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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR CONGRESS TO FACE NEW TAX PROBLEMS DURING NEXT WEEK Some Democrats Think President Will Not Get All the Money He Is Asking For REPUBLICANS GET KICK OUT OF JOLT This Country Is Going To Be Tax-Conscious All Right, and Sooner It Is, Sooner This Spending Will Stop, Republican Leader Snell Says in Statement Washington, Feb. 29 (AP) A Congress divided on Presi dent Roosevelt’s demand for a $780,000,000 tax bill to plug budget gaps, rested today be fore taking up the unwelcome revenue-raising task next week. With the $500,000,000 farm subsidy bill on the President’s desk, taxes and relief are the two major problems that stand between Congress and ad journment. May Not Get All The President is expected to sub mit his estimates of relief needs for the next fiscal year some weeks hence. Some Democrats predicted he would not get as much taxes as he asked. Others thought he would get what he asked. The President, citing the boles knocked in his budget by the invali dation of AAA’s processing taxes and the passing of the bonus, made public a program calling for $780,000,000 a year for the next three years and somewhat smaller sums thereafter. Will Be Tax-Conscious The Republicans smiled in some what obvious pleasure at the jolt thus administered to the hopes of legisla tors who had looked for a maximum recommendation of $500,000,000 a year. Representative Snell, Republican, New York, said: “Oh, this country is going to be tax conscious all right, and the sooner It is the sooner this spending will stop.” Barbara Hutton Is Near Death After Serious Operation Feb. 29 (AP) —Countess Barbara Hutton Haughwit-Reventlow gravely ill after an operation, follow ing the birth of her first child, took a sudden turn for the worse tonight. CONDITION ALARMING London. Feb. 29-(AP) —Lord Hord er, physician in ordinary to King Ed ward, paid an unexpectedly early vis it today to Countess Hough itz-Revent low, the former Barbara Hutton, hov ering between life and death after the birth of her first child and an opera tion. A bulletin was issued announcing: "The countess had a fairly restful night.” The condition of the countess, heir ess to the Woolworth millions, how ever was understood to be grave, and causing considerable anxiety, having grown worse after earlier assurances that she was “going on as well as can be expected.” DISMISS CHARGES OF INDECENT’ ART John Stewart Bryan, Jr., Freed in Connection With Displays Richmond, Va., Feb. 29 (AP)— Charges that John Stewart Bryan, Jr., a vice president of the Richmond Academy of Arts, violated Virginia law in the displaying of “indecent” Printings here, were dismissed in po lice court today. Bryan, son of a Richmond publish er, was charged by F. M. Terrell, mid dle-aged Sunday school teacher, of Richmond, with being responsible for an exhibition of murals done by Mor di Qassner. The complainant, how ever, refused to press charges, say ing: “In view of the widening division of sentiment that would be necessarily created, I drop the proceedings against Mr. Bryan.” Terrell, a bachelor, came along to Rio court room to represent a self-de- morals committee of six Richmond citizens, who created a' stir j n Richmond art circles by protest ing that Gassner’s murals were “too indecent” for the view of children. The mural which drew the Rich monder’s fire was one labelled “The Ascent of Man.” Figurative in nature, it depicted the rise of mankind from caveman days. It contained several human figures in the nude and a smaller figure of a pregnant woman. Unxhrrsmt Daily Htspafrb ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA LEASED WIRE SERVICE OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. CAROLINAIAN READS BIBLE 40 YEARS WMmzF ; " : '• it : = 1111 l ■ IHnßfl During the past 40 years, D. E. (Uncle Dock) Matthews, 77-year-old farmer of East Bend, Yadkin county, North Carolina, has read the New Testament 97 times and the Old Test ament 37 times. Still hale and hearty Matthews, a Baptist, last year culti vated without aid two acres of tobac co. (Associated Press Photo). EHRINGHAUS SEES TEN CENT TOBACCO Has Little Hope of United Action on Part of Four Southern Flue-Cured States GEORGIA BLOCKING ENTIRE PROCEDURE Virginia and South Carolina Ready If Others Will Co operate; “We Are Truly in Serious Predicament”, Is Expressed View of North Carolina Governor. Daily Dispatch Buieaa, In The Sir Walter Hote.. By J. C BASKERVILL Raleigh, Feb. 29—The outlook is now for a tobacco crop of at least 900,000,000 pounds this year and with prices averaging 10 cents a pound or even less as a result of the inability of the Federal government to enact any effective tobacco crop control leg islation and the refusal of the State of Georgia to cooperate with the oth er tobacco producing states by the enactment of State laws limiting to bacco production, Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus admitted today. He sees no possibility of a State pact plan that will be effective in regulating the 1936 crop unless Georgia agrees to cooperate, nor does he believe the pre sent farm bill passed by Congress as a substitute for the AAA will prove effective in limiting tobacco produc tion. One Thing Left “About the only thing left, as I see it, is a voluntary crop reduction plan (Continued on Page Five.) Posse After Pitt Negro In Slaying Also Said To Have Assaulted Young Man’s Girl Com panion At Scene Greenville, N. C., Feb. 29 (AP) Posses searching throughout this area today for a Negro accused of killing Alexander Warren, 22, and assaulting his companion, Helen Phelps, on a country road near here last night. The girl, 18-year-old daughter of Mrs. Martha E. Phelps, of Greenville, said Warren was* turning around in (Continued on Page Four.) HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOO N, FEBRUARY 29, 1936 Japanese Rebels Entrenched in This Building IP" ~ s»rrr»v.v • ■ •:; v . i • Ur 'ft: l General Kenkichi Ueda and the metropolitan police building in Tokto While it was reliably reported that General Ken kichi Ueda, leader of the Japanese expedition in the Shanghai “war” of 1932, now commander of the krmy in Korea, had assumed the role of “go-be tween” to adjust viewpoints of the army and the civilian leaders as to the treatment of the rebels, Decisive Stage Is Reached In Great Battle In Ethiopia Rome, Feb. 29. —(AP) Marshal Piedro Badoglio, Italian commander on the northern front, telegraphed his government today that the “second battle of the Tembien has arrived at its decisive phase.” “The situation of the armed forces of Ras Kassa and Ras Seyoum, caught in a vise by our troops, is be coming hour by hour more critical. His communique was the second de scribing a great battle in the Temibien bSsJmove ) Republicans As Well As Democrats Will Try to {Show Up ‘lßacket” By! CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, Feb. 29.—The House of Representatives’ recently launched in vestigation of the Townsend old age pension plan, as it generally is de scribed, is not, in reality, intended to be an investigation of the plan’s merits. Indeed, Chairman C. Jasper Bell of the committee, who started the in quiry, says it will not be exclusively a Townsend proibe, but that it will delve into the activities of all groups of old age pension promoters. How ever, inasmuch as none but the Town sendites have organizations of any consequence, it is not inaccurate to refer to the quiz as a ‘Townsend in vestigation.” But it is a fact that Chairman Bell and other anti-Townsend members of the committee do not propose to con cern themselves with the question of the practicability of old age pension ing, either on a S2OO-a-month or any other basis. What the “probers” are undertaking to learn is how much money the leaders of the old age pen sion crusade are making out of it. BOTH PARTIES EAGER The political character of the com mittee’s personnel testifies to the mu tuality of the Democrats’ and Repub licans’ desire to put the skids under Townsendism. Ordinarily, with so large a Demo cratic congressional majority, the De mocratic membership of such a com mittee should have been strongly pre dominant. In the present instance Speaker Joseph W. Byrns gave a 50-50 break to Congressman Bertrand H. Snell, Republican generalissimo in the House of Representatives, in the se lection of committeemen. Byrns named: Bell, chairman and Congressmen Scott W. Lucas, Joseph A. Gavagan and John H. Tolan, Democrats. Snell’s selections were: Congressmen John B. Hollister, J. William Ditter, Clare B. Hoffman and Samuel L. Collins, Republicans. The Townsendites were given a look-in. Tolan and Collins avowedly are of that philosophy. RACKET, THEIR ARGUMENT The point is that the Democrats were not a bit afraid to trust the Re publicans to help them to fight the Townsend doctrine. The Townsendites are cutting in, apparently, about as much on one party as upon the other. Each Is wor ried by the movement as much as the other. They can co-operate loyally to scotch it, if possible. Both know that they can’t argue it down. Their only recourse is to make 'Continued on Page Four.) sector between the third army corps of the Italian forces and the Ethio pian defenders. Advancing Fascists encountered this resistance just as their sentries mounted guard over Amba Alaji, the point occupied yesterday and which for several months to come may be the high water mark of the Italian invasion. Reports circulated that Emperor Haile Selassie himself was hurrying from Dessye, his field headquarters, Offices To Be Opened By Graham Daily Dispatch Bureaa, In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, Feb. 29.—Lieutenant Gov ernor A. H. Graham is expected to open his campaign headquarters here within the next week or so, according to reliable reports heard here today. Arrangements have already been made for a suite of rooms on the tenth floor of the Sir Walter hotel and it is expected that Graham’s cam paign manager, A. D. (Lon) Folger, Surry county, will arrive here during the coming week to take active charge of the direction of the Gra ham campaign. Folger will be assist ed by Ronald B. Wilson, who was as sistant manager and publicity man for A. J. Maxwell in his campaign for the Democratic nomination for gov ernor four years ago, and who was a member of the Ehringhaus headquar ters staff during the second primary campaign between Ehringhaus and Fountain. Wilson will handle the cam paign publicity and likewise assist Folger in getting his organization per fected. Set-Up Is Complete. White it is generally agreed that the selection of Folger as Graham’s campaign manager has been an ex cellent political move in the Piedmont and western counties, and will greatly l - -- - - (Continued on Page Eight) SfimUTED’ Senator Metcalf Says This Attitude Is Sign of Dic tatorship Here Washington, Feb. 29 (AP)—'A charge that private persons who cri ticized the New Deal are subjected to government “mud-slinging” and per secution" was linked today with the case of Major General Johnson Ha good. Senator Metcalf, Republican, Rhode Island, who has demanded a Senate investigation of Hagood’s investiga tion after he criticized work relief po licies, made the accusation in a radio address last night. Official interference with the bus iness of administration critics, extend ed he said, “even to turning up their income tax records for many years past.” “If the removal of Hagood is allow ed to stand,” he said, “no civil or military official will dare speak the truth to Congress, or to the people of the United States, and we will be in the throes of a dictatorship.” the latter, some 3,000 strong, were said to have been entrenched in the metropolitan police head quarters in Tokio, shown above. Meanwhile, it was officially confirmed that five statesmen were killed by the assassins and 80 others reported slain in the army coup. northwest in an effort to check the Fascist advance, which has penetrat ed some 37 miles since the start of the February 10 advance. The capture of Amba Alaji by the first army corps in a swift maneuver, dislodging the Ethiopians, who had retreated to that point conincided with unofficial reports of a major Italian victory in the Tembien moun tain sector. Three thousand Ethio pians were reported killed and. Ras Seyoum’s army routed. io = Won’t Back 30-Hour Week and Other Demands; Pow er to Alter Industry By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer New York, Feb. 29. —As Federal power plants—attached to the great dams —sweep ahead, the industrial status of the United States may change. * These power plants and dams dif fuse not merely electricity over a vast area but renourish the soil. Thus, what may occur? Well, what Henry Ford once said would occur. There will be a decentralization of industry from the large cities. Indus try will go to the rural regions, where a man may till the soil as well as op erate the machines. It is against this that New England so bitterly fights. It is this that dis turbs the highly industrialized cities of the North. They will not be able to compete. With lower fuel costs, with less ex pensive land near these great dams in the South and in the Northwest and in the Southwest, industries will gravitate there. As Henry Ford also often has point ed out, when production costs go down, then we shall have the pros perity we now try to obtain by falsely upholding prices. It is lower costs that will spread work. Plus, the liberals add, increased par ticipation of the worker and the tenant farmer in earnings and incre ment. BREAK IMMINENT? President Roosevelt is walking a tightwire in connection with the lib erals. Evidently he has decided to ignore (pleasantly, with a smile) their suggestions, made in the Senate. He will have his way concerning the kind of taxation, for liberals desire a broader income tax base, and high er taxes on “excess earnings.” And the President has pushed aside their neutrality bill. He is on again, off again in regard to housing. He has no intention of backing the 30- (Continued on Page Eight.) OUR WEATHER MAN FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Sun day; slightly warmer in west and south portions tonight; colder in extreme west and north central portions Sunday. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. JAPANESE UPRISING COLLAPSES; PREMIER RETURNS UNINJURED Thanks President Dorothy Porter Because President Roosevelt prom ised to send her to Warm Springs, Ga., Dorothy Porter, 16-year-ola Cambridge, Mass., victim of infan tile paralysis, has written the chief executive a letter of thanks. Doro thy waited for hours to see the President on his recent trip to Boston to make her dramatic plea for the trip. (Central Press) NO THUS MADE TO STATE TROOPS, HOFFMANASSERTS Governor Reveals Sharply Worded Letter Sent To Colonel Norman Schwartzkopf POLICE HEAD SAID MEN WERE QUERIED Governor Admits Question ing, But Denies Any Threats or Promises Were Made to Any of the Offi cers; Schwartzkopf In formed Governor Trenton, N. J., Feb. 29.—(AP)—Gov ernor Harold G. Hoffman, in a sharp ly phrased letter to Colonel H. Nor man Schwartzkopf, head of the State police, denied today he had any knowledge of “threats or promises” made by his representatives to State troopers who worked on the original Lindbergh kidnap investigation. The governor wrote Schwartzkopf after reading the superintendent’s fourth weekly report on the reopened investigation of the crime for which Bruno Richard Hauptmann is unaer sentence to die the week of March 30. In his report, Schwartzkopf said some of his men had been secretly questioned by men who said they were representatives of the govern ment. “The third paragraph of your let ter,” the governor wrote, “reveals that (Continued on Page Five.) Decision On B. & L. Case Questioned Ten States, Includ ing North Carolina, Ask New Hearing in, Supreme Court Washington, Feb. 29.—(AP)— Ten states in joint petitions to the Su preme Court today contended a re cent unanimous decision by the nine justices was "erroneous” and will force many solvent building and loan associations out of business. They protested a decision February 3 which held that a 1932 Louisiana statute limiting withdrawals from building and loan associations was un constitutional. Unanimous opinion delivered by Justice Roberts asserted the law, passed when the late Huey P. Long dominated Louisiana affairs, was in valid because it impaired contracts of withdrawing members, made at the time they bought their shares. Texas, Indiana, Illinois, lowa, Kan sas, Missouri, North Carolina, Okla (Continued on Page Five). OPAGES OTODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Rebellion Fails as Troops Surrender Under Threat of Government Ma chine Guns OKADA NOT KILLED AS FIRST THOUGHT Government Has Known Since Thursday He Was Safe, but Withheld Infor mation ; Premier’s Secre tary Mistaken for Him and Slain by Assassins (By the Associated Press) Japanese army rebellion col lapsed today under threats of machine gun fire as Premier Keisuke Okada, previously re ported assassinated, re-appear ed on the scene unhurt. Surrender of the troops, which on Wednesday attempted a massacre of government leaders and apparently succeeded in three instances, was swift and bloodless after the martial law administration issued their ulti matum. Okada, hard-drinking liberal, whose regime has been sharply at odds with the militarists refusing to bow to civil authority, survived assassin bullets only because ..bis intended assailant mistook his secretary for him. Secretary Was Killed. The government itself had announc ed Okada’s death. The secretary, felled in the snow outside the premier’s residence early Wednesday morning, was Colonel Denzo Matsuo, the premier’s brother in-law. Okada had an audience with Em peror Hirohito last night. Yesterday morning he submitted his resignation, but he was ordered to re main in office until a successor was chosen. Acting Premier Fumi Gotto (Continued on Page Eight.) RESTIWOR^ Can Sell Surplus but May Not Have Right to Build Lines Outside Dally Dispatch Bnrean, In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J C. BASKEBVJLL Raleigh, Feb. 29.—While most of the larger cities and towns in the State operating municipal electric plants have authority to sell current outside their city limits and even to touild rural distribution lines, there is still some doubt as to whether these cities and towns can sell bonds or incur debt for the purpose Os building rural electrification lines, Chairman Dudley Bagley, of the North Carolina Rural Electrification Authority, said today. Yet there is absolutely nothing to pre vent these towns from selling.electric current to rural lines if such lines are built by independent cooperative corporations, Bagley believes. To Push Plans. Accordingly, Bagley is going ahead with plans for the formation of local membership corporations in commun (Continued on Page Five) AIR IMM Report to President Reliev es Them of Liability In Hoover Days New York, Feb. 29.— (AP)—The New York Sun, in a special dis patch from its Washington bu reau, said today the Department of Justice has prepared a report for President Roosevelt officially clearing the air mail companies of all civil and criminal liabilities in connection with contracts nego tiated during the Hoover admin istration, and cancelled to Post master Genera Farley in 1934. The Sun said it understood the re port confines itself to legal questions, and while it takes note of certain “ir regularities” in the negotiation of the air mail contracts, it reaches the con clusion that there was no transgres sion of the law by any of the parties concerned. Whether this would constitute grounds upon which the companies might see the government for dam ages resulting from the cancellation of these contracts could not be learn ed, the paper said. The contracts were cancelled by Farley after a Senate committee, head ed by' Senator Black, Democrat, Ala bama, heard charges of collusion and fraud in the letting of the contracts by Walter Brown, postmaster general in the Hoover administration.
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