HENDERSON HATEWAY TO central CAROLINA TWENTY-SECOND year MEW LIQUOR BILL FAVORABLY REPORTED TO HOUSE rush food, wafer, SUPPLIES TO THE VICTIMS OF ’QUAKE |>jpr l ines and Reservoirs ,\re Wrecked on For mosa; Burning Trop ical Sun Shining HASTILY REPAIRED RAILROAD IS HELP Enables Physicians And Workers lo Enter Stricken Area; l atest OfficiaJ Lists Show 3,152 Dead, 10,406 Injured and Property Loss At About $3,000,000 M.'upy righted by the Associated Press.) •|jiii |< ll, Formosa. April 23.—(AP) Hi'h* 1 ! agencies experienced in deal- Ui , with ciinpiake disasters rushed fend watei and medical supplies to ,j it y into remote sections of north western Formosa devastated in Sun day’s catastrophe. Che problem of supplying water to iVi(>, >jrvi ors became one of primary im per hot tee as a tropical sun piiui’hed tbe tongues of the stricken inhabi tant' and added to hazards of the jpr«a.d of dirfease. in - iy a pipe line or a reservoir <*»,- left undamaged in the entire stricken areas. Hasty repairs to the damaged railway line, leading from hrte to Tainan and northward cn_ rd)|nl relief workers and physicians to speed into the interior with their welcome stores of water, food and blankets. The latest official casualty figures, which it was believed would be suo jeet to minor revisions, gave the num ber of dead as 3,l. r >2 and the total ■et i<» ll sly wounded as 10,406. Damage v is estimated at $3,000,0^0. LEGISLATURE CLERK DIRE IS $562 DAILY Bren This for Many Weeks, Including Sun days; Paid for Session llnflr IM«i»ntfh Ilnrenif, In lh«* Sir Walter Hotel. By O. A. PAUL R?leigh, April 23.—Clerk hire alone for the legislature is now, and has been for many weeks, costing the State tf,H2 daily, including Sundays. For eleik.-t get paid seven days a week a l'b: lax. for Iht , Hossack Mills, .' "I'ciate plants in several places, vi ? on tended that the tax was a violation of state’s rights. •’-'vJol i\J r~v HrnJtrrsmt tlatln HJlanatcbl L, ®^® aD WIRB SERVICE! OF ffl HHIKiBU 1 - • Thi' picture shows a huge 15-ton •ted gate being lowered into place between two sections of the $34,000,000 Norris dam on the Clinch river in Tennessee, Place* Much Public Interest In Meter Inspection Bill People Buy Their Meat by the Pound From Stale-Tested Scales; Why Not Their Gas, Water and Electrici ty From State-Tested Meters Dully IM.iftnUlj Bnrens, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, April 23. —“There is ac. tually much more interest than has been publicly shown in the proposed bill to provide for inspectioii Os met ers .through which consumers buy elec tricity, gas and water,” E. L. Ban defur, secretary-treasurer of the North Carolina State Federation of Labor, said today in commenting on House bill 814, which is being con sidered by a sub-commitee of House Judiciary Committee No. I. "When you go to a butcher shop to buy a pound of steak, you can read tlie scales (which have been tested by a State agency) and see for your self that you are. getting a pound of steak and you are satisfied. When MACHINERY ACT IN FINANCE COMMITTEE Senate Committee Expected To Remove Corporate Excess Section From Act Dali? Dispatch Bnrena, In the Sir Walter Hotel. BV J. C. BASKERVILL. Raleigh, April 23. —The general ma chinery act, which sets forth the man ner in which the various taxpayers, especially the corporations, must make their returns and list their taxes both to the counties and the State, is flow before the Senate Fin ance Committee, having been refer red there after it was passed by the House as amended. The House adopt ed the amendment by Representative McDonald of Forsyth re-inserting in the act Section 603, ommitted from the new act, which provides for the allocation of corpirate excess back to the counties by the State Board of Assessment. If this section is left out of the act, it is estimated that the counties, cities and towns will lose between $50,000,000 and $1,000,000 from their tax books within the next year or two, although it will not mean that the State government will lose any revenue, since the State levies nor property taxes. For under this section, every domestic corporation is requir ed to submit a detailed financial statement to the State Board of As sessment, which the board checks carefully with the amounts listed by the corporations in the various local units. If the amount listed does not accord with the amount which the board thinks these corporations should havel isted, they instruct the local tax officials to increase the val (Continued on Page Four) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. NORRIS LAKE BEGINS TO FORM HENDERSON, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 23, 1935 ment of this bulkhead forced th« river to flow through two similar gaps still open in midstream and brought a rise of five feat In the water above the dam. you go to the post office to buy a number of stamps, you may count the number of stamps you receive, and be certain you get your money's worth, and no questions asked. When you go to a bank to get some change, you may count your change, for. your self and again be certain*that you egt all that is coming to you, and again are absolutely satisfied. “But when you look at your meter, unTTBS “Vou have had special instruc tions, you cannot tell what you are receiving or what you arc paying for. The average consumer of service sold through meters doesn’t know how to determine his bill from the meter andi when for one month lie receives an (Continued on Page Throe* ILLoSV Some Provision Must Be Made for 23 Men Now on Death Row; To Die in Chair BUILD SMALL CHAMBER ABOUT 8 FEET SQUARE Chair Would Be Placed in It With Gas Generator Un derneath; Death Would Be Almost Instantaneously; Would Mean no More Fry ing of Condemned Men. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Dally Dispatch Bnrean, By C. A. PAUL Raleigh, April 23. — Twenty-three murderers and rapists now awaiting death Qn l North Carolina’s Central prison’s famed death row would have been free —free to have walked the streets of their home towns—if some one had not discovered a technical error in the lethal gas bill which would replace the State’s electric chair with a lethal gas chamber. The bill has already passed the lower House and appeared in the Senate where it has no opposition. It was placed on the calendar after being reported favorably by the Senate penal institutions committee. Just be fore it was reached Senator Arthur (Continued on Page Four} CLIPPER SHIP IS ON RETURN TRIP Head Winds Near Gale Force Slows Down Ship to 100 Miles Ppr Hour WIND VELOCITY IS STILL INCREASING Fought Cross Winds on Take Off and Has Fought Head Winds Since Leaving Hon olulu; Altitude 7,200 Feet Over Thick Blanket of Ob scuring Clouds Alameda, Cal.. April 23.—(AP) — Headwinds at near gale force tore at the wings of the giant Pan-American Clipper as it steadily forced its way toward Alameda today to complete the first, round trip flight ever made between California, and Hawaii. Steadily increasing to a velocity of 36-mUes-an-hour, the head winds slowed the powerful four motored sea plane down to a speed of less than one hundred miles an hour. Buffeted from a take-off from cross winds and head winds, the Clipper did not reach a. normal cruising speed of ISO miles an hour in covering the* first 12 hours in the 2,400 miles return trip. At 6 a. m. (9 a. m. E.S.T.) the giant monoplane was flying imo a 34 mile head wind 1,477 miles out of Honolulu She held an altitude of 7,200 feet, 1.200 feet above a solid cloud bank which obscured the sea. wletlrkers IN TOLEDO STRIKE 600 Walkout This Morning and Plant Closes For An Indefinite Period Toledo, Ohio. April 23—(AP)-t—Parts of the first shift, of 1,100 men at the Toledo Chevrolet plant went on strike this morning ( after the company had refused union demands for increased wages and a signed union contract. Fred Schawke, representative of the United Auto Workers Union, said that. 600 men quit their jobs. Workers who refused.to quit were sent home and an announcement made that the plant would be closed indefinitely. The plant normally employs about 2,500 men. SJStwf Committee Democrats Pre dict It Will Pass, Form ing Another Officer ARMY, NAVY OPPOSED Committee About Beady To Close Hearings and Start executive Sessions, Would Create Secretary of Air. Washington, April 23.—(AP)—A bill to create a Federal department of air was pointed today toward almost cer tain approval by the House Military Committee—over bitter protest from the army and navy. Leading committee Democrats pre dicted—and a survey of the member ship backed them up—that the com mittee probably would vote about 2 to 1 for the measure. Introduced by Chairman MciSwain, Democrat, South Carolina, the bill would place the Army Ah Corps and civilian avation activities of the Bu reau of Air Commerce under a new cabinet officer designed a3 Secretary of Air. At the same time it would greatly strengthen the personnel and flying equipment of the air corps. The committee is about ready to close hearings on the bill and begin working it over in an executive ses sion. First, however, several army in fantry officers are to be heard again later this week in opposition to an air corps promotion field. “weathiT FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Wednesday? not much change in temperature. COLLEGE PROFS MUST TAKE OATH Bm EMI < : v . 3»88888S8s3S \lf j»k.; 9 Kip ; Senator Baldwin Governor Professors and instructors throughout Michigan's schools of higher education must take an oath of allegiance to the United States beginning next fnll Gov. Frank D. FiLzgeiald Ls akuwn Congress Is Warned Not To Pass Bonus Measure Secretary Morganthau Ap pears Before Senate Fi nance Committee With Request WOULD INCREASE TAX ON INHERITANCES If Measure Passed Inherit ance Tax Would Go From Two to Six Hundred Mil lion Dollars; Legion Offi cials Will Not Compromise But Want Cash Bonus Washington, April 23.—(AP)—Con gress was warned frankly today that if a bonus bill is passed the treasury will recommend a new Federal in heritance tax to raise from two hun. died million dollars to six hundred million dollars a year. This notice came from Secretary Morganthau i who appeared before the Senate Finance Committee and said that any pending bonus proposal would call for additional taxes. He testified that the American Legion of ficials had rejected any compromise and lias demanded full cash payment. The Senate refused again today to re-commit tlie Bankhead farm tenant aid bill. The bill provided a third attempt to emasculate itw ith defeat with a move to strike out its billion bond authorisation. The elimination pro posed by Bailey, Democrat, North Carolina was rejected, 25 to 29. With Easter visitors still clogging the Capitol, the House met at noon to receive from its appropriations com mittee ne of the largest peace time naval appropriations bill in history— one calling for an expenditure of $459,523,761 in the 1936 fiscal year. Legislature Digs Deeply Into Them, Already Scooped $5,290,000. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Dally Dispatch Barean, BY J. C, EABKERTILL. Raleigh, April 23.—This General As sembly has already scooped $5,290,000 from the State highway fund the re duced amount available for secondary and primary road maintenance by the amount. Chairman Capus M. Waynick of the State Highway and Public Works Commission pointed out today. For If the House concurs In the Sen ate amendment to the revenue bill to divert $1,790,000 a year to the gen eral fund from highway revenues and the Senate passed the automobile and truck license reduction bill back in the Senate for concurrence, this Gen (Continued on Pa jo Four}, PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Fitzgerald Walter Reynold* signing the much-disputed bill making the oath mandatory for college faculty members as Sen ator Joseph Baldwin, left, its au thor, and Walter Reynolds of De troit look on. Waging Fight Over Agricultural Act Washington, April 23. —(AP) — Blows struck by two Democratic senators emphasized today the se- ; rious controversies raging around,’ legislation wanted by the AAA. The fight which has already con-' tinued for months over proposed amendments to the AAA wad in tensified by the charge- of Hector Byrd; Democrat, - Virginia, that congress was ’being asked to “NBA the farmers of America.” CONGKPIJ President Wants Refjorm Legislation but Congress Is Conservative HE HAS ADVANTAGE Conservative Democrats Unwilling to Vote Outright Against Presi dent; Many Would Risk Defeat in Doing It By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, April 23. President Roosevelt and congress are engaged in a tug-of-war. The president has a program of re form legislation that he wants adopt ed by the lawmakers. It is a program which, in the opin ion of conservatives, will considerable radicalize the country's politico-econo mic system, and do it permanently, changing conditions fob all time in a fashion that conservatism doesn’t be lieve it will like. Now congress, despite its tiuge De mocratic majority, is predominate conservative. the tug-of-war. CONGRESS AT DISADVANTAGE In away, congress is at a disad. vantage. Its conservative Democrats are ex ceedingly unwilling to vote outright against the policies advocated by a Democratic president; it would be very bad politics for them to do so. Many Democrats would risk defeat for re-election next year if they ad vertised themselves as partisan "bolt ers” now. Not desiring to vote as the administration wants them to vote and yet afraid to vote contraiwise, their only recourse is to procrasti nate, delay and stall. But this becomes increasingly difficult —harder and harder t© eixplain satisfactorily—as days and weeks pass. Therefore the legislators (the Dem ocratic conservatives; not the radi cals, and certainly not the Republi cans, who, radical and conservative alike, immensely enjoy the dilemma (Ocuttmed c” Fail- 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY CALLS FOR ND TAX BUT STATE WOULD GEE ALE PROFITS New Bill Calls for Referfcn* dum, If Passed, June 8; Will Have Govern ing Board THREE MEMBERS OF BOARD TO SET PRICE Bill Was Distinct Surprise, Being Drafted In Secret; Twelve or More Counties Must Vote for Stores Be fore State-Wide Referen dum Be Called Raleigh, April 23. —(AP) — A sub stitute liquor bill, proposing a State wide referendum on establishment of a State system of whisky stores if twelve or more counties vote wet, was favorably reported to tlie House to day by its finance committee. The House ended a long week-end Easter holiday with a. session at noon while the Senate took up the biennial revenue bill on third reading at a session in mid-afternoon. The new liquor bill came as a sur prise, its drafting having been kept secret, and was reported to the Day measure which had proposed a three way referendum with the voters expressing first and second choice: retention of iprohibilirm; a Store store system for selling liquor; a general licensing of liquor dealers. In the meantime, the Hill liquor store bill, already debated at length, reposed on the Senate calendar with a “without prejudice” label from the Senate Finance Committee. In its original form, it called for a State wide referendum but its sponsors are also offering the alternative of <£otln ty demand election with 12 •comities ■ asking for stores before any may bd set up. • - ;; The substitute house bill calls for tu referendum on June 8 of, th^ 4 jjiEeait jf the measure passes. A of tnreO « members would direct ths liJmbr costs. trol .system if 12 counties vbtla* fip' stores. Np tax .is .imposed;'jVtMU We board could set prices *a,t such asnjk ure as to make a profit, atid still cqin i ) pete with bootleggera in lo\V- prices? l| i Suggests Abolishing All Taxes Except Those on Land Values By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer New York, April 23. —Many persons have commented on the recent analy sis in this column of Henry George’s single tax theories of getting out of a depression. In fact, that anysis seems to have been the most popular subject this column ever has contained. Some persons have requested an amplification or a further explanation Henry George, whose economic works of more than half a century (Continued on Pare Fnnr) Senate Has Exempted Nine Foods Reverses Its Action of Last Week By Not Taxing Nine Basic Foods Raleigh, April 23. —(AP) —The Sen ate this afternoon again reversed position on the sales tax article of the biennial revenue bill and voted to exempt nine basic food articles from th£_three~ per cent retail levy. The action was taken on a 22 to IS vole not counting two pairings. The nine exemptions were written! into the bill one against administra tion wishes but thel ist was cut *gp five late last week. The nine articles are \\s a, 'l.'ir, meal, milk, molasses, sa.it. . .gar, >vtf fee, and meat. The five e o, pt«/