IIFNDERSON gateway to CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-SECOND year Hauptmann Verdict Is Awaited Rental Textbooks Measure Presented State Legislature Provides for Setting Up Commission of Eight Members To Admin ister the Plan DRIVER’S LICENSE IS FINISHED IN SENATE Measure Sent to House Without Negative Vote; Six Legislators To Go To Washington With Tobac co Growers To Protest In crease in 1935 Acreage iitli. Feb. 13 (AP> I icensing Htiiumobilc drivers, regulation of • • uiparlor operators and provision .•I rental textbooks for school chil- An’ii held the center of the legislative ■ {;ige today. The Senate passed without a nega i vote the driver's license bill and ui i' to the House. It then de but'd before crowded galleries for 'Tore than an hour over creating a i;w hoard of cosmetics examiners. >.il referred the measure to a com •viltee. Senate iind House approval was uti'iJ ti joint resolution naming six 'euishitors to go to Washington to i"nrnr.v with tobacco growers to pro against increasing the 1935 to i'Mceo crop. During Senate debate on the propo -1 Senator Gravely, of Nash, a tobac i... export man. predicted the day was eyniing when farmers would set their viv ii prices for tobacco. The House got from thre represen ivos Cherry, of Gaston; Johnston, f Iredell, and Blount, of Beaufort — bill to create a State textbook rental ■v emission of eight members, with •' State treasury to supply funds to *t up the commission. This afternoon the finance com teiuecji heard oil companies protest in t a proposed new chain busi ■te,s levy. The appropriations committee con tinued executive sessions considering tContinued on Paire Four) Bill Would Keep Patrol Where It Is \ ■ _ In the Sir Walter Hotel. Hull;' llisitiileh II nr Cliff. Ilaleigh, Feb. 13. —A State highway 11,1I 1,1 Til <>r 121 patrolmen and officers. be set up under the supervision of ;i division of highway safety in ' • State Department of Revenue, un -1 the terms of a bill which has al ’"Mdv boon drawn, it was learned here '"'lay- The bill also provides that in Edition jo patrolling the highways d enforcing the State drivers’ 11- <■ Inw. which is expected to be ! i.-.-'d within a few days, that the 'lnti' Highway Patrol shall be sub ' ’ to such rules and regulations as '"ny l.e adopted and enforced by the " "tiitissioner of revenue and shall al rei|uired to perform such aa ‘■ ■ 1 i«>nai dntic.s as may be required of Dorn time to time by the commis ‘Oiier of revenue.” 1 "dot this section, the patrol could 'Continued on Page Three). Radical Revenue Measure From Anti-Sales Taxers 1 fr ,ai,n Their Proposal Will Produce $5,000,000 Additional Revenue Without Sales Tax; Burden some Levies Would Be Imposed In Places llinimlt'k llurnia, Sir Waiter Hotel. Hv C A. PAUL. *' <; b- —A proposal to in -1 ' >•! budget revenue bill by al .'''• , M V)00 without imposing the Hx Provision for more ade ropport of schools a broaden tax base, recapturing of a Cl 01 '. ht: ad valorem tax. and a , p-wp Lohcy „f tax levying are the l ‘ c antl-eal* tax group’s : a,tute for the sales tax. * Pr " d ‘ c t«d by this bureau, the iirnnrrsmt tlatlii tKsrmtrh NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. * EKASED Wirttt SERVICE OF the associated press. African Danger Spot | Asmara.\ " T; !®RITOAr\ ”1 a ~W h i 5 j NsdJ&fti/p-or -I Av - U * jvomaj-a'l Qi ABYSSINIA ■■/// ■ «• % < jIS • / KSNYA. ! I / « Map shows territory in which the latest Italo-Abyssinian dash oc curred near the town of Ualual. As a result Italy began mobilizing troops on a war basis and Pre mier Mussolini intended sending an ultimatum to Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia unlese Italy received “complete satisfac tion.’' LIQUOR TAX CHIEF HOPE FOR INCREASE IN APPROPRIATIONS Requested Expenditures Now Sta;nd at $34,500,- 000, an Excess of $3,500,000 REVENUE IN SIGHT NOW ONLY $31,000,000 Appropriations Committee Must Cut Unless Liquor Tax Is Levied or Some Os Anti-Sales Tax Proposals Are Accepted by the Gen eral Assembly Dully Disiuitvh lliirciiN, In lh<« Sjr Waller Hold. IIY .1, C. I! A Sli ITU Y 11,1,. Raleigh. Feb. 13.—A total of $34,- 500.000 has been requested of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees by the public schools, the institutions of higher learning and other agencies supported from the State general fund as the minimum needed each year for the next two years. Chairman Victor S. of the House, committee, said today, now j that all hearings have been complet ed. This amount is about $3,500,000 ; more than the total general fund re venue now in sight from the revenue bill, including the $1,000,000 a year which the budget revenue bill would (i kiiifJiiuwl oil Page Tlire*»‘ antis did not produce a new bill, but offered their proposals as amend ments to the present bill as drawn by the budget commission. Several of the features embodies in the anti s program were forecast by this bureau The antis declare that their substi tute sections for the revenue bill will raise approximately $34,000,000, an in crease of about $5,000,000 over the pre sent budget bill of $29,000,00. A total estimated revenue' of $12,361,094 would (Continued on Page HENDERSON, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 13, 1935 Death, or- Freedom? Upon this historic old bell, in accordance with New Jersey tradition, verdict of jury in trial of Brun« Kichard Hauptmann will be tolled. Bell is in steeple of Hunterdon County courthouse. (Central Prtte) U. S. Navy Dirigible Macon Is Lost In Pacific; 2 Dead San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 13. —(AP) —The giant dirigible Macon, destroy ed by a sudden mysterious disaster, lay at the bottom of the Pacific ocean today, while 81 survivors were elng brought into San Francisco bay oy cruisers of the United States fleet. Only two members of the crew were missing. The tragic fate of every American made giant dirigible the navy has possessed dyertook the queen of the skies as she neared her Funnyvale base at sunset last night. One or two of her 12 gas cells sud denly burst as'she sped through squal License Os Drivers To Pass As Is Dully Disimti'h tlnreii*, In tb*- Sir VVnller Hotfl. Raleigh, Feb. 13. —The driver’s li cense bill will likely be enacted into law, after much delay, virtually as drawn by a sub-committee of the Senate Roads Committee. Considera tion of the bill has been delayed at the motion of several senators to con sider the measure at later dates. It was thought for a time that perhaps some of them would voice serious ob jections, but no effort to defeat the bill has been made, although some amendments have been accepted as compromises with those who have ob jected to certain features. One of these, offered by Senator Spence, roads chairman, would re (Continued on Pago F«ur> Tun! ISDEFEATED Elimination of School Bus Drivers from License Bill Means That . Unity Dispatch Bnreua, In the Sir Walter Hotel, BV J, C. UASKEUVILL, Raleigh, Feb. 13.—Refusing to be tricked into adopting a section that might cost the State millions of dol lars and compel the diversion of from $2,500,000 to $3,000,000 from the high way fund to the school fund later on, the Senate struck out the section in the diivers’ license bill that would have required adult drivers for school buses before passing it on second reacting Tuesday. Instead, it decided to defer consideration of this ques ti n until the school machinery act comes up for consideration and after the revenue bill has been reported out (Continued on Page Fou?) ly air and fog 110 miles south of San Francisco. The delicately balanced craft nosed abruptly skyward and the immediate efforts of Lieutenant Commander Herbert C. Wiley, skipper of the Macon, and survivor of the Akron disaster, to balance the ship proved futile. Under his orders, the unmanagable dirigible landed, stern first, on the water ten miles off Point Sur. She sank almost but her crew had taken to rubber lifeboats, and all but two men were picked up by the cruisers Richmond, Concord MAY CALL TROOPS Strike of Relief Workers Agitated; Legislature Is Informed Little Rock. Ark., Feb. 13