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TOBACCO GROWERS VOTE FOR CROP INCREASE
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Sec. Wallace Offers To Abandon Tobacco Control If Farmers Prefer
Nation Divided On Course
For Huge Work-Relief Bill
s4s Seen By Senators’ Mail
UPPER ROUSE WILL !
WHILE AWAY 111
BEFORE GOING ON
Will Wait To See How Sent
iment of Country Cry
stallizes Upon This
Major Issue
WAGE AMENDMENT IS
BONE OF CONTENTION
Was Written In Over Pres
ident’s Opposition; Unified
Transportation Proposal
Has Roush Journey Ahead;
Roosevelt’s Deturn to Cap
ital Awaited
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’ nM niino" > outino r" utters nl
(''<• of (hr* nation
• |t-self in • «"islat ive oor
’ 'ii l The : mil" \v;t ■ the prevailing
’ ’nnclniont witter into the
• ’i"! -’ ii r pinn over Mr Roosevelt's
••i, f'o. s ,, 'oi*o* , « said ~1 0, ," s exn*'o-:s
--• nni' '-n.- r’P’tdorl about
i'”t"’of>n the r»rr*vnilinir wage
1 a* (1 the nlnn to
' <r. i i ni(i"*!i to the ?. 500 000 »jn
■ iiinvaMi thn ’Vhit'* House wants
to 1;i off relief rolls and put to
'i'lif -ooial security program was
" \'«-t out of committee in eithei'
i'oii'C or Senate.
lb-commendations for a unified
' 'asportation control were conceded
'u have a rough journey ahead. Pre- r
((tontiniMxl on I’iutp Thrwit
MIA Begins
Fresh Study
For Textiles
Special Board Seeks
Accord To Prevent
Pitt: Strike; N e w
England Kicks
"'i 1 1 iti' on. Feb. 25.—* AI } t —Con*
" t'-'l liv growing discontent from
man ufacrurers and labor, the
'•HA ha.- set up a special board to
-| T coeditions in the textile indue- j
uni determine the possibility of
11 i'vision.
"idle NR A has not said so offi- |
• d till- action vjjas reported relia
to have been taken with the view
l( r "stalling: another textile strike. !
' "'doied early in the spring, if la- I
demands for wage concessions
l umie satisfactory code enforce
: > ; not forthcoming;.
'" lawhile, led by Governor Curley.
•Massachusetts, a group of New
- :, m| manufacturers and state ot
-1,1 gathered here for a conference [
with the New England congres
‘delegation. Objectives of the
"Hag included preparation of a pro
,ln 1,1 limit imports of Japanese
de\ •„ eliminate or lighten the
O' processing tax. to remove sec
'-vage differentials and to stand- ,
/' wages throughout the industry.
'vnnii^r
1 ° ,{ NORTH CAROLINA.
,in bought and prohaby Tues-
I'orning; warmer in east and
' ‘Sntl> Colder in extreme west
portion tonight; colder Tuesday. |
HENDERSON, N.
iHpnberamt Satin Btsnatrfr
Deaths Mount As Storms
Rage In North Atlantic
Honest Man Insane
The opinion of skeptics is con
firmed in the case of Frank Greget
(above), $5 a week New York sign
carrier, who found $42,000 in bondt
and returned them. He was re
warded with cash and a job and now
io in insane ward of New York hos
pital. Greges went mad in Bowery
hotel shouting at roommate “1 am
God and you a*e about to die.” The
man fell d»ad at bis feet.
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GOLD DECISION MAY
QUICKEN COMMERCE
On Revival of International
Trade Depends Much of
Recovery.
INFLATION IS COMING
More Conservative Financiers Getting
Their Mouse in Order for It; Gold
Decision Has Many
Ramifications
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
New York. Feb. 25. —Now. since the
gold decision is out of the way. we
u - ‘old to 'o » . *» vend stabiliza
tion .urrency.
Tht ?old decision in itself means
littll* t( tiad* except to remove up
certainty o to the value of money.
Since, however, the decision vali
dates the Roosevelt devaluation of the
doHeu. the ver’d now knows that the
devalued dollar is the dollar.
Tiros, from that basis, there may
be trading among nations for stabi
lized interchange values of currency.
Means of breaking down tariff bar
tiers wii' have to follow', economists
say.
Unless there is stabilized inter
change value of currency, unless there
is a breaking down of tariff barriers,
the world might starve itself to death
—unless actual barter were resorted
to.
As it is. millions are jobless be
cause of lack of trade —while surplus
food and surplus manufactured pto
ducts rot and rust.
INFLATION NEXT*.
The more conservative financiets
are getting their house into order foi
inflation.
They say the gold decision opens the
door wide.
They buy when values arc down an
sell when values are up—before t e
bubble bursts—and that is exactly
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lrjased wire service or
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
HENDERSON, N. C. MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 25, 1935
Earthquakes Add to Terror
and Suffering in Some
Mediterranean Area
Countries
SHIPS REQUEST AID
IN MANY QUARTERS
Much Destruction and Dis-.
ruption of Shipping Is Re
ported In Bay of Biscay
Region; Fishermen Lost
When They Are Swept
From Their Small Craft
(Bv the Associated Press.)
A howling gale that for three days
has swept North Atlantic shipping I
lanes, and battered the coast of
France as it turned through the Bay
of Bisay into the Meditterrean. added
today to its mounting toll of lost lives
and disrupted shipping.
Earthquake* along the eastern
Mediterranean shores and an expos
ion of 1 ' the coast of Tunisia increased |
the list of dead.
Several fishermen were lost when
they were washed overboard as the !
waves lashed their tiny craft in the
Bay of B J scay. Ten were killed ashore
in France as winds of gale force in
terrupted communications.
Eight were killed and five injured
in earthquake in Greece. Other earth
niiakes were reported at Malta and
Cairo.
Foui persons were reported killed
and several injured when an explos- !
ion mashde the hold of the S. S.
Gouverneur General Jonnart in the
haibor of Tunis, Tunisa.
Two ships reported themselves in
urgent need of assistance, while doz- I
'Ciintiniinil mi Pair** F'miri
Many Dead
In Storms
Over West
Kansas City, Feb. 21 <AP) Bliz
y.ards, tornadoes and dust storms—a I
strange weather mixture - marked j
their passage with death in the mid
west today.
Four persons were killed and more j
than 130 injured by storms which
struck between the Mississippi and
the Rockies.
Tornadoes ripped Over a narrow
traingular course from Wichita, Kans.,
to Commerce, Okla., and Joplin. Mo.,
last night, leaving damage estimateed ,
unofficially at more than $200,000.
Mrs. Ellen Teague. 69. was killed in
a tornado which swept the mining j
communities of Commerce and Dou
that, Okla.
Ruby Reiff. 16. of Ordwar. Col., died
•HontlnilAH nw I Lj f’L »*o*
Roosevelt Starting Second
Half Os Term As President
With Ebb Tide Against Him
By LESLIE EICHEL
New York. Feb. 25- President
Roosevelt is beginning the second half
of his term with the ebb against him. i
That is an opinion expressed by j
many persons.
There usually is a mid-term reac
tion to a president. That is one of
the healthy symptoms of a republic, j
The emotion then has worn off.
President Roosevelt, however, is in j
a more precarious predicament than ,
his predecessors. None has had such
an economic crisis to meet, nor so I
TVA Continues as U. S. Judge’s Ruling Is Attacked
«ENTo c K Y ■'
Permanent injunction granted hv Federal Judge W. I. (insert) of Alaliama, prohibiting government
from disposing of surplus power generated at hydi o-efoEtTlc plants on the Tennessee River will be appealed
to U. S. Supreme Court. Meanwhile TVA work goes ahead with completion of Norris l)am promised for
early uext year. Picture shows the dam as it is today and map of the district that may be affected by
J Lidge C.-u Mira ruling. ICentrcd Press)
POLITICS MAY YET
KILL UIEE LIQUOR
CONTROL MEASURE
Fear That Drys May Run
Off With Republicans and
Bootleggers Is Consid
eration.
SENTIMENT AS IS,
HAS NOT CHANGED
But Indications Now Are
Senate Will Be Much Clos
er Than at First Seemed
Likely; United Drys Given
No Credit for Changing of
Dry Law Status.
lLiily liixioiti'h llurt*aM,
In the Sir Wsilter Hotel,
lit .1. C. llASKl'lft Vll.li.
Raleigh. Feb. 25.—The outlook for
the enactment of the Hill liquor con
trol bill is not so bright, even if it
gets a favorable committee report, as
it is still expected to, according to
those who have been following the
situation closely. While it is agreed
that the vote is going to be very close
in the Senate some of those who have
been ke’eping in close touch with the
sentiment, in the uppre house are now
.predicting that the Hil] bill will fail
to pass by a margin of two or three
votes. A week ago Senator John
Sprunt Hill, of Durham, introducer
of the liquor control bill, maintained
he had not less th'an 33 votes for
the bill, while some placed the figure
as high as 40.
The reason for this change in sen
timent, however, is not due to the de
monstration put on by the United
Drys at the committee hearing on the
bill, or to any change in attitude by
members of the Senate, those in touch
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many conflicting forces to consolidate.
The Rooseveltian reaction comes large
ly, though, of his own making—his
endeavor to compromise with all
forces, first one, then the other.
THREE MAJOR PROBLEMS
There are thre major problems con
fronting President Roosevelt as he be
gins the second half of his term —gov-
ernment. itself; finances and social
reform.
Students of government do not fear
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To Report Revenue Bill
Probably At End Os Week
Will Likely Reach House in Time for Debate Starting
Next Monday Night; Most of Sales Tax Substitute
Proposals Will Be Rejected in the Committee
Daily Disiiali'h lluri-an,
In tli»* Sir Walter Hotel.
HV .». IJ. HA Slv Bit V r 11.1.,
Raleigh, Feb. 25—The revenue bill
should be completed this week, »-
ported to the ouse by Friday or Sat
urday. and ready to take up the floor
by next Monday. Chairman Gregg
Cherry, of the House Finance Com
mittee. said today. All requested hear
ings have been completed and all that
now remains is for the committees to
Visitors To
Legislature
Face Treat
Beer, Optometrists,
Cosmetologists and
Gypsies on Debate
for Tonight.
Dally Dispatch Uurcaii,
In tlic Sir Waller Hotel.
By C. A. PAUL
Raleigh. Feb. 25. —Grab yourself a
bottle of beer, polish your glasses put
on your make-up. and wander up Cap
itol Hill tonight and you will hear the
legislature take up favorably-reported
bills concerning more potent beer, op
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f DONALD LOSING
GROUND IN HOUSE
Slips As He Loses His Temp
er an d His Tax Plan
Faces Hard Sledding.
Daily Dispatch Uitrenit,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. O. DA SK Kit VI I, 1..
j Raleigh. Feb. 25.—Dr. Ralph Mc-
Donald, the ex-college professor from
i Winston-Salem who is one of the For
syth county representatives in the
House and the spokesman forth anti
sals tax group did not do himself nor
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
agree on the bill, get it copied and
report it to the House. This could be
done this week but for the fact thal
the finance committees have agreed
to hold joint sessions with the appro
piiations committees on Wednesday
and Thursday of this week. These
sessions will be <for the purpose of
comparing notes so that the appro-,
piiations committee will know how
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Two l>egs of Man
Located In T rain
London, Feb. 25—(AI*)—Two legs
severed from a man's body were
discovered today strapped under
the seat, of a train arriving in
Waterloo station.
Railway police, mystified by the
find, and unable to determine at
first even the sex of the human
being from which the legs had
been chopped, called on Scotland
yard detectives.
The criminal investigation divis
ion announced In a few moments
that the legs undoubtedly had be
longed to a man.
NEWMAN, A LIBERAL,
MAY RUN IN 1930
New Hanover Man an ‘‘Ad
ministration Man” Wants
Big Office.
In the Sir Winter Hotel.
Daily Dispatch UnreaH,
BY C. A. PAUL.
Raleigh, Feb. 25- “I am not an ‘ad
ministration man’ nor have I ever be
fore been rejresented as being a con
servative,” said Senate Finance Chair
man Harriss Newman. He was talk
ing about the statement of Dr. Ralph
McDonald. Forsyth county legislator
and father of the sales tax substitute
plan, who wrote in a Winston-Salem
paper that the joint finance commit
tee is “stacked” with “administration
men” who are determined to re-enact
the sales tax.
Senator Newman, wealthy WiJming
tonian who is serving his third term
in the senate, sat talking for almost
two hours over coffee cups with this
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AGRICULTURE HEAD
TELLS GROWERS OF
OUTLOOK FOR 1935
Explains To Mass Meeting
In Raleigh That Govern
ment Will With
draw if Desired
BUT WON’T ACCEPT
BLAME FOR PRICES
Explains to Flue-Cured
Growers of Five States
That Abnormal Prices Will
Kill Export Business; Says
Some Want To Massacre
Agriculture Program
Raleigh. Feb. 25.—lAP)—Tobacco
growers and their representatives
horn five states producing tin? flu«-
curod weed voted unanimously Tieve
♦oday to "go along with the AAA*’ in
"’ont.rl programs for production after
hearing Secretary of Agriculture Wal
'ace and J. K. Hutson, chief o“ the
tobacco section, explain future plans.
Wallace told an audience which
Tiled the large Memorial Auditorium
hat the AAA was ready to abandon
control ot tobacco if tin* growers were
willing to assume responsibility fur
4 ts future.
Senator J. W. Bailey, of North Caro
'ilia, put four quest ions to the meet -
ng for a vote. Unanimously the grow
ers and their representatives voted
*o continue under the AAA eou f *- 1
and to thank the Federal government
for what it has done.
A close vote, with no decision an
tounced, was given orally oil the pro
uosition ofw bother the /aimers fa
vored a 600.000.000-pound production
acreage allotment or an allotr/mt of
about 700.000,000 pounds as contem
plated by the AAA for this year. The
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GET CM ACRES
H ouse Committee Disre
gards AAA in Legislation
for 1935 Production
Washington, Feb. 25. —< AP»--Disre
garding opposition from the Farm
Administration, the House Agricul
ture Committee gave not»co today it
would go forward with legislation to
include share croppers and tenant
farmers in the two-bale exemption
proposal for small cotton producers
cooperating under the Bankhead con
trol act.
After hearing Culley A. Co-bb. AAA
cotton chief, say inclusion of tenants
and share croppers in the exemption
would “destroy” the cotton program.
Chairman Jones, of the committee, de
signated Repi / entatives Fulmer,
Democrat, South Carolina, and Doxey,
Democrat, Mississippi, to perpare leg
islation to include them.
Says State
•/
Had Highest
1934 Prices
Wallace, at Raleigh,
Says X. C. Only One
With Farm Income
Above 1929 Level
Raleigh. Feb. 25 (AP) Returns
i North Carolina farmers received for
flue-cured tobacco in 1934 resulted in
this State being the only one in the
! Union in which farm income last
year exceeded that of 1929. Secretary
of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace said
I here today while in Raleigh "to talk
| over the situation concerning tobacco
with the farmers."
Wallace addressed a mass meeting
of tobacco growers.
Earlier, at a press conference, ho
! discussed reports that the AAA was
1 deliberately setting about to lc r the
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