Henderson daily dispatch., January 04, 1933, Image 1

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HENDERSON,
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA.
TWENTIETH YEAR
LAME DOCK” BILL RATIFIED BY LEGISLATURE
FLAT TEN PERCENT
CUT FOR VETERANS’
PAY IS ASKED FOR
Virginian, Chairman Os
Committee, Proposes
Temporary Reduction
In Allowances
GRANGE LINES UP
TO OPPOSE BONUS
Would Also Eliminate Pay
For Disability and Illness
Not Traceable to Service
Duty; Called More Deadly
and More Demoralizing
Than the Bonus
Washington,, Jan. 4. (AIM Repre
sent at ivr Woodfun. Democrat!, Vir
ginia, chairman of the House sub
committee handling: veterans’ ap
propriations today proposed a tem
porary flat ten percent reduction in
veterans' allowances, pensions and re
fin'd officers' pay for the fiscal year
HCU.
GRANGE LINES UP FOR
(FT IN VETERANS’ AITI
Washington, jan. (AP) — The
National Grange today lined up bev
fore a .ioint congressional committee
with organizations urging reductions
in veterans' relief costs by eliminat
juo payments tor disability and ill
nC'S not traceable to service duty.
Fred Rrenckman, Washington re
presentative of the Grange, expressed
eppositio nto cash payment of the sol
di* r bonus, contending this payment
"cannot l>e justified and should not
be granted," and added:
"While the demand for immediate
T'lyment of the bonus is more penna
nt ly in the public eye, by reason of
the spectacular campaign that has
been waged in its behalf, more dead
ly nnd demoralizing in the long run
if allowed to go unchecked, is the
present profligate practice of paying
benefits from tlie public treasury to
i’mdv thousands of veterans who have
iv service connected disability what
e\ ei."
1 democrats
Spend Sinn
$1,638,177
$769,055 Shown In
Report Filed B y
Party With Clerk of
the House
Washington, Jan. 4.—(AP) — The
Democratic National Committee told
Congress today it had spent $1,838177
last year.
The report of the Democrats, filed
with South Trimble, clerk of the
House, showed receipt* for the same
period totalled $1,708,507, leaving a
balance of $70,330.
However, the report also listed un
paid obligations of $839,385, so, de
ducing; the balance from these, the
ne* deficit appeared to he $789,055.
The Republican report has yet to
be made.
Refinancing Agriculture
Hailed As Surest Manner
Os Shedding Depression
R.v CHARLES P. STEWART
Washington, Jan. 4.- All compe
tnit authorities agree that nothing is
ni'>ro urgently needed to start the
country upon the ecoffbmic up-grade
than doption o f
some practicable
means of lightening
the load (it debt un
under which agri
culture is almost
perishing.
Senator Lynn J.
Frazier of North Da
kotft believes he has
such a program out
lined in a bill he has
been pushing in con
gress since last De
cember. So many
farm experts in-
o
■ Hi m
.. , dorse the measure
inat 11 lis exceptional interest.
HSuWramt (Daily tHspatrii
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OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Philippine Veto
Appears Certain
Washington, Jan. 4. (AP)
Provident Hoover todbiy referred
the rWittppine intieppndetnce jl|’l
to Secretary Hurley for report and
there were strong indications of
an impending veto of the measure.
The secretary of war, after dis
cussing the hill, which would give
(ho itMinds indepcmtuncei iu\ith;in
ten years, left the Wliiite House to
prepare his report, declaring the
measure “does not solve the in
herent difficulties of the Philippine
problem, hut merely accentuates
them.”
Japs INow In
Control Os
Walled City
Tokyo Warns Army
Not To Advance
Further; Casualties
300 to 2,000
(By the Associated Press.)
Shanhaikwan, scene of the latest
outbreak of hostilities between China
and Japan, is completely in the hands
of the Japanese alter a three-day
battle.
Word from Tokyo said that the
Japanese con.aianu had .been warned
that nothing must be done to extend
the battle zone, and that every effort
must he made to “localize" the hos
tilities.
Chang Htdao-Liang. the Chinese
commandci in-chief, reported to his
government, however, that the troops
which evacuated Shanhaikwan were
entrenching northwest of there await
ing reinforcements and preparing to
resist any Japanese advance up the
Lan river into Jehol.
Fragmentary reports of the fighting
at. Shanhaikwan indicated that the
Chinese had put up a good defense.
The casualties were various estimat
ed at between 300 and 2,000.
Japanese Hoping
To Avoid Further
Chinese Troubles
Tokyo, Jan. 4.—(AP) —The gov
ernment instructed Japanese mili
tary and diplomatic authorities in
Manchuria and North China to
day to avoid aggravation of (he
Shanhaikwan situation, resulting
from occupation of that Chinese
city by Japanese troops.
They were instructed to seek a
peaceful “localized” settlement.
The Japanese legation at Peiping
was ordered to negotiate for this
purpose with Marshal Chang-
Uang, Ihe Chinese commander in
North China.
The North Dakotan's plan involves!
it is true, a mesure of inflation.
Its essential purpose, however, is to
provide a method of agricultural re
financing; the inflationary fcaHue is
purely incidental.
The farmer, it is to be borne ! n
mind, is especially burdened at pres
ent because he incurred his obliga
tions at a time when his crops were
bringing high prices. Had these prices
continued, he could have paid off
easily; at today’s prices, he finds it
nearly or quite impossible to do so.
The federal farm loan ; system en
ables him to liquidate the principal
at the rate of 1 1-2 per cent annually,
spread over a 46-year period.
This, unless his borrowings were
enormous (in which event he vir
tually sold his land, and should recog
(Continued on Page Four.),
HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 4, 1983
GOVERNMENT ENDS
HALF FISCAL YEAR
A BILLION' IN RED
Deficit December 31 Is sl,-
159,286,502, With All
Revenue of Only
$1,022,885,840
NEW TAX MEASURE
WAS OF SOME AID
Falling Off of $272,000,000
In Income Taxes More
Than Neutralized New
Revenues; Expenditures
for Half Year Given As
$2,182,172,342
Washington. Jan. 4. —(AP) — The
government ended the first haif of
its 1923-33 fiscal year on December
31 with a deficit of $1,159,286,502.
In the six months starting last July
I, the government collected from all
sources $1,022,885,840 and spent $2,-
182,172,342. While the new billion dol
ar tax measure increased miscel
ancous internal revenue $117,000,000
ncome taxes dropped $272,000,000,
■nore than neutralizing the gain of
he new tax levies.
In the six months miscellaneous in
ternal revenue brought in $387,3660,-
027, as compared with $270,571,381 in
the first half of the previous fiscal
year. Income taxes fell off to $343,-
227,856 from the $615,324,342 collected
in the same period of the previous
year.
Bus Service for
Car Lines Legal
Court Declares
Raleigh. Jan. 4 (AP)—The State
Supreme Court handed down 19 opin
ions today.
The court upheld the right of the
city of Raleigh, and the. Carolina Pow
er and Light Company to enter into
a contract under the 1931 declaratory
judgment law, under which the
company will substitute bus service
for a part of its iocal street car serv
ice. •
The court, also upheld the judgment
in Cherokee county, winch awarded
$4,000 damages to Walter Walker
because of injuries he recevied when
he slipped and fell into a hole dug on
a sidewalk in Andrews by the Nan
tahala Power and Light Company.
Walker was permanently injured
call issued for
REPORT OF BANKS
Washington. Jan. 4.—(AP) — The
comptroller of the currency issued a
call today for the condition of all
national banks at the close of busi
ness Saturday, Decembebr 31.
CALL FOR CONDITION OF »
STATE BANKS IS ISSUED
Raleigh, Jan. 4.—(AP) —Gurney P.
Good. State bank commissioner, today
issued a call for reports on the con
dition of all State banks of North
Carolina as of Saturday, December
31. Ki—■!
RIGHT OF WAY FOR
FARM RELIEF GIVEN
• Washington, Jan. 4.—(AP)—The
House Rules Committee today ap
proved a resolution giving a pri
vileged legislative status to the
emergency farm relief bill design
ed to set minimum prices on
major agricultural commodities.
Population
Is Falling
At Prison
Raleigh, Jan. 4 (AP) —The popula
tion of State’s Prison showed another
decrease in December, J. K. Powell,
statistician, reported today.'
The population total dropped 56
during the month ffrom 2,775 on De
cember 1 to 2,719 on December 31.
During the month 64 prisoners were
paroled and 98 discharged because
they had finished sentences, with
transfers and escapes aking the to
tal, eaving the institution 175. There
were 95 new prisoners received, 11 es.
capes were brought back an dother
entriefc made the total 119. " v-
An aerial view, made while fire was raging in the Shirokiya department
store at Tokio, showing a group of terror-stricken girl employees on the
roof (arrow) awaiting rescue, fourteen salesgirls lost their lives and
scores of shoppers were injured. The conflagration broke out at the
height of the Christmas shopping rush, when the store, the largest in
.Tokio. was thronged to capacity.
With Legislature Open,
Interest Centers Upon
Committee Assignment
Rankin, of Gaston, Slated I or Senate Finance Commit
tee, With Pete Murphy Likely for That Post in
House; Appropriations Committees Come Next
I>nlty DlNimtol! flnrentt.
In the S»r Walter Hotel.
J C. BAMiF.nvII.L,
Rkleigh. Jan. 4.—With the contests
for speaker of the House and presi
dent pro tempore of the Senate out
of the way. interest is centering here
on the probable choice of Lieutenant
Governor A. IT. Graham and Speaker
Reg. L. Harris for committee chair
man.
The most important committee in
both houses is always the finance
committee, charged with the duty of
Arrest Tar Heels
On 1932 Licenses
Richmond, Va., Jan. 4.— (AP)
Arrest of several North Carolinians
driving with 1932 licenses by Vir
ginia and Maryland officers have
brought a storm of protest result
ing in allowance of five days of
grace by Carolina authorities, it
was learned here today.
The grace allowance has been
followed in both Virginia and Mary
land by dismissal of the cases.
The arrests were based on noti
fication from North Carolina, that
December 31 was the expiration
date of Carolina motor vehicle 3 li
censes.
FIGHTING RENEWED
AT ILLINOIS MINE
Two More Seriously Wound
ed After Two Fatalities
On Tuesday
Taylorville, 111., Jan. 4.—(API-
Fighting broke out anew today among
hostile union miners as members of
the United Mine Workers started for
the shaft of Peabody mine No. ? at
Kincaid.
From both sides of the mine shots
burst out. Two men were seriously
wounded. The others reached cover
amid a shower of machine gun bul
lets and buckshot.
Deputy sheriffs who patrolled the
Taylorville-Kincaid highway all night
as a result of yesterday’s fighting, in
which a man and a woman were kill
ed, reported they were targets for
from houses, thickets and
other places of concealment. They ar
rested a score of persons and con
fiscated many bombs and guns.
writing the biennial revenue act. and
supposed to balance the budget by
providing sufficient revenue to bal
ance the appropriations made. With
a deficit of approximately $12,500,000
staring the State in tne face, and with
the necessity to raise from $8,000,000
to $10,000,000 of additional revenue
more than is now provided in order
to balance the budget on the basis of
present expenditures, the finance
(Continued on Paste Three.)
Flans Blow
At Nations
In Default
Washington, Jan. 4 (AP)—Notice
was served upon the Senate today by
Senator Johnson htat he would de
mand legislation to bar American re
sources “from nations that do not hon
or their obligations.”
He refrained from detailing provi
sions he had in mind.
California’s independent Republican,
in the first speech that ha bsroken
the Senate silence on war debts this
session, assailed those who favored
cancellation or revision, and sadi the
American people had beggared them
selves to buy bonds so this country
could make the loans.
“There was no question then of
cancellation or revision,” he said. “No
voice was heard demurring.”
Big French Liner v
Burned on Way to
Dock for Repairs
Cherbourg. France, Jan. 4. —(AP) —
The crack French liner L’Atlantique.
serving in the South American run.
was wrecked by fire, of undetermined
origin in the English CChannel early
today.
Most of the crew of about 170 were
believed rescued by the German
steamer Ruhr, afteg. abandoning the
Atlantique, which carried no passen
gers. and was en route to dry dock
at Havre, for the annual overhauling.
A military seaplane with two offi
cers aboard left Crebourg to fly over
the burning crest to determine the
status of salvage efforts.
In view of the scene of the fire
being 75 miles away, details here were
meagre. (
PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAT.
Roosevelt Invited
V \
ToDelive r Speech
To Session Jan. 18
Broad Inquiry of
Crisis Is Sought
Washington, Jan. 4.—(AP)— A
broad inquiry by the JSenate Fi
nance Committee into (he econ
omic problems facing the nation
was proposed today in a resolution
by Senator Harrison, ranking
Democratic member of the com
mittee. The resolution was intro
duced by the Mississippian in ac
cordance with his announcement
last week that he would seek the
views of the .nation's “leading
minds.” He indicated a( (hat time
that among the subjects he be
lieved should be studied was the
currency question.
The measure was referred at his
request to the finance committee
for p, report.
sSbly
New Presiding Officers Are
Elected and Sworn In In
Both Houses at the
; Outset |
McDUFFEE GETS ON
SENATE COMMITTEE
Member of Important Rules
Body; Leßoy Martin In
Senate and Thad Eure In
House Calls Two Bodies to
Order; Await Inaugura
tions Tomorrow
Djilly I)*N|ia(rk Rnrfnn,
In (he Sir Walter Hotel,
nv j. r nASKERvn.t.,
Raleigh, Jan. 4.—The 1933 session
of the North Carolina General As
sembly was formally opened at 12
o’clock noon today with the Senate
and the House of Representatives
meeting separately in their respective
halls. The principal clerk of each
house in the last session called to
day’s session to order and presided
until after the election of the new pre
siding officers and until they were
sworn in.
In the Senate, Leßoy Martin, who
'Continued on Page Four.)
ACTION ON REPEAL
DEFERRED FOR DAY
Washington, Jan. 4.—(AP)
Final action on prohibition re
peal was postponed today by the
Senate Judiciary sub-committee
considering the legislation until
tomorrow, because of the absence
of several members.
weTthlr
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Mostly cloudy toutight and.
Thursday; probably slight rain In
extreme west portion; warmer in
west portion tonight; slightly
colder in west portion Thursday.
Cooperation Is Already
Keynote Os Legislature
Daily Dispatch Biireai,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
HY J O. BASKERVItL.
Raleigh, Jan. 4 —Cooperation has
already become the keynote o fthe
1933 General Assembly. It is already
apparent that a majority of the mem.
bers have already determined to get
down to work as quickly as possible
and to take the bigger, Statewide prpfo
lems first and to leave the less im
portant matters until later in the ses
sion. The leaders in both houses are
determined to get down to work on
the finance and appropriations acts
right away, in an effort to get, the
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Abolition bf “Lame' Dtisk”
Sessions of f .. Congress
Adopted Without Dis- •
senting *Vciice
PAY CUTS QUJCKLY
SOUGHT IN HOUSE
Three Measures Intended to
Bring About Reductions
Are Offered, Calling for
Heavy _ Slashes; Caucus
Selections Ratified For
Organization
Raleigh, Jan. 4 (AP) —
Launching into its work
with unprecedented vim, the
North Carolina General As
sembly, at its first session,
today ratified the “lame
duck” amendment to the
Federal Constitution, and
invited President -elect
Franklin D. Roosevelt to
speak here this month.
The Federal amendment, which
would abolish the present “lame
duck” congressional session and
change the time for the president
and vice-president to take office, was
approved without a negative vote,
after Governor O. Max Gardner had
sent a special message to each di
vision of the Assembly urging imme
diate consideration of ratification.
As its first official act after or-*
ganizing, the Assembly passed a re
solution offered by Representative
(Continued on Page Four.)
Two Men On
■ /
Horizon In
State Now
Rise of Ehringliaus
and Reynolds State
Political Phenom
ena of 1932
BY PAUL BARttLEY,
Associated Press Staff Writer.
Raleigh, Jan. 4. —(AP) —Dawn of a
new year sees two men rising on
North Carolina’s political horizon.
The late 1932 was leap year in po
litics, too, in this State.
It saw Robert R. Reynolds, Ashe
ville’s “Buncombe Bob”, leap into
promise by capturing the coveted
senatorial seat, and J. C. B. Ehring
haus, Elizabeth City lawyer and po
tato planter, leap into the spotlight
by emerging from two heated pri
maries and an election with the gub
ernatorial toga on itis shoulders.
The rise of these two men—one
from the extreme wo?;t and the other
from the far east of the State —stand
out sharply as the two greatest per
(Continuedgpn "Page Three.)
budget balanced: as soon as possible.
If this is done, it will be a seven days
wonder, it is .-agreed. But there is
no denying thjtf fact that all indica
tions point in that direction.
This also is -one of the best inform
ed and most serious minded general
assembles the State has had in years,
observers agnee.- Usually most of the
members come here utterly uninform
ed about . legislative procedure and
Statewide problems and knowing lit
tle or nothing about the State’s Xi
(Continued on Page Four)