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fKIOSEVELT ASKS LAMER SUPREME COURT
General Motors Gets Writ
Ordering Arrest Os Workers
Occupying Its Body Plants
BIFF REQUESTS
TROOPS TO HELP IN
ENFORCING ORDERS
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Wants National Guardsmen
On Duty at Place To Ac
company Him in His
Next Step
CONFERENCES AIMED
AT PEACE RESUMED
Representatives of Opposing
Sides Resume Discussions
In Detroit Seeking Settle
ment of 38-Day-Old Walk-
Out in General Motors
Plants
Flint, Mich., Feb. 5 (AP)
General Motors attorneys ob
tained a court writ today order
ing the arrest of strikers oc
cupying two Fisher Body plants
here, and announced Sheriff
Thomas Walcott had requested
the aid of the National Guard
in enforcing the order.
General Motors Corporation obtain
ed writs of attachment today requir
inj» election of strikers from its two
Fisher Body plants here, but withheld
nnnojncement as to when service of
them would be requested.
CONFERENCE IS DELAYED
BY LATENESS OF MOTOR MEN
Detroit, Mich., Feb. s.—(AP)—Rep
resentatives of opposing sides in the
General Motors strike met again to
day in chambers of Recorder’s Court
Judsre George Murphy to resume their
search for an agreement that would
end the 38-day-old strike. The confer
ence, originally scheduled for 10 a.
m., was delayed until 11:45 fcy the late
arrival of the General Motors repre
sentatives.
Sea Strike
Ended With
Agreements
(By The Associated Press.)
Contending leaders renewed
negotiations today for settlement
of the widespread General Motors
strike, only remaining major
labor dispute in the nation.
Governor Frank Murphy, of
Michigan, sounded a note of op
timism after the fifth session of
the (i-M peace conference at De
troit.
Signing of contracts last night
formally ended the Pacific coast
maritime strike. Some 40,<190
strikers, who tied up 239 ships,
headed hack to work after 98 days
of idleness. Business interests
Placed the cost of the strike at
50W,000,000.
Cannon Loses
In Libel Suit
For $500,000
Washington, Feb. 5.—(AP)—-Repre-
■"iitativf! Tinkham, of Massachusetts,
v "’ n a directed verdict today in a
libel suit brought against him
,v bishop James Cannon, Jr.
In i ice Jennings Bailey, of Federal
di triet court, ordered the jury to find
~r 'he Republican Massachusetts
y»ngi-e.ssman, after hearing lengthy
•iguments yesterday by Tinkham’e
four ci ot end the case without pre-
S^Fl" a, ‘ on °f defense testimony.
suit, was filed by Cannon, a
' hop of the Southern Methodist
' as a result of a statement
ear.|, by Tinkham about the bishop’s
K,nd i,n« of 1928 anti-Alfred E. Smith
' "ap iign funds. Tinkham, on a chal-
by Cannon, repeated to report
*'s " irn arks he had made on the
H °hse floor.
D'im, Whiteford, Tinkham’s attor
argued in asking the directed
m' n * Cannon could not have been
" atip in Tinkham’s statement be
the bishop invited it.
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Congress Wrangles Over
Roosevelt Trade Pacts;
Hull Called “Dreamer”
Must Die for Slaying?
Mrs. Marguerite Fox Dolbow
Unless the New Jersey court of
pardons Intervenes, or the U. S.
supreme court orders a new trial,
Mrs. Marguerite Fox Dolbow, 29-
year-old mother who gave up a
small fortune to marry, a tenant
farmer nine years ago, must die
in the electric chair. Mrs. Dol
bow and her childhood sweet
heart, Norman Driscoll, 37, lost
their appeal to New Jersey’s state
supreme court. The two were
convicted of slaying Mrs. Dol
bow’s husband so they could
marry and share inheritance of
$140,000.
—Central Press
Liquor Bill
Will Likely
Pass Senate
Apparently Nothing
Drys Can Do Will
Change Minds of
Members There
Dully Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, Feb. s—The liquor control
bill, which has already passed the
House and which is now in the Sen
ate Judiciary Committee Number
One, of which Senator Thomas J.
Gold, of High Point, is chairman, is
assured of a favorable report by the
committee and will pass the Senate,
no matter how much heat Cale K.
Burgess and his blow-torch bearers
from the United Dry Forces attempt
to apply to both the committee and
the Senate, according to members
who have already made a poll of both
the committee and the Senate.
It is expected that the judiciary com
mittee will grant a hearing to the
United Drys, since Burgess requested
such a hearing Thursday as soon as
the bill had been referred to commit
tee. But it is not believed that the
hearing will change a single vote,
either on the committee or in the Sen
ate, any more than the long hearing
held before the House committee last
week changed a single vote there.
At the present time the Senate com
mittee stands six for reporting the
bill favorably, three doubtful but who
will vote to report the bill favorably
if their votes are needed, with only
one regarded as definitely and unal
‘ Continued on Page Five.)
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH
Secretary Also Called
“Great Man” in Debate
Over Tariff Powers
of President
EXTENSION SOUGHT
FOR THREE YEARS
New York Republican Says
Hull Holds Congress In
Contempt; Baruch Warns
Against Ban on Foreign
Trade During Wartime,
Except Actual Munitions
Washington, Feb. s—(AP) —Dispute
over the President’s trade agreements
with foreign nations and the prospect
of historic arguments on neutrality
and the powers of the courts enliven
ed congressional proceedings today.
The House, which heard Secretary
Hull called both “a dreamer” and
“this great man” for his negotiations
of reciprocal trade treaties, sought
to complete its general discussion of
the bill to extend for three years the
President’s power to make such pacts.
Amendments will be considered next
week.
Representative Culkin, Republican,
New York, said the secretary of state
had a “complete contempt,’’ for Con
gress. In reply, Representative Coop
er, Democrat, Tennessee, cited Hull’s
27 years in the House. Representative
Fuller, Democrat, Arkansas, argued
Hull “is bringing back trade to this
country.”
Bernard Baruch, New York finan
cier, who headed the Wartime Indus
tries Board, told a House committee
blanket embargoes in a permanent
neutrality bill would hinder the trade
agreements program. He advocated
allowing belligerents to buy goods,
other than arms, in America, on a
“cash and carry” basis.
Senators with only routine work be
fore them today heard reports Sena
tor Borah, Republican, Idaho, would
oppose the plan of Senator Pittman,
Democrat, Nevada, to permit the
President to limit it to goods other
than arms shipments to warring
nations.
mm
Cutting Off Help One Way
of Flattening Out In
vestigations
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Feb. 5. Folk who
think their affairs may be investigat
ed by a congressional “probing” com
mittee are afraid of being quizzed by
such a body as they fear almost noth
ing else imaginable.
They are especially shy of Senate
investigations. And it is true that, at
least in -recent years, senators have
proved to be more remorseless pro
(Continued on Page Eight.)
Man Rescued
In Deep Mine;
After 8 Days
Flemingtown, W. Va., Feb. 5 (AP) —
Robert Johnson, lost for eight days in
debris-filled passageways of an aban
doned mine, was carried to safety to
day alive, well and puffing happily on
a cigarette.
“I’d given up all hope,” said the 36-
yearold- rural mail carrier to rescue
workers who found him nearly two
miles from the mine’s entrance early
today.
Johnson, who crated coal from the
mine in his spare time for sale to
(Continued on Page Eight.)
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..otei a ui the General Motors plants in Flint, Mich., angered by delay in negotiations between the cor
. ation and the United Automobile Workers of America, stormed Chevrolet Plant No. 9 in that city and
nattered the windows nearest the street before tear gas, hurled by police, cleared the streets. This graphic
picture from Pathe News shows the strikers in the midst of their assault on the plant.
Liquor Hearing For Drys Is
Set For Thursday Afternoon 1
Collective Bargaining
Is Coming, Babson Says
And Labor Is Entitled to It, Economist Says; Criticizes
Frances Perkins As Being Misfit So Far As Nego
tiating General M otors Peace Goes
BY ROGER W. BABSON,
Copyright 1937, Publishers
Financial Bureau, Inc.
Babson Park, Mass., Feb. 5. —Dur-
ing the World War, when I was di
rector general of Information of the
Labor Administration at Washington.
I was asked to give an address upon
the subject of labor relations before
a distinguished audience. I thereupon
called on the secretary of labor asking
if he had any suggestions for my ad
dress. He replied: “Yes, Babson, tell
the audience that some one will be
speaking on the same subject at the
same spot one hundred years hence.”
The underlying difficulty is that labor
WINDSORWfLLWED
Former British Monarch Is
Making Plans for Nup
tials on April 27
Vienna, Feb. s.—(AP) —The Duke
of Windsor plans to marry Mrs.
Wallis Warfield Simpson on April 27
at either the Enzesfeld castle of
Baron Eugepe Rothschild or in
Vienna, a usually reliable source dis
closed today.
This is the exact date on which Mrs.
Simpson’s divorce decree from Ernest
Aldrich Simpson supposedly will be
come final.
The former British monarch wants
ihis fiance to arrive in Vienna April
24, three days before the proposed
date for the wedding ceremony.
The informant added the wedding
probabljl will be held at Enzesfeld (be
cause the expenses there probably
would be less than in the Austrian
capital, and “the duke must watch
his pennies.” He emphasized, however,
these plans are subject to change,
(Continued on Paga Eight.)
OUR WEATHER MAN
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair and slightly cooler tonight.
Saturday partly cloudy, with slow
ly rising temperature.
Htsmtirhl
CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
problems always have been with us,
and always will he with us, until all
groups become actuated by the spirit
of Jesus.
Watch Labor Legislation.
The point I wish to make is that
our labor problems are fundamental
and cannot be solved by legislation or
any other short cuts. We see much in
the newspapers today about having
Congress enact legislation repuiring
compulsory arbitration; but neither
side will long stand for such legisla
tion. Labor conflicts pass through cy
cles, like stock market cycles. For a
Continued on Page Five.)
SAFEEUIIM
Wake Member Proposes
Constitutional Amend
ment To Ban Grabs
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, Feb. s—The foes of high
way fund diversion struck back at the
diversionists with a man-sized base
ball bat when they dropped the bill
into the hopper to submit a constitu
tional amendment to a vote of the
people in the next general election
which, if adopted, will prohibit for
all time any further diversion of the
taxes paid by automobile and truck
owners to other than highway pur
poses. The bill was introduced in
the Senate Thursday by Senator L. Y.
Ballentine, of Wake county, dairyman
and farmer, who maintains that the
farmers especially are tired of pay
ing their gasoline and motor vehicle
taxes year after year and then seeing
several millions of dollars of this
money which needs to be used on the
roads, especially the unpaved county
roads, diverted and used for other
purposes.
“Every one who knows anything
about the roads in the State at all,
knows that the present highway reve
nue is entirely inadequate to even
maintain the roads properly, much
less provide for any new construc
tion,” Senator Ballentine said. “Why,
right now there is a bill pending in
the Senate for a bond issue of $25,-
000,000 to be used on the county roads
alone, on the grounds that there never
will be enough current revenue from
the gasoline and motor vehicle taxes
to even adequately maintain the coun
ty roads. Yet in the revenue now be
(Continued on Page Four.).
UDD HVERY AFTBKNOON rinxrmn,
EXCEPT SUNDAY. F IVE CENTS COPY
Senator Says Not One Vote
Will Be Changed But
Drys Want It And
Shall Have It
T OBACCcT COMPACTS
SUPPLEMENT VOTED
Quickly Passes Senate and
Goes To House, Where In
Few Minutes It Is Adopt
ed; Finance and Appro
priations Bills May Reach
Floor Next Week
Raleigh, Feb. 5 (AP)—The
Senate Judiciary Committee No.
1 voted today to grant organiz
ed drys a hearing next Thurs
day afternoon on the county op
tion liquor bill passed by the
House Wednesday.
“I don’t think a single vote will be
Changed by this hearing, but I think
it should be granted,” commented Sen
ator Rodman of Beaufort.
Taylor, of Anson, lodged the mo
tion for the hearing.
The hearing was set for the Senate
chamber, but members expressed the
opening it might be changed to Me
morial Auditorium, if a crowd such as
that predicted by Gale K. Burgess,
vice-president of the United Dry
Forces, showed up.
Liquor, social security, tobacco crop
control, finance, cheaper automobile
license plates and State fund auto
mobile liability insurance all occupied
the legislative stage today. ,
The Senate received and quickly
passed a supplementary hill to the
tobacco compact as approved earlier
in the week, hut not yet ratified into
law.
The measure was rushed through
the House a few minutes later and
will become law on ratification, a per
(Continued on Page Three.)
5. C. Tobacco 1
Bill Similar
To One Here
Columbia, S. C., Feb. 5. —(AP) —Re-
presentative W. C. Graham, of Flor
ence, author of a bill to regulate to
bacco production, said today the
House Agriculture Committee, of
which he is a member, would “take
up” the bill next Wednesday.
He said the measure was substan
tially like the one passed by Virginia
nnd was drawn along lines of one
recommended by the Federal govern
ment.
A study of the tobacco bill now be
fore the North Carolina legislature
would be nece.-pary, Graham said, as
he understood it had been changed
slightly from the recommended meas
ure.
“We want our law to conform with
the North Carolina law,” Graham said
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TODAY
SIX MORE JUDGES.
FOR TOTAL OF 15,
PRESIDENT’S GOAL
Furore of Controversy Fol
lowing Surprise Message
Splits Across Party
Ranks
SPEEDY DECISIONS
ARE ALSO SOUGHT
Roosevelt Wants Power To
Put New Judge in Any
Court When Incumbent
Has Reached 70 and Not
Retired; Would Bar Deci
sions Without Advising
Attorney
Washington, Feb. 5 (AP)
President Roosevelt asked Con
gress to reorganize Federal
court machinery today in a
surprise message proposing
more justices for the Supreme
Court.
The unexpected request, em
bracing also plans for speeding
Supreme Court decisions on con
stitutional questions, plunged
Capitol Hill into a furor of con
troversy, which split party
ranks. »
The President, in his message, re
commended a sweeping reorganiza
tion of Federal court machinery, in»
eluding an increase in judgeships of
the Supreme and lower courts and a
method for speeding high court de
cisions on constitutional questions.
In a tentative draft of a bill ac
companying the message, the Presi
dent would be given the power to in
crease the Supreme Court by a max
mum of six justices to fifteen, and the
lower courts by two members each,
unless judges over 70 retired. ,
“These proposals do not raise any J
issue of constitutional law,’’ the Presi
dent said, listing four specific recom
mendations, as follows:
1. Power for the President to nomi
nate an additional judge in any court
when an incumbent has reached the
age of 70, has held office for ten years
and within six months after reaching
70 has neither resigned nor retired.
2. Power for the Supreme Court to
appoint an administrative assistant
or “proctor” to watch lower court
calendars and permit the chief justice
to assign district and circuit justices
temporarily to areas where the dock
ets are congested.
3. Provision that no decision, in
junction, judgment or decrease od
any constitutional question be promul
gated by any Federal court without
previous and ample notice to the at
torney general of the United States
and an opportunity for the United
States to present evidence and be
heard.
4. Provision that when any inferior
(Continued on Page Three.)
Mississippi
Levees Hold
Floods Away
Old Man River Re
ceding Slowly At
Cairo; Crisis Be
lieved at End Now
Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 5. —(AP) —A
battered but unyielding levee line re
pulsedt he Mississippi’s greatest tests
today while rehabilitation, control and
relief problems engaged the flood
scourged Ohio valley and the nation’s
Congress.
Army engineers maintained a force
of 120,000 river fighters along the de
fenses to keep the country’s worst
flood from multiplying its cruel toll
of 392 dead, nearly one million home
less and $550,000,000 in property loss.
The Mississippi was receding slow
ly in the Cairo, 111., sector today, and,
barring storms to send the muddy
water smashing against improvised
dykes, engineers considered the bat
tle won, hut promised a ceaseless
watch for days or perhaps weeks to
come.
President Roosevelt’s $5,011,000,000
public works program to curb raiding
drivers lay before a Congress receptive
to flood control plans.
Along the Ohio the hardest hit
towns emerged from flood waters and
began thinking in terms of recon
struction.
Cincinnati reported a “shopping
boom” reminiscent of holiday trade as
stores reopened to meet buyers’ long
denied needs.