HENDERSON,
gateway TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA.
twentieth year
15 States Hurry
To Vote First On
Dry Law ’s Repeal
Wyoming Far Out Ahead In
Scramble, With Conven
tion Bill Already
Passed and Signed
47 LEGISLATURES
ARE NOW MEETING
Anti-Saloon League Will
. Fight Any Attempt by
Congress To Set Up Or
Regulate State Conven
. tions; Roosevelt Backs
Movement for Repeal
Wishing*on, Feb. 21. —Fifteen states
ppunpd on by a desire to be first, to
d;iy definitely had set out on the road
toward tepeil of the prohibition
amendment a few hours after Con
gress put the question before them.
Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his en
couragement with’n a few moments
nflcr the House had spqken, with a
15-vote margin, to let the people de
ride whether prohibition shall pre
vail as the law of the land after 13
years of trial and controversy.
Enough legislatures are In session
n >w to set up the conventions neces
sary to strip all liquor legislation from
the constitution, except that provided
for ! n the new amendment—protec
tion cf dry states against importa
tion cf intoxicants.
Forty-two legislatures are now
meeting, and two more —California
(Continued on rage Sight)
Two Bound Over
For Robbery of
Aberdeen Bank
Cart ha ore, Feb. 21 —(AP) —John But
ler. of Fayetteville, who with J. T.
Ewing, of Detroit, Mich-, and Fay
ettev'lle ,wa3 bound over to superior
cour* hc-c yes* oi day on a charge of
robbing the Page Trust Company of
Aberdeen will be given a habeas
corpus hearing before Judge W. A.
Devin in Fayettevi’le tomorrow.
Butler and Ewing, are both being
be id in the Moore' county jail here.
At a preliminary hearing before
Recorder George H Humber yester
day. they were ordered held for trial
at the Mav term of court. Ewing’s
bond was fixed at $5,000 and But
lers at $1,500.
Attorneys for Butler announced
thry would .°«ek his release on a
habeas corpus writ,pn the ground that
evidence Introduced was not sufficient
to warrant holding them.
CermakNow
Past Crisis,
Doctor Says
Chicago Specialist Is
Quick To 'Reach
Conclusion on See
ing the Mayor
Miami. Fla., Feb. 21 (AP) —Dr*
Kul Meyer, of Chicago started today
ti t Mayor Cermlak has de fin Lely
foised the crisis ati'endiing hiis crilti
ral wounding during an attempt on
,!lp Ue of President-elect Roosevelt
h r R h!-t. Wednesday night.
,l r. Meyer made his statement aiflt
fr 3 short vtdit to t.h© hospital room
the Chicago Mb yor.
Ihe wound In Mayor Cennak’s
r; Fbt lung has healed and the lung
expanded to normal agailn,” he
> h‘.(| explaining that recession of a
' u,, g aw has occurred in the case of
M i yor Cennrvak, Is .usual whenever it
b punctured but that such recession
w "»s regarded by physician sin this
f e.-e as umimniponteMnt.
Skirmishes By Japanese
Begun In Jehol Province
Tokyo, Feb. 21. Rengo
•Japanese) News Agency dispatch
Jt°m Chinchow today said Japanese
' r »cpg occupied Naling early this
O’oi i ting and then took over Kaupeiy
'Vzu, eight miles further northwest,
province
he advices added that the Japon
e ' roo P s then continued in the di
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Giuseppe Zangara
Here is a photo of Giuseppe Zan
gara, who attempted to assassinate
President-elect Roosevelt, showing
how the Italian bricklayer looked
when he was a soldier in the Ital
ian arhiy.
AMBASSADOR FROM
FRANCE CALLER AT
ROOSEVELTS HOME
Debts Presumably Discuss
ed, But Leaves It to Pres
ident-Elect To Make
Statement
CANADA’S”MINISTER
IS ALSO A VISITOR
Not Whether Rep
resentatives of Other Na
tions Would Call During
Day; Roosevelt About De
cided To Remain In New
York Overnight
New York. Feb. 21—(AP)—Presi
dent-elect Roosevelt extended his con
versations with foreign representatives
today, conferring first with the 1
French ambassador and then with the
Canadian minister. Yesterday he con
ferred with the British ambassador.
William Duncan Herridge, the
Canadian minister, reached the Roose
velt home just as Paul Claudel, the
French ambassador, concluded a 45-
minute conference with the president
elect.
Asked if the debts had been dis
cussed, the ambassador spread his
hands and said:
“W\i discussed many things, every
thing. M,r- Roosevelt has a; nice com
munique' for you.”
The president-elect sent out Word
he would Isstte his statement at 4 p.
m. ‘lt was not disclosed whether re
jpresentatives of any other nations
(would be called in during the day.
The office staff insisted it knew of
no other engagements, but Mr. Roose
velt had about .cancelled plans ta
leave here tonight for Hyde Park.
rection of Peipiao, which is the ter
minus of the railroad line from Chin
chow.
After occupation; of Peipiao, the
advance will be suspended, headquar
ters in Changchun said.
Japanese airplanes severly bombed
Concentrations of guerillas in the
neighborhood of Kailu, said Rengo
dispatches from Tungliao.
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U shown in Philadelphia with Dr. A. M. Northup, Secretary of Labor sot
Pennsylvania. Miss Perkins, who will probably be Secretary of Laboi
in President-elect Roosevelt’s cabinet, is studying labor conditions in
the Kevstone State.
Legislative Committee
Urged Not To Alter Law
Against Liquor In State
Daniels, Poteat and Dozen Other Speakers Advise
Against Changes Without First Having Referen
dum to People; Hearing Is Largely Attended
Raleigh, Feb. 21.—(AP)—No action
was taken today by House Judiciary
Committee No. 1 on several bills in
tended to modify or repeal the State’s
prohibition laws after a hearing at
which dry leaders asserted that pro
posed changes would man the return
of he saloon and th “moral ruin” of
North Carolina.
Josephus Daniels, Raleigh news
paper publisher, and a militant dry
leader, urged the committee during
the hearing to prepare the way for
this legislature to call a convention to
consider the prohibition repeal resolu
tion passed by the national Congress
yesterday.
Daniels and a dozen prohibitionists
urged the committee not to consider
modification on repeal of the Tur-
Republicans Not
Unit on Dictator
Washington, Feb. 21 (AP)—Rep
resentative Snell, the minioirity lead
er, announced today that House
Republic.»is would take no organ
ized position on the Democratic
plan t)> give President-elect Kooset
velt broad powers to reorganize the
government.
The House had just convened an
hour earlier thru usual to work on
the economy amendment to the
Treasury-Post Office supply bill.
ARREST OF LEAS
IS ASKED ABOUT
Clarksville, Tenn., Sheriff
Advises Buncombe Sheriff
He Can Act j
■Clarksville, Tenn., Feb. 21 (AP)—
Sheriff W. E. ,Beaumont has advis
ed North Carolina authorities that
Colonel Duke Dea and Duke Dea, Jr.
are in Clarksville and asked if he
should arrest them.
In his telegram to Sheriff Dawrenc e
E. Brown, of Buncomibe county,
North Carolina, Beaumont also inquir
ed if jail fees would be guaranteed i*n
event he is requested to hold tlhe
Deas.
The publisher and Wis son wihofse
extirt.dWlioin to Nortlh Carolina was or
dered by Governor Hill. M|cA!Kllitslter
two weeks ago, came to Clarksville
Sunday from Jamestown, where they
were in ouustody of Sheriff J. M.
Peavyhouse, of Fentress county.
REPORT CONDEMNING
JAPAN IS PRESENTED
\ _
Geneva, Feb. 21.—(AP) The
League of Nations report condemn
ing Japan’s Manchurian policy
was presented tills afternoon to
the League Assembly, which then
adjourned without discussion until
Friday, when the roport will be
debated.
wHther
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair tonight and Wednesday.
lington act and other dry ’statutes
without submitting the question to a
vote of the people, pointing out that
a majority of 44,000 demanded that
the State be dry in 1908.
Representative Brawley of Durham
who presided at the committee meet
ing, in the absence of Chairman Moss
announced that the next regular com
mittee meeting would be held Thurs
day, but that it was likely a special
meeting might be cfe!fed before that
time.
Dr- W. L. Poteat, president emeritus
of Wake Forest College, and an out
spoken champion of prohibition for
years, opened the dry fight with an
assertion that passage of the Murphy-
Bowie bill to legalize and tax light
wines and beer in the State yould
mean the return of the saloon.
Repeal Bill
Copies Sent
All States
Stimson Speeds Pro
hibition Ref e r e n
dum to the 48 Gov
ernors of Union
Washington, Feb. 21—(AD—Copies
of the resolution for the repeal of the
amendment, together with
covering letters, were sent to the 48
governors by Secretary Stimson early
this afternoon.
The communications were sent by
registered mail, and those which
would not reach a governor in 24
hours by ordinary mail were a'r-m-ail
ed.
The letter of the secretary of state
accompanying the certified copies of
the resolution, said.*'
“It is requested that you cause this
joint resolution to be submitted to a
convention, in your state for such ac
tion as may be had, and that a cer
tified copy of such action be com
municated to the secretary of state as
required by Section IGD, Title 5, U. S
code.” i . u
81 Dead In
Explosions
Shanghai
Shanghai, Feb- 21.—(AP)—Eighty
one persons were killed, 120 were in
jured and ten were missing today
after an explosion in two gasoline
vulcanizers in a Chinese rubber fac
tory in east Shanghai.
Os the 120 injured, 50 taken
to hospitals, while the remainder es
caped with only -slight injuries. ' —
These figures appeared to be the
total toll of the blast as rescuers vir
tually completed a search of the
ruins. Police had believed earlier that
the death toll might reach 200.
Os the known dead, 79 were girls
and two men.
$939,301 CUT IN SALARIES
AND OTHER STATE EXPENSES
ASKED IN COMMITTEE REPORT
Final Choice On Sales Tax
To Go To Full Legislature
Sub-Committee Passed Buck to Joint Committee,
Which in Turn Will Let Assembly Itself Decide;
General Sales or Luxury Tax Considered Certain
Dally Diapnteh Biireun,
In the Sir Walter Hutcl.
BY J. C. BASKERVILL.
flaleigh, Feb. 21.—The finance sub
committee has passed the buck as
to what kind of sales tax the State
6'hall have, if any, on to the joint
finance committees, which in turn are
expected to pass it on t 0 the General
Assembly. For without recommend
ing the adoption of either ,the sub
committee has brought out its new
revenue bill containing two optional
sales tax sections one a general sales
tax of two per cent on retail sales,
estimated *o yield $6,000,000 a year,
and a second “selected commodity”
or so-called “luxury Tax” plan, esti
mated to yield about the same amount
The committee estimates that its new
Glass Content To
Remain In Senate
Washington, Feb. 21—(AP).—
Senator Glass, Democrat, Virginia,
when asked today about reports
that he had declined appointment
as secretary of the treasury, said:
“I’m entirely content to remain
in the Senate.”
“I have not changed my mind,”
Glass added. “My decision has al
ways been final.”
The Virginian, in gen'ai mood at
a banking committee hearing, ad
vised colleagues who joked with
liim about various published re
ports concerning the secret aryshii
to “never believe anything you see
in the papers unless in mine.”
TmHse
Admittedly Faces Stiff Op
position in Both Houses
of Assembly
BASIS OF OPPOSITION
Fear of Shoirt Ballot l ooms in Some
Quarters; One Man Commission
Might Be Too. Easily '
Rifluejnced 1
Daily Dispatch Bur Pan,
In Ihe Sir Walter Hotel.
BY HENRY LESESNE.
Raleigh, Feb. 21- —The fate of the
latest revision of the reorganization
committee’s bill to substitute a public
utilities commission for the present
Corporation Commission, is still very
much in doubt. It now appears that
the bill will encounter considerably
more opposition in both houses of the
General Assembly than seemed likely
a few days ago when the revamped
till came out of the committee’s hands
This bill, ostensibly a purely econo
my measure, would throw Corpora
tion Commissioners W. T. Lee and
George P. Pell, two elective officers,
out of their jobs, and would leave
Stanley Winborne, the newest mem
ber of the commission, at the helm as
•public utilities commissioner, accord
ing to informed opinion here There is
l’ittie concrete evidence to back up the
assumption that Mr. Winborne is slat
(Continued an Page Six.)
AW ILL
P-S Rogers
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Beverly Hills, Cal., Feb. 21.
Remember my old rich “Injun”
that l was telling you about the
government wanting him to get a
divorce because he lived in Holly
wood?
Well, they pulled one better
. than that the other day. They
tried to prove that he wasn’t in
his right mind because one time
when his car stalled and they
coruldn’t get it going, he traded it
for an old pony, got on him and
rode off* And they call that crazy
If everybody did that, they
would be out of debt in a couple
of years. Just think—no gas, no
tires, no roads to pay for. Why,
instead of prosecuting the old In
dian, they out to erect a monu
ment to him for being that far
ahead of his time.
Yours, WILL.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTBRROOM
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
revenue bill will yield, with either
sales tax, approximately $25,000,000 a
year.
The committee stated in 'its* report
• hat after careful study and considera
tion that it became “convinced” that
the “budget as outlined at present
cannot be balanced without new sales
tiaxes if the General Assembly is to
(avoid levies on productive business
that would be confiscatory or dan
gerously discouraging to industry set
up in the State, but which may be
regarded as mobile.”
Only Alternative.
This means that the committee was
convinced that a sales tax is the only
(Continued on page Eight.)
8-MONTHS SCHOOL
NOW LOOKED UPON
AS BEING CERTAIN
One of Greatest Arguments
for It Is Saving in Local
County Tax As
sessments..
ANOTHER IS SAVING
OF EXTENDED TERM
Fear Many Counties Will
Revert to Six Months
School Unless State Helps;
That Would be Inadequate
Preparation for Children’s
Schooling *
Ilnlly fliMiinteh nnrenn.
In Ihe Sir Wnlter Hotel,
BY J. C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, Feb. 21 —Though none of
the various school bills have yet been
reported oult by the joint comimittec
on education, the opinfion is stronger
than ever that an eight months
school term supported entirely from
Sliate fumdis wtill eventually be set up.
The budget will be greatly curtaiiled,
sowever, so that the eight months
term will receive about the same
amount of support from, tlhe State
that the six months term is noiw get
ting, or aibout. $17,000,000 a year. In
addition to this, the schools wSllt get
the benefit of 'about $1,000,000 a yeiai
in poll and dog taxes, fines and for
feitures, so that if the general as
scmibly appropriates' $17,000,000 a
year for t,h© eight months term, a to
tal of from $18,000,000 to $18,600,000
a year wall be available for its main
tenance which is aboult the same
amount that has been going into the
six months school. v
Want Larger Appropriation
There is no indication that the ef
forts of the school lobibyiisttis, textbook
(Continued on Page Eight.)
Prohibition Gets Center
Os Stage In Legislature
House Approves Tax Penalty After Tax Sale; Marriage
Examinations Goes Back To House; New Bill Would .
Create State Department of Justice
Raleigh, Fety 21.—(AP)—Prohibi
tion held the center of the stage for
the North Carolina General Assembly
today, while the House passed a bill
to allow re-financing of tax sales cer
tificates and the Senate jacted on
drivers’ and marriage license pro
posals.
Both divisions of the General As
sembly received a special report from
a sub-committee on salaries and fees
which recommended pay cuts of 15
percent or more for all State offi
cers and employees and eliminations
and consolidations estimated to save
$930,301.59 annually-
Hundreds of person jammed the
hall of the House of Representatives
to capacity before the formal legisla
tive session as dry leaders of the
State urged House Judiciary Commit..
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TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
ALL OFFICERS AND
WORKERS AFFECTED
BY SWEEPING COTS
Highway Commission Not
Singled Out, But Nearly
$600,000 Would Be
Trimmed There
HUGE SAVINGS FOR
YEAR ARE SOUGHT
Treasurer Charles M. John
son and Budgeteer Henry
Burke at $6,000 Would
Not Be Hit by Scaling of
Pay; Many Eliminations
4 Are Suggested
Raleigh, Feb 21.—(AP)—Salary re
ductions of 15 percent or more for
all State employees in departments,
commissions and bureaus, togther
with eliminations and consolidations
which would save $939,301.59 annual
ly were recommended to the General
Assembly today by its special com
mittee on salaries and fees.
The committee’s report covered
every State officer in Raleigh and a
flat 15 .percent fcut .adcfltional for
-very State employee except those in
the highway commission was recom
mended.
It was suggested that the pay roll
if the highway department be reduc
ed an aggregate of $1r7,031 annually,
vith eliminations and consolidations
in the commission saving an addii
ional $398,750 yearly.—
It was found that the present scope
>f the committee’s authority covered
State salaries aggregating $1,669,918
annually in State offices and $5,496,-
58944 in the highway department. -
The 15 percent cut would save $260,-
'f intinurd on Pag» Six)
Winston Has
Fire Damage
Os $300,000
B. F. Huntley Furni
ture Plant Is De
stroyed by Early
Morning Blaze
Winston-Salem, Feb. 21 (AP) —Th?
B. F. Huntley Furniture Coroipamy's
$300,000 pliant was destroyed by fire
early today. The oom|pany is a sub
sidiary of the Summons Bed Company.
The flaimes were discovered by a
n.'igtit watdhmian. shiortily before he was
to go off dtutfcy but the fire hiad gain
ed great headway and roared through
the wooden building without being
halted. '
A row of storage tanks filled with
gasoline was threatened ’<>y the fames
and firemen devoted much of their
rime to saving these.
tee No. 1 not to consider changing
the State’s prohibition laws without
submitting the question to a vote of
the people.
The committee took no action on
the proposals now before it, which
include legalization for tax purpose?
of beer and wine without a referen
dum; submission of the question to
the voters; repeal of the Turlington
dry act and legalization of medicinal
whiskey.
The House approved a committee
substitute tax penalty bill which
abolishes penatlies up to the date of
tax sales and allows counties and
municipaities to arrange for redemp
tion of land sold for taxes during a-'S,
five-year period with interest on tax
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