AHAPPY NEW YEAR
■ 1 ■ =s=rET I
j HENDERSON,
I GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA.
NIXETEENTH YEAR r St L rArK£tffiS>«K
Find Hu
Unprecedented Problems Os
State To Face Legislators
When They Meet Wednesday
BALANCING BUDGET
IS CHIEF PROBLEM;
10 BE CONFRONTED
Running Behind Millions of
Dollars Annually and
P ? edge Is Against
Property Tax
>10,000,000 DEFICIT
MUST BE HANDLED
Drastic Cuts In Expenses,
Including Public Salaries,
Hiunriwl
Against Sales Tax Strong,
But State May Be Forced
to It for Revenues
HY W. JOINER MMACFARLANE.
V<<sorlalfd Pt*m Staff Writer.
*' •(••ich Dec 31 (APl—Next Wed
lav North Carolina State law-mak
• wiil assemble here confronted
■ h State problems not equalled in
!*• la-t 30 years in Tar Heelia.
u o •• • 1 with the balancing of a buds'
• 'Uniting in arrears at the rate of
!1 ■ ■»t»— of dollars annually, and with
t nf i»j» members, as well as Gov
• • >t elec* John C B Khringhau.s.
• '‘ured tr* remove the 15-cent ad
’ 'em tax. a difficult time awaits
'lie efnslators.
le icit I.r nom? $10,000,000 to sls
- • tlso must be cared for.
I rr. every part of the State legis
<•! have expressed the feeling that
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Sharp Drop
For Mercury
Due Tonight
I emperature to De
cline From 66 De
crees to Freezing
Foint In State
Raleigh. Dec. $| (AD—North
< »i<ilinlans will get a touch of near
l' i e/irig weather for New Year's
alter a week of alnio.t springlike
t<-nqMrat tires, and the weather man
•' *n»M" today predicted a 34»-de
drop In temperatures over
■tin state before morning
Ire A Denison. In charge of the
weather office here, said the 66-
• mark prevailing all morn
i»S here today would he replaced
b\ 4 :« l« M degree mercury to
loorrnw, with most. of the State
feeltnr the freesing or clo** to
freex|i* c weather f
s| irht n'la nontinoed to fall
"»r r the State today, but flooded
Mvers, except the Rouiok, at Wel
rt,,n. were getting hack teto their
bunks In the lower reaches.
The Roanoke was 36 feet at Wel
don this momlgn, and due to top
*' about 40 feet by night, said
start failing.
HFATHfR
FOR north CAROLINA.
Pertly cloudy and much colder
tonight; Sunday fair, colder.
fimtitersnn
HOOVER YACHT THREADS INLAND
V~ l - : ~r
President Hoover’s y.\d,i threads
along the Florida Fast Coast
canal. The Sequoia, containing
the Hoovers and a small party of
Tighter Regulations On
Highway Revenues Sought
Terrific Quake
In South Africa
Johannesburg, Union of South
Africa. Dec. 31.(AD—large areas
of South Africa were rocked this
morning hy one of the worst earth
quakes in its history.
Houses were crackl'd open in
Natal, the east coast province of
the union. The Orange Free State,
interior province to the south of
here, and Zuluiand, north of Natal,
also were affected.
Four distinct shocks were felt In
this section of the Tranavaal. Peo
ple rushed nut of their houses in
it panic. The duration of the main
quake was one minute and 40 sec
onds.
WOMAN’SSLAYER
IS BEING SOUGHT
Young Welfare Worker Is
Kidnaped and Brutally
Slain In Cleveland
Cleveland. Ohio. Dec 31 < AP'
While police hunted the unidenti
fied murderer of a young woman wel
fare worker today, frieneLi dj-rleved
she had lived in fear of ja.;i .such
an attack as was committed yr-.fer
day when she was abducted and slain
within a space of 40 minutes.
The victim was MMrs. Ruth Steese
26. a bookkeeper for the Cleveland
Society for the Blind.
Kidnaped in a busy commercial dis
trict on the east side. Mrs. Steese was
taken in an automobile she had been
driving to an outlying road 14 miles
away. With her hands tied behind ber
she then was blindfolded with a- dirty
piece of cheese cloth, was .strangled
with her own scarf and was shot
twice through the head.
Apparently robbery was the chief
motive, police said.
ONLY DAILY
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CA ROLJNA AND VIRGINIA.
man Blood In McCoin Car
friends, is shown leading the fleet,
followed hy one of two coast
guard boats carrying secret serv
ice men and newspaper men.
Tax Commission Would Re
quire Collections to be
Made Sooner and
More Carefully
ESTIMATE $200,000
BACK TAXES OWED
Dealers Over State Far Be
hind in Remitting for Tax;
Protection Against Eva.
sion by Motor Trucks and
Buses Also Recommended
In Report I I'
Raleigh, Dec. 31 (AP>—The*
.Slate Tax Commission, In a preli
minary statement concerning its re
port to the General Assembly, mid
this afternoon that it would reoom*
mend a temporary appropriation
from the highway fund for g**ie
ral fund purposes a h an emer
gency measure” based upon com
plete cessation for two years of
construction of neiv highway pro
jects in Norih Carolina.
The commission streaked the
need of protection of she highway
fund, however, for bond obliga
tions and maintenance funds for
noftds.
Unity (llsiia(oh Rnrenn,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. IIASKKHVILL.
Raleigh, Dec. 31.—Six recommenda
tions for additional legislation to as
sure more stringent provisions for
the collection of revenue for the high
way fund, especially relating the gas
oline tax. is recommended in th e re
port of the State Tax Commission,
which will he released in full to the
newspapers tomorrow. The recom
mendations with regard to highway
fund revenue were released this aft
ernoon by Chairman A. J. Maxwell of
the Tax Commission.
While the Tax Commission also re
commends a temporary appropria
tion or loan from the highway fund
to the general fund for general
poses. It is understood that the report
will not recommend the .polling of the
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HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 31, 1932
Uallu HistJafrh
ROOSEVELT MEETS
LEADERS OF PARTY
ON NEXT THURSDAY
1 f
Conference Will Be Held In
New York To Map Out
Democratic Legis
lative Program
BUDGET BALANCING
TO BE CONSIDERED
Economy, Taxes, Submis
sion of Repeal Amend
ment, Farm Relief and
Beer Legislation Also Are
To Be Discussed at Time;
Rainey Announces Date
Washington, lire. HI. (AP) Presi
dent-elect Roosevelt has made plaYis
to confer next Thursday night in New
York with a big group of his party
leaders.
Representative Rainey, of Illinois,
the Democratic floor leader, today
made public the date of the confer
ence. Originally It had been planned
to have the meeting in Albany, hut
to'accommodate the members of Con
gress. the incoming President will go
to New York to meet them, probably
at the Riltmore hotel.
II is likely that the conference will
embrace a full discussion of the
Democratic legislative program, in
cluding budget balancing, economy
taxes, submission of a repeal amend
ment. farm relief and beer legisla
tion.
The conference in New York comes
a day after Chairman Collier plans to
lay before his House committee the
problem of finding sources of revenue
to balance the budget.
Regulations On
License Sales In
State Explained
Raleigh, Dec. 31. (AP)— Though
reports were coming to Raietgh
today that highway patrolmen
would start arresting automobile
drivers who did not have 1933 li
censes after midnight tonight.
Chairman E. B. Jeff res*. of the
State Highway Commission, said
no warrants would he issued until
after January 10.
Captain Charles D. Farmer, of
the patrol, said he had received no
written orders to instruct his men
not to molest motorists without
licensee, and until he received
them he assumed his men would
enforce the law, which allows no
extension after midnight tonight.
Jeffress said, however, that the
patrol would be instructed to
warn drivers during the first five
days of the New Y*»r, to force
them to park cars without li
censes during the second five
days, and after January 10 to is
sue warrants for delinquents.
Plan Os Sharing Jobs Now
Has The Warm Endorsement
Os Hoover Administration
By CHARLES I\ STEWART (
Washington. Dec. 31.- Walter C. I
Teagle. the Standard Oil magnate, oc-!
cupies In the Washington administra
r things for the win
ter of 1932-33. vir
| ally the same posi
tion. as unemploy
ment relief general
issimo., that Col. Ar
thur Woods occupi
!ed during the win- .
ter of 1930-31 and
President Walter S
Gifford of the A. T.
and T. during the
winter of 1931-32. ,
The depression, it
will be recalled, was !
only a couple of I (
months old at this | ;
time in 1929-30; |
much unemployment
. ■ •«
tlon’s scheme of
r
mTj-'-v .vV" B||
* jH
there was not
_<elei win
Suspect Known As ‘Shorty’
Held, Here And Questioned
In McCoin Investigation
Columbus Police Leaning '
Toward Theory Os Murder
Investigation To Center on That Angle, Scully Says
After Finding Human Blood; Truck Drivers Tell of
Seeing Human Body They Say Was McCoin
Colui ihus, Ohio, Dec. 31. (AP)
Stains found on personal belong
iugs of R. S. McCoin. missing
Henderson N. C„ lawyer, were
made hy human blood, Thomas
Scu'ly. assistant chief of Colum
bus detectivevs, announced today.
The stains were analyzed hy Dr.
James A. Beer, police analyst.
When McColn’s automobile was
found in a local garage December
27, police said that some of the
former North Carolina State Sen
ator’s property wan strewn about
the inside the machine, tncfodirig
one glove, several identification
cards. a pair of eye glaasea and a
spectacle case and a number of
cancelled checks. Sevevral of the
articles at both the rear and front,
scats of the car bore stains and
these spots, when analyzed, proved
Allotments Farm
Bill Is Prepared
Washington, Dec. 31.—(AP)
Chairman Jones announced after
a meeting of the agriculture com
mittee today that a domestic allot
ments farm relief bIU will be re
ported to the House “not later than
next Wednesday."
The committee took no action
today, confining its work to a study
of the detailed p.ovislons of the
proposed bill, which would pay a
bounty to producers of wheat, cofc
ton, hogs and tobacco on their
share of domestic consumption
“We will imeet * Monday
and hope to act Tuesday,” Jones
said.
NEW YORK’S MAYOR
SWORN INTO OFFICE
Netv York, Dec. 31. (AP)—(sur
rogate John P. O’Brien was sworn
lit as mayor of New York at 1 p.
m. today In his court room In the
Hail of Records.
The oath of office was adminis
tered by Judge Irving lehman, of
the Court of Appeals, and brother
of Governor-elect Herbert H. Leh
man.
then.
It was beginning to be serious by
♦he Tall of 1930, when President Hoov
er appointed a committee to cope with
it. under the chairmanship, of Col
onel Woods, a relative-in-law of J. P.
Morgan, one of New Yorks ex-police
commissioners, and handyman, as he
called himself for the Rockefeller in
terests.
The colonel had enough of the-task
after one season’s experience, and
Chairman Gifford. his succmessor.
had ore than a sufficiency at the end
of a similar term in office.
Last Tall the administration did not
organize another unemployment re
lief body in quite the same form as
the one which functioned under
Chairman Gifford’s direction,’ or, the
preceding one under Chairman Woods
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.. PUBLISHED EVERT AFTIRNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
to bo human blood.
After the results of the analysis
was announced today, Scully said.
“1 have no new tlieorlea in this
case." He intimated that the mur
der theory was uppermost in his
mind and (ha this investigation
will center oil that angle.
MERCHANT AND 4.ARAGF. MAN
REITERATE SEEING McCOIN
Columbus, Ohio. Dec. 31.—(AP)
—A small town Ohio merchant
and a garage attendant reiterated
today that a man they saw In this
region several days ago was R. S.
McCoin, missing North Carolina
lawyer. The merchant and garage
man made their statement to de
tectives after viewing a new
(Continued on Page Three.)
STATE PRISON HAS
SAVING $183,706
Maintenance Last Year
$546,557 Against $730,-
264 Previous Year
65 PC NT ALLOTMENT
Raleigh. Dec. 31.—(AD—The
per capita earning capacity of
the prisoners in State Prison has
deerea-seil from $212.50 at the end
of the fiscal year June 30, 192#, lo
$55.76 at the end of last fiscal
year. George Ross Pou, prison
superintendent says in his bien
nial report to Governor O. Max
Gardner.
1 he revenue rrnm prison labor,
the report said, has sunk from
$404,503.14 for the fiscal year end
ed June 30, 192#. to $164,671,117 for
the year ended June 30, 1932.
Dolly Dispatch Karras,
In thr s‘r Walter Hotel,
ev j v. Ht'KEnmi,.
Raleigh. Dec. 31—The North Caro
lina State Prison,' expended for all
maintenance purposes only $546,567
for the fiscal year ending June 30.
1932, as compared with an expendi
ture for the same purpose the previous
(Continued on Pase Four.)
AMILL
pjS Rogers
Says:
Beverly Hills, Cal. Dec. 31
Say. god Joke on us! We thought
Congress had adjourned, and here
they are in session. Now, that's
the kind of Congress we want
one where we don’t know If they
are in session or out of session.
See where Insult is going to act
like a movie star. He Is going to
make a "personal appearance"
tour all over Europe.
—France loaned Austria almost as
much as she was to pay us. But
she is wet-nursing four or five of
those little nations—they don’t
have to pay her back till the next
war. You see, in Europe they are
already choosing sides. On ac
count of the depression. France
can get a lot of nations signed up
mighty cheap now.
Yours, WILL,
i
• *.
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l TODAY
FIVE CENTS EASE
MAN TELEGRAPHS
FROM ROANOKE HE
CAN LOCATE BODY
J. Harry Edwards Deputiz
ed and Sent immediate
ly to Virginia City to
Aid Search
TWO TRUCK DRIVERS
TELL OF DEAD BODY
Inform Maryland Police
Body Was Sitting Up In
Car on Outskirts of Rich
mond Friday Morning
Last Week; Chief Lang
ston Returning Home
While police in Columbus. Ohio,
were announcing .hat spots in the au
tomobile of R. S. McCoin. missing
Henderson lawyer, were human blood,
authorities here were equally an murn
interested in questioning »• nnn de
tained in this city last night and fill
ing the description of the “Shorty”
mentioned in an anonymous letter
from Chicago early in the week, and
in reports from Roanoke. Vn . police
that a man held there might know
something about the possible murder
of McCoin.
Al. B. Wester, business associate of
McCoin, last night announced a re
ward of SSOO would be paid for the
location and identification of tr,e
body. He said he had no olher idea
than that he had been killed.
Nothing of an absolutely positive
nature was developed in lhe inves
tigation of the “Shorty" here, wbo
gave his name as A. F. Holden, and
said he had been in Hendeison sine#
Saturday of last week.
J. Hariy Edwards was deputized
by Sheriff J. E. Hamlet« to go to
Roanoke to assist in tracing stories
told by a man there giving the name
'Continued cn Page FourJ
Godwin Man
Is Arrested
As Bigamist
Left Wife and ChiL
dren in South Caro-*
lina 12 Years; Pillar
in Community
Fayetteville. Dec. 31.—fAP>—C E.
Seawright. who came to Godwin a
village near here, five years ago, mar
ried a. well-to-do widow, settled down
and became a pillar in the community
was arrestfwi today and charged with
abandoning a wife and two children
in Ware fthoals, S. C„ 12 years ago.
The warrant was sworn by the first
Mrs. Seawright. who went to Godwin
yesterday with her two strapping
sons. T. Li.. 25. and J. J„ 26. and
confronted Seawright.
Piawiight was charged with bigamy
noa-aupport and abandonment. Later
he was released on SI,OOO bond.
Four weeks ago the first Mrs. Bear
wright said, she located her missing
husband at Godwin and went there
to find him living the comfortable
life of a gentleman fanner on the
large farm. of his second wife, who
was Mrs. Alma Barton*