HENDERSON,
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA.
TWENTIETH YEAR
HOUSE
NOUSE MAY AWAIT
SENATE ACTION ON
8 MONTHS SCHOOL
But Lower Branch Is Expect,
ed To Come Around to
Long Term as Final
Solution
PROPERTY TAX CUT
MUST BE PROVIDED
Compensation for Low Sales
Tax Considered Essential;
Soundness of Bowie-
Cherry Measure Being
Questioned by Many Merti
bcrs of the House
Dnily IHmpntch (liirtMin,
In the Mir Wnllfr Hotel.
BY J C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh. March 23—WIhile the House
my net amend the appropriations
h ll still before it to provide for an
it: ht months rdhool term, supported
Entirely by the State without any lo
cal school taxes on property, al
though sutch an amendment Is sure
to l c offered, the belief is st'll firm
that it will approve an eight months
t 1 ■ rro eventually. The more opi
ir.’stic supporters of the eight months
school plan believe there is still a
chance to get the House to make pro
vision for fch'i longer school term in
he present appropriat ions (bill before
it is tent to the Senate and that this
will be done in order to slave time
Another grouip, while believing that
Pn e’gh't months school term plan will
eventually be adopted, believes that
the present bill will be sent to the
senate will change tin's to the eigh*
months term, and that eventually, af
ter th? bill is sent to conference, the
house* will accept the eight months
school plan.
It is generally agreed, however, that
tb-* House has already boosted the
figures in the appropriations bill back
up .50 near the figures in the original
committee appropr ations bill calling
fer approximately $25,000,000 a year
t'Xc'ualve of highway needs, that most
(Continued on Page Four.)
Hearing Tuesday
On Beer Bill In
North Carolina
Raleigh, March 23 (AP)—Senate
Ju -lory Coirlrrittee No. 1 will hold
a public hearing next Tuesday after
noon on the Francis beer b'll.
The corrjir. t-tee was scheduled to
take up the measure today, buit post
poned its meeting until tomtorrow,
and later Chairman Hinsdale, of Wake
announced the beer proposal would
b,. v>a arr | next week.
The Francis •dll is the first beer
act before the Senate, but a House
Jiuc!>:iary| Coman|tltee veiled twto
somewihaTy (slntl'leur proposals eaiiMeir
in th e session. , | '
Italy Pays
Honors To
Mussolini
14th Anniversary Os
Fascism Celebrated
With Statement by
the Chief
Ml’an. Italy, March 23—(AP)—
Hiack shirt Italy massed today to of
frr a nationwide salute to Premier
•’•en'to Mussolini and commemorate
'•>o fourteenth a-nniversary of the
Fascist party.
H Luce L' jued a, statement saying:
"Our words now cross frontiers. Our
doctrine to now universal and our
work is already testimony to us for
future generations.
"Thus Fascist Italy is speaking to
ot h«T peoples, and opening a period of
Fascist 'civilization.”
Festivities started in Milan at 11
a ta. with an assembly of Fascist
Tarty founders in the piaza Sepolcro
Fa lace. Here II Duce’s eloquent ad
dress of 14 years ago—the address
Av hich started the wave of Fascism
v bich is responsible for the presefct
e .y U*m of government—was read, and.
! ‘ ’ unto of the Fascist organization
A > mustered throughout the land
ltJ 1 -affirm their homage to the chief.
rtenhivami
VOTES UNIVERSITY
LA FOLLETTES CALL ON PRESIDENT
Senator La Follette
Former Gov. Philip La Follette,
right, of Wisconsin, is escorted to
the White House by his brother,
Senator Robert La Follette, for a
chat with President Roosevelt.
The youthful ex-governor. who
Reichstag Gives Hitler
Four-Year Dictatorship
Powers In All Germany
Chancellor Himself, Speaking in Demand of Authority,
Frequently Drowned by Wave After Wave of
Cheering; Relegates Monarchy to Background
Berlin, March 23. —(AP) —The Reich
stag. witli only the Socialists oppos
ing. today passed an empowering act
granting Chancellor Adolf Hitler’s de
mand for four years of dictatorial
power.
Chancellor Hitler, shouting above
the cheers of his Na.zi deputies, de
manded four years of dictatorial pow
er front the Reichstag today.
He relegated the issue of the mon
archy to the background, lifted the
destruction of communism to the fore
SStory
Machinery Bill in Legisla
ture Carries That Pro
vision if Passed
nnlly DlM|tntclt Bnrcnn,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
nv j. c. baskkrvillj.
Raleigh, March 23. —While .the Sen
ate has not yet acted on the volum
ious tax machinery bill it is already
apparent that the two houses will
have 3 difficult time in getting to
gether on the measure, and it is vir
tually certain that differences will
have to be thrashed out in conference.
The chief controversial items in the
-bill are those which relate to revalua
tion of property and tax ion foreign
corporation stock-
As passed by the House, the bill
called for a revaluation of property,
but left it optional wi,th the county
commissioners whether to make a
(horizontal cut not to exceed 33 1-3
percent or to go about making an ac
tual reassessment. However, the bill
was amended so as to make the coun
ty commissioners in Mecklenburg, Tyr
rell and Lincoln counties slash the
(Continued on Page Pive.)
China Continues
To Resist Japan
In Her Invasion
Peiping, China, March 23.—(AP)~
Chnese resistance against Japanese
invaders in/Manchuria and Jehol wilt
.continue "until the Chinese flag again
iflies therein,” General Ho Ying-
Ching, new military overlord of North
China, said today.
He made the statement in the first
Interview he has granted since as
suming the command given up re
teen.tl(y by Chang JHsSiao-Liang. He
added that hostilities between Chinese
and Japanese are continuing along the
Great Wall north of here.
ONLY DAILY
WIRB BRRVICI
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN
HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH .23, 1933
Ex-Gov. La Follette
has just returned from a visit to
Russia, has been mentioned as the
first ambassador to the Soviet
when that country is recognized
by the United States, as now ap
pears imminent.
of hto program, reiterated the. fam
iliar Nazi thesis of arms equality for
■ail, and promised a campaign of “bar
ibaric severity" against all traitors-
Wave after wave of applause and
cheers drowned his voice from time to
time. The Nazis, who control the
houpe, especially approved his dictum
that, once adjourned, the Reichstag
would be recalled only from time to
time "to be informed by the, govern
ment of its acts when the assent of
the Reichstag is desirable." •
SHI"
1 ~
Even Roosevelt Himself Ad
mits It, But It Will Be
Given a Trial i ,
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, March 23.—President
Roosevelt’s own reference to his ad
ministration's farm relief plan as an
“untrod path” aptly summarizes the
story.
, There is,not much use in trying to
study it in advance. It will) be in op
eration before th e student can mas
ter it. Even then it will be an ex
periment. Prsideent Roosevelt says so.
The main idea is to end over-pro
duction of corn and cotton, wheat,
trice and tobacco, sheep, hogs and cat
tle, milk and dairy miscellany, by the
tntinued on Page Six)
Teachers Gather
For Annual Meet
. In Capital City
Raleigh, / March 23.—(AP)—Hun
dreds of teachers from every nook
and corner of North Carolina were
arriving here today for the opening of
the 49th annual convention of the
North Carolina Education Association
tonight. Attendance was not expected
to approach the marks of recent years
•but officials hoped to have from 1,-
500 to 2,000 delegates-
President Clyde A. Erwin, of Ruth
erfordton, who is superitnendent of
the Rutherford county schools, will
deliver the presidential message to
the teachers at the opening session
tonight.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Generally fair and colder to
night and Friday.
iDttthi
THIS SECTION OF NORTH
SIS
Senate Votes Decisively
Against Taxing Foreign
Stocks Under Ad
Valorem Levies
LIMITS PROPERTY
CUTS TO ONE.THIRD
Scorj* of Atnehdments Sent
Forward in House as Sup
ply Bill Comes Up oh Sec
ond Reading There; Eigh'
Months School Bill Offer
ed, But Withdrawn
_i
Raleigh, March 23. —(AP) The
House today voted to increase the an
nual allotment to all State educa
tional institutions except the Univer
sity of North Carolina to the original
figures recommended by the House
Appropriations Committee for the
next two years, and gave the Univer
sity a compromise of $760,240 an
nually for the 1933-35 biennium.
A compromise figure for the Uni
versity of North Carolina for $760,-
240 annually for the next biennium
was placed in the 1933-35 supply bill
by the House today as the Senate vot
ed to exempt foreign stocks from ad
valorem taxation an dto limit reduc
tions in valuation of property of 33
1-3 per cent.
The appropriations bill was taken up
by the House on second reading after
a bill to regulate beauty parlor opera
tors and employees was passed in
amended form and returned to th£
Senate. *
Senate action on taxing foreign
stocks and limiting reductions in
values of property came on decisive
votes on amendments to the bienial
revenue-machinery act passed by the
House. The measure does not set tax
(Continued on Page Four)
Movie “Fat Man”
From Fayetteville
Tonsilitis Victim
Fayetteville, March 23.—(AP)
Mensour, 26. of Fayetteville and
Clint'-n. whore 475 pounds obtained for
him a movie contract, died in a Los
Angeles ho.; “o’ according
to word received here.
Monsour, who died of tonsilitis, was
a native of Fayetteville. Both parents
are dead, but he is survived by a
■number of other relatives here. His
body will be brought here next week
for burial.
INCH OF SNOW IN
WESTERN MARYLAND
Cumberland, Md., March 23 (AP)
—Snow fell in western Maryland to-
# > day as winter made ai brave stand
agatist the onrush iof spring.
At Oakland, the county seat of
Giarrjett county, ffeere was a.n
inch of snow on the ground. The
temperature was', 30 degrees*.
MRS. NELLIE ROSS
TO BE TREASURER
Washington, March 23—(AP)—Sen
ator Kendricks, Democrat, Wyoming,
told newspaper men today he had
"reasons to believe that Mrs. Nellie
Taylor Ross would be appointed trea
surre of the United States.”
Will
Rogers
*soys:
Beverly H.lls, Cal., March 23.
Here is a suggestion that will
help you ail out of a lot of anxiety
and anguish in case your town or
district should be hit by some dis
aster:
Bun quick and turn off the
radio. Otherwise, you will hear
where your own home has been
swept away by the flood, you have
been lost in the fire, and your hus
band kidnaped.
We had an earthquake out here
—That’s all we had (which was
plenty), but that wasn’t enough
news for the radio. They added:
"Oil wells overflowing and on fire,
a city burning to the ground,” and
as a P. S.: "A tidal wave,coming
in from the ocean.”
So, in case of disaster, run
(Don’t walk) to the nearest radio
and turn i t tiff, for they take de
light in kil ing you, whether you
have been k lled or not.
Yours, WILL.
$760240 JMMLLr
Farm Mortgage Measure Os
Near Two Billions May Be
Tacked To The Farm Bill
MAP SHOWS EUROPE’S •SOREST SPOT
This map* shows why the Polish
Corridor creates such tension in
Europe. Created by the Ver
Miners Continue
Defying of Death
Warsaw, Poland, March 23.
(AP)—More than 700 coal miners at
Klimontow, defying death to save
their jobs, have begun their fifth
successive day in dark, damp pits
A .. , „ - .
They refuse to come to the sur
face unless the government guaran
tees tho’r jobs. From Saturday un
til last night the striking miners
refused food.
They finally broke their fast as
they began their fifth night in the
mine shaft after previously declin
ing food, which had been taken
down te them.
But. instead of com'ng out, they
decided to send representatives
here to present thir p'eas to the
government.
Roosevelt Conciliatory To
ward Far East; Terrorism
In Germany
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
New York, March 23. —Every dip
lomatic honor will be paid to Yosuke
Matsuoka, chief Japanese delegate at
recent meetings of the League of Na
tions, on his arrival en route to Japan
Matsuoka will be met by State De
partment representatives down the bay
and given a State Department escort
to Washington. There President
Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull
will discuss Japanese-American-pro
blems. And the nations of the world
jprobably will open their eyes in won
der (and admiration) over Mr. Roose
velt’s direct and conciliatory action in
diplomatic affairs. Indications are
that when Yosuke Matsuoka sails to
,Japan from the Pacific coast the Jap
anese situation will be in far better
chape.
** * *
TERRORISM
Tales trickling from Germany of al
leged cruelties practiced on supposed
Communists and in anti-Semitic riots
(Continued on Pane Six)
Woman Is Killed
By Marine Guard
After a Quarrel
Kittery, Maine, March 23 —(AP) —
Joel S. Thacker, 33, of Atlanta, Ga.,
a Marine guard at the Portsmouth,
;N. H., naval prison, shot and killed
Mrs. Nora Blethroade, about 45, in
her home here today and then fatally
wounded himself. *
Mrs. Blethroade’s son, William, 21,
told police he surprise Thacker quar
reling in a room with his mother, and
that whe nhe attempted to obtain a
gun from the bureau drawer, the
Marine slugged him with a blackjack-
As his mother fled downstairs from
the second story room in which the
quarrel occurred, Thacker fired once,
William said. The bullet bored thro
ugh a rung of the ballustrade and
crashed through Mrs. Blethroadc’s
skull killing her instantly .Her body
tumbled to the floor dead.
Dtspatrh
CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
sailles treaty, . /allowing the
World war, it cuts Germany
proper off from East Prussia.
WEE HEARS
OFJOBLESSPLANS
Secretary of Labor
' "Appears Befofe Congres
sional Group
TELLS FOREST PLAN
Says Its Purpose Is To Help Suffeit
ing in Congested Centers; Three
{ Gove internal Depart
ments Assist
Washington, March 23. —(AP) —Aid
to the jobless in congested industrial
cities was described today as the aim
of the President’s reforestation pro
gram.
While Miss Frances Perkins was
telling a joint session of the House
and Senate labor committees of the
purpose of the measure before them,
Secretary Dern related that plans
were under way for recruiting the job
less in industrial cities into a civilian
conservation corps.
Miss Perkins, in, her first appear
ance as secretary of labor before a
congressional committee, entered into
la giVe and take cross-examination
by committee members and defended
the program from the charge-that it
would tend to reduce the wage stand
ard for unskilled labor.
She called it a relief plan and not
an employment program, and said
that employers had realized that the
purchasing power of wage earners
must be sustained if business was to
prosper.
Under the plans being formulated
for putting the plan into action, after
it is enacted, Dern said the Labor
Department would enroll unemployed
volunteers, the War Department would
organize them into units and the agri
culture 1 department would conduct the
camps and supervise the work,
VIOLENT UPSWING
IN STOCK MARKET
New York, March 23.—(AP)—
Stocks emerged from the past five
markets today, swing up $1 to $4
a share in the first hour, and hold
ing a large part of their gains.
Last Large
Letting On
JN ew Roads
Not In Long Time
Now Will There Be
Another Like It,
Jeffress Says
Raleigh, March 23.—(AP) — The
State Highway Commission today
opened bids on more tha na dozen
road construction projects in
North Carolina in “what will pro
bably be our last letting for a
long time,” Chairman E. B. Jef
fress said. The low bids will be
considered by the committee at a
meeting here tomorrow.
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Rainey Says Roosevelt Will
Send Measure To Con.
gress Within Next
Few Days
TENTATIVE DRAFT
OF BILL DRAWN UP
For Sake of Speed, Proposal
Will Be Tacked on to
Emergency Farm Relief
Measure Now In Senate
After Having Already
Passed In House
Wash ngtton, March 23 (AP)i—Con
gressional leaders were summon edd
to the White House today for a dis
loluU-ion of farm mortgages
ancing plans,which President Roose
velt expects to suSmltt. to the national
legislature In the next few days.
It is likely that the legislation will
be tacked onto the administration
farm relief Mill, which reached the
Senate today after passage late yes
therday by the House.
MEASURE TO BE SENT TO '
CONGRESS VERY SHORTLY
Wa."hi'nglon, March. 23( (AIP)
Slpeaker Rainey told newspaper men
today that the Treasury wtas consid
ering and Congress shortly will re
ceive a recomtaendJaition from Presi
dent Roosevelt for enactment of a
farm, mortgage re-ifinancing plan,
calling for the possible issuance Cl?
two billion dollars worth of bonds.
“A tentative draft of the bill is in
the hands of Secretary Wfoodln f© '
any suggestions he might have to
'Continued mi Page Four.*
BEER ADVERTISING
BANNED TILL APR. 6
Wiashington, March 23. —(AP) —An
informal opinion given today at th \
Post Office Department held that
newspapers publishing beer and wine
advertisements before April 6 woull
be violating the law.
R. F.C.May
Open Many
Old Banks
Closed Institutions
Being Examined
Before Stock Is Pur
chased
Washington, March 23. —(AP) —•
'Scores of closed or restricted banks
throughout the country are being care
fully examined by employees of the
Rconstruction Corporation with a
view to purchase of preferred stocks
(by that government agency so the in
stitutions may be reopened.
The corporation la empowered un
der the tanking act passed March 0
to go into partnership with bankers
through purchase of preferred stocks,
thus supplying capital' for re-opening.
In some instances, where banks still
have first class collateral, loans are
being made as in the past.
The purchase of the stock, however,
is being hedged about with every safe
guard. Officials have taken the at
titude that corporation stockholding
is equivalent to a selective guarantee
of deposits in the institutions
it takes hold cf. rnd that it must be
carefu-l to see to it that the institu
tion is in such shape that there will be
>no danger of its closing again. For
this reason, as one man put it, the
corporation “wants to know a lot
about any. bank” in which it becomes
a ‘‘partner/’