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irtNPEKSON, GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA. year HOOVER AND Hitler’s Bid For Chancellorship Is Fraustrated Again Apparently Unable to Com ply With President von Hindenburg's Con. ditions For Job COUNTER PROPOSAL FROM NAZI LEADER Whoever Gets Office Must Be Able To Command Majority in Reichstag, Hit ler Is Told, and That Ap pears To Be An Impossibi lity for Him •; • x. 22 «APi Adolf Ilit- ■ i t-,r the German chancellor bi frustrated once again. • ■■ .- •i- ihUv thought today as : • i • ■ of a le’ter to him from t • ’ .on Hindenburg leaked out !• Vi- understood that the prest- .ndnig to certain counter . r >:•• - advanced by Hitler in con . •on witn his acceptance of a man i S>i m a new cabinet, had - ••ta id that whoever gets the job he .-ute of a safe and cote , i- parliamentary majority. Th. i- something that Hitler can- • a.:, it appealed. Alfred Hugen ••rg the Nationalist party leader, and v ider> of the Bavarian party re nted overtures from Hitlers asso jte-. Hitlr's own party is the •jti2f-t 1.1 the Reichstag, but with - the.-e two others he cannot have . jitjurit - -. NEWSPAPER GROUP 10 DINE GARDNERS Farewell to * 4 Live-at-Home“ Governor To Be Given December 13 -t Nov. 22 -'M’i The newj :•> ' irernity of North Carolina ■ • • ;<n - rt'ut and Mrs. O. Max i'• ' <t a "livc-at-home" dinner | • i •'•1 in the dining hall of N. ''<»!<ege Tuesday evening. De f 'tl l John A Park, president of N >Ph Carolina Press Association •-'t today. newspaper men and wo- T’ ai be hosts to the more than • ;(:ng scribes expected for the nil i.t-elcct Franklin D. Roose ■l Nits. Roosevelt will he in- ■■ *•■! attend the affair, which will '■ bicmfwyp shrdi ctaoin cmfw rr • •it of operation of Governor ■ - 'live-at-home" program in ■tri< i elect ami Mrs. John C. B. -it-m, and laeutenant-Governor- A H Graham and Mrs. Gra «i. al-r> be invited. Eight Men Rescued On Fish Ship Lilith Loses Life I' } ing to Swim •V'hore In <H ig; h Laie oft Norfolk ' * v •' 22 <AP< Eight rm ii atioaid the fishing * lb»vei a bore on a bar , ■“ " Di li «i coast guard sta- tf-iuerj eatly today. The ‘ ‘ hfe m heroic effort • bote with a line. Need . , \ 'nt.ed out. for coast guards , r?i 1 ” ’* briches. buoy aboard the ,- r ' !,<l br-mght the eight re- A-h. " rn^r,rf "f ’he crew safely •• ■ „ . n darkm.s of midnight, i, . Si ''* blowing 40 mites an t - ‘ ‘ ' ’aging sea. the schoon- h , J ‘ thc l)ar TOO yards from f- >Uf I b. ’ l,eaV|lv - for she had ISO '• h aboard, she finally ”... • • •h« b;-r while the •v t ... ~ 1 ,l ’he rigging th.- . , '""•"k a lashed over Hrniirrsnn r HJ: L -£® xs * D WIKB ■BRVICB OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Spent $3,000 a Day Lk ■ i ■L 3 1 > w fl Wk HK ft ssl aH |Hk fl lam "th. aiw John Ahrons “Let John stay in jail until he | ?eta some sense, if he has any to get.” That’s what the father of John Ahrens, wealthy insurance executive of Little Rock, Ark., told police of Los Angeles when they informed him son had been arrested there. After the youth, shown above, had been charged with writing SSS in I worthless checks, police say he told them of the time four years i ago when he spent $90,000 in one month. The occasion was young i Ahren’s secret marriage to a radio entertainer with whom he eloped after flying from Little Rock to Memphis. Tenn. grangeameT SOUTH’S COTTON SUPREMACY SURE Natural Climate Makes It Superior, Farm Editor Tells Winston-Salem Convention LIQUOR TO RETURN, SPEAKER DECLARES Senator E. D. Smith, of South Carolina, Praised at Gathering; Assertion on Cotton Situation Based On Recent Survey of World Cotton Conditions Winston-Salem. Nov. 22. —lAP>—An assertion that the South will not lose its place in the world’s cotton pic ture. expression of a belief that ”11- iuor is coming back." and words of oraise for Senator E. t). Smith, of South Carolina, were given today be fore the National Grange in annual session here. Dr. Cully A. Cobb, of Atlanta, as sociate editor of the Progressive Far mer. told the Grange delegates that he South will not lose “its place in the world's cotton picture." and based hi sasaertion on his latest summary on conditions in other cotton produc ing countries. He said the South ha i a natural climatic conditio nthat rets it apart as the most superior cotton praduc ■ ing area in the wprid- defaulted sheriff FREED FROM PRISON RaMgta Nov. —(API —AdP< Ing an » petition signed by citfem of Edgecombe county, Gov- • i emor Gardner today paroied John D. Lancaster; former sheriff of ► Edgecombe, who was sentenced in February, IML to serve two to > five years in State’s Priori here for embezzlement. * I wm chftTVßd. with en* 1 bwUM PM* to a’totoJ • -- - 4- ? » ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPR d ROOSEVELT iBUDGET BODY NOT FAVORABLE TOWARD LUMPING REVENUE ! . - Think Highway Money Should Be Kept Separate From State's Gene, ral Fund Incomes ' NOT LIKELY TO BE ANY SURPLUS LONG i t Highway Revenues Have ; Been Shrinking Past Year Same as Other Tax ; Sources; Some Members Os Commission Quoted on Their Views Daily l)l>i|intih llnr<*nii. In the Sir Walter Hotel. iw J HAMKIJH* 11.1. ! Raleigh. Nov. 22. Although the i State Highway Commission would i probably stand to gain more by a i lumping of all State revenues into a | single fund than would any other ! agency, the proposal suggested sev : eral days ago by Attorney General . Dennis G. Brummitt that all the ,«highway fund revenue be dumped in j to a single general State fund has i not. met with a very enthusiastic re- j [ ception by the State Advisory Budget , i Commission in session here now. j | Most of the members of this com i mission who are willing to be quoted i are quite decidedly against this plan. | Mr. Brummitt suggested that the I I surplus in the State highway fund | | (Continued on Page Three.) SAYS GOVERNMENT j CANNOT MAKE JOBS Senator Davis Urges Public i Works Fund In Address- f ( ing Labor Meet i Cincinnati. Nov. 22. IAP> Senator | I James J. Davis, of Pennsylvania, told ! the American Federation of J convention here today that govern- | i n ents in themselves cannot secure 1 Ji t'remployment and it'vocatt-J. crea-t ; lion of a Federal sinking fund to pro-' , vide for public works in periods of, I depression. [ “Some people." he said, “seem to : thuik that the government, if it only I would, could give every man a job. ’ Tins is one of the nwny delusions I that must be guarded against. No : rcaernment. not even the richest, can i perform the impposible." i Terming public works a stimulus to business and saying that “the gov ernment has done a* much as it could." he added that “I believe with all my heart the creation of a sink in gfund to be used by the govern ment in times of depression pro viding for the erection of much need ed public works, is a modest proposal, but would do much to restore business confidence and aid labor." Says House Is To Pass Beer Bill Speaker Garner Thinks That And Economies Will Bal ance U. S. Budget Washington. Nov. 22.—(AP) —Speak er Garner told newspaper men today that In his opinion the House “will pass a beer bill at the short session,” but refrained from any forecast ak to the probable time. Gamer said also that with a beer bill and redaction in government ex penses, It might ’be possible to secure a balanced budget without passing other forms of taxation. Asked what percentage of beed he favored, the Democratic vice-presi deniial-eiect. said: "Within the constitution." “About 2.75 or three percent?" he was asked. “Somewhere around that,” Gamer replied. The speaker gave a “guess" that le galized beer for revenue would bring in to $300,000,000 annuai- . IE- • PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 22, 1932 Bailii PRESIDENT AND HIS SUCCESSOR EXCHANGE VIEWS —1 i Al — O /A V T z 11 - ■--»! .JIRW A\ • T Am j fl i- x >; ♦'■■■■J' ■ ..«>'■/ X fl J 1 ■ DEBTS OWED TO THE UNITED STATES (WITH INTEREST I’OR THE ENTIRE 60 YEARS) BTHt-ti. Debtor Nations Principal Interest Total Great Britain 1.C00.000.000 $ (’.505.965.0(K> $11,105,965,000 , > ' ' France 4,025.000.000 2.522.674.000 6,487.674.000 W Italy 2.042,000.000 355.677.000 2,407.677,000 t . ■ j'T Belgium 417.780.000 310.000.000 ,727.780.000 ' Poland 178.560.000 257.OOO.O&O 435.560.000 1 , _> Czechoslovakia ... 115.000,000 197,800,000 $11,800,000 Jugoslavia 62,850.000 2.2,327.000 95J77.000 Rumania 44,590.000 77,916.000 122.506,000 Finland 9.000.000 12.695.000 21,695,000 ‘ IJthuama 6.000.000 8.500.000 14.500,000 Latvia 5,775.000 ’ 8.183.000 13,958,600 ; Hungary 1,939,000 2,754,000 4.693,000 | Total $11,522,354,000 $10,621,185,000 $22,143,539,000 This composite picture shows national debt question, as the art- naies, is unprecedented « M Amert- President Hoover and President- ist visions it. The dramatic meet- can history. The chart tha e|ect Roosevelt in consultation at ing of the two men, who until debtor nations of the United the White House over the inter- election day, were political ene- States and the amounts each owes Senator Reynolds Attorney For Lea Raleigh. Nov. 22.—(AP)— Hubert ' R. Reynold*, senator-elect from | North Carolina, said here today hr had heen “approached" to repre sent Luke i.ea in the Nashville, I Tenn., publisher and financier's I fight to eecajH* a prison seutencr J in this" State. < Reynolds indicated hl* services wen wanted in the event the Su preme Cnurt of the United States dr.Tcs ta;-’s petition for an appeal and t’i.« Stale cf North Carolllna start* extradition proceedings. 2MENCONVIciEO ’ Os SECOND DEGREE Jury Finds Fred Winkler and Paul Spencer Guilty In Greensboro Nov. 22. (AP* Fred Winkler and Paul Spencer were con victed today of second degree mur der with recommendations for mercy in the fatal shooting here October 1 of Herman Smith. The jury received the case yesterday. Judge W. F. Harding did not im mediately pass sentence and the two prisoners were remanded to jail. Smith, a bystander in a store here, was shot as two men attempted to hold up the proprietor. The store-keeper, J. S. Walters, tes tified during the trial that both de fendants were the robbers, but the pair denied any connection with the slaying or robbery. They did admit, however, participation in a number of other robberies and Spencer confess ed to Having served a term in prison for highway robbery. NEAR CAPACITY IN " SPINNING INDUSTRY Washington. Nov. 22.— (Al‘) The cotton spinning industry wax reported today by the Census Btr reaa to have operated during .Oc tobehr at 97 percent of capaidty on a single shift basis, compared with 94-6 percent for September thte year, and 55.1 percent for October last year. HEATHER ! FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair, slightly warmer in ex treme west portion tonight; Wed nesday fair and wanner; Thurs day probably rain in east and cen tnd. and rain changing to snow flurries in extreme west portion: colder Thiuaday afternoon and night. , - , _ _ ►w.er STUDY 1 Debt Reduction Problem I Considerably Simplified ( By Solon f s Calculations i Uncle Sam Cancelled Prin-; cipal of Obligations for All Nations Soon After The War HAVE BEEITPAYING ON INTEREST ONLY Soon as Paying Time Came, European Debtors Began Trying to Revenge on the United States, and It Is Cut Or Cancellation In Inter est Sought Now By CHARLES I’. STEWART Washington. Nov. 22. Europe's war debts to the United States have been juggled to such an extent that even the very few experts who really un derstand them cannot explain them comprehensively to any one but other ■f; ' exports, as highly ', - • > skilled as them |l ■ ■ ? j ’ '<7 HowH 1 of Nebr<*>- ? f'jPflflL has reduced the problem to a form which he is able to answer it quite simply, piovided one M .: is content to accept it in general terms - with all confusing figures omitted, (Continued on Page Seven) 4 if I ■ I— —* ■■ Newlywed Held For • Fatality Baltimore. 'Ma.. Nov. 23. -(AP) — W. R. Harns, of Zebulon, N. C.. a honeymoon motorist, was held in $2,- 500 bail at Elkridge. Baltimore suburb today in connection with thte 'Heath ! of Walter Hannan, 52, k for the State Roads Commission - Harmon was struck by Harris’ au tomobile yesterday on the Washing ton Boulevard. State Policeman Char les Durham said Hannan- was sur veying a stretch of road 011 the boule vard when an automobile containing the honeymoon couple, bound for Baltimore, pulled out to pass a truck I and. knocked him down, I Dtspirtrh DEBT PROBLEM , \ essel Capsizes; I No Crew Sighted Washington. Nov. 22.—(AP) 1 The Navy received a report today from It* hydographic office at Nor folk which said the fishing schoon er Rappahannock had capsized half a mile off Smith Point at the mouth of the Potoinatc Fixer In Mary'land. The re;H>rt said no nunilwr of the crew had lu-en sighted. No other detail* were given, ills HAS ’ COME TO SENSES Wife Tells How Dry Agent Recognized Her in Ashe ville Sanitarium r-r *3 Asheville. Nov. 22. (AP» Mrs. Raymond Robins, wife of the prohibi tion advocate, who for more than two months roamed the Western North Carolina mountains as “Reynolds Rogers." a strange beared character, today described rhe scene she said tpok place when her husband recog nized her yesterday. The colonel, shorn of his beard, and no longer wearing tho overalls suit he adopted wehn he took up his resi dence at Whittier. 60 miles from here remained under the care of phy sicians.. Mrs. Robins said she opened the (conversation with Robins by asking lhe social worker about his home in Florida. I “Then.” she said, "without any process of reasoning. I went over and held his hand. Slowly- but steadily the change came, until ' sud'denl.’J® he looked into my face and called me ■Margaret.' He then turned to Dr. Griffin (Dr. Mark A. Griffin, psy chiatrist in charge of the case) and I said: 'Doctor, I am Raymond Robins, and this is my wife, Margaret Dreier Robins.' ” Mns. Robins also revealed during the interview that her husband, de spite his work for the advancement of prohibition, had originally opposed the eighteenth amCAdfllent. SNOW. Elizabeth C4tj. Nov. 22.—(AP)— Local firemen said a flurry of I „ anew feti here at 1 a. ae. today, - PUBLISHED EVERY AFTBBI4OOM EXCBPT SUNDAY. 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COEXI THREE WAYS OPEN ’ ARE SUGGESTED BY i SECRETARY MILLS — Joint Program For Congress, Hoover's Own Recom. mendation, and Roose velt's Own Idea ROOSEVELTIX) MEET LEADERS WEDNESDAY , Official Washington Filled With Expectancy as Hour for Precedent-Shattering Conference Arrives; Dc- ' seated President Cails Successor In Wnshingiun. Nov 22. (APi Wi h i his own war debt ideas in form. Pre - | .dent H<x>ver awaitcxl the arrival P>- j dn_v of Franklin I). Knosovclt in hope of evolving with him a joint progra 11 for dealing with international finan cial obligations. There was cx|M‘ctancy in official • Washington as the tune for this afl -1 ernoon’s pi rceuent-shottcring confcr j cnee between a defeated president 1 mid his sncevssor-elect •approached. I Their meeting time was 1 p. m. in t the histoi ie laneoln study. As Mr. Roosevelt himself headed for the While House this morning from New York, his latest formal word was that the conference should be wholly personal and informal, and , that responsibility for debt action should rest with present authorities I until he himself takes office. ; Although none, including the Presl- I dent, who guarded closely his thought could foresee the outcome of thalr I meeting, one of tie four men who ' will attend Secretary .Mills-- held I three possibilities to be open. He llste | *-.1 them as a joint program for pre- I mentation to Congress; recommends- I Hons to be sent to Captiol Hill by Mr. Hoover alone, or suggestions trans mit t<d by Mr. Roosevelt to l»rmo- I cratic congressional leaders, with j whom he will meet tomorrow. (Poland Now Asks : Moratorium Upon i Debts Owed Here Waahintfton, Nov. 2’!-—’AP» Poland today joined the nation* nerving notice then want cmvdfi eratlon of the debt question. The Polish amha»*ad<>- --’'rd »n Secretary Stimson and tnlorna ed hint that hl«* country Mould M‘nd a note later asking for an extension of the moratorium and reconsideration of the problem. Poland i* due to pay S-lJJ'r.!,- I 9WI on December 15. The filtered totals $3.070,5®0; the rent is prill; ci pal War Debts Situation Is Outlined Data To Be Discuss* ed by Roosevelt and Hooxer Is Outlined : In Brief WaKhtoigton, Nov. 22^—(AP)- Here iu brief i* the war debt tifc» nation involved tn the Hoover* ! elt conference today: T«’V»I debU SILSOSJWI4«I. ptud SI»F,bOO,(MM) in interest pwitpooed un Jer the moratorium. .Total paid by foreign nation*, K2.827 r 5»M1J*97. Moratorium under which 15 debtor countries obtained one t year's suspension of payments ex pires December 15. | Four countries—Great Britain, * France, Belgium and Czecbo ’ Slovakia—have petitioned for. an other aaspemdon pending new •tody of problem* looking to. re vision. Congre*a i* on record against another moratorium, cancellation or revhdon. Both Mr. Hoover and Mr. Boo*e volt have declared tn recent pub ic utterniMte* aghinst. cancel to tion. 1 Mr. Hoover a year ago recom meauted re-creation, of the war debt commiMdon—a reeommenda- , tian rejected by Congress