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''fjjtfJDERSON, gA TEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA. nineteenth YEAR ffIIITION ISSUE IN DRY STATES OF - IN PRIMARY Referendum on Question Is Favored by Senatorial Candidates in North Carolina ALABAMA RUN-OFF HEARS WET ISSUE Half a Dozen States In Old South Fight Over Refer endum or Repeal in Con tests for Senate or House Seats; In Traditionally Dry Ares. Atlanta. CJa.. June 2—(AP>—Pri min' skiim.siies over Mats tn Con ftr;* have opened the prohibition question In traditionally dry districts. Half a doien states generally re garded a-" dry and Democratic, tn ..pur of romances about the Old South* mint julip and hot toddies. h*\* found ciearcut issues as referen dum repeal or submission to states •ere ejected into campaigns of can didst** for Senate and House. Militantly dry Alabama, prohibiting I ibe *ale of anything that looks like, j tseie* like or foams like beer, has! ?*<> senatorial candidates In a run- | off who favor a referendum. North Carolina has on a flve-cor- I »*r Mnatorial race between the in- 1 wmhent Senator Cameron Morrison. | Cemmissloner of Labor Frank Grist. «i|o favors a raferendum: Robert R. Unnold*. Asheville lawyer, who in mneed on wet platform: Judge Tim Bowie and Arthur Simmons. criminal case of oil Men dismissed \v»*hin|rion. June 2. -(AP)--Crim-J Inal charges against Albert B. Fail. | Hairv F Sinclair, Edward L Doheny and Edward L Doheny. Jr., were dls miued today by Justice James M. Proctor in the District of Columbia Supreme Court- Jap Premier Sees No Danger of War. With The Soviets Tokyo. June 2. —(AP> Viscount Minoru. Baito. Japan's premier, and foreign minister, asserted today in a written statement that there is ab aolutely no danger of war between his country- and Soviet Russia. The Japanese guvernment has nated repeatedly that no danger of w*i with the Soviet Union exists." he said, "the attitude of the Soviet gov ernment respecting affairs in Man churia. has been perfectly correct, and w* only wish that the Soviet gov ernment might see away to repose »uch a further measure of confidence in Japan's sincerity as would enable th* Soviet union to discontinue all concentration of troopa in the Far East. % TO SPEED CHARGES ON WALKER OUSTING Will Be Pul Up To Roose velt And May Influence National Campaign N»w York June 2.—(AP>—Speedy preparation of removal charges • gainst Mayor James J. Walker was i ln prospect today. Samuel Seabury's investigation of j *h* mayor's office, in which 14 months | of toilsome inquiry reached a climax | • n a spectacular verbal duel between | and the mayor, wound up vesterday. Newspapers predicted ouster charges would be laid before Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt soon. Possibly next week. Because Governor Roosevelt Is a candidate for the Democratic preai 'leniiai nomination and Mayor Walker la an adherent of Tammany Hall, the possible effects on the Walker case on the national political picture have com- more and more to the fore. Communists Reported As Backing Bonus Demands Washington. Juno 2. —<Al’>—An Investigation of reports that com munist* have urged all members f»f their party to support the vet erans' bonus march to Washlng '"n and mass for a demonstration here June 8 has been begun by government agencies. Meii'igraphtr reports of com munistic meetings in various sec tions of the country are now In the hands of investigators. Manuel Hcniicrsmt 'or'tATSSKcSSB, WKE" VETERANS PREPARE FOR LONG STAY Assured of temporary bed and board in Washington, some 600 W’orld war veterans comprising the encampments of “bonus marchers” have renewed their at tack on congress for immediate payment of the soldiers’ bonus. Military Dictatorship Is Not Unlikely In Germany Von Papen s Cabinet May Impose Drastic Measures To Preserve Nor mal Conditions A U1 OCR AtTcPO WER IN AN EMERGENCY New Cabinet Could Not Ob. tain. Vote of Confidence In Reichstag If One Were Proposed, and Legislature Will Not, Therefore, Be Assembled Berlin. June 2. (AP)—The possi bility of a virtual military dictator ship in Germany during the life of the new cabinet of Count Frans von Papen waa eeen by some political ob servers today. These observers pointed out that the aew cabinet which was framed yesterday would in all likelihood be unable to secure a vote of confidence in the Reichscag if it were convened. They predicted that President von Hlndenburg. therefore, would not call the legislature together, but would continue to function under Article 48 of the constitution, which grants al most autocratic powers in an emer gency. Repudiation of the cabinet by the Centrist party, to which Count Von Papen himself belongs, and by the Bavarian peoples party last night waa taken as indications of what the Reichstag would do if a vote of non confidencc were proposed. HINDKNBIRO PERSONALLY ADMINISTERS THE OATH Berlin. June 2.—(AP) — President Von Hindenburg personally adminis tered the oath of office to Chancel lor Franz von Papen and hts govern ment this evening. Immediately there after the members went into confer ence. BOMB EXPLODED AT CHICAGO ALDERMAN Chicago. June 2. -(AP) —A bomb plot directed at Bryan Hartnett. Democratic alderman of the twelfth ward, was foiled last night by his seven-year-old son. Bryan. Jr., when he doushed the fuse with water and threw the missile into the street. A moment later another bomb planted at the rear of the home of Michael Hartnett, the alderman’s fa ther, and a retired police sergeant, who lives next door, exploded so force fully it jarred the neighborhood and caused S2OO damage in the house. Levin, a communist leader, who says he Is chairman of the na tional bonus march committee of the workers ex-service men's lea gue, has claimed that the nation wide bonus movement originated with the league. The veterans here have been handed bulletins put out by the workers ex-service league urging them to join the mass demonstra tion June 8. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED They say they'll stay in Washing* ton indefinitely, until their de mands are met. Photo shows soma of the veterans enjoying one of the meals provided by individuals and charity organizations in th* national capital. New Chancellor With the fall of the Bruening Cabi net in Germany. Franz Von Papen, former military attache at Washing ton. D C . again enter* th espotllght. :his time as a successor to Chancellor Brucning. Von Paper was recalled to Berlin in 1916 when the United Sta/tes Government acoi»ed 'him of violating the neutrality law. MOREVETERANSON WAY TO CAPITAL Idea of Personal Demnd For Bonus Spreads Ove? East and South (By the Associated Press.) The idea of going to Washington to demand In person payment of a soldier bonus, started less than two weeks ago by a group in Illinois, had spread largely over the east and south today. There were already 1,500 of the vet erans in Washington, and, having re ceived word that hundreds more were either en route or about to start, au thorities were beginning to about how they were to be fed. Dallas. Texas, reported veterans were gathering all over the State for & march to Washington, and at Fort Worth last night a group, following the example of the crowd in Illinois, clambored aboard an eastbound train. Most of them, it was believed, were ejected. Itmm Washington May Send Expert To * Lausanne Meet W’ashington, June 2.—(AP)—lf the Lausanne conference on June 16 holds an adjourned meeting at London for the purpose of dis cussing plans for the betterment of world economic conditions, the United States is quite willing to attend. This was disclosed today at the State Department The Washington government has repeatedly refused to go to Lausanne, because it feels the con ference there is primarily for dis cussion of reparations and war debts. - HENDERSON, N. C., Daily Dispatch IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 2,1932 ’ ADMINISTRATION’S RELIEF PLANS PUT BEFORE CONGRESS Call For $300,000,000 To Be Loaned To States For Relief Work With. , in Borders ASKS MORE MONEY FOR FINANCE BODY Democratic Proposal For Bond Issue Would Unbal ance Budget, Mills Tells Senators, While Hurley Says Public Works Would Help Very Little ministration relief program was put before Congress today while two cab inet members were assailing the pub lic works phases of Democratic mea- i sures before Senate and House com- I mittees. Representative Hawley. Republican, j Oregon, introduced the administration I measures, which he said were draft ed along the line suggested by the i President in his speech to the Senate i a few days ago. The administration s program called for $300,000,000 for relief loans to states and $1,500,000,000 more bor row! ng power for the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for loans on self liquidating projects. Before the Senate Banking Commit tee. Secretary Mills of the Treasury 1 ■said the Democratic proposal for a bond issue would “unbalance” the budget. Secretary Hurley before the House Ways and Means Committee opposed ] a bond issue for public works, saying : the huge expenditures involved would i give comparatively little relief to un employment. FIRE IS RAGING IN 'ORANGEBURG PLANT Orangeburg, S. C.. June 2.—(AP) Fire departments from three cities were asked to rusn equipment to Orangebuig to baffle a lumber yard fire which was threatening the nearby cotton mills and oil refining plants. The flames which were sweeping through the yards of the Orangeburg Lumber Company, where 4.000,000 feet of lutub«i is stored, apparently had gotten out of the hands of the local fire department, and tiucks were rushed here from Columbia, Bamberg ! and St. Matthews. A brisk breeze fanned the flames and sparks were carried three-quar ters of a mile across the city, ignit ing a Negro church, a two-story frame dwelling and seven Negro shanties. TYPOGRAPHIC SCALE FOR KNOXVILLE CUT Knoxville. Tenn., June 2. (AP)—A reduction of ten percent in the typo graphical scale paid by Knoxville newspapers retroactive to April 1 was accepted today by the local union after a decision by a board of arbitra tion. INVALID ENDS LIFE BY TAKING POISON Lexington, June 2. —(AP)- Morris i Brown Carrickhoff, 23. partial Invalid j since he was 19 years old, when he ac- j cidentally shot himself swallowed | poison at his home here vesterday and | died, | ARMSFORIiI ; SENT BY RUSSIA; But Ship It Turned Back Byj British Warships After j Being Found London, June 2.—(AP)—A Russian attempt to land arms in southern Ire land for the Irish Republican Army, the Dally Express said today, was thwarted by the British Navy over the past week-end. The arms, the paper said, were in tended to be used by the republican forces, who were placed under the ban of the government during the previous regime of President Coe grave of the Free State, in the event of a conflict between the Free State and. Ulster. The tramp steamers carrying, the arms, it said, were warned by radio of the activity of British warships which e«V out to head them off at British ports , and they returned to the foreign ports where they were I charsad . without being, able to land the fighting equipment. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Fri day; possibly followed by thunder showers in the mountains and on the south coast Friday; slightly warmer in the west portion to night . Government Wage Slashes’ Are Debated In Senate As One Way To Cut Expenses Hoover’s Surprise Senate Visit "tv i ■’■Hr ' A. V jlfl hH • \ "J. f v hR / MLj |.» gHRIM - President Hoover is shown arriving at the Capitol to make his surprise /isit to the Senate and personal plea for the passing of a modified sales ax bill and legislation to balance the budget. The President’s appearance was one of the most dramatic episodes of bis entire administration and :he first time he has made a personal appearance before either branch of Congress. Candidates For Governor End Campaign Today With Line-Up Little Changed f ederal Deficit Is $2,684,960,446 Washington. June 2.—(AP)—The government completed eleven months of the 1952 fiscal year with a deficit of £2,694,960,446. The Treasury’s month-end state ment made public today showed collections from all sources amount ed to $1,770,269,398, while expendi tures had mounted to $4,455,219,844. Receipts for the eleven months last year were $2,884,438,387. while expenditures were $3,729,348,486. YOUNG DEMOCRATS TO MEET JUNE 15 Governor and Wife Only Honor Guests; Rodman and Cooley Speak nslly Dtspateh Rnresa, In the Mir Walter Hotel. BY J. C. BASKKIt \ I Ls.. Raleigh. June 2.- Plane for the State convention or oung Democrats to be held here June 16 are rapidly nearing completion, Dewey Doreett, acting President of the Young Demo cratic Club# of North Carolina, said today. Only two honor guests will be In vited to the dinner in Raleigh op. June 15. These are Governor O. Mux Gardner, and Mrs. Gardner. However, invitations have been extended to the entire North Carolina delegation in Congress, the two United States Sen ators. State officers, the chairman of the Democratic executive committee of the counties and congressional dis tricts. the two members of the Demo cratic National Committee, and Chair man O. M. Mull. Mr. Dorsett also (Continued on Page Two.) ADVERSE REPORT ON NEUSE RIVER Washington, June 2.—(AP)—An unfavorable report os Nedse river, North Carolina, covering naviga tion. flood control, power develop ment and irrigation improvement was sent to Congress today by the War Department. _ _ PUBLISHED KVijRT AFTEBMOOM EXCEPT SUNDAY, Ehringhaus Conceded In Front aa Final Speeches Are Made In Ad vance of Balloting MORRISON SHOWING GAINS FOR SENATE Now Rated as Likely Leader in Voting, With Reynolds, Grist, Bowie and Simmons ?n Line as Listed; Fountain Exptcts To Get the Di*%M isfied Vote / nullr Ttlftpatch Barren In the Mir Walter tintrt nv j v. ramkkhvii;l Raleigh. June 2.—LitUe If any change is apparent here "in the order in which the various Candidates are slated to run in the pri mary. In the contest for the nomina (Continued on Page Six) While Doctors Disagree, America, The Sick Patient, Suffers, And Bills Pile Up By CHARLES f*. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington. June 2.—What’s the use of analyzing the prescriptions that are being offered for America’s economic malaise? The doctors are only guessing anway. They see the patient's symptoms but disagree as to their cause. The country at least, If not the doctors, also has reason to worry over the cost of its illness. Even if it recovers, will It not be to find itself ruined by the bill for all the remedies the physicians by that time will have experimented with? Representative George Huddleston of Alabama is an economic savant who discusses the present crisis in til enation’s case with exceptional ckndor... ' . The other day he. a Democrat, join ed Senator Bronson Ctitting. a Repub lican, In introducing' in the lower house of congress, while Cutting In troduced In the upper chamber, a pro posal for a $5)000,000,000-program 'of publlo. improvements for unemploy ment relief, to be financed by a fed -4 *- k* 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY! SPOKESMAN ALSO t ATTACK DEMOCRAT RELIEF MEASURES Senator Norris Proposes Ex emption of $1,500 For All of Government Employees HURLEY FROWNS ON GARDNER PROPOSALS Conferees on Billion Dollar Tax Bill Hard at Work and Senator Smoot Predicts Agreement Will Be Reach ed by Night; House Idles Its Time Washington, June 2.—(AP) -Wheth er to save government funds by slash ing salaries of its employee* was de bated today by the Senate while ad ministration spokesmen assailed Dem ocratic relief proposals on both sides ->t the Capitol. As arguments for and against a ten percent salary cut were advanced. Senator Norris, Republican, Nebraska proposed as a substitute the exemp tion Jei employees (receiving under $1,500 a year, and a salary reduction ranging from five to 28 percent for those getting more. eßfore the Senate Banking Commit tee. Secretary Mills voiced objection to the relief measures proposed by Sen ate Democrats. At the same time Sec retary Hurley frowned upon the Gar ner relief proposal In testimony to the House Ways and Means Commit tee. Meanwhile, congressional conferees on the billion dollar tax bill met be hind closed doom to oompoee dif ferences of opinion between the two branches. Prediction of an agreement on the revenue bill by tonight waa made late In the day by Chairman Smoot of the conferee*. Awaiting action by/ the Senate <>n the vital legislation which must be passed before adjournment, the Housn considered bills. Louisian&n Tells I . Long To Go Back to .National Capital itatr.,l Rouge, la, June 2.—(AP) j —Negator (fury 1-ong was naked to | rrfiro to Washington and stop “hobbying and meddling" In Loulal- \ ’ana legislative affairs in a rreotn- ( tion offered in the House of Re presentativew today. It charged the Senator “with 1 hampering the orderly procedure I of the legislature." Another resolution concurred In requesting Ixng to speed his re turn to Washington In order that ’ Ismlsiana might hr “fully repre sented." 1 Thus far the House has not taken action on either resolution. • sing came here the first of the week and took charge of steering , Governor O. K. Alien's tax pro gram through legislative com. nit tee hearings. eral bond issue. Without entering Intosny considera tion of the* plan's merits. It imme diately struck me as in line with Cut tings philosophy, but not Huddles ton's. Alike they, are highly en'ight ensd statesmen but they think dif ferently. Consequently as soon as I could get to the Alabama's office, I asked hi into explain his sponsorship of the measure to me. “The explanation is that T Intro duced that bill ‘by request,'" said the representative ckvrifyingly. “The truth Is," he continued, “that we are In process of liquidation, the final efforts of which cannot be pre vented but only postponed by resis tance.” Os course. Congressman Huddleston does not contend that the unemployed should be left to starve while liquida tion progresses On the contrary, he has urged all along that a large fund be placed at the president’s disposal for direct relief of suffering but he (Continued on Page Two) ~^4
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