HENDERSON
GA I'KWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
President Asks Congress
To Permit Him To Set Up
Reciprocal Tariff Pacts
RE-ENACTMENT OF
PHILIPPINES BILL
LIKEWISE SOUGHT
In Two Pointed Messages to
The House, Roosevelt
Raises Controver,
sial Issues
PUTS NO LIMIT ON
TARIFF CONCESSION
Prolongation of Session Os
Congress Beyond Time De
sired for End Appears Cer- !
tain Now; Radical Amend
ments on Philippine Free
dom Asked
Washington, March 2. (AP) Pres
idi nl Roosevelt, today asked Congress
in nuthhrizc him to bargain with for
eii-*n nations on tariff concessions and
in le-ennct the Philippine indepen
dence hill.
In iwo pointed messages read to the
ILni.i, lie thrust forward issues al
i ■ nl v eei tain of rousing opposition
oil pii. il»|y threatening proton gal ion
nl in*' ession past the time wanted I
In 'lie IVtuotTfillc leadership
,-i.i,'i!n reaction had to wait, that
I i ■rail ’•‘••lug in recess so it could not
to I i < reive the presidential request.
1'..; power "to enter into commercial
is mi nts with foreign nations, and
is pin .'-nance thereof with carefully ,
unaided limits to modify existing
duties and import restriction in such
i nay as will benefit American agrl
*‘iil me and• indusf ry *'
11. mentionefl no limit for the tariff
11m.vs;.ions, hut the administration
t ill put it at 50 percent of the existing
Icxcls,
On the Phillipine hill, the President
a -Led that the Hawes-Cutting bill,
which recently expired, be revived for
consideration by the Filipino people.
ll.' would have it amended, however,
in assure immediate relinquishment
nf American military bases upon real
ization of independence and to pro
vale fin discussions about how tne
"aval bases should be treated.
“After the attainment of actual in
dependence" by the Filipinos, wrote
Mr. Roosevelt, “friendship and trust
will live." Preparation of these presi
dential messages coincided with plans
to Initiate legislation against the prac
tice before government departments of
lawyers who have political posts.
Argument over granting executive
I a»we i lo shift tariffs in the attempt
to quicken international trade had to
wait its day in the House. Still drag
ging along there was debate on the
agiicultuie supply bill.
Slavisky’s
Widow Held
For Court
I a ken By Secret Ser
' tee in Paris After
Discovery of Cheek
Stubs
I’m is. March 2. (APl—Mme. Ar
" He Stavlsky, beautiful widow of the
"ian who caused the notorious “Stav
isk V scandal," which brought In its
wake the overthrow of two govern
'•"*ats, was arrested today by tia
'•’let. service.
Die arrest followed the recovery
'"i the secret service of check stubs
giving the names of many rcceipients
,ls "hearer" checks from the master
' w indler.
Ilie police long have sought these
bib. in their efforts to identify those
who had received millions of dollars
bom Slavisky, and who likewise had
' 1 li.d millions of dollars worth of
eh.ck s which he made out to him
self.
The. police said they had recover
'd the stubs from a “personality.”
Tin "personality” was not named.
They revealed for the first time
Hull Mrs. Stavisky, on the day after
liet husband either committed suicide
"i was killed in a lonely villa at
Chamonix, gave the stubs to a friend.
From the hands of the friend they
leached the mysterious "personality.”
The stubs, it was said, record trans
itions of millions of dollar*.
tit MfISI.IF PERRY MEMORIAL ÜBRAR*
A HENDERSON, N. G.
tmtiterßnn Satin Hispatrix
Named in Airmail Investigation
Reed Smoot Ernest Smoot
Ernest W. Smoot, son of former Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, told the
senate committee investigating airmail contracts that he was engaged
as public relations’ representative in Washington for Western Air
Express at a time when he was receiving $3,025 a year from the gov
ernment as his father’s private secretary.
(Central Press)
Wake Forest
Has Another
Costly Fire
j
Golf Clul) Hoit s c
Burns; Bloodhounds
Used To Determine
Incendiarism
Wake Forest, March 2—(AP)
Bloodhounds were used here today in
efforts to ascertain if a fire which
destroyed the club house of the W'ake
Forest golf course early this morn
ing had been of incendiary origin.
The .blaze came close on the heels
of the burning of Wingate hall, the
Wake Forest chapel, and discovery of
what officials said was an attempt to
set fire to Hunter dormitory.
Ln the last year the college also sui
fered the loss of Waite hall, oldest
hall on the campus, and the Wake
Forest school also burned.
HOLD TWO NEGROES
IN WAXHAW SLAYING
Monroe, March 2 (AP)—Union coun
ty officers were holding today two Ne
groes, Rot) Henry and Tom Gaston
in connection with the sledge ham
mer slaying last Tuesday of J. E-
Williams, 52-year-old Waxliaw night
watchman. Sheriff B. F. Nevin said
formal charges had not been prefer
red against the suspects pending fur
ther investigation.
Officers said Henry, arrested near
his Wavhaw home, had splotches on
his shoes resembling blood. He was
formerly fireman at the mill where
Williams was a watchman.
DR. WYNEKOOPON
STAND AT HEARING
Defendant Has To Sit Down
To Testify at Her Own
Murder Trial
Criminal Courts Building. Chicago,
March 2.—(AP)—Dr. Alice Wyne
koop took the witness stand today in
her own defense as her second trial
for the murder of her daughter-in
law, RJhota, reached its climax.
Pale and trembling, Dr. Wynekoop
was carried to the stand by three
bailiffs. The chair was removed from
the witness box and the one upon
which Dr. Alice had been sitting witn
the defendant in it was substituted.
“I won’t be able to stand to be
sworn,’’ Dr. Alice nervously told a
court attache.
“What will I do?”
She was told she could take the
oath while seated.
Dr. Wynekoop’s face was an ashen
gray. She wore the familiar blacn
caracul coat and black felt hat, with
black veil. Her daughter, Dr. Cath
erine, hovered nearby as the defen
dant took her place. Seated in the
press row near the railing, was her
son, Walter, and near him was his
wife, Marcia.
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WIIIE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
HENDERSON, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 2, 1934
BAN ON POLITICAL
LAWYERS SPEEDED
Roosevelt Gives Word To
Congressional Leaders
To Put on Steam
Washington, March 2.—(AP) lYos- j
Went Roosevelt gave the word to con- i
gressiondl leaders today to speed ac- j
lion on legislation to bar political 1
lawyers from practicing before gov- \
ernment departments.
The general outline of comprchen- I
sive legislation to prohibit national !
committeemen and members of Con- |
gress from handling cfases against
the government was gone over by
the President with members of Con
gress.
Secretary Morgenthau joined the
conference and agreed with the pro
vision to prevent Treasury field agents
from collecting party funds.
The authors of proposed legislation j
who met at the White House, left
for Capitol Hill to call a general j
meeting of interested congressmen
to draft a bill.
Socialists
Challenge
In Madrid
Madrid, March 2. —(AP) —Socialists
issued a challenge to the present gov
ernment of Spain or any similar cab
inet —as President Alcala Zamora
sought today to solve the crisis creat
ed by the resignation of the ministry
of Premier Alejandro Lcrroux.
In a. note enumerating the party h
complaints against recent political de
velopments, Socialist leaders told the
president “Congress should be imme
diately dissolved.”
The challenge as issued hile Presi
dent Zamora was continuing confer
ences with political leaders regarding
the forming of a new cabinet.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Rain tonight and . Saturday;
warmer tonight and in east and
central portions Saturday.
Robbers Get $60,000 From
Richmond Bank’s Messenger
Richmond,. Va„ March 2.—(AP)—
Six armed bandits today held up a
guard of the State Planters Bank and
Trust Company and robbed him of
$60,000.
Officers said the robbery occurred
presumably while the guard, William
H. Coghill, was on his way from the
Federal Reserve Bank. He was stop
ped at the entrance to an alley.
Traffic police on duty on busy city
streets nearby were unaware of the
Favored Report
For Cotton Bill
Washington, March 2.—(AP) —
Tlio House Agriculture Committee
today decided to report favorably
tlie Bankhead compulsory cotton
crop reduction bill.
The vote was 14 to 6. Chairman
.Jones, Democrat, Texas, announced
that party lines split, but he de
clined to make public the roll call, j
CONSTITUTION OF '
AUSTRIA SCRAPPED
BY OOLLFUSS ACT
Government Lets It Be
Known It Is Ruliing ‘By
Natural Law” From
Now On
STATE HAS RIGHT
TO ITS EXISTENCE
Leaders In Duty Bound To
Defend It Without Regard
To Legal, or Even Constitu,
tional Limitations, Is Posi
tion Taken By Authorities
(Copyright by the Associated Press.)
Vienna, March 2. (AP)—For the
first time since Chancellor Engelbert
Dollfuss shelved parliament one year
ago, the government today frankly
cast the const it ution into the political
waste basket and let it be known it
is ruling “by natural law, which stands
above the constit^ition.”
The new basis., of government was
explained in the official gazette by
Robert. Hecht ,an expert in constitu
tional law. He had advised Dollfuss on
the legal aspect of each step taken
since rule >by emergency degrees be- i
gan.
Whether the destruction of Vienna’s
municipal government, elected by
more than 60 percent. of the voters
in 1932, is legal or illegal is
not of decisive importance, Hecht
said.
"For," he added, “the state has the
right to exist, and its leaders are in
duty bound to defend it without re
gard to legal—even constitutional —li-
mitations.”
One of the cabinet's first steps after
the recent civil war was to declare
null and void the position and pre
rogatives of any one elected on the
Socialist tickets.
W ant Limit
For Arming
Os Germany
French Cabi ne t
Would Make Slight
Concession to Hitler
j On Conditions
Paris, March 2.—(AP) —The French
cabinet decided today that Chancellor
Hitler’s request for re-armament of
Germany could not ibe accepted unless
adequate assurances were given that
new armaments limits shall be ob
served.
Great Britain will be asked to come
to the defense of France if Germany
should break such an agreement.
High army, navy and air chiefs,
forming the national defense council
responsible for France’s armed streng
th, are to submit their opinion to the
cabinet.
Official notes to Great Britain
then will be drafted by Premier Gas
ton Doumergue’s ’’ military directory”
composed of War Minister Petain, All*
Minister Denain and Naval Minister
Pertrir, with Foreign Minister Louis
Barthou.
robbery until the bandits’ car had
sped out. of the alley.
Nearby police stations and State
highway patrolmen were notified im
mediately and a widespread hunt was
begun.
Police were told that the robbery
was committed toy six men in a black
sedan.
Bank officials said that the entire
amount of currency is covered by in
surance.
Coghill, about 55 years old, and a
Roosevelt Will Announce
NR A s Permanence At Meet
In Washington On Monday
Royal Rulers of Manchukuo
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lH—B
Htf I Ihl^P
ili' - A m
Vliewj photos Henry Pu-Yi
uid his consort, Kuo Ilsia Si, the
mperor and empress of the new
\siatic state of Manchukuo.
INTERSTATE SALES
. TAX PROGRESSING
Roosevelt Support for Pro
ject May Be Asked As
Urge to Congress
Daily DiM|»n4«-h lltimm,
In tin* Sir Waller Hotel.
It Y .1. V. II ASKER VILL.
Raleigh, March 2.—The pending bill
in Congress to permit states with
State sales tax laws to collect this
tax on goods in interstate commerce
—that, is, on goods purchased from
mail order houses or stores in other
states- is receiving much attention in
Congress and making unexpected pro
gress, despite the editorial sneer di
rected at it by the Raleigh News and
Observer following release of the let
ter by Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus
advocating the bill. A news dispatch
from the'Washington bureau of The
News and Observer in the issue of
yesterday admitted that the bill was
making excellent progress and arous
ing favorable interest. The bill is now
before a special sub-committee.
The bill was recently represented
by The News and Observer here as
bing nothing more than an effort, to
permit, the states to erect protective
tariff walls around them, when the
governor’s letter to the State’s con
gressional delegation asking them to
advocate the bill, was released. But
this is by no means the case, it is
explained, since the bill is designed
to do nothing more than require that
purchases of good made outside of
any state having a sales tax- -and
there are 22 such states now —that
either the mail order house, the store
(Continued on Page Four.)
long time employee of the bank, as a
watchman, was returning from the
Federal Reserve Bank, accompanied
by two Negro porters.
As they started to cross an alley
on the west side of Ninth street, be
tween Main and Franklin, a large
car pulled out of the alley, blocking
their course. Three men jumped from
the care with pistols, overpowered tne
watchman and two porters, took Cog
hill’s pistol and his bag containing
$60,000.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
J Henry Pu-Yi, former “boy em
peror” of China, lias been in
stalled as emperor under Japanese
I protection.
Says State
Losing Out
At Capital
Discord of Congress
men, Espe ci a 11y
Senators, Hurting
North Carolina
Daily Dlspnt«*H Dureaa,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
II V J. C U ASKEIi VILL.
Raleigh, March 2—North Carolina
is not only losing millions of dollars
worth of projects to which it is en
titled, but is losing out in many other
ways as a result of the apparent dis
cord within the North Carolina dele
gation in Washington, according to
several persons who have just re
turned from Washington. Much of
this is laid either to the inability or
refusal of Senators J. W. Bailey and
Robert Reynolds to pull together for
the benefit of the State as a whole.
“Other states are getting the cake
and the cream in Washington because
their senators and representatives
(Continued on Page Four.)
review™
YEAR IS RECALLED
Democratic Committee
Wishes to Avoid Odium
of Any Propaganda
Washington, March 2.—(AP) — The
Democratic National Committee has
withdrawn a review it prepared of
President Roosevelt’s first year in the
White House, entitled, “One Year’s
Record.”
Charles Michelson, publicity direc
tor, made this explanation:
“Because this story was issued
through the offices of the Democratic
National Committee, and (because tne
committee at this time is anxious to
avoid the issuance of any statement
which can be possibly construed Sts
partisan propaganda detrimental to a
united national effort for recovery,
the release referred to is hereby
withdrawn from publication.”
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ALL SOLEMNITY Os
A STATE OCCASION
Will Be Comparable To
Formal Opening of Con
gress, With Digni
taries Present
HIGH OFFICIALS TO
ATTEND THE EVENT
Speech Will Be Partly In Na
ture of Report on His First
Year, But Will Also Out
line Future Plans; NR A
Forum Virtually Is Ended
(Copyright by the Associated Press.),
Washington, March 2.—(AP)—Presi
dent Roosevelt will recognize NR A
as a permanent force in the national
life next Monday by investing his ad
dress to a huge assembly of code au
thorities with all the solemnity of a
state occasion.
Quietly an array of officials, exceed
ed only by that gathered for the open
ing of Congress, has been summoned
to flank the chief executive.
From the thus panoplied platform
of Constitution Hall, he will propound
new ideas to more than 3,000 busi
ness men elected by their fellows to
rule over code-controlled industries.
The entire cabinet was called to at
tend, along with the chief government
emergency directors, the leaders of
Congress, Democrats, Republicans,
and Independents as well, and the
boards protecting the interests of
minorities and special groups under
NRA.
The boxes of the ibig hall have been
set aside for cabinet wives and of
ficial families. Women members of
Congress and have been given special
seats. Minor officials began a scram
ble today because of (he shortage of
seats.
The President’s speech will be part
ly in the nature of a report on the
first year of his regime, but close as
sociates confidentially expect him to
talk of future plans.
The open forum for public criticism
of NRA is to all intents wound up. A
couple of meetings were carried on to
day for late comers, but the com
plaint forum already has gathered
enough information to confirm admin
istration opinion on shortcomings of
the present program.
SIXTH DISTRICT’S
TRADE ON THE UP
Atlanta, Ga.., March 2.—(AP)—lndi
cations that trade and industrial ac
tivities in the sixth Federal reserve
district during January, 1934, was at
a “substantially” higher level than the
preceding January are reported by the
Federal Reserve Bank for this dis
trict in its monthly review.
Bitter End
Fight Over
The Tariff
Republicans Raise
Battle Cry Against
President for The
Campaign
Washington, March 2. —(AP) — A
fight "to the bitter end” confronted
President Roosevelt’s tariff proposals
today.
Embattled Republicans were appar
ently ready to carry the issue into
the fall campaigns. The plan, whicH
would give the President wide powers
to raise or lower tariffs in negotiat
ing reciprocal treaties with foreign
nations was ready for submission to
Congress. There was some doubt, how
ever, whether Mr. Roosevelt would
send it there today, because the Sen
ate is in recess.
Republicans did not await its ar
rival to open fire. The G. O. P. minor
ities in the Senate and House were
rallied against the proposal.