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HENDERSON’S POPULATION 13,873 TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR REORGANIZATION BILL FURTHER MUTILATED Senate Committee Finishes “Business Recovery” Tax Bill POWER PLANTS SEIZED BY UNION WORKERS ■ L lHfe« IP*i K i'^^WyßPMihh "''' JIIII KssgRSS; " ml V ' ■?: vis&sSssl k§!&& mm. M is&r *&ak ■• \ ■■■:• iipliL’ ; \' ' jflß Hfc "41111 MBE .limp.-.. I s , IR '4™^ ; : o& ; v .«BSifti [uflMffij&;w > H| ™BBB!S!SSSSoI^Wn^rfV/-f. <U^7| Workers keeping; night watch, and a plant of the company at Jackson Franco’s Offensive! Enters In Decisive Phase In Spain Massed Armies of Insurg ents Strike DoWn Main Highway to Barce lona and Sea VITAL STRONGHOLD IS NOW THREATENED Franco’s Objective Is Sever ing of Government Spain . and Capture of Barcelona, ' the Capital; Madrid Counts Cost of Worst Bombard ment of War Hendaye, France, April 4. —(AP) — Insurgent General Franco’s offensive entered its decisive phase today, with massed armies striking down the main highway to Barcelona and the Ebro valley to the sea, after having taken two immediate objectives, Lerida an.i Grandesa. In the fourth week of the offensive and the twenty-first month of the Spanish war, the insurgent legions drove into the city stronghold of the government militia. They were cam paigning to cut Spain in two and cap ture the sea of the government, Bar celona. General Garcia Valino’s Navarrese corps and the Italian black arrow di (Continued on Page Eight.) WarningTo Soviets By Japs Envoy Moscow, April 4. —(AP) —Japan to day protested to Soviet Russia against military assistance which she alleged the Soviet government was lending to China. Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japan’s am bassador, warned Maxim LjtVinoff, Soviet foreign commissar, that Rus sia would have to ’‘assume respon {__ {Continued os Page Fivei \ ; • m omb - —' bp f Heniiersmi LEASEDWmB SERVICE OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. HO BOY RAPIST , IS LIKELY TO PAY Aggravating Circumstances May Cause Governor to Play Hands Off Dally Dlspatcli Bureau, In The Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, April 4. —Governor Clyde Hoey, like Judy Canova’s brother Zeke, “ain’t a-sayin’ ”, but there are strong indications that the chief exe cutive will not interfere with the exe cution of Mann (Hiawatha) Smith, Negro rapist and youngest person ever to be sentenced to die in North Caro lina. Unless executive clemency, in th3 form of a commutation, is exercised Smith will die in the lethal gas cham- Continued on Page Five.) STEEL HEAD VIEWS FUTURE AS ASSURED Myron Taylor, on Retiring, Has No Doubt About Nation and His Own Corporation Hoboken, N. J., April 4.—(AP)—ln a valedictory review of his ten year in high office with the world’s largest steel maker, Myron C. Taylor retir ing chairman of the United States Steel Corporation, told stockholders today: “I have no doubt whatever of the ultimate future of both the nation and the corporation.” In a printed extension of his re marks, given shareholders at the meet • ing Taylor said of his career, which has spanned the best and worst year 4 of modern steel production: “Out of these experiences and dif ficulties there arises within me a great feeling of gratitude for the loyalty and the earnest cooperation that have been displayed through the corpora tion. I an sure that there is in Amer icae today no body of men and women more loyal to the country and its in terests, or more loyal and self-sac rificing in the doing of their daily tasks than those men and women who labor in all the ranks of the United States Steel Corporation.” ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH M Employes of the Consumers Pow er Co. seized strategic plants ot the company in southern Michi gan following a breakdown in con tract negotiations. The action came after representatives of the C. L O. union walked out of a con ference with company officials at Jackson, Mich., when they were told the management could not renew its contract with the union. Union officers said “the consum ing public” would suffer no incon venience. Photos show workers on night watch at Zilwaukee hy dro-electric plant near Saginaw, and plant at Jackson, which com oany said was unaffected. TV A Inquiry Withoutßias Is Expected Stand of Garner and Bankhead in Nam ing Committee Blasts Some Hopes Washington, April 4 (AP) —Con- gressional leaders said today Vice- President Garner and Speaker Bank head were determined to appoint un biased persons to investigate the Ten nessee Valley Authority. Garner’s decision blocked the aspi rations of Senator Bridges, Repub lican, New Hampshire the Senate’s most outspoken critic of TVA, to serve on the congressional commit tee. Bridges was one of the first to de mand an inquiry into dissension among the three TVA directors. It was understood Garner and Bankhead would not appoint any members from the TVA area. This would exclude, among others, Ma jority Leader Barkley, of Kentucky. Also out of the picture were Senator Norris, Nebraska, co author of the TVA act, and Senator King, Democrat, Utah, an ally of Bridges in criticizing the agency. WEAKNESS EVIDENT IN COTTON TRADING Futures Nine to Eleven Points Lower at Midday; Selling Is Factor in Decline New York, April 4. —(AP) —Cotton futures opened eight to nine points lower on disappointing Liverpool cables and under liquidation and fore ign selling. July eased from 8.66 to 8.60, and after the first half hour was selling at 8.61, with prices generally 13 points net lower. July advanced from 8.§6 to 8.63, leaving quotations nine to eleven points net lower around midday. _ HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL . 1938 Batin Btsnafrh CORPORATION LEVY rnmmrn .:' ''' i •■■ Comparison of Rates Given Under Present Law, House Measure and Sen ate Schedule SUMMARISED IS ON SIOI,OOO INCOMES Tax Would Be $2,982 Under Present Statute, $1,325 Under House Measure and $1,530 Under Senate Pro posal, Now Completed by Committee Washington, April 4.—(AP) — Th2 Senate Finance Committee wrote into final form today its tax revision meas ure, described by Chairman Harrison. Democrat, Mississippi, as a “business recovery bill.” Excluding special factors which enter into tax computations, the foi lowing summary compares the rates a corporation having SIO,OOO net in come would pay under the existing law, the House bill and the measure approved by the Senate committee: Present laW: If the corporation dis tributed none of its profits, it woul 1 pay on a graduated corporation in come scale and a graduated scale of undistributed profits levies. Its tax would be $2,082. If all net income was distributed to shareholders, the cor poration would pay only $1,040. House Bill: A modified form of the undistributed profits tax Would apply only to corporations having net in comes alcove $25,000. The corporation with SIO,OOO net income would pav under a graduated scale of income taxes, which would make its total tax $1,325. Senate committee: The corporation would fall in a special category of corporations having net incomes un der $25,000 a yean It would pay a flat 18 percent rate on income, but would be entitled to apply a formula of tax credits. Its tax would be $1,530. CASHFORMESS . IS INEXHAUSTIBLE State Unemployment Com pensation Fund Grow ing Despite Payments Raleigh, April 4. —“Impossible, or practically so,” said Auditor W. Har vey Pitman, of the N. C. Unemploy ment Compensation, when asked a bout the danger of exhausting the State’s Unemployment Fund, in the face of the many claims that are being presented to the Commission for pay ment. “If there is any way in which the fund can be used up, I have not been able to discover the process,” said Mr. Pitman. “For example,’ there will be few occasions during the years when the fund will be tested as much as it (Continued on Page Four.) Japan Says Vital Center Is Captured Tiaerhchwang Cap tured In Southern Shantung Area but at Terrible Cost Shanghai, April 4 —(AiP) —Japa- nese, advancing under cover of artil lery and aviation through smoking ruins and against raking machine gun fire, reported today they had oc cupied Taterhchwang, in southern Shantung province, on the central China front. * Chinese were retreating south ward to the ancient Grant Canal, crossing into Kiangsu province, the Japanese said. Chinese defense lines on the north bank of the canal and about Taierhchwang were said to have been wiped’out. It took the Japanese nine days to (Continued on Page Four.) _ CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA Child Victims of Spanish War ■Bgßflßgg : These mutilated bodies of childi<en offer mute’ evidence of the horrors of modern war in Spain. This picture, taken in Barcelona, following air raids by insurgent bombers, shows youthful victims who were among hundreds of civilians of all ages who met violent death. Premier Blum’s Cabinet Menaced By Deputies On Drastic Finance Plans Powers Sought Amount to Virtual Totalitarian Dis , cipline Over Nation’s Money and Industry; Cham ber May Refuse Authority; Dissatisfaction Rises Paris, April 4 (AP) —Premier Leon Blum went before the fihance com mittee of the Chamber of Deputies today to plead for powers to impose wh-at financial quarters likened to to talitarian discipline over French fin ance and industry. He asked with the cabinet’s formal approval for powers to effect by de free sweeping' changes, including what ROOSEVELT TIRADE, JAB AT OBJECTORS Slur About “Buying of Sen ate” Implies Voters Who Also Protested By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Washington, April 4. — President Roosevelt probably can afford to slur his opponents in Congress. They are his opponents anyway. It is more doubtful that he could so well afford to slur the whole rank an I file of voters who found fault with his government reorganization bill, and besought their various states, and districts’ senators and representative * to cast their ballots against it on Cap itol Hill.. The President comes pretty close to having a congressional majority a gainst him. In fact, he does have such a majority against him on some is sues. However, the home folk have stayed with him middling well. He appears to have lost a bit of popular support since last election day, but (Continued on Page Four.) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Tues ' day; somewhat wanner in south portion tonight; cooler in north portion Tuesday. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. financial experts said was tantamount to foreign exchange control and de valuation of the franc. But while the socialist premier ar gued that the danger of war had risen to a point demanding rigorous sacri fices, indications arose that he might not be able to get his program ap (Continued on Page Four.) H 5 SEE —i— Prominent California Wo man and Daughter Tor tured and Murdered Vorn Horn, Texas, April 4. — (AP) — Peace officers scoured the sun-baked west Texas country today for the killers who tortured a socially prom inent California woman and her daughter, clubbed them to death ani left their partially stripped bodies side by side on the desert. Dr. W. W. Waite, who performed an autopsy on the tody of Mrs. Weston Frome, 46, and her ?3-vear-old dsugh ter. Nancy, reported each knuckle of the girl’s right hand had been burned by a cigar or cigarette, and that thert were four other burns on the back of hei hand. Marks upon ner back, he f.nid/ind! cated some one had jumped up and (Continued on Page Eight.) TWO PAROLES ARE GRANTED BY HOEY Raleigh, April 4—<(AP)—Governor Hoey today paroled Jessee Lee, given 18 months in Johnston county in De cember for larceny of tobacco, and Bill Cullifer, convicted of transport in gwhisky in Pitt county in January, and given three months. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY HOUSE REBELLION THREATENS DEATH FOR WAGES, HOURS Leaders Fear Effort To Pass Labor Standards Meas ure With House in Present Mood DEPARTMENTS FOES ARE NOT SATISFIED They Demand Still Further Concessions Beyond Pre vention of Federal Control of Education and Permit ting Vote on Transfers by the President Washing-ton, April 4.—-(AF)—House opponents of the government reor ganization, bill won a new concession from administration leaders today when they agreed to an amendment exempting the Veterans Administra tion from any merger. Representative Warren, Democrat, North Carolina, author of the general reorganization provisions, said he saw no objections to such -an amendment and that it probaMy would be ap proved. Chairman Cochrane, Dcmoc'at, Mis souri, of the reorganization commit ee, said he would not opoose it. Fears of Veterans. A member of the House veterans committee, Representative Griswold Democrat, Indiana, said demand for exemption of the Veterans Admin 5 1 tration were based on fears that It might be placed in a proposed ne:/ department of weliare, and “put in a test tube on a she's.” Some congressmen said approval of an amendment excluding the Veterans Administration from the measure would open the way for proposals to exempt other dfehneiesr. They assert a 1 this raised the' possibility of log-roll ing among various groups that do not (Continued on Page Four i Turmoil In Commonsln Fisticuffs ■ London, April 4.—(AP) —Emanuel Shin well, a laborite member of Far-' liament, strode across the floor of the House of Commons today and slapped the face of Commander Robert Tat ton Bower, a Conservative member, just before the opening of foreign af fairs debate. The House was thrown into uproar by the almost unprecedented scene. Cabinet ministers indignantly shout ed at Shin well, "Get out!” The lk /corifce resumed his seat after admin istering the resounding slap. A remark by Bower, to which Shin well apparently took exception, sound ed like “Go to Poland,” although what was meant was not clear. The disorder indicated the nervous condition in the House arising from laborite demands that the Chamber lain government resign to permit an election test between the labor policy of collective security as against Prime Minister Chamberlain’s policy of bickering with dictators. Shinwell said he had acted “in a fit of temper,” apologized to the speaker and left the house. Bower also apologized to the house. Naval Bill Faces Fight By Senate Hull Advises Navy Be Left Free To Operate In All Parts of the World Washington, April 4. —(AP) —Con- flict over the billion dollar naval program shifted today to the com mittee which received from Secretary Hull advice that the navy be left free to operate in all parts of the world. The naval committee met in closed session to question high navy officers, but first Chairman Walsh, Democrat, Massachusetts, made public the sec retary of state’s recommendations. Hull declared that to restrict fleet operations within a "naval frontier” (Continued on Page Four.)
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