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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA twenty-third year FDR URGES HEAVY TAXES BRITAIN ANNOUNCES VAST RE ARMAMENT PROGRAM TO START Army, Navy and Air Forces To Be Expanded as De fense Move, White Paper Explains readiness for war OBJECTIVE OF MOVE Industrial Mobilization Also Provided in New Scheme; Statement in London De plores “Undeniable World wide Expansion of Arma ments” by Nations London, March 3 (AP)—Great Bri tian’s government announced today a vast immediate expansion of its army, navy and air forces, and industrial mobilization for instant readiness in case of war. A white paper, or government re port, said the re-armament and in creased national defenses were made necessary by complications of the in ternational situation, combined with a ‘‘deplorable and undenied worldwide expansion of armaments.” The United States. Belgium,' Ger man, France, Italy and Soviet Russia were listed as having embarked al ready on similar plans. Citing “dangers of war” and pro claiming a necessity for means of de fense against aggression and enforce ment of collective security, the white paper disclosed: “A fresh examination of the posi tion made last summer and autumn led to the conclusion that it was nec essary to make further changes in the royal air force, and speed up mea sures contemplated for modernization of the army and navy to provide as rapidly as possible necessary reserves of stores of ammunition and equip ment and organized industrial re sources of the country in such away as to allow immediate expansion of productive capacity in case of an em ergency.” Parliament will debate the white paper next week. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin will name a new cabinet minister as de puty chairman of the imperial defense committee to supervise, coordinate and control the huge armaments ex pansion. Highways Surplus Is Fading Out Unity DiN|Mit<*h nuienn. In Thr Sir Walter Hole. n t .1 r IUSKEHVIU Raleigh, March 3. —The existence of the large highway fund surplus which accumulated from 1933 to 5935, be cause the 1933 General Asseembly un derestimated the highway revenue and put. the highway department on starvation appropriations, has blind ed the Stn'e to both the condition and reeds of the highway system, Chair man Capus M. Waynick, of the State Highway and Public Works Commis sion, reiterated today. Already Using Surplus. The facts in the case are that the highway department is not now able to operate on the highway revenue only, but is already having to dip into this surplus so that by the end of this biennium there will he no surplus (Continued on Page Five.) Peace Sought In New York Building Employees Strike Representatives of BotH Sid es Meet With Mayor ; Strik ers Seek To Extend Tie-U p; Effort To Engulf Stock Exchange Fails; Many Elevators Are Running New York, March 3. —(AP) —While opposing factions met in a concilia tion conference, leaders of the city’s disorder-marked building employees strike today accelerated their moves to make the walk-out complete thro ughout Manhattan by nightfall. Officials of the building service em ployees union, and representatives of the real estate operators gathered in Mayor LaGuardia’s chambers to seek settlement of their differences. Despite the geographical extent of the strike, New Yorkers were not se riously inconvenienced in getting to w ork this morning. Replacement workers took over most of the elevator posts left vacant the strikers. F-ERRYMEWORgU. Ufc IHvititersmt Hatht thsuafrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Enters Ohio Race '9 Mil m m iitr 1 w 111111/ -in Col. Henry Breckenridge • Col. Henry Breckenridge, New York attorney and member of the Lib erty League, seeks to test the popu larity of the New Deal as he files as a Democrat in Ohio presidential pri mary fight. (Central Press) A SSo Anthony Demory “Blotted Out” by Gunmen; Broth er-in-Law of McGurn Chicago, March 3. —(AP) —The slay ing of Anthony Demory—third of hrs clan to meet a gangster’s end—today was linked to the assassination of his half-brother “Machine Gun’’ Jack Mc- Gurn. Supervising Captain John Stege an nounced his belief Demory died be cause he had boasted. The striking similarity of the two executions prompted the official theory that they had been carried out by the same trio of gurlmen. Demory was playing cards with iContinued on Page Three.) MRS. HEWITT STILL HOVERS NEAR DEATH Jersey City, N. J., March 3 (AP)— Alternatively rallying and sinking, Mrs. Marion Cooper Hewitt, remain ed on the danger list today at the Medical Center. She is charged with attempting suicide with an overdose of sedative. Her grave illness made uncertain contemplated extradition proceed ings to remove her to California, where she has been accused of con spiring with two San Francisco phy sicians to perform a sterilization ope ration on her daughter, Ann Cooper Hewitt. Some of the buildings not yet af fected by the strike, and which it was indicated at union headquarters would be objects of concentrated ac tion before nightfall, are the Empire State, Chrysler and Channing build ings and Rockefeller Center. The “surprise” move at which James J. Bambrick, president of the local units of the union hinted yes terday, turned out to be an attempt to call out workers in the New York Stock Exchange building. It was not successful. About 20 members of a strike com mittee went to the building at New and Wall Streets and shouted to the workers to join the walk-out. There was no response and police dispersed the strikers without disorder. . HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 3, 1936 Directs Jap Finances Bpi. /' I §3& v Chuzi Machida Chuzi Machida, president of tHa “Minseito,” the powerful liberal party, who was prominent in the peaceful settlement of problems be tween Japan and Soviet Russia, succeeds slain Korekiyo Takhashi as Minister of Finance in the Japa nese cabinet. (Central Press) POLITICS NOT ANY TOBACCOPROGRAM Ehringhaus Declares Farm Welfare Uppermost in His Mind About Extra Session MANY OBSTACLES IN WAY ARE REVIEWED Governor Answers Critics of His Position, and Re minds That State Com pacts Impossible Without Congress Permit, and No Move Is Made There. Dully Dispatch Burean. In The Sir Walter Hotel, Hr J. O. BA.SKBJR.VHjI* Raleigh, March 3. —Politics or the political futures of any of the candi dates for governor have absolutely no bearing on his present attitude to wards the tobacco control problem in North Carolina or the calling of a special session to consider tobacco crop control legislation, Governor J C. B. Ehringhaus said today. Farm Welfare Uppermost. “My only interest at the present time is trying to find out what course of action is for the ibest interests of the tobacco growers in North Caro lina and for the entire State,” Gov ernor Ehringhaus said. “I am just as much interested in the tobacco farm ers and the tobacco situation now as I have ever been —“and it must be agreed by my enemies as well as my friends that so far I have not led the tobacco farmers astray on anything. And if it becomes clear to me that a special session is for the best inter ests of the tobacco farmers, the poli (Continued on Page Three.) General Fund and Gasoline Taxes Hold Up Well in Winter Months Dally Dispatch Burean, In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J C. BASKBRVILI Raleigh, March 3.—The shrinkage in revenue, due to the severe winter weather in January, was not as much as had been expected, the figures showing revenue collections for Feb ruary, just issued by the Department of Revenue, indicate. It had been es timated that sales tax collections would show a shrinkage of about $300,000 below normal for the month and that gasoline tax collections would be off at least $200,000. Actual Increases. The actual figures, as released by the Department of Revenue, however, show that the sales tax collections in February on business done in Janu (Continued on Page Three.) :s I™ Processing Taxes Would Be Spread Broader and Thininer, With Wind fall Tax Asked CAPITAL STOCK TAX MAY BE TAKEN OFF Excess Profits Levy Also To Be Removed; New Propo sal Would Raise Around $1,614,000,000 Annually, Not All of It, of Course, New Taxation Washington, March 3 (AP) —Sweeping tax law changes, including imposition of a ?Sx on undistributed corporation pro fits and repeal of the present graduated corporation income tax were recommended to Con gress today by President Roose velt. He estimated the tax on undistri buted corporation profits would yield $1,614/000,000 annually. Lay-Out Explained. In a momentous message recom mending a thorough revision of the national tax system, the President al so proposed: Processing taxes spread broader and thinner than the old levies out lawed by the Supreme Court. A “windfall” tax to recover a con siderable part of the old processing taxes which were returned to the tax payers, or on which they refused pay ment. Repeal of the existing capital stock tax, which was estimated to yield $163,000,000 in the fiscal year 1037. Repeal of the corporation excess profits tax, which was estimated to yield $5,000,000 in 1937. Repeal of the exemption of divid ends from the normal tax on indivi dual incomes. Yield $826,000,000. The graduated corporation income tax, which the President proposed to Continued on Page Three.) 21 American and Canadian Mission Workers Menaced Peiping, China, March 3.—(AP) —Anxiety was aroused today for the safety of 21 American and Canadian missionaries reported to he in the path of a Chinese com munist invasion sweeping Shansi province. Contact with the missionaries has been lost since last Saturday. Authorities said they hoped that the break in communications was due solely to a telegraphic wire failure, but they were not op timistic. Bureaus And Commissions Have Been Growing Since Nation Began By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, March 3. —? Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia, starting a congressional investigation to deter mine how much money can .be saved by various consolidations of govern mental administrative units and the abolition of such as may be found to be wholly useless, certainly is an op timist if he really expects to accom plish any saving. Since early in American history there hardly has been a session of Congress at which lawmakers have failed to demand curtailment in the proportions of Uncle Sam’s executive establishment. And throughout this whole period (Continued on Page Three.) OUR WEATHER MAN FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair tonight and Wed nesday; slightly warmer Wednes day. League Gives Italy Until Tuesday To Agree To Peace Or Face Sanctions On Oil FEAR CONGRESSIONAL TAX REVOLT Wm. '' „ v | {SK' Bg&Plk •. ilkjlli f 111 Proposal of President Roosevelt for a $786,000,000 tax program at this session of congress brought forth rumblings of dissatisfaction in both houses over being called upon to vote so great a sum in new taxes in an election year. But the president pointed out that the tax was made necessary by congress passing the soldiers’ bonus bill, and the invalidation of the AAA, with its tax for farmers’ benefits, by the supreme court. Shown, following a conference with the president are three administration leaders, Speaker Joseph W. Byrns of Tennessee, left; Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, center, chair man of the senate finance committee, and Represenative Robert Doughton of North Carolina, right, chairman of the house way* and means committee,, Tri-Power Naval Pact Is Probable London, March 3. —(AP) —An au thoritative statement today said that France had agreed to the United States maximum demand for battleships at 35,000 tons, ef fective until 1940. This statement said the agree ment was made by delegates to the international naval conference. As a result of the agreement, ob servers considered that a tri-power treaty between the United States, Great Britain and Farnce now was in sight. At Least Partly to Blame for Uprising; Change in Japan R^pid By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer New York, (March 3.—Japanese li beral leaders feared jingo talk in the United States. They knew that mili tarist-fascists leaders would seize on it to gain power. That talk, coupled with the liberal trend in the recent election, caused the break sooner than expected. At the same time, the in flamed young militarists acted too hastily for their own good. The world would be gravely harmed by a militarist-fascist regime in Ja pan. The financial world seems that opinion first. Japan’s commercial and monetary interests are part of the world fabric. The United States —par- ticularly the South because of cotton —would be greatly affected by a dis abled Japan. CAN WE AID? Men in the United States are ask (Continued on Page Three.) LANDLORD IS GIVEN LONG PRISON TERM Snow Hill, March 3.—(API—J. F. Owens, Greene county landlord, was sentenced early today to seven to nine years in prison following his con viction of manslaughter in the death January 15 of Paul Nethercutt, a tenant on his farm, and the wounding of Nethercutt’s son, Lyman. The shooting followed an argument over crops. Owens said he shot in self »lefnse. Lyman Nethercutt’s testimony contradicted this. The jury deliberated an hour and a half before bringing in the man slaughter verdict, then deliberated 20 minutes longer to bring in a convic tion verdict of assault with intent to kill in Lyman’s case. The defense gave notice of appeal. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. So. Carolina Might Enact Tobacco Bill State’s Delegates to Washington Meet . ing To Offer Meas ure Immediately Columbia, S. C., March 3. —(AP) — The two South Carolina representa tives who attended the regional to bacco conference as State delegates announced today they would intro duce a duplicate of a Virginia bill to restrict tobacco production. The representatives, W. C. Graham, of Florence, and A. G. Sloan, of Marion, said they did not believe ef fective steps could be taken to limit the 1936 tobacco crop, but looked for ward to possible action to curb plant ing in 1937. They differed over the effect of Georgia’s prospective non-participa tion in a tobacco control compact. Graham predicted control measures without Georgia’s cooperation would prove “ruinous,” while Sloan said he thought a pact by the Carolinas and Virginia might be made effective, al though 100 percent support was pre ferable. Hoffman Nears Point Os Break With Police Head Trenton, N. J., March 3 (AP>—Gov ernor Harold G. Hoffman’s difference of opinion with Colonel H. Norman Schwartzkopf, head of the State po lice, over the merits of the police work in the Lindbergh kidnap-slay ing were close to the breaking point today. Two unexpected political develop ments sharpened the edge of their disagreement. Democratic minority leaders of the State Assembly swung their strength against a bill sponsored by a Repub lican legislator, which was intended to defeat any designs the Republican governor might have to see that Sch wartzkopf is put out of office by the end of June. And a resolution was introduced in 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY = L Mussolini Seizes Full Con trol of All Money Insti tutions Throughout the Nation LEAGUE’S COUNCIL IN POSITIVE MOOD Meantime, Resolution Is Al ready Being Drawn To Make Oil Embargo Effec tive om Warring Powers; Mussolini Reported Ready To Weigh Peace Proposal Geneva, March 3.—(AP) —The Lea gue of Nations committee of 13, repre senting every member of the Council except Italy, decided today to appeal to Italy and Ethiopia for peace, and gave the two nations one week in which to reply. The date was fixed specifically at March 10, at which time the commit tee will meet again. The members agreed unanimously on the text of the peace appeal. League officials, meanwhile, prepar ed the text of a resolution for imposi tion of an oil sanction upon Italy in the event the peace move failed. The resolution affected the sale of oil to Italy and transportation by tankers of oil to Italy. • Informed Italian sources said Pre mier Mussolini was prepared to weigh carefully the peace offer, despite the threat of oil sanctions, as the Lea gue’s conciliation efforts embarked on their most critical phase of the en tire dispute. PRIVATE BANKING SET-UP IS ABOLISHED IN ITALY Rome, March 3. (AP) —Private banking in Italy was abolished today by a sweeping banking reform passed by the Council of Ministers in a ses sion at which Premier Mussolini de clared anew Fascism’s defiance of League of Nations sanctions. The cabinet ordered the four big (Continued on Page Six.) 7 Generals Os Japanese Army Resign Tokyo, Japan, March 3 (AP) —Sev- en of the highest ranking generals of the Japanese army tonight asked permission to resign from the sup reme war council of the empire, ow ing to a feeling of indirect responsi bility for last Wednesday’s rebellion and assassinations of government leaders. They asked General Kawashima, minister of war, to transmit their joint resignation to Emperor Hiro hito, saying they felt responsible for the condition in the army which had made the rebellion possible. General Kawashima is expected to present the resignation to the em peror tomorrow. The action is un prececedented. the Assembly to investigate the motor vehicle department. Assemblyman Basil Bruno, Republican, who brought up the resolution, said he was advis ed "several employees are engaged in the Hauptmann case.” Schwartzkopf’s letter to the gover nor detailing his allegations that State troopers who worked on the Lindbergh case had been approached with “promises and threats" by men who said they were agents of the gov ernor was on Hoffman’s desk today. The bill which would protect Sch wartzkopf was introduced February 3 by Henry Young, Jr., member of a group of Republicans opposed to the governor’s policies and highly criti cal of his activity in the Bruno Rich ard Hauptmann case.
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