■^HENDERSON,
gateway TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA.
TWENTIETH year
CORPORATION BODY.
MAY BE ABOLISHED
DESPITE PROTEST
Opinion Continues to Pre
vail That General As
sembly Will Elimi
nate Commission
BILL BEING FOUGHT
bitterly, however
Would Be No Economy In
It and One Man Utilities
Commissioner Would Not
Be as Effective, Foes Con
tend; See Move as Politi
cal Gesture
■ mil) UlMpntch Rni'rim,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
BY J. n.VSKICHVIIX.
Raleigh. Jan. 28.—Opinion continues
to prevail here that the General As
sembly will pass the bill to abolish
the State Corporation Commission
nnd set up in its stead a public utili
ties commissioner to take over its
duties, in spite of *he Herculean ef
forts bong made by the members and
friends of the Corporal ion i Commis
sion to defeat 'he proposed bill. Fo*r,
while almost all of those whp hpve
investigated the matter are conVirtfced
that the move to abolish the Corpora
tor! Commission is more of a political
move than one actuated by a desire
for economy and that little, if any,
economy will result if the bill passes,
indications are that the bill will pass
the House with ease and aso probably
pass the Senate. It will run into far
mote opposition in the Senate than in
the House, however, and may have
;i more difficult time there than now
seems apparent.
Arguments Impressive.
There is no doubt that the argu
■ Continued on Page Six.)
Rail Board
To Report
By Feb. 22
Washington, Jan/ 28 (A<P) —Tfcje
National Transportation Commit
tee intends to make a comprehensive
report nut later than February 22.
Announcement of the plans; was
made by former Governor Alfred E.
Smith after a conference between the
committee and Chairman Rayburn of
the House Interstate Commerce Com
mittee. , i ■ l
Smith declined to give any indica
tion as to what the committee’s re
commendation would be, but said,
“The sole and only purpose of our
visit is to get ideas and to check up
on some things relative to a compre
hensive report and plans in respect tc
I he railroad situation, and what can
'he done about It." He said the uiok
er it was done the better.
s2,soo~Ciit
In Congress’
Pay Sought
Clerk. Hire Appro
priation Would Be
Reduced 25 Percent
In Bill Offered
Washington, j an . 28.—(AP)—A cut
claries of members of Congress
' oni SIO,OOO to $7,500 was proposed
thp House today by Representative
Whittington, Democrat, Mississippi.
Bis bill also would cut the clerk
,|p for the House 25 percent.
J n a statement Whittington said:
I he most important step in the
rp duction in the high cost of govern
nr,r’ nt is the further reduction of sal
ies of members of Congress and the
al ]owances for their offices.
A similar reduction should be made
'' 'he allowance for office and clerk
up 1 have introduced bills fixing
at'^rnr* ar * es members of Congress
at. $2,700, and providing that a
■’ PPlemental allowance for clerk and
' 1( e expenses when, if and as need
• "^ on vouchers in no? exceeding the
. 11 iona| sum of S9OO may be made."
HIATHiR
f’OR NORTH CAROLINA.
nj , a ' r ” ntl somewhat colder to
’l* r : s, »nday fair, with slowly
f« ll j ßm * >era ' ,ure * n a^<er *toon,
S u,r d rain ln west portion
ounday night. ,
. , s . . , „ _ | i , '*-.-.WiU
• ■ _ * ’• , :t i.s **
iirtthrrsmt Baiiu Bisuatrh
Legislators Find Hunt
For State Budget Money
Exceedingly Hard Task
Plants To Resume
Monday, Ford Says
Detroit, Mich., Jan. 28.— (AP)—
Officials of the Ford Motor Com
pany today said they expected the
strike at the Briggs Manufactur
ing Company plant to end Monday,
end declared that “within six
hours” after the 6 000 Briggs em
ployee returned to work Ford
plants throughout the country,
forced into suspension, will resume
operations.
TEXTBOOK MEASURE
IS ECONOMY MOVE
Superintendents and Other
School People Under
stood for It
ASK ONE COMMISSION
Would Merge Two Present Boards,
WHh Governor and Superintendent
and Seven Others Named
Members.
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
la the Sir Walter Hotel.
' BY J. C. BASKERVII.L.
kaleigh. Jan. 28.—A bill designed to
abolish both of the present textbook
commissions and set up a single body
in their place, and hence save the
duplicated expense of two commis
sions, is now with, the Joint Commit
tee on Reorganiation of the State
Government, having been introduced
in the House Friday by Chairman Er
nest Graham, of the House Educa
tion Committee, and by Representa
tive Boyd, of Mecklenburg. The bill
also contains a provision tha no city
school system now using a particular
book will have to junk these books
and throw them away whenever the
Textboow Commission adopts an
(Continued on Page Six.)
Last Has Not Been Heard
Os Cry Os Silver Unless
Conditions Improve Soon
By CHARLES P- STEWART
Washington, Jan. 28. Sixteen to
one!
Again the old battle cry. I cast my
first ballot on that issue back in the
eighteen nineties.
It climaxed a depression much such
as this has been, prolonged, hopeless,
featured by suggestions that the es
tablished system had broken, down
permanently and would have to be re j
placed by a new on?, characterized
by threats bf revolution.
So far as anyone could see there
was no more prospect of a revival
than at any time during the blackest
period of the present depression.
It was at that juncture that W. J.
Bryan sounded his arithmetical slogan
As we knoWj Jt nominated him for
ONLY DAILY
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OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
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NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VlirtflNlA.
HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 28, 1933
i exchange a joke at Warm
I Springs, Ga., where the next pres-
I ident is visiting. Baruch, promi
Industries of State Broke So
Far as Cash Is Concern
ed, Senate Chairman
Declares
HAVE GOT TO HURT
SOMEBODY IN STATE
Doughton Says It’s “Biggest
Problem We’ve Ever Had”
Figures Offered by Every
Interest Proving Argu
ment Against Any Higher
Taxes Now
Raleigh, Jan. 28.—(AP)—Members
of the General Assembly have spent
the past week one one of the hardest
jobs ever assigned any representatives
of the people. They are trying to bal
ance the budget.
Senators and reprseentatives on the
joint finance committee have spent
much of the week listening to the
saga of the depression. More is com
ing. Every single soul that has ap
peared before them has made their
job that much hardr.
Evry legislature has heard almost
every interest tell why its taxes
should noi be raised. Every previous
legislature has taken such argument
with a grain of salt. But this legisla
ture is in a different position. Almost
every interest that has appeared this
time presented irrefutable figures to
prove its contention.
If the week’s argument is to be ber
lieved. the tobacco companies are
North Carolina’s single big industry
that is making "important” money
and a a half a dozen states are trying
to get the cigarette factories, on the
ground that North Carolina taxes
them too much.
“Why kid ourselves?” asked Senator
Grady Rankin, chairman of the Sen
ate Finance Committee. "North Caro
lina industries are broke as far as
cash money is concerned- Theyve got
prospects, but you can’t pay bills with
prospects. We’ve got to get the money
somewhere.”
“It’s the biggest problem we’ve ever
had," was the brief comment of R. A.
Doughton, chairman of the House Fi
nance Committee. “It looks like we’ve
got to hurt somebody.”
the presidency.
The fight was hotter than . todays
has yet-developed intercut there is po
telling how much heat this one ,may
generatee. ,
The so-called debtor class was in the
same desperate hole then that it j s
now. The figures were smaller, but
perhaps the proportions were equally
formidable. The whole world was not
in so serious a jam. Still the United
States was more a world into itself in
that era. Anyway, the situation was
100 per cent awful, as viewed by folk
of the time-
And W. J. promised absolute sur
cease on short notice if his remedy
were adopted.
intinued on Pag* Six).
nently mentioned tot a uaj,»ii«it
post, spent two days as a at
the “Little White House”. ,
guestSovers
Next First Lady Inspects
Living Quarters In White
House Home
WALKS UP TO MANSION
Arrives Unaccomp (tied and. Visths
Retiring Misttrcsg of White House
as Is Customary With
the Presidents
Washington, Jan. 28.—(AP)—A tall
in black today walked swift
ly with' a long swing stride up the
curved driveway to the White House
It was Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
arriving on foot and alone to call on
Mrs. Herbert Hoover, and to look
over by invitation the executive man
sion which after March 4 is to be
her home for nearly four years.
It is customary for the wife of the
outgoing President to invite, the fu
ture mistress of the White Hofise to
visit her in order that she may de
cide what furnishings she will peed
to bring for the rooms On the second
floor that are assigned to the Presi
dent and his family.
Mrs. Hoover had offered to send a
car and an escort for her, but Mrs.
Roosevelt declined. She likes to walk,
she said, and she did not want any
fus made.
General Assembly
Does Very Little
During Saturday
Raleigh. Jan. 28. —(AP) —Another
practically worthless Saturday was
passed by the General Assembly today
as the law-makers met for perfunc
tory sessions lasting only a few min
utes each. .
The House got one new local bill
and passed 14 measures in a 15-min
ute session.
In the Senate Lieutenant Governor
Graham announced designation of
Senator Grady Rankin, of Gaston, to
attend the legislative conference in
Washington, and an invitation was
extended the body to attend :an edu
cational mass meeting here Tuesday.
The Senate got two ned bills and
passed two in a ten minute meeting.
Both divisions will resume regular
business at night sessions Monday.
Winter Is
Milder In
Carolinas
' ' . it
Charlotte, Jan. 28.—^(AP)—The .Car
olinas settled back today for the pro
mised enjoyment of a respite from
winter’s vagaries, which plagued the
State yesterday from mountains to
sea.
On the heels of a violent storm
which raked the coast and a heavy
snow which wrapped the mountain
country in a mantle of white, the
Weather Bureau predicted sunny, tho
ugh colder, weather for the, week-end.!
Ocracoke, N. C., reported a 60-mile
gale lashing the North Carolina shores
last night, accompanied by a violent
electrical dispay, and three inches of
hai. Smaller craft was driven, to shel
ter, and already abnormal, was
piled higher along the Carolina, coast*
AL SMITH DENIES
NE WILL TAKE!
K- .
v f m $
G6,t Alt Jobs Right Now He
Is Looking for, Former
■- w Governor Says In
Statement
HE DOEsIiXPECT TO
GO TO INAUGURATION
But Says He Will Not Head
Reconstruction Corpora
tion and Will Not Go To
United States Senate;
Doesn’t Know About Sen
ator Copeland t
Washington, Jan. 28 (AP)—For
mer Governor Alffred E. Smith,
of New York, said he wiould not
accept a cabinet position in the
Roosevelt administration, adding
that h ewa« “head of as many
things now as I wr*it to be.”
“Arc you going to acce/pt a cabinet
(post in the incoming- administration?”
Smith was asked by newspaper men'.
“No, sir,” Smith said.
Asked what part he expected to
take x the incoming administration,
Smith smiled and looked around i
a crowd of reporters and said:
“That remains to be seen.”
.. Asked about a report that Senator
Copeland, Democrat, New York, was
to be appointed ambassador to Ger
many and that he (Smith) would be
appointed senator from New York by
Governor Lehman, Smith said:
"No. - Well, at least half no. The
half no applies to me, that is. I’m
(Continued on Page Eight.)
Mistrial Occurs
In Newport News.
: Extortion Trial
Newport News, Va., Jan. 28. —(AP),
A mistriai was declared today in
the case of Charles: Herbert Young,
charged with attempting to extort
SIO,OOO from Homer L. Ferguson,
president of the Newport News Ship
building and Drydpck Compkny.
The jury was discharged when it
reported at 11:25 a. m. that it was still
unable tp reach a verdict. The court
ordered a new trial to be held at the
March term pf criminal court.
Bond of $5,000 for Young was or
dered continued.
Tells Stimson Kellogg Pact
Not Trampled; League
“Told of Threat” .
Lima, Peru, Jan. 28.—(AP)—Reply
ing to a note from Secretary of State
Stimson regarding- the Peru-Colombia
dispute over the - Amazon port of
Leitia, the Peruvian government said
today it had not violated the Kellogg
peace pact.
Secretary Stimson said any Peru
vian armed opposition to Colombia’s
efforts to re-establish sovereignty of
the city, which was seized by Jeruvian
nationalists, would be a violation of
the: pact. , •
THREAT TO NATIONALS OF
PERU, LEAGUE IS INFORMED
Geneva, Jan. 28.—(AP) —Premier
Jose Manzanilla of Peru, informed the
League of Nations in a telegram to
day tha l his government considered
Colombia’s expedition up the Amaon
river as a threat to Peruvian inhabit
ants of the disputed port city of
Letitia, and that Peru proposed to
“uphold the established right of
minorities and defend our nationals.”
AM ILL
Rogers
\j Qoys:
Santa Monica* Calif., Jan 28.
Saw today the first picture of the
two men who manufactured tech
nocracy. My faith in the thing,
which had started at nothing, and
grown less by leaps and bounds,
took another nose dive. History
will record as follows: “Early in
1933 America sorely pressed econo
mically, and their sense of humor
lost in a mad whirl of grappling
at anything offering relief, took to
events seriously, a thing Dialled
Technocracy, and a thing called a
Lame Duck Congress. Both tried
to save the country by a confusion
Os words, words, words* With not
an idea in a carload. Both of these
afflietions passed out simultan
eously.” ) Yours,,
' 1 WILL,
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
FRENCH AND GERMAN
CABINETS DEFEATED
3N'. t
IN VICIOUS ATTACKS!
Visiting Maestro
Back in the United States for a six
weeks concert tour, Ignace Jan Pad
erewski, world-famous pianist and
former Premier of Poland, is shown
on his arrival in New York. The
great musician expressed his belief
that the economic depression is due
to the displacement of man-power
by machinery, adding that a re
adjustment of international debts
is necessary to recovery.
iiiloYir
VISIT ROOSEVELT
Ambassador Lindsay To
Hear New President’s
, Plans on British
Debt Settlement
SAILS FOR ENGLAND
TUESDAY FROM U. S.
Will Advise His Govern
ment of Roosevelt’s Pro
gram for Adjustment Os
Obligations Owed to ( This
Country; Roosevelt’s
Plans Not Revealed
Washington, Jan. 28. —(AP) — Am
bassador Sir Ronald Lindsay of Great
Britain headed southward by plane
this afternoon to accept an invitation
to confer with President-elect Roose
velt at Warm Springs, Ga., prior to
his return to London on Tuesday to
advise his government on the impend
ing war.debt discussion.
With Atlanta his immediate destina
tion, Ronald was looking forward
to the chance to sit with the next
(Continued on Page Eight.)
800 Million Gut
ln Federal Cost
Is Being Sought
Washington, Jan 28 (AP) —A
plati for cutting expenditures
$800,000,000, of which $400,000,000
would come out of th e veterans
cost was presented to the chair
men of the Senate and House Ap
propriations Committees today by
leaders of the United States
Chamber of Commerce.
Reports About Surrender
Os Leas Are Unconfirmed
Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 28 (AP)—
Deputy Sheriff C. B. Teavyhouse at
Jamestown, Tenn., said by telephone
t
today he had been advised that Col
onel Luke Lea and Luke Lea, Jr.,
tfor whom 1 rcquisitiofS. papers have
'been issued in North v Carolina, sur
rendered there about noon- yesterday
and left shortly afterwards by auto
mobile. \
The deputy said his information
came from Circuit Court Clerk J. G.
Riggon, and that the Leas bad sur
rendered to Sheriff J. M. Teavyhouse,
his lather. The latter was out in the
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TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPT
Faul-Boncour Government
In France is Overthrown
on Issue Arising
About Budget
hitler may seize
POWER IN GERMANY
He and Von Papen Seem
Likely To Be Called To
Form Cabinet; Herriot
May Succeed ;• Paul-Ban
cour in French Crisis; Pe
Valera Wins Ireland
(By the Associated Press.)
. The Paul-Boncour government in
France and the von Schleicher ;cab-
in Germany, both of which have
had much trouble during their com
paratively brief periods in office, have
failed. *
In France the lid blew off witli
pressure against tjfe government’s
program Tor balancing/the budget, by
means of drastic economies and heavy
new taxes.
Geneia 1 con Schleicher tumbled over
the perennial obstalcle, which is
Adolf Hitler.
President, von Hindenbburg called
in former' Chancellor von Papen, who
preceded, von Schleicher, instructing
him together a cabinet which
supported in tihe Reichstag.
Vo'.i Papen was not appointed chan
cellor, but it appeared certain that
either he or Hitler would get the job.
President Leßrun of France called
in the party leaders, but there was no
definite indication as to who would
(Continued on Page Six).
Anti-Fascistic
Bombing Wrecks
Ex-Consul Home
Philadelphia, Jan. 28.—(AP) —An
explosion attributed by police to an
anti-Fascist bombing 1 today killed
Mrs. John M. di Silvestro, wife of the
supreme master of the order of the
Sons of Italy in the United States, in
jured at least 12 other persons and
demolished the Silvestro’s home.
Silvestro, an attorney and former
Italian consul here, was not a.t notnn
a.t the time of the blast, but arrived
about five minutes later to find the
place in ruins and rescuers searching
for his family.
Heavy Gales
Lash Coasts
Near Boston
-Scores of Families
Homeless and Hun
dreds of Thousands
Dollars Loss
Boston, Mass., Jan. 28. —(AP) — A
raging surf hurled by heavy gales con
tinued today to battle the North At
-1 lantic coast rendering scores of fam
ilies homeless and causing damage es
timated at hundreds of thousands of
dollars. \
Scores of communities were report
ed inundated, the Boston water front
was under water at many points and
the waves were pounding homes on
the shore.
The residential sections of the sea
coast area of Greater Boston had suf*
(Continued on Page 3ix)
country and could mot t>6 i^acKSßv
Efforts to reach Colonel Lea or
Luke Lea, Jr., at Nashville were
futile. }
SOLICITOR ZEfi NETTLES
KNOWS OF NO SURRENDER
Asheville, Jari. 28 (AP) —Solicitor
Zeb V. Nettles* who holds requisition
papers for Colfonel Luke Lea and his
son, Luke Lf:a, Jr., said today he
knew nothing of reports that the
Leas had surrendered and would not
fight extradition to this State.
“I haven't, heard & word about it,’*
the solicitor said* / 1