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| HENPERSON, gateway to CENTRAL ; CAROLINA. NINETEENTH YEAR Snow Covers All France Looking For Excuse To Reverse Position Taken In Refusing To Pay On Debt WANT WASHINGTON | TO MAKE MOVE TO i IUSTIFY RECANTING V, ould Have American Am-' bnssador In Paris Open * Negotiations With Government There l [ IITERENCES COULD EASILY BE CLEARED I Jl.ive Been Permitted To Develop Out of All Pro- ' portion; Meanwhile, Paul- Bc-cour Is Trying to Form New Government: Herriot Refuses Cabinet" Post Paris, Dec. 17 (AID 'Pith Joseph Paul-Boncmu :to form a minis-; i.y, indications were today' ’hat Kranee still was expeet *r something more definite' •mm WSfthWgtdift on debt ision if the Chamber of! i Kputies were to be induced. • * icvcrse its decision and »**”• the December interest : ' •(! i*;«- the official vi* w express-I m - Act Inp Premier Her- | in ii | Joseph I'nul-BunriiurV i • 'i <'i,tt-r ;i new cabinet, but as- 1 •.) tlio Dri'miT-dMlmat* 1 he could j • •mi llrrriot's cooperation In thc| C .(l.lirr V official was asked what, j ‘ tin- French view, was necessary j • •v. ract th» debt problem from its | j • irt deadlock. He replied that if! (ConUnueA ft Page Five.) No Revision Offered For Debts Owed Willing To Discuss \hitter. But Oppos ed to Any General f Conference ■ - bullion. Dec. 17. (AFM The! * I Stati-.' has informed France | -i * r. 'imilar indication to other i i iimis that the administra-* i wiimr to contnue debt dis - iM-. but is opposed to any gen >'inference, and can make no of i < vision. 1 i- wa- the brief outline of the ad in* ion's stand given today in • ithoritative source, while Presi * Hooter and his aides continued •\ itch the efforts of France to form eminent and to await other de iiinints abroad. • iitary Mills conferred for more n hour with the chief executive, ■v.l- ilent us to the meeting. • ''titiuv Stirnson maintained a si . iicnce at the State Depart w.is made clear that the indt yiven to debtor nations has not ttai-.-mitted in the form of any foimei note, but had been passed ptcviously exchanged notes and iiDiniiil con venations with dip •• 'u: n presentativea. OUR WEATHER MAN •"»•* \ws ffc Sm l C nt m A I Hpniieramt kIABED WIK* BJBRVICI OF THE ASBOCUTBD PRWI* Chain Gang Fugitive Caught ■ Jfef Ij B • ftfffwHß BP 1 w jyjKlPff "1 fiobert Kill'd Burns (seated). I ugmve Iron, a ... i . vrhc put h:s experiences into a liook and later into a movie, is shown in eu.-tody of a detertive af’rr hi? arrest in Newark. N. .1. t'onvieted of a $4 holnup :n Atlanta in 1!»*22. Burn? was sent to the chain gang, from he OM‘an*’d several mnntli later - He was captured in ( Jiuagn in lit'J'.i iitt'r hi »*s| ranged wife had “tipped” the authorities, but escaped from the ••n»in gang again at La Grange. Cia.. in Sentcmher. IH3O. STATE SALARY CUT OF SMALL ACCOUNT Would Amount to Only| About $150,000, Exclu sive of the Schools MISTAKEN IDEAS HAD legislators Think Only Nec<W ► tt.v Tm Cutting State Salaries Would Hr To Whack Em ployees’ Incomes , Dnllr DtupiiTi't BirM*. In (he Sir \\ niter Hotel HI J. •' MASK ICR VIM, Kitlcigh. Dec. 17 Tho belief of a ‘zical many people, incluing many members of ihe General Assembly, es pecially before they come or when they first come to a meeting of the General Assembly. is that the only tiling necessary to reduce State ex penses and thus balance the budget is to cut the salaries of all State em ployes. Yet the facts and figures show that the cost of personal service is a idatively small cost in most State departments and activities, wih the exception of the six months school term. It is also a fact that almost all Slate employes, including professors and instructors in the State's educa tional institutions of higher learning and all State charitable and correc tional instiuitioiis have already re ceived salary cuts of from 20 to 35 per cent, while the public school teachers, principals and superinten dents have received salary cuts of on ly 10 per cent. Total expenditures by the State for all purpose* from funds raised by taxation, including State Highway Commission expenditures, amounted to approximately $47,400,000 in the fis (Continued on Fage Four) Appeal Is Taken For S. C. Case of Condemned Lady York. S. C., Dec. 17.--<AP>- Attor neys for Mrs. Beatrice Ferguson Snipes, expectant mbother, convicted of murder and sentenced to die April 7 today filed notice of appeal, auto matically staying her execution until the case is disposed of by tie State Supreme Court. Mrs. Snipes was convicted early this month of the murder of Elliott Harris York county rural policeman, who was shot to death in a roadside argu ment last July 17. Her convt«ten au tomatically canted the death sen tence under South Cared n& law and she is now being held In the State penitentiary *t Columbia. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED ONLY DAILY Britton Proposes Radical Step for Hitting at France Washington. Doc. 17.—(AT) — Representative Britten, Repub lican. Illinois In a resolution to day, proponed a cut on the pri vate. end government securities held by Americun against foreign nations which hate defaulted tbetr debts to the United States. His resolution, upon House adoption, would require the ways and means committee to deter mine immediately the advisability of such a cut.. It also would require committee investigation of tho volume of .American securities held by fore ign governments and the feasi bility of taxing products of Am erican manufacturing plants es tablished in defaulting countries. AMERICAN TRUST IS DAMAGED BLAZE Big Charlotte Bank Hat Loss of $25,000 to $50,000, All Insured \ Charlotte. Dec. 17. —(AP> —A fire that raged for hours today complete ly destroyed the Interior of the Am erican Trust Cpmpany here, largest unit bank in tho Carolines, and sent three firemen to a hospital, while every piece of fire apparatus in the city fought the blaze through a driv ing storm of sleet. All fixtures in The three-story build ing were ruined, but bank officials said records and cash were safe in fireproof vaults. Damage to the bank, which does a clearing business for soma 200 smal ler Institutions in North and South Carolina, was tentatively estimated by Word H. Wood, president of the bank, at between $25,000 and $50,000. Wood said the loss was insured. The plaze started in the basement and quickly spread through the up per portions of the bank. The Im mediate cause of the flames was un determined. One fireman was overcome by smoke and another was believed In a serious condition after lie was hit on the head by the wild nozzle of a hose that got loose. The third fireman was frozen in the sleet and cold that hampered the TOffc of the fire fighters. HENDERSON, N. C„ SATURDAY' AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 17, 1932 Daily Dispatch i IN THIS SECTION OP NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. COUNTIES PLAN TO DEMAND REBATE ON THE GASOLINE TAX Stanly Commissioners Take Lead and Write Other . 99 Counties Over i ihe State MOVE WELL DEFINED AND IS SECOND ONE Buncombe After General Sales Tax and Rebate from That; Want Road Money to Pay County Debts; Dire State Need Almost Assures Defeat of Plan _ _ _____ k Drill, 111, patch R,r>i> In iNr air \» niter Hotel <’ v J r nDKEnm.i. Kateigh. Dec. 17. Still another movement is being organized to con duct n new raid upon the highway fund it wa« learned here today. This newest raid N being promoted by the •board of county commissioners of San.lv county, according to reports received here, in an effort to get a 1 .>w through the Gent’a! Assembly to divert the proceeds of 1 cent of the Stale gasoline tax of 6 cents a gul- Itm. to th" counties to be used in ie tiring county road indebtedness. Tt is understood that the Stanly county commissioreis have written to all the other county commissioners in the State, seeking their cooperation in this movement and especially in lin ing up the representatives from each 'Continued on Page Five.) Phitipptne Jam Broken By Senate Senate Moves To ward Action; South erners Seek Cotton Relief Program Washington. Dec. 17.—(API An ap parent break in the Senate jmn on Philippine independence today smooth ed out the pre-Christmas program of Congress. A proposal comprising difference* over whether n plebiscite should bo had in the islands before outright freedom is given was satisfactory to members who had threatened to tie up proceedings indefinitely, so debate proceeded with some chance of pass ing the bill soon. Committees, meanwhile, pushed on with other pressing problems, the House agriculture group hearing fresh testimony for adoption of the domestic allotment plan on farm re lief. Southern members of both houses got together in the first of a series of meetings to work out legislation to help the cotton farmer, largely based on government surplus purchases m exchange for action to reduce produc tion. Housd leaders announced they would give the members time for li beral debate on the beer bill when it comes up next Tuesday, and advocates of wine legalization laid plans to push toward their objective, despite the dis approval of the House Ways and Means Committee yesterday. i&WILL W ROGERS \j fsoys: Santa Monica, Calif., Dec. 17. I bet you France pays. la fact they already started paying. Mer chant* In Beverly Hills, (the best dr eased and most cosmopolitan town in the United States,) said they couldn’t sell the “screen stars” a single French importa tion. Instead of Christmas night perfume. It’s “Jockey Club” made in Des Moines, and It don’t smell bad at that. The “leading men” have ail switched from a French to a New Jersy hair tonic. Every' shoe store is knocking the “French heels'* off their shoes. These French “beret*” that some “near” men were wearing, they have switched to a crocketed hondofer cap. Ok. Franca is pay ing* Yours* WILL* North Carolina One Death And Many Minor .Accidents Occur In State As Result Os Sleet Storm ♦ TREAT CANCER WITH 2,500,000 VOLTS fete v* «BBB| BPfe t <&'*■auffl ,J lv> m Mm * Wl : mmmm * 3m IB! - wmm This is exactly the way that 2,500,000 volts of electricity shot forth from the giant cathode tube in a Berlin, Germany, laboratory when Heinrich Wanke, a 65-year old farmhand ami a hopeless can cer victim, was given the greatest Mississippi Flood Endangers Life of Over 400 Families Jackson, Miss., Doc. 17.—(AP) —Between 44)0 and We families were marooned in the Pearl river flood zone today, their lives threat rned by rapidly rising water* of the raging stream. Sub-freetlng weather prevailed. Governor Mike S. Cooper called out the Mississippi National Guard, which ioined Jackson po lice in rescue work. Na casualties had been reported this morning, hut the situation was described “as extremely grave” by Adjutant - General Thomas Grayson, in charge of the rescue forces. Over Million Saved Users: Electricity! Dr. Waddell, Special Engineer for Cor poration Commis sion Ends Duty Raleigh. Dec. 17. —(APl —Reporting that his investigation so that elec tricity customers of North Carolina will save $1,707,000 annually through rate reductions effected by r the Cor poration Commission in recent weeks and recommending drastic legislation to give the commission more author ity pver utilities. Dr. Charles E. Wfcid dell today- made his final report as special consultant for the body. The engim-trs report is a volumi nous document, now in the hands of the printers, and discusses in detail the e'/itric industry’ in North Caro lina. Dr. Waddell plans to return to his Asheville office as soon as possible, his work for the commission “being j temporarily terminated,*’ Chairman J W. T. Lee said. It is pointed out in the repost that, the saving of $1,007,000 in electric rate ; reductions at this time wa» accom plished at a cost to the tax payers "not likely to exceed $6,000.** RACE HORSES WORTH $150,000 ARE BURNED Libertyvllle, 111., Dec. 16 (AP)— Eighteen race horses valued at more than $150,000 perished today in, a fir* that rased a huge barn of thh Haw thorn farms of the Samuel iofeuU es tate at Übertyville early today. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTMU4 OOM EXCEPT SUNDAY. charge of electricity a human be ing ever received and still lived to tell of it. Dr. Fritz Lange, and Dr. Arno Branch, below, conducted the experiment, now are hopeful that Wanke’a life hai been caved. IFEDERAL DEFICIT IS 51,142,473,000 Collections $876,693,402 and Expenditures $2,. 019,166,417 Then LESS THAN HALF YEAR Mills Has Predicted Deficit This Fis cal Year of if Pay ment k Made to The SM*k kig Fund Washington. Dec. 17 <AP) —The government increased it* debt to $1,142,473,015 on December 16. placing $416,674,000 in the sinking fund for ‘public debt retiremest. On that date ihe Government had collected from all sources $87(!.693.402, and had spent $2.019.166 417. Secre tary Mills, in his annual report U> Con gress estimated that th<- present fiscal year would end In June with a deficit off $1 644,314.757 if the payment to the sinking ifund was made. By- December 15, last year, the d* fi cil was $1,252631.150. By the end of the fiscal year the government was nearly three billion dollars in the red. Father and Son Held for Murder Os Quint Hewitt Elizabeth City. Dec. 17.--(AP> - Chester Barnes 15, charged with mur der. along with his father. Homer Barnes were held to superior court tpday' following a hearing at Camden ! into the slaying December 10 of Quint Hewitt, of South Mills. The boy was arrested December 10 after he told officers he shot Hewitt, who had “kicked men from his house and threatened to kick my mother.” The two families had quarrelled a short while before the killing. Norfolk Southern Wants to Abandon Two Branch Lines Washington, Dec. 17.—(AP)—Aban donment of approximately 57 mile* of branch line was asked of the In terstate Commerce Commission today by receivers for the Norfolk and Southern railroad. The two sections sought to be abandoned are the Colum bia branch from Mackey's.' N. C.. to Columbia, N. C., with 23 miles of track and three miles of sidings and spuars. and the Oriental branch from Bridgeton. N. C., to Oriental, N. C„ with 26 miles of track and approxi mately five miles of sidings and spurs, PAGES TODAT FIVE CENTS C®PT NOPE MILLS NOME BURNS WHEN FIRE BLAZES TOO LARGE Fred Smith of Bladen Coun ty, Killed When His Truck Skids and Overturns BURLINGTON MAN IS INJURED IN CRASH Snow Ranges From One Inch Depth on Coast to Six Inches or More in In terior and Mountain Sec tion; Traffic Is Tied Up Almost Everywhere Charlotte, Dee. 17 (AP) —-Winter laid a blanket of snow over North Carolina today, tied up traffic in vir tually every section and counted one death among those who tried to fight the elements. i The snow ranged from one inch on i the eon*! to a» much as six Inches or more in the interior and mountain districts. Fred Smith. 30, of Hlndcn '-minty, w;is killed when bis truck ekidried on a frozen, snow-covered highway near i Fayetteville and overturned A number of minor accidents werd reported. I. VV. Llnebern*. of !Burnng' ion. was injured when his .in*'.mobile Collided with a tractor n. ar S-dgap field. A bluze attributed to an t«;*iu uni'’/ large fire in the home bec.-mm- of ih« severe cold caused injurin' t>. Iwn persons at Hope Mills The 'nr-iM- Ihere of Dave Bolton, superintendent of the Hock Fish Mills, was destroy' d by fits during the night. EXTRADITION CASF. UP NEXT WEDNESDAY Trenton. N. J., Dec. IT. lAP) -Gov ernor A. Harry Moore today fixed 2 p. m. Wednesday as in'- time f«r hearings on the extradition of Uobeit Burns, chaingang fugitive from Geor gia. Gales Lash Coast, With Ships Held Heaviest Snow Iri Virginia’ and High est Wind off Norfolk Are Reported • i ■" —— Washrngtois. Dec. 17. —TAPI —HnoM and rain-lads-n gales lashed the At< lantlc coast today, threatening shij ping from the Carolina* to Boetor, while inshore a whtie blanket wat spread frnrn Atlanta to Baltimore. Weather, Bureau reports showed th * heaviest anew this morning was i i Virginia and the highest wind oi. Norfolk. The svonn was creeping north aa* - ward arid was expected to extend i > New F/ngland and the eastern Cam - dian cr»ast. It blew out of the Gulf < f fOanNnued on Pa*e Seven.) M'Father f FOB NORTH CAROLINA Bain on the coast aad snow or rain In the Interior tonight and probably rain on the coast San day morning. Co4d«r tonight in extreme southwest portion and on i the north roast. Colder San day on the north coast
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