"HENDERSON,
(jATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA- |
-twentieth year
Counsel For Leas
Argue This State
Is Without Claim
Conviction Ha* No Bearing
on Extradition to North
Carolina, Attorney*
Maintain
. A W disregarded
by NORTH CAROLINA
Contention I* That Leas
Wrongfully Convicted,
Since They Were Not In
State at Time Law Was
Violated ; ’ Tennessee Gov
ernor Hears Plea
Nashville. Tenn., Feb. 2.—(API
Governor Hill McAlister listened for
three hours today to arguments
apainst extradition of Colonel Luke
lea and Luke Lea. Jr., to North Car
olina. and then recessed the hearing
until 2 p nh.. when the other side will
be heard. , « ,
The Leas’ counsel corft»»rdcd the de
fendants were not' fugitives from jus
tice because they were v uot in North
Carolina at the time of specific law
violations alleged, and that their con
viction in that State had no bearing
on *he matter. Affidavits by the Leas
said 'hey wore not in North Carolina
on the specific date.
In ,closing his argument. Henry E.
Cwtty-ane, one of the Leas’ attorneys,
died "the question of conviction
hasn’t a thing to do with it, — the
question is whether they were or
weren’t there," and added:
‘‘l would say from a persual of this
record (the North Carolina court rec
ot d) that it exhibits a disregard for
the law, and a disregard for the right.
1 can't understand it on any grounds
except that the political promience
of the men here caused their con
viction. Except for their political
prominence, they never would have
been convicted."
150 Million
More Relief
Now Sought
R. F. C. Says T.h a t
Would Carry Coun
try’s iNeeds Until
December
Washington, Feb. 2- —AP) —Appro-
priation of an additional $150,000,000
for direct relief loans to states was
recommended to a Senate Committee
today by Charles A. Miller, president
of 'he Reconstruction Corporation.
The K. F. C. president endorsed
in f.ent'al terms the Wagner bill to
liberalize the law under which his
organization administers relief, tes
tifying that the demand for aid 1s
increasing. He opposed however, the
provision to throw open the entire re
sources of the corporation for relief
loans 11, states, saying it would hand
f">P efforts to stimulate local relief
work.
Millet - testified that the present
$300,000,000 fund would last until June
' end that an additional $150,000,000
w culd “carry us through to the long
Kcs-don in December.”
Next Session Os Congress
Likely To Give Roosevelt
Precisely What He Desires
B.v CHARLES P. STEWART
Washington, Feb. 2.—No politically
j“ x Perienced person ever has doubted
(( |' lt President Roosevelt would have
’> call an extra session of congress
" '>te his administration was many
*eeks old.
That he and the
I Democratic manag
| ers have decided up
on mid-April o r
thereabouts for the
! lawmakers to con
vene consequently
hardly rates as start
ling news.
Indeed, an extra ses
sion is the country’s
due-
I It elected the New
| Yorker by a land-
I slide, and gave him
I thumping majorities
M. , 'E®
bouse nr in the ser »ate and
representa/ives ,to effect a
t.., “ ... • ■ l * ' • *
. j % i-i. LESLIE PERRY MEMORIAL I
Hmttuwsmt tlatltt StatmHi
Business Holiday
Mayor T. B. Wright
With all business houses, except
food and drug stores, newspaper,
utility offices and gasolin* filling
stations closed, Mt. Carmel, 111.,
has been experimenting with a
one week’s “emergency business
moratorium”. “We hope to im
prove and steady business through
this moratorium, ’ declared Mayor
T. B. Wright.
COMMITTEE KILLS”
KIDNAP PROPOSAL
Also Defers Action on Mc-
Duffee Bill to Appoint
Guardians
Raleigh. Feb. 2.—(AP)—The Gattis
bill designed to make kidnaping a
capital crime in North Carolina met
its death in a House judiciary com
mittee today when it was voted an
unfavorable report.
Representative GaHis, of Orange,
say’ng he was actuated by the Lind
bergh kidnaping, introduced the mea
sure last week. The committee said
the State's present four capital
crimes—arson, rape, .murder and first
degree burglary—are all constitutional
crimes, and ,as kidnaping is not, re
fused to add it to the list.
The committee deferred action on
the Senate bill by McDuffee, of Vance
which would authorize the appoint
ment of guardians for estates of per
sons who disappear and are not heard
from within 90 days. The bill was an
outgrowth of the disappearance in De
cember of R. S. McCo-in, prominent
Henderson man, who has not been lo
cated. McDuffee will be given a hear
ing on the measure.
House Refuses To
Withhold Big Sum
For Farm Board
Washington, Feb. 2.—(AP)— The
Fuller amendment to the indepen
dent offices supply bill to kill the
$500,000 appropriation for the farm
board for the first six months of the
next fiscal year was defeated today
in the House.
In discussing the proposal, Fuller
said, "I see no reason why we should
appropriate money for a board that
probably will be abolished by the next
administration.”
fundamental change in national con
ditions as speedily as possible. And
he scarcely would be acting speedily
if he were to wait until next Decem
ber for the legislators to meet.
Thre has been some inclination, to
be sure, to find fault with the Demo
crats for accomplishing practically
nothing during the lame duck inter
val.
This obviously is unfair. Not only
have they the Wjhite House still
against them; they are in a minority
cf one in the senate and their favor
able margin in the house of represen
tatives is mighty narrow. It is true
that the G. O. P. cannot depend on the
senate’s progressive Republicans, but
neither can the Jeffersonians.
What President Roosevelt desires
from the next congress he probably
will get.
Just now his party is split in the
on Page Six).
ONLY DAILY
WIK» SERVICE
OF THE ABSOCI AT BSD PRESS.
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OP NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 2, 1933
GERMANY’S FATE IN THEIR HANDS
Germany’s destiny rests largely in
the hands of these five men as
Adolf Hitler, right, Austrian-born
Fascist, launches his life-long am
bition in the role of chancellor of
Germany. At left, above, is Franz
von Papen, vice chancellor. Be
Roosevelt Outlines Plan
To Rehabilitate America
Relates Dream of Putting 200,000 Men To Work In
Tennessee Valley Region and Duplicating Perform
ance in Many Other Sections of Country
Warm Springs, Ga., Feb. 2.—(AP)
—A gigant’c experiment designed to
provide 200,000 jobs and. herald the
birth of a new America from which
the course of unemployment woulfl.
be lifted was proposed today by
President-elect Roosevelt.
The rugged highlands and fertile
industrial valley of the Tennessee
watershed were chosen by the next
president for this most interesting
experiment a government has ever
undertaken.
Seated before the blazing fireplace
of the “little White House,” he told
newspaper men of his dream for a
vast development encompassing re-
Hitler Asks
Four Years
To Succeed
* i
Berlin, Feb. 2.—(AP)—Adolf. Hitler,
four days chancellor of Germany,
challenged his country' today to
“crucify me or do anything else to
me if at the end of four years we
have not succeeded."
“The other side had thing's all their
own way for 14 years,” he told a group
of newspaper men in his first press
conference as chanceor. “Look at the
results!”
“Give us four years. That’s the legal
period of a Reichstag—and then let
the country sit in judgment."
AfVILL
Rogers
Xy Nays:
Beverly Hills, Cal., Feb. 2—The
Reconstruction Finance Corpora
tion is fine men, honest, and mean,
well; skid if it was water they were
distributing, it would help the peo
ple the plan was meant to help,
for watep jfetoes- d|owpi hill and
moistens everything on its way,
but gold or money, goes uphill.
The Reconstrucitoi loaned, the
railnoads money medium and small
banks money, and all they all did
with it was pay off what they
owed to New York banks.
See, the nioney went uphill in
stead of down. You can drop a
bag of gold in Dteath Valley, which
is below sea level, and Indore Sat
urday it will |>c home to Papa
J\ P. . ■
1 ,WILL. ft
low him is Konstantin von Neu
rath, foreign minister. At lower
right is Gen. Werner von Blom
berg, minister of defense. Below
is President Paul von Hindenberg
whose conservatism is expected
to counterbalance Hitler.
forestation, reclamation, waterpower
and agricultural rehabilitation. The
aim is to balance the national popula
tion anew between citie sand the
country.
Mr. Roosevelt expects this huge la
boratory experiment to provide em
ployme-.f for 200,000 men in the Ten
nessee valley alone. More than this,
he hope i ■) carry the scheme into
other section:; c> the nation from the
Alleghanys to the Pacific coast and
through it to re-establish American
life on a basis that will mean the end
of unemployment; the decentraliza
tion of industry, and a people pro
tected by the watchful eye of the
government.
Committee Favors
Easier Divorces
Raleigh, Feb. 2.—( AP) —Senate
Judiciary Committee No. 1 today
voted a favorable report to a bill
designed to make divorces easier
in North Carolina, but then rescind
ed its action and postponed report
ing the measure at the insistence
of Senator Griffin, of Franklin.
The committee gave its approval
to a substitute bill which would al
low an aggrieved party to sue for
divorce after a separation of three
with the unaggrieved party hav
ing to wait five years, as is requir
ed now for any divorce.
Allotment
Farm Plan
Defended
Washington, Feb. 2. —(AP)--Assail-
ing arguments advanced by the meat
packers, Earle C. Smith, president of
the Illinois Agricultural Association,
urged the Senate Agriculture Commit
tee today to retain hog-benefits in the
domestic allotment farm relief plan.
Answering that 65 percent of the
consumer cost “is now being absorb
ed somewhere between the processor
and the consumer,” Smith said he
“was not ready to admit the increased
price to the farmer would be reflected
in added cost to the consumer.”
Vl4f HER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA,
Partly jcloudy; slightly colder
in central and east portions to
[ night; Friday cloudy.
SENATE REFUSES TO ABOLISH
CORPORATION COMMISSION AS
PART OF REORGANIZING PLAN
Terrific Battle Looms
ForF inance Committee
Over New Revenue Bill
i r
One Element, Reported to Include |Both Chairmen, Fav
ors Reducing Corporation Taxes in Favor of Sales
(Tax; Others Bitterl y Oppose That Idea
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKERVILI«.
Raleigh, Feb. 2.—A1l is not well
within the Senate and House Finance
and indications are that a
good deal of fur may fly before any
kind of a revenue bill will be forth
coming. For several days rumors have
been rife that quite a number of the
members of both finance committees
are in favor of scrapping the revenue
bill submitted by the Budget commis
sion and writing a new bill from start
to finish.
indications are that the industrial
and corporate interests of the State
are behind the movement to scrap the
budget revenue bill and to write a
new bill with the income, franchise
income and other taxes reduced to
’he levels continued in the 1929-1931
Government
Deficit Has
Heavy Gains
LL-'&r Shortage sl,-
271,721,031 at End of
Seven Months Os
Fiscal Year
Washington, Feb. 2.—(AP) — The
government .ended the first K seven
months of Its 1933 fiscal year with a
deficit of $1,271,721,031, having col
lected from all sources $1,138,509,910. I
and spent $2,410,226,941.
The public debt on January 31
amounted to $20,801,707,134, an in
crease of almost three billion dol
lars in the total in twelve months.
On January 31, 1932, the debt was
$17,815,861,117.
The government’s income continued
to fade away, despite an increase in
miscellaneous internal revenue com
ing from new taxes-
Income tax in the seven months
amounted to $358,856,709, as compar
ed with $635,817,908 in the same per
iod of the previous year.
Miscellaneous internal revenue,
however, increased $147,000,000, a
mounting to $457,039,677.
Customs duties dropped to
025 from $224,569,945 in the
months of 1932.
General expenditures were lower by
$209,000,000, than for the same period
of a year ago, and amounted to sl,-
358,128,142.
BURLINGTON LAWYER
CHOSEN SOLICITOR
Raleigh, Feb. 2. —(AP)—Leo Carr,
of Burlington, an outstanding attor
ney of Alamance county, this after
noon was named solicitor for the
tenth judicial district by Governor J.
"C. B. Ehringhaus to succeed Congress
man-elect William B. Umstead, who
resigned.
Chinese Make New
Attack Upon Japs
In Jehol Section
■ ... .» ■
Peiping, China. Feb. 2 (AP) —An of
ficial bulletin said today that Chinese
volunteers launched a new attack yes
terday and last night on Japanese
troops holding Fuicheng and Chium
enkow on the souitheasibam border of
Jehol province.
Latest dispatches said hostilitiro
wane continuing. J
The bulletin said the volunteer
Iforces attacked Japanese at 4
(p. m. yesterday and (that a fouafthbur
battle ensued.
The Chinese were reported repulsed
'by airplanes amid artillery., fire, wijbh!
tsome casualties, but launched a sec
■bnd last (night. Thiist was
centered on Ohiumienkow, .the city of
the Great Wal lof China, which the
Japanese occupied early in January.
The might fighting whs repotted:
“more sanguinary.” }
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Revenue Act instead of those in the
19,51-33 Revenue Act. It is generally
agreed that the taxes on the power
companies, manufacturers and indus
trialists generally'were boosted high
er by the 1931 General Assembly than
ever before. As a result, some have an
ticipated that they would make an
effort to get these schedule reduced
this time, in spite of the need for still
more revenue.
It is generally agreed that if any
of the present tax schedules are re
duced that a general sales tax will
be necessary t 0 make up the differ
ence. For even if the schedules sug
gested in the Budget Revenue Act
should be retained, fully $5,000,000 in
additional revenue will still be need
(Continued on Page Four.)
MIEAN WILL TRY
TACTICS 0E1931
Wants to Pass Eight Months
School Bill Before Money
Is Found
HE MAY NOT SUCCEED
Two Years Ago Effort To Support
Six Months School on* Sales Tax
Failed anil Corporations
, Wer e Hblsted,/ . : f
f '! f•; j* •
Daily Dispatch Rnmnn.'
ir Tfi’HhV Sir Walter 'Hotel. ’
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Rale:gh k Feb. 2.—The , fight, fprj a.
State-supported bight m6ritns.> schbol
term without ad valorem taxation, is
on. Senator A. D. Mac Lean, of Beau
fort county, and senator C. L. Bailey,
of Washington county, introduced
their bill for an eight-months school
in the Snate Wednesday. The bill is
virtually a replica of the Mac Lean
bill introduced in 1931 for State sup
port of the six months term, the only
difference that this bill would re
enact the Mac Lean law and make it.
apply to an eight months term-
The bill carries no appropriation,
makes no provision for providip-g the
necessary $3,000,000 of addition re .
(Continued on Page Four)
Another Debate
On Debts Breaks
- Forth In Senate
Washington Feb. 2 (AP) —Another
foreign debt debate broke in the Sen
ate today with Senator Robinson, Re
publican, Indiana, demanding that
‘the Sjtjafls
under the Logian act W&llaaim. C. Bul-
EJtit, who has (bein reported negotiate
lug on debts abroad.
' Reading Press accounts of
Bullitt’s visiits to Berlin, London land
Paris, supposed to be in connection
with war debts, RotbinOon, said Bullitt
r wos making a “laughing sltock” out of
the American people.
"It is 'high time the American gov
ern mein t alsserts who h.e is,” ihe said.
“He is going about in disguise, and;
when molt in disguise he its giodng un
der assumed name.”
Governments And Lenders
Rush To Fanner’s Relief
(By the Associated Press.)
Friendly state governments and
successful demonstrations to prevent;
mortgage foreclosure sales were nail
ed with joy today by farmers in wide
ly scattered sections fighting to save
their homes and' laascfc,
In the Sou t,. ne Arkansas legisla-!
ture prevented foreclosure’'measures
by passing a moratorium suspending
jurisdiction of circuit aud. chancery
courts. J
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Transfer ,of ( Local Govern-
ment to Treasurer Com
pletes Passage In
i Both Houses
committeelbegins
SCHOOL BILL WORK
Committee Named To Study
Salaries and* 'Personnel
With View to $3,000,000
* Saving; Medical Board
Given Right to Withdraw
Doctors’ Licenses
Raleigh. Feb- 2.—(AP)—The Senate
today defealed the first measure of
the reorganization proposals intend-
to effect economies in the State
government when it rejected the spe
cial committee’s bill to abolish the
present Corporation Commission of
three members.
The bill, which would have set up
an appointive commissioner of utili
ties, was defeated 26 to 24. Just pre
viously, a motion to table the bill had
lost 42 to 7.
While the Senate was killing the
Corporation Commission bill, the
House passed the measure to transfer
the Local Government Commission to
the State treasurer’s office. The mea
sure will become law upon its rati
fication as it had passed the Senate.
The House also passed on second
reading another minor reorganization
.bill, that to transfer the personnel
department to the budget bureau. The
bill will come up for third reading to
morrow.
A bill t 0 give the State Board of
Medical Examiners final authority ijt
revocation of licenses of practicing
(Continued on Page Four)
FourPercriL
'i
Sales Levy*
Is Rumored
Leading Business Os
State Talked A s
Fostering Such A
New Proposal
Raleigh, Feb. 2-—(AB)—A joint sub
committee to seek new sources of
State revenue was appointed today by
the finance chairman of the General
Assembly and tomorrow morning will
begin its work with it being general
ly conceded some form of sales tax
will be the new source.
Senator Rankin, of Gaston. Senate
firjrnoe ©ahirman, together with
Waynick, of Guilford; Mac Lean, of
Beaufort; and Aiken of Catawba, will
comprise the upper house sub-group.
From the lower house will be Chair
man Doughton, of Alleghany: Cherry
of Gaston; Moss, of Nash; Coffey, of
Lenior; Flannagaai, of Pitt, and Gat
tis, of Orange.
The Associated Press learned today;
from a source it believes to be re
liable that a concerted drive is under
way over the State among leading
business and Industries to bring pres
sure to bear oin the General Assem
bly to levy a four or five percent gen*
eral sales tax.
The situation has been recognized
by ihe legislatures of Alabama and
Georgia, and sympathetic statements
for farmers have come from the gov
ernors of Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
Kentucky and Mississippi.
In Georgia moratoria on all farm
mortgages, were declared by 15 lifa
insurance companies doing business in
the State.
From other states came reports of
mortgage 2aleu that did not succeed*