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Daily Dispatch Cooking School Opens At Stevenson Theatre Tomorrow Morning 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 u (Continued ou Page Two.) Henderson BaUu Htspatrh ■ ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. * LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. In Buffer Position IV -■• -n. Jg| 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 (Continued nn Rage Two) 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- L (Cc:itlßr.od cn Pc"o Fo:: 19 Pages VL Today TWO SECTIONS. FIVE CENTS COPY Si 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) Teachers V,>j • •; I'd ■ '.y I Would Ge% ; Aid MrsM' , \ . I ' Dally Dlnpatoh Bnrenn, In the Sir Walter Hotel.. 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 < Con tinned on Page Three). 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