HENDERSON,
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA.
TWENTIETH YEAR
NATION GIVES
LAST TRIBUTE
FOR COOLIDGE
Simple Funeral Service* for
Former President Held
At Home Church In
Northampton
PRESIDENT HOOVER
ATTENDS CEREMONY
Sils Near Widow of Deceas
ed With Her Son and His
Wife; Favorite Old Hymn*
Are Used and Body Is
Taken to Plymouth, Ver
mont, for Burial
Northampton. Mass.. Jan. 7.—(AP)
THp nation he served its
honors today to Calvin Coolidge.
thirtieth President of the United
States. Friends and neighbors, the
leaders in public life where he once
walked .the high and lowly, joined
to pay their final respects in a brief
and simple funeral service such| as
lie would have wished.
President Hoover, who took up the
burden Calvin Coolidge laid down in
Washington not quite four years ago,
tlie vice-president, the chief justices
of the United States, others in the
national government and the chief
< xtcutlvcvs Os states of his native
New England were there.
In tiie congregation that filled the
f< w hundred seats of the Jonathan
Edwards Congregational church were
also Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and
James Roosevelt, the wife and son of
the man who in a few weeks will
take the office Calvin Coolidge once
held as President.
Mrs. Coolidge, with her only son.
Jchn. and his wife, at her side, sat
through the service in a front pew.
With her in the same pew were Presi
dent and Mrs. Hoover. Directly be
fore them and below the flower
banked pulpit stood the casket. The
President's widow wore no mourning
veil. She was pale but her face was
calm and serene.
It was a few minutes bebfore 10:30,
(Continued on Page Six.)
CATHOLIC U. HAS
HEAVY FIRE LOSS
Washington, Jan. 7 (AP) —An un
e -timated amount of damage' was done
to the administration building of Cath
olic University here before a fire
which broke out in the early morn
ing quietude of the campus today was
extinguished by fire fighting appara
tus responding to a multiple alarm.
Legality Os
Beer Permit
Challenged
Hearing In Senate
Committee Draws
One of Biggest
Crowds of Session
Washington. Jan. 7 (AP)—The pro
h'bitionist challenge through consti
tutionality of the 3.2 beer bill passed
by the House was declared with em
phasis today by witnesses before a
Senate committee. Friends of the leg
islation were to be heard later.
Edward B. Dunford and Andrew
Wilson, of counsel for the National
Conference of Organizations Support
ing the Eighteenth Amendment! in
.s!stcd the beer called for by the bill
was intoxicating. %
Rehind them st scores of persons on
both sides of the dispute, crowding
(Continued on Page Three.)
Domestic Allotment Plan
Viewed As Emergency Step
For Agriculture’s Relief
<Thls is the first of a series on V.
the solution of the farm problem
as Washington sees it.)
B.V CHARLES P. STEWART
Washington, Jan. 7.—Half a column
, ’ 1 'vpa ,vuu?d scarcely suffice even
" I'Ht hy title all the farm relief
' i :ins that the senatorial and house
°! rf; Pie3entative«’ committees on ag
uculture have discussed in the last
Untttcrsmx Batty Btspatrhl
FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Old Man River Is
Heavy With Booze
Wilpiington, Jan. 7.—(AP)—Old
Man River—the Cape Fear—had a
head, this morning, for yesterday
he was in his cups.
For a large part of the morning
he drank steadily of SIB,OOO worth
of choice liquors—more than 600
eases—as the rum was poured by
a group of stevedores headed by
a Negro in a silk top hat three
sizes too small.
The liquor was that seized when
the Brit’sh ship Zahadish was
captured December 7 off the banks
of this State and when nine men
were arrested.
GARNER IS NOT AT
ODDS WITH CHIEF
OVER TAX MEASURE
Speaker and Vice-President-
Elect Tries To Clarify-
His Stand With
Newspaper Men
WOULD LIKeTpLAN
TO BE MADE LAW
Says He Favors. Program
Outlined by Roosevelt and
Congressional Leaders At
New York Conference, but
Says There Are Other
Ways to Get Money
Washington, Jan. 7 (AP) —Speaker
Garner today told newspaper men in
vigorous terms that he had not brok
en with President-elect Roosevelt over
the proposed tax raising plan and
wouldi lik 4>to see the income levy base
broadened to bring in revenue.
“I would be mighty glad to see it
reported and passed by the House,”
the vice-president-elect said in discus
sing the plan agreed upon at New
York. i
He added, however, that if "this
plan does not meet with the approval
of the committee and the House, there
are 49 other ways of raising the reve
nues. i
Discussing his remarks about alter
native tax plans yesterday, .Garner
said: i
"What I feared was this - '
“I might suggest taxes that would
b e less painful.*' « •
Cliina and Japan
To Negotiate For
New Settlement
Washington, Jan. 7 (AP) —Nel-
son T. Johnson, • American minis
ter at Peiping, advisfed the gale
Department today that American
army authorities at Chfciawangtao
informed him the Japanes and
Chfciese military authorities have
agreed to enter negotiations for a
settlement of the Shanhaikwan in
cident«
COTTON PLANT IS
GROWN IN WINTER
Hertford, Jan. 7.—(AP) —A well
matured cotton plant with sev
eral open boll* lias been ‘grown
this winter'by IV. W. Lewis, Per
quimans county farmer.
The plant came from the root
of a cotton plant of last year.
ten years;'
The Curtis-Aswell plan.
The McNary-Haugen plan.
The debenture plan.
Mention of these pimply will serve
to stir the memories of folk who
have followed the progress of con
gressional efforts to aid the nation’s
agrarian interests since deflation ’of
the land began, £0on ; after, the jirmis
(Continued on Page Three, X
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER
LAST PHOTO OF LATE EX-PRESIDENT
This is the last photograph, to be
made of Calvin (Coolidge, snapped
when the late ex-president appeared
at a New York Republican rally last
General Assembly Away
On One Os The Fastest
c
Starts In N. C. History
“Economy” the Watchword, “Abolish It” .-Is the Slogan
and “Balance Budget” the Aim 6f Menft>efl;' Cut. ;
ting Began Before Assembly Convened
Raleigh. Jan. 7. —(AP) —Considering'
the fact that it had to take time out
to change governors, the 1933 General
Assembly is off to one of the fastest
starts in the history of North Caro
lina law-making.
''Economy" gs ,"|he 'Watchword,
"Abolish it” the slogan. and "a bal
anced budget” the aim of nine of
every ten men here. And the tenth
men are keeping very, very quiet.
The legislators arrived with blood
i# their eyes. They began to wield the
knife even before they convened.
At the Democratic caucuses Tues
day. night, they whetted their ap
petites for saving by abolishing such
$5 ejay jobs as assistant sergeant-at
arms. By the next morning they were
ready to cut the governor.
With one single exception, every
thing important accomplished during
the first four days in the session con
cerned economy. And that exception—
LITTLE EXPECTED
OF SPEED EFFORT
Finance and Appropriations
Reports Not To Be In
By February 6
n«illy Dlupatcli Unreal*,
In the Sir Walter Hotel*
HT .1- C. «\SKRRVILL.
Raleigh, Jan. 7.—The concurrence
of the House in the resolution by
'Senator ‘Lafry I. Moore, of New Bern;
to compel the completion of the fi
nance and appropriation acts by the
committee and their submission to
the two houses by February 6, thus
making it effective, is regarded by
the better informed here as little more
than a grand gesture. The same is
true of the other provision of the re
solution providing for a survey by a
joint committee on the possibilities
of governmental reorganization and
a definite report along these lines by
January 20.
The resolution also provides for the
“immediate discontinuance of all of
fices, commissions and departments”
that are not found to be essential to
the efficient administration of the
State government. It is pointed- out,
however, that specific acts will have
to be passed in order to abolish any
present offices, commissions or de
partments. The passage of these spe
cific bills later will be quite a dif
ferent matter from the passage of
this resolution, it is pointed out.
Whtte it is agreed that it would be
an eidcellent thing if the finance and
appropriations committees can fin
ish their deliberations by February
7, those familiar with past assem
blies seriously doubt if these commit
tees can possibly get the finance and
(Continued « tage 6ix.£
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HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 7, 1933
fall,* The picture fcives evidence that
he was in poor health. that time
/Mrs. CooPdge is said t 0 have asked
her husband to see a doctor, advice
it is believed he did not follow.
ratification of the Norris "lame
duck” amendment — didn’t cost any
thing. Past legislatures have had
watchdogs of the treasury. This is a
kennel. It contains some 340 bared
fangs to welcome him who would
waste a dime.
Consider the important steps taken
by the assembly during the first three,
days of its existence:
1. A 15 percent cut in the salaries
of the governor and all constitutional
and elective officers. There is some
doubt as to the constitutionality of
the bill, as it was ratified after the
inauguration. However, the legisla
ture has, definitely gope on record,
and the result is to put the officers
concerned in such a "hot spot” that
they will be practically compelled to
accept some sort of a cut, or else —
2. The definite declaration in favor
intiriueri on Pag* Six)
Ex-Senator Dies
CUV D. OOf-F
Thomasville, Ga., Jan. 7.-r(AP)T
Former United States Senate Guy D.
Goff, of West Virginia, died l s.t his
winter residence here at 2 a. m. to
day. He was in n»s 67th year.
The senator, wno retired from na
tional life at the end of his term in
1931 because of ill health, was liv
ing here with his daughter, the wife
of Representative Carroll Reece, of
Tennessee, and her daughter.
While funeral arrangements had
not been completed, it was announc
ed services would be private and; that
interment would be : in Arlington Na
tional Cemetery.
WFathFr
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Generally fair and colder to
al.ight iand Sunday, except pro
bably light rain on the south
coast tonight.
Committee Assignments In
Senate Are Read By Graham !
AtSrief Saturday Session!
I$;V v * \
sSTIsSfy
Impartial Observer Credits
Wets With at Least an
‘Even Chance for
Modification
WOULD PREPARE FOR
NATIONWIDE REPEAL
r /
Church People' Becoming
More and More Active In
Favor of Temperance Law
and They Are Confident
They Will Be Able to Hold
Their Lines
Dally r>is|»»t«-h narrow.
Tn the Sir Walter Hotel.
nv j. c. naswrcnv»!/»,.
Raleigh, Jan. 7. — Not many mem
bers of the current legislature are
willing to commit themselves on the
question of repealing the Turlington
bone-dry act, but most of them are
agreed that there will be a sharp di
vision on the issue when it comes up.
It is likely that there will be a show
down of sentiment fairly early in the
session, as several ardent wets are
known to be considering the intro
duction of modification or repeal leg
islation, and Representative Cover,
of Cherokee, expects to lose no time
In introducing a bill to junk the
State’s enforcement law.
The Turlington act would become
immediately effective upon any loosen
ing of the nation's dry laws, and the
wet bloc is determined to make a
strenuous effort to get benefit of any
modifeaton legislation enacted at the
present lame duck session of Con
gress or the next Congress which will
be mcuh wetter than the present.
With the Turlington act still on the
statute books. North Carolina would
be denied even wines and beer should
they be legalized by the Congress now
in session.
Despite the fact that the State’s
recent senatorial campaign provided
a lively prohibition issue and was re
garded as an overwhelming victory
for the wets most legislative candi
(Continued on Page Six.)
E. B. LEWIS GETS
BIG W. 0. W. POST
Omaha, Neb. Jan. 7 (APl—'The ap
pointment of E. B. Lewis, of Kinston,
N. C., as chairman of auditors of the
Woodmen of the WJorld Life Insur
ance Association has just been an
nounced by President Bradshaw of
the body.
Bradshaw said the appointment was
the result of Lewis’ “Fine record as
an auditor of the association and as
State manager in North Carolina."
ANOTHER HANG-OVER
PARDON ANNOUNCED
George Paul, Beaufort Court Clerk,
Freed of Embezzlement Term by
Governor Gardner
Jan. 7. —(AP) —{Will anF
other hang-over clemency action
taken by former Governor O. Max
Gardner during the closing days of
his administration was revealed to
day when it "was found that George
Paul, former clerk of the court of
Beaufort county, who was sent to
prison for embezzlemept, had been
freed.
Paul was sentenced in January,
1932, to three to five years. Upon the
basis of many recommendations, in
cliXing one from the trial Solicitor
Herbert Leary ,in which he suggested
“immediate parole,” the sentence of
Paul was commuted to 15 months,
which gave him his freedom the first
of the year. .
Betty Compson In
Protest Against
Hunt for Jewels
Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 7.—(AB) —
Disregarding the plea of Betty Coi&p
son, screen actress, that police’ drop
their investigation of what she said
was a $37,000 jewel robbery of her
home, Chief of Detectives Joseph
Taylor said the case “would be push
ed to the limit.”
Miss (Conipson, former wife of
James Cnize, film director, said she
had received an anonymous threat
by telephone that she “would be taken
for a ride” if she assisted police,
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
WHITE HOUSE MOURNS
COOLIDGE
; i
i
fy
The flagabo ve the White House is
shown at half-staff a few minutes aft
er President Hoover received word of
the death of former President Cool
idge. Flags on Federal Buildings
throughout the country were ordered
half-staffed In 'mourning for the pass
ing of the ex-president.
seErslisted
V
_ i
Rankin, Gaston, and Cle
ment, Rowan, Head Fi
nance, Appropriations
McDUFFEeToN FINANCE
Also Gets Other Assignments; Speak
er Harris To Announce House
Committee Appointments
Mionday Night
Doily Dlsimteh Rarenn,
In Die Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C B/iSKBRVIUi.
Raleigh, Jan. 7. —In accordance
with predictions made by this bu
reau, Senators R. Grady Rankin, of
Gastonia., and Hayden Clement, of
Salisbury were selected as chairman
of the finance and appropriations
committees, respectively, by Lieute
nant Governor A. H. Graham, today.
Because of the serious financial con
dition of the State, the chairmanship
of these committees, the most power
ful in the Senate, are doubly impor
tant.
Members who will serve on the fi
nance committee with Chairman Ran
kin were appointed as follows; Sen
ators Clement; A. D. McLean ' of
(Continued on Page Three.)
BOW IN FIRST BATTLE
Faced Defeat of Tax Pen
alty Bill Had He Press
ed for Vote on It
nnlly DlMpatrh Hnr*«a.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKISRVIT.L.
Raleigh, Jan. 7. —Tam C. Bowie, the
gentleman from Ashe, was defeated in
his first' round in the House when
he failed in his effort to get the
House to pass his bill to remove all
tax penalties on 1932 taxes and agreed
to let the bill be sent to the finance
committee instead of pressing for a
vote. It is agreed that if Walter Mur
phy, one of the co-introducers of the
bill with Bowie, and Ed Flannagan,
of Pitt, had not moved tQ.. halt, debate
with the suggestion that the bill be
referred to a committee instead of be
(Continued on Page Four.), i
8 PAGES
TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY!
PAY IS FIXED FOR
IBEil
Allowed $lO Per Day for
Three Days and Mileage
When They Meet To *
.. y Cast Ballots
BOTH HOUSES MEET
ONLY 15 MINUTES
House Votes to Have 3,000
Copies of Ehringhaus In
augural Address Printed;
Senate Without Quorum;
Legislators Rest Over the
Week-End
Raleigh, Jan. 7 (AP)—North Caro
lina’s General Assembly “rested” to
day, though the record: will show that
both the House and Senate met.
In the House 27 members of the 120
were present when the session open
ed. Six more came in before it was
adjourned 15 minutes after it start
ed. 1
The Senate also aoked a quorum
and met; less than 15 minutes. Both
houses met again Monday night.
The Senate heard Lieutenant-Gov
ernor A. H. Graham announce bis
most important committee assign
ments, placing Senator Rankin, of
Gaston, as chairman of the finance
group, and Senator Clement, of Row
an, as chairman of the appropriations
committee, and adjourned without re
ceiving or considering a bill.
In th e House the Sulli van-Martin
bill to fix the pay of presidential elec
tors was taken up as a special order,
and, after being amended to provide
for the pay of the electors at the rate
of $lO per day for not to exceed three
day®, was passed. Mileage is also al
(Continued on Page Three.)
r
Ehringhaus
Still Weak
By Illness
Got Through Inau
guration Day In
.Great Pain F rom
His Exertions * !
VYI
Dally Dlwpatch Bnrerni.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.,
BY J C. BARKER-VIXtL.
Raleigh, Jan. 7.—Governor J. C. B.
Ehringhaus, although in his officer
again today, is still showing the phy
sical strain resulting from his recent
illness and the strenous day he put
in incident to his inauguration
Thursday. He admits that in many
ways the day was a torturous one,
that at imes he suffered intense pair#
and that he managed to get through)
it on nerve alone.
“I am now ready to admit that
from a physical standpoint, the day]
of my inauguration was! one of the!
most difficult I have ever gone thro*
(Continued on P&se Two.)
Will ~
ROGERS
’jays:
Beverly Hills, ChU Jan. 7.
You got to hand it to lowa for
the best new* todjay. Some “bird”
Ntried to bid in a (hum on a forced
sale at less than the mortgage,
and come pretty near landed
hanging under a giant oak. We
hope the days of the old town
skinflint sitting back with some
ready money to buy in the
widow’s home is about over.
Did you read where some Sen
ator from Colorado was giving up
hiS seat to his successor right
away? He figured that the folks
elected the other fellow and he
was the one they wanted in there.
That’s alnvost unheard of in po
litical Hfe. There is a “lame
duck” thut should have a statue.
, . YOurs* .WILL.