HENDERSON,
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA.
TWENTIETH YEAR
REPUBLICANS PREVENT VOTE ON INFLATION IN HOUSE
May Day Without
Serious Trouble ,
Except Chicago
$50,000 Damage Estimated
Done to Buildings In
Loop District of West
ern Metropolis
blame communists
FOR DISTURBANCES
Great Festive Occasion Cele
brated in Moscow, Capital
of Russia, Where Reds Are
All-Powerful, and in Ger
many, Where Precise Op
posite Is True
Chicago, May 1 (AP)--T»he heart
of Chicago**!, buiness district rever
beraieu with the detonations of
ben.bs tossed with well-timed pre
cision early this Miay Day, causing
property damage unofficially esti
mated at many thousands of dbllars.
Onv estimate was $50,000. None was
Wiled or injured.
Attributed by the police to com
munist ceebrating May Day, five
barJbs in al apparently were thrown
from .moving motor cars, at the same
lime damaging the establishments at
which they were aimed, as well as
smashing windows in surrounding
structures within a radius of one
block in each case. All known com
munists were ordered arrested.
The explosives we<re apparently of
the powerful dynamite type secretly
employed by racketeers in . their at
tempts to intimate. *
MOST WIDELY OBSERVED
IN RUSSIA AND GERMANY
<By the Associated Press)
May Day, traditionally the occa
sion for radloß demonstrations, waa
moat widely celebrated today in two
greatly dissimilar nations—fin Rus
(Cont»«ueu on Pane Four)
Chinese Are
Anxious For
Armistice
Reported Working
Through American
And British Minist
ries to That End
Tokyo, May I.—(AP) —The Japan
ese foreign office disclosed today that
Chinese leaders were seeking, through
Americans and British ministries in
Peiping, to negotiate a Sino-Japanese
armistice.
Official reports were received that
certain Chinese approached both Nel
son T. Johnson, the United States
minister, dnd Sir Miles Lampson the
British minister proposing that they
assist jn opening negotiations.
A meeting between Sino-Japanese
military leaders for the purpose of
deciding on an armistice and establish
>ng a neutral zone south of the Great
Wall of China is desired.
The report admitted that these
ohines» are not connected with Mar
shal Chang Kai-Shek, the virtual dic
tator of the Nationalist government
al Nanking, or his Peiping represen
-lat ive. General Ho Ying-Ching
Dishonest Measures May
Filch State Os Millions
Ounces Will Be Pound In All Stores That Can Get
by With It, One House Me mber Asserts; Powerful
Lobbies Working Against Inspection
null? DfNpntflt Rnrrni,
In the Sir Will ter Hotel,
i* r J C. UASKEIIVIf.L.
Raleigh, May I.—The people of the
s,a ' e will be defrauded of millions of
dollars through incorrect weighing
®; nd measuring devices, unless the
,jr ' rural Assembly acts quickly to pre
yll the entire nullification of the
•''aU's weights and measure law, it
Was learned here today. For so far
11 Powerful lobbyists of the big pe
hum companies —especially of the
t'tolcum Institute of America—and
Hrnimrsmi Llatltj Qtspatrh
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VHTCINIA. ' *
F OF L THR A fsi^,y ißß MBRVICB
or THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Tar Heels Jailed
In Cannon Murder
Boydton, Va., May I —(AP)—
J. B. Cannon and Edward Holmes,
<bo«h of Roanoke Rapids, N. C. f
remained in Mecklenburg county
jail today pending further inves
tigation of their possible connec
ts n with the massacre of four
members of the Cannon family at
their home near L-x V s-e on
March 31.
Cannon j.i.d Jfolmes, the former
a relative of »he mumered men,
"ere brought here from Roanoke
Rapids, where they were taken in
to custody by detectives last week.
HOUSE TO ACCEPT
REVENUE BILL AS
.SENATE PASSES IT
Probability Is That Measure
Will Not Go to Confer
ence, Thus Hastening
the Close
COMPROMISE PLAN
TO BE AGREEBLE
Changes Made In Measure
In Senate Committee Os
Whole Placate Growing
Opposition In Lower
House; Many Other Bills
Are Yet to Pass, However
Daily Dispatch ftnreaa.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
HI J. C. OASKERVILL.
Raleigh, May I.—The much amend
ed revenue bill as finally agreed upon
by the Senate, exempting essential
foods from the three per cent gen
eral sales tax and increasing the
franchise taxes on the power and tele
graph companies will probably prove
acceptable to the House, with the
suit that its final enactment may he
possible by the end of the week. It
is hardly probable, however, that both
houses can finish up all their other
unfinished business by the end of this
week and adjourn sine die. It is be
lieved that final adjournment is now
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Accidents Fatal
To Three Persons
Near Goldsboro
Goldsboro, May 1- —(AP) —Week-
end accidents in this section took the
lives of three persons and injured
six.
Hardy Yelverton, 54, was killed
when his. automobile overturned near
Stantonsburg after hitting a bank of
dirt.
A. J. Merritt, Kenansville mer
chant, died in an auto accident when
his machine was forced against an
other by a third auto the driver of
which was hunted by officers today.
Herman Culbreth, Goldsboro bar
ber, fainted, fell in Little river and
was drowned.
of the power and gas companies, have
succeeded in getting all bills tending
toward a better enforcement of the
weights and measures law killed in
committees. It is understood, however,
that Governor Ehringhaus has learn
ed of the situation and may make an
effort to have it corrected-
As the situation now stands, the
powerful gasoline interests and others
interested with them in nullifying the
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HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, MAY .1, 1933
Rioting Farmers Checked by Troops
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i
Although rioting farmers contin
ued to harass authorities in lewa,
state troops were believed to have
the situation in hand in various
towns where foreclosure sales
were scheduled. At left above is
shown a disturbance at Primghar
where farmers forced an attorney
and several deputy sheriffs to kiss
Definite Upturn Appears
In Revenue Os The State
Raleigh, May L—(AP)—A. J.
Maxwell commissioner of revenue
said today 'hat an increase in
North; Carolina’s gasoline fund re
ceipts’ in April, as compared with
the sahte month a year ago, “gives
some indication of a" definite turn
in revenue trends.”
Maxwell pointed out .that high
STi
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Measure Now Nearing Pass
age In Senate Will B&L
ance the Budget i
Daily Dlapntch Bnrenn,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, May 1. —The provision
written into the revenue bill by the
Senate exempting certain basic food
stuffs from the three per cent gen
eral sales tax is regarded here as the
most workable plan of taking some
of the sting out of the sales tax that
has yet been advanced, and it is meet
ing with almost unanimous approval
among even those members of the leg
islature who are opposed to even the
principle of a sales tax. The Senate
plan {represents ja
etween two different methods of re
lieving simple foods from the sales
tax, and a number of leading mem
ibers of the House were consulted by
the Senate members in effecting the
compromise plan, and it met with not
only the approval of the Senate mem
bers but also those members of House
who were called in.
House Will Approve.
Thus there is little doubt in the
minds of observers here that the Sen
ate plan of exempting basic com
modities wall meet with wide ap
proval in the House, and that the
lower body of the General Assembly
will not attempt to work out a better
plan of exempting the poor man’s
food- That the Senate is thoroughly
“sold” on the plan was indicated whein
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NINE ARETJEAD IN
SOUTH’S ACCIDENTS
Altlanta, Ga., M]ay 1 (AP) — Nsne
persons were killed in week-end ac
cidents over the South, four by auto
mobiles, one by tlhe kick of a mule ?
one by a gu ! n wotSnd another in a
fall and two bjr drowning. , ; ,
the American flag; upper right,
guardsmen armed with machine
.guns and automatic rifles depart
from Sioux City for Plymouth
county placed under martial law
by the governor; lower left, a mob
of nearly 600 farmers outside the
county court house at Primghar,
manv of which took Dart in the
way tax collections this April were
$623,497*94 ahead of those in
April 1, 1932, but said this was
“in the main on accounts of col
lections by reason of the shorten
ing of lime of payment of gaso
line taxes under the new law, ef
fective A:*i'il t .”
There was a net increase over
DOLLAR IS WEAKER
IN FRENCH MARKET
Paris, May 1. —(AP) —-The United
'States dollar closed at 21.30 francs
today a loss in value of 1-15 franc
since Saturday’s close. •
BIGGS’ NOMINATION
IS GIVEN APPROVAL
Washington, May I. — (AP)
Senate Judiciary Committee today
approved the nomination of J.
Crawford BiggSs of North Caro
lina, as solicitor general of the
United States.
AM ILL
Rogers
Qays:
New York, May I—Did you
ever go to a dinner and have to
stand up and not even get any
dinner? Well I did last night, at
the Gridiron dinner to President
Roosevelt.
It sure was worth it. Thpse
Washington newspaper men are
the cleverest ones we have. They
have the cleverist skits and take
offs on our public men. This one
was a great show.
It’s a pity they don’t art-ange to
do >em before a regular audience,
for, Lord, those prominent men
there miss mmy a gag* I know
a regular audience would be twise
as keen and appreciative. 1
think it’s because each man in
Washington is So engrossed in
his own sphere that he is not so
well up on all topics as the aver
age reader.
And these sketches cover ev«*y
thing. Ogdcfct Mills and the Pres
ident both made good speches. I
think those things do a lot of
good to help keep those old big
hoys’ feet on the ground.
But say, I would stand on my
head to sen* another one.
Kours,
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lynching at LeMars a few
hours later; lower right, Judge C.
C. Bradley o" LeMars who was
dragged from his court room,
beaten and threatened with hang
ing because he refused to take an
oath that he would sign no more
farm foreclosures. The judge
could not identify his assailants.
April, 1932, of $50,097.88, however,
Maxwell said.
“This” he added, “together with
the increase of $53,918.27 & motor
vehicle license taxes., as compared
with April a year ago, and with
general improvement in business
gives some indication of;’’ a de
finite turn in revenue trends.”
7DEAD INtSaDO
Scores Injured and Hund
reds of Homes Are In
Ruins as the Result
Yazoo City, Miss., May I—-(AP)
Seven known dead, scores of injured
and the ruins of hundreds of homes
today marked the path of a week-end
tornado, which blew up around Lake
Village in southeast Arkansas and
leaped the Mississippi river to strike
at Yazoo City and Greenville in
western Mississippi.
The storm struck first in the plan
tation country near Lake Village.
D. D. Boyd, 69, was killed as the
blast carried his home nearly 200 feet
and flattened it. Others of the fa
mily were injured, and two Negroes
were killed in the same vicinity.
Gandhi Not Able
To Survive Fast,
India Now Feels
Poona, India, May 1 (AP)—
Among India’s teeming millions
the belief grew today that the
aged Mahatma Gandhi would not
survive a three-weeks uneoidij
tional, irrevocable which be
will begin pn May 8.
Sitting in Yeroda jail, where he
has been cc%£iiw'd since January
4, "because of his passive resist
ance campaign, the frail UW#b
leader announced the fast yester
day in connection with hip cam
paign against untoucnawhiy and
tile cast esystem. . , ,
welthTr
FOB NORTH CAROLINA-
Generally fair tonight; Tuesday
mostly cloudy; slpowers Tuesday
night and probably in extreme
west portion ».i afternoon; lit|JU>
in temperature, k ;
ism ...'
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Senate Drives On
For Quick Action
On Muscle Shoals
Markets Advance
And Then Decline
New York, Bfjtf U—(AP)-So
eurity and commodity markets
boiled briskly today, although in
most cases heavy profit.taking
either reduced or cancelled the
gains of a, very active forenoon.
In a turn-over of more than 6,-
000,000 shares, stocks had an ex
treme rise of $1 to #4, but the aft
ernoon saw traders eager to ac
cept profits and the market fin
ished well under its highs. It was
the second busiest day of the year.
fiMfisoT
Time Expires Tonight For
Return to Government
of Hoards Held by
Individuals
CAN BE EXPORTED
ONfiT ON LICENSE
That Must Be Issued by the
Treasury Secretary; Per
. sons Needing Gold For
Legitimate Purposes Must
Fill Out Application Blank
in Greatest Detail
Washington, May I—(AP) —Regula
tions governing the distribution of
igold to industries having legitimate
use for it were issued today by the
Treasury a few hours before the ex
piration of the time set for gold other
'than small imfivjkMtal sums to be
turned into the government.
The regulations outline the method
,by which persons legitimately need
,ing gold may obtain it, and provid
ing that no collector of customs
might permit the export of gold un
less the person sending it abroad
turns over to him a, license issued by
the secretary of the treasury to per
mit the transportation.
Persons needing gold for legitimate
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23 lowans
Arrested
In Attack
Primglhlar, lown-, May 1 (AP)—
twenty three men were arrested by
a National Guiard detachment today
in connection, with the attempted
halting of a foreclosure sale here
Thursday and with a subsequent at
tack upon Judge C. D. Bradley a it
LeMars.
Among those arrested were Simon
T. Jssem, county chairman of the
Flarmers Holiday Association, and
William Clauesen, county secretary.
Brien county jail and the troops
The men were brougfh/t to the O’
Brien county jail, and the troops
planned to remove them to LeMars
for military trial.
Second Group Os Envoys
Coming To See Roosevelt
Washington, May I.—(AP) The
arrival today of Argentine’s special
representative, Thomas Leßreton,
marks the opening of the’ second
■series of President Roosevelt’s world
vdde negotiations for an internation
al prosperity.
The Italian envoy, Guido Jung,
minister of finance, will reach Wash
ington tomorrow, and before the week
is over representatives from Germany,
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Speedy Enactment of $50,-
000,000 Rellief Bill Is
Also Sought In Up
per House
R. F. C. LOANS DOWN
IN MONTH OF MARCH
J. P. Morgan Subpoenaed
for Senate Stock Market
Probe May 23; Wallace
Wants Production Guar
antee Removed From the
Farm Relief Measure
Washington, May 1. —(AP)—Repub-
licah opposition today broke up Dem
ocratic plans to force an immediate
House vote on the administration in
flation program, but quick arrange
ments were made for the decision to
be given tomorrow.
Republican Leader Snell objected,
'compelling the day’s delay.
With no other pressing taskjjjffore
it, the House then adjourned in re
spect to the . late Representative
Briggs ,of Texas, who died Saturday.
The Senate, meanwhile, turned to
the $500,000,000 relief bill and the
Muscle Shoals and Tennessee Valley
devlefopment bill, .expecting jto act
quickly on both. It received a protest
•from Major General Lytle Brown,
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Kidnaped Union
Officials Freed;
Nabbed by Police
Chicago, May I—(AP)—Two kid
naped union officials were releasee
unharmed by their abductors early to
day and wer eimmediately taken int<.
custody by police for questioning by
the State’s attorney’s office investigat
ing a reported war between gangsters
for control of the teamsters’ union.
This morning tile men were pushe t
blindfolded from the kidnapers’ car
and were picked up by a passing po
lice and rushed to headquarters.
Their release followed by a few.
hours a telephone call Mrs. Fred Sa- - *
purportedly received from her hus- '
band telling her not to worry, tha'
he would be home by morning.
Kansan Will
Get Revenue
Office Soon
Helvering R~o se
velt’s Choice And
State Appointments
Will Follow
Washington, May 1.-—(A*»>—Presi
dent Roosevelt is ready soon to name
Guy T. Helvering, Kansan ,who has
served in the House, to be commis
sioner of internal revenue.
This important appointment was
fixed up over the week-end by an
tinderstanding between Postmaster
General Farley and Senator McGill,
Democrat, Kansas.
There has been a long contest
the post. Helvering Is regarded as
Preidnt Roosevelt’s own choice, with
his selection, the administration will
promptly deal out the many collector
ships of revenue which have been un
filled pending the choice of a com
missioner.
and Mexico will be here to take u
the conversations eo optimistlcall
conducted by the British and Canad
ian prime ministers and the form*
premier of France last week.
The questions involved will be a
milar to those world problems expie
ed last week —war debts, exchange r*
strictions, stable currmencies an
tariffs, as well as the subject of pea<
end disarmament.