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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA twenty-third year CHISIS HI JAPAN IS TEMPORARILY PASSING Soil Conservation Program To Aid Fa rm ing Approach es FDR’s Desk For Signature CONFEREE PLAN IS BY VOTE IN DOUSE President Summons Lead ers To Discuss Taxes To Finance New $500,- 000,000 Measure SMITH WILL SEEK TO OVERRIDE VETO Wants Seed Loan Measure Enacted Despite Roosevelt Opposition; Whether Bonus Revenue Will Come Before White House Con ference Tonight Not Sure Washington, Feb. 27. —(AP) — The soil conservation farm program grew nearer the White House today as President Roosevelt summoned lead ers to discuss taxes for financing the $500,000,000 measure. The House speedily approved the agreement reached in conference on a final draft of the subsidy bill. Only Senate action was needed to send the measure to Mr. Roosevelt’s desk. Confer Tonight. At the White House the President planned to confer tonight with Vice- President Garner, Secretary Morgen thau, Speaker Byrns and Senate and House Democratic leaders on the im portant question of revenue. Whether a tax bill might go beyond the farm program to embrace the bonus was unknown on Capitol Hill. The House adopted the conference agreement on the farm bill by a viva voce vote after a few technical points were discussed. New Act Temporary. The New Deal measure to replace AAA authorizes payments of up to $500,000,000 a year until December 31, 1937, to farmers practicing conserva (Contlnued on Pjutp Three.) Farmers To Make Demand For Control Washington, Feb. 27.—(AP)— J. B. Hutson, agriculture depart ment tobacco chief, predicted to day that unregulated tobacco pro duction this year would cause far mers to demand action for 1937. With all bars down, he foresaw a drop in prices to a ten to 15 cents a pound level, and said if that happened the growers would he heard from. HAS HOPE STILL. Despite collapse of negotiations yesterday for interstate tobacco compacts for 1936, Hutson ex pressed hope that something re sembling the compact proposal could he nogotiated. Confronted with assertions that Georgia would not call a special Continued on Page Three.) TIMWiS G. 0. P. Will Back Its Nom inee; Al Smith May Make Trouble Later By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington. Feb. 27.—The Demo cratic National Convention in Phila delphia in June, may, after all, be a frmre vicious affair than the Repub lican convention in Cleveland, which will have preceded it shortly. Concerning the Republicans’ choice a presidential candidate there will he uncertainty in the last minute. Few politicians question that the Democrats will renominate President Roosevelt. in that the Democratic selection can be calculated so accurately in ad vance and that the Republican selec ts (Continued on Page Three.) lUctiLicrsmt Datlu Stsuafrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA LEASED WIRE SERVICE OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Principals in Townsend Inquiry ||| Investigation of the old age pension plan originated by Francis Town send (center) and vigorously advocated by his chief aide, R. E. Clements (bottom), the National Secretary of the Townsend clubs, is in hands of a house committee under chairmanship of C. Jasper Bell (top inset), . Representative from Missouri, (Central Pret*) New Government Loan Os $1,809,000,000 Offered Power Employees At El Paso Quit Ei Paso, Texas, Feb. 27. —(AP) — A walk-out of power company em ployees at 4:07 a m. today left this city and surrounding territory in Texas and New Mexico without electricity. The walk-out, the second in sev eral months, halted street cars, stopped many industrial opera tions and left houses without elec tric lights or heat. Appeals were made immediately to governors of both New Mexico and Texas for aid. Compact On Tobacco Not Now Likely Much Depends on Georgia; Talk Leg islature There May Convener Itself Daily Dispatch Bnrean, In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C. BASKEBVILL Raleigh, Feb. 27.—Chances for an interstate compact among tobacco producing states to limit the produc tion of tobacco seems doomed, as far as the 1936 crop is concerned, as the result of the virtual collapse of the conference of governors and represen tatives of governors in Washington yesterday, due to the fact that Geor gia would not come in and Governor Eugene Talmadge was not expected to call a special session of the Geor gia General Assembly. For to make such a pact effective, all of the/to bacco growing states would (jiave to come in and special sessions of the general assemblies would be required in both North Carolina and Georgia. Reports were current here today, (Continued on Page Three.) HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 27,1936 $800,000,000 Will Be New Money Borrowed, Rest of It To Be In Re funding Bonds MEET OBLIGATIONS MATURING MARCH 15 Provision Made for Pay ment of Part of Bonus Dis bursements; All Items Os Expenditure Includ ed, Morgenthau Says in An nouncing New Offer Washington, Feb. 27.—(Al*) — Secretary Morgenthau announced today the Treasury’s March 15 fin ancing will aggregate $1,809,000,- 000, of which $800,000,000 will be new money. In cash the Treasury will ask sl,- 250,000,000. This will supply the SBOO,- 000,000 of new money and $450,000,000 to pay off in cash the amount of bills maturing March 15. The remainder of the financing will represent refunding operations involv ing $559,00,000 of notes which mature April 15. All Needs Included. Morgenthau said his advisors had told him the “immediate needs” of the (Continued on Page Three.) G. 0. PIiNESS TO FOR EXPLAINED They Don’t Want Him to Name Supreme Justices Next Term By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer New York, Feb. 27.—Republicans are trying their best to prevent Presi dent Roosevelt’s re-election—so that he will not be in power to appoint Su preme Court justices, should any re tire or die. . There is, however, one key post— the most powerful key post—that the (Continued on Page Three.) Holds Money Bags Walter J. Cummings Political observers say they see the deft hand of Jesse Jones, RFC Chairman, in the appointment of Walter J. Cummings, bank and rail road officer, as treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. (Central Press 1 TAilGEiir 10 LAY HANDS ON GEORGIA’S MONEY Most of State’s Cash Tied Up Where Financial “Dictator” Governor Can’t Get It DEPARTMENTS RUN without REVENUE Banks Decline To Cash Checks Until Courts Rule on Status of Defacto Offi cers Talmadge Put in Aft er Firing State’s Treasur er and Comptroller Washington, Feb. 27 (AP) —L. E. Boykins, Federal Roads Bureau chief, announced today the bureau had issued instructions that no more Federal highway funds will be sent to Georgia “until we are satisfied the legal phases of the present state situation are ad justed.” Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 27 (AP) —Gov- ernor Eugene Talmadge, Geor gia’s financial “dictator,” in a (Continued on Page Two.) Wants Court To Rule Mae Is His Wife New York, Feb. 27 (AP)—A Su preme Court order was sent to Los Angelea county, California .officers today disclosed, to authorize service upon May West of a suit by Frank Wallace, an actor, who seeks to en join Miss West from denying he is her husband, or that she is married. The order was signed by Supreme Court Justice John E. McGeehan. Mae Denies It Wallace stirred a turmoil in the on Page Four.) Hoffman Questions Claims Os Hauptmann Taxi Driver Doubts Identification by Jo seph Peroitne of Hauptmann as Man Who Gave Him No te To Be Delivered to Con don; Wilentz, Hauck, Schwartzkopf Confer Trenton, N. J., Feb. 27.—(AP)—Gov ernor Hoffman today questioned the identification by Joseph Perrone, taxi driver, of Bruno Richard Hauptmann as the man who hired him to deliver a notp to Dr. John F. Condon, prior to the payment of ransom for Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. Peronne delivered the note to Con don the night of March 12, 1932. A man in Gun Hill road, the Bronx, gave it to him. It contained instructions to Condon how to make contact with the kidnaper. At Haupmaun s trial Peronne 'said Mussolini May Renounce Peace Pacts In Protest Os Anglo-French Accord Strong Hints Such A Move Is Contemplated Given By Authoritative Rome Paper NEGOTIATIONS WITH HITLER THREATENED Crisis In Japan Finds Reper cussions in European Po litical Circles; Accusa tions Laid on Britain and France by the Jiornale d’ltalia at Rome Rome, Feb. 27.—(AP)—A belief that Premier Benito Mussolini soon will denounce the Locarno pact and the Italo-French agree ment of January 7 1935, in drama tic protest to the Franco-British naval accord, gained adherents in informed circles today. Hints iby Newspaper. Strong hints that such a move is contemplated were dropped by the Jiornale d’ltalia, Rome’s most author itative newspaper, in an editorial, which said it “must be determined whether France’s mutual assistance agreement with Britain is “compatible with the general principles of the ac cord of January 7, 1935, to say noth ing of Locarno.” At the same time, the dramatic de velopments in Japan were seen by in formed sources as possibly liable to interfere with Italo-German negotia tions leading toward a pact between the Fascist kingdom and the Nazi right. To Walt War’s End. German circles here said Italo-Ger man discussions were continuing, but that the Reich is not likely to enter into a pact until the Italo-Ethioplan war is over and Italy returns to her European position in full strength. The Jiornale d’ltalia editorial ac (Continued on Page Two.) FEARIORIAO IN IDAHO’S AVALANCHE Snowslide Down Mountain side Buries Car of Local Passenger Train Wallace, Idaho, Feb. 27.—(AP) — Four missing persons were believed dead today, buried under tons of snow that roared down Cour D’Alene moun tain and swept a railroad passenger coach to the bottom of a canyon. The avalanche slid down the steep mountainside at dusk yesterday and ripped the coach from the rear of a two-car branch line train. A rescue crew of 75 found two in jured passengers in the wreckage of the splintered car, but the Lookout Summitt station reported four persons were missing. The Summitt operator said: “Unlikely they will be found alive.” As word of the tragedy came down from the Summitt station, special re lief trains were rushed to the scene from Montana and Idhaho. LOBBY PROBE FINDS LITTLE FOR REPORT Washington, Feb. 27.—(API- The House Rules Committee re ported today its lobby investiga tion showed “little or no evidence of improper contacts” between holding companies battling the utilities hill last session and mem bers of the House. the man who gave him the note was Hauptmann. Peronne in Eror. Peronne, the governor said, upon a number of occasions picked out per sons he said greatly resembled the man who gave him the note, and in no case Was the description similar to that of Hauptmann. Attorney General David T. Wilentz conferred privately at Perth Amboy, with Prosecutor Anthony (M 1 . Hauck, Jr., of Hunterdon county, and Colonel 'Continued on Page Four.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Bomb-Proof Ship 9 * fag ®i ;# Ua Lester P. Barlow The creative brain of Lester P. Bar low, Stamford, Conn., inventor of the depth bomb, has devised a new material that may revolutionize battleship building. The material, said to be capable of withstanding the heaviest bombs, has been offerea to the U. S. navy. (Central Pren), Political Atmosphere in Raleigh Fairly Oozes Brighter Hopes MANAGER NOT CHOSEN Shelby Candidate Much Pleased at Reaction to Opening Speech; Graham Backers Claim Growing Strength Dally Dispatch Bureaa, In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C. BASKSaviLL Raleigh, Feb. 27 —The political at mosphere here fairly oozes optimism for Clyde R. Hoey, the affable, long haired, frock-coated candidate for the Democratic nomination for gov ernor who spent the day here Wed nesday conferring with friends and supporters. Thos who talked with the Shelby orator in his room in the Sir Walter came away convinced that Mr. Hoey is already far in the lead, and that if the present trend in pub lic sentiment continues, he will be the next governor. The supporters of Lieutenant Gov ernor A. H. Graham, Dr. Ralph W. McDonald and John Mcßae, the other three candidates for governor, today (Continued on Page Two.) Arguments Near End in Trial for Angier Policemen lJHington. Fdlg 27—(AP)—Ar guments continued today in the ease of Oris M. Pollard and C. F. Dean, former policemen of An gier, charged with causing the death of Furman G. Collins, well to-do farmer, with indications the jury would get the case before nightfall. Solicitor C. C. Cannady spoke for more than an hour. Charles Ross, of the defense, started speaking with three hours and ten minutes of allotted time at his disposal. R. N. Simms, of Raleigh, of the private prosecution, was to close for the State. He had two hours of allotted time. Judge N. A. Sinclair, of Fay etteville, was expected to charge the jury late this afternoon. OUR WEATHER MAN FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair tonight and Fri day, except unsettled near coast; somewhat colder tonight and near coast Friday. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY REBEL AMINS ARE FORCED BACK TO OLD BARRACKS Elder Statesmen Meet With Emperor in Effort To Set Up New Nation al Machinery RIGHT WING GROUP MAY RETAIN POWER Speculation Rife as to Iden tity of New Premier, Fol lowing Slaying of Premier Okada and Other High Government Offic i a 1 s ; Fighting in Tokyo Averted Tokyo, Feb. 28—(Friday) (AP) —After two days of the greatest crisis in a generation, Tokyo slept easily in the early hours today, confident that sun rise would find the rebel sol diers who assassinated four gov ernment Wednesday back in their barracks. They capitulated last night to a government request that they quit po lice headquarters, where they had barricaded themselves in defiance of royal troops. Bloodshed Averted The threat of bloodshed in the cap ital’s streets was averted. Ranking military authorities said they were confident that danger was passed, since, under an arrangement between the rebels and the war of fice, the former promised to return to their barracks and retain their arms, thereby escaping the .dishonor of being disarmed. The insurgents began the evacua tion of the buildings they occupied before midnight. That quarter of the city was shut off from all outside ob servers, behind soldiers armed with rifles and fixed bayonets. Punishment Delayed Previous to their capitulation, the rebels, self-styled “direct action” party members, had withdrawn from some of their formerly held positions before the threat of the loyal troops of Lieu tenant General Hoki Hashii, com mander of the Tokyo garrison. Punishment for the uprising would be left for the future. Surviving leaders of the empire, members of the cabinet of the assassi nated Premier Okada, supreme war counselors and other high militarists convened at Emperor Hirohito’s pal ace to select a new premier. Picking New Premier Speculation over the identity of the next premier mentioned most fre quently Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, vico-president of the privy council, and noted head of Fascist organiza tions, and former War Minister Gen eral Sado Araki. A belief grew in political circles tTh*at the emperor’s advisors would urge that the right wing elements ba given a chance to form a cabinet to see whether they would be able to conduct the government. Amendment To Control Farm Asked Nye Says It’s Time Congress Have Right To Regulate Nation’s Farming Washington, Feb. 27 CAP) —A reso lution proposing a constitutional amendment which would give Con gress full power to regulate the sale and marketing of agricultural com modities was introduced in the Sen ate today by Senator Nye, Republican North Dakota. The ’ North Dakota’s proposed amendment would insert in the Con stitution the following words: “Congress shal have the power regulate the sale and marketing of all agricultural commodities.” “In the light of the many conflict ing decisions,” Nye told newspaper men off the floor, "it seems high time to clearly define the right of Con gress to deal with this national agri cultural problem.” Senator Logan, Democrat, Kentucky has introduced an amendment which would give Congress power to regu late not only agriculture but industry.
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