North Carolina Newspapers

HENDERSON, GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA. TWENTIETH YEAR ROOSEVELT SIGNS ECONOMY BILL **** ***** ** ZangaraExecu tedFo rKilling Cermak UfILE IMMIGRANT GOES TO THE CHAIR IN DEFIANT CALM “All Capitalists, Lousy Bunch, Crooks” Is Ital ian’s Farewell Shout to the World ELECTRIC SHOCK IS OF THREE MINUTES Autopsy Shows Brain Nor mal in Every Sense; No Announcement Made of Disposition of Body; Turns Over His Book He Had Been Writing Halford, Fla.. March 20.—(AP) — Guhoppe Zangara, the little It.»*an immigrant who hated all K<»\ernmentß, v’» at 9:15 a. m., eastern standard time, today for murdering Mayor Anton .1. Ormak, of Chicago, in ah at tempt to assassinate President Roosevelt. He went to the chair with the same calm he had maintained since the night he fired wildly Into a crowd assembled in Miami February 15 to extend a greeting to the then presi dent -elect. Not Afraid- It was 9:11 a. m. when he entered the death chamber barefooted and dressed in striped trousers and white ■shirt open at the neck. Two guards accompanied him. but as he approach ed the chair, Zangara said: “Don't hold me. I no afraid of ch Thu guards released him and Zan gara took his seat as though he were n't’ng down for a lunch, first strid ing over to Superintendent L». S. Chapman, and handing him a sheaf papers on which he had inscribed, ‘ h* re is that book I have been writ ing ” "I no afraid that chair, see?” he re lated as he surveyed the 30 wit nesses and attendants in the room. And then, as the straps were ad justed about his hands and legs. “No camera man here? No one here to take pictures?” ‘ Lousy Capitalists.” Superintendent Chapman replied no just before the attendants laced the) m r, al cap on Zangara’s head. “Lousy capitalists!” Zangara shout ed bitterly- Then he repeated: “No pictures, capitalists! All capi talists. lousy bunch, crooks.” Attendants started to complete pre parations for the electrocution and Zangara said: "Good-bye. Adois to all the world. Good-bye.” Wth his feet not quite touching (Continued on Page Three.) 500 Million Employment Fund Asked Roosevelt To Ask Huge Sum of Money Tor Direct Grants to the States Washington, March 20.—(AP) Pi esident Roosevelt Is expected by his c’oie advisors to send sl message to Congress within the next few days re commending an emergency unemploy ment, relief fund of $500,000,000 for di rmt grants t 0 the States. Tlie President also probably will In clude in (his llmmediate emergency •Program a $40,000 000 appropriation °'jt of unexpended funds in the trea sury t 0 !>egLn his gigantic reforesta tion program. Thcje proposals, which the Presi dent regards of immediate urgency. • be submitted to Congress in a special message, probably as soon as 'he House passes farm relief legtela tio«. expected by Wednesday. A more permanent and far reaching Program for relief of the jobless will lil <e]y be submitted later, probably T ' ed upon legiglstion introduced t©- '''jy by Senator Wagner, Democrat, •/w York, for liberalizing construc -1 u leans through the Reconstruc ts Corporation. w Hrnftrrsmi ilatht Btspatdr ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND * * * ******* *********** TWO HUGE STATE BANKS ARE PLANNED . Assassin Pays With His Life ;.v.v.V. s .-.v.vaTv *’ l 1 - u r ■ : ■ • ' •• 1 \ 'Electric chair at Raiford Death cell at Raiford O 'Giuseppe Zangara Guiseppe Zangara, Kittle Italian i mirrjgrant, was electrocuted| in the Florida State penitentiary today for the fatal shlooting of Mayor Anton Cerniak of Chicago in Miami Februiar y 15 when bullets fired at Presiddnit elect Roosevelt missed itlheir mark. Mussolini’s Peace Plan Embraces United States All World Will Be Invited To Join In Project, Mac donald Declares WILL NOT BE IMPOSED Britain, France, Germany and Italy Chief Co t’nent Nations Con cerned In Peace Mov e at Present Time Rome, March 20.—(AP) —The new Mussolini peace plan will not be limit ed to Great . Brlitain, France, Ger many and Italy, but will embrace the whole continent, and even the Unit ed States to a certain extent, Pre mier Ramsay MacDonald said in an interview today. The British statesman made the statement before leaving for Paris to urge Premier Daliadier of France to approve <he project. He bade farewell to Premier Mussolini and French am bassador de Jouvenel- Sir John So mond, British foreign secretary, re mained in Rome for further sightsee ing. Mr. MacDonald refused to divulge any details, but said: .“Our whole idea is to open up the possibility of complete agreement, not between two. three, four, five or six powers, but all nations concerned.” An official Italian announcement yesterday said “Collaboration of the four pa were was proposed in Premier Benito Mussolini’s plans,” but no de tails were made public. “We are not proceeding with an idea of two or three agreeing, and imposing this agreement on others,” Mr. MacDonald said. weather FOR NORTH CAROLINA- Rain this aftertloon and colder except in extreme north portion tonight; Tuesday fair and colder. FULL LRABSD WIKI Rsißvina OF THE ASSOCIATED PRBSg, HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 20, 1933 Cotton Croo for State Last Year 100,000 Bales Off Raleigh, March 20.(AP)—North Carolina’s 1932 cotton crop, as shown by Census figures released today, was nearly 100,090 running bales below the 1931 figure. The 1932 ginnings totalled 679,- 684 running bales and 662,785 equivalent 500-pound bale, compar ed with 1931 totals of 771,186 run ning bales and 756,294 equivalent bales. In 1931 the State’s running bales totalled 800 582 bales. #A(VILL fS* Rogers xy ’igy*: Santa Monica, Calif., March 20. —ls the beer is three and a frac tion per cent alcoholic, and you want to get 100 per cent drunk t why, ail you’re going to have to do is drink 33 and a third glasses 50 per cent drunk sixteen and a half glasses. We will be the only country in the world w here you can just re gulate your in«oxication by ari thmetic. You say *o some friends: “Let’s go out and have a 10 per cent good time.” So. you get out your pencils and find that’s only three glasses. So you all decide to raise it to a 20 per cent party. A wife will bawl out; ‘‘John, you have had 12 and a half per cent too much now.” From the looks of- it, the Treas ury Is going to get a bigger kick out of it than the drinkers. Yours, WILL. j Railroad Problem Before President Washington. March 20 (AP) President Roosevelt today took up the railroad problem in a confer ence with railway executives with a view to early congressional ac ton- The group maintained strict silence on its conversation with the President, but there was rath er a direct belief that Mr. Roose velt had some definite railroad leg islation in m.'nd for consideration by the Congress soon. houseleSship Surrenders to Bowie Ultra- Economy Bloc in Ap. propriations Fight WANTS GOVERNORSHIP i Support of Higher Allotments fotr Eastern Colleges Seen aq Bid for Support of East in 1936 Campaign. Dully Dfapafeti Bureau, fn the Sir Walter Hotel. HY J. C. nASKERV»LL. Raleigh, March 20.—Tqe Cherry star, wtrch started out as if it were ia comet zooming to the leadership of the House, has turned out to be nothing more than a skyrocket giv ing off cherry-colored sparks and is now falling back to the ground, ac cording to opinion here today. And as the charred stick and powder burned colored paper drop earthward Tam Bowie chuckles in glee at hav ing turned what threatened to be de feat into victory for his own reac tionary “economy at any price” group. This is the reaction in legislative circles to the Bowie-Cherry coalition on the appropriations bill and the re sults of this coalition in its action on the appropriations bill as far as it thas gj'nc. For it is agreed that when the ooa.tioa v*r~ formed last week. Representative Cherry had a larger following in his group than Bowie had an h ; «, and that if this had not been the case, Bowie would not have com promised with him. It is also agreed that the county “blues” singer is a much\ smoother politician and ,political strategist than the Gaston county representative-and that Cher ry lost his chance to become the lead er of the present majority group in the House when ho agreed to support the Bowie bill as a substitute for the committee approp rial ions bill, instead of insisting upon his own bill. Some few now believe that Cherry was merely playing politics in advocating his more moderate bill in order to merge his group with the Bowie group and that he has really been in sym (Continued on Past Three.) Beer Bill ! Enactment Very Near Senate and House Conferees Agree on Alcoholic Content of the Beverage Washington, March 20 (AP)—Final enactment of itiliie beer bill became a matter of hours todiay as congression al conferees agreed to legalize a 3.2 per cant beer, t The conference also agreed to re tain tlhe Senate amendknent permit ting wine and fruit juices of the same alcoholic content, and rejected) the Borah amendment to (prohibit sale of the beverages to children under 16 years of age. Opponents of the Borah amendment have insisted the matter of such reg ulations sbouttd properly be left to the states. - - The conference aghemeent was reach (Continued on Page Four.) 55 BANK ARE Bd TALKED Some of Larger Commercial Banks Still Under Re. . sanctions Might Be Included CAPITAL STOCK OF TWO-FIVE MILLIONS It Would ‘‘Cover” the State; Industrial Banks Would Be Formed by Merger of Number of Those Institu tions; Polkton Bank Being Taken Over Raleigh, March 20.—(AP) —As plans at the State Banking Department went forward for reorganization and reopening of a number of State banks today, it was learned reliability that plans are on foot to organize a huge Statewide commercial bank and a si milar industrial banking institution- Details concerning the proposed Statewide institution could not be ob tained, but it was understood that •he commercial institution would be composed of some of the larger com mercial banks still operating under restrictions, with the addition of some o ; her smaller banks not yet open un restricted. U he institution would have a capital Os from $2,000,000 to $5,000,000, .and would ‘‘cover the State.” « ’ The industrial banks would be formed by a merger of a number of individual banks and would bp capi talized at about $1,000,000. Gurney P. Hood, State banking commissioner, said that organization plans are going forward Tor many of .'he banks still closed, or open under restrictions. The farmers Ban* and Trust Com pany, of Rockingham, today took over assets and liabilities of the Bank of Polkton and opened a depositary at Polkton, Hood said. The Polkton banks deports were avafliable 100 (percent to depositors, he said- House To Allow State Banks Get ' Reserve Credits Washington, March 20.—(AP) — The House today passed and sent to the Senate a bill which would let State banks and trust com panies borrow’ from the Federal Reserve Banks. The measure was designed to amend the emergency banking act, which became law March 9. Many members of. Congress, including Senator Long, Democrat, Louisi ana, had opposed the emergency act on the ground that it would give no help to State banks. 1932 COTTON CROP 12,994,430 BALES Figures For Entire Belt, In cluding North Carolina Are Announced Washington, March 20.—(AP)—Cot ton production for 1932, as shown to day by the Census Bureau’s ginning report, was 12,703,281 running bales, counting round bales as half bales, or 12,994,430 equivalent 500-pound bales, compared with 16,728,874 and >17,095.594 for 1931, and 13,755,518 and 13,931,597 for 1930. Hound bales included and counted as half bales in the running bales total numbered 722,152, compared with P 21.370 in 1931. American Egyptan bales included numbered 8,298, compared with 13,- £6B - in the 1932 figure are 30,- 500 bales, which ginners estimated would be turned in after the March canvass. The average gross weight of bales for the crop was 511 pounds 511.5 pounds compared with 514.0 pounds for 1931. Ginnings toy States in ruhning bales and equivalent 500-pound bales in clude North Carolina 679,684 and 662- 785. » PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. , V Federal Savings Os $500,000,000 Goal Os Measure Farm Relief Will Pass Wednesday Washington, March 20 (AP)—Th*, passage of the administration emergency farm bill in the House by Weddnesday night was predict ed today by Repress utativ© Byms, of Tennessee, the Democratic leaded, Byms said the bill would be raedy for consideration on the f'ner tomorrow, and that two or three hours of debate will be had before the measure is ready for amendment. mSToR People Becoming Aroused By Cutting of Appro priations to Destruc tive Levels ECONOMY BLOC HAS OVER-PLAYED HAND Governor More Convinced Than Ever That Opposi tion to Sales Tax Is Com ing Not From Those Who Would [Pay It !But Those Who Would Collect If Dally Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. C. BASKERVILL. RaHeigh, March 20-—The stinging below between the eyes given to he University of North Carolina and the socks on the ears of other State edu cational institutions landed by the Bowie-Cherry bloc in the House, cut ting their appropriations to almost destructive levels, is arousing the peo ple of the State, according to reports reaching here today. As a result, more and more people are getting be hind the program advocated by Gov ernor J. C. B Ehringhaus calling for more adequate support of the schools land State educational institutions, in opposition to the Bowie-Cherry “eco nomy at any price” program. It is consequently believed that when the House and Senate meet again tonight that the Ehringhaus iprogram /Will 'have more supporters and the Bowie- Cherry reactionaries will have fewer followers than on last Friday. Would Reduce Prpperty Taxes. That the program advocated by Governor Ehringhaus is the only one that will bring about any material property tax reduction and at the same time maintain the schools and (essential State institutions on any thing more than a starvation level, those who have studied his program (Continued on Page Four.) PROHIKSUE ' COME THIS WEEK Next Round Between Wets and Drys Slated For Floor of the Senate Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY HENRY LESESNE. Raleigh, March 20. —Thus far all the fights on the prohibition question have been waged in the lower branch of the General Assembly, but now the next round of the scrap is slated to take place on the floor of the Senate, probably within the week. Early committees action is forecast on the only prohibition modification measure that has been introduced in the Senate, a bill by Senator Francis, of Haywood, to levy both State and municipal taxes on the sale of wine and beer in the State. The committee on constitutional amendments has already held a public hearing on the question of submitting prohibition repeal to a State conven tion. and is expected to give its ap proval to one of two different plans (Continued on Page Five.) O PAGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY $280,000,000 To Be Looped off Compensation For Veterans Under Far- Reaching Law PAY CUTS TCTsTART BY FIRST OF APRIL 100 Millions To Be Slashed From That Source; Reor ganization and Abolition of Government Agencies To Save More; Signs As He Eats Lunch Washington, March 20—(AP) President Roosevelt this afternoon signed into law the economy bill em powering him to slash veterans, com pensation and government salaries. Wiith this weapon he intends to lop off about $500,000,000 from Federal expenses. He had his aides already busy pre paring the new schedule of salaries and veterans allowances, and expect ed to put these into effect before the next payday comes along on April 1. A minumum of savings of $280,000,- 000 through reduced veterans’ com pensation and $100,000,000 In lowered safaris is contemplated in the admin istration move to get the 'budget bal anced within a year. Another SIOO,- 000,000 or more in savings is expected from reorganization and abolition of government agencies. This is the sec ond of the emergency measures to be signed by the President.. A third one • —the beer bill—is expected quickly at the White House. Signs as He Eats. President Roosevelt interrupted his luncheon, being served on his office desk, to sign the economy measure. At 1:32 p. m., he picked up an old ;pen lying on the desk to affix his signature and directed that the pen be given to Lewis Douglas, director -of the budget, who wilil share the burnt of administrating the new act. Henry Morganthau, Jr., chairman of the farm board, was having luncheon with the President. In the room also wa a committee representing the gridiron club, an or ganization of Washington newspaper, famed for its twice yearly dinners, which was inviting the President to its next dinner. Stephen T. Early, secretary to the President, brought the bill into the President shortly after it was receive l from Capitol Hilli, and, without fur ther ado, Mr. Roosevelt signed it. Ehringhaus Stronghold In Senate Deadlock Looms, With 'Ultimate Vic tory for Schools and Sales Tax Daily Dispatch Hnrer>* In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. C. BASKERVILL. Raleigh, March 20. —While the lower 'branch of the General Assembly led by a coalition of two groups of ultra leeonomists, is now apparently bent towards adopting the Bowie-Cherry substitute appropriations bill, which will whack about $4,000,000 of the committee bill and also divert $2,000,- 000 from the highway fund, the more level-headed Senate remains as the one single bulwark which will prevent North Carolina from sacrificing it« public schools, educational institu tions and other deartments, it is now conceded in informed circles here. This is one reason why the radical trend of the lower house is not caus ing the excitement on the outside that 4t otherwise might. The stampeded House, which is willing to reject the administration program In its entirety and attempt to avoid some new form of taxation by danegrously cutting all State agencies, the schools and colleges, and by imperilling ths credit of the State will have to re linquish Its stand in the end and agree to some plan approximating ths administration program, according to these sources. Senate Likely To Win. The upper branch of the General Assembly, while it is not solidly be hind the governor’s program of a sales tax and an eight months school term Is certain to block the Cherry ( Continued on Page Four)