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CENTRAL
CAROLINA
! WKNTY-SECOND YEAR
HOUSE PASSES 5 PRCNT. BEER CONTENT BILL
NRA Cannot Serve
2 Ways, Williams
Tells Senate Body
1 ilorcement of Codes Will 1
Destroy Inefficient Bus
iness f or Ten Per
cent of Total
THAT OR LOP OFF
SOCIAL FEATURES
NK A Chief Talks Slowly and
I)rliberately as He Puffs
Cigarette l Tar Heel Tobac
co Manufacturer Makes
Second Appearance In
NRA Inquiry
\V t hington, March 15.- (Al't—Con
,i. wis bluntly warned today by j
' day Wifiiams. retiring head of
National Recovery Board, that it
•v • b ready to destroy the inef- 1
er.t minority in business if it de
mines to protect labor on wages
. I hours of work.
l-'-uiii'ig hack in his chair at the
>•■ ;•:» Finance Committee’s invest!- j
"f NRA. and pointing his fin- (
:■ • : the senators around him, Wil
i*.ms -aid:
V' a must enforce the codes for
'•■rial benefits involved against
• ».• n percent that the codes may
•h "v> or if you are determined to
t i he destruction of the ineffi
• • units, then we’ve got to aban
i" purpose of serving the sooial
..i,j,.
T k ng slowly and carefully, Wil
i warned the committee also that j
” tm.ance of the codes was depen- |
upon some modification of the
•t list laws. ! .
luffing on a cigarette, the North '
ICiiiitiriiml on l*ag*» Two)
France Holds
2 Americans
In “Spy Ring”
I
•'■'fis. March 15. —<APt—Mr. and
V Robert Gordon Switz, of East
ai.ur, N. J., and New York, were j
hetrd with 30 other persons today .
- members of an alleged Soviet spy ,
'' -•
•Magistrate Michel Henon, the ex- j
" hicr. sent the cases to the correc- | (
'' " '*! court for trial. ' i .
' is "Xpected to begin early in j
\pri:. ,
h rinded in the indictments were •
"• *■ of ten persons who are fugi
-1 • prosecution is expected to or- ,
’■* r a secret trial for Mr. and Mrs. ,
'i'/. who have been held in prison >
la months, for questioning.
1 v and their alleged accomplices ,
I probably ta.ke the case before the j
m' 1 tribunal of the criminal court.
\Y ih»y Post
J
Tries Again
l or Record
New ) ork In Eight
Hours In Stratos
phere from West
I oast Is Goal
Angeles. Cal., March 15 (AP) j
•I' v Post, noted round-the-world
II ‘i. took off from Union Air Ter
;i 1 at Burbank today on his second
"t" to span the continent in eight j
11 oi less in a 2,447-mile flight
the .sub-stratosphere to New;.
'o' 1 ' City
I in- Oklahoma pilot waved “So |
'o a group of sleepy-eyed well- :
at the field and roared away ,
' is globe-girdling plane, the Win
" ' Mae.
' ' first cross-country stratus
-1,1 dash several weeks ago ended
1 be set his motor-troubled ship j
" 1 on the Mojave desert less than i
' •mi away from Los Angeles. f
II "xpected today to travel through j
"gions of the upper air at a speed j
oound 350 miles an hour or more, !
'‘' Pong like six miles a minute. *
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P. L. Gassaway
“We’re the meanest scoundrels ii,
Congress and we’re damned tired
of Huey’s line of palaver. We arc
going to knock him over,” so de
clares P. L. Gassaway, Oklahoma
cowboy-Congressman, who is leader
o I anti-Long bloc forming in House.
Victory Now
Near On Big
Relief Bill
Wage Amendment
Rejected by White
House Will Be Re
jected in die Senate
Washington. March 15.—(AP)—Vic
tory earned by weeks of waiting and
political maneuvering today appeared
in the grasp of Senate administration
guides of President Roosevelt’s $4,-
889.000,000 work-relief program.
They confidently predicted that the
McCarran prevailing wage amend
ment, which the White House flatly
refused to accept, would be defeated.
Then they foresaw adoption of Sen
ator Russell’s, Democrat. Georgia,
compromise proposal requiring pay
ment of the prevailing private wage
on permanent public buildings, and
“security wage” on other w«rk pro
jects unless the private scale should
be endangered.
Numerous other amendments re
mained. some for currency expansion.
(Conti nod on Page Two)
OLDMUMENTSON)
Five Senators Heard On
Each Side As Hill Mea
sure Is Debated
Daily Diwpatch Bureau,
In Ike Sjr Walter Hotel.
By C. A. PAUL
Raleigh. March 15.—01 d and fami
liar was the argument presented by
the “drys” as they opened rhetorical
fire on the Hill liquor control bill
when that measure reached the floor
of the senate. The drys. however,
for the most part confined their re
marks to liquor and not to the Hill
proposal. Practically every one of
the five dry speakers theii
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WEATHER
FOK NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair and warmer tonight: Sat
urday fair and much warmer;
Sunday rain and much colder.
HENDERSON, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 15, 1935
Facing Deportation
I KkPSh
I Sp.,
jjL' *%%*** JH
•lohn St. Ixie Strachey, British au
thor, faces deportation from U. S.
»n charge of illegal entry of country
and Communistic activities. Stra
chey, once a member of Parliament,
came over as a lecturer.
(Central /bra*;
BILL WOULD DROP
COUNTIES AS UNIT
IN SCHOOL SET-UP
t
Would Create Some 40 Dis
tricts as Administrative
Center Throughout
The State
MEASURE TO MEET
STIFF OPPOSITION
Some Portions of School Or
ganization Will Be Against
It; Bill Is Being Prepared
for Introduction Soon In
Legislature; Would Be
Saving
Unify DHpntoh Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY C. MASKERVILIj,
Raleigh, March 15.—A bill to abolish
the county as the unit for school su
pervision ana to divide the State up
into some 40 supervisory units, is
now being prepared and will be in
troduced soon, it was learned here to
day. It was also learned the bill will
have the support of a large number
of teachers and a good many super
intendents. who realize that this move
will not only decrease school costs but
increase efficiency by assuring better
school supervision.
The bill, if enacted, would decrease
the number of county superintendents
and virtually abolish the job of coun
ty superintendents as such and set up
instead some 40 districts, with a dis
trict superintendent in charge of the
schools in each. This would make the
Statewide school system similar to
the set-up of the State Highway and
Public Works Commission, which was
advocated by State Superintendent of
Public Instruction Clyde A. Erwin
several years ago when he was presi
dent of the North Carolina Education
Association. When the State took over
(Continued On Page Four )
Politico-Economic Line-Up
Seems To Be Taking Shape
Long, Coughlin on One Side,
With Ultra-Rightists
Backing Roosevelt
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, March 15.—The politi
co-economic situation begins to shape
itself.
It has been confused and indeter
minate for some time.
With the Father Charles E. Cough
lin-General Hugh S. Johnson-Senator
j Huey P. Long outbreak It became
; positively kaleidoscopic for a few days
Out of the succession of bizarre
patterns (Johnson and Coughlin; re
ports of White House inspiration back
of the general; oratorical fights be
tween the Kingfish and Senators
Joseph T. Robinson, “Young Champ”
Clark. Kenneth McKellar, et al; side
steppings by such G. O. P. statesmen
(Continued on Paffe Four)
REYNOLDSFAMILY’S
SETTLEMENT PLAN
Proposal by Brothers and
Two Sisters of Late Smith
Reynolds Will Be
Accepted
ANNE CANNON GETS
37,1-2 PERCENT OF IT
Libby Holman’s Baby Gets
25 Percent and She $750,-
000 of Deceased’s Tobacco
Fortune of $28,000,000;
Rest Will Go Into Charity
Fund of Family
Winston-Salem, March 15.—(AP>
Judge Clayton Moore today announc
ed he would approve tile settlement
of the Smith Reynolds estate propos
ed by the Reynolds family.
Judge Moore indicated there might
bem inor changes in the decree be
fore it is signed, but said that the
substance of his order on. distribu
tion of the tobacco heir's trust estate
of $27,975,000 would be the settlement
suggested by R. J. Reynolds, Jr., and
his sisters, Mrs. Charles Babcock and
Mrs. Henry W. Bagley.
This proposal would give 37 1-2 per
cent of the fortune to Anne Cannon
(Continued on Page Two)
Soviet Head WiU
Talk to Britisher
On Peace Outlook
Moscow, March*-*/) (AP) It was
officially announced today that Jos
eph Stalin, general secretary of the
political bureau, will personally re
ceive Captain Anthony Eden. British
lord privy seal, when the latter comes
to Moscow this month to discuss Eu
ropean peace.
The communist leader is not ex
pected to participate iK the formal
negotiations, but when Stalin and
Captain Eden meet they are expected
to talk over the situation fully be
tween themselves.
It is a rare procedure for Stalin, to
receive foreign visitors personally.
Among the few foreigners who have
met him in the past are Ambassador
William G. Bullitt,, of the United
States; George Bernard Shaw, and
IT. G. Wells.
Eden probably will talk to Stalin in
the latter’s office in the Kremlin. It
is a long furnished room, with Stalin’s
desk in a far corner. The only other
large article of furniture in the room
is a long table covered with green felt
where he and his guests confer.
Youth Says
Abduction
Was “Fake"
Wilmington, Del., March 15 (AP)
Public Safety Superintendent George
Black said today that Chester Hyde,
found bound and gagged here after
being reported kidnaped, has admit
ted the abduction story he told was a
“fake. ”
The boy has admitted it was a
(Continued on Page Four)
Roosevelt Making Little
Headway Against Oppon
ents; Old-Liners
Bewildered
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
New York, March 15. If reports
from various parts of the United
States are accurate, the Roosevelt ad
ministration is making little head
way against the forces that have
risen up against it.
Old line politicians are bewildered
They never previously have seen an
opposition rise so quickly, so emo
tionally. The sweep of it all reminds
them of war-time emotions—and cause
the old linep oliticians to shudder.
If the movement “merely” were na
tion-wide. the situation would not b»
complicatca. It is, however, world
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(. north. Chart shows how far it has to go to match Britain and
exceed Japan (Central Press)
Morgenthau Opens Drive
Upon Crime Over Nation
Senate To Probe
Break In Cotton
Washington, March 15 (Al*)
The Senate Agriculture Committee
voted today to investigate the re
cent break in cotton prices.
It agred to report favorably to
the Senate a resolution by Senator
Smith, Democrat, South Carolina,
proposing the inquiry.
The resolution would direct the
committee to investigate “th causes
of the rapid decline of the price
of cotton on the cotton exchanges
on or about March 11, 1935.”
It would authorize calling wit
nesses and require production of
hooks and papers as it deemed ad
visable. Cost of the investigation
would he limited to $25,000.
Secretary to President Roos
evelt Has Been Sick
Since Last Trip
Washington, March 15, (AP)- -Louis
M. Howe, secretary to President Roose
velt, is seriously ill at the White
House.
Howe, who is 64, was taken sick
following his trip with the Piesident
on February 23, to Boston. His con
dition. it was learned, was regarded
as critical earlier this week, but the
White House reported today that he
was improved.
Dr. Rose T. Mclntyre. White House
physician, has diagnosed the illness as
the recurrence of an old bronchial
trouble complicated by cardiac weak
ness.
Mrs. Howe is with her husband.
It was believed Howe over-taxed his
strength on the Boston trip. He has
been confined to bed almost constant
ly since his return.
He has been secretary to the pres
ident since 1914, leaving newspaper
work to join Mr. Roosevelt, who was
the assistant secretary of the navy.
SOFT COAL STRIKE
THREATENS NATION
Washington, March 15.—(AP)—
Threatened with a strike in the
soft coal industry April 1, bitu
minous operators today engaged
in a jurisdictional dispute which
menaced the joint wage confer
ence between themselves and the
United Mine Workers of America.
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EXCEPT SUNDAY™
Numerous Arrests Made;
First Day As All Fede- I
ral Units Join Wide
spread Crusade
I
LIQUOR AND DOPE
SMUGGLERS TAKEN
Washington, March 15. — (AP) -
Thousands of law enforcement agents
were unleashed today by Secretary
Morgenthau in a nationwide drive
seeking to stamp out every type of
law violation within the Treasury’s
jurisdiction. x
Big forces of the coast guard, cus
toms service, secret service, narcotics
bureau, the alcohol tax unit, and the
internal revenue bureau’s Intelligence
unit was directed against liquor and
dope smugglers, counterfeiters and
others who sought to evade Treasury
laws and regulations.
Secretary Morgenthau made known
the scope of the mass operations from
coast to coast after the drive first >
was revealed through the arrest of
( on Paco Four)
Swedish Princess
To Marry the Heir
To Danish Throne
Stockholm, Sweden, March 15.
(AP)—The “love match” engagement
of Princess Ingrid, second daughter
of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf, of
Sweden, and Crown Prince Frederick
of Denmark and Iceland, was offi
cially announced today.
The date for the wedding was not
immediately made known.
The engagement is regarded in po
litical circles as of unique importance
as the marriage will serve to bind
the royal families of Sweden and Den
mark even more closely.
Footless Prisoners Declare
Feet Were Frozen And That
Doctor Saw Them But Once
Duily Dispatch Karras,
In the Sir Waiter Hotel,
BY J. C. BASKEItVILL.
Raleigh, March 15. — The reason
their feet developed gangrqne and had
to be amputated was because they
froze whife they were in solitary con
finement in the “dark cells” of Meck
lenburg county prison camp 413, W.
W. Shropshire and Robert Barnes
told members of the joint legislative
investigating committee who question
ed them late Thursday afternoon as
they lay on. their beds in the hosp.it J
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Revenue Bill Will Be "Order
of Business at Noon Mon
day When House
Starts Week
WILL COME AHEAD
OF SPENDING BILL
Re-Apportionment of House
Membership on Basis of
1930 Census Proposed By
Day Bill; Senate Votes To
Remove Double Liability of
Bankers
Raleigh, March 15.—(AP) The
House this afternoon passed and sent
to the Senate a bill proposing to le
galize beer with five percent alcoholic
content in North Carolina.
The vote, not including seven pairs
was 55 to 34.
The House recessed until 3:15 this
afternoon, after the beer vote, as Re
presentative Tam Bowie, of Ashe, ap
parently getting his parliamentary
procedure mixed, moved to recess and
then moved to apply the legislative
clincher to the beer vote. His motion
to recess prevailed.
The measure was debated and de
feated some time ago when it bore
new taxing features; then It was re
vived, recommitteed for committee
work and favorably reported out,
merely calling for an increase in the
alcoholic content of malt beverages
from 3.2 percent to five percent.
The House today voted to start its
floor work on the biennial revenue
bill at noon Monday, as the Senate
worked slowly and passed measures
to remove the double liability provi
sion from bank stockholders anol to
approve $75.00n annually for a. Fed
eral-State employment service.
As on recent Fridays, local bills
wei-e hurried through to passage in
large numbers as the law-iWkfers
pared to go home for the vjeekkenfi;
Representative Day, of Ghslow, of
fered the House a bill whi6h‘,.Kt r oulct
have the legislature ordeb a t*e-ap
portiontnent of House membership on
the basis of the 1930 census. Meclden
burg, Guilford and Buncombe \vould
each gain a representative. With Nash,
New Hanover, and Rockingham to be
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Etheridge Is
Electrocuted
As Murderer
Claims Innocence To
I'lie End and Then,
Refuses Sen ices of
A Minister
Raleigh,, March 15 (AP)—Sidney
Etheridge. 45-vear-old native of Chat
ham county who lived in Portsmouth,
Va.. in recent years was electrocuted
at State Prison this morning as he
contended he was innocent of the mur
der for which he died, the killing
in Onslow county of Mrs. Mamie
Moore, a 71-year-old recluse.
Two shocks of current were admin
istered before Etheridge was pro
nounced dead.
Dr. C. A. Peterson, representative
from Mitchell county, who had a bill
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in Central Prison here. Barnes was
so weak that he was able to talk
only in whispers and monosyllables.
It is believed that he will not live.
Shropshire is making good progress
and is expected to live.
Other incidents related by Shrop
shire and Barnes with regard to their
treatment while in the solitary con
finement cells are as follows;
That they were visited o;- r ' b
lLaughlin only one time ' Lis
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