■hRMPEKSON. I GATEWAY to CENTRAL CAROLINA. nineteenth year WOULD . a g a « » trench Deputies Reject Herriot’s Plan For Paying Debt To U. S. HUGE GROUP MAY VOTE AGAINST ANY PAYING WHATEVER Votes in Foreign Affairs and Finance Committees 1 Heavily Against Premier’s Plan LACONIC BRITISH NOTE CABLED HERE pledge To Pay Installment i Due Thursday Indicates i British Basic Policy of; Debt Cancellation Has not! Changed; Affirms Pre vious Note ltru»sf>|«. HHcU.ii. I>ee . IS.— \• rrnnient re>lgned Ahl*. after- : »«*•»«• rflrr having reoched a dr- ! . •«(<>■• «»n iln* *var dHrts which was •ft .in min nerd. ‘ I I >rc 13 • APi "eiu- foreign ! •ml finance committees of thej • imlirr of Deptuics today rejected I *i -*r Herriot's propcsnls to pay j e.'t rvations the debt installment j lie I'lMted States on Thursday. vote in the foreign affairs com-) e was 29 to 9 and the finance! mutter 22 to 9. Tt • premier, with the hacking «>f j •- • ouncil of ministers, had prepar-, note for tnaHoraiudon So Wash-i lecfarfn?"HS# intention of pnv-| • K * sl9 261,43 k, and asking that i ment be counted as a part of I ni'imul accord. 1 T..«- draft of Hie note asserted Unit • definite settlement of th<‘ . .. k-u* 1 can be made. Fnnce will 'u ible to “to support henceforth ' iiden of a regime which can on ju.'Mfied by the payment of le H wbmitted it to a joint meeting M'<>ntintied on Fage Four) 6-1 lour Day Not Hurtful 10 Carriers Commerce Commis sion Reports on Ef fect of Shor te ** Working Hours l inglon. Dec 13 - (Al*)— The ■•>•# Commerce Commission ad f’ongreaa today that the six •tr duv on railroads would have no ■ ' i< :i* effects on operation of the - if revenues are sufficient to Mlded operating expenses. • * rommUalon reported the re • f it- investigation on the six ‘ a ordered at the last session ' iiKiess. tl said that upon the "f compensaUon, the sppllca ■f ’he six-hour day would add •V I* .100000 and 350.000 employees •■ •I such as 1930 and between ’" imi 100.000 in a year of abnor *•• •in mic conditions such as now Senator Wheeler Predicts Roosevelt Will Be Known As ‘Another Conservative* HARLKX |\ STEWART - - i hin;fon Dec. 13. How will the il ldaiinistration beginning •' Mnn-h compare with what might • ii»en expected if the l*a Follette W heeler progressive ticket had • ujht years ago? • Hder Senator Da Follette is 1 fair Senator Burton K. Wheeler • »' his running mate, ia here to 1 a «ues*i at an answer to the ’I , depend* entirely he says “upoa •ir.ur Roosevelt. ( resent views had . he been " 1 1 1924 or even in 1928, doubt 'A have classed him as a lll>- *" '• perhaps a radical. Itenitersmt F o» L *.£s*®*° WIH» URVId °* THK AfISOCI AT ED PRESS Rail Workers Turn Down Extension Os Wage Cuts .... "• si i wt-f Fro-n Last Hope Hollow, Kv., to the famous Albert Hall in London is tr long cry, but that doesn’t daunt 74-vear-old Jilson Setters, called inc last of the fiddlers of old American folk tunes. Setters is shown in New Yor';, r-nroute to the English capital, where he is to play in the rolebratcd auditorium in a national musical festival. The tunes he play have never been written, but ars handed down front generation lo ecncration by ear. Draft Made Os Plan For Farm Relief Covers Wheat, Cot ton, Tobacco, and Hogs and Repeal of Part of Farm Act Washington. Dec. 13. employees' rep* epentativea at the Mill wage scale conference, present ! the answer of i hrw brotherhooda to ‘he executives at th£ opening of to •lav's joint, session. He made clear that iiiboi' would not accept any indefinite extension of the present wages, but would be willing to oh*cuss an exten sion if a definite fceiminaton were fxed. I Hit reply pointed dul that the rail way proposal made Wslftilay fttd not conform to the purpose of the confer ence a-s set forth in the invitation sent out by the carriers October 14. "Your proposal of yesterdav," said Whitney for the employees, “was not n proposal to exteud the agreement for any period. Your committee hns indicated its desire to terminate the agreement at the earliest moment. To agree to your right of termination ec. 13. — (AD — Babe Kuth. the Yankee slugger and Mrs. Ruth will leave here to night for their home in New York, cutting short by four days their annual ten-day hunting trip at Camp Bryan, near here. Mrs. Kuth joined the Baheh at ramp Sunday, and they had plan ned to remain until Saturday. Yesterday, however, they received a telegraphic call to return home Thursday. The extreme wet weather, which has made hunting out of the question, caused them to decide to leave tonight. NINE MEN HELD TO WILMINGTON COURT ..Wilmington, Dec. 13.—(API-Nine men, one of them said to he a for mer British naval officer, were bound over to a Federal court at a preliminary hearing today on charges of conspiracy to violate the tariff act of 1930 hy landing a cargo of whiskey on a North Carolina be-*.ch from the British vessel Zebadiah. /SWILL - Beverly Hills, Cal., Dec. 13. Well, the Democrats made good out here. I don’t know what they promised In the rest of the coun try, but Roosevelt promised us rain, and, by golly, he made good. The rest of the country can lie excited over prohibition, disarm aments, war loans, or the new cabinet; but this is a desert coun try, and if we don't get rain, we are blowed no. We can show you oranges growing and flowers, but you look under the bush, you will see a hose. A sprinkling can is our nation al emblem- Rain is never a nuis ance here—it's a miracle. s«. the Democrats have made good. j Yours, ■ 1 ' T WILL Chicago Hus Eight Dead by Violence Chicago, !kr. 13.— (A I*)—Met ropolitan Chicago counted Hght deaths by violence today—six by guns cracking and reverberating In near zero temperature; one by suffocation when robbers left a woman to die after binding ami gagging her, and another hy stab bing. Os the six, three were policeman, cm j- lutmilt, another an alleged automobile theft, and another a i former lightweight boxer. The. killings occurred within a few hours o' aa anti-'rime ultima tirn delivered by Mayor Auton J. Ccrmak to tile city’s |H)lice cap tains. STATE-SUPPORTED I 8 MONTHS SCHOOL URGED BY M’LEAN And “The Law” Author Would Do It Without Any Property Tax at All Over The State BIG COROPRATiONS GET MOST BENEFI^ These Are McLean’* Favor ites, Though School Peo ple Loot? TTpon Him as Their Patron Saint; Sales Tax Proposed to Make up Difference „ „ ** Daily Dispatch Barcnx, In the Mir Walter Motel„ IIV J C. BASK Cl! VI 1,L.. Raleigh, Dec. 13.—Now that tile ■Te rn ova I of the 15 cents property tax for .school purposes is viitualiy assured, freeing property of all participation in the .support of the *nx months school term, the next step Lj to gel a S!a 1 "-supported eight months schoo term, also without any property tax. This was indicated this past week in a speech made by Angus Dhu Mac- Lean, father of the now famous Mac- Lean law." before a gathering of school people in Beaufort county. «€• cording to reports reaching here. Mac- Lean is also reported to have declar ed in favor of a constitutional amend ment to this effect and to favor the administration o fthe entiie State sys (Continucd on Page Four.) Senate Probe of Stock Market Is , Ordered Resumed Washington. I»ee. 13.—(Al*)— The Senate Ranking Committee today ordered a resumption of the inquiry into the stock market and appointed a sub-committee to con duct hearings. It is to he headed hy Senator Norbeik, Republican, South Da kota. and includes Glass, Virginia, and Fletcher Florida, Democrats and Couzcns Michigan, and Town send, Delaware. Republicans. “DR.” DAN HARRIS AT LAST INDICTED PraJeigh. Dec. 13. i AP)-"Doctor*’ Dan Harris, local self-styled cancer ..pecialist. today was indicted by the Wake county* grand jury on charges of having carnal knowledge of a fe male under 16 years of age. The offense is punishable by im prisonment and is not a capital crime, though Harris had been held for the grand jury on capital charges after a preliminary hearing sometime ago. REPEAL COMMITTEE LACKING IN QUORUM Washington. Dec. 13.—(AP)— The Senate Judiciary’ Committee sub-com mittee. named to consider alf prohi bition rmempeal legislation, postpon ed its scheduled opening meeting to day because of lack of a quarum and will try to meet tomorrow. WCATHfI FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Rato tonight and Wednesday; not much change in temperature. PUBLISHED EVERT AFTBEMOOB, EXCEPT SUNDAY Resolution Killed By House, 38XJTo8 As Vote Is Taken Advocates Cuts Ik. il Brigadier General Frank T. Hines, administrator of the Veterans’ Bu reau, is shown as he testified before the joint Congressional Committee which is conducting a hearing into veterans’ expendituree. General Hines advocated the cutting off of allowances to veterans whom disa bilities won not spate mod during • servioa. CUY PEOPLE WILL ~ SUFFER IST WITH SALESTAX LEVIES Farm People Next In Order In Oppressiveness To Be Felt By This Form Os Taxation \ * _____ CORPORATIONS PAY ONLY VERY LITTLE Farmers and City Folks Will Be Losers In Exchanging 15 Cents Property Tax for Sales Tax; Yet the Levy Seems Sure in Next Legis lature Dally l)l»|i*lrh n arena. In the Sir Walter Hatel. nr j v. nash mivili. Raleigh. Dec. 13. -The principal ar gument being advanced for the re moval of the 15 cent* State property tax for school* Is that it will help the farmers. Yet. according to the latest figures available and based upon find ings in the forthcoming report of the State Tax Commission, the abolition of the 15 cents property Lax and the substitution of a. two per cent gen eral sales tax in its place, will cost the farmers and their families almost 52,000,000 more a year than the pre (Continued Page Four.* Even Crime Rackets Feel Stress Os The Ha.rd Times; Prison Populace Declines Daft* Dtapatra BirMS. la the Sir Walter Betel. XT J. r HAIKERVILL. Raleigh, Dec. IS.—An indication that crime and the various crim inal “rackets” are kiqt paying any more and that even crooks are feeling the pinch of economic 1 conditions and finding crime tml j profitable, is found In the report on the population of the State Prison during November, accord ing .to George Row Poa Its sup erintendent. The population of the prison on December, 1 wae 2.TU a decline of 11 from 3,786 on No vember L the first ttme in many months that a dweVraai in popula tion has been shown. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS C#FM Betrayal of His Country Charged to Mr. Hoover by Irate Pennsylvania Congressman ALLEGEsTHGH CRIME AND MISDEMEANORS Secret Conversations With German Agents and Inter national Bankers Alleged, Together With Obstruction of Payments By Foreign Debtor Nations Washington. Dee. 13.—(AP)— The House of Representatives, by 361 to 8 votes thk afternoon re jected a move hy Ttepresentatl\o MeFadden. Pennsylvania. Repub lican. for the Impeach of Presi dent Hoover on ‘the grounds that he had betrayed the country on war debts. Nearly every member was on the floor when MeFadden introduced the resolution. The remainder went to the floor while the long document w«s being read. / VcFadden long has been a sos of Mi*. Hoover and ass Ailed him in the resolution, especially in connection wilh the morffcorium, I .at sessirn. for his attack on the MtcFkiidcn was deprived of all his patronage rights, which were (Continued en Page Poor.) Drys Argue On Content Os Beverage Bishop Cannon Leads Protest To Committee 'Against Beer Measure Washington, Dec. 13 (AP)—Prohi bition leaders rallied behind Bishop James Cannon, Jr., today to present tho House Ways and Means Commit tee that Congress is without power to fix the alcoholic content of beverages. Speaking to the commiM«-e mem bers grouped about their high horse shoe table, the Southern Methodist churchman stood at the front of a crowd that presaod so tightly against the outer doors (that one woman col lapsed an