'HENDERSON, GATEWAY TO ° CENTRAL CAROH NA - TWENTIETH year Report Maxwell Slated For Budget Bureau Job As Burke' Resigns Post Burke Will Go With the Alabama Budget Com mission, It Is Now De finitely Learned FIT TviUCH BETTER THERE Probing of Legislature Into Revenue Department Af fairs Taken As Indication of Dissatisfaction With Its Administration Under Maxwell Dnllr OI»i»nt«-H n»r»m», In the Sir Waller Hotel. 3 Y J. C. I»*BKRIIV|LI Raleigh. Jan. 16.—A. J. Maxwell. commiiKioner of revenue, may not be it appointed by Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus as head of the Depart ment of Revenue, as many have been expected, but instead may be appoint ed assistant director of the budget, according to reports heard here to day. For Henry Burke, assistant di rector of the budget, has resigned and •will soon go to Alabama to become as sociated with the Alabama Budget Bureau, it was definitely learned to day. As a result of the resignation of Burke, many are inclined to believe that Mr. Maxwell is much more likely to be offered the budget post than to be reappejnted head of the revenue department. For while Governor Ehringhaus has indicated that he does not expect to announce any of his major appointments until toward the end of the present legislative session, and then only in time to permit the (Senate ot ratify those appointments it mus raify. there are indications that he is gradually reaching some definite conclusions concerning these appointments. It is also understood that he is seriously considering mak ing a change in the office of com missioner of revenue. It has not been possible to learn, however, who he is considering for this post should he not reappoint Maxwell. The fact that Burke has definitely lContinued on Page Three.) Road Law Os 1931 Facing Real Threat If Proposed Bills Be come Law, High way Set-Up Will Be Paralyzed * bully l)lN|intck Onrena, Iti Ihr Sir Wwlt«*r Hotel. HT J, r IMKKURVIiL. Italelgh, Jan. 16.—Measures intro duced in the legislature last week de signed either to slash or divert funds of the State Highway Commission, would virtually destroy the new State highway iaw of 1931, turning the coun • y roads over to the State for main tenace. should they be enacted. fbe latest piece of legislation that would affect the commission’s funds was submitted in the Senate Saturday by Senator McNeill, of Ashe. His biil proposed to divert one-third of the revenue fiom the collection of gaso 'inc taxes to the counties. The money would be apportioned on the basis of 1,10 counties’ area, population and road mileage. ()n the basis of estimated gasoline ,;ix collections for the past year, the (Continued on Page Three.) Says Proposed Tax Upon Trucks is Confiscatory Moore Bill, If Enacted, Would Virtually Force Out of Business All Contract Buses and Trucks Operating In State, Former Senator Horton Says Unity Ulftnntrh Harm*. .. 1» tk« H*r XV niter Hotel R a ioVu J , C - di.roi u h Jan 16 ~ T he bill intro- I). 4 by Senator Larry I. Moore, of Bern, imposing an additional tax m Ol per ton mile on all b u c . se a nd contract trucks and a h •* n the state > would impose such thp„ aVy ,ax burde n upon them that bu. r •' ' : Senate Continues To Halt I ,; . j Other Legislation There U. S. Financing Chinese, Japanese Papers Assert Ambassador Grew in Tokyo Emphatically Denies All Charges, Despite Os- Claim /; — Z • 1 * 1 '( OF MILITARY CONTINUE Both Japanese and Chinese Still Assembling; Men and Supplies; Quiet Week-JEnd Reported on All Fronts, Due to Continued Cold Weather There (By The Associated P^ess) The United States was accused in Tokyo newspapers of furnishing mon ey, arms and ammunition to China for use against Japanese forces. Ambas sador Joseph C. Grew emphatically denied all charges. An official Jap anese war office statement said Ame ricans were furnishing the Chinese airplanes and motor oars described as “armed.” An Italian soldier was shot and kill ed by Chinese in the Shanhaikwan battle zone. Italian authorities said he had been guaranteed safe passage and Rom© was expected to demand satisfaction ffrom the Chinese Nation alist government. ! Japanese airplanes bombed and heavily damaged a Chinese headquart ers in Kailu, Jehol, and a Chinese counter-attacked on Tungliac was an ticipated. Japanese and Chinese military con centrations continued throughout eastern Jehol as the former prepared for their campaign to annex the pro vince to Manchukuo. Japanese leadens" feared they acted too late in attempting to isolate China proper from Jehol by closing passages in the Great Wall of China. ; Skirmishes between 1 ' Chinese' and. command occurred yesterday on the ManchUkuo troops under Japanetsr command occurred yesterday on the eastern extremity of the Great Wall, a Rettping dispatch paid. It said, with cold weather continuingg, a quiet week-end was reported on all fronts. There was a report that Japanese planes had fflown over Chinese de fense lines 200 miles south of Jehol city, below th e Great Wall. Jafsie Kidnap Gang Held In New York Case New York, Jan. 16 (AP) —Exami- nation of the activities of two police men and three others accused in a kidnaping gave rise today to a re port that Dr. John F. Condon, the “Jafsie” of the Lindbergh case, would view the men to determine if any of them were members of the gang to which he paid money for Lindbergh. Lake Diversion Plea and Shuler Losers In Court Washington, Jan. 16. —(AP) —Missis- sippi river states lost out in the Su preme Court today and so did the Rev. Robert P. Shuler, the Los An gles preacher, who ran for the Senate last year after his radio station was ordered off the air. The half dozen states flanking the lower Mississippi was refused permis sion to file with the court a petition seeking modification of the celebrated lake diversion case decree. They wish ed the court to leave the door open for taking additional water out of Lake Michigan besides that allowed to Chicago by the court for sewage disposal—so as to maintain naviga tion in yet-to-be developed links of the lakes-to-gulf waterway. The lake states, which won the original limit ing decree, opposed the new move. Shuler was finally denied relief from the Radio Commission order of November, 1931, barring his radio station KGMS from the air. He was charged with broadcasting attacks on certain public officials, churches and others., He fought the decision thro ugh the courts, all ruli(ng against him, and today the Supreme Court refused to review the District of Columbia Court of Appeals decision, vantagestt cmrwyp shrdl etaoin uihf PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON . EXCEPT SUNDAY, ’ Chats With Roosevelt « Harry H. Woodring # Former Gov. Harry H. Woodring of Kansas is shown entering the town residence of President-elect Roosevelt, in New York, for a conference. Woodring has been prominently mentioned for the post of secretary of agriculture in the Roosevelt cabinet. MELREANS Other Visitors to President- Elect Have Stressed Idea Advanced by Col., House McADOO CALLS ON NEXT PRESIDENT Backs Up Claim for Free Hand in Cabinet Selec tions; Glass and Walsh Desired for Cabinet By Roosevelt; Young And Baker Fading Out Hyde Park, N. Y., Jan. 16.—(AP)— President-elect Roosevelt is seriously considering the persistent advice of friends to employ a youthful cabinet. This idea was advanced first by the elder statesman, Colonel E. M. House, intimate of Woodrow Wilson. His point of steer Ding clear of “us old dod birds” has been impressed fre quently since by other visitors. None other than W/.lliam G. Mc- Adoo, senator-elect from California, whose announcement at the Chicago convention cleared the way for Roose velt’s nomination, is backing up the (Continued on Page Three.) Reconstruction Board May Change Activities Shortly With New Form Os ‘Relief 9 By CHARLES P. STEWART Washington, Jan. 16. —The truth is that “relief,” as interpreted by Presi dent Charles A. Miller of the Recon struction Finance Corporation, means something, entirely different from “relief” interpreted by Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York This conflict in interpretations ra ther than anything the matter with the act of congress under which the R. F. C. was created appears to ac count for the changes Senator Wag ner has found it necessary to demand in the law, to turn the corporation’s relief activities more decidedly in the 6 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Temporary Farm Mortgage Relief Bill In Offing as Aid Isl Halting Foreclosure ALLOTMENTSPLAN STALLS IN SENATE Beer Measure Also Out Un til Next Monday; Senator Bingham Says No Reor ganization of Hawaii’s Legal System Likely At This Session Washington, Jan. 16— (AP)— In k grind as strenuous as a sixday bicycle race, the Huey Long filibustering team held the Senate boards again today, paralyzing legislation and shut ting off some other oratory. The talking marahon, directed against the Glass banking bill, broke up Senator Morris Sheppard’s annual custom of delivering a speech on pro hibition on January 16—this year it is the 13th anniversary of the na tional prohibition law, of which he wUs the Senate sponsor. The House, however, continued to make good time on farm questions, ‘aking up a crop production loan bill. \ further farm aid measure was in sight through announcement of Chair man Stegall, of the House Banking Committee, that Wednesday or Thurs day his committee would work on a temporary farm mortgage relief bill designed to cut interest rates and give (Continued on Page Three.) Hoover To ( tn*' Ask Speed On Budget Message to Congress Before Night Ex pected After Mills Conference Washington, Jan. 16. —(AP) —Secre- tary Mills, after a conference with President Hoover, at which hr said national financing matters were dis- told 'newspaper men todiay Mr. Hoover might make a public statement on this matter, or dispatch a special message to Congress within the next 24 hours. The secretary said it was not de finitely decided when Mr. Hoover might make his statement, but there was a possibility it would be forth coming before nightfall. He declined to say whether it would be a mes sage or a statement. Mills himself planned to discuss budgetary and fiscal affairs in an ad dress tonight. The President has been described as feeling there is need for speedy action by Congress toward balancing the budget, especially in the face of a deficit now beyond the $1,200,000 mark, and a sharp drop in revenue from income taxes and customs duiea direction of mil’iJons of folk In actual danger of starving entirely to death The senator’;? theory, briefly, is that "relief ag;ainst cold and hunger ought to constitute the first claim upon the R. F C.’s funds.” President I / iller on the other hand, discussing t\i ;> corporation manage ment’s policy before a senate inves tigating committee recently, explain ed that w'iile “relief has been ad ministered •vdth a very warm-hearted desire to he’.p, it has been administer ed on a business basis. If you want (iConjtinued on Page Thrco.J,