HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR Congress Welcomes Roosevelt Ehringhaus To Lead Five Governors In Tobacco Cut Demands On The Congress 40 PCI UNIFORM TAX RECUCTION IS 10 BE REQUESTED South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia Executives Invited WOULD MEET NEXT WEEK AT CAPITAL Slates Involved Are Nation’s Principal Weed-Producing States; Governor’s Action Follows Conference With Committee of the Growers Kalei-h, April 13. (AP) —Governor Khrinjrhaus this afternoon asked chief rXftutives of five tobacco growing to meet with him in Washing ton next week to seek a 40 percent uniform reduction in the Federal tax in rill tobacco products. The call went to the governors ol Ninth Carolina. Virginia, Tennessee. Kentucky, and Georgia, which, with Ninth Carolina, are the nation's prin ripnl weed-producing states. I’.ht inghaus" action followed a con fi’tcnee here with representatives of North Carolina growers who memor ialized Congress to vote the 40 per cent tax reduction as recommendcc by a congressional sub-cornmittce. We insist that effective steps be 1 1 ken by Congress and the AAA to in.-ure that the decrease in the tax hill he reflected equitably in increas e*l prices to tire tobacco grower for hr tobanjo, and in reduced prices to Hu' consumer,” the resolution said. Alibi Is Defense Os Accused Man In Rockingham Court Rockingham, April 13 (AT*) —Coun- st' for 1 ieorge Robins today paraded a long string of witnesses to the si nd m Richmond County Superior eeuit iri an effort to save him from the electric chair. H» and James Sanders are on trial Hiareod with slaying Mrs. Robins March Ik, but their defenses are be m <- conducted separately, and evi t|i'"i r> rt aiK | erH p aß no t begun. "be Robins defense consisted niain -1 "f efforts to corroborate the de b'odant. who testifie he w,s n,,t Rt home Time the kill in K took place. FERA Has Thousands On The Job ” ( >rk Resumed on Main Projects Un finished When CWA ” as Disbanded llillci Kh, April 13 (AJP)~ Several '"'isand North Carolina uncmploy !' i°bs again today as the Fede- Rniergency Relief Administration '''"'il work resumed on a number ci\ a ' unfinished when the Vi W! oJ ectg in practically every It of Population in the State. 20/hm/ * x P e cted that approximately to w. ,! , rSO, ‘ B will bo ultimately put iahccj 11 t" 1 P ro je c tß left unfin- J n „ v , b« peak OWtA payroll was g lar / of 70 -000, but when the pro -2k (xmi 7"* concluded there were only Ai, Workers employed. t»be fc „ 0l , lg pro Jects on which work has ~ are the state Capitol ' u "' •Irport In Raleigh. ' L 4feCft A ‘- fc SUE PERRY MEMORIAL 1 _ m __ L j V . HENDERSON. N.ft ittetwtt&ixn Satin Stspatrlt Evidence Shows Utility Efforts In 1929 To Get Connection In Schools 1 hree In F amily Crossing Victims Vicksburg, Miss., April 13.—(AP) —Three members of one family were fatally injured and one other seriously hurt today when an Il linois Central passenger train struck the automobile in which the four was riding near Bovina, Miss., seven miles east of Vicksburg. The dead: Oscar Williams, 55; Mrs. Oscar Williams, 31; and their three-year-old daughter. Willie laouvina Williams. The four-year-old son of the Wil liams couple, Oscar, sustained a possible skull fracture and was brought here in a grave condition. Recent Attacks on Proposal Have Served to Attract Attention to It WILL BE VOTED UPON General Assembly Last Year Approv ed Commission’s Work and Pass ed Measure on to Elector ate Next November ' 'l'llA 1151 MS VU ‘J T All -MS ■»*» “I 'nnaanu qjimlmiu X||i«tl Raleigh, April 13—An increasing amount of public attention is_being focused on the proposed new State Constitution which will be submitted to the voters of the State for adop tion in the November election this fall, and people are becoming more and more interested in it, according to opinion in political and State cir cles here. One reason for this inter est in the prQposed new basic law of the State, it is agreed, are the bitter attacks which have been made upon it recently by Attorney General Den nis G. Brummitt and a few others who are opposed to it. Quite a number of observers here feel that she Attorney general is really going to help the chances, for the adoption of the new Constitution by focusing pubblic at tention upon it by his bitter opposition to it. ‘‘The proposed Constitution gets its, strength from the very points which the attorney general labels as weak nesses,” says an editorial in the Dur ham Herald of Wednesday, April 11, which presents one of the best in formed discussions of the new Consti tution yet seen in print, according to those who are familiar the new document. ’‘lt removes restrictions which the legislature has consistently ignored and the attorney general has not yet put a stop to it. He can’t, for the simple reason that conditions de mand things the (present) Constitu tion prohibits. The C<#stitution of 1868 embodies the principles of gov ernment as then conceived by men who were guided and probably coerc ed by circumstances then at hand. These principles have been expanded, stretched and ignored until they no longer retain their identity or suit pro sent needs. The way to destroy con stitutional government is to cling >v to an otuworn constitution that has be come a handicap.” The proposed new constitution, as all these who are familiar with it know, was written and adopted by the 1933 General Assembly after the Senate and House committee had re worked the suggested new Constitu tion, as submitted by the Constitu tional Coccission, created by the 1933 general assembly and charged with the task of preparing a draft of a new constitution to submit to the 1933 assembly. Chief Justice W. P. Stacy of the State Supreme Court, was chair man of this commission, while mem (Continued on Page Six.) ONLY DAILY SE RVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON, N. 0. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 13, 1934 Electric Power Industry Ap. proved Plan for Picked Executives In Each • State MINUTES READ TO TRADE COMMISSION No Evidence To Show Whether Program Outlin ed Was Ever Actually At tempted or Not; Educa tional Committee Members Were Not Involved Washington, April 13. —(AP)—Evi- dence to show that the electric powet industry in 1929 approved a plan to seek utility executives in every state to strengthen corporation with hetds of educational institutions was pro duced today in the Federal Trade Commission utility inquiry. Minutes of the public relations ses sion of the National Electric Light Association, dated March 6, 1929, dis closed the utility members of a com mittee of cooperation with education al institutions obtained the approval of the public relations executive com mittee for such a step. Educational members of the com mittee were not involved in the re port. There was no evidence to show whether the industry ever took the. step outlined by the committee, which also recommended a definition of po licy for cooperation with educational institutions. The National Electric Light Asso ciation has since been dissolved and replaced by the Edison Electric In stitute. EEXTBOOKAWARDS NOE MADE AS YET State Board of Education Still Hearing Publish, ers’ Agent Dully Dlopntch Dnn>n« In the YViilter Hotel. RV J. *' BABKKRVILL. Raleigh, April 13. —The State Board of Education is still hearing represen tatives of textbook publishers whose books are on the lists recommended for adoption by the iSftate Textbook Commission. The board finished its hearings on elementary history texts several days ago and yesterday start ed to hear the publishers’ represen tatives of the high school textbooks. These are the history, civics and eco nomies texts which have been recom mended. The hearings on these text books will continue through today and (Continued oo Page Six.' Barrow's Gang Pair Captured Hot Springs, Ark., April 13. (AP)—Six men and three women were arrested by police here to day during and after a raid on a reported hide-out of Clyde Bar row, Texas desperado, but Chief of Detectives Herbert Akers said none of the men was Barrow. In an aparement house where four of the men and two of the women were seized, Akers said, ‘‘a bushel basket of S2O bills” was found hidden. He estimated they amounted to $3,000 or $4,000. Two men and one woman, the lat iContinued from Page Six.* President Roosevelt Tells a Few Fish Stories *•*•••• J, .“ y J:; 1 .™; 1 - 1 "" - • Smiling broadly. President Roosevelt, shown aboard the Vincent Astor yacht Nourmahal in Florida waters, talks to visiting newspapermen about the fishing situation. The correspond ents met the yacht at sea to learn first hand just how successful the president’s fishing luck has 066I1( BANK PAY-OFF BILL BLOCKED IN HOUSE Foes of Measure Have It All Wrapped Up In Red Tape For Keeps PROPONENTS HOPEFUL They Continue Fight for Passage, and Get Almost Enough Signatures To Force Action On House Floor Washington, April 13. (AP) Foes of the bank pay-bill had it all wrapped up in red tape today, and hoped to keep it so till Congress goes home. It® friends, refusing to admit defeat kept snipping aWay at the tangle try ing to get the bill out info the open for a vote in the House. The measure—the McLeod bill— would have the government pay de positors millions of dollars now tied up in banks, that are still restricted. It has been in the House Banking Committee for some time but the sit uation came to a head yesterday. Pro ponents of the legislation, putting on ■steam, garnered four signatures on a petition they had been circulating. The four, added to what they had, made 141. Sharp Row At Cannon Case Trial $5,000 Bishop Found After Forgetting It Is Basis of Heated Words Washington, April 13.—(AP)—Gov ernment and defense attorneys en gaged today in a sharp controversy at the trial of Bishop James Cannon, Jr., over testimony that the churchman ■had found $5,000 in 1931 he had for gotten about. Lee P. Oliver, a Justice Department ■special agent, testified yesterday that ■the Southern Methodist clergyman told of finding the money at a con ference in the district attorney’s of fice here. Today Robert H. McNeill, defense (Continued On Page Four.) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Saturday; slow ly rising temperature Saturday. Police Holise Raided By Man Believed Billing er Policeman Slugged and Four Bullet-Proof Vests and Two Revolvers Taken at Warsaw, Ind.; Pair Escape After Making Raid Over Fire House Warsaw. Ind., April 13.—(AP)— A man identified as John Dillinger led a machine gun raid on the Warsaw police station today, slugged a police man, stole four bullet-proof vests and two revelovers and got away. Judd Tettmger, the slugged police man, said he was “quite positive” that one of the two raiders • was the In diana “wooden gun" desperado. He recognized the other from photo graphs as Homer Van Meter, paroled Indiana convict and a member of Dil linger’s original gang of bandits. Tbe raid, the third such foray in small Indiana cities credited to Dil linger’s mob put police and bank of ficials on edge. Similar raids at Au- FOR SiLP Treasurer Johnson Says Their Aid Made Lower Interest Possible Dully Dlftpatvk Burma, In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. C BASKERVILL Raleigh, April 13. —The bankers m North Carolina were srongiy com mended for cooperating with the State in strengthening its credit and reduc ing its expensee due to former high interest rates on its notes by State Treasurer Charles M. Johnson in an address before Group Two of the North Carolina Bankers’ Association in Enfield last night. He pointed out that the State is now saving $242,000 a year in interest charges alone as the result of the reduction in the in terest rate on North Carolina shors term notes from six per cent to four per cent, and that this reduction was largely brought aboutw ith the help of North Carolina banks, who were the first to reduce their interest rates on state borrowings, while New York bankers were still demanding six per cent. “A year and a half ago, New York bankers were demanding and getting six per cent from North Carolina on its notes and almost refusing to re new them even at six per cent,” John son said. “But that was before the 1933 General Assembly passed the re venue act balancing the State budget. Then, the bankers here within the State agreed to take several million dollars worth of these notes at five per cent interest. That has now been! (Continued on Page Six) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. burn and Peru last October preceded bank robberies at Green Castle and Bast Chicago, Ind., and Racine, Wis. Tettinger said the itwto criminate hit him on the head in an alley near the station. At machine gun point, they forced him to walk to the stat ion on the second floor of the fire house and open the case in which the arms were kept. While they were choosing the vests, be said, he broke away and ran. The two pursed him for a short distance, but then returned to their black sedan and roared out of town. Paul Hodges, city fireman, awake in his quarters ■downstairs just in time to see the raiders leave. Asheville Man Was Defeat ed Foe of Utilities Head Back In 1932 Raleigh, April 13.—(AP)—E. C. Macon, of Asheville, today filed noice with the State Board of Elections that he will seek the Democratic nomination for North Carolina utili ties commissioner in the June primary He will oppose Stanley Winiborne, the incumbent, who is serving under a gubernatorial appointment. Macon was defeated by Winborne in 1932, when the two fought the nomination, for corporation commissioner. Virginia Electric Cuts Higher Rates In North Carolina Raleigh, April 13.—(AP)—Stan ley Winborne, State Utilities com missioner, today announced the Virginia Electric and Fower Com pany has agreed to put into ef fect in North Carolina the same commercial and domestic rates as now exist in Virginia. The company serves several communities in the extreme north eastern portion of this State. The change, Winborne said, will mean that the top domestic rate will be reduced from seven to six cents a kilowatt. The new rate wdl become effective July 1. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY MEMBERS PARADE President Says He’ll Be Frank and Admit He Is Sorry To Get Back To Capital HAD GREAT TIME ON VACATION FISHING Says He Understands Cop* gress Has Had Big Too, “Going From Wirt to Wirt”; Wants Congress To Stay in Washington Long As It Wants To Washington, April 13 —(AP)—Presi- dent Roosevelt was welcomed back from his Florida vacation today by some 200 members of Congress. ‘‘l can’t be truthful and say I am glad to get back; I’m sorry,” he told them jocularly, when cheering sub sided. ‘‘While I’ve had a wonderful time, I gather that both houses of Con gress have also had a wonderful time.” ;•, 4 Rapture greeted his sallies.e The congressional delegation, led by Vice- President Garner and Speaker' Rainey had marched over to the Union Sta tion from the Capitol behind thfe Marine Band. Martial music echoed When the presidential train ar rived, Mrs. Roosevelt, accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. Anna Dayy her daughter-in-law, Mrs. James Roose velt, and her son, Elliott, immediate ly went aboard. A few minutes later the official (Senate and House committees wept into the President’s car. The congressional contingent out side shouted and applauded when the President later emerged on the 'arm of his son, James. The band played* ‘‘Hail to the Chief.” Just after that the President said he was ‘‘very glad to see you all,” and thanked the members of Congress for coming to welcome him. E Continuing, he said he expected to get publicity on the fish he caught off the coast of Florida, but there had been too much competition, cause ‘‘you people have been going from Wirt to Wirt.” This also brought a laugh from the crowd. “Newspapermen on the train com ing up,” Mr. Roosevelt said, “have been trying to get me to say that I r »ntiiiued ou Pag* Six) SILVER ADVOCATES SPEED UP ACTIVITY Washington, April 13. —(AP) —Talk of Congress adjourning within a month today spurred increased ac tivities by advocates of silver legisla tion and the McLeod bill for the gov ernment to pay off depositors in closed banks. Attempts were being made to get the silver ites together on one of the varied measures that are scattered over the Capitol. Speaker Rainey, on old-timer for silver, had a smile on. Bank Group May Block The Finals Demand Action on Pay-Off for Deposit ors Before Session Is Ended Washington, April 13. —(AP) — A movement intended to block adjourn ment of Congress until the McLeod bill to pay off depositors in closed banks has been acted upon was be gun today in the House. Representative Dingell, Democrat, Michigan, prepared a petition by which the signers would pledge them selves to vote against any motion for adjournment of the 73rd Congress un til the bill has been acted upon. He said that, although a large num ber of the members had told him they were willing to sign it, fae petition would not be pressed until It was de termined what attitude the banking committee will take toward asking the House for quick action.