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■ ' HENDERSON, ■ gateway to central CAROLINA. NINETEENTH yeah ~~ ■XCVPT IPXDAT. nvijj GENTS COPTfI r?. s sion Hinted Bv Gardner Congress Passes Huge Relief Bill And PreDares INS PUBLICIIY Pill MENACES IT FINAL MINUTE [eideri Assure Opponents Thst It Means Only Pub. licity to President And Congress BANKERS all over COUNTRY PROTEST differences Over Currency Expansion May Choke to Death Home Loan Bank Bill; Passage of Relief Bill Lnds Fight For Aid To The Unemployed UiCungton. July 16.—(AP)— C‘*nr r ''* •I**' Sl.riß.tHKl ra il** Ml thW afternoon and tt <*njtfl ot adjournment of thla l*( ind troubled session. but i vwtr and llmi't (llfftrtwm over rh* f»rr'iKT expansion feature of rNf hw loan hank hill (teemed r»rtai# to rl »ke that legislation to uh iJtr la*t hour*. On 1 rITJ voce vote, the Senate ae- j 'ht e -nference report on the rf.’ief >*i.«iatien —but only after lead er? had registered the opinion that thrrthwe providing publicity to loans side by the Reconstruction Corpora *lrn ('id not necessarily require pub- Italy. The view th.tt seemed to be accept ed wait that the corporation must re port *o Congress and the President, bat that further congressional action !» necessary before publicity need be sr*n. The Senate had voted ft to 20 to tn r<t on the currency expansion pro v:*lon of the home loan bank bill in tht face of House opposition. This threw the question into the House *r>:w and it promptly stuck t 6 its stand—throwing the matter into con-, ference again with the Senate, and wnhou* any visible prosper? of either yielding Continuance of thg dtadlcck would kill the legislation. A last minu'e movement in opposi •:3K t 0 The relief bill, which assumed fcrmidable proportions during the avning. disappeared before the as iurances by both leaders that the pub _cfv clause would not make public tbs loans by the Reconstruction Cor poration without further action by C:.-*res*. I rejsure from bankers all over the j f untry overnight had caused a move- j c,! » «o send the bill back to con- I on Page Three.) money circulation SHOWS INCREASE Wavhinctnn. July 16 (AP)— of money In the Unit- Mate* increased 6815.415,197 tn reaching a total of $5,695- *‘41.714. fb- )n>-rt-aae caused a raise in ’be iH-r capita circulation of $1.79 tn j 4;, jj HOOVER WILL SIGN NEW RELIEF BILL _ resident To Approve De *pite Opposition to Some Section* of It July 16 <AP)—Aaeur |k President Ho»»v«*r would sign nr "’ 1 f bill, although ta« aia ►jtTxrd prfDf portions of it. Congress ' *•’ through taet-minute '* ,r> 'fach what all members had ' Cj: *‘*rks —adjournment. H"n *h* two met at 10 , m hours earlier than usual. *' hid their adjournment re , 1 - ‘ Cr ‘ fTsdy Its passage was de ~ n Prevent last minute Mlbust o make terrain Senate ap .r" *: Mhe 2.122.000.000 general re p.ogram. hl d expressed hope hat a (’remise might be worked out on - ion's last major re- H he home loan bank bill. ,ff> tise late yesterday approved i, '“ r Provisions ihe home loan „ f| Ola-ss currency expan o . . ,n "bonded by addition of the «!»a >M ’ '*** <*«>Uar shabidaatloe Hcniieramt Hailu £1 tsiiafrlt fULLi LEASED WIHB URVli'a or THE ASSOCIATED psum»^ .Scene of Coney Blaze When Smoje Had Cleared nFi J" * ... • M. §- 1 IIJ imw J i This > (, I aw r- I • ffiir!: --- A^,r.t; v ■„ .u, , iTM iite-’ ROOSEVELT MAKES GOOD IMPRESSION FROM M OUTSET Democratic Candidate For Governor Showing Vigor and Frankness As Campaign Begins PEOPLE ANXIOUS TO SEE IN HIM LEADER Wetness Offset East's Con servatism and His Liberal Views Make up For South's Forgiveness of His Wet ness; Business Upturn Would Aid Hoover By CHARLES P. STEWART. Central Press Staff Writer Washington. July 16. —The Demo crats. as the attacking party, natural ly attract attention as the campaign opens. The O. O. P. dug in and glad of it, but being entrenched is not sol spectacular. Possession generally is nine points of the law. Not always, however. Iti remains to be seen how many points it is in the present case. Governor Roosevelt naturally cat ches tne eye immediately. The bitter rault found with him dur ing the pre-convention struggle may prove now to be one of his assets. It enables folk who like his looks, and who liked his acceptance speech, to say that he shows up better than they expected, which is vastly preferable to having them disappointed with him. as they might have been if he had been over-praised in advance. Lawmakers from all over the coun try report that their constituents seem desperaetly anxious to believe that he la a great leader—they are so pathe tically eager for one, who can get them out of the depression. Obvious ly this predisposition to hail him as their Moses should make it easier for him to convince them that he fits the description. It is the consensus that, thus far, the New Yorker has given the lie to (Continued on Pa«e Three.)- Bonus Army Head In Custody While Comrades March Washington, July 19 (AP>—A rush toward the Capital by the throng of veterans demanding the bonus threatened disorder as Congress met today for its last session, but quqlck police action calmed the situation. Walter W. Waters, loader of the main body of ex-soldiers, was held under arrest a short tfttir un til he and his aides agreed to do thetr best to keep their followers t iim, ax the Capitol doors OfiCq wofo dispersed ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPE R 20 Dead In South From Torrid Meat - .»m, - A Atlanta. Ga., July 16.—( API- Twenty peoplr are known to have perished in the South from the c.umu'ative effect* of seven days of exreaalvely high temperature*. No permanent relief Is in sight, except for the north eastern por tion. Several comparatively small districts expected a temporary let-up sis a result of predicted thundershowers, but forecaster* Raid the heat In most of the area is here to stay for a time yet. The greatest loss of life was In New Orleans, where five have died. A Laker succumbed to the heat Thursday. A Negro collapsed lausanneaccorF STIRRING EUROPE Herriot Denies France Or Britain Cannot Act Separately Paris July 16 (AP) —The storm raised abroad by <%ie refxsrt of Premier Herriot a statement on tihe connec tion of the posg-Lausanne accord with Great Britain and American war debts continued to pre-occtpy official cir cles today, in spite of an official an nouncement yesterday intended to clarify the situation. Yee*erdo.y’n statemenlt. officially sponsored, and Collowlng by one day President Hoover’s letter to Senator Borah, declaring the United States would not be influenced on *jh3 debt question by any united front in Eu rope, emphasized that it was far from the intention of France to form such a front. Any assertion that the recent Franco-Britlah accord would restrict Greet Britain in making new arrange ments for war payment to the United States was palpably absurd, It said. Charges Made That Kruger Stole B i g Fortune In Bonds New York, July 16.—(AP) —Charges that the late Iver Kruger. Midas of matches, Btole $50,000,000 in bonds be fore he put a bullet through his head echoed today through the maize of his frenzied finances. The Irving Trust Company, which hurlad the charge, started action to safeguard payment of $1,500,000 In in terest on the bonds, and was said to plan suits to recover the securities themselves for the bankrupt Inter national Match Corporation, a Kruger i concern. PUBUSHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. ANDERSON, N. C„ SATURDAY, AFTERNOON, JULY 16, 1932 while unloading a truck yesterday. Two men suffered sunstrokes down town and died yesterday, snd the fifth victim was a man who collapsed at a railroad round houseu Monroe county, Mississippi, counted two white and one NegTO victims, and at Pin Bluff. Ark., two Negroes of Macon. Miss.; a nine months old baity succumbed to a form es paraysls said by phy sicians to be attributed to the hna'. A Negro woman died at Rocky Mount. N. C., from heat protra -1 tion. NEW THEORY ABOUT REYNOLDS’SLAYING Sheriff Scott Continues In quiry, and Ab Walker CalU At Office Wimfton-Selecn, July 16 (AP)—The theory that some "stranger" may have stain Smith Reynolds. 20-year-old to bacco millionaire, was checked by au thorities today _ omenff Transou Scott disclosed he was sekeing an unidentified motorist who Inquired the way to Reynolds several hours before Reynolds fell with a bullet In his head July 6. This, coupled with an unexpected visit to the sheriffs office by Albert WiaUcer. young chum of Reynolds, whose story of the fatal night, sup ported a suicide theory, served to re vive Interest in the case. Walker wae accompanied by his at torney. but they did not see the she riff, who w«a ouf. Sheriff Scott has raid he wished to question Walker j further. Vigorous Inquiry Made Into Death Os Former Convict! Mlneola. N. Y.. July 16.—(AP)— 1 Whether a "third degree" killed Hy- j man Stark, 28-year-old ex-convict, who j died at police headquarters here after' eight haurs questioning, was the sub- | eet of vigorous inquiry today. Public Joe' Doe proceedings will be. held Monday before Supreme Court J Justice Meyer Steinbrlk to determine all the facts and circumstancee, sur rounding the death. HEATHER . FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Local thundershower* Oils aft ernoon or tonight; not quite so wasiiui in central portiAi tonight. Sunday generally fttr. NO EXTRA SESSION IS PROBABLE NOW Governor Will Not Call Old General Assembly At Present Time ONLY A FEW WANT IT Belief Is That Effort Is Aimed At Embarrassing Gardner; Might Stand Better Chance To , Control It Now Dally DUpatc-h Barms, la the Sir Walter Hate*. MV J. t, RASKKtt Vll.i, i Raleigh, July lb.—mere will be no j special session of the “lame duck” j 1931 General Assembly any time this I summer in an effort to provide addi tional revenue for the State's depleted treasury, in spite of the demand of Josephus Daniels and other bitter op ponents of Governor O. Max Gardner and the present administration that he call a speciall session. Neither will Daniels and those op posed to the present administration and its policies, be able to maneuver the governor into the tight place they are hoping to gel him, most of the political observers here are convinced. They believe the governor will come out on top in the present crisis, just as he has in all previous crisis, and that a workable way out of the pre sent financial difficulties feeing the State will be worked out by the gov ernor, the Advisory' Budget Commie (Continued on Page Four) Asheville Man Is Third Out To Seek Speaker of House Asheville, July 16 (APl—.liillus C. Martin. Ashevillo attorney, and Democratic nominee ftor the State legislature, today announced his candidacy for speaker of the low er house of the 1953 General As sembly. Martin is the third candidate to enter the field R L Harris, of Rovbero. announced during the 1931 legislature, aid R G. Cherry of Gastonia, made his announce ment several months ago. Scales, Freed of Burglary, Held In Other Robberies Winston-t Salem. July 16 <AP) —f’rewj i of a first degree burglary charge by a jury verdict. Wallace Scales, acion of a well kpowp Greensboro fajp.ly, remained in custody today to face other charges of robbery with ..fire arm* Sea lee was acqquitted of being one of the tw<o bandits w<ho entered the home of A. H. Galloway, in Reynolds Park last year, held up four women ai■oiin’d a bridge table, securing $15.- 000 in jawelß. ate),.ransacked the room in which Galloway slept. . PUBLISHED SVEItT AFTERNOON EXCEPT SDNDAT. To Adjourn Session No New Cuts Now In Allotments To State Activities If Income Fails, New Legislature Elected In November Will be Called Imme diately After That Time Raleigh, July 16 (AP) —Gov. O. Max Gardner told the council of State today that he planned at this time to make no new cuts in State allotments of any kind but that if conditions make it necesssarv he will call a session of the Legislature in November to balance the State RnHirat State Faces Huge Deficit Ra’eigh. July 16—<AF)— North Carolina faces a deficit for the cur rent fiscal year of $8,607,514, con sidering both the general and high way funds, with payments to be mad eon the same allotment as last fUcal year, a financial statement is sued by Governor O. Max Gftrdi. shows. The statement lists anticipated revenues and payments to be made for each month of the fiscal year There was only IIEJISJsttsM ) cash in the State treasury, com - binlng highway and general funds, on July I. Revenues this month and in succeeding months will k«wp the balance up, however, until Jan uary 1, when the report showed a deficit of 52.621.114 is anticipated. HIGHWAY GROUP TO GIVE COOPERATION t Commission Pledges Utmost Effort To Hold Down Its Own Costs Dsllv nia,«rrt Dareaa. la (kr Sir Walter Hotel. BT J. r B A SKKR V11.t,. Raleigh, July 16.—The State High way Commission, in session here with Chairman E. B. Jeffreys on Friday, pledged its fullest cooperation to Gov ernor O. Max Gardner and the Ad visory Budget Commission in doing everything possible to hold down ex penses during the present critical fi nancial period through which the State is passing. “The members of the commission were of the unanimous opinion that every economy should be put into ef fect and that nothing should be un dertaken either in the way of new construction or additional mainten ance unless absolutely necessary," Jeffress said. “We cannot, of course, curtail our maintenance work beyond the point of efficient service to the public and shall not do that. But we are going to curtail on every thing that is now essential to the best ser vice possible. “As a result, me commission order ed the further postponement of every’ piece of construction work not ab solutely necessary' At this time." When asked if the commission thought it possible to curtail its ex penditures during this fiscal year as ( much as 25 per cent, the amount re- 1 commended by State Treasurer John __________ i (Continued on Page Flee.) Bitter Trade War Between England And Irish Appears London, July 16 (AP)—A bitter trade war threatened relations be tween Irish Free Rtaite and Great Britain today following failure of president Eamon de Valera, of the Free State and ITime Minister Ram sey MacDonald to Agree on a plan for settling tike land annuities con troversy De Valera and the prime minister spent several hours in conference yea terday in an effort to agree upo* a plan. But De Valera returned to Dublin, the attempt unsuccessful. '» • 6 PAGES TODAY FTVIj CENTS COPTS j The governor's deeiMnn ended sev , e,a l weeks of speculation as to what the State would do in the present fi nancial crisis and followed statements that State costs must be cut upwards i of $3,500,000 if the budget is to be ! balanced. » Happiness reigned on capitoi hill as the contents of the governor's state ment to the Council of State became known and they no doubt will bring Joy to thousands of North Carolinians i as something like 25.000 school teach ers in every part of the State learn « that for the present at least they will j get no cut in pay. • The governor's decision sms an- I nounced in a 1200 word statement. No Further Cuts. ! The governor said he had decided | not to undertake the “questionable ' Policy of withholding a percentage of school teacherf,' and administrators i salaries"; would make no further cut I for the present in any state salaries ; | and would allot funds for the first ! two quarters of the fiscal year on the I basis they were alloted last year—7o j per cent of the legislative appropria • lions. i Then, he said, “If conditions maka j it nece.-sary" he will "call the gen eral assembly into extraordinary ms sion in November to balance the bud get ' for the remainder of this fiscal year." Saying he oeueved school approp i riations must be paid in full, Govsr | nor Gardner said he did not find "Jua* lice or equity in paying these salaries in full and at the same time slashing the salaries of other State officials and employes something like an ditional 25 to 33 1-3 per cent.” j Cut Highway Expenditures. Expenditures of the State Highway Commission will be materially curtail ed this fiscal year, the governor aaid. The department will spend at least $3,000,000 less this fiscal year thaa lta revenues were last year, he aatd. Ten days ago Henry Burke, aasle tant director of the budget, announced that State expenditures must be cut (Continued on Page Flea.) Strategy Board Over Prohibition 1 Lacks Unanimity; Washington, July 16 TAP)—The Ne» ttonal Prohibition Board of Strategy wants dry* to support candidates who believe "prohibition ought to be the support from its ranks far a resume law,” but hn.s not gotten _un*nimoua intended to show President Hoover’* attitude. The recommendation. also urging opposition to modification or repeal of the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act. is contained in a sum mary of campaign policy drawn up by a sub- committee and approved by I the board yesterday. # KEMP BATiTENEW PRESIDENT OF BAR Rocky Mount Man Baata Robert Ruark; Dry Re ferendum It Tabled Asheville. July 16.(API—The North Carolina Far Association elect ed Kemp D. Battle, of Rocky Moqqt, its president, and tabled a resolution, calling f. r a referendur. of its mem ber* on the question ow prohibiting repeal. Battle defeated Robert H. Ruark. of Raleigh, on the first ballot 85 to 3.1 • The prohibition referendum wea tabled by a vote of 60 to 40.
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