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HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-SECOND YEAR
POUND MAY ASK LUeUEOF NATIONS CHANGES
TWO LEAD MEASURES
FOR ADMINISTRATION
AGAIN ON THE MOVE
C onfetees on $4,880,000,000
Relief Bill Fail To Agree
But They Will Try
Again
SOCIAL SECURITY
MEASURES COMING
House Committee Agrees To
Report Out Bill For Con
sideration; Senate Confer
ees on Relief Bill Decide
Not To Resign After Rob
inson Criticism
Washington. April 2 (Apt—Two
major administration measures
relief and Lie social security
program—once more today appeared
beaded for definite congressional ac
tion
Conferees on (he J4,800.000.(X>0 relief
hill failed so reach an agreement at
♦ heir first meeting since re committal
of the administration-opposed direct
labor amendment,. However, another
meeting was called for later in the
day.
Senator < rlass, Democrat. Virginia,
head of the Senate managers, an
nounced the five senatorial conferees
had decided not to resign as a result
of criticism levelled at them yesterday
hy Democratic Leader Robinson. The
meeting with the House group lasted
'bout two hours, out (Mass sam "We
have reached no agreement.”
Oh the House side the ways and
means committee agreed to report for
consideration the administration so
cial security hill Formal action
p” only the instruction of « re
draft Hy Chairman Dpughton,
Public galleries in the Senate v/ere
el eared for -the ,first time In many
years today after the Senate had be°n
unable to find Its sergeant-at-arms to
maintain order
•Senator Pittman. Democrat. Nevada
president protem of the Senate, order
ed the public galleries cleared when
Senator Robinson. Democratic leader,
complained d°bafe could not be heard.
A few minutes earlier business was
suspended while a search was made
■for the sergeant-at-arms. but he could
not be located.
The House was occupied with min
er legislation, while the Senate debat
ed the Copeland food and drug bill
ROCKY MOUNT MAN
DROWNS IN RIVER
Reeky Mount. April 2. —(AP) —Po-
lice and firemen were dragging Tar
river today for the body of David
Watkins. 38. electrician, who was
drowned as the boat in which he was
dipping for shad capsized near here
late last night
Re was in a small boat at the time
am’ the roughness of the water was
blamed for the fata! accident. The
man. who was employed here, leaves
a rife and five children.
Complaints
\ banned For
Rubber Code
First Violation of Its
Kind; Akron Rub
ber Plants Prepare
For Trouble
Washington. April 2 (AP)—The
Federal Trade Commission announced
♦rday it was preparing a complain*
against the R.ubber Manufacturers As
' o< lation. Inc.. NRA code authority, on
charges of price-fixing.
'fhe complaints wil deal particularly
T ”!tb alleged price fixing and other un
fair competitive methods in connec
ts >• with the sale of fire hose.
T.rnt.il it is prepared, no other data
concerning its contents may be re
vc-’led.
(Commission officials said it would
t e hared on the recommendations of
its investigation staff, which yester
day reported its findings to the Sen
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President Antona Smetona of Lith
uania finds himself th* focus of
European eyes as Memel incident
assumes major importance.
<Centml Pressi
France Is
Asked For
Full Unity
Paris. April 2.—(AP) Premier
Pierre Etienne Flandin sounded a cry
of unity in France to face German
rearmament today and declared the
army high command had decided to
keep the French ring ox‘ steel forti
fications p|rmanently garrisoned on
the frontier.
The premier confirmed reports of
the movement of troops close to the
western border as part of the nation's
precautionary measures of defense.
Outlining the rearmament of Ger
many. (hr- premier declared to the
Chamber of Deputies
"To face this powerfully organized
ai my, France must organize her se
curity, first by having a strong army,
second by organizing military allian
ces for the organization of peac* ”
ABSENCE BALLOT
SHOWDOWN COMING
Bill for Mecklenburg May
Pul Legislature on Rec
ord On Issue
liMly Dispatch Bureau,
!n (he Rfr Walter Hotel.
By C. A. PAUL
Raleigh, April 2. —A purely local
bill, offered by Representatives Scholl
Ervin and Tonnissen, which would re
peal the absentee ballot law in Meck
lenburg county, may prove to be
something of a showdown in the fight
to retain intact the much-abused act.
The House of Representatives has
passed several bills repealing the law
(Continued on Pago Twnt
Wants Mexico Warned Not
To Interfere Inside IJL S #
Washington. April 2. —(AP) —Rep-
resentative McCormick, Democrat.
Massachusetts, demanded in a state
ment today that the State Depart
ment serve public notice on Mexico
that interference with the constitu
tional rights of Americans in the Unit
ed States "will not. be tolerated or
permitted.”
Just a few minutes before, the.
House Foreign Affairs Commitete
postponed action on a resolution pro
testing alleged religious persecution
in Mexico, and voted to ask the State
Department its views concerning it.
McCormick, chairman of the com
mittee on un-American activities, said
HENDERSON, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 2, 1935
LOCAL
EYED OVER NATION
Effect In Forecasting Trends
in 1936 Watched by Poli
ticians of Both
Parties
DEMOCRATS FIGHT
FOR CHICAGO JOBS
Progressives in Wisconsin
Seek To Determine If They
Have Lost or Gained
Ground Since November,
1934, Elections; Michigan
Republicans Winners
♦By the Associated Press.)
Off-year city and State elections in
a half dozen states today took on
national importance as pary chief
tains eyed them as barometers of 1936.
Chicago Democrats ana Wisconsin
Progressives went to the polls to de
termine whether they had gained or
lost strength, and in Los Angeles a
municipal primary promised an in
dication of the power of the EPIC
party, fashioned by Upton Sinclair.
Meanwhile, Michigan Republicans
claimed the first scalp yesterday
when early returns as indicated M
R. Keyworth had defeated the Dem
ocratic candidate for superintendent
of schools.
Democrats in Chicago concentrated
on a record majority for incumbent
Mayor Edward J. Kelly.
Oklahoma City voters will decide
whether to open.more of its residen
tial districts to oft wells.
In Corpus Christi, Texas, city and
count officials armed themselves in
preparation for the municipal election
there
GREEKS DEMANDING
Thousands Parade Streets of
Athens Protesting Mild
Treatment
Athens. Greece. April 2. —(A.P)
Thousands of students and others pa
raded the streets of Athens today pro
testing agains the failure of the gov
ernment to sentence to death the
leaders of he Venizelist rebellion.
Athens resembled a beleaguered city
Armored tanks were stationed before
the home of Premier Tsaldaris and
public buildings.
Troops patrolled the streets with
fixed bayonets and cavalrymen dash
ed about the ancient city with drawn
sabers.
Hundreds of gendarnes surrounded
the buildings outside which John
Metaxas, who resigned from the cab
inet in protest against the mild po
licy adopted toward the rebels, led
throngs of studens in tumultuous de
mc istrations.
ASKS EXEMPTION OF
TWO AMERICAN SPIES
peris. April ? (AP) Public
Prosecutor Hamuel today asked
the exemption of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Gordon Swifcz from sent
ence as spies as a recompense for
having dfsclosde the workings of
the spy ring, with which they are
alleged to have been connected.
that the committee received evidence
which, if true, showed that Hermoia
Torres, Mexican consul at San Ber
mandina. Cal., “had committed acts
in the United States in clear viola
tion of his status and position in this
country as an accredited represen
tative of the Mexican government.”
McCormick said that Torres alle
gedly "did everything within his pow
er” to prevent a religious procession
commemorating the feast of our Lady
of Guadeloupe’’ last December.
Furthermore McCormick added, the
State*Department’s attention was call
ed to a similar alleged violation bv
Alexan ero Martinez, Mexican con
sul at Los Angeles.
Lethal Gas Death Chamber
Favored In Vote Os House
SENATE APPROVES
PHOTOGRAPHY MEN
Upper House Gets Into Long
Wrangle Over Absentee
Ballot Repeal
Suggestions
MONEY BILLS STILL
ARE IN COMMITTEES
Won't Come Up In Senate
Before Tomorrow; Pro
spects for Final Adjourn
ment Become Dimmer and
Dimmer; Larger Highway
Patrol Given Approval
Raleigh, 2.—(AP) —The House
today passed on second reading a bill
to substitute a lethal gas chamber for
tile electric chair for legal executions
in North Carolina, as the Senate ap
proved a measure to regulate photo
graphers in the State.
The Senate worked along on a
heavy calendar, but sidetracked most
controversial legislation for consider
ation iated. It got into a long and hot
wrangle over a bill to repea the ab
sentee ballot in Pitt cou»,(y.
House approval £f the lethal gas
measure was voted orally, but the
bill was held up over Its final read
ing, so that some members may draft
an amendment to provide that the
ehamber be movable so that execu
tions may be carried out in Ehd coun
ties where the crimes are committed.
I here was apparently little desire
on the part of the law-makers to do
much work as the all-important rev
enue and appropriations bill continu
ed to repose in Senate committees.
The Senate finance group will not
meet again until tomorrow to con
tinue its work of re-drafting the mea
sure fcy the House. It has already
changed the sections on peddlers’
iaxes, chain stores, ice cream manu
facturers. poo! parlors and bowling
alleys The money spending bill a
waits Senate committee consideration
Prospects of early sine die adjourn
ment were becoming dimmer as the
mcn r v bills were let aolne. The photo
graphy regulatory proposal has been
passed by the House, but the Senate
amended it to eliminate giving pow
ers to subpoena witnesses to the
board of examiners it creates. The
State Association of Photographers
is empowered to select the board,
which in turn can examine, license
and regulate every photographer in
every community over 2.500 poDula
tion-
The Senate fight, over absentee bal
lot provisions came when Senator
Corey, of Pitt, secured passage of a
bill applying to his county, and 'Sen
ator Nixon, of Lincoln, chairman of
the Senate Elections Committee ask
ed for a reconsideration so the meas
ure could be sent to his committee.
Allsbrook, of Halifax, promised
Corey a minority favorable report on
his measure, if it went to committee
and said he would introduce a State
wide absentee repeal bi!!.
Corey agreed to let his bill go to
the elections committee, and an mo
tion of Morgan of Union each of the
absentee repealers previously report
ed unfavorably was taken from the
unfavorable calendar and returned to
the committee for later report.
The joint legislative committee on
roads favorably reported to the House
a bill to increase the personnel of
the State Highway patrol from 67 to
121. and have it under a new division
of highway safety of the State Rev
enue Department.
Doughton Silent
On Announcement
Os Mcßae’s Race
Washington. April 2. (AP)—Word
that John A. Mcßae, Charlotte attor
ney. had entered the 1936 race for
governor of North Carolina, was re
ceived here bv Representative R. L.
iDoughton, a prospective candidate,
with interest but no comment.
He failed to give any intimation of
whether he intends to enter the race,
parrying questions with broad grins
relative to the Mcßae candidacy,
mrets. T ing Mp rßVisit
Britain Speeds War Machinery
British “White Paper” which set off current European fireworks hai
the effect of stimulating Parliament to provide for increases in appropria
tions for new equipment for army and navy. More of the armament
illustrated above is to be provided as fast as it can be manufactured;
Pictured are latest types of observation plane returning to H. M. S.
Eagle, a double-barreled anti-aircraft gun on th6 Ettgle, and putfits
which protect entire bodies of infantrymen from gas and flame attacks.
(Central Press)
Liquor Store
Bill Is Dead,
Some Believe
Pear ot Dry Deser
tion to G. O. P. Chief
Factor; May Stay In
Committee
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
in the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. 3ASKERVILL.
Raleigh, April 2. —The Hill liquor
bill is dead. So dead that not even the
most enthusiastic “liberal drys” and
out-and-out wets have any hope that
it can be revived, according to pre
vailing opinion in legislative circles
here today. For while an effort may
be made to re-write the bill entirely
and offer the revenue portion of it
as an amendment to the revenue bill
in the Senate, even this action is ex
pected to fail, unless a miracle hap
pens in both houses between now and
the date of adjournment.
But the Hill bill in the form it was
referred to the Senate Finance Com
mittee will never emerge from the
committee with a favorable report, it
is now generally agreed, though it
might possibly be reported “without
prejudice” and thus be placed on the
calendar. But the commtitee now
stands 11 to 9 against a favorable re
port, according to a poll of the com
mittee members made by one of its
own members, and 10 to 10 for a
“without prejudice” report provided
two of the senators listed as being
against reporting the bill favorably
would vote to report it without pre
judice.
The members of the Senate Finance
Committee listed in this poll as be
ing definitely opposed to reporting
the bill favorably are: Senators
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WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair tonight and Wednesday;
slightly colder in extreme west
portion tonight, and in west arid
central portions tomorrow,
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOOM
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Farm Bankruptcy
Act Uplield Again
Richmond, Va., April 2.—(AP)—
The United States Circuit Court of
Appeals today upheld the constitu
tionality of the Frazier-Lemke
bankruptcy act passed by Congress
in June, 1934, as emergency legisla
tion for the benefit of insolvent
farmers.
In its decision, the 4St>peilate
court reversed a Maryland district
court which had declared sub-sec
tion S of Section 75 of the act was
violative of the “due process”
clause of the fifth amendment.
HILL IS URGED 10
RUN FOR GOVERNOR
Durham Senator Believed
Toying With Idea Pushed
by “Politicians”
Dsilly Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, April 2 —Strong pressure
is being brought to bear upon Sena
tor Hill, of Durham, to run for the
Democratic nomination for Governor
in the 1936 primary and he is believed
to be toying with the idea. There
has been a steady stream of politi
cians to his room in the Sir Walter
Hotel here for the past three weeks,
urging him to run. He has also been
getting hundreds of letters from all
sections of the State to the same ef
fect. Many of these are urging him
to table his own liquor control bill and
then run for governor on a platform
advocating legalized liquor in North
Carolina.
A good many of Senator Hill’s
friends, however, are urging him not
to get into the race and v* hop V-g
he will not. They point out that a
majority of those who are urging him
to enter the primary as a candidate
for governor are professional politic
ians and ward-heelers who are egging
him on only because he is known to
be very wealthy and in.cause u,e_> be-
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Re-Named Eastern Security
Pact Also Considered As
Eden Begins Talks
at Warsaw
BRITISHER LAUDED
BY POLISH PAPERS
Round of Formal Events At
tended to as First Act of
Lord Privy Seal on Reach
ing Capital; Confers With
President and General
Pilsudski A
Warsaw. April 2 (APl—Captain
Anthony Eden, British lord privey
seal, began his conversations today
with the Polish statesmen who, it was
hinted by the semi-official Gazette Po
lska. may propose changes in the
League of Nations.
It was assumed that the conversa
tions would amplify views leading: to
a new proposal for allaying mutual
distrust among European nations,
and that the scheme might take the
form of a re-named eastern European'
security pact that would satisfy Po
land’s preferences for limited agree
ments, meet Germany’s opposition to
the mutual assistance clause an-d
soothe the Russian fear regarding
Polish-German intentions.
Captain Eden, whom Polish news
papers extol as a leading statesman,
(Oont.lnuorl on Vbfp Thrna)
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BY C A. PAUL.
Raleigh, April 2—Few changes will
be made in the appropriations bill by
the senate. Already passed by the
lower house with only two changes—
an increase in the allotment for voca
tional agriculture from $116,000 to
S2OO 000 and a proviso that school
teachers are *o be given preference in
salary increases—the Senate is ex
pected to make short work of the
money-spending bill which appropria
tes more then $64,000,000 for the next
two years.
The appropriations measure, which
was sent to the floor of the House
after its committee had labored on
it for 60 days, experienced little dif
ficulty in gaining House approval. A
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U. S. Might
End Trade
Pact Soon
Open Warning Given
That Blow for Blow
Will Be Given In
Discriminations
Washington, April 2 (AP) —To its
policy of attempting to revive foreign
trade by a series of give and take tre
aties with other countries, the United
States had added today an open warn
ing that it will hit back at nations
which discriminate against Ameri
can goods.
President Roosevelt made known
that the government is studying the
question of ending existing trade pacts
with Germany, litaly, Denmark and
Portugal, as he proclaimed a new re
ciprocal treaty between Belgium and
the United States. The Fresident out
lined the foreign trade policy in a let
ter to Secretary Morgenthau. The
President’s letter did not go into de
tails of the “Discriminations. 1 '
Economists long have been noting,
however, a multiplicity oi to
channel trade in the mom. w^i.d —
including tarn, s, excharm controls,
quota svfct'-ms ■ n
tions, i