HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
'CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-SECOND YEAR
IIS. COURT IDLES AAA PROCESS TAX VOID
Textile Workers Threaten
Nationwide Strike Unless
Shorter Week Is Provided
35-HOUR WEEK AND
JIMIIMGE
GORMAN'S DEMAND
Charges Wall Street and
Management Conspiring
To Get Congress
Out of the Way
THINKS ROOSEVELT
WILL PREVENT THAT
Troops Called for Duty At
Pelzer, S. C., Mill, Where
Walk-Out Monday Threat
ened Trouble; Plant Idle
For Day, Rut May Try To
Re-Open Tomorrow
Philadelphia, Pa., July 16. —(AP)—
The United Textile Workers of Amei
iea threaten a general strike of 30U.-
000 workers if Congress adjourns
without enacting laws to protect
workers.
The strike threat was voiced yes.
terday by Francis J. Gorman, vice
president of the textile workers, at
the annual convention of the Ameri
can Federation of Hosiery Workers.
Wall Street and management are
conspiring to get Congress out of the
way so they may rescind wage and
hour provisions of the NRA,” Gorman
declared, adding:
Our answer to that will be a series
of strikes that will reach across the
country like a series of prairie fires.-
Gorman expressed confidence, how
ever, that the Roosevelt administra
tion "will not permit Congress to ad
journ and leave the working people
at the mercy of the unscrupulous.
He said he believed the textile
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GREAT BRITAIN TO
EXPAND AIR FORCE
London, July 16.—(AP) —Great
Britain apportioned more than
525,000,000 today to maintain its
cam security by strengthening its
air defense as diplomats confront
the new Italian mobilization per
sisted in seeking a peaceful solu
tion of the Italo.Ethiopian dis
pute.
A supplementary estirirafe total
ing
•5,335,000 pounds was issued to
meet the cost of expansion for the
ro S'al air force.
aged ship captain
DIES AT BEAUFORT
Beaufort. July 16 (AP)— Macon S.
Snowden, for many, years master of
boats plying Virginia and Carolina
waters, died at his home here last
r *:ght following an attack of angina
pectoris.
Among survivors are Ensign Ernest
M Snowden, a son. aboard the IT. S.
' c “ i t Virginia in the Pasific; Ma
con F Enowden, .Tr., and his wife,
“* rs Carolina Snowden.
Paralysis
Is Further
Dwindling
Only Six New Cases
Day; Disease
Spreads Into Dis
trict of Columbia
Raleigh, July 16. (AP)—There
tsr'i ° nly . six new ca ses of infantile
tr t ,' VSls in North Carolina reported
Rtate Board of Health today
s] j , P disease continued to show a
‘ decline in incidence, as com
et
- biwton and Wake counties, where
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. '
PROBE STRATOSPHERE FAILURE
iHk '
Inflation of the 5,700,000-cubic-foot stratosphere balloon at Rapid
City, S. D., is pictured above, and its collapse, below, after the bal
loon had burst, leading to an investigation. National Geographic
society sponsors and army air corps officers admitted they were
unaware of what caused the balloon to burst. No further strato
sphere attempts are planned for this year,
Anti-Jewish Riot
Breaks In Berlin
Berlin, July 16 (AP)— Anti-Jew
ish rioting last night brought a
“warning to elements inimical to
the state” from the State police to
day.
It followed demonstrations m
Kurfuerstendamm boulevard,
which lasted until the early hours
of the morning, and which the
press called “putting a damper on
growing Jewish arrogance.”
CA meSi abused
Rape Testifies in Own Be
half in Mecklenburg Pri
son Accusations
Charlotte, July 16 (AP) R. C.
Rape, one of three former prison camp
officials on trial in superior court here
on charges of mistreating two Negro
convicts, testified today that he never
abused the Negroes.
Rape asserted that adequate bed
clothing was furnished Woodrow
Shropshire and Robert Barnes, and
that fires were built three to five
times daily in punishment cells where
they were confined last winter.
While confined in the cells at a
State Prison camp in Mecklenburg
county the Negroes developed a con
dition which necessitated amputation
of their feet. The State contends
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TWO BRITONS DEAD
IN AIRPLANE CRASH
London, July 16.-(AP)-Two per
sons were killed today in the blaz
ing wreckage of an airplane which
crashed at the edge of Heston air
drome after a take-off for Spithead
for the silver jubilee review of the
British fleet.
LfiASfflD WIRB SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
HENDERSON, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 16, 1935
Autos Kill
7 6 In State
For Month
13 Fewer Than June,
193 4; Drownings
27, or Four Less; 22!
Suicides
Raleigh, July 16.—(AP) —Automo-
bile accidents took a toll of 76 lives
in North Carolina in June, a gain of
13 over the 63 reported in June, 1934,
the State Board of Health today re
ported in its monthly vital statistics
nummary.
Twenty-seven persons were drown
ed in the State last month, four fewer
than in June, 1934, and the 22 persons
committing suicide was a total one
less than in the same month last year.
There were 2,963 deaths from all
causes in the State last month, a rate
of 10.6, while in June, 1934, there were
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U. S. Sailor Held
In Jewish Riots
Staged in Berlin
Berlin, July 16 (AP)—E. W. Wood,
of New York, a midshipman of the
U. S. Battleship Wyoming was arrest
ed in the anti-Jewish riots in Kurfur
stendamm boulevard last night and«
spent the night in Jail. He was re
leased today after paying a fine of
50 marks —about S2O
Several hundred American midship
men, spending a holiday in Berlin,
witnessed the riot.
Wood turned up at his hotel today
with a vivid tale of how he was ar
rested by police after watching a wo
man knocked down with bare fists.
Wood said he got into a fist fight
when, solicited for comment on such
action, he expressed disgust for it.
COURT OF APPEALS
HOLDS LEVIES Affi
Two-to-One Decision In
Massachusetts Reverses
Ruling by Lower
Court Justice
ACTION BROUGHT BY
RECEIVERS OF MILL
Seek Recovery of $81,694 in
Processing T axes Already
Paid; $700,000,000 of Such
Taxes at Stake in Supreme
Court Decision Which Will
Follow
Boston, Mass., July 16.—(AP) —The
United States Circuit Court of Apeals
ruled today the processing taxes col
lected under the agricultural adjust,
ment act unconstitutional. The <>fUrt
was divided two to one in its decision.
The decision was handed down m
the case of the Hoosac Mills, which
challenged the constitutionality of the
processing tax, and which appealed to
the circuit court from a decision by
Federal Judge Elisha H. Brwester.
The Hoosac Mills receivers had ask
ed recovery of $81,694 paid in taxes
under the AAA.
The circuit court took the appeal of
the Hoosac receivers under considera
tion April 23.
Yesterday Judge Brwester hinted
that his district court finding might
be reversed by the circuit court as he
ordered continuation of a temporary
injunction preventing collection' of
processing taxes from four New Bed
ford mills and a. Fall River corpora
tion.
The collection of some $700,000,000
of processing taxes hingS* upon the
question of their constitutality-
The Hoosac Mills suit was one of
many brought by textile corporations,
who sought recovery of taxes paid on
constitutional grounds. The Hoosac
suit was chosen by United States at
torneys as a test case to be carried
to the United States Supreme Court,
chiefly because of the initial success
of the government in obtaining a fa
vorable decision in the district court.
ISAAC h7hunt, noted
S. C. JURIST, PASSES
Newberry, S. C., July 16 (AP)
Isaac Hamilton Hunt, 67 former leg
islator and special associate justice of
the State Supreme Court, died at his
home here today after an illness of
several months.
He was a member of the South
Carolina and American Bar Associa
tions.
B Smmene
Whether All Teachers Share
Alike Is Question As to
Pay Increase
lintlf Dispatch Bnreaa,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
BY J, C. 71 ASKER,VILiIi.
Raleigh, July 16. —The main ques
tion in the teachers’ salary contro
versy raging here is whether the Gen
eraL Assembly intended for every
teacher to get an increase of 20 per
cent over what he or she got last
year, regardless of length of service,
amount of training and grade of cer.
tification, or whether it intended the
lump increase of 20 per cent to he
allotted as in the past, according to
Leßoy Martin, secretary of the State
School Commission. Some are con
tending that the school commission is
trying to hold hack some of the sal
ary increases because it announced
some weeks ago that the $20,000,000
a year appropriation would not be
sufficient for all of the 23.000 teach
ers to get a flat salary increase of
20 per cent.
“If the General Assembly had in
serted the word ‘each’ in the appro
priations hill and made the law read
so that each teachel Should receive
a salary increase of 20 per cent over
last year, regardless of training or
length of service, there would still be
plenty of money to do that,’’ Martin
said. “In fact, we could grant a 20
per cent increase of that sort with
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"WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Generally fair tonight and Wed
nesday, preceded by local thun
dershowers on the coast this Aft
ernoon or tonight.
New Deal Seeks To Escape
Full Force Os Blow Aimed
At AAA Processing Taxes
TO INVESTIGATE ALL LOBBYING
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Schwellenbach’ Senator Black Senator, Minton^
This is the strongly liberal senate committee appointed by Vice
President John N. Garner to conduct an all-inclusive investigation of
lobbying. Senator Hugo Black (D) of Alabama, who directed the
airmail probe, is chairman. Others on the committee are Senator
Sherman Minton (D) of Indiana, Senator Louis Schwellenbach,
(D) of Washington, Senator Lynn Frazier (R) of North Dakota,
and Senator Ernest Gibson (R) of Vermont
Legislature to Blame, If
Funds Won’t Permit of
Twenty Percent In
crease in Pay
COMMISSION ONLY
ALLOTS THE CASH
It Is Merely Clearing House
for Administering What
Legislature Directs; Dis
pute in Legislature Over
Sufficiency of Money Is
Now Recalled.
In tbe Sir Walter Hotel.
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
BY J. C. BASKFiRVILL. ,
Raleigh, July 16.—1 f the school ap
propriation of $20,031,000 for the next
year is not enough to permit every
teacher to receive an increase of 20
per cent in his or her salary this year,
the fault lies with the General As
sembly in failing to appropriate suf
ficient money for such an increase
and not with the ’State chool Conmis
sion, whose sole duty is to distribute
and allot whatever sum of money is
appropriated for the schools by the
General Assembly, it is pointed out
here today. For several days the Ra
leigh News and Observer has been
carrying stories which 'have been
leaving the impression with many peo
pie that the State School Commission
is attempting to withhold some of the
money which the General’ Assembly
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PORTCONTRACT FOR
MOREHEAD IS READY
Raleigh, July i6.—(AP)— The
formal contract between tne Fed
eral Public Works Administration
and the Port Commission of More
head City, under which a Federal
loan of $297,500 and a grant of
$127,500 is to, be made available
for terminals at Morehead. is
scheduled to be sent to Washing
ton tomorrow in completed fojm.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTBRNOO*
HXCBPT SUNDAY.
Supreme Court To
Get Pay Increase
Raleigh, July 16. (AP)—The
State Supreme Court was on record
today as holding that the legisla
ture intended for officers and em-
of the court to receive sal
ary increases of not less than 20
percent.
The court ma/de known its inter
pretation of the law as debate con
tinued to center around proposed
salary raises for school teachers.
Leßoy Martin, executive secretary
of the school commission, said the
General Assembly had appropAat
ed $230,527 less than the amount
necessary to give teachers a 20 per.
cent advance, and at the same time
to pay the increments accruing
from longer experience and higher
certification.
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But There Are Four Other
Kinds Always Working
on Congressmen
By* CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, July 16- —Lobbyists,
whose activities have been, recently,
the subject of so much commotion in
Congress, fall into five general class
ifications.
1. There are lawyer lobbyists, who
try to influence the legislators direct
ly.
2. There are publicity lobbyists, who
try to influence their representatives
and senators.
3. There are society lobbyists, wno
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FORSYTH NEGROES
ARE TO DIE BY GAS
Winston-Salem, July 16 (AP)—
Germany Williams and Lawrence
Ingles, Negroes, today were sent
enced here by Judge J. A. Rous
sou to die by lethal gas on August
23 after their conviction yesterday
for first degree murder. They
were found guilty of killing John
Cantfi Negro ice man, April 28,
during a hold up netting them $24.
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PROMPT APPEAL TO
SUPREiViEI COURT IS
Efforts Madj: in Senate To
Pass Legislation To Throw
All Litigation Out
of Court
ADJOURNMENT SOON
BLOCKED IN HOUSE
Movement for End of Ses
sion Next Tuesday Given
Blow When Motion Is
Tabled; Conferees on So
cial Security Legislation
Are Near Agreement
Washington, July 16. —(AP) —In
Congress and the offices of its best
legal minds, the New Deal sought to
day to ward off a blow aimed at the
AAA by the circuit court of appeals
at Boston.
The court held the processing taxes
which help finance benefit payments
to crop reducing farmers were uncon
stitutional.
Administration omciais said they
would appeal promptly To the Su
preme Court.
Efforts were renewed in the Senate,
meanwhile, to pass legislation which
would throw all litigation out of
court.
The House investigation of lobbying
for and against/ the utility holding
company bill again held attention.
A movement for an earlv adjourn.
mv.rt of Congress wilhcut action an
the Roosevelt tax program received a
blow when the House tabled a re
solution proposing that the session
end next Tuesday. Previously Repre
senative Deen, Democrat, Georgia,
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BEAUFORT COUNTY’S
LIQUOR STORE OPEN
Washington, N. C., July 16 (AP) —
Beaufort county’s first liquor store
was opened here today and by noon.
137 customer had purchased $127.45
worth of liquors
The store opening was delayed un
til 10:30 a. m., awaiting the arrival
of a Federal license.
MILLIONS WITNESS
ECLIPSE OF MOON
(By The Associated Press.)
The moon, totally eclipsed by the
eaTlh, shone copper-colored from re
fracted rays last night, and early to
day in a celestial spectacle that kept
millions of Americans up past bed
time.
The eclipse was the longest visible
in this country in 50 years. There will
not be another of such length for an
other half century.
Italy Spurns
Any Solution
In Ethiopia
No Diplomatic For
mula Possible, Rome
Paper Says; Ethio
pia Presses Defense
Rome, July 16.—(AP)—The author
itative newspaper Giornale d’ltalTa—
which often mirrors the Italian gov
ment’s views—today ..said flatly no
diplomatic formula for settlement of
the Italo-Ethiopian dispute could be
found.
“Such formulae.’’ the newspaper
said, “are capable only of altering the
conditions of the conflict without eli
minating its inevitability.’’
Militarists asserted earlier that the
mobilization of two new military di.
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