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HAUPTMANN DUE TO DIE NIGHT OF MARCH 22
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Bill To Prohibit Slot Machines In State Is Pass ed By The House
ILL 10 REGULATE
PHOTOGRAPHERS IS
BEATEN BY HOUSE
.Senate Hill Would Permit
Schools To Lend Text
hooks Without Mak
ing Charges
ROADS committee
FOR CHEAPER TAGS
Will Recommend Minimum
of $9 Instead of Present
$12.50; New Bills Would
Prohibit Minors from Play
ing Slot Machines in North
Carolina
t; ,l i :li. Feb. 11. — i AT*)—Tin* House
, i,v lo prohibit slot machines
N'niili Carolina, killed a bill to re
i. photographers and took the
l iii' -how from the Senate and
• •inmit t
Tin- Senate met an hour without
.inv i major bill. It got a bill
, ?in it school authorities to lend
•, v |<- without charge, with no
fu ,| provided, and two measures to
i| law- on building and loan as
■iociHt ions.
Or, an oral vote. House approval
-r . ii the Thomas-Thompson-Er
vii, nn n.-urr to ban slot machines and
er gambling devices and sent the
tji- a.-iii'' to Oie Senate,
ftepi r •entative Bowie, of Ashe, h-d
-■ utr.K’k on the photographers’ bill,
n-ing it would tend to create a mono j
■ "lv, a11(| the House tabled it.
The joint roads committee agreed
' e it would recommend a reduction
automobile license tag costs ru
tke the fee »() cents instead of 53
P i hundredweight with a min
'■ it)i of <9 instead of $12.50, and told
mb-committee to draw the TUfT to
l ent to the legislature.
A House judiciary group approved
bill by the Wake delegation to cm-
I"'vet counties to contract with lios
(< nolimied mi rage Four)
I. S. Hopes
Tor Curb Os
Vrmumciiis
Hu-li Wilson Tells
( icnc\ ;i Conference
I li ;i t Is Nation’s
Dearest Aim
'•"lirvii, F. h. ] t_( AP> Hugh Wil- i
1 nilcfl Slates minister to Swit- ■
I "'b told a special committee of j
II 'l' to filament conference today
ihe dearest hope of the United
i i g'neral agreement for the
"" lotion of armaments.
11 "' ' oimnit.tee, which will attempt
l"t at. t.he eveils of arms manu
l"lll' and traffic, was just opening
1 ioa when Wilson spoke,
kllU'li nj_. t(> negotiations with Gcr
",|,v sot a European air securities
" ant,limed nn Page Three)
Anti-Sales Taxers Seek
Return To Property Tax
1 "'Tii'u and Domestic Corporations Would Have Levies
Upward by Leaps and Bounds Under Tax On
Basis of Assessed Property Valuatioins
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tit Mm? Sir Waller Hotel.
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Feb. H.—A partial return
' i'"'l»i!it.y tax which would result
, “ ' corporations paying four
s -an'• "P ,c sent shore of the
,; ' x Nil, and domestic corpor
,,, ibutinjr an amount three
i,l !( ' as at present is one
jj., ‘ , IIHII Spots of tlie tax program
,r »»ttfM.' V' J Ut ttle j° int finance com-
K, :,/ V lflc a,l ti-sales tax group.
' ,l ' cot|h>r&t,ioiia would still pay
mtnuttßmi Uatlg Btspatirh
ONLY bAM.Y NEWSPAPISK PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OE NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA ’
Work-Relief Bill Facing
Hard Road In The Senate
May Be Slashed by Two Billions and Two Billion Bonus
Rider May Be Attached; But President Will Like
ly Get It Later in Fair Form
Washington. Feb. 14. —(AP>— Tem
pered by a. heated passage through
Min appropriations committee, the
Roosevelt $1,880,000,000 work-relief
bill today entered still hotter contro
versy in the Senate itself.
It faced strong moves to slash the
figure to $2,880,000,000, to make the
payment of prevailing local wages on
public works mandatory instead of
discretionary with the President, and
possibly also to attach a $2,100,000,000
cash bonus rider.
PROF. J. M. FOSTER,
OF N. C. STATE, DIES
llfiid of Aeronautics Department bios
of rne.urnoiiia After Stroke
Os Paralysis
Raleitrh. Feb. It tAP) John M. Fos
ter. professor of aeronautics at N. C.
State College, died in Rex hospital
litis morning at 5:30 o’clock. Hc had
been connected with the college since
15*18.
Professor' Foster suffered a stroke
of paralysis last Wednesday. Yester
day he developed pneumonia. He was
Hi years old.
Funeral services will be held from
Hiller Memorial Christian church
here tomorrow afternoon at 3:30
o’clock.
I the present franchise of $1.50 per sl.*
000 of net worth, but, in addition,
would be required to pay a property
tax of one-half of one per cent on
their assessed property valuation. In
the actual substitute section which
the antis will offer they will specify
that, for tax-levying purposes, the as
sessed property valuation of foreign
corporations shall be exactly the same
as their net worth. This means that,
for ail practical purposes, what the
(Coiitiuued oil Page Tiiiee)
LKAHBD Wlltß NERVICB OF
'fHB ABSOCIATKD TRESS.
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HENDERSON, N. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 14, 1935-
Administration spokesmen, hopeful
of action within a week, expressed
confidence the bill will eventually
reach the White House with part of
the broad powers desired by Mr.
Roosevelt for spending $4,000,000,000
in giving work to 3.500,000 employ
ables now on relief.
As congressmen travelled over rainy
streets to the first session since Tues
day, talk of the. death sentence given
MlrinliniiAtt on Pa?* Four*
ANTI-SALES TAXERS
WILE LIKELY LOSE
Finance Committees Expect
ed To Reject Most of
1 heir Proposals
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In llm- S|r Wiiltrr Hotel.
H\ J. C. HASH lilt VIM..
Raleigh, Feb. 14.—After spending
the next, week or ten oays holding
additional public hearings on the new
tax proposals submitted by Represen
tatives McDonald and Lumpkin, from
which they maintain the State can
get $12,361,094 in new revenue and
thus eliminate the sales tax, the joint
finance committees are expected to
i eject most of these plans and report
the revenue bill to the house virtual
(Coiilinued on Page Three)
Par Heel Tobacco
Growers Ask Less
Tobacco for 1935
Washington, Feb. 14 (AP)
Farm administration officials were
told today that the production of
flue-cured tobacco proposed for
this year was highly eexcessive
and threatened a return to “star
vation prices.”
A delegation of growers from
North Carolina, where the great
est amount of cigarette tobacco is
grown, appealed for a lower pro
duction quota before Chester C.
Davis, the farm administrator,
and J. H. Hutson, AAA tobacco
ehiet.
HILL’S LIQUOR BILL
10 GET FAVORABLE
REPORT IN SENATE
Referendum Will Most
Likely Be Authorized by
This Present Gen
eral Assembly
BEER HEARING HAS
FLAVOR OF LIQUOR
Drys, Opposing Increased
Alcoholic Cointent of Beer,
Offer Heavyweight Speak
ers, Some of Whom Get off
Into Attacks on Hill Mea
sure, Not Yet Up
UIIII.V l)i«t|»:i(rh lliir«-;in,
lii the Sir Waiter Hotel.
Raleigh. Feb. 14. —The much talk
ed about Hill liquor control bill will
get a favorable committee report
some time next week. Virtual assur
ance of committee approval is indi
cated as the result of a private poll
taken by this bureau and interviews
with Senate leaders.
The bill is now in the hands of
Senate Judiciary Committee No. 2,
headed by Senator Horton, of Chat
ham.
A public hearing on the bill will
be held next Wednesday, if that date
is suitable to the drys. Strenuous ob
jections will be voiced by Cale K.
Burgess and his United Dry Forces
whenever the hearing is Held.
Certain men high in State councils
say that liquor would be legalized by
this legislature without a referendum
except, for the fact that a “general”
election was held on the eighteenth
amendment in 1933. The results of
that election, in which 300.000 quali
fied voters did not vote, does admit
tedly have a deterring influence on
certain legislators.
There is considerable sentiment a
mong members of the judiciary com
(Continued on Page Four)
Cotton Consumed
On the Increase
Washington, Feb. 14—(AP)—Cot
ton consumed during January was
reported today by the Census Bu
reau to have totalled 546,787 bales
of lint and 61,832 bales of linters,
compared with 413,535 of lint and
52,066 of linters In December last,
and 508,021 of lint and 56,387 of
linters in January last year.
First Os Italian Soldiers
Off To Africa Saturday
Mussolini, Meanwhile, Ponders With Fascist Grand
Council Course To Take In Face of Ethiopian King’s
Defiant Ajnswer O ver Border Clash
Paris, Feb. II (AP)—Troop re
inforcements were ordered to
French Somaliland today to guard
against any further frontier inci
dents in connection with the
Kalic-Ktbiopian trouble.
Kthiopia agreed to a French de
mand for indemnity for the kill
ing of the eoloniai official, Al
bert Julien Bernard, and 18 So
mali police January 18.
Coincident with the ordering of
the additional troops to the French
colony, the government announced
the Kthiopian government would
be held responsible for the pacifi
cation of the border tribes.
Another Seriously Wound
ed at Miine Near Wilkes-
Barre, Penn.
! Wilkes Barre, Pa., Feb. 14.—(API—
J One man was shot to death and an
i other was seriously wounded in near
by Larksville today as a miner’s strike
in Luzerne county entered its eleventh
day.
Frank Petrosky, 28, of Larksville,
said by police to be a member of the
striking anthracite miners of Penn
sylvania, was killed, and Anthony
Legosh, 31, of Edwardsville, member
of the same union, was seriously
j wounded in a clash near the Wood
(Cont.inued on Page Three).
I Former King Ali
Os Hedjaz Victim
Os Heart Ailment
Bagdad. Iraq., Feb. 14.—(AP)—For
mer King Ali oT Hedjaz died this
morning of heart disease, following
an attack Tuesday night. In poor
health for several months, the former
monarch had been unconscious most
of the time since yesterday.
Ali died in th e palace of his nep
hew, King Ghazi, who succeeded his
father, King Feisal upon his death in
1933. ' ,
PUBLISHED EVER? A FTBRNOOM
EXCEPT SUNDAY,
Rome. Feb. 14 (AP) The first de
tachment of Italy’s African expedi
tionary force will leave Sicily for Eri
trea and Italian Somaliland Saturday,
a government spokesman announced
today.
This information was divulged as
Premier Mussolini prepared to confer
with the Fascist grand council to de
termine his policy in view of the de
fiant communication sent him by
King Haile Salassie of Ethiopia. The
official spokesman said other units
would follow Saturday and on suc
ceeding days.
He emphasized this move does not
(Continued on Page Three)
FERGUSON ADMITS
CRUISER PROFITS
Newport News Builder Sur
prised at Making So
Much on Contracts
Washington, Feb. 14 (AP) -Testi
mony that his company has made $5.-
861,351, or 25 per cent profit, in 1927
on two cruisers when it expected only
$1,800,000, was given the Senate Muni
tions Committee today by Homer L.
Ferguson, president of the Newport
News Shipbuilding and Drydock Com
pany.
At the same time he told the com
mittee that, although the cost of
cruisers had increased several mil
lion dollars in the past six years, they
actually cost the government less in
the long run, because there was a
great deal more material in them,
which made them more valuable.
The contract price for the cruisers
with the government was $20,960,000,
and the net cost was $15,753,457, the
witness explained.
“I was amazed we made so much.”
the shipbuilder declared.
WEAIIIIT
FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
Probably occasional rain tonight
and Friday morning; slightly cold
er on the north coast Friday;
slowly rising temperature in cen
tral and west portions Friday,
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O TODAY
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COUNSEL 10 FIGHT '
IN HIGHEST COURTS
10 SAVE BIS LIFE
j
Reilly Says Appeal Will Bf!
Carried to United States
Supreme Court, If
Necessary
JURY VERDICT WAS
GIVEN LAST NIGHT
Hauptmann Totters As He
Hears Foremarn’s Fateful
Words After Jury Deliber
ates Over 11 Hours; Back
In His Cell, He Breaks
Down and Cries
Flciiiingtoii. N. •»., Feb. M (APT
■ —Bruno Iticliurd siiintmaiin will
be taken to the death bouse in
Trenton Saturday. Sheriff John H.
Curtis said at noon today.
Flcmington. N. J.. Feb. 14. —(AI J i
Death has been decreed for Bruno
Richard Hauptmann, convicted of kill
ing the Lindbergh baby, but his cou/u
scl drafted today a fight through high
courts which may last months.
Prison precedent combined with
judge and jury to fix the night of
March 22 as the tentative date for
Hauptmann's elect l ocution.
H c was sentenced “to suffer death"
the week of March 18, and Friday is
doom's day* in the death house at:
Trenton.
While Hauptmann wept in his cell.
Edward J. Reilly, chief of defense
staff, said an appeal would be car
ried to the United States Supremo
Court, if necessary.
The first tribunal to hear the plaa,
the State court of errors and
year old prisoner turned to hrs faltip
ful wife and said: U
“It's all right, Annie." .? / : 1
Back in his cell, out of thte guz£,
* ' 'jin
(Continued on Page Two )
Routine Os
Life Flies
For Anna
Flcmington, N. J., Feb. 14.—(API
The routine of life went on today for
Anna Hauptmann.
She came out on the second floor
back porch of the house in which she
lives with her infant son to hang
some of his clothes out to dry. One
garment was a white sleeping suit.
She had washed the clothes earlier.
Mrs. Hauptmann lingered at the
porch rail a moment, gazing out at
the dreary rain, which was falling
steadily. She was bareheaded and
wore the brown dress she was wear
ing last night when she heard her
husband condemned to death.
Tlion she went in to remain out
of sight behind drawn shades.
Hauptmann
Lapses Into
Fitful Sleep
Roused for Break
fast, Only To Lie
Back Again After
He Had Eaten
Flemington, N. J., Feb. 14.—(AP)—
Bruno Richard Hauptmann, under
sentence of death, early today fell in
to fitful sleep in his Hunterdon jail
quarters.
The anguish to which the German
carpenter gave way after the jury of
Hunterdon county plain folks pro
nounced him the Lindbergh’s baby’s
slayer passed as dawn approached
and he stretched himself upon hi 3
cell cot.
At the customary hour,
he was awakened by his gu„ ■. and,
ate oatmeal, bread and coi ‘"hen.
I he lay back again, silenr. ien
pressed to resume hi? r | ||t^