Henderson daily dispatch., January 02, 1933, Image 1

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~HENDERSON,
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA.
TWENTIETH YEAR
PYTHIANS OFFER SSOO REWARD FOR
EXTRA SESSION OF
CONGRESS APPEARS
CERTAIN IN APRIL
Otherwise Democrats Will
Not Be Able to Meet
Campaign " t Pledges
Made the People
ROOSEVELT TAKES
PLACE OF LEADER
Will Actually Direct Demo
cratic Program In Congress
Next Two Months; Meet
ing With Leaders To Be
He?d In New York Next
Thursday Evening
\V;i -ihiwrton. Jan. 2. —CAP) - The in
flrence of citizen Franklin D. Roose
velt, who becomes president March
.1. ”'ill He strong in directing the
course Congress takes in the next two
months in attempting to meet na
tional issues.
Although the Democratic legislative
program is well pointed, the outlines
of the final drive and the extent of
the ground to beb covered will be
more clearly defined at a conference
of congressional leaders with the
president-elect in New York next
Thursday.
At that time also the question of an
extra session may be settled, with in
dications t\it one likely will be call
e 1 for sometime in April.
The Democratic chieftains in both
tire Senate and House are convinced
that one cannot be avoided if cam
paign pledges on prohibition, farm re
lief and other issues are to be re
deemed.
Congress was in holiday recess to
t Continued no Pa«« Three.)
Garner Resigns
From Next House
Representatives
Washington, Jan. 2 (AP) —Speaker
John N. Garner has settled the. ques
tion of resigning an office he doestiou
of resigning an office he does not
hold.
The Texan was elected to the vice
presidency and to the next Congress
simultaneously in November. There
has been some question whether hp
can resign as a representative because
he has not taken the oath.
“I’ve put It up to the authorities in
Texas," Garner said today as he made
public a etter of resignation to Gov
ernor Ross Sterling. He said he
hoped it would be accepted so a suc
cessor could be named before March
Says Iloads
Can’t Give
$2,000,000
Jcffress Says Switch
ing of Money .Will
Cripple C o nt y
Maintenance
Dolly Dl«i»nl«-h nnrrna,
In the Mir Wiiltor Hotel .
•' mA <ik i'll V|M
Raleigh, J*n. 2—Even with com
plete cessation of any new highway
construction with State funds which
is already contemplated, the State
Highway Commission will not be able
to spare even $1,000,000 from its funds
tor general State purposes, much less
$2,000,000 as recommended by the
State Tax Commission, without virtu
ally wrecking the maintenance of the
county road systems. •
I his was the contention today of
Chairman E. B. Jeffress, of the State
Highway Commission, in releasing the
first section of the biennial report of
the commission, containing figures
(Continued on Page Six).
WEATHER
FOIt NORTH CAROLINA.
J ' air an d warmer toiiight and
Tuesday.
for HENDERSON.
‘idlest temperature 45; lowest,
> rain; northwest wind; clear
<7 a ***** .
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Tax Commission Would
Balance Budget By High
Tax And Rigid Economy
Proposes $3,000,000 Genera 1 Fund Cut, Diversion of $2,.
000,000 Highway Funds, Refunding Bond Maturi
ties and Funding of $12,500,000 Deficit
Raleigh, Jan. 2. —(AP)—A four-point
program for balancing North Caro
lina’s budget without resorting to
any form ot sales tax but increasing
the rates of many schedules now "in
the revenue ael, was/proposed by the
Stale Tax Commission in its report
to the 1933 General Assembly, made
public today.
The legislature will convene here
January 4 faced with the problem of
balancing the budget and a deficit
estimated by the commission to total
approximately $12,500,000 by the end
LAX BOARD’S PLAN
MAXWELL PROGRAM
Virtually Same as He Advo
cated In Seeking Gov
ernor Nomination
s'
Dully niMpntcb tlnrenu.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.,
rr j c. nAyKEnnu..
Raleigh. Jan. 2.—The program for
balancing the State’s budget as re
commended by the State Tax Com
mission is very similar to the pro
gram recommended by Commissioner
of Revenue A. J. Maxwell when he
was a candidate for the Democratic
nomination for governor last spring,
Mr. Maxwell, incidentally, is chair
man of the tax commission. The
other two members are L. A. Bet.hune
of Clinton, vice chairman, and Robert
[Lassiter, of Charlotte. Those who
have studied the recommendations of
the commission are inclined to be
lieve that if the 1933 General Assem
bly should adopt the four major re
commendations it would virtually
amount to putting the Maxwell gub
ernatorial platform into effect in the
State.
These four recommendations arc as
follows:
1. A reduction in general fund ex-
CDontinued on Paac Thr>e >
KILLS HUSBAND AND
GIVES HERSELF UP
Charleston, S. C., Jan. 2.—(AP) —
James B. Gray» 40, Southern Railway
fireman, was shot to death as he lay
asleep at his home here early today
and a few minutes later his wife
walked into the street surrendered to
an-officer and admitted the slaying.
Gray was shot three times in the
head and twice in the body as he lay
in bed.
Soine Notable Events Scheduled For 1933
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suit to be made on gieat iunh:< rn-rusi. ~'~i ' ' ~ ' y '
New Orleans. 1 -J™-,- Worlds. largest bndge-across San Francisco bay-to be well £J
L I CSSII 1 under way. <e>
HENDERSON, ft. >C*, MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 2-1933
of the 1931-33 biehnium on June 30,
which it proposed the governor and
State treasurer be empowered to fund
Recommendations of the commis
sion to balance the budget for the
1933-35 biennium follow:
1. A $3,000,000 annual decrease in
general fund expenditures, including a
graduated salary reduction.
2. A temporary diversion of $2,000,-
000 a year from the highway fund to
the general fund with road construc
(Continued on Page Three.)
MILITARY POMP TO
State Soldiery Is Given Big
Place In Ehringhaus
Exercises I
. t in*
Raleigh, Jan. 2.—(AP)—A display
of military pomp will mark the in
auguration of Governor-elect J. C. B.
Ehringhaus here Thursday as North
Carolina’s 54th chief executive since
independence.
Adjutant General J. Van B. Metts
today announced plans for eleven
military units to participate in the
ceremonies and for members of the
staff of the North Carolina National
Guard to act as aides to retiring Gov
ernor Gardner and the incoming exe
cutive.
The official ceremonies will open
shortly before noon with a military
formation in front of the executive
mansion on Blount street as a tribute
(Continued on Paste Three.)
Five Are Dead In
Elk’s Club Fire In
. New Year’s Party
Vallejho, Cal., Jan. 2 (AP)—
Five known deaths from a New
Year’s blaze which, destroyed the
Elks’ lmdge club here were listed
today as firemen searched the
sn\ouldering ruins to determine if
several other persons lost their
lives.
Another man was known to have
been seriously burned by the fire,
which raged through the three
story wooden structure after a New
Year’s party.
FAX COMMISSION’S
No Doubt But It Would Bal
ance Budget, But Lob
bies Will Fight It to
Last Ditch
EDUCATION FORCES
TO BUCK ALL CUTS
Highway Group Will Like
wise Oppose Diversion of
$2,000,000 of Its Funds;
State Departments, With
Their Master Politicians,
Are Against It
Dnlly Uhiintrh Unrenn,
In the Sir Wniter Hotel.
nr j c. BASKi-invii.i.
Raleigh. Jan. 2. —The four-fold plan
recommended by the State Tax Com
mission for the balancing of the budg
et and the operation of the State gov
ernment for the next two years with
out the imposition of any new taxes
other than sor-called “replacement
taxes,” would undoubtedly turn the
trick, it is agreed here, provided the
General Assembly will enact the nec
essary legislation. But it is also ag
reed that it will be a difficult task to
get the General Assembly to provide
the legislation needed to put the pro
gram into effect, regardless of its
good points.
The first recommendation is for
(Continued on Page Three.)
W' LL
ROGERS
P Soys:
Santa Monica, Calif., Jan. 2.
We’l, New Year is here! Now
what are you going to do with it?
I bet you there is not a man in
America (yes, I will take in more
country than that—make it the
world); there is not a single per
son that knows any more about
what ’33 has in store for us than
a billy goat.
Ten million people have gone
without work for three years just
listening to “Big Men” solve their
problems. I don’t know what will
be the first commission Mr.
Roosevelt will appoint, but mil
lions hope that it won’t ,be the
“president of this concern,” or
“the head of that corporation.”
but ten men who liave been with
out work.
We will at least get an original
viewpoint. If the non-worker has
to go to the dogs, he at least
should have a voice on the com
mission that sends him.
. Sours, WILL,
More Cooperation
Roosevelt’s Plea
Albany, N. Y., Jan. 2 (AP)—
President-elect Frankln D. Rbbse
vclt, as h© formally turned over
the governorship of New York to
Herbert H. lehmhn today, pro
posed a division of authority be
tween Wa hingtr»i and State capi
tals and closer contact between the
White House and governors.
“It is time to dcfjtae more clearly
whew* the Federal machinery of
government ends, aud where the
Stai© machinery of government
begins,” the president-elect said at
th e inaugural Oereiriony. “It is
time, likewise for closer contact be
tween the President and the gov
ernor!.”
President-Elect Quick To
Check Activities • Os
House Speaker
CAPITAL TALKING IT
Roosevelt Wants No New Taxes but
Thai on Beer; Pirns Extra Ses
sion in Fall After Study
. ■. j ■ ing Problems i
By CHARLES P. STEWART.
Washington. Jan. 2. —If ever a
statesman "of major rank was resound
ingly spanked, as publicly as possible
such was tIM; fate of Speaker John
N. Garner, for speaking out of turn
on the subject of a general manufac
turers sales tax.
The spanking, in the form of the
account which Gov. Franklin D.
Roosevelt permitted to go out from
Albnay (no one questions that it was
with his authorization), representing
him as “horrified" by intimations
that he had indorsed a general sales
levy, is spoken of in Washington as
nothing short of a national record in
the wh le history of political casti
(Continued on Paee Three.)
Two Men Likely
Fatally Burned
In Roofing Blaze
Newberry. S. C., Jan. 2. —(AP) —
Two men were badly burned here to
day when a drum of roof covering
they attempted to open with a blow
torch exploded in a hardware store,
covering them with liquid, which took
fire along with the store itself.
The men were taken to a hospital,
where attaches said they were not
expected to live.
Meanwhile, flames spread over the
store extensively, damaging the build
ing and stock before being extinguish
ed.
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EXCEPT BUNDAT.
M’COIN’S BODY
Explode Theory Ofi
Truckmen Sighting
R. S. McCoin’s Body
Ehringhaus Abie J
TV Quit Hospital
Norfolk, Va., Jan. 2.—(AP)—
Governor elect J.;,C. B. Eliringhaus
°| North Carolina, who has; been
?| Patient at St. Vincent’s hospital
here for several weeks, left this
morning for his home at Elizabeth
City.
He will devote his time until
Wednesday night to completing his
Lhaugural address, to be delivered
-Thursday when he is formally in
ducted into office to succeed Gov
ernor O. Max Gardner.
The incoming North Carolina
executive said just before his de
parture that he was “feeling fine,”
and believed he was physically fit
to cope with the problems that will
confront him after he is sworn
in as governor.
FARM RELIEF BILL
MOFFERED IN
Tentative Agreement on Do
mestic Allotments Meas
ure Reached by
House Committee
QUICK ACTION THEN
LIKELY TO RESULT
Wheat, Cotton, Tobacco
and Hogs Would Benefit
from Legislation Propos
ed ; y W o u 1 d Guarantee
Farmer His Pre-War Pur
chasing Power in Com.
1 modities
Washington, Jan. 2. —(AP) — The
House Agriculture Committee today
reached a tentative agreement on an
emergency domestic allotments farm
relief bill for four major commodities
—wheat, cotton, hogs and tobacco.
Chairman Jones announced he
would introduce the bill tomorrow,
that the committee would meet in
the afternoon for a final vote, and
action and the bill would be reported
that day.
The committee refused to, eliminate
(Continued on Page Three.)
Lehman For
U. S. Aid For
State Needy
New Governor Says
Unemployment Is
Biggest Business
Facing New York
Albany, N. Y., Jan. 2.—(AP)— In
augurated formally today as New
York’s governor, Colonel Herbert H.
Lehman called upon the Federal gov
ernment to aid the Empire State to
care tor its “destitute, unemployed,”
whose number he estimated at more
than a million and a qquarter.
The former New York banker, who
entered public life four years ago as
lieutenant governor during Franklin
D. Roosevelt’s administrations as the
State chief executive, called unem
ployment relief the State most serious
problem.
He expressed the hope that the Fed
eral R. F. C. act will be changed in
away that will make it “easier for
us to benefit from this source* in
meeting the needs of our unempoly
ed.”
Governor Lehman pointed out that
the State credit is down but that the
unemployed relief problem “has now
reached the point where aid from the
Federal government is needed in our
war against destitution and want,”,
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Virginia ' Authorities
. Chief Langston Corpse*
Seen Was That of %
f Younger Man fv
NO DEVELOPMENTS
' IN THE WEEK-END
“Dr. Yergin” at Roanok?
Put Down as Crank As Hi-,
Story Is Blasted; No News
Fro-m Columbus, Wher -
Car Was Found; Center on
Hagerstown Search
Raleigh, Jan. Tj—(APi—A SSOO rc
'ward for the location and identifica
tion of “the body’’ of R. S. McCoin,
missing Henderson attorney, today
was offered by the Supreme Xiodge
Knights of Pythias, Richard L.
Meares, of Wilmington, supreme mas
ter of exchequer, announced here.
Meares said an investigation into
the disappearance of McCoin, sup
reme representative for the Pythians
of North Carolina since 1922, had con
vinced officials of the fraternal order
the attorney had been slain, as de
scribed in an anonymous letter to a
State official, and that the body was
buried between Hancock and Cumber
land, Md.
The reward is in addition to the
SSOO reward posted by A1 B. Wester of
Henderson, business associate of Mc-
Coin Meares said.
Placards will be posetd along the
highway between Hancock and Cum
berland announcing the Pythian re
ward.
Mears and Colonel Walker Taylor,
of Wilmingtcn, a supreme representa
tive of the Pythiana, visited Hender
son yesterday, and Meares said after
all angLes of the case had been in
vestigated, it had been concluded de
finitely McCoin was dead.
NO NEW CLUES FOUND
DURING THE WEEK END
Week-end developments in the in
vestigation of the mysterious disap
pearance of R. S. McCoin, Henderson
lawyer and business man, missing
from his home here since December
fContinued on Page Rix.)
DISABLED VESSEL
TOWED INTO PORT
Baltimore, Md., Jan. 2 (AP)—
Lashed to the side of a Norfolk tug
boat, the schooner Edna Hoyt, a five
master, was towed Into Baltimore to
day after a hazardous voyage from
Venezuela, i
She was towed Into Norfofflt last
week after being reported oiut of
drinking water and leaking badfy off
Cape Hatteras.
Japs Wage
Big Battle
On Chinese
*■ ■ - ■ ■ —"i
Heavy Fighting at
Shanhaikwan, With
; Both Sides Sending
Reinforcements
Tokyo, Jan. 2.—(AP)— Heavy fight
ing betweeDn Japanese and Chinese
troops at Shannaikwan, where the
Great Wall reaches the sea, began
Sunday, night and continued through
out today, Rengo (Ja-panese News
Agenqy) dispatches today.
Japanese reinforcememts were rush
ed there from Suichnn, and at 2
(Continued on Page Six.)
Our Hopes for 1933,
Told In Plain English
A series of brief avrticles, written
in simple, lucid English, outlining
the hopes for 1933 and the prob
lems Franklin D. must
meet as president, begins today.
This is by far the most important
series of the year.-and has been
writtm folowing months of study.
It deals (in undei-standable Eng
lish) with the whole broad econo
mic picture. Technocracy deals
with, .only a small part of this vast
(pictured.