HENDERSON, I
gateway TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA. |
TWENTIETH YEAR
Prohibition Repeal Sent To States
v. at v v v u '
TWO PCNT. GENERAL SALES fAX OR EXCISE TAX IS ASKED
ZANGARA GETS
80-YEAR TERM
FOR ATTACKS
Draws Maximum in Each of
Four Cases In Attempt
ed Assassination of
Roosevelt
MRS. GILL-CERMAK
CASES NOT HEARD
Outcome of Their Wounds
Wlil Be Awaited Before
Trial, and if Either Dies He
Will Face Death Charges;
Enters Plea of Guilty In
Miami Court
Miami, Fla., Feb- 20—(AP) —Giusep-
pe Zongnra today was sentenced to
80 years in prison for his attack Feb
ruary 15 on President-elect Roosevelt
Mi-; Margaret Krui.se, of Newark, N.
J ; liussell Caldwell, of Cocoanut
Grove, Fla.; and William Sinnott,
N’w York po’ccman-
He was sentenced to 20 years on
eirh of the four charges, which were
attempts to murder, getting the maxi
mum sentence tn each case.
Zangaia may yet ?>e tried for mur
der. His pleas today did not cover the
caies of Mayor Anton Cermak, of
Chicago, and Mrs. Joe H. Gill, of
Miami, who are fighting for their lives
in p hospital here-
Lewis Tyman, chief defense counsel
for Zangara, announced Zangara
would plead guilty to all charges of at
tempied murder growing out of the
attempted assassination of President
elect Roosevelt.
Judge E. C. Collins declined a sug
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\\ orkers In
France For
Economies
“Warning” Strikes
In Public Services
Protest Wage Cuts
for Employees
Paris, Feb. 20.—(AP) —State and
government employees throughout
Prance today defied the government
and executed brief “warnings” strikes
to public services against proposed
wage cuts.
Last Thursday merchants closed
thourainds of stores throughout tho
country as a protest against higher
and an apparent reluctance by
Pailiamcnt to economize.
Even a number of restaurants in
Paris closed for a time.
Street cars, buses and subways were
halted for ten minutes, today, caus
,n £ a traffic jam- Telephone service
was interrupted for an hour, and post
ttten delayed distribution of the mails
b>f an hour. Hundreds of thousands
~f employees in public offices folded
’be r arms or lefet their places of
employment. School teachers an
nounced a hal fhour delay in the aft
ti'uoon session.
Police were massed at strategic
Points and no disorder was reported.
Triple Murder Is Found
In New York ‘Speakeasy’
N «w York, Feb. 20.—(AP)— John
Sweeney, peddling his papers, pushed
nt ° 'he midtown speakeasy known as
i’orky's Place” earl ytoday and stum
'cd upon a -riple murder.
On the floor before the bar lay the
,>ri ies of a young brunette, attractive
r r V?* John Egan, bandit and burglar
f ,Cv/ York and New Jersey who
J ( l,,ir oio i last December the rare feat
'.reaping from Sing Sing prison.
• und the bar was the body of
Griffin, 45-year-old bar ten-
Each had been killed by a shot
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An excellent photo of Dade County
Jail, Miami, Fla., where Giuseppe
Zangara, would-be .assassin of
President-elect Roosevelt is kept un
der close guard. Zangara’s cell is at
the top of the building, from which
public elevators are barred. Owing
to rumors of possible mob violence
the usual number of jail guards has
been doubled.
forrevenuSl,
WHATEVER IT ASKS
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Will Probably Contain Sales
Tax, Amount To Be De
termined by Cost of
the Schools
THREE PERCENT IF
TERM IS 8 MONTHS
But Two Percent If State
Support Is Limited to Six
Months; Fight for Luxury
Tax Gaining Favor; Rural
Members Weakening On
General Sales Tax
Daily DlNpnlrh Unrenn,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. f\ BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, Feb. 20. —Other than that
the new revenue bf.ll to be reported by
the finance sub-committee Monday
afternoon to the joint finance com
mittee will contain a sales tax of some
sort and optional provisions for either
a «ix or eight months State-supported
school term, little Is known about this
'bill. For members of the sub-commit
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which entered the right side of the
head.
Police did not know who the wo
man was. She was about 25 years old,
an attractive , person, modishly at
tired.
Sweeney, making his resrular rounds
of the mid-town speakeasy belt with
his newspapers, had run up the short
flight of steps of the brownstone
house at 267 West 52nd street. Passing
through the hall, he found the door
leading to the bar room ajar- The
bodies of the men and women were
almost at his feet as\he pushed his
way in.
ONLY DAILY
HINSDALE LUXURY
TAX PLAN USED AS
THAT ALTERNATIVE
20 Percent Tax dn Smokes
and Similar Levies on
Numerous Other
Sales Suggested
$19,000,000 MINIMUM
REVENUE EXPECTED
Also Would Order Governor
To Cut Salaries To Keep
Budget Balanced 6r Call
Legislature Into Extra Ses
sion If Income Falls Under
Amount
Raleigh, Feb. 20.—(AP)— Re
commendation that the North
Carolina legislature pass either a
two percent general sales tax on
retail distributions or adopt an
excise <ax on certain selected com
modities was made this afternoon
to the General Assembly’s two
finance committees by a sub
group.
. The sub-group spent two weeks in
drafting a new revenue bill, which it
reported to the full finance commit
tee today. Copies of the proposal mea
sure were not available this afternoon
but the committee released a lengthy
statement putlining its position.
The revised schedules, levying li
cense and franchise taxes, are pre
sented in the new bill, the statement
nays, but no explanation of the
changes was given.
Unanimously the ten members of
the joint sub-committee signed the
report offering “a choice for you be
tween the two sales* tax plans, if
you accept the sub-committee’s work
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McNinch Confers
During Day With
Senator Cutting
Washington, Feb. 20.—(AP) —Fr
R. McNinch, of North Carolina, vice
president of the Federal Power Com
mission, and Senator Cutting, of New
Mexico, each a liberal on the power
question, met today for the first time.
McNinch, explaining that he had
never met Cutting called at the sen
ator’s office, accompanied Dy Huston
Thompson, one of the Democratic
leaders, but neither would give a rea
son for the visit, other than to say it
was to meet and talk with Cutting.
Thompson has served on the com
mission as a special counsel in the
celebrated New River case in Vir
ginia, a test case still pending that
is looked to as a vehicle to deter
mine the commission’s authority to
regulate water power developments.
Tax Report
Today From
Committee
Form of Sales Tax To
Be Advocated To Be
Known During This
. Afternoon j -
Raleigh, Feb. 20. —(AP) —The Gen
eral Assembly’s sub-fianoe commit
tee will lay its cahrds on the table
this afternoon.
A report of the joint nnance com
mittee of the House and Senate is
scheduled to be made at 3 p. m- and
then will be known the sort of sales
tax recommended to balance the
State’s budget.
How the report will be delivered
remains- to be seen. The majority i S
expected to recommend a general
sales tax, but a strong majority is in
favor of a luxury sales tax. The ten
members of the committee,
have expressed the hope a minority
report may be avoided, which has led
to speculation concerning concessions
Representative R. A. Doughton, ve
teran leg’’slat or from Allehany coun
ty, and chairman of the joint finanoe
committee, heads the sub-group.
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HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 20, 1933
FATE, OF PROHIBITION NOW RESTS WITH STATES
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Senator John J. Blaine ” Speaker John Garner Senator Morris Sheppard
With the eighteenth amendment
repealed by cengress after 14
years in the constitution, the most
controversial law in the history of
the United States now reverts to
the individual states. Three
fourths of the states must approve
Japan Cabinet Decides
To Pull Out Os League
If Report Is Approved
Action Will Mean Withdrawal From World Disarma
ment Conference; Drive for Capture of Chinese Pro
vince of Jehol May Start Tomorrow
By the Associated Press.)
The Japanese cabinet has definitely
decided that Japan will withdraw from
the League of Nations, unless the Lea
gue Assembly upsets all predictions
and votes agaiust its prepared report
on th Sino-Japanese controversy this
week.
This also will mean Japanese with
drawal from the world disarmament
conference.
A foreign office spokesman in
Takyo said he would not be surprised
WOMENPLEADFOR
Confer With Governor For
Its Retention and Sup- '
port by State
RaJedgh, Feb. 20 (AP) —A delegation
of clUb Women, officials of the State
Farm Colony for Women at Kinston
and citizens today conferred with
Governor J. C.,8. Ehr.ioghaus in re
gard to possible steps which can" be
taken to prveent abolition of the col
ony.
Tihe appropriations! comim'tttee of
the legislature last week d’-sourasod
abolition of the farm colony.
WEATHER
FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy, colder tonight,
preceded by rain, and in east por
tion Tuesday, partly cloudy and
colder.
FOR HENDERSON.
For 24-hour period ending at
noon todjjuy: Highest temperature,
54; lowest, 44; rainfall, .51 of an
inch; southwest wind; cloudy-
the action of congress, by special
conventions during the next seven
years, before the prohibition stat
ute is invalidated. At left is Sen
ator John J. Blaine of Wisconsin,
“father” of the repeal movement;
center. Speaker John N. Garner
if Japan's campaign to annex the
Chinese-administered province of Je
hol to Manchukuo began, tomorrow —
the day the League takes up its Sino-
Japanese report, which condemns
Japanese military activities.
Japanese military traffic choked the
Manchurian railway along the east
ern border of Jehol, and indications
were the zero hour was at hand for
the big push-
About 50,000 troops wil lbe pour
ed into the province opposing at least
twice as many Chinese.
SOME MAJOR BILLS
LIKELY THIS WEEK
Rate Commission and High
way Prison Merger
May Be Reported
Daily I>ispat»-h Baronti,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKERVILL.
Raileigh, Feb. 20. —While the finance
and appropriation sbills, scheduled to
come out of committee this week, will
naturally overshadow everything else,
several other major bills are slated to
get the General Assembly’s attention
before the next week-end adjourn
ment.
Chief among these are the reor
ganization committee’s two most bit
terly fought proposals—-the abolition
of the Corporation Commission and
the consolidation of the highway and
prison departments. These two mea
sures, together with the “marriage
license bill” are on the Senate calen
dar for consideration during the ear
ly part of the week.
Also on the Senate calendar Is the
House bill reducing the cost of auto
mobile licenses from 55 to 40 cents
per hundredweight. The bill is a spe
cial order for Wednesday. It was re
ported unfavorably, but was later
taken from the unfavorable calendar.
Numerous other bills are on the Sen
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTHXIWOQM
EXCEPT SUNDAY,
who pushed the measure through
the house of representatives; and
right, Senator Morris Sheppard of
Texas, co-author of the eighteenth
amendment who is now carrying
the dry fight to the states to pre
vent ratification.
REPEAL BILL FROM
CONGRESS TO HAL!
STATE BEER BILLS
Legislature Has Been Wait
ing To See What Con
gress Would Do About
Prohibition
STATE CONVENTION
WILL BE ARRANGED
General Assembly Memb
ers Hesitate To Modify
State Dry Laws Without
Referendum to Voters;
Many Drys Even Are Fav
orable to People’s Choice
Daily Dispatch Burran,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
DY HENRY LESESNE.
Raleigh, Feb. 20 —Today’s expected
passage of the Blaine prohibition re
peal by Congress, it is generally be
lieved here oy wets and drys alike,
will have the effect of side-tracking
all prohibition reform bills thus far
proposed to the North, Carolina Gen
eral Assembly. The reason advanced
for this is that the present session
will probably have to act on the ques
tion of calling a State convention to
ratify repeal of the eighteenth amend
ment if the Blaine bill goes through.
While there seems to be some con
fusion here as to the method of call
ing a State convention under the pro
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Loans Already Paid Out
By R.F.C. $1,788,666,009
Washington, Feb. 20.—(AP)— The
Reconstruction Corporation has paid
$1,788,666,009 to borrowers and re
ceived repayments of $347,237,111.
These totals were shown today in
the corporation’s report detailing fig
ures up /to January 31. The loan au
thorizations amount to more than two
billion dollars.
The report for January contains a
complete listing of the 105 loans made
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TODAY
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Measure
Is Passed
In House
Vote Is 289 to 121, or 15
More Than Two-Thirds
Required For Its Re-
Submission
NORTH CAROLINA’S
GROUP ALL FOR IT
Entire Delegation of Ten
Votes for Repeal Submis
sion;! Roosevelt Gratified
and Hopes for Beer Legis
lation This Session; Rough
Road Ahead Yet
Washingt<*i, Feb 20 (AP)—
Niorth Carolina’s representatives
lined up solidly behind the Blaine
resolution to repeal the prohibition
amendment when the measure was
passed by the House today.
All ten members of the Tar Heel
delegation were present and vpted
In favor of the resolution,
Washington, Feb. 20.—(AP)- The
13-year-old constitutional amendment
for national prohibition went back.
s o the states for a ne wdecision to
day on a 289 to 121 vote in the House
:>f Representatives.
Duplicating the Senate action last
week, when it favored submission of
a repeal amendment to State con
ventions b ya 63 to 23 vote, the House
acted before being in session an hour
and a half, cheered on by part of
'he galleries, an din the face of omi
nous silence on the part of others
'here.
The latter represented many of the
prohibition organizations, which serv
ed notice at once through the Anti-
Saloon League that the issue would
>e “fought to a finish in State capi
tals.”
The vote was 15 more than two
'hirds required.
Speaker John N. Gamer was greet
ed with cheers and applause on an
nouncing the outcome.
Immediately Chairman Summers of
I he judiciary committees, and others
moved for a Federal law setting up
(Continued on Page Five.)
Naval BUI
Is Sent To
The House
$301,657,000 Appro
priated for. Naval
Establishment Dur
ing Coming Year
Washington, Feb. 20 (AP) —A suip
ply bill carrying $301,657,000 for the
naval establishment in the conning fis
cal year was refported| to the Houise
today by lisft appropriations comanJit’tee.
RrovtidWnig for the maintenance of
the Marine Corps at its present enk
listed strength, but slashing pay for
'h!(g:h inanlkt'Jtyr atvfatlbn officers and
making other economies, the measure
fe $25,926,000 below appropriations for
the current year. *
to railroads since the corporation was
formed February 2, 1932. It shows
$340,435,093 in loans authorized, $291.-
894,823 paid out; 264,740 cancelled or
withdrawn; sll 881,070 repaid, and $43,
275,530 still subject to withdrawal by
the borrowers.
The most extensive railroad borrow
er is the Baltimore and Ohio, which
the corporation has agreed to lend
$67,125,000. The road had received
$39,126,244 up to January 31-