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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR HOUSE APPROVES HEART OF NEW TAX BILL FARLEY FORECASTS SPEEDY SCRAPPING ‘TWO-THIRDS’ RULE Senator Clark, Missouri, Would Be Chairman of Committee Handling The Proposal WAGNER MAY WRITE PARTY’S PLATFORM 1936 Platform Will Probab ly Be Shorter Than One In 1932; John E. Mack, Os Poughkeepsie, Probably Will Nominate Roosevelt, With Each State Second ing It Washington, April 28 —(AP) —James A. Farley, Democratic national chair man. predicted today that the two thirds rule would be abolished by the D»36 Democratic National Convention at Philadelphia in June. •Mv own guess is that the two thirds rule will be abrogated at this convention,” Farley told a press con ference. “I haven’t seen or heard any thing favorable to such a move so far." While Farley talked with newsmen, there were forecasts, in other Demo cratic quarters that Senator Bennett Clark. Democrat, Missouri, will head the rules committee before which the two-thirds vote question will come. These sources said Senator Robert Wagner, of New York, is being con sidered to head the resolutions com mittee. which will draw up the 1936 platform, but that some House mem bers were also under consideration for the job. Farley was questioned about the 1936 platform. ‘This platform will be as short, it not shorter than the last one,” he said. The pastmaster general said John E. Mack, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., was a ‘good guess” to nominate President Roosevelt. He said the nomination pro hablv would be seconded by each of the 48 states. Farley predicted the re-election ot Senator George Norris, Republican in dependent, in Nebraska, next fall, but denied reports of a plan to throw Democratic support to Senator Couz ens, Republican, in 'Michigan. TO TURN LIGHT ON BENEFITS OF “AAA” Washington, April 28.—(AP) —Two agencies of the government, at the be hest of the Senate, plunged today into the task of turning the light of pub licity on AAA and tariff benefits. Big Profit Shown For Telephone Washington, April 28 (AP)—Evi d< v iico that the American Telephone and Telegraph Company long distance '•potations netted $180,000,000 of pro fit in excess of a six percent return on investment over a 23-year-period was given, today to the Communications Commission. testifying at a hearing in the com mission’s investigation of the big uti -1 f.v, J. A. Krug, a Federal Communi cations Commission accountant, in (Continued on Page Two). Sharp Rate Curtailment By Phone Company Given Larger Exchanges, Includin g Henderson, Will Not Get As Big a Slash As Some Others; Proposed Increas ed Rates in Ten Exchanges Are Cancelled Dally DlMpntch Bareaa, In The Sir Walter Hotel, »y J C. IIAHKEIIVIU Raleigh, April 28. —The rate reduc tion announced today by the North Carolina Utilities Commission for the Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Company, with 82 exchanges serving almost 27,000 telephone users in East • in North Carolina, will save the sub scribers of this company almost $75,- 000 a year, according to Utilities Com missioner Stanley Winborne. It brings the charges of the Carolina Telephone mid Telegraph Company down to the iiame level as the rates ordered by the /mgt HENDERSON, N. c. fiwtitersmt Batht Sltspatrh Leased wire service of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Dies In Egypt ll£§‘ iMpfe ■ il • .•!• \ . i ”:f• #j King Fuad King Fuad, Os Egypt, Is Dead At 68 Passing of Monarch May Make Road Harder for Britain in East Africa Cairo, Egypt, April 28 (AF) —King Faud of Egypt’s 68-year-old friend of the British, died today after a long illness. It was aggravated over the week end when a gangrenous condition de veloped in his throat, preventing him from taking nourishment. Crown Prince Farouk, 16, years old, and now attending school in England, will come to the throne under a re gency until his 18th birthday. The news came as a shock to the population of Cairo following earlier reports that the monarch had rallied after a better night. Only this morning the king had called his premier and other officials (Continued on Page Six.) REWARD ON KARPIS IS RAISED TO $7,000 Washington, April 28. —(AP)— The price on the head of Alvin Karpis, went up to $7,000 today as the post office inspection service disclosed an under cover search for the man now rated as “pub lic enemy No. 1.” Utilities Commission for the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Com pany more than a year ago and which the Bell company is still fighting in the courts. Final arguments in the Bell case started in superior court here this morning before Judge G. Vernon Cowper. If this case is decid ed in favor of the State and against the Bell company, it will mean a sav ing of more than $300,000 a year to its subscribers. “On a percentage basis, the rate re (Continued on Page Two.) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA HOEY BEING URGED TO BREAK QUICKLY WITH EHRTNGHAUS Governor’s Persistent Stand Against Extra Session Believed Hurting Shel by Man EHRINGHAUS MOVES helping McDonald Most Congressmen Believed for Hoey, but Distressed at His Apparent Closeness to Present Administration; Doughton Embarrassed by Social Act Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J. f. B* SKERVII.L Raleigh, April 28. —Friends of Clyde R. Hoey are urging him to follow the lead of two of the three other can didates for the Democratic nomina tion for governor in demanding a spe cial session of the General Assembly both because they think a special ses sion is needed and because it would indicate that he is not subservient to the present administration and not tied to the apron strings of Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus, according to re ports heard here today. Many of his supporters and well wishers frankly feel that one of the biggest stumbling blocks in Mr. Hoey’s path at the present time is the sup port of Governor Ehringhaus and of a majority of the other State officials, especially since Governor Ehringhaus (Continued on Page Six.) Rail Lines In East To Fight Cuts Majority Will Join in Court Action To Upset I. C. C. Rate Cut Orders New York, April 28 (AF) —The ma jority of eastern railroads will file under protest the lower passenger rates ordered by the Interstate Com merce Commission, but will join in a court test of the constitutionality of the order, it was announced follow ing a meeting of eastern rail presi dents today. The decision reached by the confer ence applies to practically all roads in the eastern territory excepting the Baltimore and Ohio and the Baltimore and Ohio affiliates, it was explained. The conference also revealed that certain western and southeastern car riers may participate with the east ern lines in their fight against the. commission’s order. HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 28, 1936 This Picture Cost the Photographer His Life ■ ■ • • ■ ' ■ ■ ■ ■:.. v.-j*'. Ernest Voss, 70-year-old camera-shy prospector, was driving his burros along a road at Morgan Hill, Cal. Dr. Jasper Gattuccio, San Jose dentist and amateur photographer (inset), was driving by in his car. The dentist focused his camera on the picturesque old prospector and took the above Hitler Curbs Business Head As French Bank Plans Fight (By The Associated Press) Reichfuehrer Adolf Hitler gave ad ditional powers to his righthand man, General Herma*m Wilhelm Goering, today in a move to curb the power of Germany’s economic leader, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht. An official edict announced the Reich air minister and premier of Prussia would assume the post of supreme dictator over all raw mate rial and foreign exchange questions, two of the economic problems pre Confinement in Senate Helping, Not Hurting, Cause in Campaign Daily Dispatch Bnreaa. In The Sir Walter Hotel, Ur J. O. ItASKERVIIJi Raleigh, April 28.—'Senator Josiah W. Bailey is not losing any votes by remaining in Washington and attend ing to his duties in Congress, accord ing to opinion heard here. The fact that he is staying on the job there rather than spending time campaign ing here at home, despite the fact that three other candidates are firing at him daily during his absence, is win ning him many more votes than he is losing, observers believe. The work Senator Bailey did last week in get ting the tobacco compact bill through the Senate and signed almost imm«- (Continued on Page Two.) Tornado In Texas Kills Mother, Son Rockdale, Texas, April 28 (AP) — Two persons were killed by a tornado which ripped through a farming sec tion six miles northwest of Rockdale during a heavy rain and hailstorm to day. A Negro woman and her grown (Continued on Page Two.) ~OUR WEATHER MAN FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy and unsettled to night and Wednesday; slightly warmer in central and extreme northeast portions tonight and in north central portion Wednesday. photograph. The enraged Voss dashed at the dentist, ran back, snatched a shotgun from his cart, took careful aim and fatally wounded Gattuccio. The old man is held for the slaying. This picture was developed by police who had taken Dr. Gattuccio’s camera from his car after the shooting. (Central Press J viously supervised by Schacht. This move was seen in certain quar ters as the result of Schacht’s criti cism of the Nazi ideas-and his fail ure to rally support of industrial lead ers. Financial circles in France report ed a plan drawn by by the Bank of France to curb any action to reform it by the anticipated left majority in the new parliament. Rome advices from the northern Italian front in Ethiopia reported the Roosevelt Signs For Ga. Primary Washington, April 28.—(AP)— President Roosevelt today signed the necessary papers for entry into the Georgia Democratic presiden tial primary. Senator Russell, Democrat, Geor gia, and Marion H. Allen, Roosevelt managers in Georgia, asked the President to place his name for mally in the race. The State Democratic Executive Committee, controlled by Governor Eugene Talmadge, anti-New Dealer named a primary date for early in June, with a stipulation of a $lO,- fee for the presidential candidates. “We haven’t got all the money yet,” Russell said after his White House call, “but I think we will get it all right.” mSnb Nothing New Expected in His Radio Speech To night on Tobacco Daily Dispatch Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, April 28.—Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus will make another radio speech tonight in which he will again State his reasons for refusing to call a special session of the Gen eral Assembly to enact tobacco con trol and social security legislation. He is not expected to present any new facts or arguments he has not already presented, either in previous radio (Coutinued on Page Six) SIDNEY C. STEGALL IS BADLY BURNED; Norlina Man With Power and Light Company Comes in Contact With High Power Wire Raleigh, April 28.—(AP) —Sidney C. Stegall, of Norlina, an employee of the Carolina Power & Light Company suffered severe burns about the face and body today when he came in con tact with a high voltage wire while working on a pole here. He was rush ed to Rex hospital, where he was re ported as painfully but not seriously hurt. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Fascist army was more than half way on its march from Dessye to Addis Ababa. A minor engagement was fought by soldiers of the motor ized Italian column with Ethiopian irregulars, with the native defenders retiring to the hills after a short skirmish. On the southern front the city of Sasa Baneh was surrounder by the Fascist army, the Rome reports said, and , its capture was expected mo mentarily. > GEORGIA NEGRO IS LYNCHEDBY MOB Was Once Before Saved By Judge’s Plea; Attempt ed Assault Royston, Ga., April 28.—(AP) —Lint Shaw, hurley Negro farmer, once sav ed from lynching through the pleas of an aged judge, was shot to death by a mob of 40 men eight hours be fore he was to have gone to trial on a charge of attempted criminal as sault today. His body was found at dawn tied to a pine tree in a creek bottom near Colbert, Ga., his home. Pierced by shotgun, pistol and rifle bullets, he died at the scene where two white girls reported he attempted to assault them after their motor car broke down April 10. The mob, climaxing a series of de monstrations against the 45-year-old Negro, which once required the in tervention of National Guardsmen, broke into Royston’s one-story jail about midnight, cornered Night Chief of Police W. A. Dickerson and smash (Continued on Page Two.) COTTON FUTURES IS DUBBED POKER GAME Senator Smith, South Carolina, Says Cards All Stacked for the Boys Who Run It Washington, April 28.—(AP) — The cotton futures market was described today by Senator Smith, Democrat, South Carolina, as a good poker game with the cards stacked “for the boys running it.” Smith was discussing before his committee, now investigating cotton trading, the uncertainty of futures quotations. “Unless the futlhes market reflects the real value of cotton, you have a confusion of plays into the conditions of uncertainty,” he declared. “You have a futures price for strict middling, 7-8 in the same market, you have a spot price for the same class, anc( you have another price in the country markets. “Therefore,,we have got to find out what the futures maiket actually re presents.’’ Asserting the confusion was “worse than confounding” to the public, Smith declared “there was not much confusion in the minds of the boys running it.” _ 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY FAVORS SYSTEM OF 111111 Unanimous Vote Favors Leniency of Corpora tions Alreacf / Sad dled With Debts RATE OF LEVY FOR THAT ITEM SLASHED Another Amendment In tended To Wipe Out SIOO,- 000,000 Lag in Revenue First Year of Bill's Opera tion; Dividend Year Made Same as Taxable Year Washington, April 28 (AP)—The House today gave tentative approval to the heart of the new tax bill—a system of rates to apply to corpora tion incomes, graduated according to proportions of earnings, withheld from distribution to stockholders. The first change to be voted de signed to give more favorable treat ment to corporations with deficits was accepted by a viva voce vote with cut a single negative vote. , Proposed by Chairman Samuel B. Hill, Democrat, Washington, of the ways and means sub-committee, it would reduce from 22 1-2 to 15 per cent the rate corporations would pay on portions of their income needed to meet deficits. The full committee, just before the House assembled, had authorized Hill to offer the amendment. He was in structed also to submit an amend ment intended to wipe out a $100,000,- (Continued on Page Two.) HOSIERY WORKER IS HELD FOR ASSAULT Elizabeth City, April 28.— (AP)— Victor Lister, employe of the Avalon hosiery mill when it was closed Maroh 16 after labor difficulties, was put un der S2OO bond today on a charge of participating in an attack last Friday night on W. D. Shields, a department supervisor in the Elizabeth City hosiery mill. A hearing was set for Friday in recorder’s court. Roper Asks Business To Aid Worker Washington, April 28. —(AP)—Sec- retary Roper today proposed a ten point program through which he said business can absorb more of the job less. The administration spokesman ad dressed the convention of the Cham ber of Commerce of the United States. His speech was regarded by the au dience as bearing White House ap proval. The commerce secretary said busi ness “should utilize every possible channel of approach that will result in the most effective cooperation be tween business and government.” Immediately preceding Roper, Har per Sibley, Chamber president, called for a cooperative alliance between government and business to cure the unemployment malady. Committees To Urge S.C. Tobacco Act North Carolinians Go to Columbia To Request Passage of Compact There Raleigh, April 28. —(AP) —Two rep resentatives of the State Tobacco Ad visory Committee prepared today to go to Columbia to urge passage by the South Carolina legislature of a tobacco compact bill. The representatives, Claude T. Hall, of Woodsdale, and' H. P. Foxhall, of Rocky Mount, were appointed at a closed meeting of the advisory com mittee yesterday. “If the South Carolina law con forms with that in Virginia and if North Carolina passes a like mea sure,” Hall said, “we can gain con trio of the 1936 crop.” The advisory committee also urged (Continued on Page Two.)
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