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* HENDERSON GATEWAY to CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR SIX NAMED BY DR. WIRT DENY COMMUNIST PLOT HERE * * ** ******** * ******* Japan To Advise Other Nations Os Her Claim To Control Over China RE STATEMENT OF POLICIES RELATING TO ASIA PREPARED Will Insist on Holding Spe cial Responsibility To Maintain Peace in The Far East DESIRES WORLD TO UNDERSTAND FULLY iAmerican Aviators In China and American Loans on Wheat and Cotton Are Deeply Resented at Tokyo; Supplying of Military Air planes Is Charged Tokyo, April 17. -(AP)—The draft of a "re-statement and clarification" of aJpan's policy toward China, which may bo made the basis of protest to tha I'nited States was revealed to the Associated Press today. From a high official source, it was learned thed raft already has been submitted by the foreign office to F< eign Minister Koki irota for ap proval. a It will be communicated shortly to th*- Japanese minister at Nanking, end to all other Japanese officials in China. The draft contains e statement of Japan's insistence that she hold spe cial responsibility to “maintain the pence in Asia”, and to determine that China’s contacts with other pow e shall not be of such nature as to jeopardibe that peace. Tn order that other powers may fully understand." an official spokes- | man said thed raft probably will be j communicated to Japanese ambassa- j dot- in Washington and other capi-1 tals to serve as a basis for explana- j tior.s to the governments to which { they are credited. "Japan must object.” when efforts j to aid China take the form of the i "supplying of military airplanes, the i establishment of airdromes, the fur-1 Dishing of military aviators and in- ! rtruetors and the granting of politi- I cal loans. The spokesman declined to state j hc’-v this would be applicable to the sales by American manufacturers ol j a'uplanes to China, participation by American companies in the establish fContlnned On Page Four.) Expect Big Money Bill I > ass Soon $480,000,000 Measure To Drop Oil Impost; (lamer Breaks lie In Senate Washington, April 17 (AP) —The capital today listened attentively to testimony that Dr. Wiliam W. Wirt. Indir-na educator, made false state nu‘n,s when he said there was talk of a revolution at a dinner he attended last September. Meanwhile, on the Senate side lead “i became more optimistic over the 1 Passage of the $480,000,000 revenue bill 1 bey hoped to eliminate in "’"Terence with a House committee 1"' ies on cocoa nut oil, to which Pres ul' " 1 Roosevelt is opposed. He has indicated he would veto the measure n they were retained. Vice-president Garner had the 1 '"u d chance to vote today. He broke * To permit consideration of a J" -I-ure b V Senator Borah, Republi- H "' 8b °, to prohibit senators and ffrom representing any oi " fo re a government department 1 "i.\thing in which the Federal gov epnm ""t is interested. A* the White House President a ’' v ‘" beard arguments for and riesin tt ' f! McLeod hill to pay off de tive v* J' 1 hanks. Representa sciitu ♦'! republican, Michigan. Ch-Ur a,lmin tstration report, while ti r)n J' ln 'tones, of the Reconstruc tion £° raUon ’ °PP° ae< i the legis- Indieaf T oßiflent Roosevelt did not his W ether he had changed from opposition. _ HENDERSON, N. O. Ilmtiteramt Batin Btsmtlrli Soviet Russia Resents U. S. Ban On Loans There Because Os Debts Here Bank Bill Author ■IP m> J ‘ •y.v.y.-my.y.-.v.-.vfr.yMfr Rep. Clarence McLeod Following signing by Con- Eressmen of petition discharging louse Banking and Currency Com mittee from further consideration of the McLeod Bank Bill, its spon sor, Rep. Clarence McLeod, of Michigan, has filed resolution ask ing that the bill be given preferred status on House calendar. f Central Press) SB Governor Hopes To Per suade Administration To Back 40 Percent Tobacco Slash EXPECT OPPOSITION IN NORTH AND WEST Recent High *Tax Bill En actment Lends Hope lAnd Brightens Prospects, But Roosevelt Backing Is Con sidered Necessary To Bring Congress In Line Raleigh, April 17 (AP)—Govern ors of six tobacco growing states today had lined up behind a move ment instituted by Governor Eh ringhaus of North Carolina to urge a 40 percent reduction in the Federal tax on tobacco products. The North Carolina goverrnor recently invited the chief execu tives to join him in Washington to place the question before Pres ident Roosevelt and Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace. Daily Dispatch ntireap In the Sir Walter Hotel. UY .». C BASKF.nVIU. Raleigh, April 17—Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus is going to Washing ton Wednesday to confer with Secre tary of Agriculture Wallace, officials ' (Continued on Page Four.) Trotzky Is Ordered To Leave Now Paris. April 17 (AP)**~Leon Trotzky, exiled Russian revolutionist, was ord ered to leave France by th& govern ment today because of his effprts to organize a world revolution. Minister of the Interior Albert Ser raut announced the cabinet decided to withdraw the permission granted Trot (Continued on Page Pour.) ONLY DAILY WIRE SERVICE OB' the associated press . F NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRmNIA. HENDERSON, N. C. TUESDAY AFTRNOON, A PRIL 17, 1934 Moscow Newspaper Says Reds Won’t Deal With Nation Thus Obstruct, ing, Its Plans WONT BE COERCED INTO A SETTLEMENT First Public Reaction to Johnson Law Described New Law Here as Menace to Soviet-American Trade; May Boycott Business Os United States Moscow, April 17.—(AP)—Active Soviet reprisal against the newly en acted United States law against further loans to debtors came today in an admonition to Soviet economical organizations by “the newspaper tor industrialization’ ’to aiter their reput ed intention to give preference to American matetrails and equipment for the remainder of the second five year plan. The newspaper warned that the Soviet government will not be coerced into a debt settlement. The statement by the official organ of the commissariat tfrf heavy (in dustry was the first public reaction to the ohnson law. t it as “a menace—to •Soviet-American trade”, and declare, in effect, that Soviet Russia will not deal with a country placing such an obstacle in its way. itW Governor Unable To Under stand Indifference of State on Subject Dully Dhpiitch Iturenn, In the Sir Walter Hotel. DY J. C. UASKEIIVIL.L.. Raleigh, Apr it 17.—Governor J. C. B Ehringhaus is at loss to under stand the apparent apathy on the part of North Carolinians generally to the tremendous amount of taxes which the federal government collects from the State each year, amounting to more than $200,000,000 annuallyy, as compared with the crusade for .lower state taxes, when the statq) collect only $25,000,000,000 a year for state purposes This $25,000,000,000 a year, of course, does not include the revenue from the gasoline and auto mobile license tax, which go to pay highway indebtedness land for (the) maintenance of the roads. “I fail to understand the psychology of many people in oNrth Carolina, who, while crying out for addtional reduction in State taxes, which were reduced 32 per cent by the 1933 legis lature, continue to permit the federal government to collect more than $lO,- 000,000 a year in income taxes and some $192,000,000 a year in tobacco taxes without making any objection,” Governor Ehringhaus said. “I also cannot understand why . ere is so much opposition to the State three per cent sales tax, while the federal goernment collects what might be called a 35 per cent sale® tifx on every package ofeigarettes, since of every 15 cents spent for a (Continued On Page Four.) Gen. Smith , N. C. Commander U. C. V., Dies At Age Os 92 Ansonville, April 17.—(AP) —Taps will sound tomorrow for General W. A. Smith, commander of the North Carolina Department United Confed erate Veterans. Funeral services will be held from the Smith home here and burial will follow at Wadesboro. General mith died shortly before midnight last night. Death was at tributed to a heart attack. He was 92 years old. His widow, the former Nannie Slake, of Anson county survives him. Intimate Hoover Friend Is Involved In Air Mail Case SiR OF COL. LINDBERGH Senator Black Declines To Call Assistant Attorney General’s Secretary Ilnto Case CLAIM LINDBERGH WAS NOT GRILLED Department Merely Asked His Views on Air Mail Sit uation, Is Statement; Mark L. Requea, of California Offered Services To Air Mail Company in 1931 Mark L. Requea, Republican national committeeman from California, and. described as a “close friend and ad visor” of former President Hoovel was pictured to the Senate air mail investigating committee today as hav ing volunteered to use his Washing ton influence in 1931 in the interest of an aviation controlled by El Li. Cord. * ——— Chairman Black. Democrat. Ala bama, read into the record a tele gram from Lyndal L. Young, an offi cer of Century Air Line®, to L. B. Manning, of the Cord corporation, dated in September, 1931, saying oung knew Requea personally, and be lieved “his influencewith the oHover administration can be used to our advantage.” 1“ personally know his influence in Washington is as strong as any body’s,” the telegram read. Previously, Black had turned down the request of Senator Austin, Repub lican, Vermont, to summon the steno grapher who sat in on the interview between Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and Carl Ristine, special assistant a* torney general, while the famed flier was here several weeks ago. Black Refuses to Prob Quiz of Col. Lindbergh Washington, April 17.—(AP) —Chair- man. Democrat, Alabama, of the Sen (Continued on Page Four.) Langer and Eight Others Accused of Forcing Re lief Group To Pay Fargo, N. D., April 17. —u —Governor William Langer and eight others per sons were under indictment today on charges of exacting political contri butions from federal relief workers in North Dakota. A federal grand jury voted tihe in dictments late yesterday to culminate a week’s deliberations An earlier re sult of the inquiry was the removal of Governor aLnger by Relief Ad ministrator Harry L. Hopkins as head of relief work in the State. Governor Langer had no statement to make on the jury’s action. General Smith was born January 11, 1842, on the Nelms homestead near here. After attending a school near his home, he went to a nearby aca»- demy and later matriculated at David son College. In 1861, after the outbreak of the war, he enlisted in the Anson Guards, a company raised by Captain R. T. Hall, which was later consolidated with the Buncombe county Rough and Ready guards. The company was captained by Zebulon Baird Vance, who later be came North Carolina's war governor. Six Named by Dr. Wirt Make Denials Here are the six perrsons named in, testimony of Dr. Williams A. Wirt, superintendent of schools at Gary, Ind., before a congressional investiga ting committee at Washington, as his informants of the existence of an as* serted “plot” among members of the so-called “brain trust” to overthrow the present form of government in the United States, and who today denied the allegations at a committee hear Severe Quake In Santa Anna Felt Santa Anna, Cal., April 17.—(AP) —A severe earthquake shock cahs ed persons to leave their homes and office buildings heretoday. No damage is believed to have been done, but the Orange county courthouse swayed and almost every one left the building. The shock was felt at 10:33 a. m. It was the most severe here since the earthquake of March 10, 1933. askMMe" AMD POWER RATES Municipal'Association Meet, ing This Week Expected To Make Demand Daily Dispatch Bnrenw In the Walter Hotel. BY J. f BASKERVILL. Raleigh, April 17. —A reduction in the power and telephoner rates in ef fect in North Carolina is expected to be advocated by the State Muni cipal Association in its annual con vention here Thursday and Friday, April 19 and 20, officials of the asso ciation indicated today. A permanent federal employment program for the state is also expected to urged and resolutions to that effect are expected to be adopted and sent to Washing ton. The association is also expected to lay the groundwork for the for mulatio of the legislative program it will seek to have enacted by the 1935 general assembly. Ever since its formation three years ago, the State Municipal Association, composed of the mayors, city man agers and other city officials of the various cities and towns in the State, has been striving for a reduction in power .'and telephone rates in the) /State and is regarded as having had (Continued on Page Four.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. ing—left to right, top, Hildegarde Kneeland, of the' home economics bu reau, department of agriculture; Alice .fearrows ,of the department of educa tion, interior department; Mary Tay lor, economist of the AAA; below Laurence Todd, Washington repre sentative of a Soviet news agency; Robert Bruere, chairman of the tex tile code advisory board, and David Cushman Coyle, of the PWA techni cal review board. Government Rests Case On Cannon Directed Verdict Os Acquittal, Asked by Defense Attorneys, 1 Denied by Court Washington, April 17 (AP) —Check transfers of Bishop James Cannon, Jr., and Miss Ada L. Burroughs on February 19, 1929, were described at their trial today by the government prosecutor as a “common, everyday garden variety of check kite.” John J. Wilson, assistant district at torney, used that language in argu ing against a defense motion for a, di rected verdict of acquittal on a charge of conspiracy to violate the 1 .Federal corrupt practices act. In asking for a directed verdict, de fense attorneys contended the gov ernment had produced no evidence to prove conspiracy. s The prosecution disputed this. Justice Peyton Gordon planned to render a decision as soon as the argu ments on the motion were completed. Washington, April 17 (AP)—The! government this morning completed presentation of its case against Bish op James Cannon, Jr., and Miss Ada L. Burroughs, charged with conspir ing to violate the Federal corrupt practices act in connection with the’ Southern Methodist churchman’s 1928 campaign against the presiden (Continued On Page Four.) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy, rain in east portion to night; Wednesday showers, not much change in temperature. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Miss Kneeland Says Guests Were Unable To Check Educator Long Enough To Talk CORROBORATION BY HOSTESS IS GIVEN Miss Barrow Says Dr. Wirt Went Backwards and For. ward in Discussion of Gold Dollar Devaluation; Presi dent’s Daughter, Mrs. Dali, at Hearing Washington, April 17 (AP)—- Chairmran Bulwinkle, Democrat, North Carolina, today told report ers the special House committee could “not prosecute Dr. William A. Wirt for perjury, but there is no reason why the district attor ney and the grand jury shouldn’t be abble to take notice of the ' case.” i Washington, April 17. —(AP) —The House committee investigating Dr. William A. Wirt’s allegations of “a brain truster revolution” was told to day by the hostess at the celebrated dinner party that statements by him on what the guests had said were false. Miss Hildegrad Kneeland one of the guests, also denied assertions 'by Wirt, saying “we were unable to interrupt the flow of his conversation.” Quoted by Wirt as having hersielf quoted much from Assistant Secretary Tug well at the dinner she said today she had never read any of his writings. Miss Alice Barrows at whoce Vir ginia home the dinner was held in, ‘September said there was no mention there—as W/irt had testified—about President Roosevelt being a “Keren sky” who would be supplanted by a “Stalin”, or of Dr. Rexford Guy Tug well, assistant secretary of agricul ture. The other four diners were waiting to testify. Another crowd jammed a huge House hearing room, among them Anna Roosevelt Dali, daughter of the President. Republicans had sought in vain to have the committee subpoena Tugwell, Secretary Wallace and others in the inquiry. To the accompaniment of occasional laughter in the audience, Miss Bor rows said no guests other than Wirt could say anything because the ndiana educator talked constantly on infla tion. Dr. Wirt “went backwards and for ward” in his discussion of the revalua tion of the gold dollar, she testified. Britain Not To Pay Debt To America No Prov ision for It In Budget; Business Better, Parliament Is Told London, April 17.—(AP)—Ne ville Chamberlain, chancellor ; or the exchequer, declared to the house of commons today that he did not proposed to make any pro vision for the payment of war debts to America, or the receipts of war debts from Groat Britain's debtors. * His statement was made in tha midst of a speech in which he said Great Britain now had “regained its ipiace as the first exporting country of the world.” He told his listeners, whoc heered him repeatedly, that the past fiscal year had shown a profit of 39,000,000 pounds—or about $200,000,000 —arid ithat the “atmosphere is distinctly brighter.” He listed sources of revenue in pro posing his budget for the year 1934-35, and said that in the year past the beer tax had produced five million pounds more than expected, but tha* there had been a deficit from tea and sugar. Groans followed cheersw ith this announcement.
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