Henderson daily dispatch., January 05, 1933, Image 1

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HENDERSON,
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA.
TWENTIETH YEAR
EHRINGHAUS IS INAUGURATED
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CALVIN COOLIDGE DIES SUDDENLY
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Senate Sub-Committee Votes For Repeal Os Eighteenth Amendment
Body Os Former President
Found By Wife On Return
From Brief Shopping Trip
HAD COMPLAINED
OF SOI ILLNESS
DURING FORENOON
Was Accompanied Home
from His Law Office and
to His Bedroom by
His Secretary
CONGRESS ADJOURNS
IN RESPECT TO HIM
President Hoover Drafts
Message and Governor
Smith Speaks Deep Regret
at Passing of His Associ
ate; Speaker Garner Ex
presses Sorrow
Northampton, Mass. Jan.
o (AP) —Calvin Coolidge,
30th President of the United
States, died suddenly today.
He was 60 years old last
July 4.
Returning from a shopping tour,
Mrs. Coolidge found the body of her
husband on the bed fn a room at The
Hreohas, the estate to which he re
tired at the conclusion of his career
ai 'lie national capital.
His reach was wholly, unerpected,
although for the past three weeks
Mr. Coolidge had complained of in
digestion.
Doctors said death was due to heart
disease.
The former President, who up to
the time of his death was the only
surviving former President of the
United States, had gone to his law
office as usual this morning. After
a short time in the office. Mr. Cool
idge became distressed and decided to
return home. Harry Ross, his secre
'Contlnued <m Page Four.)
Strikes To
Get Short
Week Seen
Green Tells Senate
Committee Labor Is
Deterni'ned To
Have Fewer Hours
Washington. Jan. 5. —(AP)— The
use of "economic force" by calling
strikes if necessary to bring about
establishment of a shorter work week
in industry was advocated today by
William Green, president of the Am
erican Federation of Labor, appear
ing as thp first witness before a Sen-
Judiciary sub-committee on the
tilaek but to establish the five-day
week and si-hour day i nail indus
tries.
He was so convinced of the neces
sity of shorter hours, he said, that
w '‘ are prepared to support the plan
j-° tiring it about either through leg
islative enactment, persuasion of those
,p ady to yield, or to exercise our eco
nomic force in compelling employers
to accept ft.’**-,,
How would you exericse such
otoe?" Chairman Norris asked.
Hy calling strikes where the men
are organized.” the labor official re-
I’ied, "and thus withhold the ser
vice of the employees until industry
vstablishes the shorter wek.”
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General Assembly Goes
To Work With Vengeance
House Shows Earnestness for Economy by Slashing
Salaries First Day, But Senate Blocks Move; Most
of Today Devoted t o the Inauguration
nnllr Dlgpßteh Rareon,
, In the Sir Walter Hotel,
RY J. •' RASKURVIIiL.
Raleigh, Jan. 5. —The House got
down to work with a vegeance in its
first! session Wednesday and passed
a resolution to reduce the salaries of
all elected State officials by 15 per
cent, thus serving notice that it real
ly intends to do something toward
reducing Statfe expenses.. It was the
first time in the memory of even the
oldest observers here that either
house has ever really gotten down to
copper nails the first day of its ses
siop and endeavored to -enact some
really far-reaching legislation. Every
effort to block this salary reduction
bill in the House failed and it was
finally approved by a roll call vote
showing 99 members for it and only
16 against it. s
It was generally believed even yes-
BURNED LINER IS
TOWED INTO HAVRE
Cherbourg, France, Jan. 5. (AP)—
The smoking hull of the linci f.’Atlan
tique, which burned yesterday in the
English channel, with the loss of 18
lives, was taken in tow today by a
tug which started back for Havre.
ESTATE OF FATHER
OF MILLS REFUNDED
Washington, Jart. 5.—(AP)— An
abatement of $5,869,951 and a refund
of $45,343 to the estate of Ogden L.
Mills, : father of Secretary Mills for
over-assessment of estate taxes were
announced today by the Internal re
venue Bureau.
The. father of Secretary Mills died
several years ago.
HENDERSON,:N. C„ THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 5, 1933
terday, however, that the resolution
would not pass the Senate In the
short time remaining today for its
consideration there. For the Senate
is usually more conservative and less
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HouseFor
Slashes Os
Employees
Raleigh, Jan. s.—(AP) —The'House
today adopted a joint resolution call
ing for a committee of three senators
and five members of the House to
investigate and report by February 1
as to what State departments and di
visions can be discontinued or con
solidated, and which, if any, State
officials are not needed.
Introduced by Representatives Wil
son, of Caswell, and Taylor and Boyd
of Mecklenburg, the original resolu
tion,’ called for 4 committee of two
senators and three representatives,
but as the rules were suspended and
the measure placed on immediate pas
sage, it was amended. The measure
was dispatched to the Senate by spe
cial messenger after passage.
Reresentatives Bowie, of Ashe, and
Flannagan, of Pitt, sent up a bill to
abolish the penalties for the non-pay
ment of taxes. Bowie said the mea
sure applied to penalties coming due
February 1 and was an amendment
to the 1931 law. ,
The House recessed after a very
short session.
SUBMISSION BILL
QUICKLY MOVED
BY 4 TO I MEIN
Will Be Reported to Full
Committee as Its Next
Meeting Set For
Next Monday
WOULD SAFEGUARD
DRY' STATE RIGHTS
Full Committee Overwhelm
ingly in Favor of Repeal
But Plans to. Enact Legis
lation To Prevent Return
of Saloon—Unprecedent
ed Speed Used
Washington, Jan. 5 (AP) —The Sen
ate Judiciary sub-committee, charged
with study of prohibitio nrepeal pro
posals, voted today in favor of a re
solution for repeal of the controvert
ed amendment.
Acting with unprecedented speed, the
committee, headed by Blaine, of Wis
consin, agreed to report a repeal reso
lution for submission to state legis
latures with protection for dry states,
and authorization Congress to, leg
islate against return of the saloon.
The vote was in effect, four to one,
with the sub-committee agreeing un
animously to approve the resolution,
but with Senator Borah, Idaho Repub
lican, and long a dry leader, reserv
ing the right to. oppose it on the floor.
Other members of the committee, all
of whom, flavored the measure with
some reservations, were Blaine; He
bert, Republican, Rhode Island; Walsh
Democrat, Montana, and Dill, Demo- ►
crat, Washington. i
The resolution will be formally re
ported to the ful judiciary committee
at its next meeting Monday.
Speedy consideration there h4s been
assurred by Chairman Norris.
The full committee is overwhelming
ly in favor of repeal, though there is
a wide division of sentiment over the
proposal to give Congress the right ,
to legislate against return of the sa
loon . :
It was the first time since national
prohibition became effective 13 years
ago this month that a Senate com
mittee had voted favorably for repeal.
Salary Cut
Is Enacted
By Senate
But Lack of Techni
cality of Ratification
May Prevent Effec
tiveness
Raleigh, Jan. 5. —(AP) —Opposition
to a House bill to cut salaries of State
elective officers 15 percent crumbled
in the Senate today, and the measure
was passed 45 to 4.
The Senate recessed shortly after
(Continued on Page Six.)
Many Fiee When
Levees Crumble
Memphis Tenn., Jan. 5.—(AP)—
Scores of families fled today be
fore flood waters that poured
through four levee breaks a'ong
the St. Francis river in southeast
Missouri and northeast Arkansas.
The gap in (he levee on the Mis
souri side of the river sent water
Over approximately 4,000 acres of
lowlands. The second of the breaks,
three and a half miles north of
Kennett, Mo., came without warn
ing, but Missouri National Guards
men assisted marooned families to
safety. No lives were lost, but some
livestock perished.
Balancing State Budget
And Economies Necessary
At Once, Executive Says
GOVERNOR OF NORTH CAROLINA
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JOHN CHRISTOPH BLUCHER EHRINGHAUS
Inaugural Service One
Os Pomp And Splendor
In Keeping With Times, Cost to State Is Cut to Fifth of
Ceremony Four Years Ago; Great Throng Attends
Events in Raleigh New City Auditorium
Daily Dlß|»nf<*li nar«aa,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J C. BASKTCRVIM.
Raleigh, Jan. 5. —Amid a ceremony
of pomp apd splendor Governor John
C. B. Eliringhaus and other State of
ficials were inaugurated here today,
but, in keeping with the times, the
State’s expenses incidental to the
colorful parade and demonstration
were held under S6OO. or about a fifth
of the fund expended for the same
purpose officials of the outgo
ing administration were sworn in
four years ago.
One of the principal factors in the
drastic reduction of inaugural expense
was that all military and other units
coming to the capital from other lo
calities to paUrticipate in the parade
came entirely at their own expense
and members of the visiting com
panies and bands paid their own
meals and other incidentals while in
the capital city. The visiting units
participated in the demonstration-at
the invitation of Adjutant General J.
Van B. Metts, but their trips were
made voluntarily.
The artillery and infantry batal
lions. together with N. C. State Col
lege’s FC O. T. C. regiment, the Fay
etteville Independent Light Infantry,
and the Lenior high school band as
sembled in front of the main en
trance to the Executive Mansion
shortly before noon. Then the 120th
Infantry Band, in position on the
walks leading tp the mansion steps,
struck up “Hail to the Chief” as
Governor O. Max Gardner, the retir
ing executive, appeared on the porch.
As the official party got into their
cars the 120th Infantry band Joined
the troops to escort the party through
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Raleigh’s principal downtown thor
oughfares to the new City Auditorium
As Governor Gardner and the official
party left their automobiles, the
troops fired a salute to the governor
and the State College Band struck up
(Continued on Page Six.)
Abolition
Proposal
Rejected
Washington, Jan. 5. (AP) A
Democratic-sponsored proposal that
the President be authorized by the
new economy law to abolish depart
ments was rejected today by Senate
Appropriations Committee considering
the special economy committee re
commendations for savings in govern
ment expenditure.
The committee agreed, however, to
the economy committee’s recommen
dations that the President be em
powered to abolish other executive
agencies than departments, which
would include bureaus, commissions
and the like.
It also agreed to the suggestion that
executive transfers or abolitions
would become effective in 60 days
unless disapproved by concurrent re
solution of both houses of Congress.
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, TODAY
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BALANCING BUDGET
'Cutting Expenses, Increase
of Revenues or Both, and
Higher Tax Almost
Impossible
PARDON OFFICIAL
URGED FOR STATE
Executive Counsel Would be
Abolished, and Consolida
tions Are Recommended
By Ehringhaus; Opposes
Aversion’ of Highway
Funds to State
Kalelgrh, Jan. s.—(AP)—John
Christoph Blucher Khringhaus, of
Elizabeth City, became North
Caro’iina’s 54tli governor since in
dependence at 12:37 this after
noon.
Raleigh, Jan. 5 *(AP) -4
Recommending sweeping
changeSj/in State and local
governmental set-ups of the
State and warning'that the
State budget must be “bal
anced immediately,” John
Christoph Blucher Ehring
haus today told the General
Assembly in his inaugural
address that we must face a
period of “hard self-denial.'”
The new governor read his 6,000
word inaugural message after being
sworn in by Chief Justice W. P.
(Continued on Page Three.)
Gardner Era
rp • rri*
trying lime
Over State
Four Turbulent;
.Years Are Review
ed as Administra
tion Comes to End ,
Raleigh, Jan. 5 (AP) —North Caro
lina today looked back upon four try.
ing years as tfhe administration of
Governor O. Max Gardner came to
an end and took invetory of what it
did to meet th?e changing conditions.
The Gardner admind6tratiocn, begin
ning in 1929, when prosperity was in
bl&om, saw ttie bubble burst and be
fore it was two years old, tlhe State
was struggling to keep its hoad above
the water. *
With the depression came other
woes for N.<orbh Carolina.
Strikes tiroke out like eruption of
volcanos; many banks collapsed as
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wESthler
FOR NORTH CARO LIBIA.
Fair tonight and Friday; colder
tonight and in the east jertion
Friday; rising temperatures in ex
treme west portion Friday.