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HENDERSON, GATEWAY TO central CAROLINA. .NINETEENTH YEAR HERRIOT BLAMES HOOVER drys begin appeal AGAINST MODIFYING PROHIBITION LAWS Oppositian Voiced by Wo men Claiming To Rep resent i 0,000,000 Mem bers Their Sex AGAINST INCREASING ALCOHOLIC CONTtNT Senate Sub-Committee Is Named To Hear Repeal Legislation In That Body, All Members of Group Ex* cept Borah Being Favor able to Making Changes ? h Dec 12 i APi Op • : 'i: '<> modification of the Vol .•i <w was presented today to the H u ** 'V tvs and Means Committee t<>zcn women prominent in the ;• nibition cause V ;he .-um« time the Senate Judi . *r Committee began » study of pro ’■> lepeal the eighteenth amend r • with jtorm signals of a sharp . ••ruvrr i y over banning the saloon w i - >'d high. Mr Henr>' W. Peabody, chairman ' 'fte Woman's National Committee ' r l.i»- Enforcement. headed the wo r -t tvefore-the ways and means com ru't- e. did two years ago wher v uc, eifully led the opposition to prjbiblfllon repeal profrexidlf before •*- mean* committee, a.- -fid twejeirs ago when she suc bofully lari, the opposition to a pro • •uni repeal before the flou.-e Judiciary Committee. \A» r-present in the woman's Na t:’f;i Committee for Law Enforce- ftid affiliations of nine great rutinn-*! nrganteftttotts of women ag iContlsued on Page Two.) Former Tar Heels Found Shot Pead In Virginia Home ■' -i nr boro. Va. Dec. 12---(AP' - r ['ton Cline formerly of Winston 'rtiom N C.. and his wife. Marie J»ci. on Cline, were found shot to in bed at their home here today rV-T h believed to have occurred '-•ur'ia> night, apparently was cau«- . »• “hoigun wounds, and officers *■ ••• »-d the theory that the woman i' 1 her husband and then took her '•vr if" ' coroners investigation is being L'i 'hi afternoon. Guy Cline, broth •' 'he dead man. found the bodies when he went to the house to deiivei nMi and forced an entrance after re rr Mug no response to his knocks. Lrge Fight In Wake On Loan Shark Sinclair Cautions Grand Jury About l surious Interest Charged '■• •igh Dec. 12. -<AP»- Judge N. A ''incliir. who opened a term of r ‘ a • here today charged the Wake ‘ i' " grand jury to make a careful v ■'! thorough Investigation to ascer ’ f any "loan sharks" are preying ’he people of Raleigh. i ig that orgrufzed move are under way in many cities ' ,f ’he State to curb loan sharks who , i "Mein*r usurious interest. Judge r toid the jury that he started 1 oroiiai crusade here a number of ‘ii- *<jr> which resulted in convict ,n - '*ne man and forcing others to stop business. ObRWLmtfPAUN Hrttitersoit 23 aily Uispatrl? JXr ...... ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. i mr vie* ur TH > ABBOCLATKD PRIMi To Die In Chair fIP /ww P* r |V / 4 } mmmmmmm. * Convicted of murdering a rural policeman. Elliot Harris, when he stopped her husband’s auto to search for liquor. Mrs. Beatrice Snipes (above). 29-year-old expec tant mother, of Columbia. S. C.. is the first white woman to be sen tenced to death in that State since the Civil War. If the sentence is carried out, aha will also be the first womaq in tfre State to jftfe in the _ elect rife chair. Jetts, "Snipe* claimed at her trial tharwhrrts was heat ing her husband and that he had drawn his pistol to shoot when she snatched it and fired. She insisted she did not intend to kill him. 3QNUSEVICTIONS INQUIRY IS ASKED McKellar Offers Resolution For Procedure at Ses sion of Senate WOULD PLACE BLAME Investigation of Acts Os Officials In CV>nnecMo» With Attack of So journers and History of March Anked Washington, Dec. 12. (AP) Im mediate investigation by a Senate ’ommittee of eviction of the bonus narchers from Washington was pro posed otday hv Senator McKellar. 'democrat. Tennessee. The committee would be directed to ‘investigate acts of District of Colum >ia or Federal officials, causing or banning, or Inciting or directing the .tlack on the ex-service men and wo nen and chldren, temporarly n Wash ngton. in the summer of 192." McKellar also proposed to investi gate the history of the march, the number participating, their purpose and conduct in Washington. Colorado Alleged Bank Embezzler Is NeU York Suicide New York. Dec. 12. (API -A suicide noose ended today the life of Wal ter C. Davis. 5-year-old president of the City Savings and Loan Associa tion of Colorado Springs. Col., who had fled from a million dollar embez zlement charge. Davis, seized here yesterday by a detective who had seen his picture in the “wanted" department oi a de tective story magazine, was found hanging in his cell in police depart ment here today. Prolonged efforts by an inhniator crew and ambulance surgeons failed to revive him. He had fastened his necktie to the upper part of his cell door, and his swaying form attracted the attention of a policeman as the latter made the rounds of the cell block. SENATOR DAVIS TO FACE TRIAL JAN. 9 New York. Dec 12.—<AP'-Re-trlel of United States Senator James J. Davis on Federal lo|tery and con spiracy charges today was set for January 3, HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 12, 1932 Fights New B. E. F. Bg 4 T& ¥ :4 * BHbBl fIBHB.. i Declaring that a repetition of last year's Bonus Army occupation of the capital would constitute a vicious attempt to exploit misery for propaganda purposes. Charles M. king.-olving. commander of'the New York chapter ox the American veterans, has sent out an appeal to other war veterans’ organizations asking their co-operation in pre venting another bonus march. King solving designated the last, B. E. F. as an unorganized rabble. LEGISLATURE MUST GET TO IRK FAST TO AVOID CRISIS Small Chance of Deadlock Because Blocs and Fac tions Are Becoming Unpopular OPEN MIND POLICY ACCEPTED BY MANY Revenue Bill Expected To Be One of First Under taken as Safeguard For State’s Credit; Members Face Disillusionment As To What To Do Ilnily liiapitcb Rspcms. In the Sir W'nltn Hotel., I\V ,| c. nASKI'KVII.I.. Raleigh, Dec. 12. The necessity for prompt action by the forthcoming General A-s.-vembly on a number of im portant problems, especially for the ■quick enactment of a revenue bill that will balance the oudget is going to force minor issues out of the way and compel the assembly to get down to work right at the beginning, ac cording to most opinion here. This Is giving rise to the belief that no dead lock between rival factions will arise, as in the 4931 session, to impede leg islation and cause a deadlock. “I have talked with a large num ber of the members of the new Gen eral Assembly, and without exception I have found that they realize the se riousness of the problems before them and that they are going to get to work as soon as they get here in an effort to solve these problems as soon, as possible,” a well known State of ficial said nere today. “I am also con vinced that there are going to be very' few blocs and lound robins this time, since very few members want to tie cn Page Four.) Colorful Magnus Johnson 1 To Return To Capitol Hill With More Sophistication By CHARLES P. STEWART Washington, Dec. 12. — Mangus John son, who will return to Washington as a member of the Farmer-Labor party's delegation of Minnesota rep resentatives , probar bly will find the rough - and - tumble of the lower.congres sionai c h amber more to his liking than ..the compara tive calm of the up per house, where he spent a couple oi winters, completing the late Senator Knute Nelson's un finished term about 10 years ago. The Minnesotan is MPjljpr * aa iadivididuai of considerable ability TOBACCO FIGURES IN NOVEMBER ARE SHOWNTN REPORT Henderson Total Given As 4,635,950 Ford Month at ; Average of $13.17 pel 100 STATE S AVERAGE . IS GIVEN AS $12.68 Compared With SB.BI In November Last Year; Henderson Exceeded In Old Belt By On|y Winston- Salem and Durham, Both In Pounds and Averages Raieigh. Dec L 2 (AJP) ,North Car olina fanners .sold 61.446)005 pounds of tobacco,in November aj an aver age of $12.68 per. hundred pounds, com pared with 116.419.b91 pounds at SS.BI ppr hundred the same month a year ago. the Federal-Statti Crop Reporting Service announced today. The 19 markers Hated in the Old Bright Belt, headed by Winston- Salem. Durham and Henderson, soki 31.915.079 pounds at an average of $ll.BB last month In November. 1931, sales were 48,671754 pounds at an av erage of $8.50. Henderson sold 4.420.538 pounds at an average of $13.17 per hundred pounds. Durham sold 4.635.946 pounds for an average of $1520. and Oxford sold 4.302.950 pounds for an average of $11.72 pe hundred pounds. The 14 markets in the New Bright Belt of Eastern North Carolina, with Greenville and Wilson leading in sales handled 29,494.926 pouads of farmers tobacco an average of SID.SG per hundred pounds. A year ago the bolt sold 66,514.591 pounds in November at. an average of $9.10. The weed this season has averaged sl2 30 per hundred pounds, or 28 per cent. higher than last s. nson. RUSSIA RESUMES CHINA RELATIONS Soviet Foreign Comissar At Geneva So Informs Chinese Delegate Geneva.. Switzerland, Dec. 12. (API - Maxim Litvinoff Russian foreign commissioner, announced this after noon resumption of normal diplo matic relations between Russia and China, effective today. In a letter to Dr. W. W. Yen, Chinas spokesman before the Lea gue of Nations. Mr. Litvmoff wrote: “In pursuance of our recent von versation, I have the honor to inform you that, being desirous of promoting peace and friendly relations between our countries, my government has de cided to regard normal dip'omatic and consular relations yith the gov ernment of the Chinese republic re established from this date." COL. E. L GILMER, OF GREENSBORO, PASSES Greensboro, Dec. 12—(Aj?>— Colonel E. I* Gilmer, retired army officer and pioneer resident of Greensboro, died last night at Walter Reed hos pital in Washington, word received here today said. and of very pronounced personality. That Is to say, he stands out In a crowd. He has “it”—magnetism. Nevertheless, it mutit be admitted that he lacked sophistication -at the: time of his introduction into the na tional political whirl. He had had some experience as a state legslator, tout it had hardly prepared him for •the larger life at Washington. Had he started modestly, among ‘the rep resentatives his initiation would have 1 been gradual, and doubtless all would' have been well. Starting in all at once however, as a senator, was too much for him. He is beginning now where toe ought to have begun In the early 1920'5; delayed meanwhile, in his rise' in public life, by a decade. Johnson’s head was not particularly (Continued on Page Tour). FOR DEBT SNARL 1931 Moratorium Cause Os All Trouble, Premier Advises French Chamber COOLIDGE AND A L SMITH CONFER . W __ L__| Fh :: • „ ‘ -"v.iay B| 131 Mmmm r- \lfred E. Smith Former President Calvin Coolidgc, I right, and former Governor Alfred j rT. Smith are snapped in New J York City during the delibera- i cions of the National Tra.isporta- i tion committee in the Empire 1 Gas Companies Called To Conference On Rate Cuts Henderson and Oxford Company Included In Number Summoned to Raleigh on Dec. 21 TELEPHONE HEARING IS SET FOR JAN. 11 Hearing an December 20 on Application of East Coast Stages for Bus Line From Durham to Henderson by Oxford; Franchise There Is Sought Raleigh, Dec. 12. - (AP) The State Corporation Commission today called public utilities companies selling gas in North Carolina to meet here De cember 21 for conferences looking to rale reductions At the same time the commission announced its investigation locking toward revision of telephone rates downward would be launched at a con ference with telephone companies here January 11. The Southern Public Utilities Com pany, which handles gas and elec tricity will not be called to the con (Continued on Page Tour.) IJkWILL f*? R9QERS \7 p sgys: Beverly Hills, Calif„ I*ec. 12. Big fntthall game! One hundred thousand of us sit there In the cold and picked up wheat little pnuemonia there was left. Give a Californian a football or an orange, and he knows more things to do with it than a Har vard guy does a dictionary. Notre Dame had a fine tout but taking one look at that CaM foraia line should have started ’em throwing forward passes. Be fore they got off the train I would have sent players up in the stands to grab off passes. Pittsburgh is coming out to paly chu team New Year's In what we humorously call our “Rose Bowl” Well, It’s a nice trip out here and California will play their chamber of commerce against ’em the first half. Would have brought Colgate, but everybody out here thought they was a tooth paste team off the radio. Yours, - WILL. PUBLI9HKD EVERT APTUNOOI KXCBPT SUNDAY. Calvin Coolidge State building, This is one of the few pictures ever made showing the two outstanding politics, rivals together. The committee is trying to find “away out” for railroads, on behalf of inve "ions. Railroads Propose Extension of Cut Chicago, Dec. 12.—(AP)—Execu tives of the naflonaks railroads proposed to the brotherhoods of employees today that the ten per cent reduction in pay be extended indefinitely past next January 81, when the agreement of last year Is due to expire. The suggestion came from W. S. Phiehoff, spokesman for the mana agemerits at the start of their Joint conference with heads of 21 shop chafts. It caused a recess less than one hour after the conference with labor heads had convened. STEDMAN PROPOSES RADICAL WES Some Will Be Readily Ac cepted by Legislature and Others Opposed Do llv Dtsaarea Ssims la the SI; Walter BrUl. nr j. r saikesvill. Raleigh, Dec. 12.—Most of the xe-, commendations made by former Stato Treasurer John P. Stedman in his re port to Governor O. Max Gardner, which has just been made public, art undoubtedly sound from a purely fi nancial point of view, it is agreed by most of those here who have studied these proposals. But many of these recommendations are not expected to get very' far in the general assembly, (Continued on Fm* Two.) Appalachian Coal Case Is Advanced By Supreme Court Washington. Dec. 12 fAP)—Th Su preme Court today advanced the ap peal of Appalachian Coals, Inc., ar organiaiion of bituminous coal ope rators. from a decision that the or ganization violated th kherman anti trust act to January 9. * • The order of th* court will greatly sped decision of a case considered of vital importance to the coal and nat ural resources producing Industries. 6' PAGES TODAY ■■HMnssssunmaHßßasivMMh FIVE CENTS fittEl CHARGES AMERICA SHOULD HAVE KEPT IlfT OF SITUATION $ United States Wished to Hold Aloof, Hoover Ought Not to Have Become Involved SHOULD HAVE MADE GERMANY TAKE STEP That Country Could Have Asked for Moratorium, Herriot Declares; War Debt Issue Will Be De bated in British Commons on Next Wednesday Paris. Dec. 12 ~(AP) Premier Her riot. blaming all Europe's debt trou bles on the Hoover moratorium of 1931. told the Chamber of Deputies today that his government propoee* to pay with reservations the $20,000,- 000 debt installment dtte the United States next Thursday. Payment with oat -reservations, Be laid, would be Inaeceptabte, and out and-out refusal to pay would be "the final imprudence." DECLARES UNITED STATES SHOULD HAVE STAYED OCT Paris, lec. 12.-(AP)—The debt moratorium which President Hoover ieclared in 1931 was the cause »>r all the present trouble in which Anrer ica's debtors are now involved. Pre mier , Herriot declared today in ouv lining his debt , policy before tha Chamber of Deputies. "That is my interpretation of thd Hoover moratorium.’’ he said “If the United States did no* want to concern itself with the probp'm of (Continued on Page E»mv.) Six Men Injured In Wilmington as Two Trucks Crash Wilmington, Deo, 12.—(A P)— Six unemployed mr-n temporarily working on ,» itm timproi ament project here wore Injured two critically when a laundry truck crashed into the rear of a truck taking the men to work. R- I Wand Hamer, driving tha laundry truck, said the driver of the other machine failed to hold out his himd aa he pulled to a atop on Un way to work, and that be could not avoid the crash. * Garner was arrested, however, and chy rged with recldeas driving All aix of the Injured were taken to a hospital, where It was said they received varying degree* of ln.lp.rjr. Physicians said the two eittlealiy Injured had a fighting cfiance to live. _ ; Roosevelt Considers N.Y. Affair ALbauj, N. Y. Dec. 13, —YAP) Franklin D. Roosevelt's attention to i day was upon'Hew York. State’s Re publican legislature, which wma to ! consider his proposals ty behalf qf “draetic" reorganixatiofl In the Ntv/ York City government. Mr. Roosevelt braved a snowstorm and treacherous roads last night to drive track to Albany from Hyde Park for a conference-with Lieutenant Gov ernor Yehman on the situation prior to convening the special session sche duled for 8:30 o'clock tonight. WEATHER FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy with rain to night and Tuesday; sllgixtfy colder Tuesday sad In west portion isnlytofc
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