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CENTRAL CAROLINA. year BEER-WINE BILL IS APPROVED IJ.S. Is In Throes Os Revolt, Borah Tells The Senate WILL GROW WORSE UNLESS RELIEF IS GIVEN BY MARCH 4 Say* Every Farmer In Ame rica 1* Looking With Anxious Eyes to the Congress Now error to discount EFFECT'S, HE STATES Already There Are Places Where Courts Cannot Op erate and Where They | Are Frustrated hy Sheer Force; Urges Dropping of Prohibition Repeal Washington, Feb. 14. —(AP> The iSfnMc was told today by Rorah, of T-ioho. that “there ’s a revolution In this country" in appealing to the membership to sidetrack the Blaine ■prohibition repeal resolution and turn retention to emergency legislation in tho few remaining days of the cur rent session. Remarking that the thought of pos tible revolution in th ? s country “is discounted,” he swept all eyes in the chamber to him when he added: "Mr. President, there is already a revolution in this country. There are places where the courts cannot op erate. where they are frustrated by shier force. "That has spread from the old state of Pennsylvania to my own state of Idaho. We know what has happened in Nebsaska, Minnesota and lowa. "Every farmer In the United States i; looking with anxious solicitude to ward the Congress to know whether': anything is going to be done by March 4 * < a "If nothing is done by then, this condition will be accentuated beyond the measure of words to portray.’* TAR HEEL GIRL IS ATTACKED BY NEGRO r )nwav. S. C , Feb. 14. —(AP) —Pete McCoy, 23-year-old Negro, is in the Horry county jail here charged with riiminally assaulting a young North Carolina white woman who was on a visit to Loris, this county. McCoy was arrested last night in ’lie Da*sy section of this county after » posse led by the sheriff and two Noith Carolina officers had hearched 'lie swamps in this section for 24 hours. He offered no resistance. COTTON CONSUMPTION HIGHER FOR JANUARY Washington, Fob. 14. —(AP) —Cot- ,fm consumed during January was re ported today by the Census Bureau *o have totalled 471,?02 bales of lint, and 48,412 of Itnters, compared with 410.0(52 and 44,275 in December last mr. and 434,726 and 51,635 in Jan r' ty last year. Settlement Os War Debts In Lump Sum Os 17Prcnt . Would Hardly Be Popular H.V CHARLES P. STEWART Washington, Feb. 14.—Would 17 lucent of Europo’a war debts to the 1 nited states, paid in a lump sum, -atiafactory to Uncle Sam, in full *>t'tlement of all thes obligations? Such, cables from London »ay, is the offer which Eng land’s representa tives will make, in in the debtor pow ers' behalf, at the coming Washington conference. l s was understood, indeed, that Presi dent-elect Roosevelt was insiisitjixig on separate negotia tions with each of ’he Old World coun tries Still, the con sensus here is that Eg® ~ scarcely can avoid answering ~ yeß ™ or HENDERSOw, H q Himftrrsmt Datht ® isrmtcb Aids Roosevelt Plan Representative McSwain f Legislation to make President elect Roosevelt’s vision of a vast industrial empire in the Tennes see valley a reality will be pro posed on the opening day of the special session of congress by Representative John J. McSwain of South Carolina. The bill which McSwain intends to prepare will call for operation of Muscle Shoals and the building of a dam in the Tennessee river. EIGHT-DAY BANKING HOLIDAY IN EFFECT ALL OVER MICHIGAN Governor Comstock Acts With Dramatic Sudden • ness To Meet Emer gency in Detroit BANKS ARE NOT TO OPEN UNTIL FEB. 23 Proclamation Follows All- Night Conference in De troit With Bank Leaders; Stock Exchange There Forbidden /From Trading In Bank Stocks Detroit, Mich., Feb. 14.—(AP) — With dramatic suddenness, Governor William A. Comstock early today pro claimed an eight-day banking holiday in Michigan at the conclusion of an 'Continued on Page Five/) ' submit a jo ! nt proposal to him. More Liberal. The former allies scaled Germany’s reparations down 90 per cent at Lau sanne. The expectation was that they Iwould seek debt reduction at tha isame rate, but English statesman ship appears to have prevailed upon the continental nations to be a trifle more liberal than that. Some accounts have it that they are agreed on sl,- 250,000.000, but the London version iputs the figure at $2,000,000,000. Senator Robert B. Howell of Ne braska Is the greatest acturial expert in congress on the subject of war debts. He was not in Washington when news of the prospective lump sum offer reached here, but it hap pened that I discussed the possibility o! this precise suggestion with him prior to his departure, on an election investigating mission. “I never will vote,” said the senator (Continued ou Page Three.) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER WlH * obrvicb OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 14,1933 ALD PLANS \ «§sl /mmm =3=== Ramsay Walter Runciman - MacDonald _ These three British statesmen are expected to comprise the British delegation that will come to Wash ington for war debt conversations with President-elect Roosevelt shortly after he takes office. Prime January’s Tobacco Sales In State 15,208,082 Lbs. Average Price Was $8.67 Per 100 Pounds, Against $6.13 in January Last Year ASHEVILLE PRICE WAS THE HIGHEST Burley Market There Got $16.02; Henderson Sales Given as 11,594,196 Lbs. for Average of $8.32 Per Hundred; Oxford and Dur ham Figures Given Raleigh. Feb. 14.—(AP) —North Carolina tobacco growers sold 15,208,- 082 pounds of tobacco in January at an average price of $8.67 per hundred pounds, the Federal-State Crop Re porting Service announced today. Sales in January were far below those of January, 1932, but the price paid was nearly 25 percent better than a year ago. In January, 1932, there were 40,023,949 pounds sold for $6.13 per hundredweight. Asheville s . burled tobacco market showed the way to the State in aver age for January, 1,039,154 pounds of producers' tobacco bringing an aver age'of sl6 j 2 per 100 pounds. Durham reported the highest aver age for the month in the Old Bright Belt, $9.33 per 100 pounds, compared with $7.88 the same month a year ago. Sales there totalled. 1,956,970 pounds of producers’ tobacco and pushed the season’s total to 13,910,938 pounds. Oxford and Henderson came clase be hind in total sales, the former report ing 12,405,712 pounds and the latter 11,594,196 pounds for the season, but the Oxford average was $7.12 and Hen derson’s was $8.32- Coffin 100 Years Old Washed Up Ocracoke, Feb. 14. —(AP) —An an cient coffin with a 1 tree growing from one side was washed from the ground near the U. S- coast guard station here during a recent storm when 30 feet of sewer washed it was learned today. Inside the coffin lay the skeleton of a human, but the bones crumbled when touched. The tree, an oak about a foot in diameter, indicated the coffin was over 100 years old, since trees that grow along the outer bahks and which measure a foot in diameter usually are a 100 or more years old. Near where the coffin washed up were found bones of other skeletons, revealing an ancient burial ground that oldest natives here knew nothing of. that sweep the banks of the North Carolina ooast frequently un cover old burial grounds, but it is un -1 usual to haye cemeteries washed up iby the waves of the ocean cutting along tlie ocean line. PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VISHNIA. ... ■ ; \ Minister Ramsay MacDonald plans to head the delegation, bringing with him Neville Cham berlain, chancellor of the ex chequer, and Walter Runciman, president of the board oi trade. Japan Will Quit League, Is Belief Geneva, Feb. 14 (AP)—Japanese lofficial quarters said .. today- that their chief delegate to the League of Nations, Yosuke Matuoka, had telegraphed to Tokyo for final in structions regarding withdrawal - fnoin tile League, and lit was be lieved certafci that the reply would be “withdraw.” The contemplated Withdrawal, according to a Japanese spokes man, would be announced publicly in a plenary session of the (League's Assembly inunediatly after the assembly adopts a report c<» teem ing the Manchurian situation which been drawn up by a subtoonunllLce. Lobbyists Are Not All Registered • s , , Noticeably Absent From Book Are Wo men Workers Who Are Very Active Daily Dispatch Bnrrnn, In the FHp Walter Hotel. BY J. C. BASKERVILL. Raleiigh. Feb. 14.—. While 105 lob byists have registered in the secre tary of state’s office thus far tinder ithe provisions of the Ewing lobby re gulating bill passed early in the 1933 legislative session, some of the most conspicuous and active lobbyists have (Continued on Page Three.) AWILL ROGERS \j p *qys: Beverly Hills, Calif., Feb. 14. Holland had a mutiny on one of her battleships. Now she is about to have one on their other one. Our navy is out at sea in the Pacific trying to solve what they call Problem 14. They better see if they ate going to be able to solve Problem 13 first. Problem, 13 is to get the govern ment to give ’em enough money to have a navy. If Problem 13 ain’t solved, they better just ; go to Japan and say: “We will give you Californ'a, but you got to take their cham ber of commerce and Hollywood.” That would start Japan to thinking. Yours, WILL, BY HOUSE COMMITTEE ON WisnD Earl Tells Senate -Commit tee Huey Had Said He Got $10,000; From “Power Agent” OVERTON ELECTION TO SENATE PROBED Counsel for Investigating Committee Asks If Any Money Eyer Were Passed, and Eairr Long Spurts It Out: Huey'Apologizes for His Language New Orleans, La.. Feb. 14 (AP) — Senator Huey Long today Called Tr 1 ® brother. Earl Long, a I‘iar when Earl 'fortified on the stand that Huey Long third been padid SIO,OOO by Harry Abel, who, he said, wa ea representative of tihe “power interests'". General Samuel T. Ansell, counsel for the Senate comirrKittee investigat ing John H. Overton’s electron to the Senate, hlald asked Ear! Long iif any money had ever been passed by Abel i.n connection with State lgeistation. “Yes," said Earl Long. “My brother told me Abel had given him slo,ooo.’* “You aire a liar,” shouted Senator Long. i ' Senator Long then interrupted the proceedings, and, turning to Senator Robert B. Howell), committee chair man, said: “Mr. Chairman, I wish to apologize for the statement I just madte.” CARNERAIRESTED IN BOXER’S DEATH "* jt * To Be Held on Technical Charge After Passing of Ernie Sehaaf New York, Feb. 14 (AP)—Dr. Charles W. Noifris, chief medi cal examiner tof the city, today said that the death of Ernie Sehaaf Resulted from natural causes and not from any injury received in Shaaf’s bout with Primo CaiUrra last Friday night. Dr. Norris, who performed an autopsy (on the body, said the ex act nature of the substance that as pressing c*i the young boxer’s brain was to be determined by a (Continued on Page -Five.) Columbia- Peru Clash Has Begun Bombs Dropped and Crowds In Streets Frantically Ap plaud Hostilities Bogota. Colombia, Feb. 14.—(AP) — Alfredo Basquez Cabo, commander of Colombian forces in the Letitia re gion, reported today that Colombian and Peruvian planes had engaged in an encounter over Cordova. The Peruvian planes, his message said, flew over Cordova, dropping bombs, the first of which fell in Brazilian waters. * Colon#t>ian planes took the air in pursuit. “Our planes were magnificent,” the commander's message said. Later communications told of a short but violent artillery duel which drove the Peruvian air force back- Additional details were not available immediate ly- ' Crowds in the streets here received with frantic applause bulletins an nouncing that hostilities had broken out. f WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Rain tonight ’and' probably Wednesday morning; slightly war mer in central and northeast por tions tonight; colder in west por tion Wednesday afternoon- PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY, TAX ON BEVERAGE WOULD BE PLACED UNDER PROPOSALS Lea and Son Fight On j 'j .. jj||- Luke Lea, Jr., above Luke Lea, Sr, below Habeas corpus proceedings hav* been resorted to by counsel for former U. S. Senator Luke Lea, ec-Tennessee publisher, and hia *!on, Luke Loa, Jr., in their latest effort to resist going to prison and avoid removal from Tennessee to North Carolina where they . both stand convicted of bank law Viola tions. They were arrested a^,' 1 Jamestown, Tenn. Sentenced to prison terms, Lea and his soiy car ried appeals to the U. S. supreme court without avail. A Sy ßl increases Many Superintendents And Teachers Would Benefit, It Is Thought IT IS BEING ANALYZED A _____________ Believed To Have Been Written K> r at Least Inspired by School Peo ple; Would Increase Cost! of Schools Dally Dlnpaleh Unrenn, In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. C. BASKERVILL. Raleiiigh, Feb. 14—The eiighit months school bill introduced In the House by Representative Charles B. Aycock,, of Wake county, should in reality be en titled “A bil Ito prevent any redue <tlitan in the saferies of county super intendents and school teachers and to (Continued on Paee Five.) t a m ' Powerful Opposition To Sales Tax Crystallizing Luxury Tax Coming Into Spotlight Again in General Assembly; Cigarette Price Cuts May Figure in Fight; Uncertainty of Yie Id Is Obstacle Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY HENRY liESESNE. Raleigh, Feb. 14.'—The formidable opposition which has developed dur ing the past two , weeks to the Sug gestion of a general sales tax -has tended to give some hope to support ers of a luxury or selected commodity tax,, who • belidve that this levy on non-essentials will go a long wajr to ward solving the State’s i financial problems without imposing a heavy i 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Little Opposition to Meas ure Is Expected In Com mittee and by Very Few Members WORKMAN’S ACT IS UPHELD BY SENATE Refuses To Override Com mittee Refusal To Favor Repeal; County Office Merger Killed, With Cut in Auto Licenses; Mrs. Mebane Is Endorsed Raleigh. Feb. 14.—(AP)—Pos sible modification of North Caro lina’s stringent prohibition laws moved a step nearer today as a General Assembly committee fa vorably reported a bill to legalize light Wines and beers if the Fed eral government does so. The committee’s action in endorsing the Murphy-Bowie bill to allow the State to tax wines and beers over shadowed other legislative business as both divisions of the Assembly held routine sessions and many commit tees worked before and after the for mat legislative meetings- In the Senate the substitute bill to amend the State’s law requiring phy sical examalnation before marriage li censes may be procured, which passed last night and was sent to the House, was recalleu and opponents predicted its defeat. Woman for Minister. Mrs. Lillie Morehead Mebane, of Rockingham, serving her second term as a member of the House of Repre sentatives, was endorsed by the House for appointment by President-elect Roosevelt as minister to Sweden in a resolution adopted by acclamation. Mrs. Mebane is a Democrat and si3ter of John Motley Morehead, Republican, who i a now representing the United States’, in Stockholm. At the requese of Senator Hinsdale, (Continued on Page Three.) Governor’s “Big Stick” Made Ready Ehringhaus To Go to Bat For Highways- Prison Merger Plan When Reached Daily Dbpati'h Bur -nn, In the Sir Walter Intel. BY J. C. BASKERVI* . Raleigh, Feb, 14.—Some people ard criticising Governor J- C. B. Ehring haus because they think he is trying to put too much pressure behind the General Assembly, especially with re gard to the various reorganization bills. Others are complaining because they think he is not trying to exert enough influence with the assembly and not trying to force certain mea ’ sures through. This is especially trua of those who have certain "pet” bills they would like to see enacted. The real facts are that Governor! Ehringhaus is neither trying to forca anything through the General Assem* (Continued on page Three.) burden on any one. The sub-finance committee, which has been going over various sales tax proposals behind closed doors, has •made little progress on its task, and it is not ref arded as likely that it will be ready to draft a plan for the full committee before next week* Powerful sentiment has crystalized against a sales tax in the past week* (Cortinuad <m Page Five.)
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