her as having
long been identified with civic enter
prises here"
Mrs. Karl Fenning, general vice
chairman of the campaign has called
a meeting OF the organization Tuesday
at Goodwill's plant. 1914 New Hamp-
shire avenue.
Evening star., 1937-03-28
WILLIAM c. LEE
Fears "MaSter" Aims.

To the Editor of The Star:
Not very much significance was at
tached at the time to President
Roosevelt's remarks, when he said IN
Madison Square Garden, just prior
to the election: Il hope within the
next four years to be your MASTER
Since his recent announcement, that
would make the Supreme Court sub.
servient to his wishes, we see his at.
tempt TO carry out his threat to be
your master" This is nothing short
Of dictatorship, to which he aSpireS,
regardless of the consequences. He
has attempted to mislead the people
all along, breaking faith with some
of his original closest friends and
admirers. Is it not time for the peo-
pie to put a stop to his deceitful
methods? ROBERT N. CARSON,
Davenport, Iowa.
Evening star., 1937-03-28
Engineer Dies at Throttle.

SUDBURY. Ontario, March ~
canadian Press) Stricken i'll in his
engine cab, E. A. Williams, Northern
Ontario Railway engineer, died with
his hand on the throttle yesterday.
Fireman William Antler eased Will
liams to the floor and guided the en-
gine for the last two miles Of its run
to Markstay from Sudbury. No cars
were attached.
Evening star., 1937-03-28
FRENCH ARMY DEAN DIES

PERPIGNAN, France, March q
P).-Gen. Justin TiSseyre, 93-year-
old dean of French Army generals,
died of pneumonia today at Sournia,
a little French village near the Span
ish border.
He took part in Emperor Maximil-
ian's Mexican adventures and cam
paigned in many far corners of the
world
When he retired in 1918 he was
commander of the 18th Army Corps at
Toulouse.
Evening star., 1937-03-28
LABOR HITS LOWELL PLEA.
tBourbon" And 'BFahnin" Influences
Claimed In Coanter- Wires.


BOSTON, March n @.-The
Massachusetts Federation OF Labor
aid the New England Committee for
industrial Organization tonight ques-
tened the good faith Of DR.. A. Law
renee Lowell and six other Bostonians
who demanded the Government sup
press sit-down strikes.
The A. F. Of L. and c. I. o. bodies
SPOKE In similar tones through tele-
grams TO President Franklin D. Roose-
welt and Vice President John N. Gar
ner, respectively.
Secretary Robert J. Watt signed the
ffst and Chairman Thomas F. Burns
aud Secretary Powers Hapgood the
second
Dr. Lowell, president emeritus of
Harvard University, and the six 9TH
en- last night telegraphed Garner and
tHe United States Senate that the
problem of sit-down strikes sis rapid
" growing beyond control and
"armed rrection-defiance of law,
order and duly elected authority-is
spreading like wildire."
Both kilograms by the labor groups,
punctuated with words like "f1nan-
cial Bourbons" and "Brahmin mouth
piece" charged DR.. Lowell spoke of de-
f1ance Of law and forgot, they said,
that Harvard University for eight
years defied the Massachusetts mini
mum wage law by paying its scrub
women 35 cents an hour, or less than
decreed by State law.
LowelPs Philosophy Hit.
Declared Watts. telegram:
TN seeking advice for the solution
Of labor difficulties, we hope that
you (RoosevelD will consult men and
wumen who believe in representative
democracy, in justice for poor Is
w4ll as rich. The A. Lawrence Lowell
pfophets have no conception Of prob
LENS involved.
ss'Mr. Lowell considers himself an
oracle on everything from street light
ing and traffic control to court re-
form and fancied RECOMMENDATION Of
youth. But the workers of Massa-
cl1,lsetts know him as man OF
prejudice and inconsistency.
"As one who has frequently heard
the Brahmin mouthpiece of the
reactionaries rant querulously against
Federal standards in social security
and child labor legislation, I am
amazed that he telegraphs Federal
authorities for suppression of armed
insurrection'
why does this ardent States rights
advocate want Federal Intervention in
State where employers and en-
ployes have been steadfastly making
intelligent efforts to adjust their diff
ferences without cessation Of work?
"Is it because reactionary employers
are using him as a front IN their
drive to preserve their vested privi-
lege to use peaceful men. and women
Evening star., 1937-03-28
Where Is the Sportsmanship?

Where Is the Sportsmanship?
To the Editor Of The Star:
Justice McReynolds makes q plea
FOR "sportsmanship" To whom does
he make that plea? To the children
in mines and factories? These chill
dren know little of sport.
To the generations yet unborn, puny
progeny Of women forced to excessive
labor in order to support life? These
generations did not get their day In
court.
To fathers OF families, driven to
beg OF charity because the economic
system has forced them outside the
pale Of its protection while they must
continue to pay it tribute? The word
would ring strangely in their ears
Or is it perhaps to Mr. Roosevelt In
person that he makes the plea? But
Mr.. Roosevelt never undertook to make
game Of the government Of the Ma
ton entrusted to his care. To Mr..
Roosevelt the welfare of the people,
the security Of democratic govern
ment and OF the Constitution, which
ne has sworn to protect, are not paWns
in a game, to be won or lost with
equanimity. When, last November,
Mr.. Roosevelt assured the people that
he intended to keep up the fight, that
he had only just begun to fight" he
could have meant nothing else than
that he would use to the utmost every
means in his poWer-every constitu-
tional means-to carry through to
completion the mandate-the New
Deal mandate-given him, and that
ne would do it now and not later"
But il you want to call the whole
thing a game, and treat it as such,
where is the craftsmanship in trying
to stop the game when it comes the
other sides turn to play? II it is all a
game. then Mr.. Roosevelt's action is
the next move the next logical move,
in the game, and it is pretty unsports-
manlike to want the game stopped
when it becomes evident that he holds
an invincible hand and knows how to
play it.
FLORENCE A. CARPENTER.
Evening star., 1937-03-28
Roosevelt and Epithets.

Roosevelt and Epithets.
To the Editor OF The Star
A. Cullen's efforts Gin a recent
issue OF The Starr to deride epithet-
ically certain prominent Americans
because they do not agree with Presi-
dent Roosevelt's proposed Supreme
Court change, reminds me not only
of other recent tendencies along that
line-the clubbing of our successful
business and professional people
economic royalists,' New mer-
cenaries," "defeatist lawyers" etc
but also carry me back to my child
hood days when, in order to avenge
an imagined wrong by a playmate, I
would crawl upon the backyard
fence, thumb my nose at that play
mate and shout, "Blabbermouth," !"
puddinhead' or some other smart
and irrelevant epithet.
The reason I adopted the epithet
to avenge my injured youth, I have
since realized, was because I was too
stupid to meet the situation in a more
sensible and logical way; and may I
suggest that there is a possibility
that this same reason is responsible
for many Of the brilliant epithets that
are now being hurled so freely at
opponents OF the Supreme Court
change.
President Roosevelt may be COM
parable to Lincoln and Washington
from an altrulstic and sincere stand
point, as A. Cullen contends, but
somehow cannot conceive these
great Americans clubbing their fellow
citizens economic royalists" and
"defeatist lawyers"
Senator Garter Glass may be a get
oa-the -bandwagoner as A. Cullen
also contends, but after he gets on
he at least has enough Americanism
to try to get his fellow musicians to
play America" instead Of God Save
the King" J. J. SPERRY,
Woodstock, Va
Evening star., 1937-03-28
Sees Sit-Down Strike Link.

Sees Sit-Down Strike Link.
To the Editor Of The Star: ..
This is a call for all housewives,
farmers, laborers, men OF small busi-
ness and men connected with large
business to write their Representa- :
tives in Congress to vote down the
Presidents plan TO pack the court"
The cat is out OF the bag. Secretary
OF Labor Perkins encourages the "sit-
Evening star., 1937-03-28
How to Get an Amendment.

To the Editor Of The Star:
Senator Nye says the Presidents
court reform plan does not touch
the judicial power which Is standing
in the way of progress. This is
quite true. That is the great draw
Evening star., 1937-03-28
Judiciary

Continued From First Page.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-24
SENATORS REFUSE
TOREMOVE TAXES
ON PUBLIC MEALS
House Expected To Reject
Senate Changes to Mea-
sure and Then Ask
for Conference
DEBATE FOR HOUR
OVER MEALS LEVY
State Insurance of Public
School Buildings Provided
in Bill; Elections Laws
Committee Kills Absent
Ballot and Primary Change
Bills

Raleigh, Feb. 24-Senators refused
again today to take the sales tax off
meals in public eating places, then
nassed the biennial revenue bill and
cent it to the House for concurrence
in amendments.
Senate Finance Chairman Webb, of
1enoir predicted the House would re-
ect Senate changes and demand a
conference committee to iron out diff
ferences.
Final passage was by Al to vote,
with Senator's Brock of Davie, Long
Of Halifax, and Ewing of Cumber-
land opposing the measure, designed
to raise $76,0O0,0O0 for the general
fund during the 1879 biennium.
The senators debated more than an
hour after Johnston of Buncombe re-
newed his motion to strike out the tax
on meals, then refused 25 to 21 to do
so.
Gold of Guilford said "the director
of the budget, Governor Hoey) has
business and political desires to take
the tax off meals, and other senators,
argued the Democratic party had
pledged removal of the present three
per cent levy.
Ingram of Randolph, Hill of Dur
ham and others. however, argued the
Continued on Page Six)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-24
State Supreme Court Rules
for Plaintiffs in Ruling
Appealed From
Buncombe
RESULT OF SLAYING
OF HELEN CLEVENGER
c. B. Clevenger, of Raleigh,
Filed Suit, Alleging Fail
ure of Hotel Organization
To Safeguard Niece Prop
erly; Opinion Is Written by
Judge Devin

Raleigh, Feb. 24-(AP)-The State
Supreme Court affirmed this after
noon the ruling of Judge Don Phillips
in Buncombe county that the $50 900
damage suit arising out of the murder
of Helen Clevenger of Staten Island,
New York, should ite tried in State
courts.
The defendants, James Grove and
the ST. Louis Union Trust Company,
trustees under the will of the late e.
w. Grove, the Knott Hotel Corpora
ton and F.. HI. Branch, manager Of
the Battery Park Hotel at Asheville,
sought removal of the case to Fed
eral district court.
c. B. Clevenger, of Raleigh, filed
the suit, alleging failure of Branch
and the other defendants to exercise
due care, enabled Martin Moore, Ne
gro since executed for the crime, to
murder his niece, Helen, in the Bat
terry Park hotel last summer.
Associate Justice Devin wrote the
opinion denying the contention of the
defendants that Branch was made a
party defcndant with the fraudulent
purpose of preventing removal of this
case to the United States district
Continued on Page Two)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-24
New Arrests
Expected In
Flog Cases

Shallotte, Feb. A-(AP)-Sheriff J.
A. Russ said today he expected ad-
ditional arrests Immediately in his
investigation of two-year series oe
floggings, despite the fact his first
two suspects were acquitted in county
curt at Whitevilie yesterday.
Russ said Information obtained at
the trial, fitting in with what he had
already earned. would provide him
with sufficient grounds for several
more arrests"
"Were gust getting started good in
this thing he said, adding that his
investigation had not been retarded
by the acquittal of Rev. Vance Sim
mons, missionary Baptist preacher,
and Garfield Simmons, his store
keeper cousin.
The men were accused of participat
in the flogging of Will Inman and
Jesse Cox last Thanksgiving night by
a band of night riders, but were freed
when the victims failed to identify
them.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-24
Senator Wagner and Repre-
sentative Stegall Auth
ors of New Spend
ing Scheme
SECRETARY ROPER
HITS SITDOWNERS
Attempts To Take Over Pri-
vate Property Serious
Thing, Commerce Chief
Declares; Townsend Wins
One Acquittal; Senators
Debate Reciprocal Tariff

Washington, Feb. 24.-(AP)-Two
Democratic leaders asked Congress
today to set up a billion dollar low
rent housing and slum clearance pro-
gram.
Introducing bill to authorize Fed
eral loans and grants to local author
tiles to aid in housing families of low
incomes, Senator Wagner, Democrat,
New York, and Representative Stea-
gall, Democrat, Alabama, declared
they had the endorsement of "many
sectors of the Federal government"
The authors of the measure would
create a new United States Housing
Authority, under which they said the
President could gather the scattered
orgarizatiors now empowered to en-
gage in Housing"
They believe the Federal funds re-
commended would bring out about
$500, 100000 of nor-Federal loans.
Ti.ey figured $500: family dwelling
units, requiring about $4,000 each
could be provided.
"Any sitdown strike that under
takes tc take over private property"
Secretary Roper said at a press con-
fernce today, "is serious and funda-
mental thing, and in my opinion
would not be long endured by the
courts"
He stressed that the views he ex-
pressed were personal
DR.. Francis Townsend, originator
of the 5000 old age pension movement,
won scquittal on one count charging
him with contempt of the House, but
his trial on another continued.
President Roosevelt asked Congress
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-24
LABOR LAWS READY
FOR BOTH HOUSES
Regulate Child Labor and
Hours Of Work in Va
ried Industries
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel

Raleigh, Feb. N-Action on two i'm
portant items of labor legislation
will be taken soon, and almost SIM
ultatneously, in both House and Sem
ate, as two bills sponsored by labor
were reported from committee Tues
day-the Mckee child labor law in
the Senate and the McBryde-Uzzell
maximum hour law in the House.
Both have been changed from the
form in which their sponsors handed
them up, but both retain enough of
their original provisions to muster
support from labor and other organi-
cations interested in so-called liberal
legislation.
State Child Labor Act
The Mckee bill marks up the child
labor age two years to 16 and places
children from 16 to 18 in the zone
now occupied by those from IA to 16.
It is claimed by it's supporters to be
the answer of opponents of the Fede-
raj child labor amendment, who pro-
claimed during debate on that mea-
Continued on Page Two).
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-24
CASTALIA FARMER
is FOUND MURDERED
Officers At Loss To Solve Crime, as
Junie FOgleman Was Known
AS Good Citizen

Nashville, Feb. 24-(AP)-Junie
Fogleman, 30-year-old CastaIia
farmer, who was found dead in a
woods near his home last night,
with "a Shotgun wound in his alb
dOmen and his head badly bruised
was declared by the Nash county
coroner today to have been a VIC
tim of foul play. /.
"FOgleman was murdered by an
unknown party or parties" Coro-
ner M. C. GulIey, of Nashville, de-
clared following his inquest.
Sheriff G. v. Faulkner said he
believed bruises on the back of
the mans head and on his fore
head were caused by clubbing
after he had been shot. The Of
ficer said, however, FOgleman
had a reputation of being zone of
the best men in the community"
and could give no reason for the
act.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-24
Sc Minimum
Aut0License
Is Proposed
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,

Raleih, Feb. 24-Minimum price
for the license tag on a passenger au-
tomobile will be Sc, if the administra-
tion-racked motor vehicle act, just in
troduccd by Representative Con c.
Johnston, of Iredell, becomes a law,
as it is expected it will.
The bill, which is extremely volum-
inous, re-codifies existing regulations
and laws regarding motor vehicles,
and sets UP new license tag rates. It
was introduced Monday night by its
author, VINO expressed the opinion it
will pass almost without amendment.
License fees on private passenger
vehicles would. be reduced to thirty
cents per hundred pounds, with the
minimum, as stated Of $6.
Motor vehicle dealers would pay
$25 for their first set Of plates and
SIS for each additional set.
Rates on HaulerS.
The following rates would be appli-
Continued on Page Two.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-24
PEGGY GARCIA SUIT
ON RUBINOFF ENDED
Plaintiffs Counsel Makes Motion Tor
Dismissal While She Is
Giving Testimony

New York, Feb. 24.-(AP)-Peggy
Garcia's $5OO,OOO breach of promise
suit against Dave Rubinoff ended
abruptly in Supreme Court today
when Justice Salvatore Cottillo grant
ed a motion to discontinue made by
her counsel, Bernard Sander.
Sanders decision to drop the ac-
ton against the radio violinist, oc-
Cured while the plaintiff was on the
stand relating the details of her mar
riage in 1925 to Taylor Vance Quinn.
Justice CottiIlo broke in and said:
There is no desire on my part to
continue this trial and drag in dirt
have the names of innocent persons
dragged into it. Why doesn't counsel
make a motion to discontinue?"