HENDERSON, gateway TO CENTRAL CAROLINA. "twentieth YEAR SILYON PUK FOR RAIL RELIEF Considers Two Dr&stic But Conflicting Proposals For the Revival of Railroads ACTION DEFERRED ON TWO MEASURES Railway Labor Executive Sees President, as Does Also ‘Frederick A. Prince, of Boston, Who . Offer* Plan for Pooling of Rail road Interests Washington, March 25. (AP) I’resident Roosevelt hastened his rail-, road legislative program today in con ferences with congressional leaders and railway experts. He took under consideration two drastic but confecting proposals to revive the railroads. He arranged with Chairman Ray burn, of the House Interstate Com merce Committeee, to defer-action on two pending hills pending receitp of the genial rai’road program inext week. After a conference at the White House. Donald Richberg, general coun sol of the Railway Labor Executive Avsociat'on, announced ethLs group would meet here next Thursday. Richberg said he had discussed the railway situation with the President. He indicated Thursdav’s meeting would take uep the new plan. Frederick A. Prince, of Boston, laid bfore Mr. Roosevelt a plan proposing n pooling of ra'lroads with a view to eliminating waste eand bringing about a saving. Congress Likely To Stay at Task To First of June Washington, March 25.—(AP)— ; \ cnnUnuede session of Congress until .Time I, so It can complete • President Roosevelt's program, was foreseen today by Speaker Rainey, who added that “every thing ive have done so far won’t amount to one thing unless we get •he whole program.” I h rough newspaper men at his daily press conference, the speak er appealed for “continued sup port.” LENOIR FURNITURE FACTORY IS CLOSED Shuts Down Short While Before Sche duled WalkfOut of Employees To Avoid Strike I/’tiior, March 25. —(AP) —The Kent f’uffey Manufacturing Company, „onC of ihe largest furniture plants in this section, was closed today for “an in definite period” because of a threat ened walk-out by employees yestcr day. j Officials said the employees nrr'sun drrstood announcement of a wage re vision to be put into efefec*, and that •n walk-out of the 200 workeres was P'mned for yesterday afternoon, but 'he plant closed down for a short while before it was scheduled. Officials said wages were not to be reduced, but were to be worked out on f plan relating to the cost of pro due'ion. and that the employees mis understood the situation when a re pir entative came to the mill to for mulate plans for the revision. Winter Dips Back Again Over State Snow. Falls in Some Places But Melts; Sharp Drop In Tem peratures Charlotte, March 25—(AP)—Winter to-k a curtain call in North Caro lina today, and, although the calen dar officially calls for balmly spring ■"’eather rain and snow fell over a iarge part of the State. Greensboro, Asheville, Chariot I ®, Hickory and Henderson were among 'he points where flurries of snow fell, v, tt the flakes melted fast as they hit, 'he ground. H rained in Charlotte and in a num ‘Ttr of other cities, and there was a 'harp drop in the mild temperatures (I'-c.aient for tbs last several days, , Mritiirrsnn Eight Months School Urgad By The Lieutenant-Governor I made to Protest Persecution m M he as a big P ara de of Jewish war veterans marched through New Y6rk streets as a gesture of protest against the persecution Jnhn'rvR 1 P erman y- The parade marched to the City Hall, where Mayor n ( Brien was asked to lend his moral support in the crusade The veterans later sent a delegation to call upon the British Consul in New York. France Plans To Start Debt -Negetations Here 15,300 of 19,296 U. S. Banks Open New York March 25.—(AP)— A survey indicated today that more than 15,300 of the eapproxi mately 19,296 banking institutions in the country were open again today, some still restricted. Os the appro! mat el y 6,891 in stitutions that are members of the Federal Reserve System, 5,328 were doing business. At least 10,000 of file approxi mately 12,405 institutions that are non-members of the reserve are open. clrair FORESTRY IMRE President Approves Altera tions But Retains Pow er To Regulate Washington., March 25. — (AP) Chairman Walsh, of the Seenate Labor Committee, said after a visit to the W)liite House today, that President Roosvelt had approved changes in the •*. eforestatVm measure which would give the President power to put it in to effect as he saw fit. Walsh made bis visit *o the White House after the ISenate Labor Committee had failed 'to agree on the measure. A meeting has been set for later in the day, when William Green, presi dent of the American Federation of Labor, will appear. Green has op posed the bill. Senator Walsh explained that the modification of the bill would take out any stipulation as to the mthod of hiring the 250,000 men expected to be employed, and other details relative to living conditions. He said the changes would still enable the Presi dente to carry out the provisions of the present measure, if he saw fit. Striking Miners Voluntarily Come From Mine Shaft Sosnowiec, Poland, March 25. —(AP) —A strike of 700 coal miners who re mained underground, for six days at 'days at Klimontow to prevent em ployers from flooding the shaft and putting them out of work was at an end today- Promised by the government of Kielee the strikers came out of the pit 'last night shouting cheers for the government. For f6ur days the strik ers had refused to take any food. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED »»nvic. HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 25, 1933 Soon as New Ambassador Arrives April!#, Parley * Will Be Starred With Officials ENVOY ACQUAINTING HIMSELF WITH DEBT Whether Tariff Concession* Will Be Granted Is Not Made Clear; France De faulted Last December on $19,000,000 Interest Pay ment Due Here Paris, March 25. —-(AP) —France in tends to open dpbt negotiations when tli new ambassador tp America* Andre LeFevre de Roulaye, arrives ip the United States April 12, it. was said 'to day. , . •. ~ Action lias been delayed untjl the new ambassador could be thoroughly acquainted wi'h the subject. , A government spokesman, declined to say whether ,the government was ready to grant tariff concessions in return for debt revision. : France defaulted last December 15 on a $19,000,000 interest payment on war debts owed the United States. The government of Premier Heerriot who favored payment fell on the issue. The French Parliament now is con sidering a resolution introduced a week ago by Deputy Rene Richard callong for the payment of the de faulted interest. School Folk Quiet Only For A Time To Open Fight for Supplements Soon as Eight Months Term Is Certain 1 Daily Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel, BY J. C. BASKERVYLL. Raleigh. March 25. —While there was little or no criticism either of the General Assembly, the governor or even the board of equalization heard, here yesterday and. today while the .North Caroling Education Association was in session there are indications that when the time comes it is going to put up a fight for school districts (Continued on Page Four.) 3 atht Dispatch IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VHTOINIA. Speaks for Governor in Ad dress Before Final Ses sion of Education Association HARRY pThARDING NAMED PRESIDENT Charlotte School He&d To Lead State Association; Guy Phillips, »of Greens, boro, - Made Vice-Presi dent; ; Ehringhaus Plan Favored by Graham Raleigh, March 25. —(AP) —An eight months Statewide uniform State-sup ported school term, such as proposed by Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus, is the only present salvation for the schools of North Carolina, the North Carolina Education Association today wa.s told by Lieutenant-Governor A. H. Graham. Graham spoke in lieu of the gover nor, who was called to Elizabeth City, his home, because of the death of a cousin. The teachers named Harry P- Hard ing, superintendent of the Charlotte city schools, as ttieir president „for the coming year just'before theye closed their annual session. Guy B. Phillips! of Greensboro, su iCfmfctr.ued on Rage Four) PHILADELPHIA WOMAN IS FOUND SHOT DEAD Philadelphia, March 25.—(AP)— A well dressed unidentified woman was found shot to death early today in the driveway of the Cedar Brook Country Club in suburban Chelten ham. There were two bullet wounds in her body, one just below the heart and another in the back of the head. Asks Drys Help Find A Solution New York, March 25. —(AP) —Fred G. Clark, of Cleveland, commander in-chief of the Crusaders, an anti-pro hibition organisation, sent telegrams to dry leaders today urging them to join the wet organization in seeking “solution of the liquor problem ” The telegrams were sent to Mrs. Ella Boole of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union; Dr. F. Scott Mc- Bride of the Anti-Saloon League, and Dr. Clarence True Wilson, of the Methodist Board of Temenerance, Pro bibition and Public Morals. “Today is the most opportune time in American history,” Clark told the dry leaders in part, “to inaugurate •proper protective legislation dealing with the liquor traffic. “I, therefore, call upon those leaders who (are sincere in their desire to prevent the return of the evils which existed beofre prohibition, as well as to eliminate the nation’s destroying abuses of prohibition, to join with /us in a solution of the liquor problem, to the ened that society will control the liquor traffics, and not be con trolled by the liquor interests and li quor corrupted grafters” Huey Long Beards Lion In His Den In New York New York, March 25 (AP)—‘United iFlteutes Senator Hughey Long, of Louisiana, waved hlis arms today, pointed hiis finger, banged the break fast table, paced the floor and named six men who “control America from baby food tip.” He also explained the details of “the londis’ system of government” and let it be knoWn that When the time comes “I’M knock (the eastern idea that Huey Long is a monster or a blown into a cocked hat.” The southern scion was here to dis cuss flood control with Frank R : . Reed, flood control commissnoner of Illinois. He made an appointment with news papermen for 10 a. m.„ but overslept. The reporters sat about his bed SENATE EXPECTED TO ADOPT LARGER ( Appropriations Bill Close to Committee Proposal of $41,000,000 Very ’Probable to re-writeTmuch OF HOUSE MEASURE Ip Some Instances Senate Committee Has Not Only Thrown Out House Fig ures, But Even Exceeded Committee Estimates; For Eight Months School Daily DUimtck B«r**ni», In Ihe Sir Wilber Hotel. BY HE.NRY LESESAE, Raleigh, March 25.-*-Indioat ions are that the Senate will approve an ap propriations bill closely approximat ing the figure of $41,000,000 tgiginal ly drawn by the joint appropriations committee, according to prevailing sent-'men t here today. A3 the upper branch of the General Assembly received the bill from the House it contained appropriations of less than $39,000,000- But there were so many inconsistencies in this bill that the Senate decided to refer it it to the Senate Appropriations Com mittee to be worked over. Wh'le the Senate committee agreed not to touch the public school item 'before the revised bill is submitted to th Senate Tuesday morning, it has gone over the appropriations for va ious State departments and brought them back to the level that was set in the original joint committee bill. As the bill was finally passed by the House, the State departments suffer ed a reduction of 44 percent, compar ed to a reduction of only 32 percent In the joint committee bill. While the House boosted the public schools and educational institutions from the low levels proposed in the Bowie-Cherry •bill, it adopted the Bowie-Cherry al lotments for most of the State de partments. The penaie committee has restored most of the departmental allotments to the amounts orieinallv nroposed in (Continued on Page Pour.) FOUR MINERS ARE HURT, SIX BEATEN Eldorado, 111., March 25.—(AP)— Four miners were wounded and six others beaten in a clash late yester day between United Mine Workers employed at the No. 2 mine of the Rex Coal Company, and pickets said to be in sympathy with the prores sixe miners’ union- Plans For Large State Bank Laid At Raleigh Meet Raleigh, March 25. (AP)— Meet big behind closed doors for an “informal conference to start getting plans on paper,” a mem ber of representatives of commer cial banks of the State were closeted this afternoon with Gur ney P. Hood, State banking com missioner, considering plans for a gigantic Statewide commercial in stitution* Mr. Hood said the bankers would aid men in his department in work* dng out plans to present to a meeting of commercial bankers here Tuesday afternoon. It is proposed to form the new com mercial bank by a merger of a num ber of State banks which have not been allowed to resume unrestricted business since the bank holiday. Meanwhile, stockholdes and direc tors of the State’s 43 industrial banks were studying a definite proposal for merging their institutions into one iStatewide banking chain with capi talization of $2,000,000. room while he dressed and he warned them that anything said in the san ctity of the bed cthamlber was strictly off the record. Dressed, he proceeded to another room for breakfast and said: “This here Interview la now offi cially begun.” . He jumped andbellowedaboutwhat He jumped and bellowed, about wfhait he colled the “great habit in this country of jumping on the dead line” when somebody mentioned 1 the indictment yesterday of Charles E. Mitchell, former head of the National City Bank. Later he said tha/t the whole coun try was a den of I’ions “and the gov ernment goes in apdi drags out the dead ones.” i ; PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY* FARM LEADER A TTACKS NEW RELIEF PLAN Sees Labor Hostile Representative William P. Connery, Jr., of Massachusetts, chairman of the House Labor Committee, who de clined to introduce President Roose velt’s unemployment relief bill on the ground that organized labor is opposed to it. The bill provides for the enlistment of a civilian Army of 250,000 for reforestation and flood control work at one dollar per day and maintenance in labor camps. 15 of 120 House Members /Present, and Pass One New Local Measure DOUGHTON IN CHAIR Fourteen of 50 Senate Members Fret scut and Seven Local Bills Pass; Both Mouses Resume on Monday Night Raleigh. March 15-—(AP)—The two divisions of the North Carolina Gen eral Assembly met for a total of 29 minutes today for the usual “local ’bills” Saturday session. The House had 15 of its 120 mem bers present. One new local bill was introduced, the rules were suspend ed eand the single measure consider ed was passed. Representative Dough ton, of Alleghany, presided over the ten-minutee session, as Speakr Har ris had joined the general eodus and gone to his home eat Roxboro. Fourten of the 50 members of the .S enate met for 19 minutes and passd seven local bills. Both sections will, resume reguiar business Monday night. 5 BILL PASSED I Still Thinks Budget Can Be Balanced Without Gen eral Sales Tax Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. C. BASKERVILL. Raleigh, March 25—(Wfhile the ap propriations bill as passed by the House ana now being considered by (he Senate Appropriations Commit tee is mot entirely as he would have it Rej&es&mtat'ive R. Gregg 'Cherry, of Baston who probably had 1 more to do with its passage than any one else is pretty well satisfied with it, he said today. He also believes that the bill, although it calls for a gen eral fund appropriatton of $22,953,000 a year, can still be financed without a sales tax, provided $2,000,000 a year is diverted from the highway fund to the general fund. “There are still some inequalities in the bill as passed by the House of course principally with regard to the amount of th* salary cuts im posed an dithe size of the appropria ftrjjns for the edJuidafJonal institu tions, which are mulch larger than those for the various State depart ments ”, Cherry said. “However, these differences wtilT either be cur reoted in the Senate or i. n the con ference corrim'jttee, where the bill will eventually go.” i Bill's Provisions! The bill as passed calls for a bud get cf $22,953,510 for the general fund and $15,937,310 flor the State (Continued on Page Four.) 6 PAGES TODAY 'IVE CENTS COPY Simpson Says It Would C«3l $600,000,000 Annually To Administer Pro. posed Law WOULD TAKeT 200,000 TO HANDLE THE JOB Secretary Wallace Follows Before Senate Committee and Declares Congress Must Grant Powers to Ad ministration and Depend Upon That Washington, March 25.—(AP)— ‘ A renewed attack on the administration farm bill was launched before the ■Senate Agriculture Committee today by John a. Simpson, president of the National Farmers Union, who said it would cost $600,000,000 a year, ex clusive of lanu rentals. Simpson took the committee stand, in open session to complete h,s cri ticul testimony began yesterday be fore Secretary Wallace was heard oy the senators behind closed doors. *‘lt’s absolutely Sim pson said of the measure- Besides the cost, he said, it was would require a force of 200,000 to administer its pro vis J ons. He said that under the measure, dsigned to raise farm prices to the pie-war level, though large grants ox power to the secretary of agriculture, 100,000 men would be needed to re gulate 6,500,000 producers of the nine major commodities included, and an other 100,000 would be necessary to regulate processers and handers. Figuring the uotlay for each person . ■at $3,000 a year, Simpson said tno total cos»t would be $600,000,000. Following Simpson, Secretary Wal lace told the committee that Congress ‘must enact” legislation granting broad powers to the administration, and must depend for a farm problm solution upon exercise of sound dis cretion by the executive officials. Louis y. Sutton Made President ' Carolina P. & L. Raleigh, March 25 (AP)—Louis V . Sutton, who for the past seve ral months has served as a president of the Carolina Rawer & Light Company, was elected to the presidency of tile corporation this week, it was announced today Sutton will become president and general manager to succeed the late Paul' A. Tillery, wlho died' recently. A native of Richmond, Va., Mr. Sutton holds hi sdegre In electrics. engineering from Virginia Polytech nic Institute. He has worked far the Carolina Power & light Company here since 1912, and advanced) in sue cceding years to become asaisatnt to the general manager. Says Jews Not To Be Prosecuted Smiles At Idea Os Prayer Meetings In America for Jews in Germany Berlin, March 25.—(AP) —Prosecu- tion of any man simply because he Is a, Jew will not be tolerated, said Cap tain Hermann Goerlng, minister without portfolio, in an impassioned ■address today to foreign correspon dents, in which he pleaded for fair ness in estimating the German situa-* tion. He also expressed the opinion that Jews and Socialists abroad were ren dering their German friends a poor service by making re ports on German conditions or by holding protest mass meetings. “Every German,” he said, “smiles when he learns that on next Monday prayer meetings will be hel din Am erica.” WfiTHtR FOR NORTH CAROLINA. ..Rain