The Wilmington morning star., 1940-05-02
LE|GH II.
B |EFS
Star-News Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Bv N E r

RALEIGH. May 1.-Mart1n Dies,
the Texan whose House committee
il the subject Of so much controver-
~, might have been the speaker
here at Mondays Fourth District
Young Democratic rally if Dave
Clark o. Charlotte hadn't sounded
off recently in an effort to get"
DIR. Frank Graham, University OF
North Carolina head, through an in
vestigation of imagined Red acti-
vities at Chapel Hill.
This word is that Congressman
Hal Cooley of the fourth intend to
invite Dies to address the rally, u
dropped the plan quicker than a not
potato when the publicity surround
ing Clark's charges broke.
This North Carolina for Roose-
welt" committee is overlooking MOTH
ing and nobody in its efforts to in
sure a 100 per cent FDR delega'
ton to the national convention.
Every democratic county chairman
in the state is being written a let
ter. requesting him to introduce in
the county convention Of his unit a
resolution %avouching full loyalty to
the President and ~instructing the
county delegation to the state con
vention to vote for a Roosevelt
pledge slate to the Chicago meet
ing.
Burgin Pennell, Maxwell for gov
ernor state manager, came back to
Raleigh after a weekend in his
home up in Buncombe convinced
that there is not so much to the
claims of Horton and Broughton
supporters that they have the west
'in the bag"
I'D heard so many claims, I
thought I'd better go up and see
about it." he said. "It's the bunk. l
am convinced that MI. Maxwell i
lead in the % far western counties,
although I'm not going so far as
claim everyone of them for him."
Judge George Rountree, ST., who
was a member of the state legisla-
ture along with Governor Hoey
some forty years ago, came to Ra-
leigh Tuesday to hear his son,
George, Jr., argue a case before the
supreme court.
HE made a darn good one, too,"
said the aging, but still vigorous
Wilmingtonian-which was no part
of a surprise.
The East which Rountree, Jr., was
arguing was, incidentally, something
of a novel one. The question was
whether a cash register in a road
house padlocked as a nuisance is SO
much a part Of the Objectionable nui-
sance as to make it forfeitable tt
pay costs in the paddock action,
even where the register was owned
(under a title-retained conditional
sale to the roadhouse %operator) by
an innocent third-party who had no
knowledge of the illegal operation of
the roadhouse.
The lower court held the register
could be subjected to sale for the
costs. National Cash Register COM
pany, represented by young Roun.
tree, Alan A. Marshall and W. A.
Simon, appeared for the company in
an effort to upset the judgment.
On the subject Of the supreme
court, it has been noticeable during
the entire spring term that appeal
dockets have been unusually light
particularly with respect to crimi-
nal ase
Attorney generals office attaches
say they had fewer briefs to pre-
pare than in many years. There are
fewer doomed men on Death Row"
in Central Prison than for years.
All in all it seems that North
Carolina is getting more ,aw-abiding,
even if Federal Judge L. M. Meekins
thinks that liquor cases are about as
frequent as ever in his eastern dis
trict.
European plane manufacturers
had to perfecf in a hurry heooySa