Henderson daily dispatch., December 02, 1932, Image 1

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GATEWAY to
1 CENTRAL
CAROLINA.
nineteenth year
legislature may
BLOCK CHANGE IN
STATE TEXTBOOKS
M embers ot Assembly
(. losely Watching State
Board of Education's
Actions Now
board mayrefuse
rO ORDER CHANGES
Trick Seen in Statement by
Dr. A. T. Allen About
Prices Being Not More
Than Half Present Ones;
Says Adoptions Would Be
Gradual as to Time
ll* llurcat
la thr air Unllrr Hvlrl
m J •• a ISKKHX |LL
I "••• - Although i hi- .Rate
I Mi.c.it iuii this morning
* i'* o»: the thrci- new series
-ii"hv textbook.-. recommended
< Elementary Textbook
i . —»• ■ r after having heard the
■l'aivi of the publisher* pre
rt*uf the boot's ye. ter
• i! i i.-iuit by the ho.n d is ex
-»’.efil days. The Ixmid
■ ar.y of the hid.s present*
■•■ Hi. all bide and award an*
C' it.act to the company now i
•it- State contract,
i c neniSi r* of the S-ate Hoard ot
v . . r. ,te Governor O Max Oard
•**nant Governor It. T Foun
\ -uir ev General Dennis G.
a '■ Secretary of State James
i ( •;••--. State Treasurer Charles
! i ain State Auditor Baxter
ta• and State Superintendent of
iii-tructioti A. T Allen,
has been and still is a good
'v'ontinned on Page Four;
Accused Slaver
Submits Case In
Cumberland Court
N
■•• II- ’ Do-. J t AP» J. L.
trial here for the slaying of
Kiddle on November 11 dur
ogument ovrr a debt, pleaded
■< econd degree murder today,
it'et the State hail '• rested its
• Son*cnee was not passed imme
•! •■ piea wa.s accepted by the Skte
. Ige Walter L. Small indicated
old pass sentence later in the
Dr. Few Is Named
I lead of Southern
College Society
*> .♦ .ins. 1... Dec. 2 *AP>
v >n of Colleges and Sec
' S< iuii!* of the Southern States
•ig '.-sion today elected as
• Di William President Few.
•r ' ; Duke* Uni veil tty. He
tis t >'il front the floor and
• n -moating committee’s se-
F I. Vey. pn-sident of the
•v off Kentucky by a vote of
. :r> 1-2,
Green Will
Head
l. 8. Labor
Hedges Fight for L n
cinployment Insur
ance; Meet Next In
ashin^ton
•ii Ohio. Dec 2. t API -
''<teen today was unanimous
pie-iidrnt of the American
• 1 ■'• of I,ubor for the ninth
Utiv- yeiil.
' ***** :n his acknowledging
' *’ reiterated his intention
• v,g ,-„u, methods to gain ae*
..t 'he federation's program
•■niployment insurance and the
ii week.
1 lungton chosen os the 1933
city. decision to meet
• r influenced by plans to
' neii a memorial to Samuel
• f“r many years head of the
' !* iatioii.
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DAYS 1
1 CHIUSTMAS
Hptthwatm OatUt Bf&patrb
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OF TH* ASSOCIATED PRBBS
"Al’s” Cadenza for Charity
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Former Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York ts shown as he made
Hall New C York ,0 f ng e * ,le T at Community Sing held m the Town
tht LVoTk . 8 T Z\ chant -v- Not only did the Hapov Warrior iugg’#
campaign' SXiV** Th ,g £rf thp scm f b ‘\' wirh h,s rendition of his famous
campaign song The Sidewalks of Now York.” Encored enihusiavii
rally, he came through with a stanr.a of -The Bmv.-rv " With \; „„ ,: r
stage Are. Mr*. 1-rank A Vsrd< riip, sp, n-.r of the aiTair and Proiessor
John I{. Jones (right).
General Von Schleicher
Asked To Form Ministry
By Germany’s President
To Form Cabinet
* -*■ M ;
. , HHf !
General von Schleicher
G“n*>r<)! Kutt von Schiichet. known
as the “mystery man’T. in German
politics, has been commissioned by
President vop Hindenburg to form a
new German cabinet, succeeding the
von Papen government, which resign
ed after the national elections last
montn.
NEW YORK WOMEN
WONT Sff HOOVER
Coming To Protest Method
of Handling Approach
ing Hunger Marchers
Washington. Dec. fAP)—-Indica
tion was given at the White House
today that a group of socially promi
nent New York women, who have re
quested tin audience with President
Hoover to protest against present
plans for handling demonstrators en
route to the national capital w(JI not
be received by the chief executive, but
will talk to one of his secretaries.
Theodore Joslin, one of Mr. Hoov
er's secretaries, said he had received
e telegram from the women request
ing an appointment. He said how
ever, that he intended to talk to the
group and did not “believe they will
sea the President.”
“Anything pertaining to th-’
ed hunger marchers,” Jo-’dii. •-'yWJ-. *•''
a matter wholly for the IMitrljpi of
Columbia government and not -or tne
President.” _
>Ysked if the telegram hid .. iron
shown to Mr. Hoover. Joslin he
would “rather not discuss that.
FOUR BANK ROBBERS
GET 15 YEARS EACH
Lexington, Dec- 2 (AF)--Judge
W. F. Harding today sentenced
four High Point men convicted
yeuterday of robbing the
Bank'and Truat Company at J >en '
too to IS yours in State's Prison,
NEWSPAPER
ONLY DAILY
Mystery Man in Republic's
Politics Commissioned
by von Hindenburg
To Act Now
STEP NO SURPRISE
IN BERLIN CIRCLES
Has Been Expected To Fol
low Von Papen Govern
ment into Power; Will
Occupy Chancellorship
Himself if He Succeeds In
Forming New Cabinet
Berlin. Dec. 2. (AP) - President
von Hindenburg today asked General
Ku:t vr>n Schleicher, “mystery man”
in German politics, and at present
the defense minister, to form a cab
inet for the republic.
General von Schleicher has been re
garded as the almost certain choice
sot the chancellorship ever since
Chancellor Franz von Papon’s junker
government stepped out after last
month's elections.
The general was summoned to the
President’s study this morning, and,
alter a conference there, walked out
with a mandate to form a govern
ment.
If successful. !u* wa- commission
ed to occupy the chancellorship hint;
self instead of the defense ministry
he held during von Pa pen's tenure
of government by decree.
TELEPHONE AND GAS
RATES 10 COME UP
Commission Hopes to Fin
ish With Power Compan
ies In Few Days pi
Dally Dlapatrt Bares*,
la the Mr Walter Hotel-
BY J. C. RnKKEHVILL.
Raleigh. Dec. 2. Expecting to com
plete its rate reduction agreement
with the Tidewater Power Company
of Wilmington this week, the State
Corporation Commission is nearing
the end of its electric power rate re
duction negotiations. It will then take
up gas and telephone rates and hopes
to reach several rate reduction agree
ments with these companies by. Christ
mas, if possible.
A veritable avalanche of protests
has been received by the; cbtnmission
from telephone subscribers - against
the extra charge made by the tele
phone companies for desk sets, or so
called French style telephones with
(Continued on Rage Night)
NORTH CAROLINA TO
SEEK MORE RELIEF
Raleigh* Dec- 2,—(AP)—North
Carolina's second formal request
for Federal funds for relief work
, will be made to the Reconatrue
tlon Finance Corporation next
week, Dr. Fred Morrison, State
relief director, said today.
The request will be for funds
for use in December and the
amount which will be asked has
pot been decided, he said.
PUBLISHED IN THIS gRCTION QF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFT!
State Aids
N.Y. City To
Halt Crisis
Extra Session of Leg
islature Called To
Validate Pay Cuts
In City
Albany. N. Y., Dec. 2. (AP* The
State moved quickly today to help
the government of New York City
avert what was called a threatened
financial crisis.
Acting Governor Herbert H Leh
man. after a conference that lasted
into the small hours of the morning,
ing announced he would call an ex
traordinary session of the legislature
next Friday.
The object Is to consider a proposal
to restore control oVer salaries now
fixed by State law to the city gov
ernment so that pay cuts may be put
into effect. How many of the 14H 000
employees of the nation's largest city
would he affected by proposed cuts
was not known, but one estimate was
that 520.000.000 might be slashed from
the 1033 budget by this mean*.
Bankers have refused to lend more
money to the city and unless retrench
ment is ordered.
ROOSEVELT HURRIES BACK
IN’ FACE OF THE CRISIS
Warm Springs. Ga.. Dee. 2.- -IAP)*
Frankltn D. Roosevelt arranged today
_______ ; ; i
(Continued on Page Eight.)
$2,000,000
In creases
Are Asked
in j c. B.tixiMtviu,.
Unity l)l4|Mit<k llnrrnn.
In the «l* KVnitre Hotel
Raleigh, Dec. 2 Having finished
.ts hearings ol the requests of the
various State departments end insti
tutions for their fiscal needs for the
next two years, the Advisory Budget
Commission now is facing Sts most
difficult task the adjusting of these
requests to the revenue in sight for
the next, two years.
The various departments and insti
tutions, including the University and
all State educational iastltutlo"s with
the exception of the public schools,
are operating tnis year on an allot
ment of approximately $5,126,000. or
only about 70 per cent of their origi
nal apprc(priat!on!% These depart
ments and ii't*4tutionft were a slid
(Continued on Page Three.)
Committee
Balks On
Wet Plans
Washington. Dec. 2. fAP> The
House Judiciary Committee, consider
ing the Democratic prohibition re
peal resolution, was unable to reach
an agreement at this morning's ses
sion. and will meet late in the daj to
continue its discussion.
Chairman Summers told newspaper
men that the meeting "is not offi
cial,” but that efforts were being
made by the members composing the
committee to reach an agreement on
w-hat they are going U. ao.
He referred to the fact that the
committee is meeting between ses
sions of Congress, and that, accord
ingly. members feel they have no of
ficial authority.
AW ILL
Rogers
\7 p sgys:
Beverly Hills. Calls„ Dec. 2— We
haven't got enough work to do to
go round, so it looks like they are
finally going to try and more
evenly distribute it by having a
five-day week and six-hour day.
I see now where the Federation of
Labor and almost every one are
for it.
All this after three years of
starvation. We are a couwntry
that everything has to be proved
to us-
Look at the sales tax? That
Is coming just ns sure ns shoot
ing. bat you couldn't get the gays
in the Inst Congress to admit It
We hadn’t suffered enough yet.
Well, the Lame Ducks meet
Monday, and that’s why they are
lame. Is because their constitu
ents when thinking ifaster than
they was.
k Yours, WILL.
►N, pBCEMBER .2, 1932
Britain Warns Os Limits
On American Goods Should
Debt Payments Be Forced
NEVADA EXACTS DEATH PENALTY [
Tr - HI jpT
i
Forty-one witnesses looked on
through double-thick plate glass
windows, above, when the state
of Nevada claimed its fifth capi
tal punishment victim by lethal
i gas in the death cell at Carson
City. Nevada is the only stale i
Deficit on Nov. 30
Hits $751,311,422
Washington, Dec. 2.— (AT) —The
government tended five months of
IU '9Xt fiscal year on November
tO with a deficit of *751,51 1,422,
amt a (rnu public debt of 930,900,-
015.83 C.
The gro»s debt had Increased
more than *3,000.000,000 alnee No
vember SO, 1031, when It amounted
to *17,310,026 054.
The debt, compared with a pre
war debt on March 31, 1917, of SI.-
282,044,648. and the peak war debt
on August 31, 1019, of *26.506,70!,-
648.
During the five month* of the
present year, the government lias
collected front all sources *630,884.
151 and has spent SI. 132,205,503.
SATiSFACTORY BEER
MEASURE UNLIKELY
|
High Enough Alcoholic Con.
tent To Create Demand
Would Be Opposed
WINE INDUSTRY KICKS
If Four Fteremt Beer In tira»ted,
Wine Companies Wait Fight
Percent Wine; Ini|>os*ible
Under Amendment
By CHARLES I’. STEWART
Washington. Dec 2 Opening of the
"beer hearing’ by the ways and
means committee of the House of Re
presentatives reveals Horn the very
oilteet wji.it the result of all prohibi
tion modificatson efforts is sure to
be while the eighteenth amendment
remains in ■ the ’ constitution.
Either *-
1 1. Conflicting demands by different
•interests which hope to profit from
i modification will prevent modifica
tion altogether.
Or - . *
2. The onlyf modification of which
there is any possibility whatever will
be insufficient to effect any r material
improvement in present conditions.
Tlie representatives’ ways and
'means committee, as most folk doubt
less know, is the congressional group
which frames revenue raising mea
isures.
The purpose of its pending hearing
•is to place on beer a tax at a rate
(Continued on Page Seven)
;Murder Charges
Against Two Are
Dropped In Nash
Nashville. Dec. 2 (AP)—Judge
Claytfon Moor* presiding in Nash
iCounty Superior Court, today ordered
’a nol pros with leave in the cases of
Burley Ward and William Warbritten,
who faced murder charges hn the
death of Richard Base here. Elia
Langley, 'a material witness, also was
freed- The action came on reeom.
mendstion of Solicitor Don Gilliam.
•
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTI&UOOE
EXCEPT BPNDAT.
i
Using gas for Ever
ett Mull of Morgantown, N. C.,
the doomed prisoner, convicted of
murdering a man at Las Vega i
in June, 1931, smiled as he waved
good by td the crowd of witnesses.
I Then he slumped over dead.
HINSDALE’S DENIAL
IS NOT CONVINCING
There Are Definite Indies,
lions Os Effort For Leg.
islative Blocs
NO FURTHER DENIALS
Assemhl.viutu Named Have Been In
Raleigh This W'erk But Made
No Outward Effort Jo Cou»t
iwact Recent; Reports
Dallx Utapiifefc Bams,
la tS*- Sir Walter Hotel.
«T .1. C. U.tSKKHVILL
I Raleigh. Dec. 2. -4n spite of the de
j tiial by Senator John W. Hinsdale, of
'Wake counl.v, that he know* nothing)
of the formation of a lux tty t m and
i anti-Ehringhaus bloc in the forthenm-j
, ing General Assembly, thei" ur- rie-j
, Inite indie at on* that an attempt ha.i
i been made to form such a bloc in
j both the Home and Senate -t j i 1 1
J definitely known fact here tin .mem ■
j i>.-rs of the new House have been de
j finitely approached concerning it and
that the names of Senator Hinsdale
; anil of Tain O. Bowie, of Ashe county,'
» who will he a member of th« Kou.se. j
vert j*h > med in «-t• . ection n I
and as the probable leaders of the |
bloc.
There is a possibility, of course,
that the. organization of this luxury I
sales tax-antl administration blue was j
undertaken without the knowledge of i
either Hinsdale or Bowie and that j
Hinsdale knew nothing about the]
movement, as he said in a statement
issued Wednesday. It is legarded as'
significant, however that Senator!
Hinsdale wailed from Saturday, the j
date the story was first published, l
until Wednesday before issuing any
statement. It is also regarded a* sig
(Continued on Page Eight.)
TWO MEN TRAPPED
IN GAS TANK DIE!
Baltimore, Md., Dec. 2.— (AF)
Two men were scalded to death
and a third probably fatally burn
ed today when they were trapjed
in a tank for cracking gasoline
at the plant of the Continental
OH Company here.
A fourth workman climbed to » i
safety When he heard the gush- j
ing and roaring In a pipe line j
connecting, the cracking tank with i
a similar structure a short dis- j
tance away.
Ginnings So Far * j
of Lowef Grades,
Bureau Declares
Washington. Dec. 2.—(AP> Cotton
ginned up to November 1 wu re
ported today by the Bureau of Agri
cultural Economics to be “consider
ably lower in grade,” but only slightly
different in staple on the average
from that ginned up to the corree-*
ponding period last year. w..
The bureau announced 9.248.325
bales were ginned prior to November
1, and said all this was American
uplands, with the exception of 3,768
btdes of American Egyptian,
8 PAGES
TODAY
FIVE CENTS CO
CONGRESS WONT
CHANGE THINGS, IN
GARNER’S OPINION
House Speaker, Now Vice-
Pre*ident-Elect, Makes
Flat Prediction of
Future Action
LATEST NOTES MAY
NOT BE ANSWERED
Dire Consequences Threaten
the World If Payment*
Have To Be Resumed,
British Note Indicates;
France Claims Postpone,
ment Would Be Best
<By the Associated Press »
A second British request for p“.
ponement a till revision of war *«•. *.
payments wa- before the Unite i
States government today but ihete
.vere no visible indications lhat the
\merican stand for prompt payment
would be altered.
Nevertheless, official Washington
began n careful analysis of the Bri
tish thesis lhat dire consequences
threatened the world if war debt pay
ments were resumed A payment of
Wft.530.000 is due on December 15.
The first British reactions to the
British note were all in favor of the
government argument, although the
London Hi tad warned against te
strietion of American goods, a hint
. oaetained hi the document.
France, meanwhile, sent a second
reque-t for postponement of her $20.-
000,000 payment due December 15. cit
ing that the action would be in tho
interests ol all concerned.
CONGRESS WILL NOT CHANGE
SITUATION. GARNER SAYS
Washington, Dec. 2. -<AP> A flat
prediction that Congress will n«.t net
to relieve America’s war debtor- was
made today by Speaker Garner.
At abput the same time. SecrHn T 9
Rtimson at ’the White Hou. •• t<dd
newspaper men “it may not be nei*e»
sary to reply” to the latest note- from
Great Britain and France, asking rus
j pension, respectively, of payment of
j $95,550,000. and 520,000.000 due in lea*
I than two weeks.
1 '‘Congress is not going to 'h-ing»
the situation.” the Democratic vice
pi csident-elect told newspaper men.
VANCE MAN GIVEN
PAROLE ON ROADS
Raleigh. Dec. <2 < AP> -P» roln or
commutation of seven prison, rs and
the roffusal to grant cl* mercy L» 30
other petitioners was announced lo
day by Governor O. Max Garde r.
Those paroled or commuted inrlud
ed John R. Millej. i'-i»i in
Vance in
l months fm 'Violation of the prohihW
j tlon laws, and fornication and adul»
*ry. r
Heavy Loss
In Battles
In Far East
Japanese Fight Chi
nese Irregulars In
Sub-Zero., Weather
In Manchuria
| Tsitslhar. Manchuria. Dec. 2—fAP/
I - Japanes- forces and Chinese Irt*-
{ gufars have fought three fierce bat
i tie* inthe sub-zero weather of north
| west Manchuria within the laet 4T>
1 hours and at least 200 soldiers were
I slain in the encounters,
j This was revealed today In terse
| communique* from advancing Jap
anese troop* to their headquarter
here.
The battles were fought !n the
street* and juxt outside ChaJ&ntun, n
railway town. The Japanese said the:
counted 200 Chinese corpses on th
frozen, snow-covered plains after th*
engagement. There w»* no mention o'
Japanese casualties. Previously it had
been Indicated they were light.
Weather
FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair, warmer tonight; Satur
day, partly ocßGjr.