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'HENDERSON, gateway TO CENTRAL CAROLINA. TWENTIETH YEAR m | " ■ ’ xX v bur I HOySE REFUSES TO ORDER 15 CENTS TAX * ************* ******** Smith Cotton Pool Acreage Cut Bill Passes And Goes To White House SOI DOUBT ABOUT PRESIDENT HOOVER IMG THE BILL Would Permit Planters To Cut 1933 Acreage and Participate In Gov ernment Pool WOULD GET PROFIT FROM HIGH PRICES Government Cotton Would Be Used for Options To Be Granted Farmers and Plan Would Be Financed From Reconstruction Corpora tion Funds Washington, Mtardh 1 (AP)—The ni?te oday accepted House amend ments to the Smith cotton pool acrc t® hill and sen’ 1 : fife mefo turo to the White House There is i . e doufcii whether Proe-iicnt Hoover fvr'l sign it. The measure passed the House yes- Jay 188 to 183. * The bi.lt, sponjdrcd by Senator Fnjith, Democra'*. South Carolina, would permit pointers to cut their •1!>33 acreage to participate in a huge government pool. A'! government financed cotton ex ixpl tihalt held by the Red Cross in eluding 1.500,000 bales owtied by co operatives, and 710.000 4>elid by the Depar tme nit of Agricu lt ure as calla l< ral for loans would bn placed In Rhe hands of a board in it.v department! Growers agreeing to cult their pro itfirtton 30 perednt wouflid receive an option on a share in tire pool equlv (Contlnued on Page Seven) Roosevelts Turn Faces To Capital % Cabinet and Secreta ries Selected, Pres ident-Elect Relaxes For Time Hyde Dark. N. Y-. March l.—(APi I’te ddent-elect Roosevelt 'completed ’lie selection of his cabinet today, and wi’h a serious mind and a light heart turned toward the White House. He picked "Louis, Mack and Steve” for his .secretariat—Louis M. Howe, ■senior secreiary, and Marvin H. Mc b'tyre, of Kentucky, and Stephen T. hoily, of Virginia, as his other chief a *dc-. in i lie White House. The cabinet was completed officially In night with the announcement of •tiso Frances Perkins, New York Kia'o commissioner of labor, and Hanicl C. Roper of South Carolina, as secretary of commerce. 8o far as immediate appointments ,!l "' concerned, Mr- Roosevelt has fin t'heri his task and has surrounded himself with trusted friends. He w'Ji carry on the present White House staff that has continued thro ll?h past Democratic and Republican administrations. War Talked By Roosevelt With Foreign Diplomats Chino-Japanese Hostilities Believed Discussed, Togeth er With JFranco-ltalian Friction; These Will Be Sec retary Hull’s First Major Worries By CHARLES I*. STEWART Central Tress Staff Writer Washington, March 1— President *' ect Roosevelt's recent talks with for diplamts clearly have not re lixcd exclusively to debt settlement, Cuiffs, monetary stands and world fade rehabilitation. observers unmistak iy are gravely uneasy' over the extent of Chino-Japanese tj C3 a nd increasing Franco 'inn frcijon. The European threat 11 <t irnmeliate but the oriental dan and both involve the interests Tii'itiU'rsnu Last "At Home” Photo - * .aftfljjjggjmf /; •§<.'C r - A Spra For the last time before they become the nation’s “First Couple,” Presi dent-elect and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt posed for this photo on the eve of leaving their Hyde Park, N. Y., home for Washington, where they will take up residence in the White House on March 4. Neighbors of the Roosevelts in Hyde Park gave a send off party for the distinguished couple. Labor Attacks Choice Os Miss Perkins In Cabinet Keenly Disappointed at Se lection, President Green, Os Federation, Declares HAD BEEN HOPING FOR A LABOR MAN Only One Such Understands Labor’s Problems and Its Psychology, and New Sec retary Falls Short; Wo men’s Organizations Are Very Happy Washington, March 1. (AP) —Wil- liam Green, president of the Ameri can Federation of Labor, said in a statement today ,he officers and members of the federation were "keenly disappointed over President elect Roosevelt’s selection of a secre tary of labor.” The statement by Green came after officials of the National League of- Women Voters, the Woman’s Party and other prominent women had join ed in praising the selection of Miss Frances Perkins for the labor post. Green safd that "labor has consis tently contended that the Department of Labor should be wliat Its name im plies, and that the secretary of labor should be representative of labor, one who understands labor, labor’s pro blems, labor’s psychology, collective bargaining, industrial relations, and one who knows the confidence of labor.” "In the opinion of labor, the newly appointed secretary of labor does not meet these qualifications. Labor can never become reconciled to the selec tion made.” of many countries. Secretary Hull! will begin liis state department duties with these cares to worry him. Incidentally, no one knows just when real revolt may flare in Cuba. ** * * (SNELL LOOKS TO ’36 Capitol Hill persists in believing that Congressman Snell, Republican leader in the House of Representa tives, is head of an inside group group of about 30 lower house biw , (Continued oi. Page Seven) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED FULL LEASED WIKI mr.numn OF THK ASSORTKD^rS® HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 1; 1933 Randleman Bank Held Up, Robbed Ilaitdleman, March I.— (AP) The Bank of Run dl email was held up and robbed of between $2,00(1 and $.{,000 today by three men who escaped in an automobile. The cashier was one of several In <he bank at the time, and as •lie trio fled toward Greensboro he shot, once at the fast disappearing machine with i> shotgun, but said lie doubted scoring a hit. The robbery occurred shortly after 2 p. in., and officials said they would not know the exact amount of money taken until a check was completed. TKSed Definitely on Upgrade And Will Likely Get Well, Doctors State Miami, Fla., March 1 (AP)—Bair rinig unforeseen developments, Mhyor Anton Oermak, of CMciago will re|- cover from Guiseppe Zangaha’s bullet wound and tfye complications that £oH- Itotwed it his attending physicians an. mfounced today. 5 ‘‘Mayor Cermjak defiimitelly is on the upgrade now,” Dr*. Frederick Tice 'said. “His iutngs amid heart sound Ig’ctad. BaiTMig unforeseen circum stances, we now can say he will ret •cover. ” \ Dr. Karl A Meyer and other phy sicians concurred in the staitcmetot. Mayor Cermiak took orange juice and » milk preparation for nourish- during the early hours today and hospital attaches said h© hiad tepdnt on© of the most restfu Plights since his Wound was complicated by colitis and pneumonia. IRELAND ABOLISHES CROWN ALLEGIANCE 'Dublin, Irish Free State, March I.—(AP)—The Dail Eireann to day passed by a vote of 75 to 49 a government bill abolishing the oath of allegiance to the British . crown. WEATHER FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Thursday; lit tle change in temperature. 2pffl|j iitajmtrh IN Tils SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VHTOINIA. * SALES TAX FIGHT IS HAVING EFFECT ON LEGISLATURE Tomorrow’s Mass Meeting In Raleigh Expected To Throttle Move For Retail Levy SENTIMENTGROWS FOR 15-CENTS TAX ——* - May Have To Retain It, De spite Campaign Pledges, in Order To Balance Budget Without Sales Tax; Eight Months Schoof Folks Fight ing On —4 —■ Dully Di*jMit«>h Rurfan, In Ihe Sly Walter Hotel. nv j. D. it as in; it vim,. Ra.lei.gth/ March 14-Lobider.s of the anti-safes' tax movement here are con sent . t.hiat the tncreavnig opposition to any form of sale 4 thx in th, 3 State is already having iit£ effect upcin. tlhe General Assemlbly aijd that after the ■an T-sates tax mass Meeting it;o b e hold here 2 oclock tomorrow afternoon that the assembly wtill give still more thought to (trying to balance .the bud get without any form of sales tax. Increasing evidence of oppcdtltn to (Continued on Page six.) J University Gets Increase In Allotment; Schools, Highways Left Dully Dln|>iitch R n rrnn. In the Mr Walter Hotel BY J. V. BASKERVILL. Raleigh, March 1—(By di .ipoy’ng of (h© troublesome item, c.f allotments for institutions of higher rearming, tih© joint appropriations committee took a b : g leap yesterday afternoon to ward c ropreting i’ife appropriations ifcUJl, W.J'Ch it i •” appears w M bs presented oar the floor of the House by Thursday. However, there hi s been a sharp division in the commit tee room o n all major i'.em'j, and mlany belldeve that th e bills is nowhere near its final shape and riat 'it wnld b©' torn to pieces when it go's in the Kfoiuse. The committee raised the appropria tion o fthe University of North Caro lina $36,000 a year for the biennium land then, desiring to show no tavor't ism;, also voted On increase of SIB,OOO a year each for State Coil lege and North Carolina College for Women. The aWotmienit sto the three sc.hoo'3, ais finaMy approved by the appropria tions oomimiititee, are: University of North Carolina, $426,570 a year; State College $205,250; N. C. C. W., $200,420. The figure ftaaMy anopled for the University of North Carol na, whiifc it is $36,000 a year m(pre than was re oonwnjended by the budget corn mis sion, was approved land suggested to Whe committee by Henry Burke, as sistant director of the budget, as a revised esittilmiate to permit the uni versity to carry on laboratory Work. After granting this request, the com (Continued 0» Page Three.) JShWiLL Rogers \y p ioys: Beverly Hills, Calif., March I. England says: “We won’t sell war materials to Japan, as she has been proven the aggressor nation.* We say: “Well, that would be taking sides.” /. We want to be in the position where we can sell to both sides. Then they wonder why Europe thinks we are always out for the dough. Let’s don’t kid ourselves —we are out for it a lot of the time. » England tries to stop war, we try to stop dsarmament. | Ono' 1 fel low tries to stop the actual fight, we try to regulate the number of bullets he shall have after the fight, starts. Take your pick as <o who is the humanitarian- Yours, WILL. Chinese Surrender City Os Chihfeng To Japs As Invading Army Arrives Two Other Towns of Chi nese Inner Defense Lines Captured Almost at Same Time VICTORY REPORTED BY THREE COLUMNS Main Japanese Offensives Claim Headway in Drive Into Jehol Province; Cap ital, Now Not Far Away, Is Objective of Successive ly Widening Area Chinchow, Manchuria, March 1. — (AP) —Chinese defenders at Chimfcng commercial and transportation center of Jehol province, surrendered today and two other towns of China’s inner defense lines were captured almost simultaneously, the Japanese military command announced todav. Victories were reported for the three main Japanese offensives which are swinging on in successively widening arcs, with the capital Jehol City as their common objective. The army of the north, which has made the longest swing, reached Chih feng, 92 miles north of Jehol City, and reported the Chinese general, .Shih Wen-Hua, commander of the Jehol cavalry force under Governor Tang Yu-Lin, submitted to the Jap anese-sponsored government of Man chukuo. The towns of Chienting and Peicli angyirntze were reported captured by the Japanese central and southern of fensives, respectively. The nortnern Japanese force, with the veteran fourth cavalry brigade un der Major-General Kcnnosuke Mogi leading the way for the sixth division expected its hardest battle at Chih feng. Once beyond the walls of that city, dominating a mountain pass, if was expected to move rapidly into the capital- Hoover Finishing Plans To Start on Sea Trip Saturday Washingtru, March 1 (Al») President Hoover went ahead to day with preparations fdlr start ing a sea voyage next Saturday evening to carry him to I‘r* lama and on to California. Secretary Mills, who was to hae accompanied Mr. Hoover, has dcf> finitely withdrawn from the party, telling newspapermen that he had not had time to straighten tout his personal affairs her c and in New York. He will go to California later. Secretary Wilbur and possibly Secretary Hyde, along with Alan Hoover, sun of the President, will make the trip. Order Bank Holiday For Two States Kentucky and Ten nessee Affected, Though Partly Ob served in Latter (By the Associated Press ) The governors of Tennessee and, Kentucky, acting 1n quick succession, today declared bank holidays in their respective states. Governor McAlister in Tennessee said that bank holdiays “in states with which, the people of Tennessee daily have lousiness transactions” led him to take action. The holiday is effective immediately and through next Monday. In Kentucky Governor Laffoon act ed under the law empowering him to appoint “certain days as days of thanksgiving,” and his proclamation named March 1,2, 3 and 4 as “days of thanksgiving in the State of Ken tucky.” Under the order, no deposit ed funds are to be paid out by banks today, and no more than five pexceni (Continued on Page Three.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. New Bank Head HPT. » ■L. •< V: • v s < jmmm A recent photo of James H. Perkins, of New York, who was elected chair man of the National City Bank to succeed Charles E. Mitchell who re signed after three years in that office. Perkins has been President of the City Bank Farmers’ Trust Company since last June. The re tired chairman was one of the prin cipal witnesses before the Senate Committee investigating stock market practices euiloSeni Designed To Give Tax Re lief and Help Land-Own er Keep Property BACKED BY GOVERNOR Objectionable Feature Removed And Genuine Step Is Taken To Meet Grave Situation of Tax Sales for Years Daily Dispnleh Itnrenn, In Ihe Sir Wialter Hotel, IIY J. C. BASKKRVIMi. Raleigh, March 1. —The administra tion bill allowing counties, towns and other governing agencies to refund tax sales certificates for the years 1927-1931 inclusive has been passed by the Senate and now goes to the House, where it is expected to encounter lit tle opposition. Thus it appears htat this measure, probably the most far reaching of any that has passed either house a s this session, is also slated to be the first piece of major legis lation designed to relieve the “people back home” to be enacted by the 1933 legislature. Must Alter Foreclosures. While the measure did not receive a dissenting vote in the Senate after a story debate of over two hours, the belief prevails in this legislature that something will have to be done about foreclosures, and although there are many features of the bill in ’its pre sent shape that are not acceptable to all members, the Senate took the at titude that everybody’s can’t be pleas ed and for the first time this session passed a major bill without seeking (Continued on Page Three.) Huey Long Is Defendant In $500,000 Slander Suit Washington, March 1. — (AP) tSamueJ T. Ansell, recently counsel for the Senate committee inquiry into the election of Senator John Overton, of Louisiana, today sued Senator Huey Long for $500,000 damages on slander charges. In the District of Columbia Supreme Court the former judge advocate gen eral of the army, contended he has been actually damaged to the extent of $230,000 by the speech made by Long in the Senate February 21 which brought him, Ansell said, into “public slander, infamy and disgrace." he ask ed an additional $250,000 as punitive damage. Spaces today FIVE CENTS COPY SSI WITH HOUSE VOTE Sent to Senate for Agree ment in Minor Wordings Before Become Law of the State GAME LAW CHANGES KILLED BY SENATE Body Also Passes on Second Reading Proposal to Trans fer Highway Patrol to Revenue Department; To Repay Part of Deficit During Next Biennium Raleigh, March I.—(AP) Schools and school taxes held the attention of the North Carolina General Assembly today as the Senate started debate on the McLean-Bailey bill t© require n Statewide eight months school term and the House refused -to direct its finance committee to include the cur rent 15 cents ad valorem school tax in its revenue bill. The House, after voting 99 to 7 against its money raising group to reverse its position and go against the Sta’e Democratic and Republican .platforms by continuing the 15-cents levy, referred tq its appropriations committee another resolution direct ing that the money spending commit tee provide for only a six months school term. Before reaching the eight months (Continued on Paee Six). _ • WARREN CASE GIVEN BY SUPREME COURT Six Op!••ions Handed Down, On© Bd«* ing Four-Yenr-Old Controversy In New Hanover Raleigh. March I—(AP)—The Su preme Court today handed down si; opinions, remanding to New Hanove Superior Court the four-year-old con troversy over the settlement between the North Carolina Advisory Trans portation Commission and two W|il mington public servile corporation; for lands condemned for use as an in land waterway. Among the opinions handed down was Lynch vs. Telephone and Tele graph Company, Warren, no error. Bankruptcy Bill Passes In Congress Washington, March 1. —(AP) — The drastic emergency bankruptcy revi.i ion bijl today received final congres sional action and was sent to the White House for President Hoover's signature. The House adopted the Senate amendment to the bill by 207 to 26. Supported by the leadership of both the Democratic and Republican par ties, the House approved the Senate amendment designed to aid railroads, individuals and farmers, but exclud ing corporations. The purpose of the railroad solu tion is to let railroads reorganize un der Interstate Commerce Commis sion and Federal court approval to avoid going into expensive receiver ship proceedings. The reorganization is to be effected through creditors and stockholders. Senator Long i 3 said to have stated that Ansell was the “gentleman who practically forged his appointment as judge advocate general,” and referred to him as a “theif, scoundrel and crook.” He is also alleged to have said that Ansell had been “run out of the army for fraud.” Senator Long told newspaper men today he would not waive his sena torial immunity against libel suits to permit a suit against him in District of Columbia court, but would, if the action were brought in Louisiana- Long said that in his statement of last week he meant he would waive it if suit were filed against Rim “in my own domicile, Louisiana.”
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