"'hENRERSON, gateway to CENTRAL CAROLINA.- L— — ■ -TWENTIETH year NI’LEAN ASKS STATE-SUPPORTED 8-MONTHS SCHOOL Committee Agrees On Relief Program Os Billion Dollars Senate Manufactures Com mittee Authorizes Report to Senate Without Record Vote embodies IDEA OF PRESIDENT-ELECT LaFollette and Cutting Have Just Returned From Warm Springs, Ga., Where Then Conferred With Roosevelt; Half Would Be Sent Into the Senate Wju hington, Jan. 26.—(AP) —A gen- Pinl relief program, understood by its sponsors >o carry out suggestions 0 f President-elect Roosevelt, was upon today by the Senate Manufacturers Committee, and d .rel port of the measure to the Senate was authorized without a record vote. The latest proposition combine the bnKollette-Costigan and the Cutting hills, which had aimed at different an gle? of the relief problem. Senators LaFollette, of Wisconsin, and Cutting, of New Mexico, Repub lican independents, who supported the Democratic presidential ticket, con ferred at. Warm Springs recently with the president-elect and said they found hint ‘‘sympathetic.” The new bill authorizes direct grants to the states with a total fund cf $500,000,000 to be available, and in creases by a like sum the notes, bonds • Continued on Page Eight.) defenserestsln EXTORTION CHARGE Newport News, Va., Jan. 26—(AP) The defense rested this morning after completing a lengthy cross-ex amination of Charles Herbert Young, rharged with attempting to extort $lO 000 from Homer L. Ferguson, Newport New 3 shipbuilder and bunk president. Indications were the case would go to the jury -by mid-afternoon. REERLIQUOR BILL REVENUE MEASURE Murphy Says He Is Entirely After Money and Not Dry Law Repeal Uillly IMs|»nt<-h lttirenu, In the Sir Uniter Hotel. BY J. C. BASKERVILL. Raleigh, Jan. 26.—The bills intro duced by Representative Walter • Petei Murphy, of Salisbury, to le galize (he sale of light wines and beer provided Congress legalizes their sale under the eighteenth amendment, and ♦ f > permit the sale of prescription 11- **d hv Him \ I ' • ' v - f • '•’hjjffc. Htt Ilk a This thg’ first posed picture of Howard Scott i (centerH leader of the technocracy movement, since the new theory to solve the world’s economic prob lem* first attracted international attention The picture was made in New York as Scott announced I GALES LASH EAST CAROLINA; SOUND WATERS FLOOD MANTEO Elizabeth City, Jan- 26.—(AP) Eastern .North Carolina, was swept by a strong northwest wind today. Re ports reaching here from Manteo said waters from the sound were sweeping through main street there and had reached a depth of two feet. Sam Midgett, driver of the Manteo- Elizabeth City bus, which arrived here at -mid-morning, said the waters started rising in Manteo about 4 a. m., and were still rising when he left. HITLER WILL BACK GERMAN MINISTRY Nazi Chief Reverses Himself and Will Support von Schleicher PROMISES STABILITY Yields “All nr Nofh'*ig” Policy and so Advises President von burg; Abandons Chanccl loSrship Idea Berlin. Jan. 26.—(AP) —German po litics’took a sensational turn late this afternoon when Adolf Hitler in fornrited President von Hmdenburg that he had reconsidered making his support of the “presidential” cabinet conditional upon his appointment to the chancellorship. By yielding his "all or nothing” po licy. rtitler paved the way for pos sibility of support for the von Schleicher cabinet by the parties from the Centrists to the National Social ists, a condition which would insure the stability of the government for a considerable time. ; . .< REV. B. S. LASSITER PASSES IN FLORIDA Oxford, Jan. 26.—(AP) —News was received here today of the death of Rev. Benjamin Skinner Lassiter, of Marion, N. C., yesterday in Sarasota, Fla. The retired Episcopal rector, who was 80 years old, was a native of Oxford, and the uncle of Robert G. and Ben K. Lassiter, of Oxford- Funeral services will b,e. held in Marion tomorrow afternoon. British,' Rum Ship, Freed by New Rule Held In By Storm 1 •?. - v Wilmington, Jan. 26. —(AP) —Two new problems, the weather and lack of a crew, held the British vessel Tanner in port today, although the liquor-laden ship had won its free dom under the one-haur sailing clause of the smuggling treaty with Great Britain. Mrs. Fannie S. Faison, collector of customs, said the coast guard had ad vised here a stiff wind of almost gale proportions was blowing off shore, and it may be Saturday before it would he possible to tow the Tanner with its cargo of 849 cases of whiskey 10 sea - . vs«. ' 'V-'i • ■ "" - - I ttie wkhdrawa! of four oi his supporters connected with Columbia University. At left is Dahllitdhcock, who continues as Scott’s chief lieutenafff: at Mr® 1 '£-ht is M. King Hubbert, geophysicist at I Columbia Merchants, he said, were standing by their stores prepared to move stocks should the water continue to rise. All boats there were confined to the harbor, he said, and the sea was breaking across both Manteo bridge ■snd the Wright Memorial bridge be tween here and the island community The road from Kitty Hawk to Caro lina Beach was repoi'ted'-bfrrek©d will? sand, and the causeway at Manteo bridge was under water. The gale blew down a tree in Eiiz Further Charges Os Arson Against Greenville Man Greenville Jan, 26. —(AP) —T. E Beaman, former minister and former United States Commissioner here, to day was under indictment by the Pitt county grand jury on charges of arson growing out of an investigation of a fire at Beaman’s home Saturday night. Officers said several pieces of bur lap, soaked in inflamable liquid, were found in the home after the fire was extinguished. Beaman was being held in jail. He will probably be tried to morrow. Several weeks ago Beaman was ar rested on Federal charges or con spiracy to violat thee prohibition law. Robbers Get All Dobson Bank Money Take Between $9,000 and $10,000; Bank Awaits ■ Insurance Adjuster Dobson, Jan. 26- —(AP) —Yeggmen blew the vault of the Bank of Dob son early today and escaped with the institution’s entire funds, estimated to be between $9,000 and SIO,OOO. R. C. Llewellyn, treasurer of the bank, said the thieves “cleaned, us out. They got every penny we had.” He said he was waging for an in surance representative to arrive in or der that the exact amount of funds stolen might be determined, but he estimated the total at beween $9,000 and SIO,OOO. The treasurer said the robbery was believed to have taken place about 3 o’clock this morning. At that time, he said. W. B. Norman, who lives not far from the hank, heard a noise but did not investigate it. Llewellyn quot ed Norman as saying he saw several men in the vicinity but believed nothing was amiss. WEATHER * 1 FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair, slightly colder in central portion tonight; Friday increasing cloudiness and slightly warmer, followed by occasional rains Fri day night and probably in west i and north central portion Friday afternoon. f : , . . abeth City, severing several electric wires and blocking traffic on main street. Between Gregory and Belcrosse, in Camden county, eight telephone poles were blown down. While the coast guard cutter Cara basset was attempting to get aid to the trawler Malolo, of Hampton, Va., in. distress six miles off Ocracoke In let two schooners, the Missouri and Julia Wj. Bell, of Avon, both two masted fishing vessels, limped into port here late last night. c rs Abolition of Commission Will Be Harder Job Than Was Expected BOTH SIDES REASON Substitution pf One-Man Commission Might Become Tremendous Is sue in Politics In Election of Governor Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. IIY J. BASKEHVILL. Raleigh, Jan. 26. —Although the re commendation for the abolition of the State Corporation Commission and the. substitution of a utilities commission er, as urged by the Joint Committee on Reorganization of the State Gov ernment, was expected to be approved by the General Assembly with' little opposition, indications now are that the bill to carry out this change is going to encounter bitter opposition. The bill drawn by the reorganiza-' tion committee to carry out this change was referred back to the com mittee that it drew it after a rather’ acrimonious fight in the Senate in (Continued on Page Six) KILLED IN FALL IN TOWEL BIN IN MILL Concord, Jan. 26 —(AP) — Louis Howell, 18, textile operator, was fa tally injured today when he fell into a towel bin in the bleachery of the Cannon mils at Kannapolis. AW ILL ROGERS XJ7 p *oys: Beverly Hills, Cal., Jan. 26.—0 n account of it being the only kind of money that 80 per cent of our people ever handle, they want to see silver given a real value. But Congress wants to kept it as it: is —just to pound up and use as a wedding present* See where the Roosevelts, even down into the fifth cousins, are straying back into the fold. Noth ing win bring back distant kin folks like the news spreading that you got a job. ] The very popular wife of a very popular cabinet member has writ : ten a song, "My Homeland.” lours, WILL. 1 * i •' ,*-v* “ k: « PUBLISHED EVERY ■ AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY,. Repeal Os Primary i ; 5 , / *7 Voted Unfavorably At Committee Meet Dirigible Akron Chased by Storm •v Lakehurst, N. ; J., Jan. 36 (AP) —The navy dirigible Akron; which flew into the Middle West to a. severe Wind and rainstorm in this area, reported to the naval air station at 8 a. m. today that she was. 30 miles northwest of Erie Pa. - , .vC Commander F. T. Berry, corn-'; mandant at the station, said he could not foretell when the Akron would return to Lakehurst i SALES TAX BILLS Os DIFFERENT HUE BEING MADE RUDY Will ,Be Sprung Upon Leg islature When Other Ef forts To Get Revenue Have Failed TWO PERCENT LEVY IS SOUGHT IN ONE Would Embody Production, Luxury and General Sales n ix; Await Reorganiza tion Bills to Avoid Muddy ing Waters in Hunt for New Revenues 1 i _ ■*' Daily Dispatch Barca**, In the Sir Walter Hotel, HV J. C. HASKEHVIIiL. Raleigh, Jan. 26.—Two sales tax bills are in preparation for introduc tion in the General Assembly at the auspicious moment, it was authori tatively learned here today, in spite of the secrecy with which those in terested in these bills have sought to shroud their activities. One of these bills is a straight out two per cent sales tax on gross retail sales only, and is scheduled for in troduction in the Senate when the time is ripe. Indications are that this bill will have very strong support from the industrial bloc in the Sen ate and that it will get. very strong backing from the tobacco compant& power companies railroads and other lareg corporations that are anxious to see a general sales tax on retail sales enacted. The second, sales tax bill now in (Continued on Page Six). Six Brokers Are Given Suspension . By Stock Market New York, Jan. 26. —(AP) —The New York Stock Exchange, in one of its most sweeping disciplinary actions in years* today suspended six of its members, for periods ranging from one month to three years. Several of those suspended were members of the firms of Smeltzer Clifford and Company or Ludwig Robertson and Company, both of which withdrew as cleaning mem bers of the stock clearing cor poration today* The suspensions were of traders primarily interested in bonds, and were for paying gratuities with out the approval of the exchange to employees .of the exchange or other financial institutions. Glass Bank Reform Bill Likely To Die In House Washington, Jan. 26.’r-(AP) The House Banking Committee will con sider the Glass Ranking bill, passed yesterday by the Senate, but its chair mjan,| (Stefagfoll, Ala bama, said today he was riot as hope ful for action at this session as some are. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY! Plea of Disfranchisement of Voters Blocks Blow Ai , Statewide Primary Elections EIGHT-MONTHS TERM ECONOMY Gould be Done Cheaper, Washington Solon Tells His Gommitee; Legislature R effuses to Pay Town of Newton $5,000 Damages For Fatality of Highway Raleigh, Jan. 26.—(AP)—Discussion of the possibility of an eight months State-supported school term in ths Senate Education Committee, and vot ing of an unfavorable report to the bRI designed to abolish the State wide primary by the House Elections Committee held the legislative spot light today. The Senate held an almost work less session, passing a number of local bills, but not taking up its public calendar. A number of new measures were introduced- In the House lengthy debate en sued after the reading of a Senate bill proposing that the State pay the town of Newton $5,000 to recompense it for damages granted the heirs of W. L. G. Pickett, who was killed in an automobile accident. Pickett was killed in an accident at an overhead railroad bridge in New ton and proponents of the bill charg ed that the death resulted from neg ligence of the State Highway Com mission. Opponents of the measure said it would set a dangerous prece dent. Almost a score of representatives (Continued; on Page Six.) J. H. Epperson, of Durham, Potentate > Os Sudan Temple New Bern, Jan(. ;26. —(AP)- Jessa H. Epperson was elevated to the post of potentate of Sudan Temple ot th? Shrine today and his home city of Durham was selected for the temple’s summer ceremonial. Epperson succeeds Dr. Job Taylor* of Roanoke Rapids, whose ill health, during the past year left most of the work to Epperson, who as chief rab ban, was next in line for potentate. All other officers were re-electod, being moved up one office, according to Shrine custom, and Dr. D. Ashe Morris, of Durham, was elected outer guard to fill the single vacancy. Eight candidates were initiated at a ceremonial this afternoon a v .i «i id