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"ugNDERSON ! CATEWAY TO u central cakqlina | year WT FLOOD SWEEPS TO THE DEEP SOUTH COUNTIES PROBABLY WILL GET BIG LUMP OF INTANGIBLE TAX Split of 60 Percent for Their Share Considered as Compromise Ap pears Near SEEK ABOLISHMENT - * OF AVERY COUNTY Bill Offered by Request To Return Its Parts to Three Counties; House To Vote Monday on Child Labor and Tobacco Compacts; Committees Meet K uh, Jan. 29.—(AP) —The intan . tax sub-committee of the joint . committee studied revisions of Ac proposed new levy today which would have the State get 40 percent of t!',• ; < eeipts and the counties sixty pore-rr. Th.' original budget revenue bills prop.-al *.ho State get all of the rev enue which A. J. Maxwell, revenue commissioner, roughly guessed would be a ait 51.090,000 a year. Maxwell re-wrote the entire section fur the sub-committee to clarify the proposed .axes on bank deposits, ma ture! insurance policies and funds held by fiduciaries, bonds, notes and ot: r evidences of debt, and on shares of stock. xYn exemption was written in for religious, educational, charit able or benevolent corporations not operated for profit. The committee met in executive ses sion to adopt its report for the full finance committee this afternoon. Senator Hill, of Durham, again led the discussion at the joint public wel fare committee meeting, where the administration old age assistance and child labor proposals were section by section. •This is the most extreme act ever offered down here against local self government,” Hill said in discussing provi ions for the administration of [he social security phases. ‘‘l will take my fight to the floor of the Senate and to the people of the State, if necessary.” Would Abolish County. Senator Abernathy of Caldwell in troduced a bill by request in the legis lature today proposing to abolish Avery county. House members set as a special or der for Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock (Continued on Page Three.) Burning Steamer Extinguishes Fire in Its No. 2 Hold ■'A v York, Jan. 29. —(AP) —The cap -1 or of the coastwise vessel Shawnee - > d early this morning he had -ucn < ded in extinguishing a raging fit i. his No. 2 hole after a fight for f<.voral hours, during which ho di.-putched an SOS call. C-i; tying 190 passengers and a " i of fruits and vegetables, the '• with a crew of 174, was non ! from Jacksonville and Miami b -v York when her skipper wire -1,1 "d i call off Cape Henry, Va., for ; ‘t'l at 7a. m. ilo City of Birmingham and the ; ''.a Board responded. t* hour and 20 minutes later the Shav,-no* advised all ships in the vieiuty the fire was under control. Would Scatter Exposition into Many Cities Os State No City in State Could Accommodate Crowds for Real Show, and Jealousy Between Them for Its Location Would in Itself Virtually Defeat Idea D.iiiy DlMuntch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel Hr t;. lIASKURVILL Jan. 29 —A national and worldwide exposition in which ( rolina itself will he the chief i and which would bring vis every section of the State ' of to a mere man-made ex >unds located at one single being seriously considered Governor Clyde R. Hoey and ’ r o-ious committees) which are i'Hg the exposition, as sugv by Governor Hoey in his inau ":i 'ldress, it was learned here to ' 11 has also been almost defini -1 ' iderl that, this North Carolina l; on, if held at all, will have ‘ ! id during the spring, summer of 1938 in order to avoid a with New York City World’s 1 the San Francisco Exposi > scheduled for the 1939 sea 'dl agree it would be impos lintiUTsmt LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. British Steamer _ Is Sunk by Mine. Bilbao,, Spain, Jan. # 29 (AP)—A ship believed to have flown British colors sank near here today,, the.. result-,'it was reported, of striking an explosive mine. ( • The vessel was believed _to,have- been of about 4.000 tons. A quan tity of wreckage had been sighted. (BHbuo, Bay of Biscay seaport, is capital of • the. Basque govern ment, which is allied with the Spanish Valencia government.) Eviction Is i Sought Upon Sit-Downers General Motors No Longer Considers Flint Group As Their Employees Detroit, Mich., Jan. 29. —(AP) — A petition seeking a court order for evic tion of “sit-down” strikers from two Fisher Body plants at Flint, Mich., revealed today General Motors Cor poration no longer considers' them to be employees. Roy Brownell, General Motors attor ney at Flint, Mich., filed the petition with Circuit Judge Paul Gadola, of Genessee county, late yesterday. The court directed the U. A. W. A., which called the strike which have crippled operations of General Motors to show a cause why an injunction should not be granted at a hearing Monday. The bill of complaint with the in junction petition referred to the “sit down” strikers as “former employees” and said: “They are no longer employees of the plaintiff and have no right to re main on the premises.” chaimsTotlle FROM HIGHER TAX Snoopers Hunting for Some thing More To Tax May Yet Light There Dnily Dlupntch linrenn, In the Sir Wnltrr Hotel. Ily J. C. BASKERVILL 1 Raleigh, Jan. 29-Chain stores in North Carolina are not yet free from prospects of increased taxation, action 1 of the revenue committee.in refusing to adopt a schedule of levies proposed ’ by Representative J. B. Vogler to the contrary notwithstanding. On every front and in every nook i —i i i (Continued on Page Four.) sible to complete arrangements for a fair of the type desired by this coming summer of 1937. While there are some who favor a single, centralized State exposition, to be located and operated in a single lo cality, similar to the Texas Centen nial in Dallas last year, it is pointed out that there is not a city in North Carolina large enough and with suffi cient hotel accommodations to care for the people who would attend such an exposition. It is also pointed out that there is no one location or city in the State which is representative of the entire State, with the result that no national or world exposition typical of North Carolina as a whole can be built in a single locality. An other big difficulty sure to arise, it is already conceded, is the bitter fight sure to result as soon as a suggestion {Continued on Page Three.) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION Homeless Women and Children, Vi ctims of Great Flood l .v.v.v.'.viv v.-.- • ■ ■ Homeless, these women and children, victims ot the greatest flood on record, are cared tor in a Red Cross station—a converted factory— at Evansville. Ind., where tens of thousands were evacuated from their homes. Virtually th is entire city of 110,000 was flooded. Government Moves Rapidly For Rehabilitation Effort Washington, Jan. 29. —(AP) — The government organized a clean-up cam paign in the wake of the disastrous Ohio river flood today, even while it prepared to comh|at the growing flood menac? on the lower Mississippi river. President Roosevelt said Harry L- Hopkins, WPA chief* Major General Markham, chief of army engineers; Surgeon General Thomas Parian, Jr., Referendum Hearing Is F ruitless Not Single ', Vote of Committee Believ ed Changed; About 18 to 6 Against Daily Dispatch llurean. In tin* Sir Waiter Hotel. By HENIRY AVERILL Raleigh, Jan. several hours Thursday afternoon the hail of the House echoed to the thunders of pro hibition oratory. During this period, advocates of a Statewide referndum advanced the same arguments which have marked every prohibition fight since the Year One. At the opening of the hearing the membership of House Judiciary Com mittee number one reputedly stood 18 to 6 against a Statewide referen dum on the liquor question. At the conclusion of the hearing, when the last word had been said and. the last plea made for the “women of this great State,” best estimates were that the membership of House Judiciary Committee No. 1 stood 18 to 6 against a Statewide referendum on the liquor question. Opponents of the Hutchins bill— the measure technically under dis cussion—presented but one speaker, Roy T. Cox, chairman of the board of commissioners of Pitt county. Proponents of the bill, field marshall ed by Cale K. Burgess, generallissimo of the United Drys, sent a series of well known speakers into action, the Ust inciludfjng prominent ministers, women and educators. Ail these were heard with rapt at tention by a crowd which taxed the capacity of both floor and gallery and which was obviously a “dry” crowd in the main. Every speaker was greet ed with prolonged applause and most of them were interrupted repeatedly with cheers for their “hallelujah” ar guments. Boiled down, the refrain of the dry chorus consisted of the argument that liquor is an evil and should be out lawed. Even Mr. Cox, sole foe of the bill to speak, opened and closed his re marks with indorsement of the pro position that liquor is, in the words (Continued on Page Four.) HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 29, 1937 T3atht Ufauatrii and Colonel C. F. Harrington, of the WPA engineering staff, would arrive in Memphis Monday to start a survey of the devastated section. Their findings will determine the number to be placed on relief, Pro vision for a starting relief roll of 200,- 000 is under way. The President said individuals in need of a small financial aid would Big Contributions By Corporations to Flood Relief Work Washington, Jan. 29 (AP) —The Red Cross reported today contribu tions of more than $1,500,000 in the last 24 hours had increased its flood relief fund to $4,339,000. It is seeking $10,000,000. Among large contributions were: American Tobacco Company, New York, $5,000; Standard Oil of California, $10,000; Spreckles Sugar Company and Western Sugar Refining Company jointly, $5,000; Joseph Seagram & Com pany, SIS V OCO; International La dies Garment Workers Union, New York, $5,000. up beSnate House Jams Through Post master Bill To Give Permanent Jobs Washington, Jan. 29.—(AP)—A de cision for placing all postmasters on civil service rested in the Senate to day after the House, in a boisterous over-time session, approved the ad ministration proposal. The bill would empower the post master general to fill the positions permanently without Senate ratifica tion, either by re-appointing incum bents who passed non-competitive ex aminations, or by promoting postal employees. About 14,000 first, second and third class postmasters would go under the merit system, which already covers (Continued on Page Six.) OURWtfnjEPMAN FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Sat urday; not much change in tem perature. OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. receive donations from the Red Cross and business men might obtain help from the Reconstruction Finance Cor poration in restoring their ruined stocks. Republican congressmen began a drive to extend the social security act’s pension system to farmers and to domestic servants and to put it on a “pay-as-you-go” basis. REAL REMEDY FOR FLOODSWITHHELD Jealousy of Communities Prevents Army Engi neers from Acting By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington Jan. 29. —The United States is under obligations to the de pression for one thing, anyway: the relief machinery created in the last four years has equipped the govern ment to meet emergencies like this season’s flood disaster with a maxi mum of speed and efficiency. Federal agencies admittedly were taken by surprise by the magnitude of their task as conditions developed themselves. Yet at President Roose velt’s order they threw themselvesi into it with the competency of long preparation. It was as if they had been organized for the particular pur pose of the moment. Reason for Destruction What makes the present floods so especially destructive is the fact that they have swept such thickly settled (Continued on Page Six.) Trustees Os U. N. C. Fa ce Tough Task Daily Dikimtcli liurcau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. Itv J r IIASKEfIVIU. Raleigh, Jan. 29. —The board of trustees of the Greater University of North Carolina will have as nice a mess of hot potatoes to deal with when it meets here tomorrow as itj has ever had in the form of the Coach Hunk Anderson and local self-govern ment controversy which is expected to take up most of the time in this meeting, observers here agreed today. Back of those who are interested only in settling the Hunk Anderson controversy and who are primarily intersted in securing “home rule” for athletics at State College, are the anti- Frank Graham members of the board who would tie glad to go much far ther and oust Graham entirely as (Continued on Page Four.) [HD EVERY AFTERNOON mTrn EXCEPT SUNDAY. FIVE CENTS COPY Man Held In Car Injury Os 2 Women They Claim He Put Them Out of Car and Deliberately Ran Into Them Lumberton, Jan. 29.—(AP)—Rural Policeman W. D. Northrop said today he had arrested Bate Paul, of near here, and charged him with running over two young women with his au tomobile near St. Paul last night. Northrop said Paul made no state ment concerning reports Eunice Suggs and Emma Hollingsworth had got out of his car after an argument and that he later had run over them. A man listed as Joe Prevatt, a son of Mack Prevatt, was arrested here and placed under S3OO bond as a ma terial witness. BOTH WOMENi SERIOUSLY HURT, ARE IN HISPITAL Fayetteville, Jan. 29.—(AP) —Two young women, both seriously hurt, told hospital authorities and law en forcement officers today they had been struck by a motorist who became enraged, put them out of his car, turned it around on the highway and ran Them. The women were listed at the hos pital as Eunice Suggs and Emma Hol lingsworth, both about 25, of St. Pauls. Hospital officials said the former received fractures of both legs and one probably would have to be am putated. Her condition was “critical.” Emma Hollingsworth also suffered a leg fracture. Both women were be lieved to have received internal in juries. Officers quoted the women as say (Continued on Page Four.) Program For Financial Independence Is Stated Babson Warns Stocks Are Not First Step; Budgeting of Spending Is Initial Move; Bank Account Essen tial; Life Insurance, Then Owning Home Next T BY ROGER W. BABSON, Copyright 1937, Publishers Financial Bureau, Inc. Babson Park, Mass., Jan. 29 —“ What are the proper steps I should take in building up financial reserves?’’ This question seems particularly pertinent in view of the great changes in busi ness and finance during recdnt years. Many people—especially the youngeu generation —believe that the old-fin ancial guide-posts are of no value in the new scheme of things. That is why I am worried by the current flurry among the “cats and dogs.” In the list of the daily ten most active issues during the last month, at least seven have been “cheap” stock selling below twenty dollars per share. 8 PAGES TODAY COUNTLESS FARMS DEEP IN THE TIDE l Every Levee Throughout Mississippi System Is Holding Firmly Against Waters HORDES OF REFUGEES SEEK HIGH GROUNDS Arkansas, Bracing for On coming Yellow Flood, De clines Outside Aid for Pre sent; Weary Physicians Redouble Efforts in Bat tling Against Disease (By The Associated Press) Flood waters of the north, unrelent ing after a $400,000,000 scourge of the Ohio river valley, began a plundering invasion into the heart of the deep South today. Scores of villages and countless farms along the 20-mile stretch from Cairo, 111., to Memphis, swam deep in the rising yellow tide of the Mis sissippi. The crest was still to come, now hov ering just above Paducah, Ky. Anxiety deepened in the beleaguered city of Cairo as the waters crept om inously higher. Silently through the night the deb ris-littered tide inched upward, reach ed a stage of 58.4 feet, almost to the point reached before the Bird’s Point" New Madrid “fuse plug” was dynamic ed to save the city. A new three-foot bulwark of sand bags topping'the 60-foot seawall lent some comfort to the 5,000 remaining inhabitants. With snow and rain forecast, a pick and shovel army of 100,000 toiled like beavers to fortify the billion dollar levee system ranging southward from Cairo, that guards the rich cotton delta lands along the Mississippi. United States Coast Guard cutters shuttled up and down the rusty waters on “picket duty” to watch the weak spots or new breaks in the levees. Warned of impending danger, new hordes of refugees streamed from the low-lying marginal lands along the Mississippi. Tent cities sprang up on high lands and ridges 30 miles from the river to house temporary “orphans of the flood.” At Barton, near Helena, Ark., a single concentration camp received 15,000 refugees. Ten additional cen ters were spotted. Every levee throughout the Missis sippi system was holding today. In Little Rock, Ark., Governor Carl Bailey declined eastern offers of help, declaring Arkansas wants to fight its own battle, with aid only from the United States Army and the Red Cross. Memphis hummed with warlike activity today as more thousands of refugees streamed into the city. Health hazards mounted. One out of every ten refugees suffered from sickness —influenza and pneumonia. Weary physicians redoubled their efforts. Meanwhile, assured* that the worst was passed, stricken Middle Western states communities pushed rehabilita tion plans, aided by state and Fede ral governments and the care of the homeless. These victims of the dis aster numbered 1,035,000, latest esti mates said, with 333 dead. Property loss estimates were $400,000,000. Danger points along the 1,000 miles front between Cairo, 111., and the Gulf of Mexico were at New Madrid, Mo., Hickman, Ky. and Melwood, Ark. Judging from requests for informa tion on “a good low-priced stock for a turn” which are beginning to break my postman’s back, much of this trading is being attempted by small, green investors—the type who can least afford to speculate. These peo ple are putting the cart before the horse in their attempt to “create” a financial backlog. They do not have the slightest conception of sound in vestment fundamentals. New deals irt business, finance, and politics havq not thrown the successful time-tested principles and practices of achieving financial independence into the dis card. Hence, particularly for the bene- Continued on Page Two.)
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