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GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA- TWENTIETH YEAR McLean Approves Billion In Loans For The Farmers North Carolina Ex-Govern or Would Thus Establish Two-Year Agricul tural Moratorium WOULD BE ABLE TO PAY THEIR TAXES Advocates Passage of Hull Bill Against Farm Fore closures and Would Use Reconstruction Corpora tion as Medium for Ef fecting Benefits Washington. Ftb. 3. —(AP) Condi tions rn the agricultural regions were pictured as serious in testimony be fcic two Sonate committees today by former Gov'ernar Angus W. McLean, of North Carotin* and William H. Srl'le, of vice-president of the Farmers* Nrfti&hal Grain Cor poration McLean advoeqj cfl passage of the Hull bill for a <ewo year moratorium on farm mortgage foreclosures to be brought about by lending one billion dollais to farmers through the Recon struction Corporation to enable them to pay taxes and installments. Bennett C. Clark New Senator From State of Missouri Washington, Feb. 3 (AP)—Bennett Champ Clark. *»on of i‘he l?Jje.-Speak er Champ Clark of the; House and former House pariamentarlan., was sworn today as senator from Missouri, succeeding Harry B. Hawes, resigned. Clark, a heavy set mam. with an e,n --r-tTirg smile, w»s esccripcl to (h,y deiis by jienaiior Robinson, of Arkan sas. the Democrat leader, and admin- Mored ibe cafr.h by Senator Moses, New Hampshire, president protem. Gen.Sandino Makes Peace In Nicaragua Rebel Leader Walks Into Presidential Palace and An nounces Purpose Managua. Nicaragua. Feb. 3 —(AP) - A promise of peace after six years of revolt against the American-ad vised government of Nicaragua was left behind today by the colorful Au gusto Sandino as he headed back to th«» mountain headquarters of his army. The importance of his message was 'almost forgotten in the excitement caused by inc sensational manner in which he delivered it. His visit was a complete surprise. A plane from his northern jungle rr'reat arrived here yesterday with the commander, his father and three (political allies. With an automatic pis tol swing on his hip, he walked into 'he presidential palace, sat dowrrAvith Ptcaident Juan Bautista Sacasa and m ade his pledge of peace. Then the man who had hun>de and t ,r en hunted by Nicaraguan native sol diers and American Marines since enjoyed the luxury, particularly fw him, of a night’s sleep in the i'alace. HMvTll Rogers *jgys: Beverly Hills, Cal., Feb. 3 v ''h a million and one home tal *n< problems that ought to be ''"trying our law-makers, why, '"y are still excited about the debis. England is paid up until June, " "by start worrying now about Un ®' the unemployed had , 1111 the hungry food June; they could rest mighty Koi'i/ Or av ’ * l^e * But ‘hey haven’t, , f? ut M'® debts are paid tUI June. ,e if you diagnosed all our "übles and listed ’em in the or i,(lu ° ,he * r Importance to us right , U | ’ u would find debts aw (ha,' ear <he bottom - Any problem ... even temporarily settled I»roble „ ° Ur ,nonths “head is no v ut),e -n nowadays. iours, Wir.r t IdritiU'rsmt Satin Ufaxmtrft ONLY PAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIISINIA. * On Debt Mission i ' | I ~ j|W)r^K y ■ Returning to London to lay Presi dent-elect Roosevelt’s views on the proposed debt conference before his government, Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador to the U. S.. is shown as he boarded the liner Europa at New York. The envoy had a four-hour conference with the President-elect at the “Little White House." Warm Springs. Ga.. on the eve of his departure. Warning On Tampering With Debts Home Loan Bank Head Says Nullify ing May Stop New Lending of Money Washington. Feb. 3.—(AP)—Frank lin W> Fort, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Board, today warned State legislatures not to tamper with the terms and conditions of collecting mortgages, saying that such action carried too far would stop new lend ing by institutions. Fort, just leturned from a trip to Topeka, Little Rock and Des Moihes, said that lending institutions were pursuing a liberal policy toward per son on whose property they held mart gages, even though payment had not been made tor as much as 12 months. The institutions, he said had been doing their full share of trying to kid the present situatioh, and that tam pering with the collection of mort gages was proving a very serious threat to new lending. Allotments Bill Urged By Granger Washington, Feb. 3. —(AP)—Enact- ment of the domestic allotments farm price lifting bill was urged on the Senate Agriculture Committee today by William H Settle, Indianapolis, as “dnly a part of the program which is needed to correct the whole break down in our nation.” President of the Indiana State Farm Bureau and vice-president of t'he Farmers National Grange Corporation he added that “there is no hope for agriculture’s escaping continued ex ploitation, with its cold, merciless pro gram of survival of the fittest unless and until the Congress of the United States recognizes and deals adequate ly with the problem. “We have had enough of the ‘hit and miss, hope and be hanged,’ ” he said. Weather FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Fair, slightly colder in east ; portion tonight; Saturday increas ing cloudiness, • F H£; L ~„ J .-‘S ABED WIR* SRRVICB OF THE ASSOCIATED PRIQBB. HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 3, 1933 Charging For—No* At—Hitler Now , l JBmmqmßßWßt awta ?'E. fMMMBBMft % W aSBESI,. raßZaaSßi? MB jji. t jjpp ijL, % JL ... Made only a week before Adolf Hitler was appointed | Chancellor of Germany, this picture shows Berlin eolice charging during a factional fight between [itler’s Nazi followers and their inveterate enemies I 5 WOMEN PATIENTS CLEVELAND BURNED Break from Rescuers En route from Upstairs Sleep ing Quarters and Re turn to Rooms FIRE BELIEVED OF INCENLIARY ORIGIN Farmer Taken Into Custody for Questioning at Re quest of Sanitarium Head After He Had Made Threats to “Get Even if It Kills Me” Cleveland, Ohio. Feb. 3. —(AP) — A mysterious fiire burned five women patients to death in a suburban sani ta’Jt’im dormitory early today, de spite the heroic efforts of attendants to lead them to safety. The women broke from their re scuers en route from upstairs sleeping quarters. By the time nearly a score of other patients had been taken out, the panic-stricken five, who had fled back to their beds, were beyond aid The dormiiory was destroyed. As workers dug in the debris for their bodies, Dr. William Clenden ning, husband of the sanitarium’s su perintendent, and a staff physician branded the fire as of incendiary ori gin. At hi 3 request, police and fire mar shal took into custody for question ing a ohardon farmer with whom he said hospital physicians had been in dispute. Dr. Clendenning asserted the farm er had threatened his wife with death and yesterday telephoned the institu tion’s office and said: “I’ll get even if it kills me." SHARP PAY CUTS IN CONGRESS IS URGED Washington, Feb. 3-—(AP) —Advo- cating sharp pay reductions for mem bers of Congress, Representative Whittington, of Mississippi, today asked his Democratic colleagues in the House why their platform pledge for a 25-percent cut in Federal ex penses was not being put through Congress. | Gov. Murray Claims Foes After Him Oklahoma City, Feb 3.—(AP) — Charging that his enemies are laying the ground work for impeachment proceedings against him, Governor W. H Murray'wrote also in his week ly newspaper today that a conference was held in Seminole, Okla., recently to arrange for the release of a “cer tain life term convict to bump off Cockleburr Bill.”. ~ “Cockleburr Bill” is an old nick name for Murray, who has been bet ter known in the late years as “Alfal fa Bill.” Referring to an investigation by a State Senate committee of alleged irregularities in the military enforce ment of oil production in the Okla homa City field, the governor said: “They say nothing about impeach ment; but occasionally one of their henchmen will whisper around the Capitol that it will 'be done," of the Communist Party. Similar scenes are now being enacted in the German capital, where serious disorders followed the Nazi chieftain’s elevation to the Chancellorship. «• Expect New Revenue Bill To Levy 3 Pet. Sales Tax Indications Now Are, too, 1 hat Legislature Will Be Un able to Get Through Until April 1; Industrial Sec tions Favor Higher Rate of Levy Dttily !>is|»:i(<‘h Ilttreiui, In (In* Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. C. BASKERVILL. Raleigh. Feb. 3. —The tentative re venue bill recommended by the Bud get Commission has been scrapped by joing finance committee and a new bill will be drawn by a joint sub-com mittee. It .is expected that the new bill will contain a provision for a general sales tax of three per cent on all retail sales, estihnated to yield approximately $12,50(1,000. The belief is also growing that *h‘er As Mecklenburg Solon Dresses Up Senate Raleigh, Feb. 3.—(AP) —Senator Kirkpatrick, of Mecklenburg, today “dressed up’’ the Senate. The Mecklenburg solon has ap peared at the legislative sessions each day wearing a rose, red and yellow, and a small tuft of fern en h : s coat lapel. Trday he carried 50 roses and tuf<<T fern to the Senate and pin ned one on ‘lie lr;:ci of each mem ber of the body. “It’s just to clear the smoke away,” Kirkpatrick commented. FARM POSSESSIONS ARE RE POSSESSED Colorado Group Comes to Aid of Mortgage-Ridden Tiller of Soil CJhicago, /Feb. 3. —(AP) —The oft described peace and tranquility of a farmer’s life were missing from the farm picture today as some tillers of the soil barely found time to get the chores done in between their activities defying mortgage foreclosures. Following a “battle” at Julesburg, Col., yesterday, !in which nary an ounce of resistance was encountered 500 farmers picked up machinery valued at $3,000 and returned it to a farmer, George A. Jones. Led by the Farmers National Holi day Association, an army of 500 rural residents of eight Nebraska and three Colorado counties marched to town after Jones had told them he had deeded his possessions to his creditors The army “re-possessed” his belong ings from Julesburg dealers without a struggle. Estate of Former Spanish Premier Is. Confiscated Madrid. Spain, Feb. 3.—(AP)— Be cause former Preipier Count Alvaro de Roman ones kept his hat on in the presence of the king 22 years ago, the agrarian reform council decided today he must surrender his estate, to the republic. The government will pass on the decision. The law stipulates that grandees who avail themselves of the privilege of keeping their heads covered while standing before the king must be inr cluded in tihe list of persons whose lands are being expropriated. This privilege was accorded grandees onjj sembly will be here at least until April 1 before it will be abc to agree upon and enact a revenue bill. The sub-committee appo s nted to write the new revenue bill which is expected to contain a general sales tax, is composed of Senator Rankin Gastonia, chairman of the Senate Fi nance Committee, and Senators Way nick, of High Point; Mac Lean ,of Washington, and Aiken, of Hickory; (Continued on paec Three.) Revolt Over Reform Idea Breaks Out Reorg a n i z a t i i n Committee’s Boast ed Saving Is Ques tioned In Senate Daily Dispatch Bureau, » In the Sir Walter Hotel. BV HENRY LESESNE, Raleigh, Fob. 3 —The two members of the Corporation Commission agairvs whom tlie bill abolishing the com mission wiais conceded! y aimed today owed their jobs to various factors, not the ldast of which whs the open man ifestatilon of- a long-smouldering re volt against th e leadership and dom ination of Senator Larry Moore’s re organization committee which set out on the task f increoasinig thei effici ency of the State government and cutting the cost more tlhian $2,000,000 a year. • ' The vote on the bill, which wouldd have set up a publfc utilities commis sion to supplant the present Corpora tion Commission of three members, came as a surprise It was so close that if the two Republican Senators had voted the cither way, the bill would have passed. Several leading Republicans of the State had been openly opposed to the measure on the ground that it would have meant the appointment of two additional superior count judges within sixty days. ■However, the bill, easily the most (Continued on Page Four) Hoover Hopes To Stop Duplication Os Taxation Levy Washington. Feb. 3 (AP)—Declar ing that the present system of taxia-l tion presented “a perfect maze of overlapping,” President Hoover today told .the interstate conferen'oe of leg islators here he had hoped that the meeting might help to straighten, out this problem. f Leaving the White House dhodbly before 10 a. thd Prelsiideinit, in his brief adress before the opening l session, of the legislators, said the problem had arisen thonuigih f*e Evo lution of governmental functions of municipalities, counties inland states. .■ • \ PUBLISHED EVERY AFTBKUOOM EXCEPT SUNDAY.. Corporation Bill Revived In Senate For Consideration Has New Beer Plan John F. Ryan A plan for distribution of beet in every state where legalized, sell ing for 10 cents a glass and pro viding maximum revenue for each state, has been advanced by John F. Ryan, Indiana state representa tive, of Terre Haute. The Ryan plan would license 15 breweries in each state at $5,000 a year.' The breweries would have exclusive control of beer in their own state. The brewers would distribute through wholesalers, to be licensed at $2,500 annually, and they in turn would work through retailers each of whom would pay SI,OOO to the state. Beer would be sold in bottles only. s M#my Evidences That Last Summer’s Primaries Are To be Fought All Over Again WORK IS GOING ON BACK OF CURTAIN Efforts To Divert Highway Funds Not Primarily To Help Schools or Finances, but to Cripple Highways and Force Jeffress and Pou to Get Out Tknily Rnrenn. ’ln the Sir Whiter Hotel, BY .T. C. BASKF.RVITiIi. .Raleigh. Feb. 3. —Rocks and break ers are ahead for the General Assem bly and a gooc many are already see ing definite signs of another deadlock developing between the Senate and the House, similar to that in 1931 and alone the same general lines. For, in addition to widely divergent views with regard to taxes and fiscal pblicy generally that threaten to cause a) wide breech as the session progresses, the situation in the House is further aggravated by political considerations a:nd alignments that hark back to the* Democratic primaries of last June and July- There is already a definite tendency to fight these primaries all oyer again in the House, and indica tions so far are that the supporters of Lieutenant Governor R. T. Foun tain, who -Was Cereatea ror me Dem ocratic nomination for governor, are in the ascendency in the House. So far this Fountain faction there has been more or less quiescent and has been cooperating with the others on what little amount of important Statewide legislation has been before the House. It appeared for a while that this element had been more or less mollified by the inaugural address of Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus, in wjji'ch he recommended almost every thing that Fountain had advocated in the primary campaigns and still later (by the recommendations of the Joint Committee on Government Reorganiz ation. Friends of Governor Ehring haus were certain that there could be no cause for friction, because of his advocacy of almost everything urged by Fountain, and felt Confident that all the wounds opened during the campaign had been completely heal ed. But there have been forces at. work ([Continued on Page Three^ 6 FACES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Will Reconsider Action On Retention of Commission Instead of Utilities Officer FINANCE COMMITTEE HEARS EXPLANATION Various Revenue Proposals Outlined by Sponsors; Transfer of Personnel Di rector Is Approved; Sun day Baseball Bill Is Sent to Committee Raleigh, Feb. 3.—(AP)—As its fi nance sub-committee started a search for “new sources” of revenue, the General Assembly today continued ac tion on reorganiation proposals, with tbe Senate bringing back to life the bill to abolish the State Corporation Commission. The finance sub-committee listened to a lengthy explanation of the pro posed production tax by Senator Clements, of Rowan, and this after noon was to hear Senators Moore, of Craven, and Hinsdale, of Wake, Moore favors a kilowatt house tax on electricity and Hinsdale is a luxury t.r>x advocate. The Senate reversed itself on th? Corporation Commission bill, on mo tion of Senator Hartsell, of Cabar rus- The bill to abolish the present elective commission of three members and create a single appointive utilities commissioner, was re-elected to the corganiatlon. committee for re-writ • ng. „ Transfer Personnel. ' In the House the bill to transfer the iuties of the director of personnel to he budget bureau was amended and massed. It was sent back to the Sen ate. The Senate added its approval to the Rouse-Watson-Crews-Moore bill ■o aboliish deficiency judgments upon foreclosure of mortgages or deeds of rust. The bill will become law upon ts ratification, probably tomorrow. The Senate also reversed itself on a bill it had passed calling back the Burgin measure from the House. This, proposal would make the members of' the State Board of Conservation and Development also serve as the Stye's park The ineasure Was sent to the reorganiatioii ’ for a hearing.' *’!• , v j k . ,’i A jotUtyv" resolution eifcteijidiihg, sympathy of the legislature: to { Lieutenant Governor R. Foyfnain, j who is ill, completed legistativcf pas sage. The Senate passed a bill to proiilb't public employment of any architect or engineer who might be interested in sale of materials to be used in pro posed public buildings. It also passed a joint reuo utioir demanding that T. A. Wilson, indus trial commission, explain letters he wrote asking for support for the State Industrial Commission and the work men’s compensation act. Regulation of the hours of work of (Continued on Page Three.) SOUTHERN RAILWAY CUTS SHOP FORCES Spencer, Feb.. 3 (AP)—The SoutWU ern Railway today reduced ’ls force in its shops here by 706 men. The machinist, boater-making and car re pair depaotmenlte were cut most. Th e bulletin announcement, gave n« reason for the lay-off, but railroad men said it was probably made be cause, of the necessit yto cut *opcrating expenses during the first qi ? rter, andl that it was probably temporary. Page Trust Robbed Os Over S3OO Aberdeen,, Feb. 3- —(AP) — Thred men held up the Page Trust Com pany here this afternoon and escaped toward Southern Pines with between S3OO and S4OO. Francis Pleasant, assistant cashier, was alone at the time. The men walked in, pulled pistols from their packets, forced Pleasant to lie on the floor, took the money and fled. A check was under way to deter mine the exact amount of cash taken, but the amount was expected to be not over S4OO. A bag of pennies was taken from the vault, along with loose silve .• and currency on the counter. Police immediately spread out in a search for the men, who entered the ’oank unmasked, but later odxy re ported they had found .’c- >£ them since they roareu -il -- -fauH , sedan.
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