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V lrf : . ? Sittings From the Legislature By M. R. OUNNAGAN = ^IH-riai iVfim ICT The 1? 1 '* \ Raleigh, N. C., Feb. 21.?After a neetie struggle for two or three j weeks, the sub-committee of the joint | finance committee promised to turn L over Monday afternoon to the full joint committee a completed revenue measure, which, intimations are contains a general sales tax. the eightmenths state-supported school term, and, probably, abolishing all except a few of the lnrger special school lax districts. These intimations lenk out of a well-guarded group. Whether the report will be made public, or the joint finance committee struggle with it before it cornea to the open, is not known at this writing. With this prospect, it is expected that the measure, whatever its provisions, will reach tile floor of the General Assembly tsome (time this week and will have a week or more of consideration by the two houses. Few people now expect a hang up such as was experienced two years ago. If the general sales tax, or a tax that partakes of some of the l(ropert.ies of the igeneral, luxury, selected commodity, production, or gros's sale.-, tax, it will be opposed strenuously. Secretary Willard L. Dowel), of the State merchants says of the general sales tax: "It shall not pass." many legislators have the same view, and will fight it out. But many normally oppos-ed to a sales tax. have come to believe it necessary to balance the budget and will support it, at least finally, as an emergency ? measure. It now reems that a sales ? tax, more likely of the genera! sales! J] type, will be proposed, with belief chat it will be enacted after the battle. Restlessness of members began to snow itself in the =ev?iul: week. Earlier the two houses would meet and dispose of the few bills that had come from the committee in an hour. The P past week lias shown r. speeding up of committee work resulting in more bills for floor action. Facing a calendar of 25 bills, the House held its first night meeting Friday night, except the Monday night sessions. The Senate met one day, reached a calendar with 15 or 20 bills and ad- tl journed to eat. Both sides are now O! getting down to floor work. Some- It times they do things hastily and have ci to retract. Usually they arc making ;t progress slowly and carefully, but tl matting progress just tile same. | u; miismiroaueiid <i uring ibc 5 S ss iC7t | reached about SfiC last week, Yneiai week's introriucions numbering about]x i?5 l=i in Lbe Senate and HO in the 11< ' House .House bills so tar number ti about G15 and Senate Bills near~25fl, t> But mcst of them are boni to die. a So far only 160 bills have been bl ratified, 48 Senate and 112 House ci bill?. The past week saw many lo- tc esl bill* complete the round and be- in come laws, IUC number of 44, it while only seven public bills finished el the course last week. The number of ai ratified measures will increase from tl now on. while the new bills introduc- ti ed will diminish rapidly One resolution was adopted last ci week,, requesting the U. S. Congress ai to refrain from farther invasion of tc sources of taxation heretofore left ir to the State. Because of the uncertainty as to whether the rcpresenta- V live of this country to Sweden is an "ambassador" or u "minister," the resolution urging the appointment of Mrs. Liilie Morehead Mebane, the d Rockingham legislator, to that post, Z now occupied by her kinsman, John B Motley Morehead, did not reach the o point of ratification. s< Railroad companies will be held ci responsible for personal injuries or acts of railroad policemen, hereto- S fore exempt because they were ac- R tually named by the Governor, but p recommended by the railroad offi- e eials. Tho 'license charges against 0 plumbing and heating contracture arc h changed slightly on the basis of populations of towns in which they op- n erate in a new law. Casualty and d surety companies are now required o to make deposits with the State to b insure fulfillment of their obligations with its citizens or corpora- J tions. World War Veterans are permitted an extension of time on payment of Iorhs to the World War Veterans Loan Fund cf the State until Nov. a 1, it:3i. Teachers win nor he required to attend summer schools for 3 years; and 'blind people will be per- s mitted to transact business in the f State without paying the license fee t when so recommended by the court ty commissioners of their home county, under three new laws enacted. a The House killed without reremo ny the bill that would allow baseball on Sunday, by a vote of 84 to 25, white tho Senate was engaged in the slaughter of the -Senator Hinsdale bill to .prevent legislator* f^pm accepting appointment to positions they create or increase the .pay of. Accused of having feeling from the primary last year in which was a Fountain manager, Hinad^V sent in an amendment making tl^^neasure effective after 1937. The .mendment was adopted, but his 11 was lulled, ovfcrwhelraingty i Si Realising that married women ( sometimes have to work, the comniit- j tee which invi&stlgated thoir status ? in State employment turned down | the bill requiring that all be fired, ' but adopted a resolution asking the ] (Continued or. Fog? S) I V m Wk jr m." A Non rOLUME IUV, NUMBER ?4 Get# Cabinet Post Senator Cordcll Hull of Tenncs- [ see, who will be Secretary of State f during the Rocsevelt administrn- 0 tion, the announcement being made n Tuesday night. William H. Wood- u in of New York will be Secretary d of the Treasury, it was definitely f announced. Other posts have not f been fully decided upon. C ^RTHANTS RAYF. I AID OF CITIZENS [ AGAINST SALE TAX t " . V etitioni Ave Circulated Asking that f Lftvy on Sales be Left Off, and that Some Other Means of Balan- v cing the Budget Be Tried. Mei- a chants and Citizens Generally ^ Voice Protest. v A petition signed by practically all i\ le business men and leading citizens n f the town, has been forwarded to y epresentntive R. -T. Greer in Rul- _ gh, asking that the Legislature *ck other means of raising revenue, 0 um through a sales tax on the us- ^ al commodities of life. f WWIp the passage of some sort of {j ties - isA ? >sort, independent merchants of the c >\vn and county are distinctly hos- p a v.> mt from the j3>-afters'" point of vIeV?|V tfeli per cent, tax would be prefera- i, le to three per ont., as in the latter g ise, it would be next to impossible t > pass the burden on to the eonsu- y ier. They see the prospect of hav- u icr to oiis up from their own nock- ,. is three per cent, of the (cross sales, v nd many are quoted to the effect lat they are unable to make the f nee per cent, on their investment. . Chain stores, it is said locally, reeive enough special discounts, on ccount of their huge buying power i be able to absorb the levy without n [jury, if they desired. s fILLENE REESE DIES AT BANNER ELK HOSPITAL t Willene Reese, the nine-year-old aughter of Mr. and Mrs. Coy Reese, j ionville, died at Grace Hospital, j anner Elk, Friday morning at 7 ( 'clock. The child had been ill for t aivml /invc wirh hlnnH noi^ifninff. aused by an infected tooth. ; Funeral services weer conducted _ atuvday afternoon at Zionville, with j lev. R. C. E(Titers in charge and in- j rrnient took place in a nearby comtery. Survivors include the parents, t ne brother, two half-sisters and two ( alf-brothers. ( Willene was said to have been a ( lost lovable child, and her untimely ( emisc has brought sorrow to a host f friends she had made during her j ricf lifetime. Jp to Veterans Now to Support Legion's Fight ] < The American Legion's fight ag- 1 linst drastic changes in vaterans' ] jriwlation without first giving it care 1 u! study seems to re* won at this ; ession of Congress. Determined ef- 1 orts to continue the drive against i he disabled in the next session seem ( ust as certain, and it is the consen- < us of opinion of Legion officials that i ,11 veterans should immediately j ome to the support of the Legion i hrough their membership and pre- i ent a solid front to maintain justice i or the disabled. An especial effort is to to made, ocally, it is said to recruit a full nembership in the Watauga Post to iid in the contingency. Prospects for major reductions in 'eterans* appropriations in the pres nt session nas uiminisnea uiihvbi w he vanishing point, it is said, and Congress will cj well to get under he wire with it3 mandatory program, it is probable however, it is pointed >ut, that the veberr.ns' die-hard enenies will lose no opportunity to take iway from them some measure of heir benefits, no matter how small, therefore all veterans are urged to rally to the Legion and l>e prepared :o stand solidly for their rights. -Partisan Newspaper, D BOONE. WATAUGA COC WELFARE BOARD STRESSES NEED OF RAISING GARDENS Organization to Be Perfected Looking to i Gr<yw*jng Sufficient Food to Supply All Local Needs. Relief Work Cannot Continue* And New Plans for L:ve!*h?x*d Must Be Considered. Situation Serious. These in charge of the Welfare (epartment in Watauga County see he end of federal appropriations for elief of the destitute and are ailrag upon the people of this county o pursue intensive gardening campaigns to the end that outside supdies of food will not be needed. A. . Greene, Chairman of the Board las issued the following statement: "On February 15 the Welfare loarcl of Watauga Couniy had a pecial meeting at the courthouse nth the Board of Commissi oners the *oarri of Education and several inluential citizens present. The object f this meeting was to devise some, leans to take care of the relief lation in the future. It is an evident fact that the Red Cross and the V?deral relief cannot go on indefi utety. in the iunal analysis each ounty will have to support its own eople. Such a thing wc cannot (lo. s it not wisdom to plan for the rorst? Those present thought it wise or us to plait for growing food this ear. All that are receiving aid will c asked to arrange for a gardes and ther food crops. Within a few days hoiv will bo perfected an organizaion for this ifui'pose. The slogan *;.ll he, "Grow enough food for evry person in the county.' "The Welfare Board can only adise and serves without pay. We sk the good citizens of this county 5 help. We know that you will. Help our neighbor to help himself. See lat he has a place to grow someling. Watch the paper for announcelents. If we fail to grow food this ear, there is bound to be suffering ?much suffering. In every map's heart there is more r lees pride of independence. If elp conies too much from public unds, there is a possibility of breakrig down this pride. Any sensible ^ - - .".^2?? A4J Unlri omes i urn tue poeiteis or cue peoic. There is 110 mistake about this. oali.-.o that he IP earning- hTs own read. Is there a better way than to row his own food? Fellow citizens, he situation is more serious than ou think. Her us start the season fith the spirit of the pioneers. We an have the food to sustain life if re are willing to work;" bounty Commissioner Says Sparta Rebuilding Mr. H. G. Green of Giade Valley, somber of the Board of Commisioners of Alleghany county, in com any with his son Thomas and dan liter Mrs. Bruce Wagper, was a vistor for a short time in Hoone last "hnrsday. Mr. Green states that work is gong forward rapidly -coward rebuildng Sparta, which was almost totally lestroyed by fire a few weeks ago md that mercantile establishments lave been opened all along the street n temporary quarters. He further dates that the 'Commissioners are ilmost ready to start work oil remi'.ding the county Courthouse which vas also in the path of the devasating blaze. He estimates that ihis :an be done at a cost of about $17,300, and that it is not believed thai :he tax raie will have to he increas id on this account. -EES-McRAE SCHOLARSHIPS ANNOUNCED BY PRITCHETT Banner Elk ?Announcement oi Lees-McRae Junior College scholar ships for next year, to the amount >f twelve hundred dollars, was mad( ast week by Leo K. Pritchett, su oerintendent. The scholarships art ibr the sum of fifty dollars each rpprox'Trntelv one-fourth of the to a! cost of a year at Lees-Mcitae :nd are offered to one student ir :aoh of a number of Western Nortl Carolina high schools. The require ncnts are the same as ir, preview irears, Mr. Pritchett said?outstand ng scholarship, leadership and loyalty to the school in which the schol arship is offered. Five students with Mr. Pritchet presented chapel programs at variou high schools throughout the mous tains this week. On Monday the: visited Newland, Crossnore am r.raYiWr, - c.n Tnesdav Snnicp Pine Bskersville and Tipton Hill; on Wed nesday, Micaville, Burnsville am Bald Creek; on Thursday, Cove Creel and Jefferson, West Jefferson am Lansing, and on Friday, Mountaii City, Butler and Roan Mountair Tenn. Morganton, Lenoir and Mai ion are scheduled for tentative \isit this werk. The students, one of whom is Clin Farthing of Sugar Grove, present short program of string music, rong and clog-dancing. ' : , . evoted to the Best Intere; FNTY, NOHTH CAROLINA, THURS 80-Year Sen1 Man Who M Assassinate | Ftoapea Assassin President-Elect Franklin Roosevelt, who was uninjured when five shots were fired in an attempt to end his life at Miami, F!aTAXPAYERS MAY SECURE LOAN TO SATISFY COUNTS Arrangements Made to Aid Freehol der? of County in Meeting TheS Governmental Obligations. Ma] Borrow on Cattle, Sheep, Poultr; or Personal Endorsement. Loca Citizens to Aid Applicants. {o Cobnty Tax Collector A. u. Wil Son states that for the past few days HLC muKing m qtpEfoct. to meet the demands of th 5?c',:il~_ fw-ff "raf f ioiem revenue wit' | which to operate the local govern ! merit. However, as in all other part f the countvy, it is hard for n lo of good folks to garijer the cash nfc essai-y to detach a tax receipt, am Mr. Wilson calls lattention to th fact that it is now possible for citi 7.ens to borrow money Willi waici: ' pay their taxes, and save the penal tics, advertising and attorneys fet which would accompany a foveclo sure. The loans may be secured, it i said, through the Regional Agrieul tural Credit Corporation of Raleigh N. C. Loans will be granted on cat tie, shcop, poultry or on personal en dorsement at an interest rate of i 1-2 per cent., plus an appraisal fe of 1 per cent. These loans may b userl for producing crops or for pay ing taxes, and Mr. Wilson urges th people fo the county to consider '.hi ' proposition in' cases where money fo taxes cannot be secured otherwise. G. D. Brinkley of Boone and Job H. Bingham of Sugar Grove are hot authorised to assist the people in mt i king out their applications for thes . loans and can give such further ii i formation as might be desired. ; Marshal Gragg Has Unusual Experienci U. S. Marshal W. H. Gragg left hi Greensboro office the other day e ; route to his home in Boone. A wai . rant was on his desk for the arte: I of .a man on a charge of prohibitio . law violations, who lived a short di: . tance east of North Wilkesboio. M . Gragg concluded to serve the papr as he came along, which he did. K _ started to North Wilkesboro, wit his pytsnnor, one Walter Love, an , sighted two more Federal oliiceio o , the road meeting him. He stoppe _ to talk with his fellow workers, an , they told him they were going 1 . Walter Love's to iook for some cn?' - terfeit money. Mr. Gragg told thei _ the man they Wanted was in his cj and under arrest, and that the t could have him as soon as he coui 5 get bond filled. Lore, ip the meantime, admitt: / to the officers that fie had naa son 1 counterfeit money and still had or !. five-doHar bill with his other mone - hid in the woods a mile or so fro i his home. Later they went with hi k and found the one spurious 01 d along with his personal funds, bu a ied in the ground, and took it, ho i. ing to find the identity of the pari responsible for its distribution. M 3 Gragg said that Love told the tru throughout, but didn't remember wl e gave him the currency in questio a He didn't deny but that he "migh s have received it in exchange f spirits. iWbci its of Northwest North Carolir DAY. FEBRUARY 23, 1933 tence Given R* lade Effort t! ^ Mr.Rooseve I ??~ *! N ! Miami, F!a.?As scornful of the c< law as when he tried with fanatical St I to i??s~l~stc President- elect | * Franklin D. Roosevelt last Wednesday night, Giuseppe Zangara Monday T pleaded guilty to four counts of at- Coll tempt to murder and was sentenced with to 80 years. hist< Zangaia is 'd&. His sentence? of 20 *'nT1 years in each case, running consecu- Proj lively, constitute life imprisonment fore at Ratford State prison or hard labor havi in the Florida road camps. s?vc However, should Mayor Anton Cer- fror mak of Chicago, or Mrs. Joe H. Gill, accl prominent Miami society woman, die ble, of the wounds they received when ual spectators deflected Zangai.a's aim at par* Mr. Roosevelt, the State will seek -her a first degree murder indictment and crea the death penalty. the Monday's sentences were for tryI ing to kill the President-elect, Rus- KaV< ! qpll (tnMlvnli Kixrn?n> Miss Margaret Kruis, Newark. N. J.: or t and H. J. Sir.nott, New York police- athl man and bodyguard to Mr. Roosevelt. The latter three were? slightly T wounded by the bullets Zangora's has pistol sprayed into the crowd which botisur rounded the car occupied by the rt'8l President-elect in Bay Front Park. The regi STORY OF TRAGEDY SU,T| Miami, Fla.?A woman's bravery saved President-elect. Franklin en-L ano Roosevelt from assassination, but five othci persons were wounded by bullets intended for him and Monday . they lay in a bo-pital. some near tIdl1 j 'death, as a man who fired the shots P10;* was held in jail. Among the seriously wounded was Mayor Anton Oermak 1 11 of Chicago. ^oit After visiting the wounded at the 1)01 r hospital, Mr. Roosevelt took a train ?*? Thursday morning for New York. C v ?The attempted assassination came 1 as a melodramatic climax to a happy scene of welcome in beautiful Bay Front Parle last night. Y The president-elect had just re- Wee , tll-nnrl fvnm ~ fl-.k;.... -> ^11? j v. b*'H? Lttimcu, I j~-T?ejrit"Iong hnvH task \ with 11 j ahead. He drove to the crowded ? anil spoke a few words of: greetings 'day h to thousands gfttfc&ced thir Ohu ~ j Then (juiseppe Zaugara, ? former bVickmason, warped in mind a.dj? 1 by unreasoning hate, climbed on a ? bench beside Mrs. MmF. Cross of Pri? !l Miami. He rested a pistol on the of ^ C: shoulder of; a man in front of him Hiv? and began firing at the Roosevelt five env, some 25 left away. Ira Turmoil and uproar were inime- en? s diate. Mrs. Cross threw herself upon Mis.4 the man beside her, clutching his whe aim and spoiling h;s aim. The presi- M s dent-elect was saved, but these close had - to him were less fortunate. lar ' As Citizens,, police and secret ser- was - vice men hurled themselves on Zan- whe ; gara and the cry of "Kill him" rose had ^ from the infuriated crowd. Mayor miri e Oavihak fell with a bullet in his abc domett. So Nearby Mrs. Joe Gill ot Miami, e also dropped to the pavement with fi s a similar wound. || Miss Margaret Kruis of Newark, j., was snoe in tne 'nana ana e.ena ^ n Wounds were inflicted on William yRr h Sinnott, New Yoyk policeman, ar.d j-or i- Russell Caldwell of Miami. tjla] e The reaction of the president-elect ,c;? l- was immediate and his concern was (j 1Ti entirely for the injured, apparently wj,; having no time for thought of his ?un own narrow escape from death just mjj as he was preparing to assume the 3g( highest office in the land. cori a Into his own car he ordered the secret service men to place the woun'3 ded mayor of Chicago. And they g n drove to the hospital thus, Cermak j)aj. held tight in the arms of his party's wj(. >t leader. The other wounded were also ggj n quickly transported to the hospital ggj ?- and all five are still alive, although (]ur doctors had to resort to a blood 53 r transfusion on Mrs. Gill and Mayor ggj c Cermak was for many hours given 3 h but an even chance of survival. Qf ^ ceil * j (Continued on Page 8) <! 1 i wh n 72f Special Writer Gives sot m Full News at Raleigh PE U < Readers of the Democrat are urged to follow the proceedings of .] the legislature through the columns fol] id of the county paper as reported i 13 by our special "?rirespon- ! W< ie dent, M. R. Dunnagan. Beginning foi y, on page 1, the Democrat carries Prl ns each week, Mr. Dunnagan's com- Mc m plete resume of the previous week las 11, in the legislature, and those who hel r- are wont to "get lost" on certain Lei p- proceedings as they appear in the fif ty dailies, will find this story a con- dif 1". cise and accurate record. Stories tio til of local interest are also taken a 10 care of by Mr. Dunnagan and the art n. reader of a weekly newspaper, ihl t" who cannot afford a daily, is ena- Ca or bled to keep close tab on what is >p< going on at Raleigh. ly $1 SO PER YEAJt !TORDSBRoS= S SPRING TERM 9PENS COLLEGE i Student* Had Been Registered Noon Wednesday, the Largest umber in the History of the Loll Institution, and Scattering tudents Continue to Arrive. Preo?i High Record in 1927. he Appalachian State Teachers ege is going into its spring term |l the largest enrollment in the Dry of the iistituiion. Informafrom the office of the Register, :essor J. M. Dowr.um. Wednesday ;noon, indicated that 1068 pupils e already been enrolled, and that :ral students continue to arrive n widely divergent points. While irate figures are not yet availaMr. Downum stated that as usthe ladies make up the greater of the student body, but that e is apparently a notable iu~ se in the number of men taking Collfiffft wort- Knrn Tliic w lilfctr partly to the fact chat athletics i become an important factor in college life within the past two bree years, inducing numbers of c4.es to come here. Breaks AH Records he enrollment for the spring term broken all records of the college, \ for summer schools and for the ilar fall, winter and spring terms: closest approach to the present stration was in 1927, in the first mer term, when 1007 came to >alachia, 61 fewer than the oreshigh mark. he ever-increasing popularity uf local college tomes largely from fact, it is thought, that thorough rung shay be had here, under the . favorable general conditions at tuition and board costs. No inition in the State is being oparat>n such an economical basis, res submitted in Raleigh indicated. ster Price Succumbs To Lengthy Illness ester Price, 32, of Zionville, died Inesday morning, February 15th, rwing an illness of scverai months i a complication of diseases. Fun noon *t Silvetstape Baptist -vt^~ rch -, with Rev. R. C.- Sggers in huri.il .took place in an icent graveyard. urvivors include the father, iS. J. e, three brothers, Hardin Price forth Dakota; Walter of the New >r section, and Coy of Zionvi'.le; sisters, Mesdames F. P. Wilson, Ellison, Roy Pierce and Clar; Gtrvalse, of South Dakots, anu i Elizabeth Price, who lives somere in the northwest. ;r. Price was an ex-soldier, and served his country in the reguurmy for more than six years. He well known in Western Watauga re he was born and reared, and surrounded himself with an adny circle of friends. ifce Expenditures in >ig Gain Over Receipts (Special to the Democrat.) aleigh, N. 0., Feb. 21...North olina's genera! fund expenditures the month of January were more i $1,500,000 in excess of the re>ts, the rcsul* being a cash overft January 31 otf $099,792.98, le the highway and other special ds showed a drop of nearly two lion dollars, to a balance of $3,t ft.an 1ft at thp ana of .Tnniifti-v. the ibined statement ot the Auditor 1 Treasurer, issued Saturday, inites. ?he general fund shows a cash ince January 1, of $840,437.61, h receipts for the month of $3,|,7G0.51, making a total of $4,1,214.15, hurt the dlaburjemleqfU ing the month were'$5,482,997.creating the overdraft of $899,:.98 for the month. ?he highway fund 'had a balance $5,214,400.62 January 1 and rered $10,915,112.78 during the ath, a total of S16.129.543.40, ilc expenditures u'src $12,738.1.22, leaving the balance of $3,1,850.18 January 31. RSONALITY CONFERENCE SCHEDULED FOR MARCH 24-25 Banner Elk.?The date of the irth annual Personality Confer:e for High School students of >?tern North Carolina b&3 been set March 24th and 25th, i?eo X. itchett, superintendent of heea:Rae Junior College, announced t week. The conference, which is d annually under the auspices of es-McRae, attracted last year some ty boys and girls from a dosen ferent high schools in this aecn. They will bo entertained with full two-days program of aporta d entertainment, with talks by roe outstanding leaders in North . , rolina and Tenessee. The list of >akers has not yet been definitedecided. ' l1
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