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CENTRAL
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TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
HOUSE TO Kill INCREASED INCOME TAX LEVY
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State Highway Funds Exceed Estimates, With Two Months Yet To Run
MONEY COMING IN
10 GENERAL FUND
DOING VERY WELL
Estimate of $19,000,000 for
Highway Already Exceed,
ed by More Than
$386,000
MILLION DOLLARS
AHEAD LAST YEAR
General Fund Revenue Al
most 5 1-2 Millions Ahead
of Last Year, With General
Sale? Tax Accounting For
Nearly All of It, May 1 Re
ports Show
Raleigh. May 1 < A'P>—Highway
fund receipts of the State of North
Carolina today passed the total
amount they were estimated to reach
(or the entire current fiscal year, and
general fund revenues were “doing
fairlv good.” though behind estimates.
Revenue Commissioner A. J. Maxwell
reported.
Payments of various kinds into the
coffers of the highway fund reached
$19,336,698.44 yesterday, and two more
months of the fisca lyear remain. Mr.
Maxwell said his recollection was that
the lgeislature was given an estimate
of $19,000,000 for the fund for. the
year.
Highway receipts last year for ten
months aggregated $17,367,521.26.
General fund revenues aggregated
$18,685,988.31 up to yesterday, an In
crease of $5,373,465.81 over the same
period a year ago, with the three per
cent g eneral sales tax accounting for
$4,877,951.15 of the increase.
With two more months to go, the
iCnntlmmd on Par* Two)
No Serious
Disturbance
On May Day
Fatalities In Cuba
anil Austria, And
Paris Police Rush
Communists
Havana M ay I.—(APl—Bullets fir
'“d from roofs into the ranks of 10,000
marching communists today killed one
man and wounded six others. Four of
•he wounded were marchers, one a
policeman, and one a soldier.
As thef iring broke out, what had
a fairly orderly procession oe
'*me a bedlam as the marchers scat
'‘Ted for shelter and police fired their
•eat gas guns.
The communists accused adherents
of the A. B. C. secret political society
’’ ’he schootlng, but the police ver
*ori was that communists themselves
had fifed from the roof at the police
01 s he purpose of provoking disordei.
f LASH WITH FASCIST IN
AUSTRIA PROVES FATAL
Vienna, May I.—(AP) —Airplanes
'[a red above the romantic woods of
mnna while gendarmes raced into
concealed spot to raid May Day
m ' lss Meetings of socialists defying an
|yder of Chancellor Dollfuss today.
• ' ver al personsw ere captured.
(, m. communist was reported killed
Neutzzuschlang. Styria, by a
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Italy To Raise Military
And Favors German Arms
mSd {?? 1 ~ (AP >—: ltaly has deter
miiif 0 lncrease the power of her
inc a ry '_ while at the same time seea-
Gf‘! arms agreement under whion
e , at any would be permitted mod-
p r ' re ' ari «ament, The Associated
Earned today.
Itaii' 1 ( ' f ° rth ’ itw as disclosed, the
jam* government will proceed tn
y nia tters along two lines:
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She Puzzles Science
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Here is Anna Morano, Italy's
“luminous woman”, who has
puzzled scientists with a strange
phenomenon of light which ema
nates from her body. The phe
nomenon, a silver-toneA 'light,
shaped like an electric globe, is
said to have been witnessed by
Signor William Marconi, noted
Italian scientist who invented the
wireless. The woman is lying ill
with asthma in a hospital at Pi
rato, Italy.
COMMITTEE BACKS
FIEIIII
Exact Rate, Whether 25 or
33 1-3 Percent, Would Be
Fixed by Secretary
Wallace
CAROLINA SECTION
FOR HIGHER RATE
Would Levy Tax on All To
bacco Sold, With Cooper
ating Grower* Receiving
Tax Payment Warrant* for
Poundage Allotted To
Them for the Year
Washington, May 1 (AP)—Four
important amendments, one of
which would, in effect, reopen the
voluntary reduction program to
tobacco farmers, were adopted by
a House aggrtculture sub-com
mittee today in favorably report
ing the Kerr bill for tobacco pro
duction control.
Washington, May 1. —(AP) —A flex
ible tax ranging from 25 to 33 1-3 per
cent of the market value of tobacco,
the exact rate to be fixed by Secretary
Wallace, was agreed upon today by a
House Agricultures üb-committee con
sidering the Kerr bill for tobacco pro
duction control.
The bill, introduced by Representa
tive Kerr, Democrat, North Carolina,
originally contained a flat 25 per ceni
tax of the market value, but there wav
considerable support, particularly
from the Carolina flue-cured belt, for
a higher rate.
The measure would levy a tax on
all tobacco sold. Farmer’s cooperat
ing in the voluntary tobacco reduction
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1. Toplead the cause of limitation
of armaments at present levels—witn
certain re-armament of Germany;
2. To add the greatest possible
amount of efficiency to Italian mili-
was enunciated by hign
officials in commenting upon Kmg
Victor Manuel’s declaration Saturday
for a strengthened military arm.
ONLY DAILY
SERVICE OF
he associated press.
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
HENDERSON, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY I, 1934
1933 LEGISLATORS
WONT BE BACK IN
THE 1935 SESSION
Drive To Defeat Men Who
Levied Sales Tax and
Cut School Salaries
Is Succeeding
BUT NEW MEN WILL
HARDLY DO BETTER
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inexperienced Groups Can
not Be Expected To Tackle
Law-Making Job As Well
as Veterans; Many 1933
Members Saw Handwriting
and Didn’t Run
Daily Dinpatfh Hurfini.
In the Sir Waller Hotel,
nv J V, BASK KIEV ILL.
Raleigh. May I.—The wave of re
sentment against tne members of the
General Assenbly <La.t developed
during the fight two years ago over
the ger.cial sales tax and new school
law. and which has been kept alivt.
ever since tv the arti-sales tax ant*
antischool law forces, and the cam
paign made to prevent as many as
possible of the members of the 1933
General Assembly from coming back
in 1935, has bornef ruit, according to
observers here. For this campaign
against the two outstanding acts of
the 1933 General AssemDly and the
irembers who enacted them has al
ready succeeded in keeping fully *u»
per cent of those who were members
of the 1933 Assembly from becoming
candidates while most of the few Who
are seeking to be renominated and re
eleced to the 1935 Assmiye are con
ceded to have a hard fight ahead of
them
The result, according to the more
experienced observers here, is that
there is going to be the largest turn
over in the membership of the 1935
General Assembly in years, with new
and inexperienced members compris
ing tibout 80 per cent of the personnel.
In the Senate only 10 of the 50 mem
bers of the 1933 members are seeking
renomination and re-election, with in
dications that not more than tive of
these will be returned. Thef igures
for the House are not as definite, since
the filing time has not yetc losed In
the counties and whose who file are
not required to file here. But those
who have been following the situation
closely point out that while there are
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Confession from
Accused Murderer
Related To Court
Morganton, May 1. —(AP)—R. G.
Thompson superintendent of public
works at Winston Salem was intro
duced as a surprise witness today in
the murder trial of Dwight Beard, 23,
of Lenoir, and testified the youthful
defendant confessed to him that n#
killed Gus Bounous, Valdesg merchant.
hompson said that at the insistence
of Police Chief J. P. Coffey, of
Valdese,. hew as incarcerated last
month in the Buncombe county jail,
where Behrd was held, gained the pri
soner’s confidence and was told by tne
youth that he killed Bounous.
“I’m guilty as hell, but they haven’t
got anything they can prove on me,”
heq uoted Beard as saying.
WHIIEIANW^
45-Year-Old Negro Held A*
One of Group Precipitat
ing Trouble
Lake Charles, La., May 1 (AP) —A
white man, was shot and dangerously
wounded here early today when 15
shots were fired into a meeting of
300 persons gathered to discuss the
Longshore strike situation at the
Texas and Sabine district ports.
Murphy Humphrey was the only
man hit as the shots sprayed into
the meeting. He was taken to a hos
pital in a critical condition suffering
from a wound in his head.
Police arrested a 45-year-old Negro
member of the Louisiana longshore
men's union and six other Negroes in
connection with the shooting.
Sheriff Henry Reid said the shots
were fired from the Negro’s house.
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Lilerally in his “second life” after
being asphyxiated with poison gas,
Thirteen, fox terrier puppy being
toed for a life and death experi
ment by Dr. Robert E. Cornish,
diversity of California scientist.
Stock Market Firms Make
Money Despite Depression
Washington, May 1 (AP) —Evidence
tht New York Stock Exchange mem
ber firms have nearly a biliiqn
dollars in the past six years, despite
the depression, was presented to .
Senate committee.
Ferdinand Pecora, counsel for the
Senate stock market committee, plac
ed before its re-assembled members
data showing that exchange firms
averaged almost $2,000,000 apiece in
Auto Cuts
Elsewhere
Play Havoc
Disaster to Highway
Systems in Georgia,
Virginia After Tax
Reductions
Dull}' Diupntcb niitrnn,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. UASKERViLIi.
Raleigh, May I—(Before deciding to
reduce the price of the North Caro
lina automobile tags to $5, as is ad
vocated by the State Republican plat
form, or to $3 as some others want,
and the cost of an automobile license
in Georgia at the present time, the
people of the State should first find
out what the reduction in the license
tax has done to the highways in Geor
gia and in Virginia, where the tax
has been reduced 40 per cent, accord
ing ot Miss Harriet M. Berry, secre
tary of the North Carolina Good
Roads Association, and generally re
cognized as the “mother” of the good
movement in the State. In'
fact, those who know now concede
that Miss Berry had a great deal more
to do with bringing about the State’s
present highway system than did for
mer Governor Cameron Morrison, al
though he still claims credit for it.
For several months now Miss Berry
has been making a careful study of
the results of the reduction in high
INSULI HIS RISE
AND HIS FALL
In a dramatic story, full of startling facts, the rise of Samuel
Insull, and his fall from a three-billion-dollar pinnacle, will be
told, beginning today. There will be four other installments, pic
turing the career of the man whose failure dragged more people
down than any other failure in History. Now this once proud
utilities magnate conies back home a prisoner, following a thrill
ing chase across seas, a chase in which Insull defied a powerful
nation—and lost. The series will tell of Insull’s power, his boy
hood, his rise to billions, his influence in politics, his grand opera,
his wife's theatrical ventures, his downfall, his flight and his
dramatic capture. Starting today in the Daily Dispatch.
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at his laboratory in Berkeley, is
pictured actually sitting up to eat
after barking for food. »The pho
to was made 14 days after the ter
rier had been officially pronounced
dead by asphyxiation. Dr. Cor
net profits during the two boom and
four depression years.
Gathered ffrom the member firms
themselves, the statistics showed-they
have had a total gross income of more
than two billion dollars during the
six-year period.
During the high time years of 1928
and 1929, their gross annual revenue
averaged far more than $1,000,000
apiece.
These and a mass of other hitherto.
Four Perish When
Two Planes Crash
Cranwell, England, May I.—(AP)
—Four royal air force officers were
Filled today when the two airplanes
they were flying over the airdrome
eollided and smashed to earth. All
four were dead when emergency
squads it-ached thew reckage.
Greeting By
Methodists
To Cannon
Jackson, Miss., May 1. —(AP;—
Bishop James Cannon, Jr., was ac
corded a rousing and prolonged ova
tion today at the General Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, whep the bishop personally pre
sented to the conference the report or
the board cf temperaance and social
service, which he heads.
Both delegates and galleries swept
the hall with applause as Bishop Can
non arose to offer the report, t seeks
to enlist the church in a campaign to
return a national prohibition law to
the statute books.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Generally fair tonight and Wed
nesday, except probably occasional
showers on the coast; little change
in temperature.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.-
nish resurrected the puppy and
has kept it alive with injections of
adrenalin, powerful heart stimu
lant, and heparin, a solution
mixed with ths blood of another
dog.
Make
undisclosed statistics relating to mar
ket operations were presented to the
committee as stock exchange control
“ legislation approached the test In
both houses of Congress
Concededly the disclosure of this
data was timed to put the bill “over
the top.” The move followed close
after charges in the House yesterday
of a ‘ vicious” campaign of “Misrepre
sentation against the legislation by
the New York Exchange.
alSaSem
Fletcher Says Childless Rich
Must Share Burden of
Populous Poor
Dully Dlapfiti’h Barms,
In the Sir Walter Hotel
BY J. C BASKERVILL
Raleigh, May 1. —One of the princi
pal reasons children are an industrial
problem and probably always will be,
is because the birth rate is. so much
higher among working people and
that “ther ich have money and the
poor havec hildren,” Commissioner of
Labor A. L. Fletcher today told those
atteneding the North Carolina Con
ference on Social Service in discuss
ing the child labor problem in North
Carolina. But Commissioner Fletcher
did not refer either to Margaret
Sanger or birth control. Instead he
said that since the increasing birth
rate among the industrial classes was
a fact and not a theory the only
thing to do “is for the rich who have
the money to share with the poor,
who have the children, and thus make
our industrial world a fit place for
children to live in and grow up in.
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Zollicoffer Would Benefit
From Pou-Cooley Struggle
Henderson Candidate for Congress Considered In R|«
leigh To Be Making Great Strides by His Gentle,
manly, Courteous Methods of Campaigning
Dally Dispatch Bncras,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
I?Y J. C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, May I—Friends1 —Friends and sup
porters of Jere P. Zollicoffer, of Hen
derson, one of the candidates for the
Democratic nomination for Congress
here in the fourth district, are ffrank
ly elated at the newest development
in the campaign of Harold D. Cooley
of Nashville, in which he is charging
that the highway commission and its
prison division compose a “machine*'
that is working for George Ross Pou,
another one of the five candidates,
and in which he is referring to Pou
as “the big, bad wolf.’’ The Pou forc
es are likewise pleased, since they
know that these charges made by
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Porto Rico Demands of
Roosevelt That He Veto
Sugar Control Bill
Now Up To Him
CITIES’ DEBTS BILL
PASSES IN SENATE
Revelation of Tremendous
Depression Profits in Wall
Street Makes Congress
Gasp; Treaty Signed At
Geneva Nine Years Ago
Approved in Senate
Washington, May 1 (AP) —The
House readily, in accord with main
Senate additions to its tax bill, framed
a dediced “no” today for the Couzens
amendment which would, increase in
dividual income levies by ten percent
of the amount due anyway.
This was the principal focus for leg
islative action, the committee on cur
rencies telling the principal congres
siona lstory.
President Roosevelt, meanwhile, re
ceived a Porto Rican demand that he
veto the sugar control bill.
Several inconspicious treaties receiv
ed Senate committee sanction. The
main one. regulation of international
trade in war materials, was-signed
nine years ago at Geneva by 44 na
tions.
Motivated by trade protests, the
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Japan Now
Resentful
To America
Hull’s Firm Stand
Against Nippon In
China Disappoint
ing In Tokyo
Tokyo, May 1. —(AP) —Resentment
at America’s firm stand toward
Japan’s “hands-off-Ghina” policy, as
expressed by Secretary of St.Ve Cor
dell Hull, was voiced in thi Japanese
press todayy.
The reaction was in sharp contrast
to the manner in which word of
Great Britain’s willingness to drop
the whole matter raised by the Jap
anese Foreign Office declaration of
April 17 was received..
Morning newspapers headlined Sir
John Simon’s speechh delivered yes
terday before the British House off
Commons:
“Brritain Satisfied,” and “England:
Lets Matter Rest.’
Afternoon newspapers, however,
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Cooley are not having any effect upon,
the regular Pou followers. In fact,
they believe that in the* end they will
react to Pou’s benefit.
The Zollicoffer followers, however,
are confident tha tthis is only the
beginning of what will soon become a
mud-slinging contest between Cooley
and Pou, in which case they believe
Zollicoffer will emerge as the lead
ing contender for the nomination.
They point out that Zollicoffer has
not made any uncomplimentary re
marks about any of his opponents,
that he has not thrown any mud at
any one and that he Is not doing
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