HENDERSON
gateway to
central
CAROLINA
I’WENTY-THIRD YEAR
FID ASKS REPEAL TOBACCO, COTTM ACTS
Farm Benefits Bill Passes
Senate As Democrats Rally
To Put New Farm Bill Over
SOIL CONSERVATION
PROGRAM IS UP FOR
DEBATE IN SENATE
*—
Democratic Leaders Predict
Defeat of Any and All
Inflation Efforts at
Present
OVERHEAD COSTS OF
BONUS PROVIDED FOR
Bill Carries $12,278,000 for
That Purpose; Expansion
of Domestic and Foreign
Markets Planned; Perman
ent Program To Depend I
Paitly Upon States
Washington, Feb. 3. —(AP) — The
Senate today passed and sent to con
forenee with the House the $367,770,-
000 deficiency bill, carrying $286,185.-
000 for farm benefits under old AAA
contracts, and $12,278,000 for expenses
incident to paying the bonus.
Action was taken shortly after the
House Agriculture Committee approv
ed combined temporary and perma
nent substitute farm plan for the in
validates" A A A'.*
The amount for paying AAA con
tracts already had been approved by
the House, but other amendments to
the deficiency bill, including the
bonus cost, will necessitate sending
the measure to conference to recon- J
cile the differences.
The measure was broadened beyond j
♦he Bankhead bill pending in the Sen-j
ate to provide for expansion of the i
domestic and foreign markets. j
As approved by a 17 to 0 ballot, j
(Coal ; mied on Pace Three).
Bill For Selling
Cotton In Hand of
Government Ready
Washington, Feb. 3 (At’) —Some-
what ••hanged front it* original
•Iraft, a hill to liquidate the gov
eriunentS cotton holdings was in
troduced in Hie Senate today by
< hairman Smith. Democrat, South
Carolina, chairman of the agricul
ture committee.
The measure would provide for
;»J'l"’iiitiiient by the President of a
threc-iium board to dispose of the
cotton instead of a designated
sales agent, as originally contem
plated.
Another change would Increase
,! 'c limit of weekly sales permit
ted from 20.0011 to 25,000 bales, and
M ‘t 13,000-bale minimum.
I uder the new plan, the sales
ooard would he empowered to su
spc,,<! weekly sales during Sep
•'■inlicr, October and November,
peak months for the disposal
"f new crops.
Oil Embargo
On Italy Is
Co nsidered
League Group May
Act as Both Battle
Trouts Are Compa
ratively Quiet
I By The Associated Press.)
j,. diplomatic phases of the Ttalo
-1 'opi.in war re-assumed prom
"ci- today as a League of Nations
'•"imitlee of experts met in Geneva
" c etci-niine whether an oil embargo
Lainsl Italy would be practical.
rn 1 i *- * >e;i « ue advocates long have
i hat Ihe easiest way to preserve
ii h i was to hamstring the sinews of
I * )<;| Hgcrent nations under the
uc covenant which provides sanc
”v. / va”’«t aggressor nations.
•me of the major sinews of
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Little Hope For Ending
Cold Wave Seen As Snow
Is Promised In Midwest
France May Block
German Expansion
Paris, Feb. 3 (Al*)—French au
thorities pursued negotiations with
Bullion rulers and statesmen to
day, authoritative sources said, in
an attempt to raise a wall against
any German expansion in eastern
Furope.
A welding of stronger ties with
Balkan nations and re-establish
ment of their economic equilibrium
through French, British and Rus
sian trade concessions were report
mi to he France’s major objectives.
A blocking of the campaign for
restoration of the Hapsburgs, lest
it benefit Germany by creating dis
orders and possibly splitting the
Little Entente (Czeclio-Slovakia,
Yugoslavia and Roumania) also
was said to be part of the plan.
4 Killed In
Clashes On
Soviet Line
Russia Accuses Ja
pan and Manehu
kuo of Raids Across
Border Frontier
Moscow, Russia. Feb. 3. —(AP) —
The high command of the Soviet Far
Eastern army accused, the Japanese
and Manchukuoan troops, in a. com
munique today, of taking up a posi
tion facing the Soviet border and
sending scouts into Soviet territory.
The scouts were compelled to re
tire back to tha Japanese-sponsored
state of Manehukuo under the fire of
Soviet frontier guards, leaving one of
their number dead, the communique
said.
The announcement invited “any im
partial committee” to investigate the
incidents which have Ibeen occurring
on the border between the Soviet Far
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8 Men Dead
In Blaze At
Parker Dam
Los Anegels, Cal., Fell;. 3. —(AP)
Eight men burned to death in a dor
mitory fire at Parker Dam on the
Colorado river, the Metropolitan
Water District, was informed today.
It was feared others had perished.
A score of more were injured, said
a brief telephonic message from the
six companies’ headquarters.
Ninety men were asleep in the dor
mitory. A high wind swept tho
flames through the structure and car
ried the blaze to the mess hall and
commissionary, which was also de
stroyed.
Parker dam is being built approxi
mately 100 miles south of Bouder
Dam to divert a portion of the Colo
rado river into the $20,000,000 aque
duct being built by the Metropolitan
Water District of Los Angeles and
nearby communities.
Search for bodies was started by
fellow workmen in the isolated con
struction village.
The fire broke out at 2:30 a. m., and
in a few minutes the dormitory was
in flames, the victims being trapped
in their bunks.
An appeal was sent out for doctors
■ and nurses in hospitals.
HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 3, 1936
Mercury Rises Over Week-
End But Respite Will Be
Only Temporary,
Forecasts Say
FAR WEST TO GET
TASTE OF WINTER
Deaths From Frigid Weath
er Continue in Sections,
While Week-End Sees 50
Traffic Fatalities, Many
Due Partly to Weather;
Food Dropped on Island
Chicago, Feb. 3 (AF)—Weather ob
servers who do not take much stock
in the groundhog myth forecast more
snow for many sections today and of
fered little encouragement for a break
in the cold wave.
While the mercury in several states
rose yesterday and some forecasts
were for warmer weather today, most
of them warned the respite would be
only temporary, and that colder weath
er would follow Tuesday.
Even the Far West states, virtually
the only ones that have not suffered
from the cold this year, reported be
low norma’, forecasts for today and to
morrow, with snow forecasts today
over northern California.
Predictions of more snow brought
warnings in some sections of floods
later in the spring. •
Death due to the weather continued,
/with lowa and Alabama each re
porting three burned to death; Ohio
one from exposure, South Dakota one
from carbon monoxide.
Fifty traffic fatalities over the
week-end were reported, many due in
part to climatic conditions.
Food was delivered by airplane and
dirigible to 1,500 persons stranded
on Tangier Island in Chesapeake Bay.
They h|d not been in touch with the
mainland for two weeks.
MYSTERIOUS “SOS”
RECEIVED By RADIO
Miami, Fla., Feb. 3 (Al*)—The
Coast guard reported today tho
naval radio station at Coco Solo,
Canal Zone, had Intercepted an
SOS signed simply “S-55.”
It was not known, what nature
of vessel flashed the distress sig
nal, but coast guard officers here
believed the designation might be
either aircraft or submarine, rath
er Ilian a surface ship.
Mysterious
Man May Be
Named Soon
Jersey Governor Is
Ready To Lay
Cards on Table In
Lindbergh Inquiry
Trenton, N. J., Feb. 3 (AP) —Gov-
ernor Harold G. Hoffman was report
ed ready today to identify the “my
sterious man with the handkerchief”
in the Lindbergh kidnaping, and pos
sibly to order his arrest.
Sources close to the governor indi
cated he would ask State police eith
er to arrest the man or to clear him
of any suspicion in the crime.
The mysterious man was seen by
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh outside
St. Raymond’s cemetery in the Bronx
the night Dr. John F. (Jafsie) Con
don paid the futile $50,000 ransom for
the return of Lindbergh’s infant son.
After hearing the colonel’s accounts
of the man, police, in their first in
vestigation of the crime, set him down
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NIAGARA’S WINTER BRIDAL VEIL
5 * v / - Ij '
When winter comes to Niagara
Giant stalactites, Jack Frost's winter work, transform the Bridal
Veil falls at the Cave of the Winds, Niagara Falls, N. Y,, into a
a frigid yet beautiful catacomb.
Tobacco Crop This Year
May Be Most In History
State College Expert, Back From Tour Eastern Caro
lina, Fears Huge Tobacco and Cotton Yields,
With Ruinous Price s; Appeal Is Made
College Station, Raleigh, Fob. 3.
North Carolina farmers are prepar
ing to increase their plantings of cot
ton and tobacco this year.
According to present indications,
said E. W. Gaither, district farm
agent at State College, the tobacco
crop in 1936 may be the biggest evor
raised in the State.
Gaither has just returned from a
tour of Eastern North Carolina,
where he met with the county pro
gram planning committees in the va
rious counties.
At these meetings, he said, the far
mers reported that the cotton plant
ings this year will amount to 75 or
80 percent of the base acreage, as com
pared to 65 to 70 percent in 1935.
LIBERTY LEAGUERS
AFTER ROOSEVELT
That Appears To Be Only
Objective of Their Pre
sent Program
By CHARLES I*. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, Feb. 3.—What, after
all, does the American Liberty Lea
gue propose to do?
According to Al Smith, the Demo
crats in its ranks will “take a walk”
—that is to say, they will bolt thq
official Democratic ticket, if Presl
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OUR WEATHER MAN
FOB NORTH CABOMTiA.
Cloudy, occasional rain tonight
and Tuesday,; slowly rising tem
perature followed by much colder
Tuesday night and possibly in ex
treme west portion Tuesday aft
ernoon. , .
Last, year the tobacco planting;!
were 80 to 85 percent of the (base, but
this year the growers expect the
growers expect the plantings to equal
or exceed the amount of the base
acreage.
Reports from county program plan
ning committee meetings in other
counties of the State are similar ten
those attended by Gaither.
Although an increase in tobacco
and cotton plantings is expected,
Gaither pointed out, those farmers
who attended the program planning
meetings advocated a well balanced
farming system, with plenty of food
and feed crops, “a reasonable percent
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GREATLY CONFUSED
National Committee Can’t
Even Decide on Con
vention Plans
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
Cleveland, Feb. 3. —Looking at the
working of the National Republican
Committee from this convention city,
one begins to wonder at its efficiency.
The National Democratic Committee
under Jim Farley functions perfect
ly. The Republican committee doesn’t
even seem to be alble to deeide on con
vention arrangements, much less on
a constructive program.
Seeing the arrangements commit
tee in action is not conducive to be
lief that the Republicans will have a
very pleasant convention.
In fact, in spite of Cleveland’s lake
breezes, the convention’s platform
committee is likely to perspire freely.
Although Republicans elsewhere
gleefully discussed Al Smith’s Liberty
League attack on the New Deal, tho
Republicans in charge of arranging
for the Big Show in Cleveland did not
appear so gleeful. The persistent at
tacks on All the New. Deal policies
leave nothing unattached to. put into
the Republican platform.
OTHER PROBLEMS
Likewise, when the Rpeublican ar
rangements committee descended on
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Recommendation
Made As Result Os
Death Os The AAA
Van Sweringens
Will Reorganize
Cleveland, Feb. 3 (AP)—The Van
Sweringen Company, the original
rea (estate holding company of
Oris P. and the late Mentis J. Van
Sweringen, and six subsidiaries
filed a petition in Federal court to
day for reorganization under Sec
tion 77-B of the Federal bankruptcy
act.
The petition claimed more than
two-thirds of the first mortgage
collateral trust bond holders of the
parent company have approved the
proposed reorganization plans.
aSalaio
Hoey and Graham Support
ers Think It Would Help
Them and Hurt
McDonald
EHRINGHAUS WILL
HARDLY ORDER IT
Reason Advanced Is To Put
State in Line for Federal
Social Security Money;
Administration Is Accused
of Coolness Toward The
New Deal
Daily Dispatch Unrcaa,
lu The Sir Walter Hotel,
By J C. BASKERVILIi
Raleigh, Feb. 3. —Talk concerning
a special session of the General As
sembly is being heard in some quar
ters here again. This talk is coming
largely from those who think a spe
cial session would tend to help cer
tain candidates seeking the Democra
tic nomination for governor and in
jure the chances of others. Those ad
vocating a special session of the Gen
eral Assembly before the State Demo
cratic primary in June, ostensibly to
pass legislation under which North
Carolina might participate more fully
under the National Social Security
Act, maintain that such a session
would help strengthen the present ad
ministration of Governor J. C. B. Eh
ringhaus and hence help the candi
date or candidates which the adnflin
istration is supposed to be supporting.
These advocates of a special ses
sion in the near future point out that
so far the Democratic administration
here within the State has shown very
little enthusiasm for the "New Deal”
in Washington and has done very lit
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Anglo-French Row
Over Germany May
Break Naval Meet
London, Feb. 3 (AP)—-Talk of
breaking up the international na
val conference was renewed sud
denly today when delegates of
Great Britain and France clashed
over the right of Germany to be
come a co-signatory to a new
naval treaty.
No Ruling On
TV A Given By
Supreme Court
Washington, Feb. 3 (AP) —'The
Supreme Court concluded deliver
ing opinions today without pass
ing on the constitutionality of
TV A. That made next Monday
the earliest possible date for de
livering the long-awaited de
sion.
The Supreme Court agreed to
day to test the constitutionality of
another New Deal law—the secu
rities act of 1935—which provides
for Federal control of securities
sales. _
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Bankhead Cotton Act, Kerr-
Smith Law and Potato
Act All Auxiliaries
of the AAA
BANKHEAD ACT NOW
IN SUPREME COURT
Carried There by Governor
Talmadge of Georgia To
test Its Constitutionality;
Terse Message from Pres
iden Comes as Surprise to
Capitol Hill
Washington, Feb. 3 (AP)
President Roosevelt proposed to
Congress today the prompt re
peal of the Bankhead compul
sory cotton control act, the
Kerr-Smith tobacco act and the
potato act of 1935.
In a message to Congress, the Pres
ident said “this recommendation is
made because of the. termination of
the program of agricultural produc
tion adjustment,’* to which “the acts
mentioned were auxiliary.”
His terse message, which came as
a surprise to Capitol Hill, said:
“To the Congress:
“I recommend to the Congress the
prompt repeal of the act of April i,
1934, as amended, known as the ’Batik
head cotton act,’ of the act of June
28, 1934, as amended, known as the
‘Kerr-Smith tobacco act;’ and of Title
2 of the act of August 24, 1935, known
as the ‘potato act of 1935’.”
“This recommendation is made
because of the termination of the
program of agricultural production
adjustment of May 12, 1935, known as
the ‘agricultural adjustment act,’ to
which the three acts mentioned were
auxiliary.”
The Bankhead cotton act Is in the
Supreme Court for a test of constitu
tionality on an action brought by Gov
ernor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia.
Says NRA Ideals
Will Be Restored
In United States
Washington, Feb. B.—(AP)—-
Governor George Earle, of Penn
sylvania, told the United Mine
Workers convention today that
“unconstitutional or not” the prin
cipal NKA established “must and
will be followed by America in the
days to come.”
“When our mechanical genius de
velops machinery which permits one
man with a machine to do the work
of ten men, does not society owe tho
other nine an opportunity to earn a
living?” Earle asked.
Before the Pennsylvania governor
spoke, the convention turned down a
resolution to withdraw William Green
president of the American Federation
of Labor, as a mine union delegate
to the A. F. of L. convention.
Patrick Fagan, of Pittsburgh, chair
man of the resolutions committee, ex
plained that Green’s withdrawal with
out preference of any charges against
him would violate union laws.
Green was to speak to the miners
later in the day. He said he would
“mince no words” in talking to them
“about developments in the fight be
tween industrial and craft unionists,”
Says Cotton
Men Formed
Great Lobby
Trying to Keep Pro
cessing Taxes Re
funded Them, Con
gressman Alleges
Washington, Feb. 3.—(AP)— The
cotton textile industry was accused
today by Representative Ellenbogen,
Democrat, Pennsylvania, of organiz
ing a lobby in an effort to retain pro
cessing taxes returned processors in
consequence of the iS'upreme Court’s
invalidation of the AAA.
Ellenbogan made his accusation at
a hearing before a House sub-com
mittee on his bill for regulation of thq
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