HENDERSON,
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA.
TWENTIETH YEAR
Revenue Measure
Facing Possible
Hitch In Senate
Graham Rules Conferees’
f Report Contains New
Matter and Is Open .
for Amendments
SCHOOL MACHINERY
BILL HANGS FIRE
34 University Trustees Are
Elected at Joint Session of
Senate and House; Clause
Requiring Saies Tax To
Be Passed on Has Been
Omitted
Raleigh, May 9. —(AP) —The con
feieei’ leport on the biennial revenue
bill faced a possible hitch today when
Lieutenant Governor A. H. Graham,
pi sliding officer of the State Senate,
uiied tnat the report included new
master, and, therefore, was open to
amendments.
The Senate was the
adoption of the report already ap
proved by the' House, when Senator
Wayniek, of Guilford, asked if the
leport could be amended from the
floor, a sit omitted a provision re
quiiing merchants to pass on the
three peicent modified sales tax. and
abo change the designation of the
tales tax.
Lieutenant Governor Graham ruled
(fiat amendments would be in order as
(he conference had exceeded its au
thority.
There was no announcement a3 to
whether amendments would be offer
ed or not, but if a material change
is made in the report in the Senate,
■it will preclude any possibility or
legislative adjournment this week.
Xlhils the matter or adjournment
also hung in the balance awaiting
House action on the biennial school
machinery bill, the lower legislative
division spent two? hours on its local
calendar, met in joint session with
the Senate to elect trustees of the
University of North Carolina, and re-'
(Gonfcir.ueu on Paye Four)
STRONG EARTHQUAKE
IS FELT IN MEXICO
Mexico City, May 9. —(AP)—Thou-
sands of persons throughout south
cential Mexico slept in the open last
might during the repetition of three
strong earthquake felt throughout the
section.
Gandhi Develops
Nausea as Result
Os 3-Weeks Fast
' Poona, India, Mpy 9.—(AP) —
The Mahatma Gandhi, whose
three weeks fast is just beginning,
showed syinptons of nausea this
evening.
A well known Bombay physician
was summoned to Poona by
Poona by Gandhi's friends, who
fear that the fast, started Monday
in protest against treatment of the
lowest classes, may cost him his
I'ft.
The Mahatma is endeavoring to
survive his three weeks fast on a
diet of boiled water,, salt and
soda-
I lie spiritual leader of millions
in India is just as certain that
he will survive as are physicians
that he will die.
The Mnluitma ds passing the
Period of the fast in the sump
tuous Poona bungalow of a de
voted follower.
Buck Takes
Blame For
Kidnaping
Kenneth Says He Is
Solely Responsible
for Abducting Mc
: Math Girl .
Barnstable, Maas., May 9.— (AP)
"nneth Buck, alleged kidnaper of
t'K.v McMath, today exonerated his
rf >’her, Cyril, also under arrest, of
an ' part in 'h? abduction.
II a sworn statement made at the
Unstable county jail, where both
'• 1: are held awaiting a hearing on
p ay 22 - Kenneth tbld Police Chief
' v ird E. Hall, of Harwich, that he
f 0n t vvas to blame and responsible
a he crime. Hall said Kenneth de
|,i:d i hat he could “implicate no
vher person.”
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Mary Norman Hopkins
European court affairs are the im
mediate concern of Miss Mary
Norman Hopkins, above, of Gads
den, Ala., since she is the social
secretary of Mrs. Ruth Bryan
Owen, American minister to Den
mark. Miss Hopkins will have to
settle questions of rank, seniority,
etiquette and the like at state
affairs.
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WAGES IS STARTED
In Scattered Sections of Na
tion Increased Pay Is
Given Workers
EAST CAROLINA RISES
Strawberry and Peas liar vests and'
Sales Result in Huge Turnover;
Three Billion Building
Program Ready
(By the Associated Press
In scattered regions wages start
ed uphill todiay and employment
gained momentum.
Activity in connection with truck
farming in Eastern North Carolina
has givevn employment to thousands
who a few weeks ago numbered them
selves among the unemployed.
Field workers have moved from
Goldsboro i-nd other communities in
to fields to harvest strawberries,
and other crops.
Thousands of dolalrs from the sale
of produce is being exchanged, and
estimiates placed the turn-over
through the sale of berries and pro
duce at from $50,000 to $75,000.
The Planters Nut and Chocolate
Company of Suffolk, Va., announc
ed a 20 per cent pay increase for
more than 700 employees* effective
Thursday f
The Norwalk, Conn., Tire and Rub
s Continued on Page Two)
Rival Salvage Crews Seek
Lost Treasure Off Norfolk
Coast Guard Cutter Summoned to Scene by Both Sides
To Protect Claims to Sunken Liner Merida, Which
Went Down off Capes Twenty Years Ago
Norfolk, Va., May 9.—(AP)— The
coast guard cutter Davis, summoned
to the scene yesterday by both rival
factions seeking to salvage the trea
sure of the sunken Ward Line steam
er Merida, is standing by today to
prevent an open clash between ex
peditions headed by Captain H. L.
Bowdoin and Captain John Hall.
The cutter, steaming full speed to
the scene; (after (Captain Bowdoin,
aboard the tug Salvor, and Captain
Hall aboard the trawler Theresa and
Dan, each had called for assistance,
arrived at the scene of salvage op
erations 60 miles off the Virginia
capes last night at 9:40 o’clock.
In his message, Captain Bowdoin,
who left Norfolk early Sunday morn
ing aboard the Salvor to resume op
eration begun last summer, stated he
was being “threatened by interlopers.”
HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 9, .1933
lARmSI
i
Prospects for British Agree
ment to Truce Encour
age Officials In
Washington
OTHER COUNTRIES
FAVORABLE TO IT
Roosevelt Administration
Goes Ahead With Its Con
versations Aimed At
Smoothing Way for Lon
don Economic Conference;
Another Visitor Here
Washington, May 9—(AP)—Amer
ican hopes for an armistice on tariff
boosting to create a favorable atmos
phere for the world economic con
ference in London soared upward to
day with prospects of British agree
ments to an immediate tariff truce.
With Great- tßfitaJm hacking the
proposal, oflicials expect complete
success. Other major countries have
already indicated support.
Encouraged, despite the ever-pre
isent shadow of complications arising
out of war debts, the Roosevelt ad
ministration went ahead with its con
versations aimed at smoothing the
way for the London conference, now
less than five weeks off.
Secretary Hull! undertook discus
sions with Finance Minister T. V.
Soong, of China. Later conversations
were to be resumed with Dr. Hjalmar
Schacht, the German representative.
Tomorrow the eighth of the eleven
nations invited by the President for
these preliminary talks will appear
with arrival of the Mexican finance
minister.
With all of these the tariff truce
will be taken up. The German repre
sentative already has indicated ap
proval. So was Italy. France and
Japan have indicated acceptance,
with reservations. Belgium yesterday
accepted unconditionally.
.gyNDJCALISUBiaiNG _
IS CURBED IN SPAIN
Madrid. Spain, May 9. —(AP) —One
death, numerous injuries, scores of
bombings and the tearing up of rail
way lines marked the beginning to
day of a two-day general strike which
syndicalists sought to make nation
wide.
The strike was reported effective
in various parts of the country, but
the government immediately invoked
extreme measure to curb the demon
strations.
BIG STArt SAVING
ON LICENSE PLATES
Tag Will Be Smaller and of
Different, Cheaper Color
Next Year
Dally Dlupntrt Rnrenn,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
ft J r.. n A S' K Kit V 11.1..
Raleigh, May 9—[By making the
1934 laujtjonwbile license plates two
inches shooter and half an inoh nar
rower, using black instead of blue
enamel and a thinner guage steel,
the State of North Carolina will save
$9,109.22 on the cost of its license
plates for next year, it was announc
ed today by A. S. Brower, director
of the Division of Purchase and Con
tract # More than $1250 will be sav
(Continued on Page Pour.)
“Having trouble over our position,”
wirelessed Captain Hall, veteran
Gloucester fisherman, in a message
sent by the Winter Quarter lightship.
“We were anchored over Merida,
and placed buoy and anchored ship
our ship and buoy S. S. Salvor came
placed buoy and anchored ship with
in our buoys, causing trouble.”
The Hall expedition, which has with
it Kids Everts, veteran local diver,
has been on the wreck since Tuesday
of last week.
The Bowdoin party, due to its sal
vage operations last summer, has
taken the position that the wreck is
its property ,and the other expeditions
should be barred from attempting to
salvage the reported $6,000,000 trea
sure that went down with the Merida
more than 20 years ago when the
ill-fated liner was rammed by the
Admiral Farragut.
Likely Rail Czar
■ .v’"
Joseph B. Eastman
This is a new photo of Joseph B.
Eastman, membfer of the Inter
state Commerce commission, who
probably will be federal co-ordina
tor of railroads. It will be the
huty of the co-ordinator to effect
economies through a year’s sus
pension of anti trust laws govern
ing railroads if the administra
tion s rail bill passes congress.
WHY LEGISLATURE
VOIED SALES TAX
BRIEFLY OUTLINED
Budget Had To Be Balanc
* ‘ r< etf; "S est fool g*K ep t Open,
and Property Taxes
!Sharply Reduced
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
SAW NO OTHER WAY
Chaos Would Have Resulted
Had Not Budget Been Bal.
anced, and Expenses Were
Pared to Lowest Possible
Point at Which Safety Re
mained
ll.'ilty l»l*|»nteli Itiirenn.
in I lie sir Wiilttr Hotel.
IIY J. V. IIAMvERVILL.
Raleigh, May 9.—Not many mem
bers of the General Assembly were
in favor of any kind of sales tax when
they came here January 4, and not
many of them are personally con
vinced that a sales tax is a sound
taf even now, although a maority in
both the Senate and House has voted
for a three percent general sates tax,
most observers here agree. Not more
than 10' per cent of the members in
either house came to the General As
sembly committeed to and in favor
of a sales tax. In fact, most of them
came here determined not to vote for
a sales tax or at least not until every
possible effort had been made to find
the necessary revenue from other
sources.
Yet after more than four months
of deliberation, in which the question
of a sales tax has been constantly
dominant, both houses of the General
Assembly are at last concuring in a
revenue bill containing a provision
for a three per cent general sales tax
on everything' except flour, meal,
molasses sugar, meat, milk and cof
fee.
Working of Legislative Mind.
Many people are frankly unable to
understand why, if 90 per cent of Jjrs
members of both houses have been
and still are opposed to the principle
of the sales tax, a majority finally
(Continued on Page Four)
AWILL
fROGERS
\7 Isays:
New York, May 9—Mr Roose
velt made us a mighty fin© speech
over the radio Sunday ►light. He
spoke our language: “Not bally
hoo the natiion to prosperity.”
“Nation in a tailspin.”
“Can’t make a hit every time
w(e come to bat.”
And in addition to all this, he
has the best radio voice in Amer
ica. Course, he just 4*ead the
minutes of the last meeting, but
he did it so tiice that we didn’t
hardly notice that he forgot to
mention what might be in his
mind for the future.
Yours,
* j • will.
MACDONALD FES
SURE OF TARIFFS
ACCORD WITH U. S.
Every Prospect of Reaching
Agreement, Prime Min.
ister Tells House
Os Commons
PROTEST INTEREST
BOTH GOVERNMENTS
Further Exchanges Have
Been Had Between Wash
ington and London;
Touches Also On War
Debts, Declaring Aim
Must Be for Permanent
Settlement
London, May 9.—(AP)—Prime Min
ister Ramsay MacDonald announced
in the House of Commons today that
there was every prospect of reaching
an agrement between Britain and the
United States as to the advisability
of an immediate tariff truce.
“There have been further exchanges
of views with the United States gov
ernment,” the prime minister said,
“and I am now in position to say that,
subject to settlment of the actual
words, and, while protecting the es
sential positions of both governments
there is every prospect of reaching an
agreement between them as to the
advisability of an immediate tariff
truce.”
Mr. MacDonald said the truce
would not prevent continuation of
work which Britain now has begun,
or was developing, in accordance with
announcements already made in the
House.
This reference to work before the
Commons evidently was an allusion to
British ,trade negotiations recently
made or announced as pending.
The prime minister also touched on
the war debts issue saying that “our
aim must be a permanent settlement.”
He declared that June 1,5, the due
date of the next installment, would
be an awkward hurdle.
Lindbergh Keaay
For Testimony In
Hearing of Means
Washington, May 9. —(AP)—Pre-
paratory to hearing testimony from
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh about
the kidnaping of his infant son more
than |a (year agnj, thiu IDistrfict of
i Columbia Supreme Court today lis
tened to the relation by Mrs. Evalyn
Walsh McLean of the activities she
undertook in an effort to obtain the
return of the child.
In her negotiations the estranged
wife of the former Washington pub
lisher lost $104,000 in a hoax by Gas
ton B. Means and Norman T. Whitak
er.
Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh arrived
■here last night by plane and visited
friends before going to the court this
morning.
SIGHSOF RELIEF
HEARD IN RALEIGH
)
Legislative Members and
Revenue Department Glad
End Is Near
Dnily DiNpnteh nnreaa,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh,, May 9—'Members of the
General Assembly, who have been in
Raleigh since early in January an
have gone wthout pay since earLy in
March, heaved a big sign, of relief
(Continued on Page Four.)
Wave Os Liberalism Hits
This Yearns Legislature
1933 Crop of Law-Makers H ave Not Feared To Tread on
New Ground and Blaze New Trails, With Result
Many Old Customers Have Been Changed
Dally Diopatcb Bareaa.
In the Sir Walter H«t*|.
BY HENRY LESESNE.
Raleigh, May 9. —It is generally
agreed by observers here htat the so
called “tomtit” General Assembly of
1933 : now in its dying days, has done
more to upset the prevailing order of
things han any other body of law
makers in recent years. For one thing
it has take nthe State off the pro
perty standard —for the next two
years, at least—and imposed a new
fangled sale's tax, which it borrowed
from Mississippi. But this was not
the only no man’s land upon which
the legislature dared, to tred, and un
like other legislatures of recent years,
it has refused to be stampeded by
moral reformers, with the result that
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY,
House Backs Up
Adm in istra tion!
On Farm Measure
• Farm Administrator?
■ '.''HR £ <■
George Peek, of Moline, 111., who, it
is reported in Washington, will be
the likely appointee for the posi
tion of Chief Administrator of the
farm measure now near final pass
age in Congress. Peek, long a stu
dent of agricultural problems, re
cently participated in a White
House conference on the application
of the bill, designed to raise the
orice of farm commodities.
cdSssionshere
Ambassador Ordered To
Continue Debt Negotia.
tions in Washington
PAYMENT IIS REFUSED
Cabinet in Paris Again Declines To
Pay December Interest With
out Moratorium; Herriot
Lead s Opposition
Paris, May 9. —(AP)—Andre de La
boulaye, French ambassador at Wash
ington was entrusted with further
debt negotiations by the cabinet to
day, which confirmed yesterday’s de
cision against paying the defaulted
$19,000,000 interest due last Decem
ber 15 unless a moratorium on the
ipayment due June 15 is certain or
there is an equivant development.
The ambassador aiso will continue
other discussions started by Edouard
Herriot, special envoy, on his recent
trip to Washington.
Herriot, it was learned, definitely
recommended immediate payment of
the debt interest defaulted last De
cember, but the cabinet, presided over
by President Albert Leßrun, rejected
the proposal.
Herriot’s friends expect him to lead
an active fight in the Chamber of
Deputies against the government’s
views.
MAN WHO COINED
WAR PHRASE DIES
San Francisco, Cal., May 9.
(AP) —A near* .ailment has ended
fife life of the army officer coin
ed the ringing war-time phrasei,
“Lafayette, we are here.”
Colonel Charles E. Stanton, 74,
whose declaration was made July
4, 1917 in Paris before the tomb
of the Frenchman who aided the
American colonies in the Revolu
tionary War, died last night. He
was stricken ill less than a week
ago-
it will probably be best remembered
for its liebaralism.
Some observers here are trying to
figure out whether the weary law
makers intended to include liberalism
in the “New Deal,” or whether they
just got so tired of being cussed on
every side that they went ahead and
did what they wanted to. Anyhow,
the fact remains that the 1933 Gen
eral Assembly has legalized 3 2 per
cent beer, set up machinery for a re
peal convention in December, modi
fied the State’s stringent marriage
and divorce laws, refused to get ex
<cited about legalizing horse racing
and pari-mutual betting, and has
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Cost of Production Amend,
ment Is Rejected by the
House* Approving
Rest of the Bill
SENATE EXPECTED
TO ACT TOMORROW
Proposal Then Will Go To
President for His Signa
ture and To Become Law;
$500,000,000 Relief Grant
to States Next Business for
the House
Washington, May 9.—(AP) The
House stopd squarely by the admin
istration today, rejecting the cost of
iproduction amendment to the vast
■farm relief inflation bill, approving
fhe' rest of the measure, and putting
it up to the Senate, where quick ag
reement was expected.
The Senate action, due tomorrow,
will be the last step necessary to
send the bill to President Roosevelt
for signature unless present indica
tions are reversed, and the senators
decide t 0 hold out for the Norris
(Simpson clause, which seeks to guar
antee the cost of production and a
reasonable profit to the farmer.
The House sutuu was voted
the members adopted the rule offer'ed
by the Democratic leaders to prevent
(Republican opponents from making
further technical delays. Only yes
terday they had blocked the vote by
making the point of order against a
change in the bill by the conferees.
Today’s, rule forbids any more points
of order.
Caught up with work, the senators
held no session today, but the Inter
state Commerce Committee conducted
a hearing on the railroad reorganiza
tion bill, with Commissioner Eastman
of the I. C. C., Secretary Roper and
fathers testifying. Eastman said eco
nomy would compel reduction of rail
road employment, but maintained that
wasteful practices could not be justi
fied jus* to make jobs.
Quickiy behind the farm bill, the
House went at Muscle Shoals to send
it to conference.
The next House job was approval
of the conference report on the Wag-
Efforts to Blow
Up City Hall At
Savannah Found
Savannah, Ga., May 9.—(Al»)
An effort was made to blow up
•he city hall today with dynamite.
Eight jsticks of fdynanpte
fuse attached and lighted were
found by a visitor in the city hall
shortly before 1 o’clock this aft
ernoon*
The dynamjte, wrapped in
brown paper, and tied with silk
cord, was discovered In a corner
of the routunda on the second
floor by Thomas D. Pruitt, who
was in the city hall on business.
He cut the paper open and dis
covered the dynamite.
Japs Take
New Lines
Os Chinese
Tokyo, May 9. — (AP) —Sweeping
through the city of Funing, Major
General Teizo Hiriaga’s 29th Japanese
infantry brigade today assaulted the
Chinese positions at Changli in north
exstern Chin below the Great Wall,
and bititer fighting was progressing,
Japanese sources reported.
Farther west, Major General Kunizo
Matsuda smashd two Chinese resis
tance centers with his eleventh in
fantry bridgade and was approaching
Anshaw with the intention of cutting
off the Chinese retreat from Changli.
The Shanhaikwan correspondent of
the Rengo (Japanese) News Agency
said several hours of bitter street
fighting preceded the capture of
Tsienan. .another town in. the area, by
Major General Yoshiki Takata’s 36th
infantry brigade
Six hundred Chinese bodies were
found in Tsienan, the Rengo corres
pondent reported, and the Japanese
lost two dead and nine wounded.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Mostly cloudy tonight and Wed
nesday; showers and local thun
derstorms Wednesday an din west
and north central portions to
night; slightly warmer except in
extreme south portion tonight;
warmer in etreme northeast and
cooler in west portion Wednesday*