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JURORS WEIGH CHURCH SCANDAL
A strand jury report has been returned i:; 3'uncie, Inii.. with charges
involving the Rev. G. Lemuel Conway, 55. shown above with his
wife and live children. Miss Hel^n Huffman, below, left, accused!
the pastor of making improper a Ivv.nces u- he- during a:i auto ride.
The pastor denied the accusation. The grand jury a!so heard William
Auraad, right, below, choir leader in Kev. Conway's church. The j
pas.or, according to witnesses, created a furor by striking Aurand
during church service.
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N. C. Agriculture
Department Still
Is Under Fire
The 'ri.r•>-.-Wv<; H ironu
Sir Y'aher Hr.ti-1
RALEIGH. Feb. 14.—Commis
sioner of Aviculture \V. A. Gra
ham has v.-on the first hatlle in
the perennial campaign to dives:
him of most of the powe. h.»
wields over his department, but
he still faces a hard ?>\ht ro keep
the agriculture department in
tact. since there is a veil organ
ized bloc in the legislature
intent upon reorganizing his of
fice and reducing his duties t«
those of a departmental cleric.
The proposal to divert the ad
ministrative powers over to an
appointive board of agricuUme
is not new. but this year t'ie
movement apparently has more
strength than formerly, since pro
ponents of the plan clami that it
Avoultf save something like 520,
000 a year, besides bringing
about a greater efficiency in the
department. This session t\o
economy feature, which is dis
puted by opponents of the mens*
ure, -is more important factor
than formerly.
The guiding hand behind the
movement this year is Senator
John Sprunt Hill of Durham, who
believes that the transference of
research work and the tes' farms
to State college, and giving to
the board of agriculture complete
authority, would not only elimi
nate many duplications hut al-o
advance the agricultural inter
ests of the state.
An agriculture sub-committee
drew up a bill along these lir.e>
and presented it to the full joint
agricultuure committee. How
ever, a majority of members of
the full committee held that the
bill was too drastic, ar.d that the
virtual elimination of an elected
officer and the turning over of
his major duuties to an appoint
ive board was a dangerous step
to the short ballot.
The full committee decided
overwhelmingly not to introduce
the measure as a committee bill,
but less than 30 minutes later
Senator sHUl and Blue. me?rbers
of the senate agriculturue com
mittee, dropped the sub-commit
tee's bill in the senate hopper on
their own responsibility. -Mean
while ,it is known that Represen
tative McEachern and several
outer memoers 01 uie nouse turn
mittee are preparing to introduce '
a biil embodying some of the I
sub-committee's recommendations, j
The latter measurue is expect- !
od to include the main principle ;
of the sub-committee bill, but |
•Will not strip the commissioner ,
of all his authority and duties. [
The>e are members of both
houses who believe that the agri- j
jcultme department should be re- >
j organized, but they are not will
j ing to go as far as Senators Hill \
and Blue, nor are they willing to '
j support legislation that would be (
i tantamount to abolishing an elec
tive office-holder.
The Hill-Blue bill is generally |
expected to bear the brunt of the
opposition, although the present i
agricultural set-tip has many sup- .
noittr.-, anu is extremely doubt- r
J ful if either measure can fce '
• pus' txl through either of the two !
i houses. Anything smacking of a
I short ballot is certain to run into I
j powerful opposition in the pres- !
j ent assembly, and there is also a
strong belief among members '
! that each department must neces- i
: sariiy have some form of cen- !
I tro!ize dauthority.
j I'nder the Hill-Blue bill, the ,
i department of agriculture would
' retain only regulatory duties 1
such as gas and oil inspection, j
• dairy and food control, while the '
i agricultural experiment station 1
} of X. C. State college would con j
trol and direct all test and ex- J
periniental farms, research proj- |
ects pertaining to agriculture and
rural life, drainage work, and all
promotional and educational
work of an agricultural nature.
Senator Brown of Pender is
one of the most outspoken op
ponents of the movement to re
duce the operations of the agri
culture department, contending
that agriculture in North Caro
lina would not benefit from the
"tearing down of one institution !
and the buuilding up of another.
"There are many others, how
ever, equally determined that no
drastic change in the set-up of
the agriculture department would
benefit the agricultural interests
in any way.
TEAM HAD SIX ALL-STARS
ASHLAND, Ore. — (UP). —
Coach Hobson of the Southern
' Orejfon Normal school does not
lack big names in his basketball
i line-up. Six men on the squad
; were named on the al!-state, all
| star team when in high school.
There is no substitute for
newspaper advertising.
Arrested in New Lindbergh Plot
-^Va00?, chet;k,whie"
ture persons who threatened to kidnap Col Cha-les A Lindhi °t?~
second son. he and his friend Norman Harvey (left) and Hanf^
wife were arrested. A demand of $50,000 was made on T in5k
in DecembeV ami the demands were sealed down to m.OOO S!
resultant ruse worked by pohcev Bryant claims hp iu«t ,
b« passing the stump and found the check. happened to
C0M61NAWN
SALES TAX IS
MORE POPULAR
Grc"" Framing Revenue
B?I1 Still Working
on Data
. -•< Hnriwi
;4l- WTitUrr !?•»!•••
RALEIGH, Feb —
• uVcomrr.itteo of the joint
n-nce committee now writing a
l"Z revenue bill has no vet *ot
tr n t, any *e~ious consulemUon
of a- v form ot sale.*: l;i.. anil 1
■'V,' eti-a^l in cornnnring the
budget revenue bill wlih l.ia •
, ;. ^uo act and in making the
.•han—". " think,? should he made,
f 1^slrb,«
i:V- «0Ri=sttt«f can a'""
v V
• "v'c- ' '•••-. «>'•
cd iron r.M other source8 in#';
%r to iVterailne how much it
r-.»sr get from w
Th** total state bud^c-.
hei'ig considered by the .aIip*
nr ntions committees totpls ap
$24,000,000 11 ym
np\t two vearb, even
Ht'h the drastic cuts' in salaries
and expenses that are P™I»»
r.ut indications are ^
strong effort will bo made to
«ypt the state to tak> • tfVr.m
Tn<t of the emended school t. n
S ?1 ;t *£ ^ o'Ta'e
:5h? eSSt months state-support
td hoo! term. If that is clone
Vt lerst $4,000,000 more jU
i-o added to the total J>u^11;
which will increase it to
000 0C0 a year. ,
present indications are, ho\\
! fLt- when the finance sub
committee gets through checking
over the suggested revenue bill
that it will not produce much
more than SlO.OOOOOO n yea.,
or perhaps not even that mucn
The budget commission estimate
thot the bill it recommended
would produce $20,692,000 .a
year. But this bill contained in
creases over 1031 schedules to
•replace" the approximately fc4,
000,000 that will b®los*
the repeal of the 1 o cents
property tax. Present "dKatlons
are that these increasesxvilnot
he made with the result that if
the schedules are left about as
they are now, the bill J* ill
yield more than $16,500,000. I
any existing schedules are lowejr-:
edy the bill will not raise more
than 810,000,000. ,
If the finance sub-committe
finds it cannot raise more than
§16,000,000 from all othei|
sources—income franchise, c .
poration income and license taxes
! it will then have to adopt a
sales tax to make "V^T$24
irg $8,000,000 needed foi a **».
supported ^ghf month^ school
term as seems increasingly like
lv the committee will have t
add another $4,000,000 to it»
revenue. The only way it can,
do this, according to most o
the opinion here, is by increasing I
the sales tax to produce $12,000.-1
000 instead Of $8,000,000.
; In spite of what the finance:
sub-committee is doine' or may j
'do, the belief is growing that ai
(sales tax will have to be enacted,j
even if the state does not takej
j over the eight-months school
term. As a result several groups
1 are already busy working on'
various types of salea tax bills.!
Several of these will probably b<>!
introduced cither before or after
the finance committee bill is of-'
t'ered. It is understood that sev
eral members of '-he house are)
working on another luxury tax
bil lthnt will differ considerably
from the luxury tax bill already (
introduced by Senator Hinsdale:
of Wake county. St'II another
group in the senate i:; preparing
a combination sales tax 1 »il 1 that
will levy a sales rax on lvmnu-l
facturuers, retail sale:; a«u! con-.;
tsin brackets applying t> r.ivuui
ies as well.
This bill, it is understood, will
| levy a two per cont sal":; tax on j
t gros*; retail sales, } cctii ateci 1c!
i yield a*.our. .'"'S.OyO.'JO'J a yea.-.
It will also levy a prc<:u lion tax
i oji manufacturers of about two j
, i'.iill , or two-tenthr. of one per )
cent, estimated to vield about!
yi,!'60,000 to $2,000,000. This:
poition of the bili is little more!
(than tiie production tax plan of
jfered by Senato rClcrrieuv. ox I'o
!wan, scaled down i'rc.n five mills,
j to two mills. The biil will also!
contain special brackets ranging!
i from 5 to ]0 per ecnc on sale s j
of cigarettes, cigars, soft drinks, I
i bottled dr!ni:<, theater damis-ions)
and other eommoditier classed aj j
'luxuries .the tax to be paid byi
the consumer, to yield apyroxi-i
mately $2,000,000 more. Alto-1
get her, the revenue derived from!
all three sources would amount
to about $21,000,000, the amount
needed to balance the budget
and take over the eight months
school term.
It is contended that this tax
would be more eouitable than a
single tax on retail sales of four
per cent which would be neces
sary to yield an equal amount of
11*venue. It ij believed this plan
will receive j-erious thought.
-RELIEF CAME TOO LATE
CHICAGO. (UP)—Relief came
a few minuses too late for a pov
01 ty-stricken man who waited in
a bread line here. Just as he was
to be fed, V/ilfred Thompson, 56,
weakened by exposure and lack
of nourishment, fell dead.
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When Janet Hill and Rolf Carlyle fell in love they
agreed they couldn't be married until they had
saved some money. It meant movies instead of
theatres, bus rides instead of dinner dates. Sav
ing was slow work.
AND THEN ROLF MET ANOTHER GIRL
Janet's problems were complicated when she lost
her job... and found a new one. What happened
makes "One I Love," by Laura Lou Brookman.
an exciting, swift-moving serial. It tells the story
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of Janet and Rolf and a dozen other interesting
characters. This new serial will be the next to
appear in