f HENDERSON, ! caveway to CENTRAL CAROLINA. NINETEENTH YEAR HOOVER WILL NAME DEBTS COMMISSION AT AN EARLY DATE president U Going Ahead With Bi-Partuan Under, taking Regardless of Roosevelt PRESIDENT-ELECT TO KEEP HANDS OFF Washington Thinks New York Governor Has Decidi ed to Leave Proposal En tirely With Republicans; Hoover Knows Congress Is Opposed to His Plans >• n tun Poo 20. Prcyi ll.K'Vfi' It, preparing to name at •, • bi-paituan commitision to car ;• the broad plans hr outlined to tor dealing with war debts, •r" intent and world economic dif \ , ul\ hr has communicated with Cnt-rlect Roosevelt. whose co :um Mr. Hoover said he would . bu* the conviction grew here ! ( \ that the New York governor - teciJed to leave the proposal en w:«h the present Republican ad : ..rttation. M d:ul of congressional opposition • tention of a war debts commis the President is proceeding on ah initiative along the lines he bed in the lengthy special mes tj Congress yesterday. Bishop Cheshire Is Semi-Conscious Os Blood Poison Charlotte. l>rc 20 . 1).. Vshnp «l the Kpisco- V*l Dtoene at IV«Hh Cwilmu, said this afternoon the ekfQmnn wan in a irnl rmianlntis ooaditfcm Or Sqalrs* added, however, that his 82-year-old patient was “int pmvlng some* Coni the worst ef fect* of a Mtr t race of btood pots »nin(, ADMITS ROBBERY OF TEXAS OIL COMPANY (»ilib>l)urv I'obee Believe Man They Captured Mixed L'p With Baak Rehherin Also • •oldsboro. Dec. 20.—(AP> A man t . c th*' name of Joe Berry, of Ra '.*■ -h wan arrested and loured in Jail ! i n chatges of robbing the Texas i <• Company at Kinston, and police '1 they believed he is a member of : : ing of bank robbers. f..'iiy. who said he lived in Raleigh v ■ . quoted by police as admitting • oil company robbery, which yield i few dollars after the office safe I •’ i i t een broken. Tho man was captured after a long 1 . in which one automobile was v r Ued and another stolen. A com- I nifii escaped. Expect Leas Will* Resist Extradition Raleigh Hears Ten nesseans Will Fight To Last Ditch To Kscape Prison : 1 Dec. 20 < API —lt ap 20. (Al*) —A heavily armed po«v»e today surrounded a swamp near Red town and prepared to close in on three Negroes they believe to be leaders In yesterday's distur bances in which one Negro was killed and four deputy sheriffs wounded. » The possemem deplored In a cir cle and prepared to close in, with newspaper men, barred from ac companying them, standing at a distance to watch the maneuver, Tp I lessee. Ala.. Dec. 20.-(API Font Tallapoosa county officers were wounded, at least one Negro killed and others reported dead in a mass gun battle blamed by authorities on radical incitations, and precipitated by an attempt to attack a Negro far mers livestock near here yesterday. Rosses today hunted south central Alabama for more than a score of atteged Negro radicals accused of participation, while four Negro sus pects were held in jail. Reports persisted that more than one Negro was slain, cither during the gun battle or by posses searching for suspects, but these were difficult to confirm. Ginnings in 1932 Over 3 1-4 Million Bales Under 1931 Washington, Dec. 20.—tAP) —Cot ton of this years crop ginned prior to December 13 waa reported today by the Census Bureau to have total led 12,065.648 running bales, includ ing 622.125 round bales and 6,677 bales of American Egyptian. To that date last year; ginnings ag gregated 15,354,212 running bales, in cluding-534,064 round bales, and ',- 927 bales of American Ginning* for North Qgrolina total led 644,56* , AILY NEWSPAPE R ONLY Di Head* Dry Groups Dr. James A. Crain, of Indianap olis, has been chosen to bead mora than 30 national dry organiza tions, comprising the national con ference of organizations support ing the eighteenth amendment. The supporters of prohibition re cently were in conference in Washington iIMEAIT DEBT ATTITUDE IS FOR FURTHER CUTS France Contends She Has Always Understood Her Payments Depended On Reparations GERMAN "BOLSHEVISM BECAME BIG THREAT Hoover Moratorium Re lieved Tension for Time, But France Stops Paying Now; Ta|k of Reprisals Against France In Wash ington Won’t Get Any where By CHARLES I*. STEWAKT Washington. Dec. 20. Small coun tries in the Caribbean sphere of in fiuence, such as Haiti, which have de faulted their obligations to the Unit ed States or to American interests, (occasionally have had Yankee re ceivers placed in charge of their cus tom houses in the past. Notlung of the sort Is even sug gested as a means of collecting the 519.261.432 war debt interest owing to Uncle Sam from France but unpaid: on the date it was due Dec. 15. Many enlightened statesmen always considered it an indefensible policy, and objected vigorously when the Washington government rsorted to it 0 'Continued cn Page Four.) Gardner Closes Door on Further Pardon Appeals Raleigh. Dec. ?:).—(AP)—Being “literally nwani|x*d" with clemency applications made in recent weeks, Governor Gardner and his executive counsel, Tyre Taylor, said today no applications receiv ed after yesterday will be consid ered before John C. B. Ehring haus becomes governor on Jan uary 5- “We are literally besieged with applications for clemency,” Gov ernor Gardner said. “There will be no general act of amesty of ex- ; tension of clemency because of Christmas, or, because piy term Is ending- We are trying to Inves tigate every case which was filed Itefore yesterday, so that 1 can act on the petitions myself or leave full Information for Mr. Ehring haus." Counties Are Not Required To Repay Loans For Relief Raleigh, Dec. 20.—Funds from the Federal government to take care of the needy and destitute of North Car olina this winter going out to the counties and cities of tbe State with out strings ot promise to repay sestns evidently too good o bi true in some sections. Dr. Fred W. Morrison. State director of relief, said today that at first there was a disposition on the part of some counties to shy away from their al lotment on account of the fear that they would be unable to pay it The attitude persists in isolated in stances to drag out these Individual allocations over a longer period than that for which the apportionments PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. ~ • - - ' HENDERSON, N. C., M Q. Dafht Utspotrh TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 20, 1932 1933LE3SLATURE TO RFmL FOREIGN STOCK EXEMPTIONS Repeal However, Will Not Bring In Any Great Rev enue Such as Many ’ Claim It Will FRESH STABALSO AGAINST PRIMARY Judge Titm Bowie Looms as Leader of That Fights But May Have Hard Struggle, With Other Pressing Ques tions Likely Crowding It Out Somewhat n«n» Ofupnrr* n»r> In the Sir Walter Held nr j. r n*sKunvii.i Raleigh. Dec. 20. One of the ges tures certain to be made at the com ing session of the General Assembly, and far-reaching in Its political ef fect. is the repeal of the foreign stock exeptions put through at ,the 1923 session by Ned Parker, Jr. then of Alamance, now .of Guilford. J This repeal never has had a chance since it was enacted. It came on she books near the closing days of Chief Justice Walter Clark, who asserted in many a forum that the State’s failure to tntx these stocks was losing the (Continued on Page Seven) $35,000 In Cash Taken From Bank Philadelphia, Dec. 20.— — Five robbers held up eleven persons and escaped with appfoximateiy $35,000 in cash from the branch bank of thfe Pennsylvania Company for insurances on lives and granting annuities at 45th and Walnut street. West Phil adelphia. today. The loss was covered by insurance. While lour of the meu who held sawed off shotguns kept eight em ployees, Lwo workmen and a custom er covered, ihe onicr lobocr, armed with ;i pistol, and carrying a burlap bag strapped around his buck, entered the tellers cage. He scooped up virtually all of the money In the cash drawers, and at a signal from the leader, the robber band run to a sedan with a sixth man at the wheel. It disappeared west on Walnut .it reel. State Will Pay Off In Full-1932 Meets iAII Obliga tions and Gardner Thinks No State Has Done Better Dally DUpitrk llarffti. la the Sir Walter Hotel BY J. C. BARKRRVILL. Raleigh, Dec. 30.—Latest reports from the budget bureau give clerks and heads of State departments rea sonable assurances that there will be no delay in the payment of salaries. North Carolina was more shy of free cash during December than the State has been at any time in sev eral years. Clerks did not know a week ago whether they would get (Continued on Page Seven) were made in order to keep counties from going oo far tin debt in relief administration. "These funds seem so much like mama rained down from heavep that our people have seemed disposed to regard them as sacred and only to be handled as a special treasure brought to them by miracle. Under Governor Gardner's program and policy the State itself borrows these funds from the Federal allotment. No obligation is imposed upon any community receiving these funds, in the way of repayment. So far as the cities and counties are concerned, what they get for relief purposes is (Ccßtimaed oo Page Voas* SALES TAX WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED IN PRESENT CONGRESS COLLIERS A YS MRL RUNS NEW HIGH TEMPERATURE With a temperature ranging be tween 110 and 115 degrees for the past three montEus, higher than any heretofore known to medical science, Alice Tolan, 20- vear-old Mexican girl, has been State’s Dry Law Seems Certain Os Modification % .... ++ Trade Balance by U. vS. in Noverhber Washington. Deq. 50.—A favorable trade balance in KOVfW- I ber of was ahligWlßOH today by the Commerce Denitt meut In a statement wfcfcft MUM’ exports at $139,000,000 and idptfb at $104,000,000. each lower than tfc e previous month. November was the first dlMh since July that the trade ngkfbs have shown a decrease, t . in October the total expbfife $153,410.090, or $14,470,9# than November and the tjetfliHe were SIOOUf3.COO GetflfirfA er $1,500,000 less than In NovONMf. EHRINGHAUS MAY : GET N. & 0. FAVOR His Friends Rather Sur prised at Probability of Such Support D«nr Dt«Mtrk * airma il, Iks Sir Walter JHS#9>. ev j c. BACKRnv|I,Li RaleigH Dec. 20.— Incoming Gov ernor John Christoph Blucher BUriiig haus starts with the softtMb his friends and people who hdbe lived long assure him that he wlli get the help of the once powerful Deihdcratic organ, the Raleigh News and Obser ver. The Elizabeth City lawyer did not count upon its support. Hilt friends (Continued cm Page Seven.) Rogers f 4Sy»: 9 Jjom ' Ange'es, Calif., DM gg»— See where France has Mil lh| ©ear to form » new caMHMk' : Six years age in GettS«ih, a6 A disarmament * conference, M 4Nj» head of France’s delegation, and I saw quite a let of him. He la very able. 1 have always won dered since then why MdtOr used him more. France wIU pay, ald-lfc poesibty hart them an bod** It ' will some of oar writeft 4BA Am erican financiers. I never saw peo ple so broken hearted over oar country receiving a little dolp- .of money, .!;•• Congress voting on U#,Ml today. It passed the '■ they can’t get It Huawdfiik grass. Vtiorti PDBUiHJJD *VBRT ATTBXNOO* KXCIFT SUNDAY near death in a Los Angeles hos pital. Suffering from tumpr of the brain, for her recovery has been abandoned. A temperature of 107 is normally fatal, physi cians ooint ouL Legislators Answering At sociated Press Poll In dicate Sentiment Is Very Strong ONLY 34 oFI7O IN THE GROUP ANSWER But Only One Os That Num ber Goes on Record as Definitely Opposed to Changes in Bone Dry Tur lington Act, Which Is State's Prohibition Law Raleigh, Dec. 20.— FIVE cent? r6r HOUSE IS ADVISED TAX ON BEER WONT SQUARE UP BUDGET J : New Y ork Congressman Says Measure Won’t Pro duce Over $75,000,000 / At $6 Barrel UNCONSTITUTIONAL, CROWTHER ASSERTS Won’t Strand Up Long As 18th Amendment Is In Or ganic Law; Administration Fighting For Sales Tax, Hoover Having Asked It In His Message Washington, Dec. 20—(API—Chair man Collier told newspaper men to day that he would not call the House Waya and Means Committee together o consider levying a general sales tax at this session of Congress. He announced his intention a short while before opening of House de bate on the 3.2 percent beer bill, on which the Democrats are relying to help balance the budget. The administration wants a aa)r~ “ax. President Hoover hving re**— mended a 2 1-4 percent rate in hi" -e—ee-e »- rtongre .s at *hc of the session. HOUSE IS TOLD FCEER NOT TO BALANCE U. 8. BU'>'’ * Washington. Dec,. SO.—CAP'— *' *ar taxes derived from beer v 1 toward balancing the budget provi the core of a swirling debate In t;. • House of Representatives this aftei noon, with the merits and denaertts o? a 3.2 percent brew at Issue as well Democratic pttopqpents of the Cr.i lier bill hailed It as a revenue pro ducer, end looked to overwhelming the opposition on a vote by late to morrow. Representative Rainey, the major ity leader, iCnsisted that 3 2 percent alcoholic cqftitent by weight, or four (Continued on Page Seven) Burns Betrayed Trust, Georgia’s Board Declares Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 20.--(AP) The Georgia Prison Commission, in a tele gram to Governor Moore of New Jer sey today, said Robert Elliott Burns “betrayed his trust” as a cb&ingang trusty by escaping, and he was not cruelly treated while a convict, and asked that he be returned here to com plete his term for robbery. Burns is under arrest* at Newark, N. J., and the prison commission has sent Warden Harold Hardy, of the Troupe county chalngastg, from which Bums made the second of his escapee and Chief R. B. Carter, of the Troupe county police, to return him to Geor gia if extradition is granted. John I. Kelley, assistant attorney general is also on his way to appear before Governor Moone. May Refund Large U. S. Public Debt Action In Near Fu ture Looms as Pos sible Fo 1 1 owi n g Mills’ Statement Washington, T>ec. JO—(AP)— Pe funding of billVins of dollars In o" 4 standing Trasaury securities in th~ naar future speared possible t- ' n&ncial experts following Sec-e- Mills’ statement before the H Ways and M would giws the government aveh I '-' la which to carry along some of 1\ "h' I'* 1 '* *r—•* (<»*■*« *»» *h» »»««» *«