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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-03-07
License On
Mule Dealers
Serious Item
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the. Sir Walter Hotel.
By LYNN NTSRET
i
BY

Raleigh, March THE House of
Representatives, sitting as commit
tee OF the whole, yesterday afternoon
spent more time on the new mule
dealers license provisions, sponsored
Dy Mayor Tom Cooper, of Whining
ton, and the association of mule
dealers, than on any other one item.
Language Of the bill was amended
once or twice SO as to make it alb
solutely clear that a farmer buying
a mule to pull his own pillow would
not have to pay the 500 tax required
Of dealers buying mules for resale.
After this and one or two other
points were cleared up, the item was
given unanimous approval.
Next to mules, entertainment oc-
cupied more time of the committee,
and finally action on one or two
points was deferred until it could be
ascertained just how badly proposed
amendments would get the budget
out of balance (there still being
delusion that the finance and APP
preparations bills as reported are bal
anced).
Topographic errors in the printed
bill, whether made by the printer or
some earlier copylist, called for other
amendments. Just as the word "dis-
erection" where it ought to have been
direction" messed up consideration
of the election markers bill last week,
SO reference to a previous section"
when previous paragraph" was
meant, necessitated amendment the
item licensing real estate auctioneers
ReDreSonta tive McCIanr0ch of
Orange, sent up an amendment
which also was adopted gleefully,
when he discovered that phrenolog-
lists were given preference over 9TH
er fortune tellers. The bill levied
500 on phrenologists, $500 on
gypsies, and 5000 on "other fortune
tellers." McClamroch didn't object to
further penalizing gypsies, but he
couldn't see why headreader should
get off with half the cost of hand
reader. Smelling little more money,
maybe, the membership agreed that
he had a good idea there.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-03-07
Biographies
Rather Long
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.

Raleigh, March Tn this years
North Carolina Manual, no less than
So lines (nearly two pages) are de-
voted to the biography of State Sen
ator Frederick Isler Sutton, OF
Lenior county. His is by IL lines the
longest of any senator, Gaston's J
H. Separk running second with A
lines.
At the other end the shortest SEN
atOrial biography is that of Lawrence
Benton Prince, who represents the
twenty-seventh cleveland, Hender-
son, Mcdowell, Polk and Ruther-
fOrd).
Sutton, the distinguished looking
Kinstonian, seems to have gathered
unto himself almost endless mem
berships and chairmanships in vari-
Gus and sundry organizations, bust
ness, social and political.
Too, he should be one of the As
sembly's best educated men, being
a graduate of Harvard, no less, and
having STUDIED in England and on
the Continent, 1911"
He's member Kinston Bar Asso-
citation, North Carolina Bar, Inc,
president Sixth District Bar Associa-
ton; chairman executive committee
North Carolina Bar Association;
member Harvard Law School Asso-
citation; American Bar Association;
secretary, North Carolina Municipal
Association" and so forth and so on
in one paragraph.
In the next he's trustee Univer-
sity of North Carolina eleven years;
president of University of North Car
DINA Alumni Association of Lenior
county; chairman nominating COM
mittee officers alumni association of
the University of North Carolina
member Monogram Club of the Uni
versity of North Carolina;' ETC., ETC.,
on another paragraph.
And in still another he's director,
one State and three national banks;
director A. and N. G. railroad; Of
ficer in the home guard and chief of
Intelligence for this district under
the Department of Justice during the
World War" and a whole lot Of other
things.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-03-07
State Ranks 5th
In Job Placings
During January

Raleigh, March NORTH Carolina
was fifth of the 48 states in the num-
Der of jobs filled in January through
public employment offices, exceeded
only by California, Illinois, New
York and Texas, national headquar-
tiers Of the U. S. Employment Service
reports to R. Mayne Albright, direc-
tor of the Employment Division of
the State Unemployment Compensa-
ton Commission.
Placements for the nation in Janu-
airy increased 46 per cent year ago,
while the North Carolina increase
was 215 per cent Fifteen other states
had larger number of active claims
on January 81 than did North Caro-
lima North Carolina offices made %
per cent Of all placements in the nine
Southern states during January.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-03-07

If "Tobacco Road shows in Ra-
leigh it will be in an old tobacco
warehouse, and not in the palatial
memorial auditorium. Judge Harris
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-03-07
WATERMELON GROUP
MEETS ON MARCH 18


College Station, Raleigh, March Z.
"A district meeting of watermelon
growers from the fourth North Caro-
lima counties under the Federal wat
ermelon marketing agreement pro-
gram will be held in the courthouse
at Laurinburg, Scotland county, at
2 p. m. on Saturday, March Is, it
was announced today by L. P. Wat
son, horticulturist of the State Col
lege Extension Service. The counties
involved are Hole, Robson, Duplin
and Scotland.
Nominations for membership on
the southeastern control committee of
the program will be made at the dis
trict meeting, the growers to serve
with representative from Georgia,
Florida and South Carolina. The
marketing agreement program, de-
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-03-07
Lecturer At Insurance
School AtUNC Announced

Chapel Hill, March IA number
OF leading specialists will appear on
the program of the Insurance
School to be held under the auspices
of the North Carolina Association
OF Insurance Agents at the Univer-
sity of North Carolina Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday, March 10, IA,
49, it was announced today.
More than 200 reservations have
already been made for the sessions
which are to be held in the Play
makers Theatre here.
Among the lecturers are Clark
Smith, assistant manager of the
Royal-Liverpool groups: Manley
Stockton, assistant manager of the
Hartford Fire Insurance Company;
r. c. Larson field superintendent of
the Aetna asualty and Surety Com
pany; c. A. Snow, secretary of the
Phoenix Insurance Company; John
l.. Barter, secretary of the Hartford
Accident and Indemnity; Frank w
Potter field superintendent, Aetna
Casualty and Surety; t. c.. Linthi-
cum, manager, Inland Marine and
Automobile Departments, the came
RIGA Fore group; Homer d. Sher-
wood, assistant superintendent,
Agency Field Service, Casualty, The
Travellers; E. Dana Johnson, assist
ant secretary, w. H. MCGEE and
Company; Oscar Beling, superin-
ttndent, Agency Systems Depart
ment, Royal Insurance Company; A.
V. Davenport, manager, Insurance
Company of North America; l.. E.
Mackall, vice-president of the Ma
tonal Surety Corporation; D. W.
Little, manager, Baltimore Depart
ment, the Hartford Steam Boiler In
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-03-07

incidentally, this same Senator
Hatcher was the only member of the
upper chamber to be found anywhere
near his desk at about noon on Mon
day.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-03-07

spection and Insurance Company; j
ID. Williams, superintendent, Judi
cial Department, United States FL
deity and Guaranty Company; and
Fl. p. Bloodworth, special agent, FL
IDENTITY and Casualty Company, New
York.
President Frank p. Graham of the
University will deliver the address
Of welcome at the opening session
Monday morning at 1918 o'clock, and
at 1920 Dean D. D. Carroll of the
School of Commerce, will speak on
economic phases and functions of in
Surance.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-03-07
Bad Checks Piled
On Unemployment
Office in Capital

Raleigh, March bad checks, a
small deluge of them, has been re-
ceived in the Central Office of the
State Unemployment Compensation
Commission this year, largely in
January, most of which were in pay
ment of contributions due for 1888,
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-03-07
Capital Gossip
By HENRY AVERILL AND
LYNN NISBET

Raleigh, March Representative
Leon Butler, of Burke, has been
working at cross purposes with his
the latter, "Doggie" Hatcher, is no
little upset about the whole thing.
81 think if I introduced bill pro-
viding that all representatives and
senators in the General Assembly
should have front row seats in the
Kingdom Of Heaven, he'd move to
exempt Burke county from its pro-
visions, joked Senator Hatcher who
hasn't lost his sense of humor yet.
incidentally, this same Senator
Hatcher was the only member of the
upper chamber to be found anywhere
near his desk at about noon on Mon
day.
Thirty-four new photographs of
North Carolina scenes have just been
supplied to a picture post card COM
pany in New York which will use
them to make up many thousands of
cards to be placed on sale in the
State this spring and summer, says
Bill Sharp, director of the News Bu-
reau of the Department of COnSer-
walton and Development.
Harry Sample, now director Of the
probation commission is a good bet
as a member of the State Industrial
Commission when the governor gets
round to appointing a successor to
j. Dewey Dorsett.
A still better bet is that no ap-
pointment will be made until after
the legislature adjourns. The post is
too good bait to dangle in front of
recalcitrant, but tractable, legisla-
tors.
If by any chance the lawmakers
should combine parole and proba-
ton (not a likely consummation)
Sample is an odds-on favorite.
Nobody would suspect it just to
watch him on the House floor-he
seldom has anything to say during
any debate-but one Of the most in
fluential members of this General
Assembly is Carteret countys Fred
Seeley.
Nash's Claude Alternately hasn't
yet broken out in his usual rash OF
rousing, red-faced reverberating ora
tory Perhaps consideration OF the
revenue bill in committee the
whole will set him going.
And until yesterday Mecklen-
burg's Marvin Ritch, pre-VieWed as
a regular rip-snorter, had kept, dis
tinctly quiet and in order on the
floor.
On the whole, there probably
aren't quite so many Grade A Gas to
quantity, not quality floor speakers
as in the 1887 House, for which
Allah is being praised by newsmen
and legislators wishing to get some
thing done.
zone of the things that makes bal
ancing North Cardinals budget a
difficult task is the fact that all our
taxes for State purposes are Deepen
dent, as to their yield in dollars and
cents, upon business conditions which
may vary from year to year." says
Senator Pat Taylor, finance chair
man. ,,.A
Income taxes, sales taxes, intan.
| gibles, in. fact practically every State
tax except franchise levies based or
valuation fluctuates widely from year
to year. That makes it very hard for
us to figure now what the States
income will be in, say, the fiscal
x,noY. 1Q1fl-41"
If Tobacco Road" shows in Ra-
leigh it will be in an old tobacco
warehouse, and not in the palatial
memorial auditorium. Judge Harris
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-03-07

in Wake Superior Court sustained
the right of Mayor George Iseley to
deny use of the auditorium if he so
desired. The mayor suggests that the
play will be more appropriate to an
abandoned warehouse anyhow, since
it is the kind of thing he believes
ought to be relegated to the back
streets if permitted at all.
81 am not in favor of any of this
high pressure stuff to ram through
the money bills said Representa-
tive Marvin Ritch, of Mecklenburg
81 may vote for every item in the
bills just like the committees re-
ported them, but I am not going to
do it until I know what they mean.
Therefore, during the early consider
alton of the measure have voted
and will continue to vote for al
most every motion to defer action
when there is reason TO believe that
new evidence may be presented ]
want to get home as badly as any
body, but I'd rather stay here until
June than make a mess of the rev.
enue and appropriations Bills
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-03-07

veloped by growers and shippers in
cooperation with the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, was operated
first during the 1885 shipping season
and has been in continuous operation
since. 1t is designed to assist the wat
ermelon industry to improve mar
keting conditions for their product.
1936-German troops march into
Rhineland-breakin Locarno Pact.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1939-03-07

Moderate Arab Shot," says head.
line. Oh sure, just another man in
the middle getting his.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-18
SUPREME COURT
 FOR FLAG SALUTE
Three Children in Deer field, Mass, Puzzle
 School Authorities

Deerfield, Mass. April 18-(UP)- A U. s. Supreme Court decision left the Deerfield school committee with a knotty problem today--waat to do with the Johnson children
 The children, William, Dorothy and Gloria Johnson, were expelled from school last October for re- fusing to salute the American Flag in compliance win state law. Members of the religious Sect Je- hovah's witnesses, the three children said the tenentS of their faith tor- bid them from pledging allegiance to anyone but God.
 When a district judge acquitted their father William, a Deerfield farmer, in February of refusing to send them to school. the children were reinstated by the school com mittee. Since then they have been standing at attention, hands at sides, while their classmates have saluted the flag.
 Yesterday the supreme court ruled the school committee had acted properly in expe.iing the children for noncompliance with the sta't flag salute law. The decision was .. an appeal by counsel for Jehovah'' witnesses.
 Town Counsel John w. Haseltor said the school committee will mee soon to consider the problem.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-18
TRUCK STRIKE IS
 STILL IN MIDDLE
Springfield Union Is Block to Clearance-N0 More
 Strikes Says Official

Hartford, Conn.,, April 18.-CUP) The tri-state union council con- cluduad an all-night conference without taking any action on ac- ceptance of compromise agreement to satisfy the wage and hours claim of 10000 Southern New England truck drivers.
 Benjamin E. Naylor, business agent of the Springfield union local whose members would be subjected to a rate cut, said the discussions would be continued and the next meeting would be called by Chester Fitzpatrick, Worcester, Mass, chair man of the union council.
 Fitzpatrick returned to Worcester after the conference here broke up.
 No Further Strikes
 Naylor echoed statements of other council members that there will be no further strikes" and said ques- tion of accepting the agreement. which included four-year contract and arbitration of all disputes, twas being held in abeyance".
 'Thcre probably will be other meetings from day to day." he said, subject to the call of Chairman Fitzpatrick.
 The Springfield situation was con- sidered one of the barriers to &C., ceptance of the agreement. The Springfield local was the only one of nine ill the affected states-Con- necticut Massachusetts and Rhode Island--to reject the proposal. The hitch it was reported, was over a l3-cents an hour pay reduction on shuttle run to Boston.
 Operators Called In
 The council called in a commit tee of operators last night in an en- deavor to obtain clarification of some clauses in the agreement that ended three-weeks strike early last week
 Naylor declined to reveal the na- ture of the conference discussions, or whether his local would fall in line with the eight others. (Cpntinued on Pare A
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-18
LONG PICKETED
 PRIEST IS FREED
Imprisoned By Parishion= CTS in His Rectory for
 Last 247 Days

Vulcan. Mich.. April 18-(UP)- Father Simon Borkowski, beloved priest of St. Barbara's Catholic church, was freed today by picketing pariShioners who had imprisoned him in the rectory for PAT days.
 A crowd of more than 300 miners, farmers and their wives and chill dren from the northern Michigan copper country gathered at dawn outside the rectory to say goodbye to Father Simon, whom they made virtual prisoner eight months ago to prevent him from accepting a transfer to another church.
 The priest did not appear at the rectory door for several hours. When he stepped from the building the crowd surged forward in an effort to shake his hand. The crush was so great that several women became hysterical and had to be carried from the scene.
 After shaking the hands of all who could reach him, the priest stepped in an automobile at the head of cavalcade of 80 cars. The long line of cars. carrying about 250 per- sons, started for Pulaski, Wis, where Father Simon will become pastor of the Catholic church. Pulaski, a Polish settlement. is 75 miles from Vulcan and near Amberg, Wis.
 The cavalcade accompanied Father Borowski to Pulaski.
 The priest was freed on the date of court hearing on an injunction that would have forced him to va cate the property and the pickets to withdraw.
 lConti,nuad on Paoa Al
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-18
NATIONAL LABOR
 BOARD DEFENDED
Chairman J. Warren Mad= den Says Restrictions
 Lead to European Plans

Washington, April 18.-(UP)- Chairman J. Warren Madden of the National Labor Relations board said today that restrictive amendment of the Wagner Act would start the United States on the course followed by dictator nations in depriving working people of their former lib- critics.
 Testifying against proposed amendment before the senator labor committee, Madden denounced pro- posals which would materially re- wise the NLRB's administrative Set- up as designed to make of work ing people and their unions caste of legal pariahs and untouchables. .
 Opposes Amendments
 Madden specifically opposed amendments proposed by Senator Edward R. Burke, D., Neb., and pro- posals offered for the American Federation of Labor by Sen. David I. Walsh, D., Mass. He asserted:
 1. That Burke's amendments are "class legislation of the most in- tolerable kind obviausly in- tended to emasculate the act and take away the liberties which the act confers."
 2. That the AFL amendments are destructive" proposals for which mo explanation can be found except in the irritations which have arisen from the unhappy division in the labor movement"
 Madden said the NLRB is diSpen- isng justice with as much fairness and lmrartiality as are the most traditional courts.
 Shall we do in 1889 what we so pointedly refused to do in 1885 initiate those foreign governments which began their evolution to their present condition by depriving their working people of their former lib- erties?" he asked. "In brief, shall we take away in 1889 the liberties which we conferred upon our peo- pie in 1935?"
 Madden testified that a "rebirth of civil liberties" had resulted since 1885, and that "if the act had brought no other benefits than this rebirth, 1t still would have justified itself"
 He accused Burke of having beer generally unfriendly to the bene. ficient purposes of the law" and o! having made serious public charg. es against the administration of thu act several times without any re- spcctable evidence to sustain thu charges.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-18

IS Delng run by James F. Purcell, the holdover Democratic account ant appointee, and Miss Ann Di Bonis, former secretary for the Citizens Good Government Asso- citation, today indicated that gen. eral political shakeup is in prog ress in the domain of the financial agent of the city.
 First Official Picture
 For the first time since Control le:: Rowland took office in January, 1893, The Democrat has obtained an official picture of what has been going on within the precincts de- signed by charter to handle more than $6,000, ,O00-per-year business, that of the city of Waterbury.
 For months last year, and week after week this year, employees the controller have been forced to work nights, Saturday afternoons: have been subjected to insult" and criti- cism, in spite of the fact that they passed with extremely high averages the elaborate questionnaires pre- pared by the controller when he wns granted the right to hire and fire in the court action over this charter interpretation.
 Mrs. COnnor Resigns
 Here is the resignation submitted to the controller by Mrs. Connor:
 Dr. MT. Rowland:
 Gince I am practically forced to resign under the circumstances, here it is.
 If you desire the usual two weeks notice, O. course. I will comply. I am afraid that from what you fin- ished up with this morning you feel that we have no alternative but to accept whatever insults may be handed us. ]. am afraid, MT. Row land. that pay envelope does not mean so much to me that I have come to the point where have to take most anything to hold this job
 The resignation was dated yester-
 Continued on Page A
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-18
Navies of Nazis, French, British Are Out in the
 Open Seas
ALL WAITING FOR
 FUTURE HAPPENINGS
Italy Will Let Hitler Make Reply for Both to Presi=
 dent Roosevelt
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS

BY JOE ALEX MORRIS
 United Press Foreign News Editor)
 Great Britain and France, encouraged by President Roosevelt's peace message, worked to bolster their anti aggression front today with armed force and further diplomatic warnings. Speak ing in the House of Com mons, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain declared that the maintenance of independence of the Netherlands, Switzerland and Denmark was of deepest inter- est to Great Britain, but he failed to indicate that any definite agree ment had been reached for the sup port of either Soviet Russia or Turkey.
 British and French negotiations with those two important powers were reported progressing satisfac- torily but it appeared uncertain whether their adherence to the anti aggression bloc could be announced this week. Meanwhile, both Britain and France hurried ahead with their naval and other defensive precau- tions in the Mediterranean as Adolf
 (CoptintIed ot1 Paon Al
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-18
Knew Williamson Didn't Get Whole Amount; Admitted He Relied on
 Him to Tell of Payments GRAND JURY COAXED WITNESS
 TO SPECULATE ON GUILTY
BY JOSEPH P. DONAHUE Democrat Staff RepOrter)

Confessed conspirator Harry Mackenzie of Bethel was excused from the stand in the Waterbury conspiracy trial at o'clock today following test- mony that he figured" the split of the $58 400 paid by the city for lobbying in 1885 and 1897 was combination of four" including former Controller Daniel J. Leary, Mayor Frank Hayes, Charles E. Will liamson of Darien and himself.
 Williamson Didn't Get It All
 q knew he (Williamson) didn't get the whole amount said Mackenzie although he admitted he relied on what Williamson told him concerning the payments
 Roraback's Opinion of City
 Reading of Mackenzie's grand jury testimony, which related that the opinion of Henry suicide head of the Republican party Waterbury place of law and order at a concluded by Attorney James D. c. Murray just before Mackenzie excused
 Grand Jury Coaxed Mackenzie
 Efforts of the grand jury to have Mackenzie "Specu late to who besides himself and Williamson were bene- careS of the City of Waterbury lobbyists revealed by the reading of Attorney Murray Unsuccessful in their attempts the jury offered to keep Mackenzes remarks from their record if he would give them lead to follow the trail of the balance of the $58,400
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-18
SHOE PLANT HAD
 DAMAGING FIRE

Somersworth, N. H., April 18- (UP) - Over $50 employees were thrown out of work for at least a week today when fire swept the Somersworth Shoe Company, Inc. causing $l0,000 damage to the five story brick structure.
 The blaze started in last bins on the fourth floor, where the fire was confined. The Somersworth Wood Heel Company, housed in another section of the building, was not dam aged.
 Joseph Stein, owner of the shoe company, said operations probably would be resumed after a week.
 Hampered by dense smoke. fire men donned gas masks. The fire was controlled after an hours battle.