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HENDERSON I GATEWAY to CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-SECOND YEAR PEOPLE TO VOTE ON TAXATION AMENDMENTS Cotton Mill Group For Process Taxes Pending New Plan Resolutions Committee Os Manufacturers at Augusta Meet Is Studying Substitutes brickbats hurled AGAINST THE AAA Attach pd from Several j Source*. Including Textile Leaflets; President’s Sec-j retary Is Onlooker at Au gusta While Cabinet Com mittee Plans Conferences yiigii'tl la . April 26. —(AP)-—The resolution** committee us the Ameri can f.'oMon Manufacturers Associa tion \\b'> represented today ass favor ing continuance of the cotton process- ■ ing tax until a substitute Is found. it was indicated the resolutions ccTiniittr I ’, headed by Donald Comer, •tlabamn manufacturer, would insist or a specific substitute to provide relief fro < ottou fa? mrrs before sug ff-hnf Htet the processing tax be I ycrapp'rl Thf committee. which will report at j Saturday' closing session, tiad before ! it Wallace's 1934 report to President ! Rom-pvell_ in which the secretary re commended consideration of possible i alternates for the processing tax. lie said it might he necessary to obtain revenue for benefit payments to farmers, either by increasing Fed. erai talcs or providing some new form j of lax As two possible sources of revenue, Wallace suggested an increase in in- j come taxes and a sales tax. PRESIDENTS CABINET TO BEGIN TEXTILE STUDIES Washington. April 27.—rAP)—While ! brickbat* flew at the Farm Adjust- | m-rit Administration from several j (Continued on Pag» Five) Inheritances To Pay Bonus Is Suggested Washington, ApriJ 26 (AP)— < hairman Harrison, of the Senate Finance Committee, today made public a letter from Secretary Morgnnthiiu proposing an inheri tance tax system which could he used tf> cash the bonus, based on progressive rates running up to W percent. Morgenthau estimated that aucli * would yield about $300,00,000 in if»:}6 and might bring in as "Uich as $600,000,000 annually thereafter. Say School Bill Shown Improperly Local Heads Over Vate Accused Os Raising S moke Screen About It Unity Dispatch flereaa, In the St- Walter Hotel. sv J. C, BASKKRVIUi. A.pril 26 —The attempt be ’ t made by the opponents of the new n lf, oi machinery act to make it ap '',r a -l it concentrates still more y ll mrity in t.he state School Comrais -10,1 >s nothing more than a smoke being sent up by the city and omity superintendents who are op ,, ed Section 13 1-2, which would power to select the teachers o'i of the hands of the superintend -11 and local school hoard and give "'■ power to the principals, according ® °X Ralph w. McDonald, of For • • 1 bounty, and others who are con liiKd that, the present school mal ’" ••y act is the best that has been "posed since the State took over " ,;oß f operating the schools. (Continued on Face Two) / Hrttftrrsmt Batin Btsnatrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA ANn VTrßnta * WHIB SERVICE OF 1 HS» ABSOCIATBD PRESS. Hopkins To Hold Key Relief Post Washington, April 26—(AF) Harry 1.. Hopkins, hitherto “mys tery man" In the work-relief set up. was general! expected today to be placed in charge of the “divis ion of progress” administering the $4,000,000,000 fund. The division, one of the main cogs In the works program, will haxe charge of checking up on and stimulating the activities of the undertaking to take 3.500.000 men Off «»f relief rolls and give them jobs. Hopkins, now the relief adminis trator. will serve as a member of the hoard which passes upon ills tributioii of the $4,000,000,000 fund to various projects. Secretary Ickes heads it. BOTH SIDES CLAIM ~ VICTORY IN SENATE OVER LIQUOR BILL Drys Say Line-Up Is Still 27 To 23 Against When All Senators Are In Their Seats WET LEADERS SAY MEASURE TO PASS Effort Will Be Made To Re duce Number of Counties Necessary To Permit State Liquor Stores In Referen dum Proposed for June 8 Dully DlMpntch Barena, la (he N]r Walter Hotel. BY J. C. BASK Kit VILL. Raleigh, April 26.—'What will the Senate do with the Day liquor bill? Will it do theu nexpected, as the House did. and pass it, -or will it re fuse to pass it, as itd id the Hill liq uor stores! bill? When these questions were asked Senator Harris Newman, of New Han over, Lee Gravely, of Nash, Owen Robertson, of Orange, and several others of the group in the Senate who have favored the enactment of a liq uor bill, they all replied: “Os course, the Senate is going to pass the Day bill. If the Senate is going to tax food, such as flour and meat and meal and milk, it cannot justify that action unless it also votes to tax liquor.” But the dry members of the Sen ate who for 108 days have blocked the enactment of the Hill liquor stores and liquor control bill, are just as emphatic in their declarations that the Senate will also refuse to pass the Day liquor bill, which calls for a (fx>ntinned on Pace Fnui) DEATH MRSIN HOLLYWOOD ARENA Two Dead, Third May Die as Result of Party lint De signer’s Rooms Hollywood, Cal., April 26 (AP) — Death stalked through Hollywood to day, leaving in its wage two men dead and a third probably fatally wounded. Confronted with apparent cases of murder, near murder and suicide, po lice sought to unravel a weird maze of fact in the shooting up of: Hall Wharton, 25-year-old Holly wood dress designer. William Howard, about 35, an ex navy ensign, and chauffeur for the style creator. Henry E. Bolte, 38, law instructor at University of California at Los Angeles. Wharton, known professionally as Paul Ivar, who assertediy had fash ioned clothes for several prominent (Continued on Fage Five) HENDERSON, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 26, 1935 CHILD LABOR RATIFICATION STATUS US Ratified Freient status of ehiid labor amendment to U. S. constituting Favorable action ©I 16 states is necessary for ratification, Bailey’s Attack Upon Father Coughlin Crips Capital In Speculation Detroit Radio Priest Called Man of “Damnable Ambi tion’’ by Tar Heel Senator; Capital Looks for Ink ling of 1936 Presidential Line-Up as Result Washington, April 26 (AP) —Absorb- ed in the preliminary forming of poli tical lines for 1936, the capital sought today to assay the effects of Senator Bailey's denunciation of Father Chas. E. Coughlin as a man of "damnable ambition," who seeks to “stir up the foundations of hate in a distressed lang amongst a suffering people.” With third party talk very much in the air, observers also watched to see whether an answer might not be forth coming soon to the question whether HEAVY GALENBAR IS WAILING IN SENATE '' » t Rural Electrification Pro jects Must Be Consider ed by Members DIVORCE ISSUE, ALSO Register of Deeds, Beer Manufacture, Slot Machines, Cotton Tax and Local Government Bills Remain fn the S|r Walter Hotel. Dally Dispatch Boreas, By C. A. PAUL Raleigh, April 26.—A heavy calen. dar faces the (State Senate as it deli berates the biennial appropriations bill which contemplates the spending of more than $65,000,000 during the next two years. t Regarded as of prime importance are two bills which would pave Ithe way for the electrification of thous ands of rural homes in remote sec tions of the State. One of the meas ures would set up a State rural triflcation commission to represent rural areas and the other bill wuold permit the organization of non-profit corporations in such areas for the purpose of electrifying rural homes through the extension of power lines. Both are Senate bills and have not been in the lower House. The house bill, offered by Represen tative Bryant, of Durham, and which has been approved by the house, which would limit the right to obtain a divorce on the grounds of two-years separation to the injured party, thus requiring that applicants for divorce (Continued on Page Six) Some Doubt IfDoughton Makesßace Dally Dispatch Barrai, In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. C. BASKERVILL. Raleigh, April 26. —Despite reports from Washington to the effect that Congressman Robert L. Doughton will definitely announce whether or not he will become a candidate for gov ernor in 1936 on Monday afternoon, and the belief in Washington that he will become a candidate, there are many political observers iiere, both in side the General Assembly, who still feel sure that Doughton will not be a candidate for governor. All political (Continued on Page Six). Father Coughlin and Senator Long. Democrat. Louisiana, may unite their forces in 1936. Senator Long was ready to depart for Des Moines. lowa, where he will speak Saturday before the Farmers Holiday national convention. The head of the Farmers Holiday group, Milo Reno, has already advocated a merging of the forces. Before a silently listening Senate, (Continued on Page Five* ERA Bricklayers Get 12c a Brick New York, April 26.—(AP)— Bricklayers working on a relie! project averaged $1 per day for every eight bricks laid, an alde>- manie investigating commission has learned. But the relief workers were not getting $75 a day at that rate, the witness, Edgar S. HoUgh, made clear. Hough, a statistician, said the men were paid sl2 a day, and laid an averge of 96 bricks. They Think Appeal in 1936 To Disgruntled Consum ers May Win By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, April 26.—Republican strategists are fairly optimistic as to G. O. P. prospects in 1936. They may be unjustifiably so, but they are moderately hopeful. Even supposing that times improve considerably, these Republicans are of the opinion that a large class of Americans will be sufferers (or will think that they are, anyway) from the very nature of the improvement. Improvement, they reason, inevita tCoptiniied on Paee Four) Admits Dual Aged Slaying In Tennessee 1 Mdisonville, April 26.—(AP) —Sheriff Hugh Webster, announced today that Bill Lee, 23, captured yes terday near Murphy, N. C., had con fessed killing his grandfather, Jasper Shaw, 60, and Matt Hensley, 65, at the Shaw home near Tellico Plains the night of February 22, but denied clubbing his grandmother to death. “Lee told me he shot old man Shaw and Henley, but said he didn’t kill (Continued on Page Two) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Saturday; not much change in temperature, INCOME TAX LEVY WOULD BE RAISED TO 10 PCI LIMIT Classification of Property Would Be Made And Limit Placed Upon Public Debts TO INVITE DANIELS TO MAKE A SPEECH Ambassador to Mexico To Address Joint Session Next Tuesday; No Further Maj or Changes in Revenue Bill Made by Conferees; Re jected on Thursday Raleigh, April 26.—(AP) —A varied assortment of Statewide legislation occupied the attention of the legisla ture today as a new report was await ed from the revenue bill conferees. The assembly wrote into law a bill to submit to the voters in 1936 a series ol proposed amendments to the taxa tion sections of the State Constitution The Senate concurred in the House amendment to raise the income tax limit from six to ten percent, permit classification of property for taxation ana place a new limit on public debts. The iSenate sent to the House a measure backed by Governor Ehring hau3 which would permit the organi. zaljon of non-profit membership cor porations for the encouragement of rural electrification. The firms could issue bonds, as well as buy, sell and distribute electricity. It was a com panion bill to the one sent the House yesterday authorizing creation of a State rural electrification authority. Both houses voted to ask Josephus Daniels, ambassador to Mexico, and Raleigh newspaper publisher, to d dress a joint session of the legisla ture at noon April ht). The revenue conferees who present ed their report to the House late yes terday, only to have it rejected by an overwhelming vote, were reported ready to offer a new compromise pro posal. .. ~<•.■■■ Word from the conference group ((/ontlhued on Page Two) * J —(-m Mine Trouble Is Feared In Illinois Area Springfield, 111., April 26. —(AP) — Alarmed by the influx of thousands of Illinois miners, authorities of the State were tense today fearing re newed violence in the K,«ig-standing mine war that has torn sporaidcally through the Illinois coal fields. Throughout the early morning hours, .trucks rumbled into the city, adding scores to massed miners, es timated by authorities at more than 2,000. They were established »n en campments in two city parks. Further contingents were reported to be moving along the highways in to Springfield. All special police and special de puties were called into emergency ser vice last night by authorities fearing attack on the city jail, where three men, members of the United Mine Workers of America, are held on charges of slaying a member of the rival mine union, the Progressive (Continued on Face Three* Easter Trade Was Best Since 1931, Babson Says Delayed Purchases Will Give May Good Boost; Claims if Political Situation Could Be Cleaned Up, Unem ployment Would Vanish Overnight BY ROGER W. BABSON, Copyright 1935, Publishers Financial Bureau. New York City, April 26.—0 n my way North during thep ast week I made a point to check Easter trade reports jcajrefully. 'As every reader realizes, retail trade is the real back bone of business. In fact, it is one of the five basic indicators which I study most carefully. Not only are such figures an excellent barometer of general business, tout they are very helpful in judging public sentiment. Business Holds Near February Peak Hence, the good volume of buying throughout most of the nation at this Easter season was decidedly optimis tic, though relief funds h£.d a PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. VANCE SALARY BILL, WITH HUGE SLASHES, ENACTED BY HOUSE Guides Four Billion r j Frank C. Walker Former head of the National Emergency Council, Frank C. Walker has been named by Presi dent Roosevelt as the man through whose hands applications for allot ments from the $4,880,000,000 work-relief fund will be cleared. Mayors, governors, members of congress and others will submit their projects' to a new division of the NEC set up by the former Montana lawyer, who is an old friends of the nresident’s. New Boost For Silver .; . ' * ? ’ -‘J Price Near Washington, April 26.—(AP)— The administration fitted in additional cogs of its $4,000,000,000 job-making machine today, with the appointment of arry L. Hopkins to head the im portant "division of progress.” Hopkins, present relief administra tor, will be among the President’s lieutenants who will confer with him at the White House tonignt on plans for getting the works program under way within ten days. Meanwhile, a close watch was kept on the Treasury for posible announce ment that the government would a gain boost its ilver price—now 77.57 cents an ounce for domestic newly, mined metal —to keep ahead of rapid ly advancing world markets. The Senate found Itself again em broiled In heated dispute over anti lynching legislation, with southern senators continuing filibustering tac tics. Their intention was to keep on util the bonus bill is called up Mon day. thus sidetracking the anti-lynch ing measure... The House moved slowly toward a final vote —possibly today—on the $460,000,000 naval appropriations bill. big part in this trade, I have found that nearly every line of industry, barring home building, is doing very well and is holding close to its Feb ruary peak. But, as I reported during my recent trans-continental trip, con ditions vary greatly in different sec tions at present. This, fact was again impressed upon me on my journey North from Florida. People here !n New York are feeling a little more optimistic than they were a month ago. but they are more pessimistic than in any other place I have been since January. New York City’s trade figures re flected her dejected spirits, but con (Ceat I —2«d C— Par- Plvci 8 r PAGES , TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Measure Goes to Senate Aft er Immediate Passage in House Upon In troduction SHERIFF’S~SALARY IS LOWERED TO $2,400 Would Get S9OO for Travel in Addition; Auditor Cut in Half and Welfare Officer 40 Percent; All Fees Col lected Would Go Into Sal ary Fund Dally Dispatch Bartai, In the Sir Waiter Hotel. BY J. C. DASKERVILL. Raleigh, April 26—-A bill to fix the the salaries of Vance county officials was introduced in the House this aft ernoon by Representative O. S. Falk ner, of that county, and was immedi ately passed and sent to the Senate. It carries some sharp reductions in salaries. 'The bill, as passed, fixes the. salary of the sheriff at $2,400 a year, as com pared with $3,600 at present, and al lows him an additional S9OO for travel expenses. This would become effec tive after the next general election. The sheriff would be allowed one de puty at a salary of $1,200 a year, with an allowance of S6OO for travel ex penses. V Other salaries are fixed by tiiei-blll as follows, all on a yearly basis: County jailor, S6OO p , (Clerk of superior court. $2,, r >od l jui)- changed. '| Deputy clerk of superior cdiit)t>‘;jslif; 200. ’hjil t Register of deeds, $2,500 unchanged! Deputy clerk to register ‘ a!" deed&j $1,200. . v t![Lf Members of board pf eofjyatjt.^jJlfp. (Continued on A Girl Pleads For Life? Os HerKidnaper Jefferson City, Mo., April 26. (AP)—Miss Mary McElroy plead ed with Governor Guy B. Park to day to spare the life of Walter H. McGhee, leader of the gan* that kidnaped her for $30,000 ran som nearly two years ago. Virtually (1 legal avenues of escaping the gallows had been closed to McGhee when the 26- year-old daughter of R tt Mc- Elroy, city manager of Kansas City, visited the governor in be half, said, of both kidnaper and victim. “In pleading for Walter Mc- Ghee’s life, I am pleading for my own peace of mind.” said the tall brunette, in her formal appeal to the executive. She was accompanied here hr her father. McGhee, the first person In the United States to be given the death penalty for kidnaping, is to jail in Kansas City under sentence to be hanged May 16. Senate May Be First To Act On NBA President Reported Willing To That To Quell Rising Unrest In House Washington, April 26. — (AP) — Au thoritative sources reported today that President Roosevelt Is willing that the Senate should pass the i<RA extension bill first in an effort to quell threatening unrest in the Ho .se. For months many House uita.i t# have objected that they v* e 1 ‘-ig forced to “take the rap”- . / . *g controversial administrate \ . y vat l (Continued! cn Cla),
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