IIKNL'KKSON (.atkway to t KNTUAL ,'AIiObINA twenty-second YEAR HUGE WORK- TWO MEASURES ASK EARLY ENLARGEMENT OF HIGHWAY PATROL Our Would IVlakc Force of 127 Members and Ollier 208, Each Including the Officers COMMITTEE BACKS SALARY INCREASES >hlc Employees Would Get Graduated Raise in Pay; Consli tut ion a 1 Amendment To Raise Income lax Limit I win Six to Ten Percent Ls Proposed liulriuh. I'M). 15.—(AIM—Highway i'| enlargement, regulation of op iin'-i i i.-ls and commercial fisheries, i' iry increases for State employees i , otlii'i sundry matters occupied itteiition of legislators today. Ueth divisions of the assembly held ions, and then adjourned for n 1 local business tomorrow. The House passed and sent to the sale a hill to amend the laws on l> ..mo: i its by tightening present re ;ii: iiier- It also put back on its cal l u- a hu! to regulate photographers which it tabled yesterday. The Senate got two bills to enlarge the highway patrol, one to make it tam 1?7 members including officers, i d th,. other to fix the personnel at Tlv House got a measure to re • u’iii' niou r v-hicle operators to show Me a financial responsibility and one ta mark the center of all highways. imte passage was voted the Frink I to put commercial fisheries under Can.-ervntion Department, and thu ssma went to the House. A House committee approved a bill H ontiinicil on Page Five! \lnii car-old son of Mr. and 'h'.. Will llarroll, of the New M "l»c sort ion, who has been miss from his home since 5 o’clock icsicrdin afternoon, when he went "••t in tln* l.ittlo River to fish his nets, ' •• < ‘av> fog eame up over the ri 'cr shortly after the boy left lihiiic, and grave fears were ex nressed today Hint he liad been drouinal. Drys Wait Upon Vote hi A lahama ••idly l 11 s i>a f h llnreaiy, In ilio sjr Walter Hotel. . 11 t'gli. Kob. 15.—Dry forces in M ' r ’)i'olina. would capitalize on 'tntirnont in Alabama. The plan l, "t' known here today when it inadvertantly learned that cor •‘T.v leaders are attempting to de * I'll' 1 Ho hearing on the Hill li -1 ‘xmlr»d Mill until after Alabama 011 the 20th of this month on * Ir »ii%i r hill. '' ; >t;n are the drys that. Alabama (Continued on I’age Five) Senate Calling For Data About Farley nM i"iKtou, i*'«b. 15.——At the " f Senator Long, Democrat, " 1,11:1 ,h »: Senate today asked I' ll !! y Ir:k<:s to furni sh all reports r ' "Mm Department investigators I, lln U to Postmaster General Far , P.obinson. Democratic lead- ' K ‘ ,(l to approval of the resolu ri:,fj tor the data after Long onsented to a modification. 'lie,/"!' r ' na tly drawn, the resolution i,,,,i, all "‘ports gathered by "" lekes chief investigator Hrttfrrrsmt liathi titspatrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. * LEASED WIRE) SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Nine Britishers Killed In Crash Messina, Sicily, Fell. 15.—(AIM Nine British officers and men were reported killed today in a crash of* the seaplane ‘t.Slngip ore 1 en route from Naples to Malta. The plane burned immediately after the j crash. Textbooks Lob! >v Now J Pouring In l ! ken ta I Proposal Brings Them Run ning to Raleigh To Oppose Measure Dully Dis|tiiteh llareaw, In I lie Sjr Walter Hofei. Raleigh, Feb. 15.—Textbook lobby ists are flocking here iby the score ’ as the result of the two bills intro duced within the last few days to set up a Statewide rental textbook sys tem. They seem to be especially wor ried by the bill u.t rodu.ced in the House Tuesday by Representative Gregg Cherry, of Gaston county, ana some six or seven other House mem | bers. which would not only set up the machinery for a rental textbook sys , tern for every school in the State, be j ginning with the school year of 1935- 36 but which would also change the method of selecting and adopting | textbooks. j The Cherry bill, if adopted, would I eliminate the North Carolina School Book Depository here, owned by Al fred Williams and Company, through which almost all of the adopted school books in the State are now distribut ed and which collects 10 per cent on every book sold for this purpose. The Statewide rental system would also eliminate the sale of textbooks except to those children or parents who pre fer to buy them. It would also mean that fewer books would be used from (Continued on Pago Five) OUTLOOK GLOOMY ! ON STREET UPKEEP Administration Not Pulling With Cities, Who Didn’t Pull With It Doily Dlsiinfch Humid, In the Sjr Winter Hofei. Raleigh, Feb. 15.—The outlook is decidedly gloomy for the bill which i would require the State Highway and j Public Works Commission to main tain the streets in cities and towns traversed by State highways, despite the fact that the highway department is not opposing the measure, it was learned here today from members of the roads and appropriations commit tees. The bill has the backing of the North Carolina Municipal League, (Continued on Pago Two.) in connection with the public build ing. program. Robinson protested that this data would be too voluminous. As approved, resolution requests Ickes to forward all Gavis’ reports “which affect, mention or report on James AJ. Farley or any concern with which said Farley has been or is now identified.” It also asked for reports dealing with contracts to James Stewart an Company on supplies furnished o that company by the General Build 6l9 Supply Corporation. HENDERSON, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 15, 1935 RELIEF BILL FACES CRUCIAL TEST NEW $235,000 HENDERSON HIGH SCHOOL 4 -J <<>. *? -:> •'£' . o*'.. , * ' v' .. . A V -*■ ■: /y . . ■' f - Al> - SHi:ecT ■ I'll is is an architect’s drawing of the proposed new $235,000 Henderson high school, the contract for which is soon to be let. | It is part of a $285,000 building program for the city schools, which will also include a new $34,500 building at North Hender son, and the addition of four rooms to the South Henderson ! school to cost $16,000. I he new high school will be located at the corner of North Wil liam and Charles streets. It will have accommodations for some I 700 students, and will make provisions for commercial classes, j domestic science, regular science courses and probably other cur- | ricula subjects in addition to the straight literary courses to be i CHAIN STORE LEVY' BEATEN, MERCHANTS; TO TACKLE OTHERS I MacDonald-Lumpkin Pro posal Would Extract Some $1,000,000 More From Business MERCHANTS ARE NOT j YET FULLY AROUSED — They Haven’t Realized Just What Is In Store for Them %nder Substitute for Sales Tax; New Chain Store Tax Has Been Eliminated, , However l/nlly Disiintrh llnrrait, In Ihe Sir Waller Hotel. BV J. C. HASKKRVIM,. Raleigh. Feb. 15.—Having already persuaded the joint finance commit tees that the revised chain store tax section, advocated by the anti-sales j tax group in the committees, would impose too heavy a burden upon North Carolina chain stores, the pro posed new section has been rejected by the committees as the result of the opposition from the merchants who would have had to pay the tax. Indications now are that many mer chants are also going to vigorously oppose the additional plan proposed j by the McDonald-Lumpkin anti-sales j tax group to impose a gross receipts , tax of one-fourth of one per cent on j the gross receipts of all retail mer chants, a similar tax of one-eighth of (Continued on Page Two.) Will Protect Nation From Propaganda Washington, Feb. 15.—(AP) —Legis- lation to protect the United States 1 from “foreign propaganda” and re ! volutionary activity was recommend ed to Congress today by a House com mittee which spent more than a year investigating “un-American activities” In its report to the House, the com mittee, headed by Representative Mc- Cormack, Democrat, Massachusetts, charged, in effect, that Soviet Rus sia had violated its pledge against harboring groups which advocate the “overthrow of this government.’’ It reported that tons of Nazi pro paganda have been smuggled into this country and complimented “20-odd million Americans of German birth or descent” for resisting efforts “to bring ! them into the Nazi program.” Talk New Tobacco Sign-Up To Limit 1935 Allotments Washington, Feb. 11.—(AP)—A new sign-up of flue-cured tobacco grow ers may be the answer to protests from North Carolina that the acreage allotment ' for 1935 is- too large, and if carried out will result in prices so low as to wreck the control law. The suggestion for the new sign-up came late yesterday after J. B. Hut son, Farm Administration tobacco chief, and a North Carolina delega tion had debated for hours the 1935 acreage. Hutson said contracts for producers to grow 85 per cent of their base ac Ethiopians Attack Act Os Italians No Grounds for Mob ilization, King Sa lassie Says In Pro test to Rome Rome, Feb. 15.—(AP)— Emperor Haile Selassie declared today In a message to the world that Italian mobilization is not justified by any military measure on the part of Ethiopia. The message from the Ethiopian ruler was made public here through his charge d’affaires Yanus Yesus, who said he was also communicating it to the foreign office. “The news of the mobilization of two Italian divisions,” the monarch said, “is not of the kind to maintain an atmosphere of confidence neces sary to the satisfactory conduct of negotiations now under way prelim inary to the establishment of a com mission of conciliation and arbitra tion for solution of Italo-Ethiopian differences. “The security of Italian Somliland has not been menacedb y Ethiopia at any time.’’ Haile Selassie repeated that his country never had taken an aggres sive position against Italy and that none ot his troops had been concen trated on the border. Italian sources said that more than 150 armed Ethiopians have occupied (Continued on Page Five) 'WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy, possibly preceded by rain in east portion tonight; Sat urday partly cloudy, not much change in temperature. offered. Included in the building also will be an auditorium that will seat 900 to 1,000 persons, including the balcony. A gymna sium will be built into the structure, and also basement provisions for a cafeteria. The building will be modern in every respect throughout and will be adequate for all present needs of the high school. Eric G. Flannagan is the architect for the building. The funds are being obtained from the Federal Public Works Administra tion. Work is to start in the early spring and the building will require about a year for construction. It will probably be ready for use at the 1936 commencement, and certainly for the open ing of the high school in the fall of 1936. reage in 1935. instead of the 70 per cent as in 1934, already had become binding. In answer to this. Governor Eh-, of North Carolina suggested that Heel growers were prepared to tear Up the present contracts hnd sign new ones. In event of a new sign up tre new program would be extend ed through 1936. Hutson said he would have to con sult with other groups before reach ing a decision, naming specifically the Export Tobacco Company, of Ame erica. He also plans to confer here Germany Answers British Proposal Berlin, Feb. 15 (AP)—The Ger man government tonight advised France and England that Ger many had “a. sincere desire to pro mote the safeguard of peace,” and advised htose two nations that the European questions they raised in the recent London conversations will be thoroughly examined. This reply was made by Adolf Hitler’s government on the Franco- British agreement reached two weeks ago, and which was made the basis of proposals to Germany. Startling Move Made By State Taken at Kenni mer Murder Trial Pawnee, Okla., Felb. 15. —(AP) —Ad- mission of John F. Gorrell, Jr., wrote an extortion note to H. F. Wilcox, wealthy Tulsa oil man. threatening death to one of his children unless he paid $20,000, was made by the State today in the murder trial of 19-year old Phil Kennimer for the slaying of Gorrell, 23, The startling action followed brief testimony by Federal Judge Franklin E. Kennimer, father of the defen dant, that “in my judgment” the hand writing was not his son’s. W. F. Gilmer, Jr., of the prosecu tion interrupted testimony of J. C. Shearman, Wlichita, Kans. handwrit ing expert, to say: “If you are trying to show that Gorrell wrote that note, “we’ll save you time and trouble; we admit it.” “In view of this unqualified admis sion, we see no need of continuing this testimony,” said A. Flint Moss, (Continued oc Paire TJtreoi PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Saturday with the flue-cured advisory committee, which recommended the 85 percent planning for 1935. The North Carolinians differed with Hutson on the amount of tobacco an 85 percent planting would produce. Governor Ehrlnghaus estimated the poundage would be more than 800,- 000,000 pounds when planting by grow ers not cooperating by the control plan was taken into consideration. Hutson estimated the crop at a round 720,000,000 pounds. It was (Continued on Pago Five) Hauptmann Will Go To Death Cell Heavy Guard To Ac company Con demned Man T o Trenton Tomorrow Flemimgton, N. J., Feb. 15.—(AP)— Sheriff John H. Curtis announced to day that Bruno Richard Hauptmann, convicted Lindbergh kidnap-murderer would be removed from the Hunter don county jail to the death house in State Prison some time tomorrow. “We are going to take him down tomorrow; that’s definite.” Pressed for some definite informa (Continued nn Page Three) Business Remains Spotty Over Most Os Southwest Texas and Oklahoma Suffer ing from Short Crops, But Further West Conditions Are Much Better; Gene ral Outlook Depends On Politics BY ROGER W. BARSON, Copyright by Publishers Finan cial Bureau, Inc. El Paso, Texas, Feb. 15. —During the past seven days I have had a chance to talk with many people, par ticularly business men, in the South west. From their opinions, plus my own statistical reports, it appears that business in the Southwest is spotty. In West Texas, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona things are definitely on the mend ? but in East Texas and 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPTi 'nm $400,000,000 FOR ] RELIEF WOOED BE SPEEDED THROUGH i Four Billion Dollar Work- Giving Fund Would Be Left To Fate In Doubtful Future MAY RETURN BILL TO THE COMMITTEE That Body Would Be In structed To Divide the Measure and Rush SBBO,- 000,000 Part Back to Sen ate for Action; Republican Want Time Limit Imposed Washington, Feb. 15. (AIM— The administration work-relief program today approached its first big Senate test—a motion which would speed passage of the $880,000,000 for direct relief, but leave the $1,000,000 work giving fund to a doubtful future. The outcome was expected by Dern ocratic leaders to provide a major indication of just how rough will prove the huge money bill’s journey in the Senate. Senator fMcCarran. Democrat. Nev ada, author of the mandatory “pre vailing wage” amendment, just bare ly defeated in committee by admin istration forces, promised the motion to return the lump sum measure to the appropriations committee, with instructions to split the plan into two parts and rush back the direct relief section. From Republican ranks was prom ised a motion to cut. one year orr the (ime the huge relief fund would be available until June 30. 1937. Repub licans agreed to ask a June 30, 1936 limit. Other capital activities: Charges of “inefficiency” and “even suggestions of graft” were put before ‘he House Rules Committee by coi ; * gressmen who demanded an investi gation of the Home Owners (iitijan Corporation. ! V* A. P. Homer. Washington srchitect. told the Senate Munitions Committee that he had bee(i offered • : . t • .. (Continued on Page Denies New EvidenceOn Hauptmann Washington, Feb. 15.—(AP)—State ments that Federal officers have evi dence that Bruno Richard Haupt mann had accomplice in the Lind bergh kidnaping were termed false to day by J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Division of Investigation of the Department of Justice. The Lindbergh kidnap-murder case was said to be closed, so far as the special agents of the Department of Justice are concerned. It was said that Hauptmann, now facing death in the electric chair, is guilty and no other suspects are involved. “It would be reprehensible, even bordering on criminal, to conceal any 1 evidence that would shed light on the guilt or innocence of Bruno Haupt | mann and the division of investigation I ha 3 no other evidence in this case,” Hoo*r said. He made this statement in com menting on published reports that au thorities, including the Department of Justice, knew of an accomplice and expected to arrest him. Hoover said he was speaJting only for the division of investigation, Oklahoma the situation today is not so good. “Hot Oil” Decision Upsetting. Conditions in Oklahoma and East Texas improved earlier than in most other areas. Eighteen months ago the c 0 troubles were clearing up and producers were beginning to make money. Drilling operations were re ginning to make money. Dri ■„ op erations were resumed jor. ' fyntyf-- nnorf Pofrr