'HENDERSON,
gateway TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA.
twentieth YEAR
SENATOR WALSH DIES SUDDENLY NEAR WILSON
State Maintenance
Highways Merger
Strikes Snag On
Reaching Senate
Upper House Refuses To
Concur In Proposal To
Spend $400,000 For
More Prison Farms
HOUSE PASSES BILL
FOR THE STATE BAR
Druggists and Doctors Op
pose Medicinal Liquor, but
Bill Is Favorably Report
ed; $83,000,000 Appropri
ation Bill, Though Ready,
Is Not Reported
Raleigh. March 2.—(AP) —A pro
posal 'hat North Carolina maintain
ci'y s'reets used as connecting links <
in 'he State highway system was vot
ed down 52 to 41 in the House today
as ilie General Assembly plugged
ahead on private calendars.
Although an $83,000,000 appropria
tion bill was completed in commit
tee yesterday, the money spending bill
for the 1933-35 biennium was not re
ported on the floor.
The bill materially increases bud
get bureau recommendations and is
expected to create a fight when it
teaches the floor of the House, where
it first will be considered.
Reorganize! ! on of the Department
of Agriculture was sought in a bill in
troduced by Representative Cox. of
Forsyth; Froneberger, of Gaston; and
Makepeace, of Lee, who would place
under it all farm experiment and ex
tension divisions of the State.
Liquor Bill Opposed.
Despite opposition from drugg'sts
and physicians of the State, a House
judiciary committee voted a favorable
repmt on the Murphy bill to legalize
medicinal whiskey in North Carolina.
It once was approved, but was re
ferred for a hearing, which was held
ths morning.
Bar Bill Passed*
Incorporating the State Bar Asso
ciation was favored by the House, iti
sending to the Senate a bill to give
the organization power to license and
disbar attorneys.
Representative Grant, of New Han
(Continued on Page Six).
Senate Will
Battle Over
School T erm
Mac Lean Still Pull
ing for 8 Months;
Gwynn To Oppose!
1 lie Extension
* Daily Dispatch tlnrean.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
„ IIV IIDMIV L.MSMBNK.
Raleigh. March 2.—While the Houad
h known to be divided on the eight
tnon l h.school question, the opposi
l'on to an eight months term, aup-
I" j rtcd by some form of sales tax, is
to grow in the Senate,
*h!ch heretofore has been considered
'° look upon these tw’n bugaboos as
Inevitable.
Consequently, Senator A. D. Mac
h<‘;ui, father of the 1931 .six months
w 'Hool law, and who has been fight
for State-supported schools since
first came to the General Assem
h|y in 1927, is now on the defensive
f(,r the first time this year as the
e ij neß , are being drawn in the
’•Pper house for a battle over his eight
Months’ bill.
The Senate Finance Committee re
ce»tly vote, overwhelmingly to draft
a tevenue bill on the basis of an eight
Months term and a sales tax, and a
weeks ago it was generally as
sumed that both of these would be
twccptable to the Senate. However,
< Conti rued on Page Four)
weather
FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
Ment ally fa'r tmight and Frl
d-y; little change in tempcratuie.
ntNQEpsON, N. a
HrrtiU'rsmt tlatlu tltsmttrlt
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VU&HNIA. *
May Head Ford Bank
WKUrnammmmmmmmmamm
JohrTßailantyne
One of the oldest bankers in De
troit, John Ballantyne, has been
prominently mentioned a3 the
head of the new People’s National
baqk which is being financed by
Henry Ford. The People’s Na
tional will replace the First Na
tional, one of the two largest in
the state.. Ballantyne retired last
May when he resigned as presi
dent of the Detroit Bankers' com
pany.
ROAD-PRISON BILL
GOVERNOR TRIUMPH
Merger Measure Openly Ad
vocated by Ehringhaus
As Major Reform
WORKED HARD FOR IT
Frequent Conferences Had With Lead
ers, With Whom He Argued Econ
omy Rather Than Politics
a«d Won Out
Daily DlMpuieh Burma,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BV .1. C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, March, 2—Wiifchi the bill
consolidating lih,e Stale Highway Com
mission and State Prison inlto a new
iStaite Highway and Public works com
mission passed by both houses and
awaiting only Senate approval of sev
eral House amendments to become
law, Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus
has scored his first m(ajor victory in
the present General Assembly, it is
agreed here. The enactment of this
bill with very l little opposition in eith
er house Is interpreted as indiioaitiing
that the governor has a great dieial
more influence in both houses of the
assentbly than many thought at first,
and tlhat when he d'oes take a hand
'** mtinued on Pag® Six)
Rainey Seems Certain Os
Being Next House Speaker
Washington, March 2. —(AP) —Be-
fore the day is out of the name of
'Rainey, of Illinois, will in all pro
bability be joined to the list of speak
ers of the House of Representativevs
laster Cannon, Clark, Gillett, Long
worth and Garner;
Eventualities may change the pros
pect, but out of a- swirl of events at
the Capitol emerged indication*
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HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 2,1933
Os City Streets Defeated
FOREST FIRES IN
MANYCOUNTIESIN
Baptist and Presbyterian
Assembly Buildings Are
Threatened Near
Black Mountain
GREAT SMOKY PARK
BLAZE THREATENING
Forests Burning Also In
Harnett and Cumberland
Counties and Further East
in Bertie; Caldwell County
Fire Is Causing Some Con
cern There
Raleigh, March 2.—(AP) —Forest
fires were raging in a number of
North Carolina counties today, Char
les H. Flory, assistant State forester
in charge of fire control, reported
here.
Fire fighters, Flory said, were bat
tling desperately Wednesday night to
bring under control flames in the
vicinity of Ridgecrest and Black Moun
tain, which were reported as threaten
ing the Baptist and Presbyterian As
sembly buildings. Although they had i
checked the flames they were not en
tirely under control, he added.
Three other fires were also reported
to Flory as burning in Buncombe
county. Fire fighters in the Great
Smoky Mountains National Park area
were halunthg A fire in Haywood
county, and another threatening fire>
in Henderson county was being hand
led, he said.
Difficulty was being experienced in
controlling a fire in the north end of
Caldwell county, but State forces re
ported they expected to have the
flames checked today-
Fanned by high winds, several fires
In Cumberland and Harnett counties
in the cast were testing the efforts of
the wardens. Fire crews were reported
to have chcked an outbreak in Bertie
county confining it to an ai’ea of
about 40 acres.
COTTON MART IDLE
FOR NEW ORLEANS
New Orleans, La., March 2.—(API-
Owing to the three-day bank holiday
declared in Louisiana by Governor O.
K- Allen, the board of directors of the
New Orleans Cotton Exchange today
ordered suspension of trading for a
•similar period.
MITCHELLIUSTED
Admissions of Banker To
Senate Committee Fret
ted Standpatters
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, March 2. —If Charles
E. Mitchell, retiring chairman of the
National City Bank of New York, ex
pected plutocracy to glory in his rude
treatment of the senate’s stock mar
ket. investigators recently, he was at
least partly mistaken.
Captial hill comment indicates that
•he fretted the conservatives rather
than the radicals.
And that is the reason they brought
sufficient pressure to cause his resig
nation as bank chairman.
Illustratively, there was the incident
which began with Mitchell’s account
(Continued on Page Six.)
that only a terrific upset would suf
fice to do so.
Supporters of Representative Mc
iDuffie, of Alabama, party whip,
would not concede defeat, however.
Managers for Representative Byrns,
of Tennessee, the third leading can
ddate, frankly stated that Byrns had
Withdrawn in support of Rainey and
tHtild make a speech in his behalf.
Roosevelt Cabin et Member Dies
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li- S. SENATOR THOMAS J. WALSH
Japanese Sweep Through
Lingyuan While Chinese
Retreat Raggedly West
Frocks Now Less Than 75 Miles from Jehol City, Capi
tal of Province and Main Objective of Jap Forces;
Chinese Morale Shaken By Defeats
Lingyiuan, Jehol, China,, Mlarah 2
(AjP)—Major General Kawa
hara:, c'ommiatnd'ing the 16Wh Japanese
inifiaailiry, swept through this city this
morning on: the Iheelts of i|he retreat
ing Chinlosie and mlairtllxd cn towiaCii
Jehol City.
At 4 p. nr., he occupledl the town
of Suibasofilng and two hours later his
troops passed through Pekung, 25
miiles northeast of Bihgehuain and ieiSs
itihfan, 75 mli'les from the Jehol capital.
A Rengo (Japanese) News Agency t
‘dispatch from Lamgyua n today slaad
CREME MORE JOBS.
1$ NEW BATTLE CRY
Incoming Administration
Evidently Looking on in
Smiling Approval
Bv LESLIE EICHEL -
Central Press Staff Writer
New Yorw, March 2.—“ Create More
Jobs!” seems to be the battle cry
which will associate itself with the
Roosevelt administration. Scientists,
sociologists, educators and economists
are echoing the cry, while the incom
ing administration evidently looks*on
in smiling approval. (Mr. Roosevelt’s
first official words will outline va
rious means by which the administra
tion hopes to create jobs—and trade.)
*# * *
NEW PLAN
A new plan to protect the worker
has been advanced by Dr. William E-
Wickenden, president of Case School
of Applied Science Cleveland, and one
of Chief advisers to industrialists in
America.
“Society,” says Dr. Wickenden, “can
burden the adoption of automatic ma
chines with a dsmissal bonus, to be
paid by the employer to the displaced,
worker whom he cannot absorb in new
jobs.
"Unemployment insurance tends to
spread the costs .as widely as the bene
(Continued on Page Six.)
't’halt the vanguard of the 10th Infan
cy brigade camimjainded by Major
General Tadas'hi Kawahama had oc
cupied Sutaouing, which ds between
'Lingyuan and TiJngshuain in Jehol
Province.
CHINESE ARE RETREATING
RAGGEDLY TO WESTWARD
Chi"dhow. Manchuria, March 2 (AP)
—Whether the Chinese defense of Je
i:hoi already was collapsing or has not
Ibegum Mo fight was the question in the
minds of the Japanese command to
day as their war miadhime Checked df.ls
headlong advance on the Ohlihifenig-
Dingyuan liner, wii'tlh. the capital, JeV
hoi City, less than 100 miles awlay.
Air scouts reported upwards of 30-
000 Chinese were retrea! ling raggcdUiy
westward on the Dingyuan-Pingcihuan
road “like a huge snake.”
i dbuli) ££ ttf niioralle,
shaken by the defeats and defections
of the past week, would permit them
to reorganize fight for Pingchuan:
and Jehol City, the only imjpartamii
towns in the province still iin their
possession. |
tghWiLL
Rogers
Ky 'says:
Beverly Hills, Calif., March 2.
Hear the inauguration is to be put
i off three weeks on account of the
budget.
Every time Detroit outgrows
Henry Ford, he has to go in and
save ’em again. He is going to
1 have a bank where you can leave
! your money and come back and
find it before the banker does*
Ai Smith told excatly what his
ideas Were on every important
’ question. No wonder he can’t be
i elected. Imagine a man An pub
• lie office that everybody knew
where he stood.
> I We wouldn’t call him a states
ma»»—we would call him a
curiosity. Yours,
WILL.
PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY*
Was En Route To
Washington With
Bride Os 4 Days
Goes To Senate
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Harry F. Byrd
Former Governor Harry F. Byrd, of
Virginia, was yesterday appointed by
Governor John Garland Pollard, his
successor in office, as United States
Senator from that State to succeed
'Senator Claude A. Swanson, who has
been appointed secretary of the navy
in the Roosevelt cabinet.
Garner Says Democrats Are
Ready To Make Huge
Slash Coming Year
PROGRAMWORKED OUT,
Already Devised by Roosevelt’s Ad
visors; Would Trim Salaries
and Compensation for
Vetemis, He Says
Washington, March 2.—(AP)— A
program devised to cut up to $200,000,-
000 off government costs next year
was said today by Speaker Garner
to have been completed by advisors to
President-elect Roosevelt.
Meanwhile ,thc Treasury statement
showing the government completed
eight months of the current fiscal year
with a deficit of $1,360,279,739.
One of the big jobs of William H.
Woodin, the* next secretary of the
treasury, wjifl be seeking to balance
the government income with the outo,
which he ’ntends to go after.
Discussing the economy plan with
newspaper men, Speaker Garner said
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SECOND”TRANSFUSION
GIVEN MAYOR CERMAK
Miami, Fla., March 2 (AP) —A
second blood transfusion was
made today for Mayor Anton
mak.
Hospital authorities said at 1
p. ni. the transfusion then was
in progress. A pint of blood was
be'*ig given.
Balanced Budget Without
Any New Tax Is Demanded
Program of Merchants, Grange and Economy League
Outlined at Great Mass Meeting In Raleigh; Would
Retain the 15 Cents Ad valorem Tax Levy
Dally Dlipati'h Boreas,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKEBVIIiIi.
Raleigh, March 2. —The big. State
wide anti-sales tax mass meeting got
under way here at* 2 o’clock this aft
ernoon in the Memoral Auditorium,
with several thousand people on hand
.representing merchants, farmers,
bankers, landowners and almost every
branch of activity in the State. The
program was in charge of Frank
Page, vice-president of the Wachovia
Bank and Trust Company branch here
and chairman of the State unit of the
National Economy League. The North
Carolina Merchants Association, the
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Montajian Had Been Mar
ried to Wealthy Cuban
Widow in Havana
Last Saturday
HE WAS SOON TO BE
ATTORNEY GENERAL
Had Been Selected for Cab
inet Post by President-
Elect; Died Before Doctor
on Atlantic Coast Line
Train Could Reach Him
When Called
Rocky Mount, March 2. —(AP) —
Senator Thomas J. Walsh, of Mon
tana, died suddenly of a heart attack
aboard an Atlantic Coast Line train
near Wilson today en route to Wash
ington with his bride, whom he mar
ried last Saturday in Havana, Cuba.
The senator, who was named to be
attorney general in the cabinet of
President-elect Roosevelt only a few
days ago, was stricken and died with
in a few minuates as he lay face
downward in a berth in his drawing
room.
He was 74 years old-
Senator Wlalah died at 7:10 a. m.
as Conductor Herbert Weathers pee,
operating on the train between Flor
ence, S. C., and Rocky Mount, held
his pulse.
Only the conductor, Mrs. Wailsh and
her Cuban maid and a porter were
present.
Mrs. Walsh was described as hys
terical by Conductor Weathernpee,
who said he reached the senator’s
side at 7:02 a- m. *
‘‘The senator died while I held his
hand,” Weatherspee said. “Mrs. Walsh
was hysterical. Dr. Costello was lo
cated on the train, but be arrived
after the senator died.”
The physician Weatherspee refer
(Contlnued on Page Three.)
Hoover Will
Likely Sign
Cotton Bill
Senator Smith, Its
Sponsor, More Con
fident After Calling
On President
Washington, March 2.—(AP)—Sen
ator Smith, Democrat, South Carolina
author of the emergency cotton re
lief bill, told newspapermen after a
conference with President Hoover on
the measure he felt “more confident”
that it wpuld be signed than before
he came to the White House-
The bill is awaitng presidential ac
tion.
Asked specifically wha l Mr. Hoover
had told -him, the South Carolinian
said the President had asserted it was
"under consideration.’’
“I feel more confident that ! t will
be signed, however,” Smith said,
“than I did before I talked to him.”
State Grange and a number of o f her
organizations joined with the Econo
my League in holding this meeting.
The dominant theme running thro
ugh the entire meeting and stressed
by the various speakers was that the
/State budget can'and must be bal
anced without Recourse to any new
forms of taxation, meaning especial!'/
without recourse to any form of sales
tax. It was maintained that by the
exercise of proper economy and by
trimming State expenditures to the
bone, the State budget can be b.nlnne
(Continued on Page Pour.)