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<J \ outli Was
Drowned In River
Iluirsday Evening;
Hertford, Fob. 15 (AIM—AII cx
ti'in.ivo son roll was hoi ng con
heted today by for Percy liar*
r, il. L’-> 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.—<AP>—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
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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
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'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
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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.
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