CENTRAL CAROLINA- TWENTIETH YEAR many major bills are due this week OUT OF COMMITTEES Education, Department Mer ger and Truck and Bui Regulation Meaaurca To Come In HIGHWAY-PRISON MERGER BILL DUE _U ' ’ ■ ? | ? Likely Entounte* Greater Opposition Than Any Reorganization Pro posal Yet Debated; Rate Commission and Agricul ture Plans Discussed Unity nnri**** tn (he !t|r w»*t«r Hotel. itv h» >«v i.r.««e.*wn. Rtlcißh, Fob. ISi- While neither tho finance ror the appropriations bills arc expected to,come out of commit tee rooms th's week, other important measures affecting education, the consolidation of governmental depart ments and 'he regulation of trucks , md buses are likely to take their place ci 'lie legislative calendars. The joint finance sub-committec, which for the past week has. been ciiugpling with Hie sales tax pro blem, is not expected to present a talcs 'ax proposal to the full com mittee before next week., while the appropriations, committee has yet to reprove or reject the major itdjns ip the budget appropriations bill. Much interest this week will also be i toward the reorganisation, committee, which is re-studying its bill to abolish the present State Park Commission and ‘urn its duties over (Continued on Paße Five.) Eighteen Killed By Accidents In South’s Week-End Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 13.—(AP)— Eighteen persons were killed in accidents in the South over a win try week-end. Fight died in automobile mis haps, three of burns, three of in juries received in an explosion, two of exposure, one of asphyxia tion, and one of an accidentally hiflicled pistol wound. Kidnap Hearing At Roanoke Will' Be Had Saturday Roanoke, Va., Feb. 13.—(AD— Preliminary hearing for the Roa noke trio accused of plotting ex tortion of SSO 000 from Colonel < liar lev A. Lindbergh, threaten ing the saety of his infant sec ond son, today was continued un ril ‘l p. m. Saturday. Assistant District Attorney T. X. Parson* asked for continuance rending further investigation of Imndwriting samples in Washing ten. Wade Drops 16 Typists On Payroll (jives Impression of Volunteer Action, But Budgeteer Burke Is Behind It Dully DispoO H Rnrenn, In the Sir Wnltrr Hotel. n nv .1. (!, IIAMKKIIVIMi. Kaleigh, Feb. 13. —The old argument °vw "Who killed cock robin” has )CCa revived- Byt th's particular time '' ' s hi nn effort to find who is re sponsible for the decision by Secre (ary Pf «tate Stacy W. Wade to re t'lce the number of stenographers in l,e enrolling office from 43 to 27. Mr. '■ ■' f ‘oietary Wade has been giving the tttipi ession ihat he has voluntarily ty lined to reduce the number of em , oye; - after having found that 43 a lar B er number than is actually "tided. Budgeteer Burke Agarn. Keliable information obtained by u bureau today, however, indicates (Continued on Page Bix.) '♦'lather for NORTH CAROLINA. Erobably rain tonight and Tues slightly wanner Tuesday nigh/" extre,n,; ’* WM » t ortions to- lirniirrsmt tint lit Bfauatrii WIKR SHIR VIC® OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Fill® Barry’s Post nm Wk ’{'A'*/' ' . y J. Mark Trice Although he is only 30, J. Mark Trice is acting sergeant-at-arnig in the U. S. senate in Washington, following the removal of David Barry, veteran sergeant-at-arms, because of a m&gazine article which said that some members of congress were susceptible to brib ery. Trice, who has been a deputy *ergeant-at-arms, is expected to hold the SB,OOO-a-year post only until the Democratic administra tion moves in. Aycock Bill Gives Plans For Schools F i rs *■ Embodying Machinery for Ope rating Eight Months Term at Saving Dully Di»|»nt<-h Riirenu, In the Sir Wnltor Hotel. DY HUNKY I.KJSttSNK. Raleigh, Feb. 13.—The first eight months school term bill carrying any actual machinery for its administra tion, was introduced in the House Saturday by Representative Charles Brantley Aycock. of Wake, son of the late Governor Aycock, educational pioneer in North Carolina. The bill, now before the House Education Com mittee, builds an eight months school term upon the present administration machinery and ertains the State Board of Equalization as the principal administrative agency. The salaries of the teachers would be reduced only five per cent below the present level by this bill, or only (Continued on Page Three.) senate Districts BILL DUE TONIGHT Raleigh. Feb. 13—(AP)—Represen tative Massenburg, of Polk, said to day he planned to introduce a bill in the General Assembly tonight to pro vide for a re-districting of North Car oline. into new State senatorial dis tricts. SEN ATEHASHEAVY CALENDAR TONIGHT Bill To Ban Road Construc tion Next Two Years Heads the List Dally DiM|»nt<*h Bnrcnn, In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. C. BASKERVILL. Raleigh, Feb. 13. —Such varied topics as highways marriages and autops'es are slated to furnish the usual flood of Monday night oratory in which the Senate indulges when it starts off on another week’s work be fore packed galleries. Heading the Senate’s calendar for tonight is the reorganization commit tee bill which would restrict the high way commission from building any new roads for the next two years. The bill is certain to precipitate a bitter Tight. As the bill was originally drawn by the reorganization committee, the .(Continued on Page Three.), ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VnoIINLA. Held in Second Lindy Plot - . Chargjp.i with attempting to extort $50,000 "torn Colonel Charles A Jame b s ei ßrvam*< £fX a \ l* » t ,!!i n |3 Pi ® g hi f, second son if refused to. pars James Bryant (left), 19. and Norman Harvey. 26. both of Roanoke V a are shown after their arrest. The men were captured when thevW* Dot . e t l°W ll tui f °K ? 17 ’ 000 Which had Been placed in a designated p t at a Ro. noke auburb in accordance with instructions contained is n lo Cnl - Lindbergh from the would-be extortionists Tariff Boosting Effort j Os House Republicans Is Squelched By Democrats Sought Higher Levies To Os fset Depreciated Foreign Currencies; Baruch Tells Finance Committee Os Plan To End World Economic Depression Washington. Feb. 13.—(AP)— The tariff boosting attempt of House Re publicans was squelched today in the House by a 212 to 174 vote against taking up legislation t 0 raise levies to offset the effect of depreciated foreign currencies. The vote’s one-sidedness was at tiqbuted to the irecelnt Democi\atjc Kidnapers Hold Rich Denver Man Leave Note .With Wife To Be Given, Her Father, De manding $50,000 Denvevr, Col., Feb. 13.—(AP)— A scion of a wealthy pioneer Colorado family, Charles Boettcher 11, today was held by kidnapers for a purport ed $50,000 ransom. Two masked men accosted the 31- year-old heir to a fortune and his wife at th garage as they returned from a party at midnight, herded them into an upstairs room of their home, remained several minutes, handed the wife a ransom note and departed with Boettcher in the motor car- Detectivevs and police who swarm ed to the home and then started ai search for Boettcher, a friend of Col onel Charles A. Lindbergh, announced they were told a watchman on the grounds had been informed of the kid naping shortly after it happened, but that after an investigation, he decided nothing was amiss. Police said the watchman, whom they identified only as Stephens, re ceived his information, from a cook in a neighboring home who related to detectives she and a man friend were stopped by a motorist, who said he feared a robbery or a kidnaping was taking place. Invevstigators said the men, both armed, said to Mrs. Boettcher when she was handed the ransom note: “Give this to Claude and don’t read it. He’ll know what to do*.” Claude is Boettcher’s father, Claude K. Boettcher. STATE CAPITOL IS ■ TO BE ILLUMINATED Some Members of Legislature TV> See It First Time In Its Lighted Beauty Raleigh, Feb. 13.— (AP)—North Car olina's stately 100-year-old State Capitol buildiing will be displayed in artificial light tonight so that legis lators who have nevevr seen" it illum inated, and some who never saw it at ail before this year, may observe the beauty of the structure bathed in the ray& of powerful flood lights- Governor J. O. B. Ehringhaus today ordered the exterior lights burned from 7:30 until 8:05 tonight. Both houses of the assembly will cotiven at 8 o’clock tonight. The lights are not burned regularly now, dn order to save money. • \ > ■ HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 13, 1933 caucus in which all members were bound to vote down the proposal. The Republican minority earlier had put i'self on record for increases and 145 members had signed a petition com pelling the vote today. The action of the House and Senate rutinnrd on Page Six) TWO NEGROES FLOG AND SHOOT YOUTH Held In Sampson Jail, While Victim May Die From Bullet in Head Feb. 13.—(AP)—Stacy Holland, 21, rem-ined in a critical condition here today after having ac cused Dallas Bradshaw, 26, and Roy Jones, 26, Negroes, with shooting him Vaster flogging Itim yesterday near his home in ihe Delway section of Sampson county. Bradshaw and Jones were in the Sampson county jail pending the out come of Holland’s wounds. Holland, in a statement sworn to in the presence or a notary public, charged that Bradshaw and Jones lured him into a house on a pretext of teaching him to shot dice bound him, then took him to a woods near by, laid him across a log and beat him with a hickory stick. He said Bradshaw then braced him against a tree, drew a pistol and asked him if he had anything to say before dying. He salid he asked time to pray and his request was granted before Bradshaw fired. The bullet struck Holland in the forehead and physicians said he had slight chances for recovery. Holland said Bradshaw accused him of “tell ing lies about him.” 11 Are Dead In Fighting In Germany Berlin, - Feb. 13— (AP)—Sanguinary clashes between Chancellor Hitler’s National Socialists and- their political opponents showed no signs of abate ment today, with at least eleven per sons slain and 23 injured in week-end battles Slayings occurred in eighCaUfferent towns and cities in various ' sections of the reich Nazis, who claim they were fired upon from Communist 'headquarters in Eisleben, raided the building and at least three were kill ed and 15 hurt in hand-to-hand fight ing. /Communists were reported to ha\e hidden their dead and injured. Police shot at two women who left their windows open whan Nazi storm troops were passing. , Since Hitler came into power two weeks ago, cit izens in many places ;have been or dered to keep windows and doors closed while Nazi troops passed in order to protect the latter from am bush attacks. JAPAN REFUSES TO ABANDON MANCHUKUO AND CHINA MIGHT RECALL MINISTER AT TOKYO Tennessee Judge Grants Leas Habeas Corpus Writ Hearing Is Fixed for Feb ruary 28 and SIO,OOO and $5,000 .Bonds Fix ed for Pair x . WRIT DIRECTED TO i- JAMESTOWN SHERIFF Wanted In This State For Bank Law Violations; Ap plication For Writ Filed With Judge Tollett Last Night; Mrs. Lea In Court With Husband, Son Crossville, Tenn., Feb. 13—(AP) —• County Judge E. G. Tollett said today he had granted a writ of habeas cor pus for Colonel Luke Lea and Luke Lea. Jr., and set (he hearing on their writ for 1 p. m., February 28- Pending the hearing, Judge Tollett granted bond. The amount fixed for Colonel Lea was SIO,OOO and Lea, Jr., $5,000 The writ was directed to Sheriff J. M. Peavyhouse at James town, to whom the Leas surrendered 'ast Tuesday after Governor Hill Mc- Alister had honored their extradition to North Carolina. They are under conviction in that State on bank law violations. The hearing will be held here. Judge Tollett said that Henry E. Colton, of Nashville, and W. A. Gar rett, of Jamestown, of counsel for the teas, filed theilr application before hAm last night. Sometime after the Jamestown hearing was scheduled to open today, no judge had appeared there. The Leas and their attorneys were in the court room. Mrs. Lea was with them. Temperatures In South Rise After Hard Winter Week Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 13>—(AP)— Winter lost its grip in the South once more today and mounting temperatures drove away the snow and ice that struck deep iftto the heart of 13 (AP) —Funeral services will be held here tomorrow for Leila Carey Page, 19-year-old sop homore at Bryn Miawr College, and a grtanddaughgiter of the late d-ur to Great Britain., Walter Hines Page, Who wia's asphyxiated at the .home of an uincle in New York State 'lhst night. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs Ralph W. Page, of Rhieburst, and s/o>v Map shows location of the city of NeunkirdLen, Germany, where some 200 persons perished follow ing the terrific explosion of a gas storage tank. The roar of the blast, which spread death, fire and ruin over a wide area of the city’s industrial section, could be heard 1-0 miles away. Suicide By Peterman Is Jury’s View Coroner’s Group In vestigates Charlotte Utility Man’s Death In Home \ —• ’ . ■ Charlotte, Feb. 13.—(AP)—A coron er's jury decided here today that Roy L- Peterman, vice-president of several public utilities companies, found sho-t to death at his home Saturday night committed suicide. Mrs. Peterman had been heild under guard charged with murder. Mrs. Peterman did not attend the inquest. She was under guard at a. (Continued on Page Six), BOXER OPERATED ON FOR CLOT XJN BRAIN New York, Feb. 13-—(AP) —Ernie Schaaf, injured Boston boxer, today underwent an operation at. Polyclinic hospital to relieve a blood clot on the brain. The operation was expected to require from two to three hours. Hoover Will Make His Final Speech , Tonight New York Washington, Feb. 13.—(AP)—Presi dent Hoover today worked to com plete the final address of his admin istration, which he will make tonight before the National Republican Club at a Lincoln day dinner in New York The main portion of his speech was finished yesterday, tout some parts were left for completion this morn ing. Mr. Hoover and his party will leave Washington this afternoon for New York. The nine senators were—• Blaine and Lo Follette of Wiscon sin, Frazier and Nye of North Da kota, Cutting of New Mexico and (Norris of Nebraska, Republicans; Costigan of Colorado and Wheeler of Montana, Democrats; Shipstead of Minnesota, Farmer-Laborite. Two Are Lost. One (Brookhart of Iowa); whose progressive-ism is recognized, (Continued on Page Three.). 6 PAGES , TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY seenasßble IF JAPAN ATTACKS Campaign Against Jehol ; Would JBe Resisted By Force of the Entire , Chinese Nation LEAGUE OF NATIONS ASKS JAPAN’S VIEW tias Recommended That Member Nations Refuse to j Recognize .. Manchukuo; : Attack on Jehol Sdme As Attack on Nanking,* High Official Declares A ' (By the Associated Press.) Soon after Japan informed the Lea gue of Nations today that it wa ? adamant in its determination to pre serve the Manchukoan government in Manchuria, a spokesman for the Chtnese National government hinted that the Chinese minister to Tokyo would be withdrawn in the event the Japanese started a drive in the ad joining Chinese province of Jehol The Chinese spokesman, T. Z. Soong acting premier and finance minister, said he did not “see the use of keep ing a minister in Tokyo if there should be a drive on Jehol, as obviously dip lomatic measures would be of no avail.” He replied, “This matter is one of to consequence,” when asked if Jhina was likely to declare war on Japan, but added: "Any attack on Tehol would be just like an attack on Yanking, and would be met by the ‘orce of the entire nation.” The League of Nations, which has Irafted a recommendation that mem ber nations refuse to recognize Man ihukuo, has requested Japan’s views m a proposal to discontinue that gov ernment. Roosevelt Will Begin Final Task To Hurry to New, York on Reaching Miami Wednesday From Vacation Miami, Fla., Feb. 13. —fAP) -There was a recess in Democratic politics today, with President-elect Roosevelt still at sea, and Chairman James A. Farley en route to a new base in New York. Mr. Roosevelt will land here Wed nesday from his ten days fisblnr: and swimming trip in the waters of the Bahama Islands. He will depart that night for New York to conclude pre parations for taking over direction of the government on March 4. Miami is making preparat tons for a welcome to Mr-. Roosevelt when he leaves the yacht of Vincent As tor in this port late Wednesday. No have been made for a stop-over in Washington by the president-elect, although some believe) he will do so on his way to New York. In the next two weeks, Mr. Roose velt will decide finally his cabinet make-up and pick the other men to carry out the policies of the "new deal” he has decided upon. ffcWILL _ fjrf ROGERS \j *sgys: Beverly Hills, Calif., Feb. 13— The League told Japan to get out of Manchuria and Japan says, “Yeah.” The league suggested that wet nursing of it be turned over to America and Russia. Neither one belongs to the League. That’s like a policeman turning a desperate criminal over to a couple of civilians and telling ’em. “Here, you watch this fellow—l am busy*” Europe must sit up at night just thinking of ways to get us in worse than we are, if possible. When Russia is ready, she will go down and look after Manchuria without our aid. Yours, WILL.