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f itf.\T>EkS9N, ! .nVF.WAY to ckntral CAROLINA. VINFTLENTH YEAR r nr L, Twf A ??i^T- WIKB «*RVIC» L OF the associated press. SHARP LIMITS OH DISABILITY FUNDS TO VETS IS ASKED Hin-s Would Withdraw Aid Unless 50 Percent Permanently Disabled By War Service WOULD TAKE 356,555 OFF OF THE ROLLS Veterans Administrator Gets Into Heated Argument With Senator Robinson, of Indiana, Advocate of Lib eral Treatment; Charges Inequalities K * .'< n ! >rc 16 lA!' > F'ro §§ dt-ctbihiv allowances n» i j*eimanently disabled • ■ fiftv |h reent was uryed ■ K : i!.U T veteran «d-t • • with :< i; e.-Ulnr-ltP that the wmihi.MiU' ssl 34.1.000 the • ■»r th» proposal. ■ '• < "itißi- ndatinn made to n K -: • "i<• nhl committee st udy ■ '>.!••> in vetetans' costs start i .• <* argument with Senator Republican. Indiaiir. an »d --■ i hln-tal treatment of veteran.- 11l t .* t _: •«! the equity of the pro <at it would remove 356 55'> |H - trnni disability loles. Tire pro • d'.iwcd r'ose behind a reconi '!•’ itiat 'tie retroactive period payment of veterans' awards . I' l-is he shorened by half i - sard the retroactive changi would have the payment ot ■ i Is or increase- cover a porios mix six months before adminu . e determination or the date of .:. isr of 'iti application for review . ii -ave $15,000,000 annually. Hr es • • '•••<! that it would affect 146.001 • ino r service men. RON INDUSTRY AT ONE TIME THRIVED 100 Years Ago Their Smoke Was Biggest Instead of Textile Mills lllaanlch Rarrna, In the Mr Wnllrr Hotel »'» J f ntHKHnTIII Dor 16 One hundred • !<••• 'he smoke <>t iron force? 1 ’in rar>\- rather titan cotton mills •"•■•1 Mo t-asis of North Carolina's < n manufacturing according to mu i-. "Iron-Making A Fofgot lintii.-tiy of North Carolina.' 1 by I-1• t J. Cappon. of the Univer ■' Virginia. in the current issue No'th Carolina Historical He pi.’ lu-hed by the Noith Caro tC-ton,cal Commission i needs and governmental aid * t .i non manufaeturinc on the he- <>t Deep River and in the v ilieys of the Yadkin and I •••ha miring the Revolution But d” »ry gained no substantial! un.il after the act of 1788. -• S uoh acres of vacant land . iiy iron works erected in the *ll ■ I exemption from taxation I ye ; ,is if the works produced in<J? of iron within thite <t the grant. Within a few five families Kigali the nianu ' • of iron in Lincoln county and ■u i v controlled the industry in iruoiit North Carolina for three iati hi- Peter Forney. John Da • Alcxancier .Brevard, Joseph 1 and John Fulenwider. ' i lsmi a number of forces were i •h-tn-d in the northwestern cor ■ f tlu- state where Col Meredith; ■ i owned a large share of the i•• i• lands. In Lincoln county in • here were 10 forges and t fur making 900 ton-s of bar iron and • i n- »f castings, which competed 'ow-priced European iron for the • tiade of the Piedmont Carolina* t intinl tommies were made by t-aily iron masters who were • i at the same time. In 1830 t'li Carolina produced 1.800 tons ;■ -• :ion. and in 1840 a total of 963 i of wrought and bar iron. '“■■l ’hts the industry declined, due • \ ’<> ii'mii transporation, primitive boils uiijted deposits, geograp- I'H.ition and competition with • mole mature iron industry' in the • mb A’umpta to revive the indus dui'inu and after the Civil War ! .«)' ..ticceed, and at the end of the <C mUnued on Page Seven.) OUR WEATHIP MAN i -v SHOPPING |1 ~°£ Y ’ Hettiirrsnit k| WL y • jjft - ’ !f H Wff I® ' Here u Martin Kenimo-er, left, of Ai ieniown. l J a who threw a scare into rn.- house of representatives when he ! blandished a loaded revolver from the gallery in the house of representatives • •tt Washington and demanded the , legislature to listen to his remarks TWO NEGROES PAV SUPREME PENALIY Both Had Been Convicted of Murder, One in Lee, Other In Gaston CONFESSION BY ONE Slayer of I;tv County St >n'-keeper Coes to His Doom Without Ad mitting 11 is Guilt to the Authorities Raleigh. Dec. 16 (AIM Two Ne groes wer- e.ectroeiited at State's Prison here today Both were convict ed of murder, and one admitted his guilt today. Harvey Wallace, convicted in Lee "ounty of the murder of h store-keep f at Cumtiock. ami Alex Grier. s*»n --m need for the slaying us r\ Gaston '“tinty filling stalioti operator, paid the peunltv demanded by 'he law for tlusir crimes. Wallace went to the ehnir first, be ing killed by one .-hock of electricity a : he prayped. He did not change his -talement that he did not kill N. Fi Perry, the store-keeper. The current cursed through hts body a bare one minute and 58 seconds, :m unusually -hori time. Grtcr confessed tins moMTlng Vo Warden H. H. Honeycutt that ne was guilty, as charged, of killing Harold Cat ter while attempting to hold up his filling station. It took three shocks, each of more than a minute's ] duration to take his life. SAVS LADY ASTOR CHARGE NOT TRUE Children Under 14 Not Em ployed In Industry In North Carolina Diillr Ulxpßti'h Rarrai, In lk« Mir Walter Hotel. HV J C. lUSKEHVIII, Raleigh. Dee. 16 No children un der 14 years of age are employed in any textile or manufacturing plants of any kind in North Carolina, and only 1.28 ft workers being the age of 14 and 16 have been c«Ttified for employment during tne past year. E. F. Carter, executive secretary of the division of standard; and inspections, in answer ing the statement made by La<iy Nancy Astor recently in New York. "The charge made by Lady Astor in speaking the National Con sumer; League to the effect that Brit ish mills could not compete with the mills in North and South Carolina, in which children worked from 12 to 14 hours a day, was very unfair to these states an dentitely incorrect." Mr. Carter said. “In the first place, chil dren under 14 years of ago cannot be employed in any manufacturing plants, including textile mills, in either State with the one exception, these who are their own sole support or the sole support of a widowed mother. For this class, only 40 certificates had been issued for the ttwo year* ending July 1, IW2- It is aUso a ,act that no children under 16 years of age. with the exception of this one class, ca«> work at any trade in a manufacturing plant or store in North Carolina with out being certified by the State. And even then, they cannot be employed around or in a Structure wher eany |f, urtimmA on Fs#» ONLY DAILY SURPRISES CONGR ESS WITH A GUN newspaper HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON,. DECEMBER 16, 1932 about reviving industry. At right is Representative Melvin ,1. Maas of Minnesota whose courage awed his colleagues when he demanded that Kemmeret drop the weapon from the gallery above. The youth tossed it to the congressman, who made a„per fect catch. Opposes Beer Bill ■sSHBiBb, ' 3S": Mrs. Lila Boole, president of the National W. C. T. U., is shown as she testified before the House Ways and Means Committee during the sessions of hearings on proposed bills to legalize wines and hecr. Mrs. Boole warned that the return of beer would "increase hunger, add to unrest and incite wrangling and violence among the unein oloved " SECOND MUTILATED BOOT DISCOVERED Maniac Killed Believed At Work in Vicinity of I Chattanooga s Chattanooga, Tenn., Deo. 16. -(Al J > --Discovery or the second mutilated body with a row weetts in north Hamilton coupty today, led officers to advance a theory of a maniac, slayer. Officers said the body, that of a white man. was found nude beside a log: near Daisy by two hunters. The head and shoulders and arms were missing: and Dr. W. H. Cheney, coun ty physician, expressed belief the vic tim had been killed by a maniac and dasa\embered to prevent ident®ca tion. A.few weeks ago the mutilated body of another man was found in the s&me section and officers today of fered the theory that a maniac was responsible for the death of both. WINTER GOES ON RAMPAGE TODAY ■ Charlotte, Dec. 16.—fAP)—Winter went on a spree toady blowing: cold wind, rain and sleet into every sec tion of the State with temperatures dropping below freezing. Before ha got through the weather man said the temperature will drop to the winter's lowest and that snow will fall over most of the State this afternoon and tonight. CLARA TO EUROPE WITH HUBBY New York. Dec. 16.—(Af*)—Clara Bow, film actress, sailed for Europe shortly after midnight today on the liner Bremen, accompanied by her husband, Rex BelL, ’ * * A# Hatilt Hismttrfi PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. * SENATOR ROBINSON - TOBE LET DOWN AS LEADER OF SENATE New Senator From South Carolina, James F. "Byms, Slated as New Ma jority Chief ROBINSON IS NOT GOOD PROGRESSIVE Known as Conservative and As Such Would Be Out of Tune in Next Congress; Good Place Up Higher Believed To E|e Reserved For Him By CHARLES V. STEWART Washington. Dec. 16. Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas ap pa.ently is being skidded with in finite care, to avoid any unpleasant ness - out of his leadership of thb Dt mocrntic forces in the upper house of congress. Political Washinglaui sux mise.s that he has b*cn assured -he will be suitably provided for other wise. and is ncquiesceat. The story thus fa» is perfectly plausible. Rf potts that Senator Janies F. By mew of South Carolina is slated to succeed Hie Arkansan as generalis simo of the Jeffersonian phalanx at the north end of the Capitol building aie no so easy to believe. In fact, they are almost incredible. Xcc<<rth“- less, they are persistent. Senator Byrnes is serving his first term in the senate, although he was an incon spicuous member of the house be tween 1911 and 1925. The character of last November's, election iesult would have made Sen ator Robinson's present position un comfortable for him. even were it not for the constant attacks of Senator Fluey P. teng of Ix>uisiann. This is not to belittle the "King fish's" achievements. He sti-uck at every vulnerable joint jn the Arkan sas solan's armor, and especially did the latter no good when he offered in evidence, at the tnist s«ston of con gress. a lengthy list of the power cor porations included among ht cedents of the Little P.ock law firm of which (Continued on Paje Seven) LOANS AVAILABLE TO FARMERS AND STOCK RAISERS Steelman Making Loans At Raleigh Office of Agri cultural Credit Corporation $5,486.00 DISBURSED SINCE OFFICE OPENED Million* Have Been Ap proved ~ and WilT Be Dis bursed to Thousands of Borrowers at An Early Date »i i f Raleigh, Dec. 16.—-tAPI—The Re-, gional Agricultural Credit Corpora tion at Raleigh has disbursed $,j,156.- 00 to borrowers since itw as opened on December 10, It was learned today from John Stedman. manager of the Raleigh office. Mr. Stednian said “It is the purpose and desire of this of fice to assist in the rehabiliatation of agriculture and stock raising, mak-, ing financial assistance available where it is needed without engaging .in unwarranted competition with private enterprise.” The Credit Cor poration which serves the southeast also has a branch in Macon. Ga., is one of the twelve created by Con gress. Mr. Stedman said that information had been received from Ford Hovey, chief of the agricultural products di vision at the Reconstruction Finanoe Corporation, revealed that loans ag gregating fifteen million dollars had already been made to 3.500 borrowers by the corporation and that $31,000,- 000 hadefceen approved but not dis j bursed. The statement also revealed I that 29,500 applications totaling $65,- 000,000 await action. WEATHER FOP. NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy, probably snow in the Interior and rain or a now on the coast tonight and Saturday; slight ly wanner on the coast Saturday. FOR HENDERSON. For 84-hour period ending at noon today : Highest temperature, 64: lowest, 81; no Tata; northwest wind; aloud?. „ Books Closed On December ■ ■ ■ V • Payments And Debts Issue k Becomes Problem Os Future Gold by the Carload I' ail m I r ™ m ~ -^NLtIM 1 mßm BB Sr yH H E^BWbl-J ■ft W HB m The arrival of this shipment of 217 boxes of bar golu trm., . , the S. S. Berengaria is believed responsible for the ‘-burn raii.v id '-hr pound in lam don. The gold, consigned to New York hanks. isWj'\ ls ' related to the international debt to the Cr.ited States, which car.ie due au La. . * COMPENSATION ACT EIGHT IS RESUMED Opposition to Industrial Commission Appears Centered in Charlotte LAWYERS BACK OF IT nduidrirr, and Kmployers Stay Out of Scrap; Charlotte Story Give* Wrong Figures inn 'Com pensation Paid Daily ntapiif.-e flitrrna In Ikt- sir Wnli.r Hotel HT J. r nASKKMVILL. Raleigh. Dec.-' 16 Th< tight that develops every tow- years oil uio eve of the nn-rting of the General Assem bly to abolish th<' Industrial Commis sion by repealing the woikmens com pensation law has already star'ed. Ii has also come out into the open ear lier than usual, since this movement usually do»*s 114. it get ou» until afP-r 'he general assembly has been in ses sion for several werkv The efforts to repeal this law and abolish Ihe In dustrial! Commission have always met with decided defeat i" th<» past and the opinion ot those here who are fa miliar with this movement and its source believe the effort now being made to work up sentiment again-1 this law will again meet with failure. in the past the movement to repeal the workmen's compensation law has usually conic Irani three sources, namely the ambulance-chasing lawyers who formerly made their livings by bringing damage suits for injured wowrkers; employers who objected to carrying workmen's compensation in surance and the fee-grabbing doctors who object to the medical fee limitu (Continued on Page Six.) ' AW.LL f^poqEßS \7 'jays: Beverly Hills, Calif., Doc. 16. . j Somebody will finally find away ! to run this government yet. An old boy was on the right track the other day. He cane into the Congressional gallery waging a gun, and said: “I am for America. All not with > me (tetter take to the bush. lor I am going to take a she* at ’sm.” "Well, the place waa dear fat a jiffy. Not a member left. Now they got a sign in the visitors' gallery: “Don’t shoot your Congressman without first getting a license/* England never stood higher in American opinion than today. That was. the cheapest handled . million they ever spent.’ AM}’-they will gain in the end by It. Yours, WlLl* PUBLISHED EVERT AFTIIROOM BXCKPT SUNDAY. BURNS EXTRADITION MAT BE PREVENTED Georgia Governor Signs Papers for Fugitive Held In New Jersey Newan. N. J Dec. 16. (AR>- Whilo moves were being made or plans along seveial fronts to keep Robert Klliot Burn.-, from being taken back to 1 Georgia chaingang from which he twice escaped, authorities of the Fouthern state moved nearer New Jersey today in hopes of obtain ing custody of the fugitive. Late yesterday Governor Richard B. Russell. .?r., of Georgia, signet) re quisition papers, an official request o New Jersey to give up Burns—- and two officers are expected to reach fiepton to state their case tonight. One of the men who left Atlanta was Harold Hardy, warden of the Troup county came which which the author ~f "I'm a Fugitive from a Chaingang" escaped the second lime lit 1930, and ihe other was Chief R. B. Carter, of the Troup countv police HOUSE COMMITTEE REJECTS WINE BILL Thinks It Would Violate 18 Amendment And B* Held Unconstitutional j Washington. Dec. 16 «APi .Th«i Hfou.se Ways and Means Committee rejected the Lea wine hill today be-j cause of the feeling that it would be I contrary' to the 18th amendment. At the same rime a committee of sena-. tors were agreeing on inclusion of pro tection for dry states in a proponed 1 substitute for the controverted amend ment. Chairman Collier of the bouse com mittee told reporters that the 14 to 9 vote against wine resulted from ibe belief that the alcoholic content of naturally fermented wine was in violation of the 18th amendment. H* felt that legalization of light wines would be held unconstitutional. WASHINGTON EDITOR CLAIMED BY DEATH Washington. Dec. 16.- (AP— -Theo dore P- Noyes, associate editor of the Washington Evening Star, died today at naval hospital of pneumonia. Mr. Noyes was the only son of Theodore W. Noyes, the editor of the Star, and a nephew of Frank 6. Noyer president of The Associated Pres £. He was 36. PACES TODAY FIVE CENTS COP) HOOVER TO DRAFT SPECIAL MESSAGE TO CONGRESS NOW Meantime, France Concen trates oA New-Cabinet Before Turning Again to Debts ENGLAND jfEVLD AT MAKING PAYMENT But Both France and Great Britain Are Pressing For International Debts Con ference Y/ithout Delay To Go Into The Whole Situ ation ' I*v •>!*• Associated Pnw.t The hoois arc closed on the mid Dectmfier war payments and th.' deht.-i is«uc become a problem i f the future. Tt centers in Washington where Resident Hocnei is awaiting complete information befoje drafting a f-pec-ial message to Congress, in which it is expected he will review the entire sit uation and suggest a procedure for dealing with the issue. France has thrust the debts pro blem into the background for the mo ment. for the country Is occupied with ■he efforts of Cundlle Chautemps to form a new government, which yIU replace that of Premier Harriot. The sentiment of politicians and laymen ta that, after the domestic crisis 1» settled, a conference^should be call ed as quickly us possible to deal with the debts. Tn London tbeie appeared to be a feeling of iclief that the Dccmebsr payment was out of the way. and of piide that the nation had met it* ob ligation when it fell due. England, too, wants an international debts con* feier.ee without delay. STATE KILLS TWO . IN CHAIR TODAY Raleigh. Dec. 16.—(AH> Two men were put to death in the elect ru rhmr ioday at State's prison tod-av One leaving behind a note adurHing his guilt and he other confes-ito his guilt before W’arden H. H. K' n-yiutt shortly before his electrocution. ASSEMInCGST FIXED AT $173,535 Amount Cut From $194,835 in 1931; Members Get S6OO For Session Raleigh, Dec. 16. (AP>— North Carolina V 1933 General Assembly. 1 which will convene here January' 4, has an appropriation of $173,535 on which to operate. $20,000 less than tho $194,835 appxrpriated for the 1931 leg:* islature which was in session five months. Members of the assembly are slatert to receive S.BOO for their services, re gardless of. the time they’ are in Ra leigh. With 120 members of the House and 50 members of the Senate, thn I -alary cost will be $102,000. The rent of the money will be spent for legislative help tuid supplies. ■ There are numerous committee clerk ! ships and steiiogr&phio positions t/t i I>e fllleei. These posts will provide job I j for imrny. The 1931 legislature appropriated. | the 5173.535 for the 1933 session. Tin* ; pay of members i« fixed by the Corn stitution. It was baaed on an avarago sea; ion of 60 days fixed on a per dies i ; pa,V of $lO. TheS Statesfo ur iatgest countie* ' Forsyth. Guilford, Ifielklenburg an I [ Wake, will be represented by thre > j members in the House and a senate each. Apportionment is on the mm * basis as it was in 1931 that seasio < having failed to redistribute the met • tiers hip according u> the 1930 census Eleven counties *will have two n - presentatives. They are Buncomb*. Durham, Gaston. Johnston, Nash. Ne- r Hanover, Wtt Rribeson. Rockinghar . Rowan and Wayne. All others wi I i have only one member of the Hous i The 50 senators are apportioned b.• I districts, but in the case of the la - ' gest counties ths* districts are arranf '; ed so they always will be represent* 1 in the State Senate. Lieutenant Governor-elect A, V. Graham, of Hifiaboro. will be the pn - siding officer in the senate, and t) s > House will eiw;t one of its membei i to the spaakt fship.
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