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ROOSEVELT RENEWS OATH
1600,000 VOTED IN
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
FOR SCHOOL BUSES
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House and Senate Both
Pass Measure To Pro
vide Safer Transpor
tation Equipment
intangibles TAXES
TO BE DEBATED ON
Most Important Legislation
To Come Before Assembly
Chairman Flannagan Says,
As It Changes Complexion
0 t Tax Structure; Max
well Gives Figures
Jan. 20 (AP)—The legisla
tuiv rushed through a measure today
n.priate 5000,000 at once to ba
used in buying new school buses to
rep'.nec -id vehicles now in use.
j! t measure will become law upon
ratification. It was introduced yes
terday. and the school commission
- ud mote than 1,200 of the 3,990 buses
iow in use were seven to nine years
f) ;d. Several counties reported schools
closed because of conditions of buses
and roads.
Senator Hill, of Durham, spoke to
the Senate on the question and in the
lieu.- Education Committee a motion
wat adopted to name a subcommittee
to recommend specifications for safe
buses.
Senator Hill first asked postpone
ment of consideration of the bill,
rushed to the Senate after passage
under suspension of the rules in the
House, but withdrew his objection aft
er talks by Senator Long, of Halifax;
Clark, of Edgecombe, and others.
Supporting Senator Bell, of Meck
lenburg, who had asked for immedi
ate passage, the other senators said
there was need for quick action, prais
ed Governor Hoey for his stand in
asking prompt pasage of the act, and
expressed confidence the school com
mission would wisely spend the money
The i venue committee’s sub-group
on the sales tax announced a public
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Many Schools
Close Because
Os Bad Buses
Raleigh, Jan. 20.—(AP)—The House
passed and sent to the Senate today
the emergency ill to appropriate $600,-
000 a’ once for the purchase of school
-uses to replace “unsafe” vehicles.
The measure was passed under sus
pension of the rules.
It was introduced yesterday and
passage was recommended by the
Hint appropriations committee at an
afternoon session.
Several counties over the State, in
cluding Forsyth, Mecklenburg, and
Wilkes, reported schools closed as bad
toad.- made it dangerous or impos
sible to operate buses. The school
commission said more than 1.200 of
the 3.995 buses in use are from seven
to nine years old.
School Bus
Bill Merely
is Gesture
$600,000 Purchase
Now Would Mean
l ew To Be Bought
Next Summer
Daily r)in|inti’h Ilurenti.
In the Sir Walter Hotel
ID J C. BASKKHVILL
-h, Jan. 20.—The bill to ap
y : ’ 5600,000 immediately for the
1 of 625 new school buses, now
'he appropriations committee
peeled to pass both houses this
i in reality little more than
‘re on the part of the admin
lf"; u > relieve conditions in coun
| ’ ,v ‘ (, h need new buses to replace
which are old, unsafe, unecono
and mechanically unable to
1 up under present hard condi
jt was agreed here today by
amiliar with the inside story
' omplete background of the
bus situation in North Carolina
1 M $600,000 appropriation were a
;, nd emergency appropriation,
edition to the amount already
J ' by the State School Commis-
Slor ‘ ! 'u .school bus replacements, it
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Notes In Plain Handwriting
Os Mattson Youth Disclosed
Tacoma, Wasty.,
Two notes in the handwriting of ten
year-old Charles Mattson, written to
his parents from a kidnap lair, were
disclosed today as Federal agents
here apparently faced an impasse in
their search fr • the boy’s slayer.
In a copyrighted story, the Seattle
Post-Intelligencer published what it
said were the texts of the notes, both
containing threats of death for their
young writer.
The paper said the two notes as re
ceived by Dr. W. W. Mattson, the
MISS PARKERYET
LEADSFOR POST
Gatesville Woman Expected
to Win State Vice-
Chairmanship
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKEBVILL
Raleigh, Jan. 20—Although sparks
and cinders are flying thick and fast
in the contest between Miss Ethel
Parker, of Gates county, and Mrs. W.
B. Murphy, of Snow Hill, Greene
county, for the post of vice chairman
of the State Democratic Commtitee,
which meets here at noon Friday to
elect a vice chairman, the opinion in
most political circles here is that Miss
Parker is well in the lead and will
be elected by a good majority.
Because this is a politiftal fight be
tween two women and largely be-
Continued on Page Five.)
Rush Bill
To Protect
R oad Fund
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
ny J. C. BASKEItVIM-
Raleigh, Jan. 20 —Work on the bill
to be introduced seen to provide for
the submission of an amendment to
the Constitution to prohibit the diver
sion of highway funds to other pur
poses, is being speeded up and will
probably be introduced in the near fu
ture it was learned from an authen
tic source today. One reason for the
decision to push this bill as speedily
as possible is the fact that the diver-
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boy’s father, were (verbatim punctua
tion) in part:
1. “If you want the boy back, pay
ransom, let «s know through the
papers have the money car ready. Call
police off, ransom paid at night, you
will get a phone call where to find
note x x x x if man gets killed or
has to commit suicide on account of
police, you will never see the kid
again. To prove he is alive this is in
his handwriting.”
(Signed) “TIM, TIM.”
2. “Are ready to make connections
and want to know if you are getting
Sales Taxes
Fight Turns
On The Rate
Two Percent Levy,
Without Exemp
tions Favored; Ex
emptions Pledged
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKKItVILL
Raleigh, Jan. 20. — The sales tax
fight in this session of the General
Assembly is not going to be over re
peal of the tax, but over the rate and
whether the rate shall be reduced to
two per cent with no exemptions or
be kept at three per cent with ex
emptions, it is already evident. It is
also agreed that the merchants are
going to make a determined fight to
get “compensation” for collecting the
tax in the form of a commission on
collections of about three per cent.
Oppnents Uncertain.
At the present time there is some
division among the sales tax oppon
ents as to whether they should seek
a reduction in the rate or whether
they should approve the restoration
of the exemptions and then try to in
crease the number of exemptions to
the point where the sales tax will vir
tually be “gutted” and reduced to a*
mere shell as compared with its pre
sent form. It is generally agreed that
most of the anti-sales taxers would
ibe only too glad to go along with Re
presentative W. L. Lumpkin, of Frank
lin county, in his effort to exempt
almst everything from the bill and
leave it nothing but a “luxury” tax
measure, if they thought there were
any chance of his “getting away” with
his effort to greatly enlarge the list
of exemptions.
But most of the more moderate anti
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President Roosevelt, January, 1937
the notes or police keeping them from
you.
“We mailed a note December 29
with kid’s writing. If you do not men
tion it in papers, stay by phone at
nites with money and car ready,
x x x x Remember an army of police
can kill a number of kidnapers, but
they will not be ale to find the kid
until after he is dead.
(Signed) “TIM, TIM.”
With Marold Nathan, chief of the
Federal searching forces, still in Los
Angeles on an unexplained mystery,
agents here worked on quietly.
Child Labor
Act Doomed
In Assembly
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J O BASKEBVILL
Raleigh, Jan. 20 —The Federal child
labor amendment is doomed to defeat
in the legislature despit the desperate
fight being made for its ratification.
A consensus of the State Senate
seems unmistakably hostile to the
measure and the recent statement by
Miss Frances Perkins, United States
secretary of labor; that the present
administration has no thought of
bringing farm or domestic labor un
der the act will have not the slightest
effect on its chances in North Caro
lina.
“Miss Perkins ’opinion isn’t worth
the breath it took to express it,”
said one senator. “Neither she nor
any one else, not even the president
himself, can speak for any subsequent
Federal administration. No matter
what Mr. Roosevelt and his present
advisers say or think, the power to
put all forms of child labor under cen
tralized Federal control is expressly
set out in the amendment. It is dang
erous . ”
John Sprunt Hill, Durham, chair
man of the Senate Manufacturing,
Labor, and Commerce Committee, de
(Continued on Page Six.)
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Cloudy, probably ccasinal rain
tnight and Thursday; rising tem
perature.
N. C. Rivers
Over Banks
In Sections
Many Thousands of
Acres Inundated in
West as Rains Over
flow Streams
Raleigh, Jan. 20.—(AP) —Protracted
rivers sent two North Carolina rivers
—the Yadkin and the Roanoke—out
of their banks today.
The Roanoke at Weldon was three
feet out of its banks, and Meteoro
logist Lee A. Denson here said it
would rise two feet more during the
day and probably two more tomorrow.
The Yadkin inundated many acres
of lowlands along its upper reaches,
but damages was negligible.
Forsyth county schools, about 14 a
Mecklenburg county schools, and nine
school units in Wilkes county were
closed because of bad road conditions.
The Neuse and Tar rivers in the
eastern part of the State were rising
steadily.
GREAT AREAS INUNDATED
THROUGHOUT MIDDLE WEST
(By The Associated Press.)
Rain - swollen streams battered
levees with unabated fury in the Mid
dle West today, sweeping over low
lands and forcing hundreds of fam
ilies from flood-engulfed homes.
A seven-foot wall of water poured
ver United States highway 41 and
inundated thousands of acres in south
(Continued on Page Six.)
REORGAMNra
Roosevelt Will Get Most of
Governmental Reforma
tion Sought
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
Washington, Jan. 20 —When Presi
dent Roosevelt submitted his govern
mental reorganization plan to Con
gress Washington’s first guess was
that it was a request for the practical
ly impossible.
That certainly was the average ex
perienced newspaper correspondent's
first judgment. Equally certainly it
was the judgment of the average ex
perienced national legislator. In fact
it certainly was the judgment of every
one of long experience in the capital,
after hearing governmental reorgan
(Continued on Page Six.)
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EXCEPT SUNDAY. FIVE CENTS COPY
PRESIDENT PLEDGES
LARGER ABUNDANCE
TO NATION’S NEEDY
Second Roosevelt Inaugural
Outdoors, as Vast Hordes
on Old Foundation;
Washington, Jan. 20 (AP)—President Franklin D. Roose
velt formally opened his second administration today with a de
mand for more and stronger government consecrated to “provide
enough for those who have too little.”
In militant phrases which left specific details to the future,
he spoke to a rain-drenched, attentive crowd on the Capitol plaza
of the need for the government to solve for the individual the
“ever rising problems of a complex civilization,” and to “control
blind economic forces and blindly selfish men.”
Garner Says Oath
Will Be His Last
Washington, Jan. 20. — (AP) —
Vice-President Garner, tightlipped
Texas ranchman who has been in
public office for 38 years, has told
friends his oath of office today
would be his last.
FOUR-POWER PACT
Britain Stiffens Toward
Germany; War in Spain
Grows Fiercer
(By The Associated Press.)
Great Britain stiffened toward Ger
many tday as Italy gave up her plans
fr a four-power pact with Germany,
Britain and France.
Spanish intervention problems
mounted. In Spain, Fascist air bomb
ers killed 20 or more Madrielnos.
Italians, holding fast to their new
German alliance, decided Spanish ten
sion, France’s insistence on retaining
her Soviet alliance, and British reluc
(Continued on Page Two)
UTTLEBENEFifON
CIGARETTE TAX CUT
Solons Express Personal
Views of Skepticism on
Federal Bill
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By J. C. BASKEBVILL
Raleigh, Jan. 20 —Reduction of Fed
eral taxes on cigarettes would have no
effect on the prices paid farmers for
their tobacco, in the opinion of most
legislators here who know anything
about growing and marketing the
weed upon which so large a part of
North Carolina depends for its pros
perity.
On the contrary one Senator, a man
who has had more than 30 years prac
tical experience, went so far as to ex-
Continued on Page Two.)
Pittsburgh Strike
Ends As Hope Rises
For Motors Peace
(By The Associated Press).
Settlement of the 98-day strike of
Pittsburgh Plate Glass employees and
prospects of a peace conference in the
huge General Motors strike today en
couraged conciliators striving to put
200,000 men back to work throughout
the nation.
Six thousand flat glass workers
agreed to return to their jobs for a
wage increase of eight cents an hour,
and a company guarantee there would
be no discrimination against union
employees.
Glenn McCabe, union leader, said
he believed the agreement would open
the way for settlement of the strike
of 7,000 employees of the Libby-Owens
Ford Company, whose glass furnaces
have been idle since December 15.
High G. M. C. officials, Homer
Martin, president of the United Auto
mobile Workers of America, and John
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TODAY.
in Rain-Drenched Capital
Look On; New Structure
Hughes Gives Oath
Moments before in words repeated
solemnly after Chief Justice Hughes,
the President had taken his oath of
office and been cheered with a
warmth that belied %he cold, for
bidding For once. “Roosevelt
weather luck” did not hold.
Gusts of rain blew into Mr. Roose
velt’s face. He atood bareheaded look
ing out now and again over the black
mass of umrellas which confronted
him. Neanfcy sat the newly-sworn
Vice-President Garner, members of
their families, justices of the Supreme
Court, the Congress and the diplo
matic corps.
The oath-taking completed consti
tutional inaugural requirements. But
ahead lay festivities customary to the
quadrennial ceremony.
Returning to the White House for
them, Mr. Roosevelt chose an open
car, despite the rain.
Roosevelt To
Make War On'
All Injustice
Washingtn, Jan. 20.—(AP)—Presi
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated
himself anew at the start of his sec
ond administration today to removal
of “cancers of injustice” that cause
want in the midst of plenty.
In his inaugural address, delivered
beneath a storm-darkened sky to
thousands gathered on the Capitol
plaza, he pictured uncounted poor fa
milies living under the “pall of dis
aster” and said:
“We are determined to make every
American citizen the subject of his
country’s interest and
Progress in lecoverv ig obvious, the
President said, nut “the new order of
things” brought about since 1933
means more than that.
Restating his philosophy in broad
terms, and leaving his specific pro
gram to the future, he spoke of using
new materials of social justice “to
erect on the old foundations a more
enduring structure for the use of
future generations.”
Moments before he made his ad
dress, he hkd taken the presidential
oath again from Chief Justice Hughes.
With justices of the Supreme Court
among his hearers, he spoke once
more of the Constitution, but said
nothing about the courts.
This year, Mr. Roosevelt recalled,
marks the 150th anniversary of that
fundamental charter. The forefathers
founded away out of the chaos that
followed the Revolutionary War, he
said, adding:
“They created a strong government
Continued on Page Two.)
Brophy, director of the committee for
industrial organization, were enroute
to Washington to seek a basis for a
peace conference.
Settlement of two strikes yesterday
was offset by two more shutdowns of
G. M. C. plants, a sitdown strike at
the Kelly-Springfield Tire Company’s
Cumberland, Md., plant, and a halt of
production in the steel products plant
of the Firestone Tire and Rubber
Company at Akron, Ohio, where a
wage dispute was raised by crane
workers.{ /hundred were idle
there.
The Buick Motor Company an
nounced its Flint, Mich., plant, em
ploying 15,000, would close tonight
for lack of materials. Assembly lines
in the Fisher plant at Baltimore
struck and 1,200 employees began to
leave their benches. Company offi
cials said the entire shop would be
closed by evening.