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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR HOUSE BLOCKS WAR Doumergue Given Dictator Powers To Govern France Gives Him Supreme Power To Negotiate Tariff Trea ties and Regulate Economies BUDGET BALANCED BY SMALL MARGIN Heavy Majorities In Senate and Chamber Given Pre mier’s Plans for Operating Government for 193 4; Doumergue Now Turns To Stavisky Scandal I’.uis, March 1. -(AP) The Par of France, red-eyed from a lonjr -Urugglc. balanced the budget today, and. lowing to the insistance of tu venerable determined Premier i;;i<t(in Doumergue, made him a tariff dictator. The 1934 budget, as voted by Parlia :ncnt today, gives a surplus of 9.000.- yuO francs revenue over estimated ex penditures. The latter are fixed at 18.318.570.000 francs, or $3,110,707,000 The vote on the budget in the Cham her of Deputies was 458 to 132. and in the Senate 284 to 15. Just before acting on the budget, the Parliament granted Premier Dou mergue dictatorial powers to effect gc vcrnmcnt&l economies, and to man:- pmrtc ti*j. iffs in negotiating trade treaties. With the country’s finances thus as .'iired for the year, the premier’s hand I were freed today to press the inves tigation of the Stavisky banking scandal, in which investors lost $40,- <•00.000 when the Municipal Pawn Shop failed at Duyonnc; to allay untest in and out of Parliament, and to tfnckle urgent problems of foreign policy firmly and resolutely. Heavyweight Bout At Miami Is Ready For Hour Tonight Miami, Fla.., March I.—</Vl*) With file fight apparently assur ed by a favorable turn in the weather Tommy Loughlin, Amer ican challenger, stepped on the scales this afternoon and register ed at IHI pounds for Ills la-round heavyweight championship. I>ue to a misunderstanding. Camera fail ed to appear on time for the weigh big in. Liquor Is Now Legal In Capital Washington, March 1. —(AP) — Po lice dashed through the capital like modern Paul Reveres early today to spread word of “legal liquor” after 1" years of prohibition. Citizens i*y thousands cheered as Police cars, sirenes open, rushed to deliver retail liquor permits to 2Uu 'lulls, restaurants, hotels and night ' clubs. she dash started on the dot of mid night. •hist as Washington was, at least allegedly, dried up by the Sheppard act long (before prohibition, so it was lute in returning lawfully wet. Smoot Promised To Western Air Express Washington, March 1. —(AP) —Har- -1 M. Hanshue, president of Western Air Express, told Senate air mail in- Vt -si igators today that Ernest W. Sl "oot, .son of the former Utah senator h-ul "sold” the company on the idea li;,t Smoot could expedite a comptrol '-general's decision the company 'van ted. Government payments to the com hany were being held up at the time handing the comptroller’s decision. Smoot was hired and after the de '-i-ion was mp.de billed the company H.U» UE „,A>o£" soN ' Hettiteramt Uailxi <3 istmtrh Cabinet of Spain Resigns Suddenly Madrid, Spain, March I.— (Al*) —The entire government of Pre mier Alexjundro Lerroux resigned suddenly today. Reorganization of the ministry had been considered last night by Premier Lerroux after it was an nounced that two ministers—Diego Martinez Barrios of the department of the interior, and Minister of the Treasury Gomez Lara—planned to resign. However, the resignation of the entire cabinet, reorganized on January 23. came as a surprise move. fIIMnT FOR MONEY PLANS TO BE PERMITTED Administration’s Desire Is To Go Through Fiscal Year June 30 on Pre sent System DEFINITE POLICY WILL FOLLOW THEN Secretary Morgenthau Testi fies Before House Com mittee Considering Central Federal Authority With Currency Issuing Powers For Nation Washington, March I.—(AP)—The administration’s desire to try present monetary plans for at least the re mainder of this fiscal year before a fixed policy is determined upon was conveyed to Congress today by Secre tary' Morgenthau. Testifying to a House Banking sub committee on a bill to establish a central Federal authority with cuir icncy issuing powers, Morgenthau said: “I think this study the committee is making is very worthwhile and important. The country has just come through one of the most difficult fi (Contluued on Page Five.) Insurance Head Reveals Further Money Jugglings Nashville, Tenn., March 1.-* —(AP)— J. I, Recce, former State insurance commissioner, testified in State crim inal court today that there was no money in the “unadjusted back tax account” when he undertook to ten der it to his successor, Joseph F. Tobin, and that the latter declined to accept “my trusteeship in the mai tcr.” Reece said the account, which he declared had aggregated about $22,- 000, was held by him individually and not as commissioner. He had testified previously that it was used in the 1932 general election campaign of Governor Hill McAlister whose appointee, Tobin, was sworn in to succeed Reece January 19, 1933. for $15,000 “for services rendered.” He testified he was not paid the full u mount. Hanshue said Smoot, at a meeting in New York, told him he would get his father, Reed Smoot, at that time senator, to write a letter to McCarl. "You knew the chief object of hJs employment was to get a favorable decision from the comptroller-gen eral?” Chairman Black asked. “To assist in extraditing” Hanshue corrected. "I don’t think anybody could do much with the comptroller general.” ONLY DAILY L mA 9ED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Results NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VII^INIA. HENDERSON, N. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 1, 1934 COMMITTEE SOLID AGAINST DIVERSION OF HIGHWAY FUNDS Some Difference of Opinion as to Possibility of Cut In License Plate Prices JEFFRESS EXPLAINS HIGHWAY FINANCES Says State Will Be On Its Own Again Soon As To New Construction, With out U. S. Help, With Roads Needed and no Funds Ready for Purpose Daily Ui*|»at<*h llurcnit. In lli«* Sir Waller Motel. MV J. C. BASK Bit VI 1,1,. Raleigh, March I.—-Diversion of highway money, collected from auto mobile and gasoline taxes, was solidly opposed by the committees that met here today' and yesterday studying motor taxation and road construction and conditions. There was some dif ference of opinion as to whether any reduction in the cost of automobile license plates could be made under existing present conditions But most of the committee members agreed that if the next and succeeding gen eral assemblies will insist that high way money be used for highway pur poses and nothing else, that some re duction in license plates costs can be made in 1935. with further additional reduction later on and still leave enough money to meet road bond and interest payments and have some left over for new road construction. There are so many different angles to the situation with regard to high way revenues and needs which must i be considered that the committees de- i cided to await additional information and analyze it before making any de finite recommendations with regard to any reduction in the cost of auto mobile licenses. The committees that met here Wednesday were the com mittee on motor vehicle taxation and j diversion, of which E. C. Brooks, of j Durham, is chairman, and the com mittee on road construction and con ditions. of which Joseph P. Rawley, of High Point, is chairman, Mr. Rawley could not be present, so that the committees met jointly, with Mr. Brooks presiding. The committees were appointed and the meeting call ed. by the Carolina Motor Club to assist it in formulating its next leg islative program. A resume of the present highway situation in the State was given (be fore the joint committee by Chair man E. B. Jeffress, of the State Hign way and Public Works Commission. Ho told the committee that prior to the 1933 General Assembly not a sin gle cent of highway fund revenue had ever been diverted to any other use. hut that the 1933 General As sembly provided that if there was as much as $1,000,000 remaining in the highway fund at the end of the next fiscal year- which is June 30, 193 1 that $1,000,000 may be diverted from it to the general fund. It. was also pointed out that the entire cost of maintaining the State’s prison system, containing some 85 different camps and units and more than 7,000 piv soners, is now being paid from the highway fund. The cost of this is not " tntlnued uu Pag# Six) IN SSycase Mississippi Woman Doctor Charged With Poisoning Doctor Friend Greenwood, Miss., March I. (API- Final arguments-unlimited under Mis sissippi law —were started at mid morning today in the murder trial of Dr. (Sarah Ruth Dean, charged with poisoning Dr. John Preston Kennedy last July. “You can take the bridle off and hang it on the gatepost,” Presiding Judge F. F. Davis told opposing coun sel. “There’s no limit on your speeches.” As the jury was brought into the court room at 10:30 a. m., after the early morning had been consumed in attorneys’ conferences over the pre paration of instructions. Judge Davis had a word for the jam of specta tors, mostly women, crowded into his court. “If you get tickled and want to laugh moderately, you can” he said. “But we won’t have any applauding or hurrahing here. You must not show what side your sympathies are on in this law suit.” Business As Usual in Teeth of Bhzza,^. Not only did the blizzard that swept Eastern seaboard cover New York area to a depth of 9 mehe- ,i • ®lso blow the March of Progress into reverse. While mail planes were grounded, Old Dobbin with'-.r. fas Inmicd «•«« H-P) carried the mail at Mineola. L. I. Left, kee»4 open hiusc at the Wh k H, use with a snowplow; and at right, a plow stir* things up on New York’s Broadway to keep traffic moving (Centrul Press) War Departmen t Resisting House s Huge Airplane Buy Washington, March I.—(AP)—Sec retary Dern smacked “beyond any sane estimate” label today across any congressional plans for a wide expen sion of army aviktion. The War Department and its one time traditional ally, the House Mili tary Affairs Committee, thereupon broke off friendly relations. The com mittee promptly prepared a comeback of its own . Dern singled out for attack two bills introduced by Chairman McSwain. one of which would give the army 4,384 new planes. In a statement to the commitee, he termed them ‘,one-sia- Sec Bailey Men Kidding Mr. Fountain Senator Prefers Rocky Mount Man Over Ehringhaus as 1936 Opponent Dully UiNpnkh llureitu. In the Sir Walter Hotel. IIY J. C. UASKERVILL. Raleigh, March 1. —There is little doubt here but that former Lieutenant Governor R. T. Fountain is already running for the nomination for United States senator in 1936. He has admit ted that he may be a candidate and hisclosc friends say he is already a candidate. The question now is, how ever, whether or not Fountain has been or is being “kidded” into run ning by the friends and supporters 4>t Senator Josiah W. Bailey, who will come up for reelection at that time, in an effort to keep a stronger can didate or stronger candidates out of the contest. Friends of Fountain are frankly un able to understand the inteiest which acknowledged Bailey men and re cipients of Bailey-Shuping patronage are taking in Fountain’s prospective candidacy, and the manner in which they are openly praising Fountain and picturing him as the most dan gerous opponent that Senator Bailey could have in the 1936 primary for the Democratic nomination for the Senate “I can’t understand the apparent tremendous interest which Senator (Continued on Pass Two.) WEATHER FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy and'warmer tonight and Friday; rain Friday and beginning late tonight or Friday in south west portion. FOB HENDERSON. For 24-hour period ending in forenoon today: Highest tempera ture, 26; lowest, 22; no rain; north east wind; claudy. VETERANS MEASURE ed’\ "partisan,” and “even prompted by self-interest.” “The first of these two bills,” he said, “would provide an air force so far beyond any sane estimate of our defensive needs, and so costly that its passage could <be construed by the world only an evidence either of ai dent militarism or immediate war,” MdSwain forthwith invited the war secretary to come up and tell his com mittee about it. He added: “The committee has several times requested Secretary Dern to appear before it and explain his attitude, but he has never come. We are still ready Four Lose Lives When Home Burns Brooklyn, N. Y., March I.—(AD —A mother and three children were hurtled to death and a fourth child critically burned when fire swept the top floor of a five-story tenement house early today. The fire was discovered about A a. in. Firemen, with the aid of lad ders, reached the top floor and found the bodies scattered about though the occupants had tried to escape. The head of the family, a street sweeper, was not at home and poi.ee could not reach him im mediately. New liuler Crowned In ✓ Manchukuo Henry Pu -Yi Be comes Emperor As His Own and Jap Troops Protect Him (Copyright, By the Associated Press.) Hsinking (Changchun), Manchukuo, March 1. —(AP)A new dynasty was born today under the protecting guns of more than 50,000 soldiers when Henry Pu-Yi became Kang Teh, em peror of the “great Manchu empire.’* A bullet-proof limousine made in America carried him to and from the imperial palace. Barbed wire stock ades kept back the throngs. Every where were the soldiers —Manchuk- uan and Japanese. They formed human walls along the five-mile route from the palace to the “altar of heaven.” For every three Manchukuan soldiers, there was one Japanese trooper in the lines. Thus did Japan, which sponsored the new empire, and Manchukuo itself seek to protect the young emperor from any attempt upon his life. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. to have hinv appear at his conven ience.” McSwain said he would apply all possible pressure to have the House adopt today a resolution to authorize a committee investigation of all army procurement methods. The committee would hire special investigators. The atmosphere between the War Department and the House group has been strained for weeks. Committee members stated publicly that the de partment was violating the bill of Congress by purchasing airplanes without competitive i aiding fjMSM" Revenue Department Offi cials Point Out Differ ence In Levies Daily DiMpnlcb Bureau, 111 the Sir Walter Hotel, IIV .1. C IIASKERVILL. Raleigh, March I—Moving picture theatre admissions are not subject to the State three per cent retail sales tax it was pointed out by officials of the State Department of Revenue to day, although reports have been re ceived here to the effect- that some theatre operators have posted signs in their ticket windows, as for in stance “Admission 35 cents, tax 1 cent, total 36 cents.” There is nothing illegal with this, however, or even misleading, provid ed the words “sales tax” are not used, it was pointed out. For the General Assembly of 1933 did levy a privilege tax of three per cent on the gross in come of theatres, whenever the gross income exceeds the base tax which is paid in advance, once a year, and bas ed upon the population of the city or town in which the theatre is located. (So if a theatre operator can “get away with it” and the public will stand for it and he can charge 36 cents admission instead of 36 cents, he is passing virtually his entire tax fContinued on Page Five.) Roosevelt Will Outline On Monday NRA’s Future Washington, March I.—(AP)—Presi dent Roosevelt will disclose his plans for NRA in a personal appearance Monday before the group meeting called y Administrator Hugh S. John son to hear complaints. This was made known today as criticism was received from a large number of persons whp came here at the invitation of Johnson to air their views. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY mmm Rainey Assumes Some Days Will Go By Before Vete rans Issue Comes To Showdown BANKHEAD CONTROL MEASURE ENLARGED Would Run Two Years* With President Empowered To Make It Third If He Desires; Wagner Offers Bill To Ban Labor Minority Representation Washington, March I. (AP) House supporters of the Senate “lar gesse” for veterans were foiled, fdT the time at least, today when Speak er Rainey prevented early considera tion of the bill there. By a parliamentary maneuver dur ing renewal of debate on the $62,000,- 000 agriculture department approp riation, he practically assumed that some days would go by before a House decision would be necessary on enlarging these regular veterans pay ments. The Senate, meanwhile, faced fili bustering tactics against the navaJ construction measure. One vehicle of opposition talk was Philippine inde pendence, as viewed by King, Demo crat, Utah. A House committee extended the proposed Bankhead compulsory cot ton control .bill to two years, with a third year possible should the Presi dent desire. Neither branch has acted on this measure. Senator Wagner, Democrat, New York, chairman of the NRA National Labor Board, put forth a bill to ban company unions, make the labor board permanent and deny the right of di rect representation to labor minorities Almost simultaneously, the labor board decided unanimously to defer the case of the Wfeirton Steel Com pany, Weirton, W. Va., to the Depart ment of Justice for immediate action. The cjompany challenges the NRA position on unionization. With tihesevaried aspects of the ad ministration program at the front, more planning was going ahead to spur business. It appeared that the President soon would hear from his financial advisors on the proposed in termediate industrial bank to make capital loans. Execution At Prison Is Halted Raleigh, March 1. —(AP) —The law that would tako his life moved today to halt the electrocution of Theodora Cooper, Durham Negro, convicted of murder, at State’s Prison tomorrow. Cooper, whose attorney has an nounced abandonment of an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States, was granted a short stay of execution today by Governor Ehring haus delaying the Negro’s scheduled execution until March 16. The stay was granted upon advice of the State attorney general's office, which point ed out that Cooper’s counsel should give the Supreme Court notice of with drawal of the appeal. Clyde Ferrell, Durham white man, who also had been scheduled to die tomorrow for murder, was saved from the chair by a last minute appeal to the State Supreme Court yesterday. The President’s address, at 11 a. m. eastern standard time, will be broad cast to the nation. Significance was attached by observers to the sudden decision to address the conference. Some believe the President would give his ideas for the future of the national recovery act, as well as take up some of the complaints presented at the invitation of Johnson,
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