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"hENDEKSON, gateway to J CENTRAL CAROLINA. twentieth year Headers In House Favor And Oppose British Debt Plan American People Will Never Stand for Any Lump Sum Settlement, De clares Rainey MR COLLIER ‘‘CASH” COMPROMISE Moreover, He Opposes Changing Amount And Leaving Payments Over Long Period; One and Quarter to Two Billions Quick Payment Is Sug- gested Washington. Feb. 7.—(AP>—Repre sentative Rainey, of Illinois, the jvnocr i* ! c bvirier expressed to news paper men today the opinion that “the people will never stand for the British lump sum proposal where by Orest Britain would wipe three fourths of h»r debt away Kainev made his assertion shortly after Representative Collier, Demo iiatie. Mississippi, had to-ld reporters )v> wat “always ready for a cash com promise.’’ •But I wouldn’t think much of changing the amount and letving the (payments over a long period,” Col lier said. “I do not see what the Unit ed States would gain by that.” Widespread interest was created here by the dispatches from London fCn»tinuad on Page Five.) Will Speed Farm Relief On Mortgage Major Proposals for New Set-Up To Be Dropped for This Session ‘ Waehinglon, Feb. 7. —(AP)—A de cision to draw up and push toward enactment this session an emergency measure for farm mortgage relief was made today by a Senate banking sub comm ! ttee considering the problem. Th esuh-committee, headed by Sen ator Fltchre, Democrat, Florida, de cided it would be useless to seek en actment this session of any of the huge permanent proposals introduced foi reviving the whole agricultural credit structure. The* group decided to meet tomor row in another executive session, and ■without further hearings to formulate a bill designed to give a breathing •space from the foreclosures that have brought d’sorders in the farm belt. "If we can’t get the bill drafted and out this week. It will be no use to try to get it through this session,” said Senator Steiwer, Republican, Oregon, a member of the group. “Those gigantic plans running into 'billions will be dropped for this ses sion," he said, referring to permanent measures designed to reform the farm credit, system- Washington Shows Concern Over Farmers * New Method Os Cancelling Their Debts By CHARLES P. STEWART i Washington, Feb. 7. —It is an open, question whether or not a mere scal 'nS down of their, debts will be suf ■cient for American farmers. r hat is to say, there is reason to '°iibt (hat agriculture will choose to shove a few mills on the dollar does not have to, and seemingly 1 does not have to. Certainly the big companies, which hold; f , o,e 'han 1,600 millions on farm lands u °ughout the country, will call so la'iu' 0 a CU ' 83 * hat outr *®' ht cancel- The announcement of those com- that they are making “conces- Ua to the farm folk would be t nixing, except for the seriousness of uth Uation ‘ lle fact * 8 that muc ti bv th region described in statements Association of Life Insurance hrel ? nts ** tlle “ wewt north central” Neh,. I , OWa ’ the Dakotas, Minnesota, n s . aska ’ Mbisouri and Kansas—is in feJvernm»° f * actual insurrection, local ernm ent and all. , Revolt September l lowa, I omorrow Last Day Os Our Big Subscription Offer; lintimrsnu Datln Dispatch! ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VH&SINIA. * SENATE WILL FIRE SERGEANT-AT-ARMS DURING AFTERNOON Committee Recommends His Immediate Removal for Writing Congressmen Take Bribes GROUP DECLINES TO LET BARRY RESIGN Motion To Permit 73-Year- Old Employee of Senate to Get Out by That Route Is Lost; iFurther Questioning Fails To Shake Barry’s Stand Wo Feb. 7 (API —lmme diate removal of David S Barrv as senate sereeam£-a<t-arms for wrtt.'ng m a magazine article that reme mem bers of Congress accept bribes, w&s jreccmn<svi today by the Sentaite Judiciary Committee. The case comes up in the Senate automteublcally late this afterhoon for final decision. It wtas generally conceded that the committee’s wecompnendation would be adopted, Barry already being un der suspension. / A motion by Senalttor (Robinson. Re publican. Indiana, to permit the 73- yeai*-old officer to resign was reject ed by a vote of 11 to 4. The Senate Judiciary Comm:'tee went into executive session' todiay to determine the fate of David S. (Barry, Senate sergeant-at-arms, after Pro fessor William Crane Johnstone, of George Wla'hrngjion OntlvJti3Vy, (had denied teaching that Con gross was corrnnt V The Senate Judioairy Comm ft ec put David S. Barry—V-te suspended sergeant-at-tarmls —lthrough a second rigorous qutfstlontog today , without cither shaking his insistence that a general impression of dishonesty in Congress existed or getting from ,him ajny evidence of such dishonesty. Senator Borah, of Idaho, declared that charges of ,C° n cor ruption are made' “by .people deeply interested in having the impression prevail because they -haven’t been a(bl to gt -there what they wanted /to graft on the people of the United States”. ' Hudson Motor Co., Body Plant Force ~ Strike for Wage Detroit. Mich., Feb. 7.—(AP)—Offi cials of the Hudson Motor Car Com pany announced t.. oday that 3,000 employees of the Hudson body plant went on strike today demanding a 20 per cent wage increase and. time and a half for overtime. The body plant reopened Monday after a week’s shutdown. South Dakota, Nebraska and Mis souri. The farmers were in revolt then, but local government had not joined them. Sheriffs still were try ing to stop picketing on the rural highways. Near Cherokee, lowa, a posse fired on a picketers’ detail. At that time many lowans spoke of this as justifiable. However, the other day indictments were returned on account of it, charging attempted murder. The sheriff was among the accused; a banker; other well-known citizens- The strike finally was abandoned, tn favor of a more effective method of campaigning. Property is permit ted to go to foreclosure; bought in for a handful of nickels, by neigh bors of the original owner, and re turned to him under a 99-year lease, to safeguard him against a deficiency judgment. r 1 t Os course, at such a sale the mort gagee must be prevented from bid ding. As already has been recorded, this was accomplished recently at Le i Mars, lowa, by the significant dang (Continued on Page Three.) WIH» SHIR VIC* OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 7, 1933 White House His Future Home!; =• E* Ifpi! , w . ifp '" > -J' A ' Just like his historic namesake took Richmond, “General Grant.’ a prize winning English bulldog valued at $2,000, is all set to take Washington by storm. The dog is shown on board a plane at Burbapk. Cal., as he said goodbye to six of his sons and daughters before taking off for the capital. He is a present from an El Monte, Cal., breeder, to President elect Franklin D. Roosevelt. Stewardess Claire Cook is looking after the White House bone Dolisher in transit. Ex-Gov. Max Gardner And Henry L. Stevens Talked For Roosevelt’s Cabinet Gossip Emanating from Fasley’s .Temporary Head quarters in Miami Would Give Stevens War Post and Gardner Navy; Jo nes May Head R. F. C. Miami, Fla., Feb. 7- —(AP)—Jesse H. Jones, of Texas, appears destined to head the reorganized national re lief organization, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, under the Roose velt administration. Through this giant agency and its millions of credit, Mr. Roosevelt is looking for a strong hand in his plan in assisting the nation on the upward swing, which he believes will result from his “new deal.” Selection of Jones as chairman of Whippings Denied By Ex-Guard Greenville, S C., Feb. 7.—(AP)— E. B. Southers, whose discharge as cap tain of the Greenville county chain gang guards was announced yester day, said in a statement today that he whipped prisoners to maintain dis oipline, and that J. Ed Means, county supervisor, had released him because of “public opinion.” Southers and two guards were dis charged by Means with the simple an nouncement that they were “no longer in the •employ of. the county.” Southers said he never whipped David Kraft, 14year-old Newark; N. J., whose story of his treatment on the chaingagng here led to an invest tigation, and that If the boy was ever whipped he “did not Know about it.” JMVILL Rogers \j7 'says: Beverly Hills, Calif., Feb. 7. That was an impressive ceremony over th-3 radio-yesterdayhekl in •» the House Os Representatives to ' pay a beautiful tribute to the memory of Calvin Coolidge. The lawmakers gathered in that body yesterday- can pay more homage to a President in death and deal him more misery in life than happens in any civilized na tion. After the Massachusetts jurist’s fine oration of Mr. Cooli idge’s achievements, we listened breathlessly for a moment for fear some Senator ’ would get up (just out of force of habit) and de nounce the oration as being “par tisan misleading and made in the interest of the opposing party.” And Mr. Hoover sitting there thinking: “I have to die to get this.” Yours, WILL. the board means the displacement of Alice Pomerene, Ohio Democrat. The lajttea's appointment by President Hoover was blocked, together with all other nominations by this session of the Senate. This and other gossip emanated to day from the temporary national headquarters here temporarily ait the Miiami-Biltmore hotel by James A. Farley, national chairman, during "the ' r '"-tinued on Page Three.! ‘WfIHjS Mimic War Game on West Coast Rapidly Progress ing Toward Climax Aboard US. S. Pennsylvania, San Pedro, Cal., Feb. 7 (AP) —Swallowed, by tlhe expanse of ,the Pacific, thie “bllaok” fleet* was today en route to an unknown position somewhere be tween Hawtaii and the west coast. All the secrecy and mtysr.ery of war time departure veiled the movement. Radios no longer sent routine messag es for fear ithe ever-ready ears of the radio complaJss would track them to their rendezvous At night ni beams will be visible from <the porhhos and no navigation lights will warn aipproaiching vessels oif their presence. Plans for their 4 camjpadgn (have been guarded with the care of state secrets in (order that the “enemy” m|ay know nothing of their intended movements. In every possible manner, except the firing of guns and the dropping of bomlbs, these games stimulate ac tual war conditions. Mutinous Dutch Cruiser Pursued By Ships at Java Batavia, Java. Feb. 7 (API- Chased by warships, submarines and flying boats, the fugitive Dutch cn/ser de Zeven Ic’rovitncien, twytth native mutineers in control, was west of Nias island today and making for the Java naval base at Sourayaba. The ship J on which the natives, mostly Sumatrans, kidnaped eight of their Dutch officers after, a dispute over pay, was proceeding at a speed of seven knots, apparently economiz ing on fuel. The government steamer Eridanus last night replaced the government vessel Aldebaran, which was running short of fuel, in the chase, and there was little fear now that the Zeven would escape. IppearsK SALES TAX LEVIES Legislators, Back Home Over Week-End, Find People Resigned to Some Such Burden MERCHANTS HOPING * FOR LARGE PERCENT Want It Big Enough Thai They Can Pass It on to Consumers; Present Opin ion Leans to Three Percent Figure as Most Likely. To Be Adopted Dntly Diftpntrli Bnrwm, In tho sir W»Mor Hotel .1 •' R » VII »• Raleigh, Feb. 7.—The conviction that a general sales tax is the only way enougji moijey can be found with which to balance the budget and main tain the schools among increased among the members of the House and Sfiniate hfere tediay rfcllloveiing 'their returii fro : ma week-end at home with their constituents. Many of these found that the “people back home” have virtually made up their minds that a general sales tax will be en acted and that they had might as well make the best of it, even though many of them do not like arnd do not want a sales tax. Question for Committee. So the main question the sub-com mittee of the joint finance commit tees will have to decide is not wheth er or not it will write a sales tax (Continued on Pace Five.) License Charges For Drivers Has Been Eliminated Dully Dispatch Bnreiot, In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. C. BASKKItVII.fi. Raleigh, Feb. 7. —When the State wide drivers’ license bill emerges from the committee which is now re-writ ing it, the bill wHI be almost entirely ia‘ safety measure, since it will re quire no fee fen* obtaining a drivers’ license, except for chauffeurs, who shall be required to pay $3 for their licenses, it was learned here today. As the bill is new amended, any person who has already been driving an automobile for six months or more will be entitled to redeive a driver’s license without cost and without, any examination. Additional licenses for others than the owners of cars may secure these licenses upon applica tion with the recommendation Os the owners. All new drivers, however, who have been driving cars for less than six months, must pass an examination to be given by the State Highway Patrol before obtaining a driver’s li cense. All taxicab and truck drivers op erating common carriers either of persons or property, must also be ex amined and licensed and pay a fee of $3 for these licenses, according to the amendments to the bill that have been prepared. The real purpose and intent of the law is, hence, mot to raise revenue, tout to require every driver of a motor vehicle to be licensed and carry this license at all times, so that in case of accident or violation of the law the blame can be definitely fixed, and a record obtained- The bill provides that any peace officer can revoke a driver’s license for certain specified causes. This is considered by many the best feature of the entire bill. truckTnTTrests FIGHT PROPOSALS Say Newman - Murphy - Young Bill Would Kill State Truck Industry Dally Dispatch Bnrenn, In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. r. BASKEEVILI,. Raleigh, Feb. 7. —Passage of either or both of the bills introduced by the “ISTewman-Murphy-Young” rail road bloc in the House would vir tually wipe out the‘truck industry in North Carolina, representtives of the truck industry ift North Carolina, re presentatives of the* North Carolina Truck Owners Association and other truck interests told the House Judi ciary Committee No. 1 this afternoon. One of the bills limits the vehicles (Continued on Page Five.) WEATHER FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Rain tonight and probably Wednesday morning; warmer in central and northeast portions to night; colder Wednesday and in extreme west portions tonight. PUBLISHED EVERT AFTBR2VOOH EXCEPT SUNDAY. Graham Predicts Legislature Now Is Half Finished Inaugural Medal Hk - *<, ni§! !|pF .v*-' - : • j.v. ;'. SB - \ W Isf - •• | 8 Copyriyht by Paul Alan ship Here is the Roosevelt inaugural medal designed by Paul Manship, internationally known sculptor, which is being struck at the Philadelphia mint. The bronze reprodmotions will be sold to the public for $2.50 each by the in augural committee. Both sides of the medal are shown above. FAVfIRSGROSSTAX Hinsdale Luxury and Cle ment Production Levies Are Frowned Upon WOULD BE TOO SMALL C):r<eral Sales Tax Fstfimatled To Raise Ai*or*td $3,000,000 for Each One Percent of the Levy Imposed Daily Dispatch Bureau. In (hr Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. C. BASKERVILL. Raledgh, Feb. 7. —With the joint fi nance sub-committee expected to draw up a general sales tax proposal ranging anywhere from two to five percent for presentation to the full committee, speculation here is cen tering around the probable revenue such a measure would produce, and the cost it would take to collect the tax. It was learned from a reliable Source that the sub-committee has frowned upon both the Htnsdale “luxury” tax bill, modelled after the North Carolina tax plan, avid also the Clement production bav bill, prin cipally because neither of these mea sures, it was believed, would raise enough revenue t- 0 balance the budget. Senator Hiirgdale’s bill, taxing to bacco,, soft drinks, ammunition, can dy, arm' s ments and automobiles, is estior> a te<i; by the author to produce tso'nething like $9,000,000, but figured offered by the State Tax Commission are riot so optimistic. Such a tax, ac cording to the tax commission’s esti mates, would have yielded only $6,- 500,000 in North Carolima in 1931. While the amount such a tax would yield in 1933 would be largely guess work; it is generally admitted that the figure would be considerably low er. Private estimates place the amount from the Clement production tax bill, which puts a tax of five mills on all manufactured products, at $7,500,000. (Continued on Page Three.) McDuffee Guardian Bill Approved By Committee Raleigh, Feb. 7.—(AP), —House Jud iciary Committee No. 1 today gave a favorable report to the bill by Me-? Duffed of Vance providing for the, appointment of a guardian for any one missing more than three months- The manner tin which the guardian would be appointed;is practically the same as that where a guardian 13 ap pointed for an incompetent by the O PAGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY House Enacts Into Law Bill I o Make Highway Com* (mission lake 30- Day Prisoners TIGHTEN RULES ON f ' PAYING gas taxes .■• • t Prop Proposed Repeal of Marriage Examinations; Year’s Extension of Pay ments by Veterans on Loans Is Granted; May Change Auto License Fee Fee Raleigh, Feb. 7.—(AP)—Lieutenant Governor- A. H. Graham, presiding officer of the State Senate, predicted today that the legislature was half way through its work, as the two di visions of the assembly held routine sessions, with committees hard at work before and after the formal meeting. Graham told the Senate during a 25-m’nute/s6ssion that he believed the work of the; assembly ;had beeik half finished- As i“'today„- was the 30th legislative day, this indicated that he believed the (legislature (might complete i'tc, work in 60 legislative day®, which i 3 the constitutional length for a session. Two years ago the legislature sat 147 days. 30-Day Men to Roads. The House enacted into law the Dunnagan bill to make the State Highway Commission take over the care and maintenance of all county prisoners serving sentence of 30 days or more. Under the 1931 law only pri soners serving 60 days or longer be came charges of the highway com mission. It was estimated the change would cost the commission $400,000 to $600,000 annually and save the In dividual counties about one-third more. Eddijs Cantor, Jjfimous / comedlfani (Continued on Page Five.) Man Hired For Scare Gets Shot * y Wife of Man Was To “Throw A Scare” Into Gets Him; One Escapes Charlotte, JFeb. 7.—(API —A. rrtri who said he is “Shorty” Willis ms, of Washington, D- C., and one of two men hired to “throw a scare” into 'Lee Buchman, Charlotte salesman, was shot and probably fatally wound ed here early today by Buchman’s wife. An unidentified companion C3caped by a ruse. He dropped to the ground, feigning a wound, when Mrs. Buch man fired at him, then leaped to his feat and beat her, her husband and her mother, Mrs. E. Kanney, with a blackjack before fleeing: Although the bullet penetrated Williams’ brain, he was conscious be fore an operation for removal of the bullet, and officers and physicans said he made a full confession. They quoted him as saying he and his companion were hired to come to Charlotte to “scare” Buchman, and in case this method failed to produce required results to “await further in structions.” He refused to reveal the identities of his accomplice, and at the man he claimed had hired them. As h lay on the operating table. A detective asked hi mthe name of hie accomplice and the names of those who hired him. He grinned and said: “Copper, I like you a lot; but I can’t tell you that.” clerk of court on* superior court judge. During the hearing, Senator Mc- Duffee took occasion to deny reports that he was a business associate of R. S. McCoir, former State senator and prominernt Vance county citizen* who has been r*issing since Decem ber. The senator said he had not been a business partner of the missing man since 1922. -