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<mc as the legislature re
mains in session. The legislators
themselves get a salary of $lO a day
for the first 00 days only. Their pay
"-topped March 9.
Ilegislative employes, however, get.
P’-dd at a daily rate seven days a
Week.
The daily pa,toll for (.Senate em-
Pj"ycs is $245 a day, despite the fact
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Lotion Tax
Bill Again
Is Attacked
Receivers of Hoosac
Mills Say l ax Is Un
constitutional Be
loit: Court
Ro,t -on Mass, April 23.—(AP)—The
'' lf, sMtuMonalality of the AAA was
'• M 4rk.ed today before the full bench
'be i’tilted States Circuit Court of
• ones is by a. received of the Hossack
-'’J* Corporation,
oonsei f or fj )o receivers named in
t " a igument the act upon which
h " F'odeiHl government is depending
• I'U) tor millions of dollars in rev
‘" ii wit)i which to control commodity
P T "dmtion, saying it conferred a pow
f' *bat could not be delegated con
ydutionally to an administrative of
’ leer,
ptesenting arguments, a mem
n" of ~H’ counsel said that this was
( Mroiitt Court of Appeals test
: r,) n r 'b disputed cotton process.
>'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
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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
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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
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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«/<I .asi
week were white £ lar<I a
meal, flour and milL*