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Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-27
Sn1Onk Set
10 Die In
POiSOniMgS

wilmington, Feb. 27.-(APD-Attor-
neys for Edgar Smoak, accused pol
aon slayer of his two wives and 10
year-oId daughter, mapped plans to-
say Iof an appeal after jury con-
0'll0al the stolid carpenter to die.
NroaK was tried on a charge OF
Nv lluiueing his daughter, Annie
1"eiina but the State charged he al
~ POISONED his wives, who died IA
gar apart, to collect $500 in insur-
ny poEcies on their lives.
,,, Nlei . five-day trial, the jury con-
f ycted the 39-year-old defendant OF
rmsl degree murder, verdict which
d a'Iied an automatic sentence OF
t tath and Judge J. H. Clement SEN
1t,0ed MN to die April %.
of ' =, John Burney said, in view
S. lne verdict, he did not plan to try
hn wv on second indictment charg-
Ms nlfn with the poison murder OF
nr o second wife, Mrs. Alice Mason
'aN, who died in July, 1885.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-27
I a x and Appropriations
Measures Passed by
Both Houses During
Week Just Ended
LOCAL BILLS BEING
RUSHED TO PASSAGE
Fight Over Social Security
a N d Reorganization of
Highway Commission Are
Major Bills Remaining;
Child Labor Bill Must Also
Be Acted On
By RALPH T.. HOWLAND

Raleigh, Feb. ~ (AP)-The General
Assembly continuing it's record setting
clip, disposed this week of the &c.,
100000 revenue bill and the $145, 100000
appropriations measure.
The tax measure passed the House
on third reading early today, shortly
after the representatives had approx
ed Senate amendments to the spend
ing proposal.
Major items now standing in the
way of adjournment are reorganiza-
ton of the highway commission, free
school textbooks and old age assist
ance and child aid bills.
So sure were legislators of early
adjournment that they asked presid-
ing officers to appoint a calendar
committee and child aid bills. Old
committees would be discharged. Such
action under precedent is not taken
until the closing days of the session.
Bills Pass by Score
Committee and floor sessions con-
tinued at top speed as bills were act
ed upon by the scores. Representa-
tives introduced measures in steady
Continued on Page Four.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-27
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY HENRY AVERH,I.
BY HEr

Raleigh, Feb. 27-Legislators from
tobacco growing counties are freely
predicting new and severe "crisis"
as the result of the collapse of COM
pact legislation.
The only hope of avoiding such a
crisis lies with the companies which
buy tobacco, these law makers believe.
and most observers do not expect
much in that direction.
The result is likely, in fact prob
aoiy, to be another March on Wash
ington' such as embattled growers
staged in 1884 when short opening
prices brought a closing of all ware
houses in the State, largely through
the vigorous action of Governor J. G.
q. Ehringhaus whose course through
out the previous tobacco "crisis" is
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-27
KidnapBaby
In Argentine
Is Murdered
Body of Wealthy Pa
rents Infant Found
on Estate Not Far
from Villa

La Plata, Argentine, Feb. 27v-(AP)
The unclothed body of baby Eu-
genfb Iraola, whose three-day kid
mapping stirred Argentine as the Lind
bergh case gripped the United States,
was found today in the CRIME of a
pigpen on the baronial villa of his
wealthy parents.
The little body, bearing a scalp
wound and a cut on one leg, was dis
covered in an outlying part or his
parents villa about mile and a half
from the house.
The chubby arms were crossed over
the chest. The clothing was not found.
An immediate examination was be-
gun where the blue-eyed two-year-old
baby lived with his parents and six
brothers and sisters to determine the
exact cause of death.
It was believed he had been killed
the day after he was kid
Cont ned on Page Five)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-27
CONGRESS TO STAY
INTO SUMMER .
Il
Effect of Hot Weather on
Legislation May Be Very
Unfavorable
BY CHARLES p. STEWART
Central Press COIumnist

O0AlUTd1 1A0SS OVAtAAAAAcU
Washington, Feb. 27.-Congress I'M
doubtedly will be in session away on
into the summer.
This prospect gives the horrors to
many a lawmaker. It is the consensus
on Capitol Hill that Washington
weather, from about mid-May until
the end of September, is perfectly
fiendish. AS q matter Of fact, ten1pera-
lures here are not very high. They do
not get into the zoos, as they often
do in the prairie country. But it's true
that it's sticky. ut isn't the heart; it's
the humidity I've been more uncom-
Portable on Pennsylvania avenue at
80 than ever I was in the Dakotas at
a dozen degrees higher than that
With his lame duck amendment to
the Constitution, Senator Norris of
Nebraska had more than any other
Individual to do with increasing the
chances of extending congressional
sessions into the torrid months. In
stead of getting started in December,
as heretofore, the legislators do not
now convene until 80 days later. Con-
sequently they cannot get through SO
soon.
PROTRACTED CONTESTS
And the current session promises to
be an unusually long one.
The Supreme Court issue will have
to be fought out first. If the admin
istration seems likely to win, it's OPP
ponents will strive for delay. It will be
a protracted contest either way, for
Continued on Page Four.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-27
2 NATIONAL GUARD
FLIERS ARE KILLED
Training Ship Crashes Near Chicago
Ten Minutes After Leaving
Flying Field

Chicago, ILL.,, Feb. 27.-(AP)-Two
National Guard aviators were killed
today, Chicago police reported, in a
crash of their training ship shortly
after taking off from the municipal
airport.
Officers identified the filters as Sec
ond Lieutenants Clyde Wood, of Chi
cago, and John Spake, of Berwyn.
Insignia on the plane indicated it was
a training ship of the 33rd Observa-
ton Squadron, Illinois National Guard
Witnesses said the plane fell about
ten minutes after = had left the mu-
riciral airport. II landed in a prairie
far from neighboring buildings.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-27
DIR. TOWNSEND ASKS
FOR ANOTHER TRIAL

Washington, Feb. ~ (AP)-
DIR. Francis Townsend asked today
for a new trial on charge of con-
tempt of the House of Represen
tatives.
He was convicted of the charge
Wednesday in Federal district
court. Sentence will not be passed
until disposition of the request for
re-triaI. Arguments on the re-
quest probably will be held next
Friday.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-27
NEW TESTSAWA|T
M STRIKE FRONTS
OVER THE NATION
Sitdown "Still Effective"
Homer Martin Says, De-
spite Reverses Dur
ing Week
MINNESOTA THREAT
TO SEIZE UTILITIES
Governor Says He Will Take
Over Strike-Bound Plants
# Law Will Allow; Martin
Becomes Defiant Toward
Governor of New Jersey
O,,ax Strikes
MINNESOTA THREAT
TO SEIZE UTILITIES
Nv The Associated Press

+rotblous week on the wide labor
..nrict front ended today with new
,asts Of strength indicated.
with an estimated 10000 workers
..r idle because of controversies,
0 n,anv of which involved the sltdown,
prasjdent Homer Martin, of the Y. "A.
W took occasion to assert THIS
,,rike weapon was still effective.
His remarks in New York appa-
r.ntlv were motiviated by setbacks to
.i.downers during the week at Wau-
koran. Ill.,, and Santa Monica, Cal.
Governor Elmer Benson, of MIN
resota. championing the cause OF
striking utility workers in Minneapolis
announced through his secretary he
was prepared to take over the strike
hound North States Power Company
nlant if ne finds authority Ill law.
The first outbreak to mar the peace
ful mood of a score of Detroit labor
disputes resulted in injuries to a wo-
man and two men at the Ferro Stamp
ing Company when lead pellets were
hurled in a row between union and
non-union forces. In the continuing
argument over the sitdown strike, at
least three governors have voiced OPP
position to this technique.
Governor Henry Horner, OF Illinois
said there was mo warrant in law to
Justify a so-called sitdown strike and
Governors Wilbur Cross of Conecti-
cut and Harold G.. Hoffman of New
Jersey warned they would tolerate no
sitdown strikes in their states.
Governor Hoffman's announcement
drew from Martin rejoiner that sit
down strikes would be conducted
whether he likes it or not" Martin
said the governor would move out of
the way if he doesn't "join with u.s."
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-27
Revolt Over
'sMust'' Bills
[sWeakening
Hoey's Persuasive
Powers Working
Wonders; but Way
Is Not Clear Yet
Daily Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
r q IA KERVILT.


Raleigh, Feb. 27-The mild but de-
termined revolt which has been in
evidence in both houses for several
DAYS against some of the administra-
ton measures against the
old age pensions and free textbooks
bills-is giving signs of weakening.
Accordingly, most observers are in
clined to believe that when the House
and Senate members come back Mon
day afternoon or night they will just
about have recovered from the rath-
err bad case of legislative filters they
developed this week and will be more
in a mood to head the wishes OF Gov
ernor Clyde R. Hoey. This means that
the House will go ahead and pass the
old age pensions bill just about IN the
same form as it was passed by the
Senate and that the Senate will ap-
prove the free textbooks bill, which
has already passed the House, obser-
vers believe.
Good Trouble Shooter.
While it is agreed that the General
fNoc+inuod on Page FOur.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-27
Local Bills
BeingPushed
Before Close
Daily Dispatch Rureaus
In the Sir Walter Hotel
Rv HENRY AVERILL.

Raleigh, Feb. 27.-The panic is on.
Adjournment is in the air and every
legislator who has pet project is
rushing madly, wildly about the bust
ness of getting it enacted into law be-
fore it gets caught in the jam that
always develops in the dying days or
the session.
Of course all this unseemly haste
makes for the enactment of half-bak-
ed, unnecessary and otter positively
vicious legislation, but nobody seems
to think about it that way, or to care
about it even if he does.
Fridays session in the House was a
good sample Of what's going on. For
more than one and one-half hours the
CCnnfinyed on Page SixN
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-27
MATTSON KIDNAPPING
CLUE is DISCOVERED
Officers Skeptical of Redlands, Cal.
Mans Tale of Seeing Man
and Boy In Seattle

Redlands, Cal, Feb. 27.-(AP)-Of-
ficers studied somewhat skeptically
today a possible clue to the kidnap-
Staying of ten-year-old Charles Matt
son at Tacoma, Wash, given by O.
man who may have seen the boy with
the kidnapers while still alive.
Police Sergeant Bert Parr said Dan
Early ~, of Los Angeles, told of
meeting a man in Seattle last jan
uary 6 who had a young boy in his
car and talked of kidnapping.
Early's description of the man, who
he knew only as Frank, correspond
ed with that of the kidnaper. Little
Charles was abducted December 81
and was found slain near Everett,
Wash, January IL
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-27
STRIKES AT
A GLANCE
by The Associated PreSs.)

by The Associated PreSS.)
Strikes at a lance:
Waukegan, 1.-Two G. l. o.
organizers jailed in aftermath of
tear gas attack routing 81 sitdOwn
strikers from Fansteel Metallur-
gical Corporation plant.
Newark, N. J.-HOmer Martin,
auto union head, defies Governor
Hoffman's warning against sit
down strikes; G. /. o. launches
New Jersey uniOnizatiOn drive.
GAINESVILLE, Wis. Union and
company officers seek settlement
OF dispute between union and nom
union workers which closed two
General Motors plants.
Santa Monica, Cal.-Strilxe lead
ers forecast tight picket lines to
prevent reopening of Douglass
Aircraft Corporation plant next
week. Northrup plant plans re-
opening Monday.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-27
Compacts Collapse
Brings A New Crisis
TOT obaccoGrower
Huge Crop, With Low Prc es, Seen AS Almost Certain
With Another March Washington Probable
When Markets Open At Starvation Prices

being more and more indicated every
day.
Huge Crop Certain
The views of Representative w. E.
Fenner, Nash, chairman of the House
Agriculture Committee, are illumi-
nting and characteristic of the reac-
ton of most legislators from the weed
belt.
TITS now too late to do anything at
all about the 1887 crop" said Mr..
Fenner in discussing the tobacco sit
Uation.
with Georgia and South Carolina
definitely in opposition, compacts be-
tween the tobacco-growing states are
obviously out of the picture.
The Federal governments hands
are tied by the Supreme Courts AAA
decision. Congress can't enact anv
Continued on Page Four.)
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-27
RWEATHER MAN

WEEKLY WEATHER.
For South Atlantic States: Fair
and colder first of week; increas-
ing clOudiness, rain and warmer
middle period; fair and colder
latter part.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-02-27
To
HurwT0
Beat Ban

Madrid, Feb. 27.-(AP)-Insur-
gent big guns sent shells scream
ing into mid-Madrid again today.
Breaking five weeks of COM
parative tranquility in the besieg-
ed city itself, the shells began
breaking in downtown streets and
against business buildings. At
least one man was hit.
Madrilenos, believing themsek
yes safe from bombardment be-
cause of the cold, cloudy day, ran
screaming for shelter. Children
playing in the streets scattered.
Several passerby picked up the
wounded man and carried him in
to a basement.
Madrid, Feb. 27.-(AP)-Govern-
nent leaders here, in Barcelona and
n Valencia, declared today approach
ng international supervision to block
outside military aid for Spain called
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Evening star., 1937-09-12
IA Points Listed on
July 10 Go to
League.
ENDORSEMENTS
ARE ATTACHED
Assembly to Open
IOmOrrOW-China
Protest Due.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
Secretary Hull acted yesterday to
put formally before the League of
Nations his worldwide preachment
for peace in the midst of continuing
bloodshed in the Far East and grow
ing international tension in the Med
iterranean.
Hull's unusual diplomatic maneuver
took the form of instructions to the
American Minister to Switzerland to
present to the secretary general of
the League the American Secretary of
States statement of July Is and the
individual Endorsements of the so ma
tions which have replied to it.
This action was timed two DAYS
before the League Assembly con-
venes in its regular session at Geneva
at which China has announced its
intention of voicing a protest against
Japanese aggression.
Secretary Hull's order to American
Minister Leland Harrison at Berne
was to present his statement and the
replies for the information of the
League" Well-informed but unofi-
cial circles regarded it as significant
for two reasons:
IL obviously represented a new ef-
fort by the United States to consloi-
date world opinion behind the prin-
ciples it considers essential to the
proper conduct of international rela-
tionships; and
Told the League of Nations directly
in effect, that this Government will
follow with close and sympathetic at
tention any organized effort aimed
at the restoration of peaee.
The United States is not a League
member and therefore will not partici-
pate actively in the Assembly's delib-
erations beginning tomorrow. It's Dip
lomatic and consular representatives
at Geneva, however, will follow the
proceedings carefully.
Secretary Hull's statement of July
Is, asserting that there can be nc
serious hostilities anywhere in the
world which will not one way or an
other affect interests or rights OF
obligations of this country" contained
IA points which he suggested as basis
for international relations.
Outstanding among them was re-
spect for the sanctity of treaties; ma
tional and international self-restraint
and abstinence by nations from the
use of force and from interference in
the internal affairs of others.
List of Secretary Hull's II points
appears on A-4)
Evening star., 1937-09-12
PARIS LABOR WAR
MARKED BY BOMBS
Two Policemen Killed in Blasting
of Employers Federation's
Offices.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, September 1.-Two police
men were killed tonight when time
bombs shattered the headquarters OF
the two principal federations of French
employers in Paris.
Two gigantic blasts blew the whole
side of the building housing the Gen.
eral Confederation of French En-
ployers into the street at 1915 pm
(4:15 pm. E. S. T).
Windows blocks away were smashed
by the explosions, which made almost
a total wreck of the building, located
within half block of the Place de
L'Etoile.
Premier Camille Chautemps and
other members of the government
rushed to the scene and Immediately
opened an investigation.
Chautemps, denouncing the bomb
ings as stupid and criminal" prom
ised that the government would do
its utmost to bring those responsible
to justice.
Because of the recent friction be-
tween powerful labor federations and
employer groups, the policemen who
were killed had been assigned to guard
the wrecked building.
Chautemps has been endeavoring to
restore peace between labor and capi-
tai and end serious differences which
grew out of the 'pro-worker" admin
istration of former Premier Leon Blum.
Another bomb which exploded at
the same time wrecked the Offices of
the Union of Metallurgical Employers
in the top floor of building on Rue
Boissiere, nearly a mile from the
Place de L'Etoile.
FIremen found no one had been in
1ured there after quenching the blaze
which followed
Evening star., 1937-09-12
MECHANICS UNION PLANS
TOLEDO STRIKE OF 4,5OO
Walkout of All Workers In That
Field Would Affect Is Plants.
No Date Set.
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, September 1.-THE Ma
tional Administrative Committee of
the Mechanics Educational Society of
America approved today strike call
for all its members employed in
Toledo, Ohio.
M. E. S. A. officers estimated such
a walkout would affect 4,500 workers
in is Toledo plants. The announce
ment did not specify a strike date.
The M. e. S. A. called a strike
August 81 at the Toledo plant of the
Spicer Manufacturing Co., where the
United Automobile Workers of America
had won sole bargaining rights in a
National Labor Relations Board elec-
tion.
Matthew Smith, secretary of the
M. E. S. A., addressed a telegram TO
U. A. w. officials today protesting re-
ported plans of members of that union
to return to work at the Spicer plant
despite M. e. S. A. picket lines.
Evening star., 1937-09-12
DESTROYER FLEET
WILL HUNT SUBS
Nine Powers Lay Ground
work With Adoption of
Draft Protocol.
BACKGROUND

A~~AN - ~ AtO " N L."
Sinking OF numerous British,
French, Russian and. other vessels
| by mysterious Submarines in
Medterrdnedn in recent months
led France and England to pro-
mote conference of Mediterranean
poa0ers at Nyon, Switzerland, from,
aOhich Italy and Germany volun-
tdrtly absented themselves. United
front sought for s,oeeping pirate"
raiders from sea lanes.
By the Associated Press.
NYON, Switzerland, September IL
Nine powers laid the groundwork to-
night for a war to destruction against
pirate submarines with one of the
largest destroyer fleets ever assembled
in the Mediterranean.
Delegates to the Nyon conference
adopted the plan of campaign in a
draft protocol to be signed formally
next week if the participating govern
ments give their approval.
British spokesmen tonight forecast
rapid ratification of the accord and
said they were convinced it would end
the submarine menace in the Medi-
terranean.
Communique Reveals Extent. =
communique sketched the far
reaching nature of the plan as follows
The agreement provides the naval
forces of the participating powers will
counter attack and, if possible, de-
stroy any submarines which attack,
contrary to the rules of international
law as laid down in the London naval
treaty of 1886, merchant ships not be-
longing to either of the parties to the
Spanish conflict.
They will take the same action in
regard to any submarine encountered
in the vicinity of the position where
a merchant vessel just has been at
tackled in circumstances which give
valid ground for belief the submarine
was guilty Of the attack in question. -
submarines of the nations repre-
sented at the conference will not put
to sea unless accompanied by surface
vessel and foreign submarines will not
be admitted to their territorial waters
unless on the surface or in urgent
distress. Merchant vessels are to be
advised to follow certain main routes.
No Recognition of Belligerency.
Neither the Spanish government nor
the insurgents in Spains civil war
will derive bellgerent rights from the
| compact.
The communique said they might
destroy each others shipping at will
as long as they did not prey upon
merchant vessels of foreign powers.
British and French warships will
patrol the Western Mediterranean and
the high seas of the Eastern Mediter-
ranean.
Territorial waters of the Eastern
Mediterranean will be supervised by
the riparian powers.
Under the accord, Italy will be
given the task of policing the Ty-
rnennian Sea if she wishes to accept
the invitation of the conference.
II not, the accord will be put into
effect anyway. with the French ane
British taking over the area allocatec
Professionally to Italy
British spokesman said Franco.
British force of so destroyers-35
7 British and 25 French-would be one
tSee CRISIS. Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1937-09-12
BY DON S. WARREN.

One of their newly adopted rules
| governing applications of the business
privilege tax to the gross receipts o.
wholesalers was junked yesterday by
the Commissioners, with the result
that these traders will have to pay g
greatly increased tax-in some cases
by as much as 33 times.
The development posed the question
OF whether the law may be tested in
court, since the claim has been made
by some wholesalers that the applica-
ton of tax of two-fifths of / per
cent to their gross receipts" likely
would prove confiscatory.
The clause rescinded was intended
to permit the classification as "com-
mission merchants" of those whole
salers whose spread" between the
cost of goods bought and sold did
not exceed per cent. This would
have permitted such traders to pay
the tax on the amount of this spread
rather than on the gross receipts they
collected in the year past.
Two Reasons for About Face.
On recommendation by 10 ". Nor
gan, assistant corporation counsel,
the clause was wiped out for two
reasons. First, because it was decided
Congress had not granted them suffi-
cient authority to make such a defini-
ton, and second, because they antici-
pated there would be protests that
the rule was discriminatory against
the wholesaler whose spread" was
more than per cent.
Whether the tax would prove con-
fiscatory on some wholesalers-those
who have large turnover per year,
but who pocket a relatively small per-
centage-was resulting question.
The picture of the wholesalers, as
drawn yesterday at the District
Building, goes something like this:
Here is a wholesaler, engaged in
buying and selling food products, op-
Grating on small working capital,
say, of about $1,000. Suppose he
takes back from one days operations
a total payment of $1,000. If the
spread between his buying and selling
prices is per cent, this would he
Scout of which would have to come
his overhead and profits. Figuring
800 working days to the year, the
trader would have a gross spread for
IL months of $4,000. If classed as a
commission merchant, such trader
would pay tax of s36, or two-fifths
Of per cent of $4,000.
Other Side of Picture.
But this wholesaler, the Commis-
sioners now find, cannot be So classi-
fed and must pay the tax against his
gross receipts total If the dealer
took in $1,000 per day for 300 DAYS,
the gross receipts total would be $780,
900 for the year and the application
of the rate to this sum would produce
tax of $1,000 And the dealer
would have to pay all such overhead
costs as labor and rent out of this