iikndlkson gateway to central CAROLINA I \VI*;NTV-SECOND YEAR ROOSEVELT ASKS NRA EXTENSION TWO YEARS Emergency Hoad Repair Bill Passes Highway Commission Is Left With Full Power To Di rect Expenditure of Money SLOT MACHINE ACT NOW BECOMES LAW House Committee Votes Ap proval of Legalizing Five Percent Beer in State; Driver's License Is Consid rred; Liquor Bill Hearing firing Held ’?:*)• igh. Feb. 20 (AP> The General \ .!nlily today approved the immedi • |>' ,, ditiir(’ of *3.000.000 for emor it pairs t<> Stato and county i <1- in North Carolina, and wrote ii to th" law a measure to prohibit >ni.l it.u -•lot machines. Approval was voted a bill to lega fiv" percent beer in the State Utilise judiciary committee this ,(* '»t ■ ii*<»n. At present the alcoholic cu'.’<-.i* of beer is limited to 8.2 per ViJlt . !>. cantered on the liquor hear -ei fni this afternoon. lii Senate concurred in a House 1 :'t relri.i jt to the highway bill which j , a load commission with full I tjuv,’ i to direct the expenditure of the in The Senate had specified •ha' highway workers under the emer -i • program were to be worked teu hours per day. \ lav minutes after noon, the slot :i,echini act. which completed legisla • ' a --.ige yesterday was ratified Del hi'came effective as a law imnie oii'p'ly Scinitors debated at length over a (Continued on Page Two.) Will Press For Action For Bonus Advocates in House Flatly Against Any Com pro mi se on j Measure . \ 'V-jshington. Feb. 20.—(AP)—Stand flatly against any compromise, ■ iv k, . the Patman $2,100,000,000 | > Ms. 'i' bill decided today upon two 'miliediate steps. Hoth moves are planned for tomor low. The first, will seek to assure a M use vote on the bill, even though i not approved hv the ways and | < ans committee. The second will at- j mpt t», permit the insertion of the is ''aim ii bill in an appropriation bill C ' provides salaries for represen- j; U !\i - and sejiators. 1 have no doubt but that we will | dd the necessary signatures,” Pat- l '"an .-aid. It now requires 216 signers di-chatge a committee from con- i • " 1 i : a bill. i A .other Texas Democrat. Represen- < Rian ton. wil] father the second I ii to;i. it would bring to a House ‘ ] resolution permitting the Pat- ' nian bill to be offered as an amend !,i“nt to the legislative appropriations measure. Sales Tax Will Be Beaten, McDonald, Os Forsyth, Says Advocate of Substitute Says Arguments Against His Proposals Are Ridiculous, and Sales Tax Is Here Permanently Unless It Is Repealed This Session I t|xi>a(vh Unreal, In Ike Sir Walter Hotel. , >V' C. A. PAUL Feb. 20—i" The sales tax i"t \),, re-enacted this session," 1,1 i’-alph McDonald here today, ! v “ should tax dividends wheth 'i not we need the revenue.” He ( '■ r he statements in an interview i ; hi« bureau. 1 lun ■•"'no.' cojitinued the Forsyth 1 • ntative and author of a great 0( the sales tax substitute 'hat the lower house will de- . , " ''des tax. and we are con- J srniuitig strength in the Sen Hvniicrsmt TBatlu Utapatdt UXLV UAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. ’ L.JOA3KD Will® SERVICE OV THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. As Anxious Crowds Awaited Gold Decision .••• ‘ Lb I 5 x : .: v i.o> r hdi'Sv- ■ '.v. > t . JHIBIIH iISMHy ■ / - ' illlfc \ lew o l the crowded corridor of the Capitol as tlio.se unable to gain admittance to the Sup.eine Court chamber awaited news of the court's momentous gold decision* (Central Presa) j Wallace, Hutson To Speak at Raleigh Raleigh, Feb. 20.—(AP)—Secre tary of Agriculture Henry A. Wal lace and J. B. Hutson, chief of the tobacco section of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, are scheduled to address a mass meet ing of tobacco growers trom this and nearby states here Monday. They will discuss the proposed acreage increase for tobacco grow ers this season. LEGISLATURE GOES ON SPENDING SPREE Not in Years Has General Assembly Been So Free With Tax Money MEANS HIGHER LEVIES Money Must Be Hud or Budget Will Be Out of Balance; Members Seem Inclined To Vote Money for Anything In the Sjp Wilder Hotel. Daily Disnateh Rnrcaa, BV J. C. BASKEItVILL. Raleigh. Feb. 20—The sky is the limit with this General Assembly when it comes to spending money, and most observers here agree that so far it is inclined to be more liberal with the taxpayers’ money than any assembly since the 1925 session. In 1927 the legislature started applying the brakes both to the issuance of bonds and to appropriations, while in 1929 it clamped down still harder, with the exception of the appropria tions for schools and the University of North Carolina. In 193 J and 1933 the assembly clamped down on appro priations. except for schools, with a vengeance. The principal reason for the stringent economy exercised in (Continued on Page Two) ate. I will confess htat until a week ago T nad considered our cause as very, very doubtful of success. Now, however, we are confident." "Stock dividends should be taxed, said Dr. McDonald, “as a matter of principle. Whether the schools are in dire need or not dividends should not be exempt.” He made the state ment in answer to a reporter's query about the justness of the tax. It has been said that the proposed six pei cent tax on stock dividends may be adopted even if the sales tax is re (Ckmtluued on Pags HENDERSON, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 20, 1935 Business Leaders Look For Improvement After Gold Decision By Court i Many Positive It Means Greater Volume, Some Predict Boom, With Others Hopeful FEW THINK REVERSE ! WOULD HAVE HELPED Would Have Been Better in Long Run, They Say; Steel Companies Announce Vast I Expansion Program ; Wholesalers, Manufactur ers Are Also Hopeful New York, Feb. 20.—(AP)— Many business leaders, pondering effects of . the Supreme Court gold decision ae- j cided today it meant more dollars in the till. Many were positive the decision in- ! sured added business; a minority us ed the word “boom.” Some merely were hopeful. A conservative element, however, felt a, decision reversing the govern -1 ment would have had a much better, long-time effect, even if it had dis ! rupted business temporarily. The United States Steel Corporation announced yesterday it had approved a $47,000,000 plant modernization pro gram. and the New York Times said j it was thought in some quarters the company had delayed the announce i ment until the court’s gold decision was known. Thus sum. to be spent on finishing plants, is the largest allotted for this work by United States Steel in five i years. Expansion of the subsidiary of the (Continued on Page Two.) LOOMS Committee Thinks 25 Per cent Raise Cain Be Grant ed on That Basis llaily Dispatch It areas, In the Sir Walter Hotel. 1 Raleigh. Feb. 20—Although the i joint appropriations committees are I still meeting in executive session be hind locked doors, the session Tues i day was devoted to further considera | tion of the public schools appropria tion, it was learned from an authori tative source. The committee again called State Superintendent of Public Instruction Clyde A. Erwin before it and asked him to explain further why he thought an appropriation of $22,000,000 a year was necessary in i (Continued on Paee Three), i Lawyers Agree In Hauptmann’s Case Trenton. N. .1 ~Feb. 20.—(AP) The rift in the ranks of Bruno Richard Hauptmann’* attorneys ! appered to have been healed today a* Egbert. Roscerans, associate counsel, announced that “every | thing lias been ironed out.” Roscerans, after a conference in New York with Edward .1, Reilly, chief defense counsel, said Reilly bail agreed to confer tomorrow with other New Jersey members of the defense staff on the next step in Hauptmann’s appeal from the death sentence for the kidnap killing of the Lindbergh baby, EFFORT TO DIVERT HIGHWAY FUNDS IS BEGUN IN EARNEST Would Take Money Away from Road Maintenance and Send It Into the Counties ANOTHER LOAD UPON STATE DEBT BURDEN That’s What Highway Re fund Measure Really Amounts To; Some Coun ties Would Get Huge Sums From State Under This Program of Diversion Daily Dispatch Unreal, In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY €. BASKEHVILL. Raleigh, Feb. 20.—The fight to di : vert several millions of dollars of highway* revenue back to the counties to be used in the retirement of coun ty road bonds is already .beginning to break out into the open. Two bills ! were introduced yesterday, one in the | Senate and one in the House, which would require the State Highway and Public Works Commission to assume I $8,783,181 of county road bond indebt ’ I (Continued on Page Four) WtATIIER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair, slightly colder in east por tion tonight: Thursday fair. Flat Payrolls Tax To Get Unemployed Insurance Favored Change Is Written Into So cial Security Bill by House ; Ways and Means Committee STARTS NEXT YEAR WITH ONE PERCENT Reaches Maximum of Three Percent in 1938; Senate Still Embroiled in Debate Over $4,880,000,000 Work Relief Bill; Roosevelt To Sign Seed Loans Washington. Feb. 20. —(API— The House Ways and Means Committee today decided to impose a flat Fed : eial payroll tax for unemployed in | surance, instead of basing the levy I on business conditions. The change was written into the pending social security bill. Chairman Doug'hton said, with the apparent ap- I prova] of administration officials. Under the committee’s amendment, i the tax will be one percent in the i 1936 calendai year, two percent in | 1937 and three per cent—the proposed i maximum—in 1938. This level was the same amount presented to Congress by the admin ■ istration, except for the elimination of fluctuations with business condi j lions. The committee’s decision was that a fluctuating tax would cause business I uncertainty. Among other Washington develop ments: *, The Senate still was embroiled in (Continued on Page Five) SWANSON TO OPPOSE ANY NEW DIRIGIBLES Washington, Feb. 20.—(AP)— Secretary Swanson said today he would oppose further construction of navy dirigibles. ITALIAN SOLDIERS READY ID DEPART | Transports at Naples and Messina Prepared For African Trip < i Rome. Feb. 20.—(AP)—Italian trans | ports had steam up at Naples and Messina today to sail in further proof j that Italy’s “precautionary measures’’ j j against Ethiopia can and will be car ried out to any extent deemed neces i sary. At Naples the S. S. Montenego took ; aboard 1.000 soldiers and several hun dred auxiliary experts. The officers received orders to be ready to sail at any time. The S. S. Vulcania. a liner widely known among American tourists, is understood to have received orders to stand bv at Naples for possible troop (Continued on Pag© Five) Biscoe Bank Is Bobbed Os Cash Funds Employees and One! Customer Lined Up' Against W all As Hold-Up Proceeds Biscoe, Feb. 20.—(AP) —The Bank of Biscoe was held up and robbed of between SSOO and SI,OOO at noon to j day by two unmasked bandits, who ! escaped in a green (Chevrolet) sedan. Carrying an automatic shotgun and a pistol, the two bandits walked in the front door and lined J. E. Maness, the cashier; Miss Anne Maness, his sister, and assistant cashier, and E. R. Burt, of Biscoe. a customer, the only persons in the building, up a gainst a wall. After taking what money was out -1 (Cc.ntiau.ed ea rave Flvaj PUBLISHER) EVERY AFTERNOOM HXCHPT SUNDAY* Faces Death Bravely • ' ■ Dr. Philemon E. Truesdale, world famous diaphragmatic surgeon of Fall River, Mass., is rushing home from West Indies vacation to per form an operation on Alyce Mc- Henry, 10, of Omaha, Neb., whose inverted stomach threatens to cause her death. Girl is seen being brought across country to go under knife. (Central Press) PROGRESSIVES TALK 10 BILLIONS RELIEF LaFollette Says Govern ment’s Credit in No Danger Whatever WAGNER MAY DESERT May Leave Roosevelt if 11 is Measure Fails; Capper Talked for G. O. p. Nomination Next Vear By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer New York. Feb. 20.—While argu ments are going on among conserva tives whether four billions are not too much to be appropriated for re lief. progressives are demanding 10 billions. Says Senator Roberi F. T,a Follette of Wisconsin: “The'credit of the government is ' not in danger. Great Britain’s per capita tax debt is three times as i much as ours with fewer people and j (Continued on Page Two) ( Hancock Plans To Oppose Suggested Housing Measure Washington. Feb. 20 (AP)- Repre sentative Hancock, Democrat. North Carolina, announced today he would fight a proposal for the Federal Hous ing Administration to insure loans up to $50,000. He said the matter had come before the House Banking and Currency Committee, of which he is a member. The present housing act authorizes the administrator to give a 20 per cent guarantee on loans up to $2,000, but limits the administrator’s aggregate liability to $200,000,000. Under the new proposals, Hancock said, loans up to $50,000, could be in sured 20 per cent. “This is nothing more than bait, “the North Carolina representative as serted . Labor Gives Warning Os Textile Strike Decision Washington, Feb. 20.—(AP) — Or ganized labor argued today that if a decision by the Textile Labor Board was allowed to stand, “it would lead to violence and inoodshed in future strikes.” The decision, handed down January 30 in the discrimination case brought by the United Textile Workers against the' Ninety-Six Cotton Mills, of Ninety Six, S. C., held that the mill did not need to reinstate strikers because their strike was unsuccessful. T.f this decision stands it mean? 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY , PRESIDENT PLEADS FDR LONG RENEWAL OF RECOVERY LAWS ■ » Requests “Unquestioned Power” for Government To Establish Minimum Standards STATES MONOPOLIES MUST BE PREVENTED Also Says Private Price-Fix ing Must Not Be Allowed; Against Efforts To Put People in Jail as Enforce ment Move; Wants Child Labor Banned Washington, Feb. 20.—(Al’> A two-year extension of the national reenvrry law, “its fundamental purposes and principles.” renewed, was recommended adopted amendments ’ setting May 15, 1935, for a State wide election on repeal of tit© Georgia lame dry prohibition law, and providing for the sale of whis ' ky in unbroken packages. Thei»e amendments were tacked onto the Grayson-Graves lull now under consideration in committee of the j whole, and which measure would repeal the State dry act. Democratic Insurgency Is Growing Becoming; Too Form idable To Be Ignor ed; Blocs Against Roosevelt By CHARLES I*. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, Feb. 20. —Democratic insurgency in Congress is becoming too formidable to be ignored* Lawmakers who wear the adminis tration’s party label are in so huge a majority on Capitol Hill that it seems ■ xash to predict loss of control over it by the White House. Nevertheless, one cannot but be struck by every succeeding day's increase in the num (Continued on Page Eight) 1 that in the future employers will use ! all the force and violence possible to | see that a strike is unsuccessful, and : on the other hand strikers will U3e all the force possible to see that their strike is a success,” said J. Winfield Crew, of Roanoke Rapids, N. C., United Textile Workers attorney. Crew was arguing before the Tex tile Board at a re-hearing of the Ninety-Six case, in which the board previously held that the mill i , 2 not violated the recovery act by reiuamg I hl»nk**t re- mpioymeni ox