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i'TJendekson J Ute way to CENTRAL CAROLINA | TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR ITTAG* ON COURT PUN OPENS M HOUSE • y ****** *l** * * * * * ******** m m m House Gets Revenue Bill For $74,750,000 Taxes money measure is MORE IN ENOUGH fi SQUARE BUDGE! Huge Sum Sought from Taxation Is Exclusive of Millions from High way Sources SECURITY program excluded, however Only New Tax Is That On Intangibles; Favorable Re port on Bill Is Considered Victory for Conservatives; Supplementary Taxes for Security Dally Dlupatrh Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hutel. It, J. C. HASKKIIVILL Raleigh. Feb. 10—The reve nue bill for the new biennium beginning July 1, 1937, design ed to produce the revenue need ed for the operation of the State government and the pub lic schools for the next two years, was reported into the House today by Chairman Vic tor S. Bryant of the House Fi nance Committee. The revenue bill will yjfeld a total of $74.750.000 during the next two years, exclusive of the highway fund, according to the committee estimates. The bill is expected to yield $36,750,- 000 for the year 1937-38 and $38,000,- 000 for the year 1938-391. The bill is regarded as being in almost exact balance with the appropriations bill as recommended by the Advisory Budget Commission, calling for ap propriations totalling $74,750,000 for the beinnium. which is regarded as being about in line with the approp- Continued on Page Five.) New Crisis Developing A t Madrid <&y The Associated Press.) Censored reports limping over crip pled communications lines from Mad rid described today a new crisis in the three-months Fascist siege of the Spanish capital. With telephone lines cut iby the Fas cist assault on the vital road from Madrid to Valencia, meagre reports from Madrid by cable included: 1 Fourteen Fascist planes flew over Madrid this morning. Whether they tried bombardment was not stated. 2 Fierce fighting raged southeast of Madrid for possession of the Valen cia road, which leads to the seaport Sf *at of the temporary government, the Socialist government commanders insisting the Fascists had not “phy sically cut. the road” up to last night. 2. Declarations that the government will be able to hold Madrid indefinite 'y, come what may of the present fighting, were coupled with contradic tory newspaper declarations that Madrid is in danger,” and that all reserves must be mobilized anew to stop the Fascists. Flood Fear Remains On Mississippi filter Sluggish And 1* ails To Pass On> Engineers Are Con fident, However Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 10 (AP)—As 'determined to gain by siege what “ y failed to win by assault, pond "ou.s crests kept flood fear alive I '"iy the mid-Mississippi today by ' uhllf,rn refusal to speed their almost m Perceptible southward crawl. . be river fell slowly above Memphis jUI in this sector record levels re (Continued on Page Four.) TtntJUwson 3atltt liltspatrh Revenue Bill Carries Levies Os $36,904,200 Annually For Biennium Hally Dlfcpntrfi Ilnrenu, In the Sir Walter Hotel ll* .1 C »lANrvr.:t V 11,1 Raleigh, Feb. 10.—The new revenue bill will yield between $36,750,000 and $36,901,200 a year, according to esti mates made !':,y the Department of Revenue and submitted to the finance committees just before the bill was reported out favorably. The bill was submitted to the House today by Chairman Victor S. Bryant, of the House Finance Committee. The last minute decision of the committee to bring all meals in hotels, restaurants and cases under the three per cent sales tax, increased the estimated yield of the bill by $363,000 to an es timated total of $36,904,200, or more than enough to balance with the ap propriations bill (without provision for old age pensions and aid to depen dent children) calling for a total of $36,750,000 a year. The meals tax was later cut out. The various taxes imposed in the bill and the amount each is expected to yield the first year of the coming biennium, are as follows: Legislative Debate On Taxes, Social Security Begun As Bill Enters Find Youth’s Body After Two Months Roanoke Rapids, Feb. 10 (AP) — The body of Ralph Merritt, 21, one of the two youths, who disappeared on a hunting trip two months ago, was taken from the swift waters of the Roanoke river early today. Coroner R. L. Grant, of North ampton county, opened an investi gation immediately. The coroner said there was a hole in Merritt’s stomach and side and called physicians in to exam ine the body. The body was found late yester day, but officers abandoned any attempt to remove it from the wa ter until today. Think Scott Would Pack Board Also Wants Ten Instead of Five Members To Get Majority Fav orable to Him Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. BASKERVILL Raleigh, Feb. 10—Commissioner of Agriculture Kerr Scott seems to have torn a leaf from President Roosevelt’s notebook in his proposal to increase membership of the State Board of Agriculture from five to ten. The idea was translated into action Tues day with introduction of a bill Repre sentative J. H. Poole, of Moore. According to those who ought to know the inner working of the board of agriculture, a majority is not in accord with the commissioner on a number of policies, and Mr. Scott has been forced to contend with open hos tility in certain instances. Hence the effort to increase the board in expectance that the added members will show a more sympathe tic attitude toward the commissioner and his projects. Hope along this line however, will prove well or ill-found ed only after the additional members have been named, if the Poole bill passes, for the measure puts their se lection in the hands of Governor Hoey, and it is by no means a certainty that the executive would choose only Scott yes-men for the places. At the same time that he introduc ed he reorganizaion measure, Repre sentative Poole also tossed in a bill repealing an act of 1925 which gave the commissioner of agriculture al- Continued on Pag© Fiv®.) ONLY DAILY LEASED WIRE SERVICE Off THE ASSOCIATED PRESS? NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON, N. C„ WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 10, 1937 Inheritance tax $ 1,250,000 License taxes ' .... 2,250 000 Franchise taxes \ ,8,081,200 Income taxes • 9,600,000 Sales tax 8,850,000 Beer tax 1,000,000 Wine tax : /150.0&0 L quor tax (7 per cent) .. 050,000 Gift taxes 200,000 Intangibles tax 1,000,000 Gas tax diversion 2,100,000 Miscellaneous taxes ..." 10,000 Non-tax revenue • • 1,400,000 $36,904,200 The finance committees believe that these same sources of revenue will bring in at least $38,000,900 in rev enue the second year of the biennium, Chairman Bryant explained. This bill does not provide the addi tional $2,900,000 a year needed to pro vide for old age pensions and aid to dependent children, however, It is ex pected the committees will try to. work this additional amount out in a supplementary bill to be brought in, later. Revenue Measure Offered in House Month Sooner Than in Session Two Years Ago BILL IS EXPLAINED SECTIONS AT TIME Gravely of Nash Elaborates on Social Security in Sen ate, Where Amendment Is Offered for State To Pay All Instead of Splitting With Counties Raleigh, Feb. 10.—(AP)— The House received the biennial rev enue hill from the joint finance committee today. The measure was reported in record time, more than a month earlier than last session, and pro poses raising a record total of more than $75,000,000 in general fund revenue for the biennium 1937-39. Highway revenues are not covered by the general*tax bill. Immediate consideration by the House as a committee of the whole was voted. Legislative debate on two major problems, taxes and social security, started today. The House got the $75,000,000 bien nial general fund revenue bill, and quickly, as a committee of the whole, started adopting sections as amended by the joint finance committee. No opposition developed to the in heritance and license tax articles, ex cept the sections on contractors, plum bers, et cetera, which were “tenta tively” adopted, while all others were adopted a,s written. Representatives were asked, how ever to withhold proposed amend ments until the bill had been worked (Continued on Page Three.) Has Plans To Abolish Sales Tax Daily Dispatch Bnrena, By J. C. UASKEiIVILL Raleigh, Feb. 10—Representative J. B. Volger, Mecklenburg, has announc ed hi sintention to offer to the House a measure which he believes will abolish the sales tax and at the same time raise more money for the State than tht much attacked measure has ever netted. Briefly he proposes to tax every form of business activity in North Carolina, levying one-quarter per cent (Continued on Page Four.) Windsor and His Royal Sister in Vienna Wk IPt §llll This picture, flown to London from Vienna and radioed to New York by R. C. A., shows Mary, Princess Royal, with her husband, the Earl of Harewood (left), and Edward, Duke of Windsor. The Princess ia said to- have made the trip to Vienna to settle questions of finance and to attempt to dissuade Windsor from marrying Mrs. Wallis Simpson before the cororonation of their brother, George VI, in May. t (Central Press) wSeobut MEETING GOES ON * I J Plan Similar to That Which Ended Toledo Glass Strike Is Under Consideration WOULD LIMIT SCOPE OF LEWIS AUTHORITY His Union Would Speak Only for Its Own Mem bers; Union’s Board of Strategy Holds Lopg Ses sion Before Meeting With General Motors Chiefs Detroit, Mich., Feb. 10 (AP) — Representatives of General Mot ors Corporation and labor consid ered a definite plan for strike set tlement for two and thre quarters hours today, then recessed for two haurs. Governor Frank Murphy said the situation was “unchanged from last night,” and announced another conference would begin at 3:30 or 4 o’clock this afternoon. John Lewis, director general of strikes against General Motors auto motive units, and the board of strat egy of the U. A. W. A. had met earlier in the day in a possibly significant session that delayed the opening of the 13th general assemblying of the conference. * The board of strategy, once empow ered to call a general strike of all union members employed by G-M, has the authority to approve a pro posal for a settlement of the bitter dispute that has halted he corpora (Continued on Page Four.) HOPEWELL MATRON FREED IN SLAYING Mrs. Kathleen Abernethy, 18, Was Accused of “Date on Bet” Kill ing Brother-in-Law Hopewell, Va., Feb. 10.—(AP) —The State today dropped its case against Mrs. Kathleen Abernethy, 18, charged with the “date on a bet” slaying of her brother-in-law, at the start of her scheduled second trial in Hopewell circuit court. The 18-year-old bride of a jail rom ance sat weeping as Commonwealth’s Attorney John Goodman offered a motion to dismiss the charge. Judge Marshall Peterson replied: “I think the motion is proper and the case is nolle prosed.” The judge, who set aside the ver dict of a jury in October, which con victed the girl of voluntary man slaughter, and recommended a five year prison term, immediately order ed Mrs. Abernethy’s release. Eleven Perish As Air Liner Plunges In Frisco Waters No Possibility Any One Escaped; Shifting Tides Sub merge Plane, Which Dive d Out of Sight Except for Its Tail; Prominent We sterners Aboard Ship San Francisco, Cal., Fe'bu 10. —(AP) —lts eleven occupants given up for dead, a wrecked United Air Lines plane was found early today under except for its tail, in South San Fran c sco bay, where it plunged last night after passing up a landing field. “There is no possibility any one on board is alive,” said B. M. Doolin, San Francisco airport manager, after re turning from inspecting the wreckage. Several prominent westerners, in cluding a millionaire, Mark Fontana, 57, manufacturer and yachtsman of San Francisco, were on board. MIIsaT SATURATION POINT Nothing Else to Tax With out Meeting Law of Di minished Returns Daily Dispatch Bareaa, i In the Sir Walter Hotel. By J. C. B4SKERVILL Raleigh, Feb. 10. —The reason the revenue and appropriations bills are still approximately $2,000,000 out of balance, the reason the General As sembly cannot add another $2,000,000 to the appropriations bill and give the school teachers the 20 per cent salary increase they wart, the reason the thousands of insane patients in the various State hospitals are being fed on only mush, molasses and bread on an allotment of only 14 cents a day per patient, is that the State has reached the saturation point in rais ing revenue from indirect forms of (Continued on Page Three.) FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy to cloudy today, colder tonight; Thursday general ly fair and continued cold. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Later shifting tides pushed over the wreckage of the 12-ton ship and sub merged it while a derrick and deepsea diver prepared to go to the scene near Mills Field. The tragedy increased to 45 the number who have died in western transport crashes since December 15. When found the plan e lay on its back with only about ten feet of the fuselage portruding. Its nose was ram med into the muddy bottom of the bay within a few miles of the airport over which it flew a few minutes be fore it dived into the bay about 9 o’clock last night. CONGREMOWf ACCEPT PROGRAMS Balking at Roosevelt Reor ganization Measure As New Venture By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, Feb. 10.—Congress is showing less inclination to rush thro ugh President Roosevelt’s governmen tal reorganization plan than might have been expected, considering how strongly the White House tenant em phasized it as a “must” piece of busi ness for his enormous majority on Capitol Hill to attend to. The fact is that the lawmakers quite generally feel balky at the idea of surrendering so much of their leg islative authority to the President. Outsiders may not realize it but the truth is that congressmen are ex tremely jealous of their prescribed, rights under the Constitution. The Senate is as proud as Punch' of its executive title to confirm presidential appointments and ratify treaties. The House of Representatives is equally conceited over its prerogative to initiate all financial legislation. They are jealous of one another and jointly jealous of the executive power. A DIFFERENCE Now, the so-called “independent of fices” which Congress creates are sup posed to be manned Iby Congress’ own hired men, answerable only to Con gress. A cabinet member is different. He (Continued on Page Three.) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Se™Slinl STAtIM RULE HERE Meantime, President Sum mons Five Senators To White House for Talk On Proposal opposition~bLoc FORMED IN HOUSE Roosevelt Sends Message Asking Congress To Work Out Long-Time Program for Reclaiming Once Fer tile Acres of Dust Bowl of Great Midwest Washing-ton, Feb. 10 (AP) Opposition to President Roose velt’s plan for reorganization of the Federal court burst forth today on the floor of the House. Representative Lamneck, Democrat, Ohio, said the program might lead to a “Hitler, a Mussolini or a Stalin gov ernment.” , He spoke even as five senators were summoned to the White House to talk over the general court situation with the President. Some officials said the conferences were arranged so the President might ' amplify his aims in proposing the judicial reforms. Outspoken opposition in the House followed organization of a group of ten Democrat representatives to unite ef forts against the plan. In a special message, Mr. Roosevlet asked Congress to work out a long time program for reclaiming the once fertile acres of mid-America’s dust bowl. Submitting a report of his Great Plains drought committee, he propos ed a Federal-State-private alliance (Continued on Page Three.) Ex-Convict Questioned On Mattson Seattle, Wash., Feh. 10 (AP) —An ex-convict whose arrest was termed “hot” by one officer was fired ques tions today about the brutal kidnap killing of ten-year-old Charles Matt son. Plans were rushed for witness es of the abduction to confront the man. The man, identified as James Mc- Donald, steadily denied any connec tion with the- crime, but William Cole chief of the Washington State Police, said he strikingly fitted the bearded kidnaper’s description and his move ments at the time of the kidnaping were suspicious. “It may be just another false lead, but it looks hot to me,” Cole said. (Continued on Page Four.) HutsonTalks Ever Normal Granaryldea AAA Tobacco Ex p e r t Speaks at Goldsboro Meet ing; Has Four Point Program Goldsboro, Feb. 10 (AP) —Bethel • school in Haywood county won first place in the crop and seed judging contest for vocational ag ricultural students here today. Teams from 60 schools, compos ed of 192 students, competed. John Graham school at Warren ton, took second place and She riffs Ford school third. Goldsboro, Feb. 10.—(AP)—J. B. Hutson, assistant AAA administrator, outlined a four-point program built around an “ever normal granary*’ (Contirued on Page Five) j
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