HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-SECOND YEAR
STORM BREAKS IN CONGRESS ON WEALTH TAX
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Roosevelt Won ’t Ask For New NRA At This Session Os Congress
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YET AGREED UPON
President Will Rely Upon
Wagner Labor Labor Dis
putes Bill and Guffey
Coal Measure
WAGES AND HOURS
GO INTO CONTRACT
Fatly Leaders Advised of
Roosevelt’s Intentions As
To Pursuing Recovery Pro
gram Without Measure
Held Invalid by the Su
preme Court
Washington. June 25 TAP)—(Defi
nite word from President Roosevelt
reached Capitol Hill today that since
a satisfactory substitute for the old
NRA has not been found, Congress, in
all probability, coud exxpecl to go
home without, enacting a new reeov
ery law
Authoritative sources said the Pres
ident informed congressional chiefs
that in place of NRA he will rely upon
♦he Wagner labor disputes and Guffey
coal stabilization bills and a mea
,uie allowing the government to fix
wage and hour stipulations in its con
tracts.
That word was given at the White
House meeting yesterday after con
gressional leaders had asked whether
a new and time-consuming fight over
th» N’RA would follow the President’s
taxes on wealth,
3rd American
Dead Os 15 In j
Air Collision
Medillin, Colombia, June 25 TAP)
A third United States citizen died to
day of injuries suffered in the crash
of twm passenger airplanes here yes
terday, bringing to 15 the total num
ber of dead and leaving four others
seriously injured.
The most recent death was that of
Alfonso Azaff, a Puerto Rican actor.
The two other Americans to die were
!Henry Sah’wartz and .Lester W.
Strauss.
A war ministry commission flew
here from Bogota to investigate the
tragedy, the worst in South American
iir history.
EMBASSY BOMBING
IS LOCAL POLITICS
Mexico, D. F., .fun© 25.—(AP)—
the bombing of the United States
tmbassay l Sunday night was at
tributed unofficially today to per
sons wishing to embarrass the
government of President Lazaro
Cardenas.
Ambassador Josephus Daniels,
entered no complaint and it was
believed that an investigation into
the tombing Sunday, which caus~
“d sliglit damage, would be clos.
ed*
Dry Ruling
Mot Halting
Liquor Flan
Wilson and Ed£e-
Counties Continue
Wans for Opening
I lieir’Stores
Raleigh, June 25.—(AP)—A ruling*
'hat the. State local option liquor
wtere unconstitutional today*
♦hn red North Carolina dry forces,
; authorities of Wilson and Edge
' rj Mbe counties, which voted over
"heimingly for legalization Saturday
m -nt ahead with preparations to open
,J 1 ) liquor stores within a few days.
Judge J, Paul Frizzelle, at White
vilJe yesterday, held that both thw
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
Alaska Colonizing Conditions Under Probe
h anfare of national notice attended transplanting of many farm families to new lands in the Malang
SKa valley in Alaska from wnom now come reports of dissatisfaction and fear of epidemic due to un
sanitary conditions and lack of medical attention. Telegram from Patrick J, Hemmer (shown with his
tamny, right), and Mrs. I. M. Sandvich (center), who said they represented the colonists, also decried
exnormtant food prices, delayed housing, poor roads and political plums. Harry L. Hopkins (left). Re
lief administrator. ha 3 been ordered to investigate and report to the Senate.
(Central Press)
Harrison Outlines
Proposed Levy On
Fortunes Os R ich
Washington* June 25.—(AP)— A
storm of controversy burst in Con
gress today over President Roose
velt’s demand for quick action on his
wealth tax program.
House Ways and Means Committee
Democrats, rebellious at the plan to
let the (Senate Finance Committee
deft legislation to put the program
into effect, threatened open revolt.
On the other side of the Capitol,
Republicans on the Senate Finance
Committee protested hajsty action on
the President’s proposal.
Chairman Harrison, of the finance
committee, said a three-way program
GASTGNHAS FIRST
PARALYSIS PATIENT
I
12 New Cases Reported,
Half of Them in Gran
ville County Alone
Raleigh, June 25.—(AP) — Gaston
county today reported its first case
of infantile paralysis since May 1
when the State Board of Health was
advised of 12 additional cases, mak
ing 217 this year and 158 in June.
As the list of sufferers continued
to mount Tar above ail previous rec
ords, Dr. Carl V. Reynolds, State
tjfealth officer 1 , sounded a warning
that steps should also bet aken to
prevent typhoid fever, as 60 cases
have been reported in North Caro
lina this month- '
“We are supposed to have an im
munity against typhoid fever, but
there have been 123 cases this year,
60 thus far in June,” the health of
ficer said. “Attention is being center
ed on trying to check ‘polio,’ tout we
should also strive to prevent ty
phoid." .
Addition of Gaston to the list ot
counties reporting infantile paralysis
since it flared up seven weeks ago.
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COOLEY TO SPEAK
AT TOBACCO MEET
Wilson# June 25. —(AP) — W. T.
Clark president of the Tobacco As
sociation of the United States, today
announced that Representative
Harold D. Cooley, Democrat, North
Carolina, will be the principal speak
pr at the association’s annual (ban
quet July 2 at White Sulphur Springs,
W. Va., July 1, 2 and 3.
L ®ASED wire service of
the associated press.
HENDERSON, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 25,1935
to raise $340,000,000 through inherit
ance and gift, levies, higher taxes on
big incomes and a, graduated cor.
poration tax would be added to the
pending measure to continue $500,-
000,000 of “nuisance” taxes another
year.
After a conference with Treasury
experts, Harrison said the program
would be offered, even though it
would mean the nuisance and excise
taxes might temporarily lapse at the
end of this fiscal year
The new inheritance tax, Harrison
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lTquqrflares as
Results in Wilson and Edge
combe Counties May
Have Big Effect
Dolly Dispatch Boreas,
Iss tlse Sfr Waiter Hotel,
BY J c C, BASKERVILIi.
Raleigh, June 25.—The liquor ques
tion loomed larger than ever as a
Statewide political issue here today
as the result of the county liquor
elections held Saturday in Wilson and
Edgecombe counties, where the vote
was ten to one in favor of setting up
county liquor stores and cour'ty li
quor control under the so-called
“Pasquotant county* hilkf\ under
which 17 counties and two townships
were given permission by the 1935
General Assemlbly to hold countywide
elections to determine if the people
wanted county liquor stores or pre
ferred to continue under the wide
open bootlegging system now general
over the entire State. The fact that
the first two counties to hold these
elections went “wet” by the tremen
dous majority of ten to has had
a very definite affect both upon the
“wets” and the “drys” here, and es.
pecially upon those who until now
have been indifferent and inclined to
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GARmInT INDUSTRY
CODE IS HELD BACK
New York, June 25 (AP) —Reprsen-
tatives of the cotto ngarments indus
try, meeting in an emergency session
brought about by the collapse of NRA,
were unable today to agree on a de
finite plan for a voluntary code.
FIGHT TaL eTtA
IN STATE COURTS
Will Lay Plans for Battle
Toward Reduction in
1937 1 Session of
Legislature
MERCHANTS NOT TO
RUN ANY CANDIDATE
Court Fight Would Last Al
most Until Next Legislature
and Probably Then Go
Against Them, Upset State
Finances and Hurt Cause
in General
Hally Disfiateß Bareas.
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
BY J. C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, June 25.—The North Car
olina Merchants Association is not
going to fight the sales tax in the
courts, nor it is going to put an anti,
sales tax ticket for governor and
lieutenant governor in the field next
spring, it was apparent following the
meeting here yesterday of the direc
tors of the State association.
This does not mean that all the
merchants have become reconciled to
the sales tax and are no longer op
posed to it. There are thousands of
merchants still as toitterly opposed to
the sales tax as ever and there were
plenty of the directors of the State
association here yesterday who were
still opposed to it. But they realized
that the tax is on the statute books
for anoth retwo years, that no other
body than the General Assembly can
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Would Stop Bulk
Liquor Shipments
Into Dry States
Washington, June 25 (AP) —A pro
hibition of shipment of liquor in bulk
into states in violation of their re
spective liquor laws is being urged by
Virginia delegation in Congress, un
der leadership of Representative A. J
Montague, of Richmond, and A. Willis
Robertson, of Lexington.
They were requested by Virginia
authorities to see that amendments
are offered to the pending Sumner
Doughton bills curbing the practice.
WC4THIT
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Slightly warmer in extreme
west portions tonight and Wednes
day.
PROTECTORATE OVER
ETHIOPIA DEMANDED
IN ITALIAN PROGRAM
Mussolini Will Consider No
“Patched=Up” Settlement
Os East African
Dispute
EDEN TALKS AGAIN
WITH THE DICTATOR
Meantime, Ethiopia Sends
Note to Rome Rejecting
Italian Charges That Ethio
pia Is Grabbing Province of
Jimma, Claimed as Her
Territory Already
Rome, June 25.—(AP) —Captain An
thony Eden, crossing the strong will
of Premier Benito Mussolini, pressed
today for an avowal of Italy’s inten
tions toward Ethiopia.
Great Britain’s special envoy and
Geoffrey Thompson, British expert on
African affairs, conferred with the
Italian under secretary of foreign af
fairs Ibefore another interview with
II Duce himself.
British circles said the preliminary
conference was called to determine to
what extent Eden might question
Mussolini on his East African po
licies.
Italian official circles describe II
Duce as impatient at the idea of stat
ing Italy’s already well defined view
point on the East African controversy
but it was agreed that some main
points of the Italian policy might be
brought sharply to the foreground.
These were:
1. Italy will not consider any “pat
ched up” settlement of her differences
with Ethiopia, such as territorial con.
cessions. !
2. Italy will be satisfied with noth
ing less than a protectorate over
Ethoipia, backed by Italy’s strong
military organization, and Ethiopia’s
expulsion from the League of Nations
on the ground that she has violated
membership.
ETHIOPIA SENDS SHARP
NOTE TO THE ITALIANS
Addis Ababa, June 25- —‘(AP)—-The
Ethiopian government, in a note to
Italy today, rejected as “non-perti
nent” Italian charges that Ehiopia
was making the sultanate of Jimma
another province of the empire.
The note was dispatched in reply
to Italian representations made June
23, in which the Italian government
“took cognizance” of steps the Ethio
pian government was taking to make
Jimma another province under its di
rect administration.
Italy insisted she had rights in Jim
ma as a consequence of treaties con
cluded (directly with Sultant Abba
Jiffar, and expressed formal reserves
concerning the new situation.
The Ethiopian empire replied that
Jimma has always been an integral
part of the empire administered un
der the authority of the central gov
ernment like other provinces.
Neither Democrats Nor Re
publicans Relish Stir He
Has Created
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
New York, June 25.—A strange
thing has occurred in regard to the
charges of Ewing Y. Mitchell, ousted
assistant secetary of commerce.
Neither Republicans nor Democrats
desired to hear them. But third party
possibilities are giving them great
heed.
Mitchell attacked the shipping lob
by. It is one of the most powerful.
Its influence has been equally strong
under Republican and Democratic ad
ministration. •;
But the queerest part of it all is
that President Roosevelt himself may
be, consciously or unconsciously, like
ly in the end to be on the side of
Mitchell rather than on the side of
his secretary of commerce, Daniel C.
Roper. The President urged not long
ago that ship sulbsides be in the open
instead of camouflaged, as at present
UNDERSTANDABLE ?
The President, in these rush.hour
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTBRNOOE
EXCEPT MONDAY,
Mitchell Blames Him
Hi i " ' Jill
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J
f homas J. Pendergast
Thomas J. Pendergast, above, of
Kansas City, Democratic political
boss of Missouri, ia blamed by
Ewing Y. Mitchell for his dis
missal as U. S. assistant secretary
of commerce. The above photo of
Pendergast is his most recent.
Amoskeag
Sueing For
$2,500,000
Concord, N H., June 25.—TAP) —
The Amoskeag Manufacturing Com
pany, of Manchester, largest single
cotton textile unit of its kind, today
brought suit in Federal court against
the government for $2,500,000, charg
ing that the cotton processing and
floor taxes were unconstitutional.
The suit, brought against Peter M.
Gagne, of Somersworth, as collector
of internal revenue for New Hamp
shire, claims that $2,170,628 was paid
to the government from August, 1933,-
to March, 1935.
The Amoskeag company contended
in its suit, the first of its kind
brought in the United States District
Court in New Hampshire, that the
taxes were unlawfully assessed and
unlawfully collected.
Gagne was cited to appear before
the court in September, when the
case against the government will be
introduced. <*
RECORD PEACE-TIME
NAVAL BILL SIGNED
Washington. June 25. —(AP)
President Roosevelt today sign
ed the navy appropriations bill
providing a record peace-time
fund for naval construction.
Local Units
Must Enforce
Wine Statute
" «•
Raleigh. June 25 (AP)—A. F. Sea
well, attorney general of North Caro
lina, today notified Garrett and Com
pany, wine makers of New York, that
it is the duty of local peace authori
ties ot enforce the new wine law and
his department has no power or au
thority to deal with the situation.
Garrett & Company wrote Mr. Sea
well saying it had been advised it was
illegal to ship wine into the State
when it was manufactured outside the
State but that such beverages “are
being indiscriminately shipped into
State and publicly sold in apparent
violation of the State law.”
“The State of North Carolina has
no Department of Justice, no central
or other agency for the enforcement
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FIVE CENTS COPY
DEMOCRAT LEADERS
START ACTION FOR
PASIG NEW BILL
Senate Finance Committee
Meets To Map Course in
Keeping With Roose
velt Wishes
NUISANCE TAX MAY
HAVE SHORT STAY
Sixty or Ninety Days Exten
sion Planned To Give
Time for Wealth Levies To
Be Tacked Onto Re-Enact
ment of That Tax; House
Jealous of Rights
Washington, June 25—(AP)—House
Ways and Means Democrats threat
ened today to kick over the traces
on the weatlh distribution tax pro.
gram agreed to last night by Presi
dent Roosevelt and congressional
leaders,
Witli Republicans vigorously pro
testing against haste, Chairman Har
rison called his Senate Finance Com
mittee to meet late today to map a
course of procedure in accordance
with the President’s decision to seek
action at this session.
The House situation was such that
Speaker Byrns was called in to talk
with the committee Democrats in a
secret session this afternoon, urging
upon them the idea of extending ex
isting nuisance taxes for 30 to 90
days, so the Senate could go ahead
and draft the new wealth distribu
tion tax schedules.
Unless the nuisance taxes are ex*-
tended before June 30, the govern
ment will lose more than $1,500,000 a
day in revenue.
Several memibers of the House com
mittee, however, expressed in force
ful language their objections to any
move to let the Senate write ths new
tax measure.
One leading Democrat remarked:
“It puts the House in a cheap light
of yielding is perogatives on tax
questions which were given to it by
the Constitution. I would say that
whoever advanced that suggestion
doesn’t think particularly highly of
the House and its dignity.”
Hugli Johnson New
Works Director In
State ot New York
Washington, June 25*—(AP) —
Hugh S. Johnson, former NRA
administrator, today was appoint,
ed works progress administrator
for New York City.
The appointment was announc
ed by Harry L, Hopkins, works
progress administrator of the s*,-
000,000,000 works fund.
Republicans Charge Politics
Some Say Administra
tino Fears Courts
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, June 25. — Plans are
discussed and discussed and discuss
ed, for a start on the expenditure of
President} Roosevelt’s 4,880-million
dollar recovery-relief fund —but the
expenditure don’t start, somehow.
The Republican explanation is that
the administration deliberately is
stalling, with a view to keeping the
bulk of the 4,880-million intact until
the eve of the 1936 campaign, then
releasing it in a perfect flood, which
it expects, according to G. O. P
spokesmen, to sweep it into office
again in November.
Another surmise is that administra
tionists ate afraid to start spending
lest Republican strategy succeed in
putting an immediate stop to it, pend
ing a long court fight over constitu.
tionality.
RESTRAINING ORDER?
Presumably the method of tying up
the program would be for some tax
payer to seek a federal court restrain
ing order against further expendi
tures.
Should he obtain one, it would be
a dictatorial-looking proceeding for
the administration to disregard it.
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