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|WT CAROLINA. | SINETE ENTH YEAR Hoover And Cabinet Plot Nations Course On Debts And Balancing Os Budget DEBT PUZZLE ONE' OF MAJOR IMPORT, PRESIDENT THINKS full Membership of Official Family Present for First Time Since Mid- Summer CABINET TOLD OF ROOSEVELT'S VISIT Also Informed Both Repub lican and Democratic Members of Two Big Con-j gress Committee Will Meet! With President Wednes-j day to Talk Debts U - n -■'>!. Nov 18. iAl’i Gath- . n - f : i cabinet around him for • t -• um«’ in months President ’ d sa\e consideration to , md domestic problems as . •• i- •<> h s confeicnees next « .. President-elect Roosevelt jr 1 •r.zressional leaders. i . m<>ie members of the offi : im:!y have been absent from [ • ■ -rssions since mid-summer for ji._: ,>r other reasons, but all r ■ 1 the call today in the face uh:. - .Mi. Hoover has termed a „> world problem of major im- c t<. this nation." (je-• -of foreign debtors for a ivu’orium extension and a review of -b’ field received cabinet atten »!• !’£ with the gigantic task of ■ £ Federal expenditures down to :» ... of receipts. X ’-.v arrived at (he White House, r.ni.tw- were informed that the Pres iler.- ■ an historic .telephone con ,M wdh his succeieor-elect yes- (Cantlnued on Page Winter Is Returning' To South ’• 1 <■>( ..fins. I«t Nov. 18.—(API TH .v for a loss yesterday when f id banks halted the advance l>r --«ding cold wave in Dixie, v p i .ed a reverse play on the ' rn with a secondary attack pi >mi to bring near freezing »n; a- ne- in mid-South coast cities k ightfall. ! • 't’hwest winds were more ;• -: ■ .£ .md Greenville. Miss., re "■•( *h- tnst -now of the winter in : ' n Mi- ppi with the temperature - feii in Memphis, where 'h. ■ rn< tnr-cr stood at 35 at noou. f i• • weie reported in nearly all j Atlanta To Launch War On Bandits 1.3 0 0 Plainclothes Citizens to Mobilize Against City Hold-1 I p (rang J ' x,,.. |* , AP) Mobil!-, ’ s-n" of ].500 citizens in ■ •’n*- to >r. n f, Ht banditry and '" •" Atlant wa< sought here 1 P°li< e committee. wave ~f robbery and bUr -2.,1 . , ,ilrn business men ' h ”' ,w ” was re- Tn,.... h ’’ muv e and the com- v,. l -’ h ’ v, ’ted to extend in- i. . |if) i >«a> Atlanta concerns to p- 4 . , pon-ibie men for de- i*. 'P etal police to aid the ’ Ji force h.. . ri - 'Har policemen h., r . '■ ’--ted for «,. '-time duty to A" h ’* f '’y ag„ st crime. . l "' t ,' U '’’ ed patl ' *■ n ” k,: anybody wnv ut . , „ ' ■ ; i'-.“d to arrest "every a-. ■ du ,' J”'" 1 ’ who cannot give a *’ * ! i.in.- i " itenitersnn Batin JJisnatrfi FULL LEABKD WIRE BWMV ICE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CONTEST RE-ELECTION OF DAVIS BF - J MWJ y y r ■ '. - £Sll K - 'er Lawrence Rupp Senator Davia Representative Black Gov. Pinchct p Citing alleged evidence of illegal , practices, attorneys for Lawrence ' Rupp, of Allentown, Pa., upper i left, defeated Democratic candi date for IJ. 3. senate, declared., the re-election of Senator James J. Davis, right, of Pennsylvania, would be contested. If election ir- ( regularities being investigated by ! Representative Loring Black, | America Will Dedicate Wright Memorial Shaft At Kitty Hawk Tomorrow War and Navy Secretaries To Join State Dignitaries at Spot Where Two Brothers Flew First Airplane In 1903; Dirigible Akroi), Is Expected Kitty Hawk. N. C.. Nov. lb.—(AP) The nation will dedicate on this bleak coast tomorrow a memorial to its two pioneers of aviation-—Wilbur and Or ville Wright. On the spot where 29 years ago on a December day the first airplane rose in flight in a fulfillment of the faith of the two brothers, a plyon will be dedicated. Two cabinet members are expected to be among the throng of notables of the nation and State drawn here. OEiRERJSESIF CHANGESENTENCES But Wilmington Men Con victed Jn Extortion At tempt Get Stay Wilmington, Nov. 18.—(AP) —A mo tion for arrest of judgment in the case of two former Wilmington officials convicted of attempting to extort $25.- 000 from Mrs. Jessie Kenan Wire, philanthropist, was ovenu e l in su perior court here today. The motion came before Jiu'ge W. A. Devin, who agreed with Solicitor Wood us n.eiium, however, to give P. Q. Moore, former mayor( and J. J. Furlong, 8r„ former police chief, the convicted pair, until January 2 to file SLR SDIXUU- Several months ago Moore and Fur long were tri edhere and convicted of attempting to extort the money from the Wilmington society , ®® sending notes threatening her life w the demands were not met. Moore was sentenced to three years in States Prison and Furlong two years, __ aL O?<LY DAILY NEWSPAPE R I left, below, of New York, are fe ! vealed, Gov. Gifford Pinchot, i center below, is expected to issue a ‘‘certificate of doubt” on March . .4v- 1933. when Davis return®—W ; qualify for his seat. Such a cer tificate was given William S. ! Vare, G. 0. P. boss of Philadel . phia, by Pinchot in 1926, prior to | Vare’s rejection by the senate. The secretary’ of war, Patrick J. Hur ley, is to deliver the address at the exercises, which begin at 11 a. m. His colleague. Charles Francis Adams, secretary of the navy, is also expected to attend. A monster of the air, the navy di rigible Akron, may fly overhead dur ing the ceremonies. The dirigible left Lakehurst yesterday for a training flight over the Atlantic, and, if weather conditions permit, will par ticipate in the dedication. Spinster Sisters, * Living as Hermits, Suicide With Gas 1 ; Toronto. Ontario, Canada, Nov. IK—(AP) —Death, stealing upon them from a world they' shut out for 30 years, has struck down the Misses Emma and Amelia Rich ardson, spinster sisters, for whom time stopped at the year 1902. In an old house which they had made a hermitage of Victorianism, In a bewildering world of mod ernity, the sisters, 76 and 73 years old, were found dead yesterday, clad in the busseis and ruffles of a vanished day. Today authorities decided that it was gas, one of the few con veniences in that quaint house, that caused their death. A partly opened burner on the kitchen range and the position of the frail bodies told the story. KING VIDOR GUEST IN STALLINGS HOME Durham, Nov. 18. —(AP) King Vidow the motion picture director, is viattDng JLaUrence Pfal ings, dramatist and author, sc his nome in Caswell county, near the Virginia line. PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY A F'SERNOON. NOVEMBER 18. 1932 STEDMAN'S ACTION IS GREAII SURPRISE INSIDE CAPITAL - r Appointment, of Charles M. Johnson as His. Successor Is Widely Approv. ed, However MOVE CLOSELY GUARDED Steps Up Tojpig Salary In crease Witlf Agricultural Bank; Mentioned to Him Only Last Monday; Goes To Washington For Con. ferences There Dall,- l4«eet<-h Iterewe. In the Fr XV’nltrr Ketel RV J C. nMMKKIt VI 1.1. Raleigh, Nov. 18. The resignation "»f John P. Stedmam as State treasurer here Thursday an® the immediate ap pointment of Chalies M. Johnson, di rector of Ix>cal Government, in his place came ns something of a surprise in political circles here. For Stedman has kept his appointment as vice president and general manager of the Regional Agricultural Credit. Corpor ation a deep secret until the last mo ment. The appointment of Johnson as his successor, however, is being widely approved both here and over the ■Uate. according to messages received here today. Johnson is probably bet ter known in governmental and fi nancial circles in North Carolina and New York than any other State of ficial with the eeeption of Governor O. Mtax Gardner, aa the result of his ‘ong service first in the State auditor’s office, then as executive seretary of he County Government Commission ind then more recently as director of r jocal Government* In these last two nosts. which he His held since May | 1, 1927, Johnson has had general su nervision of the enforcement of the ’arioua county government laws, in cluding those havimr to do with coun y finances, and h<s brought the fis cal condition of most of the counties ip to a high W. E. ->f I.ochl Govrenment, was appointed li rector by Governor Gardner to suc 'eed Johnson. Mr. Johnson will con *inue to be a member of the local Government Commission. however ;ince the State treasurer is an ex officio member of this body. He in tends to continue in close touch with the work of this commission. John son. in accepting the post as treasurer, is doing so at a sacrifice in salary, since the salary of the State treasurer (Continued on Page Four) Byrd Is Planning Return Next Year To the Antarctic Winston-Salem, Nov. 18.—(API —Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, here to addresa the National Orange, said today ships and planes had already been provided for his second exploration of the Antarctic region, which he plans to launch next October. Admiral Byrd said he planned to search for a “lout” continent, the fringe of which he believes he discovered on his previous trip to the South Pole area. Al Capone Becoming A ‘Sissy ” Chicago, Nov. 18. —(APi -Al Capone, arch gangster, has become a sissy, one of the men who helped send him to the Atlanta penitentiary reported today. United States Attorney Dwight Green returned today from Atlanta, where he took part in opposing Capone’s bid for freedom on a writ of habeas corpus. He said Capone ap peared to be in fine physical condi tion. but that he couldn’t yet make the prison baseball team. ‘‘Capone is a model prisoner." Green said. "In fact, he behaves so well the other boys are beginning to think he is a sissy. He obeys every order the second it Is given. “His face is bronzed and his figure has become trim and lost its pauch iness. He has become a valuable work er in the prison shoe factory." If his conduct so far were continued. Green indicated, Capone undoubtedly would earn every month the ten days allowed off his sentence for good be havior. WEATHER FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Hain tonight and Saturday; slightly warmee on the south coast tonight. _ Woman Flier Sets I Record in Flight I o South Africa SB ml 1— ■ Cape Town. Union of South Africa, Noy. 18.--<APi Amy Johnson, flying froxn sngtand. landed here at 1:30 p. m ; Greenwich time (8:30 a. m EST» today, clipping nearly eleven hours off the spefd record held by her husband. J. A. Mollison. I.ast March, Captain Mollison made the trip In four days. 17 hours and 19 minutes. His wife’s lime was four days, six hours and 55 minutes, or ten hours and 21 minutes faster than his. She brought her small monoplane, “Desert Cloud.” down to a skillful landing to the accompaniment of shrieking motor horns and the cheers of 2.000 persons waiting to greet her. I he crowd gave the police some trou ble as it rushed to surround the flier. STATE SENATE IS ABOUT EVEN UPON SALES TAX ISSUE One Alignment Puts 24 For and 26 Against Proposed Levy In 1933 Legislature McDUFFEE IS~DOWN AS OPPOSING PLAN Raleigh Observers Under take To Fix Line-Up Since Election, In View of Cer tain Struggle Impending Over This Method of Get- > ting Money Dntly l>lM|*nt«-h Rarenn, tn the Sir U nltrr Hotel. W j c. IHShLHVILI, Raleigh Nov. 18. Wih he oulook for he enactment of a sales tax of some sort by the 1933 General Assem bly becoming brighter almost dally, speculation is already turning here as to how the Senate will vote on a saes tax. The prevailing opinion here also is that whatever kind of sales tax is considered will be a combination of both the general and the luxury' sales tax. so that lines will not be drawn ns they were in 1931 between a gen eral and luxury sales tax According to the most recent polls of the 1933 Senate membership since the election, there are 24 members de finitely for a sales tax and 26 against a sales tax. A poll made by the anti s-sles tax partisans show 29 against (Continued on Fage Eight) Grange Urges Greater Use Os Cotton, Free Planting Winston-Salem. Nov. 18. — (AP» — Three resolutions, one urging promo tion of the use of cotton, one oppos ing n.ny change in the present system of delivering rural mall, and another opposing any compulsory crop reduc tion legislation, were introdueed to day at the annual convention of the National Grange. The resolutions were referred to a committee for consideration before being placed before'the-'Grangs tor ar gument and vote. Rear-Admiral Richard E. Byrd, who will address an opening meeting of the Grange tonight, arrived early today. He had breakfast with a group of lo cal citizens and Grange officials be fore retiring to his hotel to complete work on his address. The seventh degree, one of the most colorful fraternal orders of the Grange was conferred today on 2,100 mem bers. The seventh degree is the or ganization’s highest award. The sixth degree and the fifth degree were alao conferred on large classes. The resolution urging promotion of the use of cotton was introduced by , the South Carolina delegation. It sug- PUBUSHED EVERT AFTERX4OOM EXCEPT BUND AI. MR. POU PROMISES SPEED IN MOVE TO MODIFY DRY LAWS Denmark Not Fearfu) •-eon Trotsky The Danish department of justice stated that it was satisfied Leon 1 rotsky would refrain from spreading Communist propaganda during his forthcoming visit in Copenhagen. The exiled Soviet leader, who has lived in Turkey vince Josef Stalin, Soviet dictator, sent him into exile more than two years ago because of his opposi tionist tactics, will lecture on ‘The Ri. se o f t h c Soviet Repub lic” at the invitation of a Social Democratic students’ organiza tion in Denmark. 111 - - 111 ■ ■ I. . . Iri .« inn.. i I Hitler Is Apt To Be I A Power Now Berlin. Nov. 18. -(AP) Adolf Hit ler came to Berlin today prepared to meet President von Hindenburg in a private audience tomorrow and to lay before him the program of the power ful National Socialist party for deal ing with the stalemate in the Reich stag. The Hitlerited organ, the Voelkis cher Beobachter, of Munich, remark ed in connection with the Nazi chief tain's t rty to Berlin that it was not asking too much to expect the pow ers of the naton to "hearken to the; masses” and entrust Hitler with the formation of the new cabinet. Comment.ng on the resignation yes terday of Chancellor Franz von Papen the Nazi organ said that ’'his"’chan cellorship has proved the time of ex periment and half way measures is over." 12 BURIED ALIVE IN FACTORY’S COLLAPSE Roma, Nov. 18—(A1‘)—Twelve perwona were buried alive in the collapse of a factory building here today. Eight were taken out of the debris dead and four seriously I Injured were extricated. gested that cotton replace jule in bags for fertilizer, seed and other com modities. The rural mail resolution wai in troduced by the New York'tlelegation. The third resolution defended the farmer’s right to decide how much acreage he should plant to any crop and denounced compulsory-reduction under legislative acts. Winston-Salem, Nov. 18. -(AP)-- Governor O. Max Gardner last night told the National Grange here the “most fundamental need of the Am erican farmer today is two-fold—it Is‘ ttAtakdts and tax relief." The challenge to the political and economic leadership of the nation, he said, was to develop “a sound system of marketing that will give to nearly one-half of the American people a re turn that at least balances'the cost of production of their individual toll” and tax relief on property that would lesson the burden on the farmer. Declaring the value of the farm crops produced in the nation a year (Continued on Page Eighty 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COP 4 Hopes “We Can Get Modifi cation of Volstead Act Behind Us At The Short Session" TAR HEEL HOLDS STRATEGIC POWER Chairman of Powerful Rules Committee, Which Decid ed What Will and Will Not Come Before House; Is Prohibitionist But Op posed It Nationally Washington. Nov. IS.- (AP» Chair man Pou. of the House Rules Comnil'- tee. today expressed to newspaper men the ’’hope that we can get modifica tion of hie Volstead act behind us at the short session. As head of the |>owerful conianitte * which has so much to say as to wha' the House will act on. the North Caro lina Democrats is in a strategic posi tion in the House To newspaper men he said he “realized ihv difficulty of getting im pirtant Measures through Congres • during a short session." and added “I will be glad to cooperate in car rying out the pledges of the Demo cratic platform." Pou. the Democratic dean of tha House, voted against the eighteenth amendment and Volstead law, al though he was an advocate of pro hibition in North Carolina. In voting to sustain President Wil son’s veto of the Volstead act, he said in the House that the State was the largest political unit that should en force prohibition. Senator Harrison, Democrat, Mis sissippi, told newspapermen he felt beer and light wine would be legalized at the next session if the Treasury could not obtain needed revenues else where. PRINCE POPULAR WITH MILL GIRLS Rollicking Irish Almost Mob Walet>* Car On Belfast lour Belfast, Ireland, Nov. 18.—<AP» - The Prince of Wales was almost mob bed by a rollicking crowd of Iri’h working girls today when he set out on another expedition among the populace this morning to “see things for himself." despite protest against his visit here. The vivacious and smiling git Is ex citedly swarmed all over the prin/cs car when it arrived in front of a linen thread works in Lisburn. The girls clung to the mtidgar.is. jumped on the running board and climbed on the baggage gild to get a glimpse of the popular heir to the British throne. The prince smiled throughout the incident and then Inspected the plant. Cannon New Leader For Cotton Men Kemp Lewis Advises Legislature To Cut Costs, Not Levy Higher Taxes Pinehurst. Nov. 18.—(API —C. A« Cannon, Kannapolis, today' waa elected president of the North Caro lina Cottc.n Manufacturers Associs** tion to succeed Kemp Lewis, of Dim* ham. The association adopted a number of resolutions, one protecting against the Harriman bill Introduced in the last sr esion of Congress, and heard and address by the retiring president, Mr. I« wis. “Jizit a little courage in merchandis ing judgment will eave the cotton mil’ll in the South millions of dollars in the next few years.” be said. T.eferring directly to North Care lira. Mr. Lewis said the next session of the General Assembly would be “of vital importance to eotton manufac turers.” The legislature shouM make it Its business to find ways lowering gov ernmental expenses instead of in creasing taxes to meet unnecessary ex penditures." he said. The Harriman bill, which was op posed. would provide for the collec tion of five cent* uu every pound of cotton used by majrufacturers. The total amount, less cost of distribution, raised in this manner would he dis tributed among individual cotton far* mere. a .
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