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HENDERSON hateway to CENTRAL CAROLINA twenty-second year APPROPRIATIONS RILL IS STARTED THROUGH HOUSE Equal Military Power With Other European Nations Is Demanded In Hitler Talks SUPERIORITY OVER RUSSIA IS HINTED IN BRITISH TALKS Tells Sir John Simon Germany Would Be Con tent With Very Modest Navy RFJCHFUEHRER FIRM IN HIS STATEMENTS Gun for-Gun, Man-for-Man, Airplane-for-Airplane 1 s Basis Laid Down to Brit ish Envoy; Economic Union With Austria Is Also De sired 6 ■ March 27.—(AP) —A high miO" ' i'' '••tated today that Reich fu*?hr*-r Hitler demanded absolute militaiv equality on a gun-for-gun sh-s r\rv>pting the navy—with other European powers. The authority said Httler told Sir .term Simon. British foreign secretary •vho letuined to London this morning th.V Germany would be content with • >mall percentage of the British fiav v " Hitl“r *oid Sir John, according to, »h source, he wanted army equality tv; • h France, gitn-for-gun, man-for min. and ait plane-sot-airplane, and climated he wanted Superiority over Russia The Reichfuehrer. the authority -aid strongly indicated that . even ♦h' ugh France wei § to reduce arma- Tif-nts gretly. Germny “would not fol 'of suit until it was certain what Russia would do." If was said that at every turn Sir John found Hitler standing firmly on (ronlintieH on Pago Four) New Strike In Textiles Warned Os March 27 ( AP) —A '*'?i"ing Hint tho recent NRA autho rization for a sharp cut in cotton poods production may have set the -hig*. for another textile strike was voiced today to the House Military ''f'lnriiittee today by Francis J. Gor rn mi. first vice-president of the Unit t,<! Textile Workers. \t the same time Gorman assailed r ’' “rnor Talmadge as a "tool of the errdoyers, who would do anything he can to help them.” The slash in output authorized for Continued on Pace Three). Dust Storm Spreads To' New Areas Sun Obscured And breathing Difficult in Texas; Dust, Silt Covers Denver f ßy the Associated Press.) ■‘-mperatures were dropping to ward the freezing point in the dust ■iddpn plains states today as West r, , xas reported one of the Worst dust s, ms of the season. ’ tsibility was reduced to a few hundred feet, the sun was obscured 'Uii breathing was difficult. Blinding dust clouds, driven by a co ld north wind, whipped on south ";’ H ' trcioss the State. I ht hioriii reached Fort Worth and A {Continued on Page Three) Hntiiersim Datlu Dispatch ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. leased wire service o» the associated press. AMERICANS ON TRIAL AS SPIES !l Jll^w 7- '--W turn Mil 1% Jiiiill Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gordon Switz On trial as spies with 19 others, before the same bar of justice where Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI were condemned to death in the eighteenth century, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gordon Strong Fortifications In Pacific Urged By McAdoo California {Senator Makes No Mention! of Japan’s Retirement Today From League STATE DEPARTMENT ALSO SILENT ON IT Guam and Aleutian Islands Should Be Fortified Soon As Japan Quits Naval Treaty, McAdoo Says; In terview Given to Press By Western Senator Washington. March 27.—(AP) —Con struction of strong fortifications on America’s Pacific possessions was ad vocated today by Senator McAdoo, Democrat, California. The Senator, who gabe his views in an interview, made no mention of Japan's resignation from the League of Nations, which takes effect at mid night. State Department officials were silent on the resignation date. To most of them Japan’s divorce from the League was a "family matter.” and since the United States is not a member of the family, they declined to comment. McAdoo asserted that fortifications should he erected on the Aleutian Islands and Guam as soon as Japan’s denunciation of the Washington arms agreement becomes effective Decem ber 31, 1936 Russia Asks British Help Against War Moscow, March 27. —(AP) —An in vitation to Great Britain to cooper ate with Soviet Russia in erecting a 'barrier against tendencies toward an explosion in world peace,” was ex tended today by the authoritative writer. Karl Radek, in the govern ment organ lzvestia. Radek’s article appeared on the ebe (Continued on Page Four}, HENDERSON, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 27, 1935 Switz, young Americans, expected to be freed as a reward for their confessions. The Orange, N. J., college graduates are pictured in Paris, at the scene of their trial, being conducted in secrecy. River Set Afire By A Fisherman Willlamston, March 27.— (AP) An unidentified fisherman thought throwing a lighted match into Roanoke river here would be all right. It would have been had not the river caught fire. Just after dark this fisherman was attempting to effect a landing near the river bridge. He lit a cig arette and tossed the match over board. Immediately the river became a sheet of flame. He screamed as the flames danc ed about his boat. Witnesses yell ed. Some one turned in a fire alarm and fire trucks began to rumble. When the shouting was over and the fire out, firemen discovered a leak In a pipe in one of the many gasoline storage tanks bordering the stream. The fisherman, mean while, had disappeared. Mandates Os Japan Disputed Geneva, March 27. —(AP)—Japan’s resignation from the League of Na.- tions. which will take elfect at mid night, raised doubts today as to the ultimately controls the Pacific is lands seized from Germany and turn ed over to Japan under her League mandate. The Tokyo government was gener ally expected to retain control over the islands, under supervision of the League’s mandate commission. The delicate question of sovereignty over the mandated territories, however, raised an issue on which Geneba ex perts disagree. Some say that the Allied and asso ciated powers of which the United States was one, are vested with sob eieignty over the islands and have en (Continued ©a Page Three) todictjoTof RELIEF SPENDING Machinery f/or Functioning of Huge Program Is Be ing Set Up As Bill Nears Law ROOSEVELT TO BE BIG BOSS, HOWEVER Harriman Urges Senate Committee To Defer Wag ner Labor Disputes Bill Un til Supreme Court Rules on Collective Bargaining Clause of NRA Washington. March 27. (AP)— Creating machinery for spending $4,- 880.000,000 occupied the administration today as the work-relief program ap peared headed for the congressional finish line. Harry L. Hopkins, relief adminis trator, emerged as the No. 1 candi date for handling the program to give work to 3.500,000 employables, with such others as Secretary Ickes and Under Secretary Rexford G. Tug well apparently booked for more or less important parts. Some officials recalled previous White House expressions that Presi dent Roosevelt will himself be the chief boss of the relief fund, but his personal activity was expected to deal more with politics than details. As soon as the Senate and House conferees have concluded a final draft of the relief bill, and their work has been approibed by each House, the administration was expected to an nounce its work-relief organization. A ballot on repeal of the "pink slip” publicity provision of the in come tax law was expected in the Senate today as the House discussed naval matters. Henry I. Harriman. president.of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, urged the Senate Labor Com mittee to hold up the Wagner labor disputes bill until the Supreme Court interpreted the recovery act’s collec tibe bargaining clause, Strong support of the Wheeled, re solution proposing an investigation of railroad financing was given by Joseph B. Eastman, Federal trans portation coordinator, who said such an inquiry would “tend to clear the air and have a wholesome effect.” New Orleans Folk Divided Over New Cotton Loan Plan New’ Orleans, La.. March 27 (AP) Farmers, cotton merch ants, a banker, a cotton broker and a State commissioner of agri culture today expressed widely di vergent views on the feasibility of further Federal loans to cot ton farmers. Now that a loan on the next crop is considered to be a certainty, be cause of Secretary of Agriculture Wallace’s recent pronouncement, a census regarding this question showed certain groups heartily in accord with the administration program, while others were criti cal of the Federal stand. More Labor Trouble For Ohio Looms Cincinnati, March 27 (AP) —Labor troubles in Ohio grew more threaten ing today as a new crisis arose in a strike at the Crosley Rario Corpora tion at Cincinnati, and union leaders hinted the posisbility of a walkout of thousands of rubber factory work ers at Akron. One bright spot developed at Cleve land as 1,500 van drivers and movers prepared to return to work to end a strike which lasted 26 days. They won a ten per cent wage increase. George B. Roberts, union organizer, told a group of Akron union work ers from the Firestone, Goodyear and Goodrich rubber plants last night to "be prepared when the time comes, we’ll shut the plants down tight.” WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy, probably occasional showers tonight and Thursday slightly warmer tonight and on the coast Thursday; colder in ex treme west portion Thursday aft ernoon; colder Thursday nigiii Reclaims Fortune % Mr*. Isabel McHie Mrs. Isabel McHie of Hammond, [nd. fK *s shown entering court room at Battle Creek, Mich., to re claim $173,000 in cash found in an envelope on a railroad station platform at Battle shortly after she had been removed from a train after other passengers ob served her pushing money out of the train windows. She also car ried $500,000 in jewels in a traveling bag. Mrs. McHie had suffered a nervous breakdown. ASKEDMINBILL McDonald Fathers Measure For School Forces To Take Reins POWERS GIVEN ERWIN State Superintendent Would Be Titu lar Head and Virtual Dictator of School Policies of of the State In the Sir Walter Hotel. Dally Dispatch Bnreaa, BY J. C. BASKERVILL. Raleigh, March 27—The bill to re vamp the State School Commission and to make the State superintendent of public instruction chairman in stead of the lieutenant governor, as at present, so that the school forces in the State can have more control over the spending of the school appro priation of $20,000,000 a year or more, has at last been introduced by Repre sentative McDonald, of Forsyth coun ty. That such a bill would be intro duced soon was predicted by this bu reau last week. The bill as introduced by Dr. Mc- Donald, the recognized leader of the spokesman for the school forces in (Continued on Page Five) Mr. Baruch Asks That Slurs End Wartime Industries Chief Tells Senate Committee He Re sents Innuendo Washington, March 27.—(AP)—Re plying to what he termed “insinua tions and innuendos” against him, Bernard M. Baruch today asserted before the Senate Munitions Commit tee that when he was called to war time government service, he sold “at a heavy cost to my fortune” ah “oLld- OczijLhhz zl C— j PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. MORE AMENDMENTS FOR CONSTITUTION WILL BE VOTED ON Pushes Revenue Bill Through House ••gaßaffijjgaaM % IPH m f7« r qjpSjjj m. -ffllfljfrnfti gmm •• jtfpiM R. G. CHERRY SENATE EXPECTED 10 CUI 11,000,000 OFF REVENOE BILL Stock Dividend and Chain Filling Station Levies Likely To Be Deleted ANTI-SALES TAXERS WILL MAKE A STAND Will Have To Justify Cam paign Promises; Many Merchants Urging Sales Tax in Preference to Sub stitutes Proposed In Its Stead v Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. C. MASKERVILL. Raleigh, March 27.—The Senate is expected to remove at least. $1,000,000 of then ew taxes added to the rev enue bill by the House either in the Senate Finance Committee or after the bill get (back to the floor, despite the fact that when the bill came over from the House today it came near er balancing with the appropriations bill than at any time so far, accord ing tomo st observers here. As pass ed by the House, the revenue bill will yield approximtaely $32,017,000 each year of the next biennium, according (Continued on Page Four) PROBE OF COTTON BREAK POSTPONED Washington, March 27 (AP) —The iSenate Agriculture Committee’s in vestigation into the cotton market break, originally scheduled to begin tomorrow, has been postponed until next week. by the committee of administration Chairman Smith said consideration amendments to the agriculture act necessitated this delay. SALESTAXISWiN BY FREE SPENDERS Administration and Lobby for Big Interests Did Not Put It Over Dally Dispatch Bureau, • In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. C. DASKERVILL, Raleigh, Inarch 27 —It was not “the administration” or the lobbyists for the big interests that caused the House to retain the sales tax and re verse itself again and put the rate back up to three per cent, bur, the fact ■that the “fre spenders,” who vere un willing to see appropriations educei if the revenue bill; was . educe J, join- 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY One Would Raise Limit Os Income Taxes From Six To Ten Percent for State Purposes 48 APPROPRIATIONS ALLOTMENTS VOTED Onily Change From Commit tee Draft Is Extra $15,000 for Western Carolina Teachers College; Revenue Bill To Reach Senate Floor This Week Raleigh, March 27.—(AP)—The Sen ate today boted to submit to the vot ers in 1936 a number of proposed amendments to the taxation sections of the State Constitution as the House worked on the biennial appropriations bill, and showed little inclination to change the joint committee’s recom mendations. By a. 37 to 3 vote the Senate sent to the House one of the two Weathers bills proposing constitutional chan ges A measure dealing with judicial changes ran into prolonged debate, but was later passed. The proposed taxation changes would praise the limit of income taxes from six to ten percent, allow the classification of real and personal property for taxation, permit local units to exempt from taxation home steads occupied by the owners up to SI,OOO in value, and place a. new li mitation on public indebtedness. Forty-eight allotments in the ap propriations bill were adopted by the House as a committee of the whole, with but one change being made from the committee draft, Bryant, of Dur ham, chairman of the appropriation's group, requesting that the first year’s allotment for Western CarolfhA «rs College be boosted by $15,000. i The sections adopted the appropriations for the judiciary, ' •State executive .and dministrtive d£- prtments and all educatidiilil* iiurtl tutions. 'T V.. ’• The Senate got a new bill to W quire the teaching in this public schools of “the harmful effdefa of the use of alcohol.” It also was given two bills rotating to superior courts, one to allbvF judges (Continued on Pat* Four) Urges Program of ‘Pay as You Fight’ For the Next War Washington, March 27 (AP)— A program of "paying as you fight” in the event the United States becomes involved In an other war was advocated today be fore %'ie Senate Munitions Com mittee today by Bernard M. Ba ruch, chairman of the War In dustries Board during the World War. Such a plan—to be executed by taxation and pricefixing— would “save generations unborn as well as ourselves untold misery,” the tall, white-haired witness asserted to an attentive committee. State Waits Passage For Works Bill Projects Costing Many Times Its Share Have Already Been Applied For Daily Dispatch Bnrenn, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By C. A. PAUL Raleigh, March 27. —North Carolina officialdom is waiting anxiously for final passage by Congress of the $4,- 880,000,000 public work bill. Mean while the Federal legislative body is trying to iron out differences between the views of the House and Senate The latter body added 31 amendments to the measure. North Carolina’s of tha va.3t fund will be about j u 'v ary ing methods of oai .. ..t the State iji-oulu receive u ~ &
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