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HENDERSON gateway to CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-THIRD YEAR TAX BIUPASSES HOUSE BY HUGE MARGINS MEASURE SENT ON TO SENATE, WHERE HEARING IS BEGUN Secretary Morgenthau Will Be First Witness Tomor row Before Finance Committee LEVY ON WITHHELD EARNINGS FEATURE Normal Four Percent In come Tax Dividends Re- J mains; Expected To Yield Total of $803,000,000 for Bonus and (Farm Adjust ment Payments Soon Due Washington, April 29. —(AP) — The administration’s $803,000,000 tax bill ivis passed by the heavily Democra tic House today over opposition votes of the Republican minority. Speaker Byrns announced the vote was 267 to 3. The bulky measure, designed to raise funds to meet the bonus and farm relief costs, and embracing a complete revision of the corporate tax system, now goes to the Senate, where the finance committee already has be gun its consideration. Tomorrow Secretary Morgenthau will testify before the committee at its first public hearing. The major feature of the bill was a tax on corporation income graduated on the basis of earnings withheld from distribution to stockholders. Linked with application of the nor mal four percent income tax on di vidends, it is expected to bring in $623,000,000 additional to help meet President Roosevelt’s requests for farm and bonus funds. The vote on passage along party lines was a mere formality which sealed the tentative approval given the hill yesterday. In addition to the revenue to he pioduced from the new corporate tax plan. $200,000,000 is expected from an 80 percent ‘ windfall” levy on proces sors who did not pay AAA processing taxes, and $83,000,000 from temporary continuation of excess profits and capital stock taxes. TO APPEAL RULING ON SCRAP TOBACCO Attorney General Seawell Says Judge Daniels’ Decision To Go to Supreme Court Raleigh. April 20 (AF)—Attorney General A. A. F. Seawell said today a decision declaring North Carolina’s scrap tobacco law unconstitutional would be appealed to the Supreme Court. Judge Frank A. Daniels, of Golds boro, ruled the law invalid, in finding J F. Morrison, of Lumberton, inno eent of charges of selling scrap to bacco without paying a SI,OOO tax as a feeler. Asks Board To Probe In Air Crashes Air Bureau Official Cites Recent Acci dents, Exonerating Government Washington, April 29. —(AP) —Crea- Con of an independent accident board ,f| investigate the nation’s air crashes was recommended to the Senate air af"ty committee today by Eugene L. Vidal, director of the Air Commerce bureau. Citing the accidents which killed • 1 nator Bronson Cutting, of New •Mexico, and four others in Missouri, •May 6, 1935, and the subsequent con troversy over responsibility, Vidal testified: 1 do fool that a precedent is now b' ing established with this one acci (l< nt which will result in its being in advisable in the future for bureau personnel to investigate probable cause of accidents. “1 personally hope that your com mit lee will suggest for the future an accident hoard consisting of other 'ban bureau personnel.” He made a defense of the bureau’s ground aids to air navigation, which have been criticized by various wit nesses before the committee. Referring to analysis of accidents 'bat have occurred during the past wo years, he stated: “ft cannot be shown in any one 'bat the aids to navigation provided by the government were even contri butory causes to any of these acci dents,” HrniU'rshtt Batht TBtgmrfritl j f *jj > | 4 l||| . t&r- | ••*!‘.V:'•,;.. ; ???.&-.■„ .v: : :v.j£':%;V>:*:&.\v:k v'.-.A&A ■■■•......•:••••••....... . •:....... J'-- ; ..••: .. -vt The outboard hydroplane operated by Andy Gantner, holder of a number of amateur racing records is shown refueling from a plane on Lake Michigan, with Chicago’s imposing skyline in the background. Gantner ex pects to refuel in this manner in his attempt to lower the Chicago-Milwaukee record. Plane and boat are speeding at fifty miles an hour. (Central Press) Roosevelt’s Supporters Pleased With Primaries In Two Eastern States Landon and Borah Backers Also Pleased With Show ing by These Republican Candidates; President Continues Heavy Margin in Pennsylvania Returns Washington, April 29.—(AP) — Sup porters for President Roosevelt for re-election and Governor Landon of Kansas and Senator Borah of Idaho to oppose him in November drew sat isfaction today from the Pennsylvania and Massachusetts primaries. Overwhelming Colonel Henry Breck enridge, his first primary opponent, the President accumulated a total in Pennsylvania that spoke for itself. Additional delegates from both states brought those listed for him to 442, or all of those so far selected of the 1,100 to be seated at Philadelphia. Primary Not Binding. Because neither primary was bind ing on the delegates chosen, Repub ROOSEVELT URGES COAL AGREEMENT Advises Anthracite Meet In New York He Hopes Strike Won’t Come Washington, April 29.—(AP)—Presi dent Roosevelt sent word to the an thracite wage conference in New York today that he hoped a new wage and hour agreement could be reached without a strike. The present five-year agreement covering the wages and hours of about 150,000 hard coal miners in Pennsyl vania expires tomorrow at midnight. Three months of negotiations between the operatives and the United Mine Workers have failed to produce a new contract. The miners demand a wage increase a shorter work week and deduction of union dues from pay envelopes. The operators, complaining that the industry has been hard hit by com petive fuels, demand a wage cut. Mr. Roosevelt has kept in close touch with the progress of the nego«- tiations for the last week through the Labor Department. He sent his mes sage to the conference through that department. OUR WEATHER MAN FOB NORTH CAROLINA. .. Mostly cloudy tonight and Thurs day; scattered showers In south west and in extreme west portion; no decided change in temperature. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA LEASED WIRE SERVICE OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, AFTERNO ON, APRIL 29 1936 published every AFTERNOON > -i.vx.LJ ***/, EXCEPT SUNDAY. lican leaders were hesitant to draw final conclusions about the big “write in” demonstration for Landon in Massachusetts or the total polled by Borah, unopposed in Pennsylvania. Os the 592 Republican delegates now elected, 487 are uninstructed. Os the 105 instructed, Landon has 84 and Borah 21. Almost complete returns in Mas sachusetts gave the governor of Kan sas more votes as the Republican presidential preference than all other possibilitis combind. Tabulation Delayed. Majority of the preference votes in (Continued on Page Three.) STATE OFFICIALS They Are Afraid McDonald May Try To Oust Them In The Primary Daily Dispatch Unreal*. In The Sir Walter Hotel, nr J. C. RtSKBHVILL Raleigh, April 29. —Some of the elec tive State officials, in addition to those who are appointed, are getting jittery not only at the progress which Dr. Ralph W. McDonald seems to be making in his race for the Democra tic nomination for governor, but for fear he may carry his promise to “open the windows and clean out the present appointive State officials” may be extended to the elective of ficials as well. They are worried for fear Dr. McDonald will try to per suade his supporters to “go down the line” against all the present State elective officials and make the house cleaning complete, if during the last weeks of the campaign McDonald ap pears ot have enough support to risk his own nomination by taking sides for and against other candidates. It is already known that Dr. Mc- Continued on Page Three.) MORE WPA FUNDS ALLOCATED VANCE Library Work Gets $254 and Ceme tery Landscapin g A warded $l5O in Day’s Figures Raleigh, April 29 (AP)—Addition al allocations for 58 projects under way over the State were announced today by the Works Progress Admin istration . Library work by counties included, Vance, $254. Other projects given funds included Henderson, to landscape the ceme tery, $lO, and home-making, Oxford, $546.67. GRAHAM PROPOSES LEAVING COUNTIES Would Have Statewide Con trol Law Uniform as to All Local Units Hav ing Stores COUNTY OPTION IS HIS'PROGRAM NOW Favors Complete Repeal of Turlington Act, However; Says Law Is Only as Good As Support Given It By People; Hoey and McDon ald Are Not Specific Dally Dispatch Bureau. (n The Sir Walter Hotel, Uy J. C.' RASKKRVIIiL Raleigh, April 29. —Liquor and how to control it in North Carolina is back in the political spotlight again as an issue in the present campaign for the Democratic nomination for governor as the result of the elaboration and clarification of his position with re gard to liquor control as outlined by Lieutenant Governor A. H. (Sandy) Graham in his speech in Spring Hopt> last night. Graham is the only one of the three leading candidates who has consistently advocated some form of Statewide liquor conti’ol, although he has at no time advocated taking away the revenue of the stores from the counties which now have such stores. Some have gotten the impression that such was the case, believing that State control automatically meant for the State to get all the revenue from li quor sales, Rut in his speech last night Graham made it clea~ that while he advocates a single, uniform State law to govern the sale of liquor in those (Continued on Page Six.) sso,oooßail Is Fixed For 1 Kidnap er Harry Weiss, Brook lyn Taxi Driver, Admits His Part In Wendel Snatching Brooklyn, N. Y., April 29 (AP) Harry Weiss, 28-year-old Brooklyn taxicab driver, was held in $50,000 bail today on an indictment charging kidnap and assault of Paul H. Wendel disbarwed Trenton attorney, whose “confession” to the Lindbergh kid naping delayed the execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann for three days. Weiss, arrested yesterday in Youngs (Continued on Page Three.), Farm Groups Press Demands' For Extra Session Despite Ehringhaus Radio Address Rain Halts Operations By The Italian Army On South Line In Ethiopia But Northern Motorized Column Continues Along Imperial Highway to Addis Ababa SOCIALIST MIGHT BE FREMIER IN FRANCE Result of Sunday's Elections May Put Leon Blum Into Power; Austrian Troops on Move Toward German Border, But Significance Is Being Minimized (By The Associated Press) The Italian army campaigning against the southern Ethiopian city of Sasa Baneh was temporarily halt ed in its operations by tropical rains today as the northern motorized col umns continued along the imperial highway to Addis Ababa. Dispatches from the southern front said the« ground around Sasa Beneh had been turned into a sea of mud by the steady downpour of the last few days, and the armies attacking the Ethiopian positions from three sides were ordered to remain in the points already occupied. The ideal weather north of the Ad dis railway allowed the motorized column under Marshal Piedro Badoglio to continue forward meeting little opposition from the na tive defenders. Reports circulated in Paris political circles that Leon Blum, Socialist lead er, would be asked to form a new cabinet when the Chamber of Depu ties meets after next Sunday’s run-off voting. The left majority expected in the new parliament, in’supporting Blum’s premiership, would install the first regular Socialist to head the French government. As the Egyptians mourned the pass ing of their ruler, the late King Fuad, the new monarch, 16-year-old Farouck, planned to leave England for his native land. Austrian Troop* Move Austrian troop movements toward western provinces and to the region opposite German Bavaria were ob served in Vienna. The government explained the operations as merely Alpine training for the soldiers. WAOEISMED^ George Pou Slated To Beat Baxter Durham Also for State Auditor Dally Dispatch Bnresa, In The Sir Walter Hotel, nt J. C BA SKRRVILL Raleigh, April 29. —“I don’t know how the race for the nomination for governor is getting along, but I do know that what the State needs is a good secretary of state —and that I expect to be renominated,” Secretary of State Stacey W. Wade said today, when asked by a group what he thought of the gubernatorial cam paign. Despite the fact that the guberna torial campaign is tending to over shadow the campaign for the various other State offices, the candidates for these offices are .becoming increasing ly active and sending out scores of thousands of letters. In spite of the intensive campaigns which both Thad Eure and M. R. Dunnagan are mak ing for secretary of state against Wade, the belief in most circles here is that Eure and Dunnagan are split ting the opposition, with the result that Wade is regarded as having an excellent chance to win the nomina tion again. The fact that he last week kissed goodbye to any hope for any support from Governor J. C. B. Eh ringhaus and told the 6,000 farmers here at the mass meeting demanding a special session that if he was gov ernor he would “call a special session in 15 minutes,” has helped Wade (Continued on Page Six.) Roper's Opponent 8BS& *^9 yj jL>. ’ •' £ JgL -Jag ill m Lewis H. Brown (above), president of the Johns-Manville Corporation, who will address the annual meet ing of the United States Chamber of Commerce on “Increasing Em ployment by Private Enterprise,” will virtually be a debate opponent ©f Secretary of Commerce Roper, also slated to speak. (Central Press) 20 Billions Expended In Employment Business Dug Into Reserve That Far To Sustain Jobs, Chamber Is Told Washington, April 29.—(AP) — The convention of the Chamber of Com merce of the United States was told today that American business spent $20,000,000,000 from its past savings to maintain employment during the de pression. William L. Sweet, Rhode Island manufacturer, said this huge sum was paid out “in providing work and wages beyond the amounts warrant ed by the current volume of busi ness.” This, he said, was a denial of charges by some that employers were “ruthless exploiters of labor." The convention had just heard Fred H. Clausen, Wisconsin manufacturer, and Roy C. Osgood, Chicago banker, contend that the administration tax program will hinder such savings. They demanded a tax reform as a measure of stimulating reemployment Adding further to a day critical of the New Deal, Silas Strawn, Chicago lawyer and former Chamber president labelled current legislation “vote fetching.” “Business men,” Strawn said, “who can remain sane and normal under the strain of the experimental and ‘vote-fetching’ legislation that has been introduced in Congress, and es pecially during the last three years, are gifted by nature with unusually strong mentalities.” Sweet, without mentioning Presi dent Roosevelt by name, noted the President’s recent statement that em ployment is lagging behind recovery in production. “Calling names,” he said, “or dis torting facts will not put a single un employed worker back in gainful em ployment. Only through cooperative action and mutual understanding of all the elements making up our eco nomic and political life can we hope to resolve the perplexing unemploy ment problem.” 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY iswSlfS Cross - the - Line Marketing Not Guarded Against, Ehringhaus Claims In Speech SUGGESTS NAMING OF STATE BOARDS They Would Begin Work at Once To Map Program Os Cooperation for Tobacco States for 1937 Crop; Urges Growers To Accept Soil Program As Aid Raleigh, April 29.—(AP)—Leaders of organized farm groups today con tinued their campaign to have tobac co control legislation enacted, but Governor Ehringhaus clung to his view that the 1936 crop could not be controlled through legislation. The governor, who reviewed the to bacco situation on a radio speech last night, said the Kerr tobacco control act passed by Congress, permitting the states to enter compacts to curb acreage, lacked teeth. “It is one thing for Congress to give the states permission to enter in to a compact,” he said. “It is an other and a more vital and necessary thing to give the states so compact ing protection against oross-tha-line marketing. Without such protection compacts are useless and no control is possible.” Suggests Commission. The governor suggested that com missions be appointed in the four states producing flue-cured tobacco —■ Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia— to work out a means of curbing next year’s acreage. He suggested small and large growers participate in the soil conservation program and farm organizations be represented. Meantime, the governor would have all growers participate in the soil conservation program and reduce their tobacco acreage in accordance with this retirement program. SAYS NEGRO TOLD OF KILLING CHIEF Negro Witness Gives Damaging Tes timony Against Accused Black at Scotland Neck Halifax, Aflil 29 (AP)—Evans (Snooks) Macklin, 25-year-old Negro charged with killing Chief of Police A. P. Moore, of Scotland Neck, was asserted by a witness in his trial to day to have admitted the slaying. Thurston Auburn, Negro, testified that Macklin told him two days after the police was found shot to death in front of a Scotland Neck bank early the morning of February 16 that he did the shooting. Macklin pleaded innocent when ar raigned at the opening of court this morning. CDMPfIT Witness Says Houston and Philadelphia Concerns Similar, However Washington, April 29.—(AP) —A de nial of collusion between the cotton merchandising firms of Anderson, Clayton & Company, Houston, Texas, and George H. McFadden & Brothers, of Philadelphia, was made today by John H. McFadden, head of the lat ter company. Appearing before the Senate Agri culture Committees cotton trading investigation to answer the accusa tion of Louis Brooks, New York pot ton broker, McFadden said the fact the firms had held identical positions in the market in no way “intimates collusion." “We are governed by the same eco nomic principles, our information comes from the same sources, we buy cotton in the same territorities and we sell it in the same countries,” Mc- Fadden said. “It would be strange indeed, there (Continued on Page Six.)
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