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HENDERSON, gateway TO CENTRAL CAROLINA. twentieth year Jap Delegates At Geneva Walk Gut Budget Can t Be Balanced Unless Sales Tax Adopted, Finance Committee Agrees MEANTIME APPEALS AGAINST THAT TAX REACH LEGISLATURE Protests Also Filed Against Changes in Prohibition Laws of North Carolina TAX PENALTY BILL PASSES IN SENATE Would Lighten Burden Ac cumulated Last Five Years —Solicitors’ Salaries Fixed at $3,900; Marriage Li censes Still Be Argued in the House , Raleigh, Feb. 24—(AD—The General <wo finance committees today voted 20 to 10 iliat it is ‘he sense of the group (Imt the State's budget cannot be balanced without levying some form of sales tax. 'li is the sense of this committee th;«* i' could find no practical and fra;;ib!e means of balancing the bud pr* without imposing some form of ihlcs tax,"-was the motion which was adopted. The committee refused this morning to revise its position taken a month ago that revenue from some source other than advalorem taxation must be found to replace the 15 cents levy on and for school purposes. The lower division of the General Assembly was tied up for more than an hour during consideration of its local bills calendar when Representa (Continued on Page Six.) Committee Deadlocks On Schools Length of Term and Form of Sales Tax Form Basis of The Cleavage - Unify UiN|int«'h Dnrean, In the Mir Walter Hotel. «V J. C. lIASKERVIIX. Raltigh, Feb. 24.—The joint finance ' mmittee Is deadlocked over the bucHtion of an eight months school ' r ttn and indications are'that the com mit♦ po win have some difficulty in Making progress toward drafting a new tevenue bill until it gets some '"kling of how the General Assembly stacked up on the question. 'J he Mac Lean eight, months’ school bill is ‘Continued on Page Three.) Reorganization Committee Nearing Goal Os Economy Amount of Savings Not Certain, But Will Be Very Con siderable; Abolition of Corporation Commission : and Highway-Prison Merger Chief Bills IJnlly Dl*|>nt<‘h Rnrenq, In <hr Mir VVnltcr Hotel. IIV J. C. IIAMKKItVILL. Sleigh, Feb. 24 —After several set i hat seemed for a time to threat en ''he wthal© structure of its program, L/ai ry Moore’s joint reorgan •'•J.'iion committee is now within reach '; its goal by which it announced in hie beginning would bring about a living of $2,000,000 annually in. ope ,a; v n * cos, ts ,of the Sta.’e government. ■ ‘"ce its far-reaching reoonumen ‘hhons were ffijrsfc presented to the ** n ”‘ a l Aawemibiy, the commltte© has 1 'Ufd a rocky road. At times It lus tnied that some of its major Hrnftrrsmt Datht jßfswatch ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND vdftlNlA. * FULL LEASED WIRE IBRvipv OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Two More Cabinet Jobs Filled SBr j|| m BSP Ilk n jy JFj| ill, yy&jgßiF' A I " George Dern Utah Secretary of War Death Os Cermak Is Expected Has Little Chance, Son-In - Law Says; Family Leaves His Room In Tears Fla., Fpb. 24.—(AP)— Dr. Frank Jirka, son-in-law of Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago, said today he considered the Mayor, wounded by an assassin’s bullet, had little chance to live, but Dr. Frederick T ice, Chicago, heart specialist, said: “Human life is to complicated to place it on a valuation of chances on the one side against chances on the other- There are too many factors to be considered.” Dr. Jirka's statement was made after members of the mayor’s fa mily had visited him at the hos pital. The l’amlly left the room in tears after a brief stay. Dr. Tice said preparations were started at 11:45 a. m. to adminis ter another intrazenous injection of glucose, a food substance being pumped into the veins in an at tempt to aid vitality. WEATHER FOR. NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy, probably followed by rain in extreme west portion, beginning late tonight or Satur day; rising temperature tonight. proposals were about to collapse. In the senate, where £he Committees biMs were, first introduced, the committee suffered several major defeat®, only to reverse the tables by Jhaving that bod<y change its colfledtive mind, i. Saving undetermined • There seems to be a wide diver gence of opinion as po how much the committee’s bills, which, have already passed bobh. houses ro which seem likely to pass, Will save the Starts, but lit is generally admitted to be a sub stantial amount Few of the commit (Continued on Page Five*). HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY APTERNOON, FEBRUARY 24, 1933 Claude A. Swanion Virginia Secretary of the Navy Jones Had Plans To Escape Chair Raleigh, Feb. 24.—(AP)—Jake (Sunshine) Jones, whose sentence of electrocution for murder was yesterday commuted to life impri sonment planned one last desper ate effort to escape if he Was taken lrom the coll to go to Die death ehambei*. Prison officials revealed today that the youthful Negro had fash ioned a crude blackjack from cloth ing and a rock dislodged from the roof of his death row cell, and plan ned to attack guards who were to lead him to the chair. Jones was to have been electro cuted today. STRANGEDEATHIN^ Falls With One Man Dead and Student Suicides ~ After Alighting San Antonio, Texas, Feb. 24.—(AP) —An airplane spiraled to the ground, its pilot dead, from the rear cockpit a man leaped, ran a few yards turned a i istcl on himself and fired into his temple. With these asserted facts, authori ties today continued their probe of the death of Leliman Nelson, 33, pilot, and Erin McCall, 20, student flier, late yesterday. An examination by police and phy sicians showed Nelson had been shot in the back of the head. McCall was dead when those who witnessed the plane’s erratic landing reaching him. New Banks In Detroit Discussed Detroit, Mich., Feb. 24.—(AP)—Or ganization of two new hanks to take over the liquid assets of the First National Bank and the Guardian Na tional Bank of Commerce, the two lar gest in Detroit, awaits, the approval of the comptroller of the currency in Washington. The plan, which has the tentative approval of the Treasury Department, ia designed to make available at once 50 peroent of all deposits and is seen /as a short out to solution of the fin ancial problems which caused Gover nor William A- Comstock to issue a hank holiday proclamation on Feb ruary 14. As the plan is explained, the new 'institution would hawe not only the liquid assets of the old bank, but from $10,000,000 to $20,000,000 contributed (to the capitaliza/tiion by large dew positors . GENERAL ASSEMBLY MAY HAVE TO ACT ON BEER AND WINE Tendency To Await Con gressional Enactment of Referendum - Machin ery May b| Futile VOTE OF PEOPLE IS FAVORED pY GROUP Four Measures I Have Been Offered for ! Repeal or Modification ( of State’s Prohibition Statutes; In Either Events Speed Is What Many Want Daily DinMlrh lliirrnn, In the SlrfWiiKer lintel. lIV HENRY ifSESNE. Raleigh, Feb. 24 —What, if anythling the present legi«liatur« Wifi db toward repealing or modlifyjmLth'2 State’s diry law's, is very much right now. When Congress passed the Blaine re- So>lut'on the other day, referring the question to State convent;one, it was generally accepted th# itt wioul'd solve the North Carolina legislature’s prob lem by permitting that body to sub mit the issue to /the people for a*i eartly decision., Now; however, it ap pears that unless Comgre3S goes a step further and sets up kind of ma chinery for the calilWg of State con ventions, Tar Heelfe wi'H have to wadi a mighty long time to decide the is sue for themselves. The beller prevailed’ in many quart ers only a few days ago that passage of the Blaine repealer would permit the legislature, if it so desired, to set up the machinery for a State conven tion righlt away, that in view of this, pending bills proposing repeal or modification of this State’s dry laws could be scrapped pending an expres sion of the voters. Ma.ny members of the assembly undoubtedly would have welcomed such away out, as they are still a little doubtful of wthich way the wind is blowing in North Carolina, would rather place the responsibility of any change in the law on the people themselves. Long, Rocky Road However, uniless Congress sets up some sort of special machinery for the states to call conventions—a plan that is still considered a possibility— the q"estion of whether North Caro lina Shall ca’l a State convention can not be decided until the next general election in November, 1934. Thus, the legislature first wfll have to vote to submit tlhe call to the people in th e next election., and (then the people will have to decide whether or not they w*ant to have a conv ration. And then, finally, it/bey Wiilil have to decide whe ther or not they want prohibition. AH this wdlil take a long time, unless some other way is found of bringing about an earlier expression of senti ment by the voters. Some of the wet leadens in the General Aisseinbly are willing for their repeal or modifica tion bills to be submitted to the peo ple when and 'if the general issue is submitted, butt the wet bloc is not um anim/ousfly favorable to this view. Some of (them still hold that North Carolina expressed its sentiment in the senatorial contest last summer, and that the legislature should act withouit suhm/ittinig the bills now be fore it to a referendum or State con vention. Four Measures Offered There have been four repeal or mod ification bills intorodiuced at this ses sion of the legislature. The most drastic is, of course, the Cover bill (Continued on Page Six.) AM ILL ~ f??ROGERS \J p soys: ..Beverly Hills, Calif., Feb. 24. Say, that list of new cabinet mem bers sent everybody scurrying through Who’s Who, World Al manac, and the U. S. Fingerprint department, trying to find out who they were. The forgotten man has been found, and there was nine of ’em and a woman. So we open March fourth with the (“Unknown Cabinet-” The rogues’ gallery photographs show us that three of ’em escaped from the Senate. That’s like going to the old man’s home to get an athlete. But I believe they are going to be all right. They all got their re putations to make, which is bet* , ter than fee'ing that they have one already made. Yours, WILL* Farm Board Head Resigns ijpipL Hk ■Pf' * H JpBI K K * JAMES STONE ImllieT ♦ INSENATEsS Substitute for Sweeping Bankruptcy Measure Passed by House Is Taken up There BANK RESTRICTIONS MEASURE IS ARGUED Approved by House Com mittee After Testimony by Secretary Mills; Further Revelations Had in Na tional City Bank Inquiry in the Senate Washington, Feb. 24. —(AP) —The big task or providing relief from the mortgage burcen to the country’s farmers faced the Senate today as it took up a substitute for the sweeping bankruptcy measure passed by the House- The Senate measure is the Hast ings -Robinson bill to provide that farm debts be seated down by agree ment between debtor and creditor through the aid of Federally-sponsor ed conciliation commissiones. Senator Hastings, Republican, Delaware, im mediately served notice he would seek to make it apply to corporations and railroads also. The House started debating the case of Federal Judge Harold Louerback, of California. After investigating his conduct in bankruptcy cases, a ma jority of the House Judiciary Commit tee recommended that he be censured so disregard it charged he had shown toward the interests of those affected. A minority asked his impeachment and a vote on this subject was sought ■Secretary Mills was called before he House Banking Committee to testi fy in secret on the resolution of Sen ator Couzens, Republican, Michigan, which would give comptroller of the currency power to apply to national banks the same deposit restrictions as imposed on the State banks of each f intinuod on Pag« Six) Repeal Bill Received By Ehringhaus Governor Undecided When Prohibition Measure Will Be Given Assembly Raleigh, Feb. 24 (AP) —Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus today laid on one corner of his desk the notifica tion of the secretary of state of the United States to North Carolina tihlat Congress bias voted to submit repeal of tbe eighteenth amendment to the states. ’ ' “I’ve just laid this over here on my desk to think about wihat I’ll do with lit,’ Ehringhaus said. The governor said he expected to notify the legisla ture of the receipt of the Blaine re* solution passed by Congress, but add ed he didnt know when he would do so, nor whether he would send any recommendations along with his mes sage. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY^* Great Offensive In Manchuria Is Begun By Japan In Jehol Invasion ; . m&m fc&mmm {HHX »■ wjp . .y* “ + A f ' General Chang Hai-Peng, Chinese commander of the Manchukuo droops fighting on the Japanese side m the Jehol invasion, who is be- Meved to be the choice of the Nippon Government to rule the threatened province should he succeed in cap turing it. The present Governor of Jehol, Tang Yu-Lin, recently an nounced he would fight to the death any attempt to oust him. JEFFRESS’ FATE IS SPECULATED UPON Highway - Prison Merger May Result in His Oust ing from Office HE HAS MANY ENEMIES Bills Involving Highway Com mission Believed Aimed at Him; Fountain Men Still Resent • His Opposition Daily Dispatch flnt-ean. In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. f. BASKBRVILL. Raleigh, Feb. 24-—Although the bill consolidating the State Highway Com mission and the xltate Prison into a single department has passed only the Senate and still has to be acted upon in the House, speculation has already started as to whether or not Chair man E. B. Jeffress of the present high way commission will get the axe in the highway-prison shuffle. The new bill provides that an entirely new board or commission of six members and a choiiman be named to head the new consol‘dated State Highway and Public Works C< lumission and a d man believe that as a result a new chairman as well as a new board may be named The name being most frequently mentioned here today as a possible choice for chairman of the new com mission, if Jeffre/ss is displaced, is Senator Carl Bailey, of Washington. Beaufort county No particular reason is being given as to why Senator Bailey should be considered for the post, other then that he supported the consolidation bill sponsored by his colleague. Senator A. D. Mac Lean and the other members of the committee on reorganization. But there is no doubt of the fact that Senator Bailey’s name is being mentioned in connec tion with the post. Backed by Ehringhaus. Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus, of course, is continuing to be about as communicative as an oyster about his prospective appointments and it is doubted if any one has any idea what •he has in mind. It is known, of course (Continued on Page Two.) Service Station Operator Kills Wife, Then Suicides Asheville, Feb. 24.—(AP)—Clarence McDowell, 48-year-old filling station operator at Skyland, near here, climax ed an argument with his wife at their home today by shooting her to death and then committing suicide. The shooting came a few minutes after the wife, Mrs. Patricia Mc- Dowell, 40, started to leave the home. A daughter, Evelyn, 18, said she was in the rear of the house and heard her parents arguing. She said her father insisted that Mrs- McDowell not 6 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Combined Armies Drive Forward Through Snow storms at Heart of Jehol Province LEAGUE CONDEMNS JAPANESE POLICIES Assembly Session Adjourns Without Expression of Regret at Retirement of Japs, Who Promise Co operation Otherwise; No Move for Withdrawal Geneva, Feb. 24.—(AP)—The Japanese delegation walked out of the Assembly of the League of Nations today after adoption of the report condemning Japanese policy in Manchuria and urging continued non-recognition of the Japanese-sponsored state of Man ohukuo. The delegation announced that it can no longer cooperate with the Lea gue on the Sino-Japanese question. Siam alone abstained from voting. Forty-two voted yes. The absentees were Cuba, Salvador, Nicaragua, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay and Chile. Yosuke Matsuoka, head of the Jap ese delegation, told the Assembly, however, tnat Japan would cooperate with the League as far as circum stances permitted. Wlhen the Japanese delegation walk ed out, Paul Hymans, of Belgium, the chairman without any expression of regret, said the Assembly would re convene at 5 p. m. today. He then dis missed it. While the situation was left some what confused, it was clear that for the present Japan has not withdrawn, from the League. Neither did M. Matsuoka assert that Japan would withdraw from the Lea gue- DRIVE AIMED AT SEIZING JEHOL FROM THE CHINESE (By the Associated Press.) Advancing from the north acros3 (Continued on Page Six). Disorders Growing In Cuban Area Series of Bombings Followed by Re port of Railroad Bridge Blown Up Havana, Cuba, Fob. 24.—(AP) — A series of bombings early this morning on the 38th anniversary of Cuba’s in dependence was climaxed shortly be fore noon when a railroad bridge in Camaguey (province was blown up with dynamite. Eight bombs were exploded in Havana within two hours after mid night. Meanwhile, the capital was scan ning reports anxiously to determine whether a rumored revolutionary movement was taking form. Mexico City dispatches recently predicted that a movement of rebels from the mainland toward Ctiba would coincide wSth bombings in Havana. Three of the bombs which exploded early today were large ones, while the other five, which were smaller, caus ed several hundred persons to desert the ball room at the Centrao Asturino. leave the house, and that her mother appeared equally determined to leave Then, the girl said, she heard Mc- Dowell say: “Well, we’ll both go together.” She said she heard her mother scream. Immediately afterwards three shots rang out and then a fourth. The daughter said she ran to the front of the home and found the bodies of her parents in the front yard. Husband and wife were dead and McDowell still clutched a pistol in his hand.
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