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?
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TODAY
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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 <o Congress to
day by President Roosevelt.
J In a special message Mr. Roosevelt
I proposed that the government be al
| lowed “unquestioned power” to “es~
! tablish certain minimum standards of
[ fair competition in commercial prac
tices and especially adequate stand--
i aids in labor relations.’’
| “For example.” he said, “child la
; hot- must not be allowed to return:
j the fixing of minimum wages and
i maximum hours is practical and nec-
I essary.’’
“The. rights of employees freely to
I organize for the purpose of collective
• bargaining should he fully protected.”
“The fundamental principles of the
anti-trust laws should be more ade
quately applied.
,! “Mononpolies and private price-fix
ing must not he allowed nor eondon
j ed.”
But in the case of such natural
i resources as oil, coal and gas,’’ the
. President said, the people “need gov--
(Continued on Page Eight)
GEORGIA VOTES ON
LIQUOR ON MAT 15
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 2<) R\P) —The 1
i Hon e toda> 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