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HENDERSON gateway TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-SECOND YEAR KERR-SMITH TOBACCO ACT HELD UNCONSTITUTIONAL * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * - * * * * * * * * * * * * * *,** V■ • $113,661,384 Allotted For April Relief As Work Bill Gets Going ARMING OF AUSTRIA URGED BY MUSSOLINI AS PARLEY IS ENDED ,Damibi»» Conference Is Now Proposed as Means of Assuring Austrian Independence WILL PROBABLY BE ROME NEXT MONTH Wide Range of Subjects Dis cussed at Final Session, Featured by Mussolini's Speech In Austria’s Behalf; Britain Hosts at Luncheon Affair Shrti'H, Only. April -(AP) 'Hie historic St rasa conference came to an end here this evening Stresa. Italy, April 13. —(AD- Pre. mier Mus:-oltni pleaded for an armed Austria at closing sessions of the Stm a conference today and the three nations represented agreed upon a Danubian conference to find away of guaranteeing Austria’s independence, with Germany, Italy and France pre sent. D was virtually decided to hold the conference next month probably May 20. at Rome. With this us the immediate outcome of the tri-power conferences here, of servors saw the possibility of a fur ther general European conference to seal the peace of Europe, now that Germany has agreed to enter a non aggression pa.ct. A British sopkesman referring to 'he proposed Danubian parley, said; ' Such a conference is almost cer tain probably at Rome in May.” The discussion here. Interrupted' by a luncheon given by the British to the French and Italian delegations, will doer this evening, hut the conferees will have a last meeting tomorrow to draw up a. final communique on their talks as a whole. A w ide range of subjects,*' was the only official description of what the premiers discussed this morning. The feature of this morning's ses sion was a long speech by Mussolini, (Continued on Page Two.) RELIEF WORKER IS KILLED BY A TRAIN J-exlngton, April 13. —(AP) — •John Henry Wood, 31, a Federal relief worker, was found dead lie side the Southern Hallway tracks here early today and a coroner's jury returned a verdict of death by being hit by a train. JOHN sTsTANBURY, 73, IS DEAD AT BOONE Greensboro, April 13.—(AP) —John ■ Danbury. 73, prominent resident of Boone died at his home there this morning after an extended period of illness. New England Colton Mills Are Closing Roosevelt Again Ap pealed to for Relief from Heavy Cotton Processing l ax Boston. Mass. t April 13.—(AP)—The ‘Nosing of three New England texHTe mills employing 3,810 workers was an nounced today while governors and • ougressional representatives at Wtash mgt.on appealed to the President for In iief of the industry in this sectioin. An “appeal to the President” cam. paign W as opened in Pawtucket, R. I and Fall River, ■n Pall River the emergency textile * ' mrnittee launched its campaign to obtain 70,000 signatures to a petition protesting the processing tax and Jap anese competition. A house-to-house campaign will open Tuesday. Hrn&rrsmt tlatln Utauattft - ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OP NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. » lbasbd wire service of the associated press. F. I). R. Urges Speed - ES9HNHI jf Secretary Ickes •Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes is shown leaving the Whit* House in Washington where he was urged by President Roose velt to speed up his part in the directing of the $4,880,000,000 work-relief fund into channels where Hie greatest employment will result. School Book Rentals Bill About Ready Cherry’s Textbook Measure Appears Most Favorable Pro position Now. Dally UUpoU'h Boreas, In the Sir Waiter Hotel. By C. A. PAUL Raleigh. April 13.—A concrete pro p-98.1 for the establishment of a text book rental system for the public schools of the State is expected to brought to the floor of the House of Representatives next week as a result of the appointment of a special sub. committee to study and redraft, If necessary the Cherry textbook rentaT bill The Cherry bill would set up a State Textbook Rental Commission to ad minister the act, if passed. The com mission would be composed of seven members. Serving as ex-officio mem bers would be the State superinten dent of public instruction and the State director of purchases* and con tracts. The remaining five would be appointed by the governor, two of the members to be school people, the other three business people. The /aming of (Continued on Page Two.) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy, probably light frost in west portion tonight; Sun day fair, with slowly rising tem perature. , HENDERSON, N. C. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 13, 1935 In Prison Torture - ■ * L joKk ||MbMP Jg§ MKlr n |L^v Hl *>■ 3 Woodrow Wilson Shropshire Blaming loss of hi 3 feet on cruelty at a North Carolina prison camp, Woodrow Wil?on Shropshire, Negro convict, is pictured as he testified at an inquiry in Char- Ibtte. Shropshire and another •onvict lost their feet, it was charged, as a result of being chained up for days in cold “dark cells'*. Their feet froze. The men had been convicted of minor offenses. SENATE PROBABLY" LATER TO REMOVE Upper House Likely to Back track on Action It Took At Its Friday Session BUDGET FAR OUT OF BALANCE RIGHT NOW Antis and Two Percenters Seized on Exemptions as Face-Saver to Square Themselves With Back Homers After Sensing De feat in the Senate. Dally Dispatch Barcas, In the S|r Walter Hotel. BY J. C. BASKERVILIi. Raleigh, April 13 —The exemptions which the Senate put hack into the sales tax section of the revenue bill Friday afternoon by the close vote of 22 to 21 as the only attainment of the anti-sales tax forces and the "two per centers” will probably be removed from the bill before if passes third reading, according to most opinion here today both among members of the Senate and outsiders. If this is done, the revenue bill will be almost In balance with the ap propriations bill and teachers and other State employes can be fairly (Continued on Page Twnl Filling Station Tax Is Cut By Vote Os Senate Refuses, However, To Elim mate Levy Entirely; Senate F ails To Compete Rev enue Bill, and Cannot Pass It on First Reading Before Next Monday Raleigh, April 13.—(AP)—The Sen. ate today lowered the rate of the proposed tax on chain filling stations in the biennial revenue bill, but re jected an amendment by Senator Johnson, of Duplin, to eliminate the new levy in its entirety. Consideration of the tax measure by the senators as a committee of the whole proceeded slowly and the com mittee quit work after completing the filling station section. Leaders had hoped for first reading passage to day, but it cannot be reached untii Monday or later. The income tax section dealing with AND CCGWILL GET BOOST FROM FUND 300,000 CCC Men To Be Recruited at Once Un der President’s Plan for Speeding Up social bill Twill PASS COMING WEEK Saturday Session of House Held To Blow off Steam in Inevitable Debate; Efforts Continue Toward Averting Rubber Strike; Gasoline Quota Is Fixed Washington, April 13.—(AP) — The government, set aside $113,661,384 for April’s jobless burden today as ad ministration officials pressed develop ments of the $4,000,000 program for shifting from direct to work relief. Harry L. Utkins the relief admin istrator. allotted Uie money, covering every State except Georgia. But what new steps in the work drive would next he added to plans for boosting the Civilian Conservation Corps by 300,000 and eliminating rail road grade crossings was of major interest to the capital. The House held a Saturday meet ing to consume more of the long hours of the debate which must precede the amendment stage of the social se curity bill. ,• - Its passage in some form was fore seen some time next week, but not until further tests of the Townsend old age pension plan. The enate was in recess today. Other capital activities. As negotiations continued on the threatened strike in the rubber in (Continued.on Page Two) M’DOILD OFFERS Supplemental Taxes Would Be Arranged for in His New Proposals. Daily Dispatch Bareaa, fa the Sir Walter Hotel, BY C. A. PAUL. Raleigh. April 13. —Following up his interest in the public schools, Dr. Ralph McDonald, co-leader of the House anti-sales tax bloc, has intro, duced two bills which, if passed, per mit increases in the puolic school funds. The first bill, an amendment to the school machinery act would provide that county and city school boards shall use for school purposes only moneys received from fines, forfeit urrg, penalties; dog and poll taxes. 7'he moneys would be used under the supervision of the State school com mission. The McDonald bill provide that such funds shall be used for school purposes, and be allotted to the following purposes in the order nam ed: General control, instructional Ber (Continued on Page Two) dividends remains to be considered. The lower rate on chain filling sta tions, which the Senate adopted, was not figured materially to affect the income from the tax as a section who had proposed allowing credit on taxes paid for pumps under another levy was stricken out to compensate for the reduction. The vote on the Johnson amend ment to eliminate the levy was 10 to 23. As written into the revenue bill by the joint finance committee, the tax (Continued on Pape HrcJ, RIVALS YESTERDAY—PALS TODAY Ijllljif .; r' v -v ; Hi T i§£ llpll S- *A> ■' ,o<-’ ' -V -T~ <llll J§j if * \ H Herbert Hoover Thomas Buckner Al Smith With bitter political differences of the 1928 presidential cam paign swept , into the forgotten past through their opposition to tha New Deal, former President Hoover and former Gov. Alfred NRA Probe To End With Testimony From Johnson Afler That, Senate Finance Committee Will Draw Bill Extending NRA Two Years FARMERS PROTEST DISPARITY OF AAA 100 Much Spread Between Their Control Act and NRA Regulations of Business, Grange Spokesman Says; Want Monopolistic Trends To Be Abolished Washington, April 13.—(AP) —Chair man Harrison announced today the .Senate Finance Committee would close its NRA investigation next Thursday with testimony by Hugh S, Johnson, its former administrator. After closing the hearing, the com mittee will proceed to put into final form the bill for extending the re. covery unit for another two years. Already negotiations were underway behind the scenes with senators such as Borah, of Idaho, who have de manded fell restoration of the anti trust laws. Harrison's announcement was made after farmers, speaking through the National Grange, protested the Senate Finance Committee today that recov ery had been retarded by a disparity (Continued on Page Two.) nehaiTgrifein SAVED SALES TAX Told Senate Levy Essential If Schools Are to Run Next Two Years Dally Dispatch Bareaa, In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. C. BASKERVIIiL. Raleigh, April 13 —Why did the ef fort to remove the sales tax from the revenue bill fail and get only 10 of the 50 votes in the senate? Why was it that only 13 senators voted for the amendment to reduce the sales tax rate to two per cent, while 31 voted to keep it at three per cent? Why was it that the amendment to restore the exemption of basic food articles to the bill carried by a majority of only one vote, with 22 voting for it and 21 against it? The answer to all these questions is that Senator Harris Newman, of New Hanover county, chairman of the finance committee, Senator Lloyd Griffin of Chowan, Senator Carl Bailey of Washington and several oth (Coattoied os FIvqJ. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. E. Smith pose for the cameraman like old pals, in New York City, Between them is Thomas Buck ner, president of the New York Life Insurance Co., of which both Hoover and Smith are directors. $1,390,325 Relief To State in April Washington, April 13.—(AP)—- Harry L. Hopkins, relief adminis trator, today allotted $113,661,384 for April relief. Os this amount* $1,390,325 will' go to North Carolina. The April total compared with 3132,936,226 for March. Hopkins explained the allotments included funds previously made available, as well as gTants for the remainder of the month. Funds were for general and draught re lief, transient aid, emergency edu cation and- the students aid pro gram. cWcraif i March Well Under That Month in 1934; Exports Also Show Decline Washington, April 13 (AP) —Cotton today by the Census Bureau to have consumed during March was reported totalled 418,135 bales of lint, and 66,- 754 bales of linters, compared with 478,291 of lint and 62,850 of linters for February this year, and 544,870 of lint and 733,483 of linters for March last year Cotton imports during March total led 9,917 bales, compared with 8,137 during February this year, and 18,665 during March last year. Exports of cotton during March to talled 317,798 bales of lint and 18,287 bales of linters, compared with 390,294 and 16,161 for February this year, and 550,104 and 17,092 for March last year. Cotton spindles active during March numbered 24,571,314 compared with 24,925,168 during February this year, and 26,525,454 during March last year. COUNTY ATTORNEY OF HOKE IS DEAD J. W. Currie, 53, Found Dead In Bed By Family; Was Prominently Connected in State Raeford, April 13 (AP) — J. W. Cur rie, 53, county atorney of Hoke for 15 years, was found dead in bed this morning, obviously the victim of a heart attack. He is survived by his wife and two children. Born in Hillsboro, he was a member of a prominent family. One of his brothers is history professor at David son College. Funeral arrangements have not been i—l ... 8' PAGES , TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY FEDERAL JUDGE AT LOUISVILLE HOLDS CONTROL ILLEGAL First lest of Tobacco Act In Any Court Goes Against It In Ruling In Kentucky TAXES IMPOUNDED ORDERED RETURNED Must Go Back to Penn Brothers, of Fayette Coun ty, Kentucky, Who Brought Test Suit; Scathing Attack Upon Measure Written by U. S. Judge Louisville, Ky„ April 13.—(AP) Federal Judge Charles I. Dawson to day held unconstitutional the Kerr- Smith tobacco production act. He acted in the suit of the Penn brothers, Fayette county growers, to enjoin United States District Attorney Mack Swinford and Internal Revenue Collector Seldon R. Glenn from erw forcing the law. .. The tax was the first test of the law in any court. Holding a temporary injunction wan unnecessary. Dawson ordered $7,000 in taxes impounded pending the liti gation returned to the Penns. The law imposes a tax on 25 per cent of the sale price of the 1934 crop on all tobacco grown without contract with the secretary of agriculture, and 33 1-3 percent on the uncontrolled portion of the 1935 crop. Last year the government ddllected $3,000,000 in Kerr-Smith . taxtefe. <Wilf of which came from Kehttibky. ; '• “It is impossible for any oitefckrho has any respect for constitutional : 1U" mitations to contemplatdjjtHlsuJiafr j with complacency,” Judge ' Dawson wrote. '*‘j “It is the plainest kiqd of an at* tempt to accomplish ant •'LthconatitiA'k r tional purpose by the eitert; cise of constitutional power®; 'The' garment used to hide the halted uil.' * constitutionality of the act was fab ricated from the taxation and com merce clauses of the Constitution; but neither congressional recitations of purpose, declaration of policy nor the (Continued on Page Two) Old CWA Is Relief Basis Now Planned And That Was Great est Fizzle There Ever Was, Senator McCarran Declares Washington, April 13 (AP) —Sena- tor McCrarran, Democrat, Nevada, said today he understood the “old CWIA plan” was going to be followed in the government’s $4,000,000,000 work drive. “I understand they are going to go on tre old Civil Works Administra tion plan,” he said. “Hhe CWA Was the greatest fizzle there ever was. They fight just as wel slush out the money.” McCarran was the leader of one of the hottest fights over the works bill in the Senate. He led the attempt to make it mandatory to pay relief work ers the same hourly wage rates re ceived by employees in private Indus try. His efforts were opposed by admin istration advocates of a SSO-a-month security wage. The result was a com promise providing that wage rates pre vailing in private industry should be paid workers on permanent publia buildings erected with relief money. But now, MicCarran said today, “It seems as though they don’t want to construct Federal buildings, because such construction is too slow,” Commenting on the wage issue, he said: “They’ll either have to tear down the wage structure of the country or else follow the spirit of the /ieC'.rran amendment. It looks to niv a. L: -ugh. they are violating the s, nt of the amendment. I have alwa^. on tended that they are tryint T. . .. . . .. t;. i wage scale,,; 5
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