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HENDERSON, gateway TO CENTRAL CAROLINA. twentieth year SEARCH FOR MONEY FOR REVENUE BILL BIG TASK OF WEEK Basis of That Measure Now Expected To Be Sales Tax as Necessary to Get Funds OTHER BIG BILLS BEING MADE READY Eight Months School Term Election Law Changes, Drivers’ License, Industrial Commission and Marriage Legislation on Agenda for the Week Dull, In Walter Hotel. IIV HKNft*. LKMSSNB. Raleigh. Feb. 6.—The work of the finance sub-committee, .facing the task „f drawing up an entirely new re venue bill, the fcaiisjctf which is now expected, to be a general sales tax. will overshadow everything else on Taniiol Hill this week, although va ,-io‘us other sub-commit'ees will be en >:.ued in drafting bills that can be nun ted on to clog legislative ma cl.motv for many days to come. T’ndcr the Moore resolution adopted •nilv in the session, the finance and iippropriations committees were in .tiacted to present their new bills tjuiy >his week, but despite many long sts* ; ons, sometimes as many as t, vi r,i day. 'he committees still have a ’. o! work ahead The financs coili n' tot has given a hiring to vir tj; illy .v ij Lusines? interest of (Continued on Page Three.) Roosevelt Is At , Bahamas on 1 rip Os Last Vacation Nassau, Bahama Island, Ftb. 6 (AP) — (President-elect Franklifni D. Roosevelt of the United States, ar rivevd here today on the yatoh- Nour mahal. on wheih he to taking a vaca tion cruise With Vincent Asltor and others. He w*aa greeted by Captlato Hugh Beetle Clifford, governo rof the Biaj hairM?, who wiill be host to the pros’ dent-elect during his stay heie. Captain Christopher Brown, formerly of the Royal Canadian Navy, wiill act as a guide for the Rloosevclt party on a Rifling trip in the cruiser Malolo. Decision On Leas Waits To Tuesday North Carolina Re quests Delay in Rul ing To Offer Fur ther Argument N»«h\tilie, Tenn., Feb. 6.—(AP)— Governor Hill McAlister today post poned until 3 p. m. tomorrow his de r‘’on on the request of North Caro lina for ihe extradition of Colonel Luke Lea and Luke Lea, Jr. flie governor said he was deferring "teflon at the request of North Caro lina representatives, who had written •hlim a letter stating “there is another f ped of the proceedings that we then de ire to call to your attention.” Beverly Hills, CuL, Feb. tunny thing, in the same paper Saturday ihai told about the Sen ate versus Honesty, the Coolidge autobiography in ‘ha« very day’s niMallniont, said: H (ho Senate has weakness, it’s avauso i lie people send men lack in almiliiy and character. Bu‘ h ' H is no) the fault of ‘he Sen- H can’t choose its members. 1 has to work with what is sent •o |«. "hen I was elected Vice r«siden‘, I wa s going to learn r , ul *« «f ‘he Senate. Then I "uin thai the Senate had but one and that was, that the Sen ' Wo “ ld do anything it wanted <» whenever it wanted to do it.” {, '7* here’s the words of a man uiui ir.M, ll f 10 if" 1 for two u aU**l with ’em for six. Yourt, WULLt Two More Days Os Big Subscription Offer iiinttUTsmi ilatlu Dtsrmtrh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VlffilNlA. * Defends R. F. C. US jf[ i Charles A. Miller, president of the Reconstruction Finance Corpora tion, pictured as he appeared before the Senate Banking Committee, where he explained the policies of the corporation which have been criticized by Senate leaders, who charge the R. F. C. with “pervert ing the purposes for which it was created.” Senator Hamilton Lewis of Illinois said the R. F C. was “breeding revolution” by a policy of lending to the “financially favored.” fiROSS SALES TAX OF 2 PERCENT MAY BE FINAL OUTCOME) Would Raise Around $9,- 000,000 and Provide Enough Money to Bal ance the Budget ONE GROUP WOULD MAKE IT 3 PRCNT. Main Fight Appears Immin ent on Size, Rather Than Fact, of Sales Levy, as That Seems About Only Tax That Will Actually Get Needed Money llnll,- DlMiijiti'h Unrcnii, In fli** Sir IVnllor Hotel. bv .» v. ntsKEnviUi. Raleigh. Feb. 6. —Hav’ng spent 30 days In trying to “find the money where Lie money is” without finding any new money at all, the new sub committee of (he joint finance com mittees is now working behind closed doors in an effort to bring out a new revenue bill that will “find the money where the money is” and provide enough revenue to balance the budget and keep the State government op era* ing. Just how long it will take for this sub-commitee to complete this task no one knows. A few believe that it may be able to bring out its new re <Continued on Page Three.) COLDEST IN YEARS IN OCRACOKE AREA Ocracoke, Feb. 6.—(AP) —With ‘he thermometer registering 20 degrees and this part of the coast Was experiencing the coldest weather in years today. Fresh water pools were frozen over. Coney Island Is Ravaged Again By Damaging Blaze New York, Feb. 6. —(AP) —Fire, per sistent plague of Coney Island, struck again today ait the famous seashore resort, riding along the board walk on a biting southwest gale and de stroying several amusement places. In the bleak hush two hours before dawn and with thermometers regis tering 12 above zero, fire spouted from the wooden and paper mache “Tun inel of Love” in that section of the 'amusement place known as “the Bowery.” The gale, howled through the OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 6, 1933 LEGISLATIVE EYES ARE FOCUSED UPON MONEY ACTIVITIES *• - , Fight on Appropriation for University Looms If Bud get Figure Is Adopted LENGTH OF SESSION WILL BE DETERMINED Kind of Bills Reported By Two Committees Will Guage Fight To Be Made; Truck Regulation and Leg alizing Sunday Baseball To Be Heard Raleigh, Feb. 6. —(AP)—Legislative eyes this week will be focused on two major comm’ttees of the General As sembly-finance and appropriations Whether the appropriations group wiill see fit to approve the recommend ed allotment for the consolidated uni versity, lower the aDotment or raise, it, is a prime question. Ju«t what form of sales tax —it seems generally accepted that such is inevitable —the finance committee will offer for legislative digestion is an other prime question. The form assumed by bills from two committees likely will determine just how long this legislature will be in session. Wh le perhaps a majority of the members have “resigned” them selves to the inevitability of a sales tax, tshre apparently is still enough opposition to make for a healthy floor fight cn such a proposal. Prevailing sentiment among appro priation committee members appears to be for holding the University with in the amount recommended by the Budget Bureau. If such is the case, there is likely to be a movement to raise it. Public hearings of Statewide inter est are scheduled on two bills this week. Tuesday House Judiciary Committee No. 1 will hear trucking interests on a bill designed to approve stricter State regulation of motor vehicle traf fic. The Sullivan Sunday baseball bill was re-ferred to House Judiciary Committee No. 2, on motion of its sponsor, who said other interests wished to be heard on it. FEDERAL GAS TAX WILL BE RETAINED Washington, Feb. 6.—(AP) The Senate Finance Commi“ee to day approved ‘he House bill to continue for another year the one cent a gallon Federal tax on gaso line. legislalrTparty BEING INVESTIGATED Two “Nude” /Women Said To Have Danced at Fete Given by ‘‘Lobbyists” Raleigh, Feb. 6. —(AP)—Chief of Police Clarence Barbour, of Raleigh, said 'his afternoon that he wias in vestigating rumors that two women recently danced in the nude “lobbying party” for a group of legislators in a hotel here- The investigation followed publica tion i.n the News and Observer of a story about “ ‘parties’ held for legisla tors, one of which admittedly fea tured nude dancing girls” here re cently. The story followed remarks on the Senate floor last week by Senator Boggan, of Anson, in regard to lob bying parties allegedly given by pro ponents of a bill mow before the leg islature to regulate the practice of cosmetic arts in North Carolina. “Headliners in the lobbying rank of the beau tidal ns claim that the party was a ‘frame-up’ to discredit their bill,” the News and Observer said in discussing a party at which “two prostitutes were brought in to pro wide entertainment.” empty skeletons which in summer are gay with life, picked up the fife and ©wept it through the Ferris' wheel, the Kitty park, the caterpillar ride, the motordrome sind two wooden conces sions. Large bath houses were in the path of the fire when suddenly the wind, as if in penitent caprice, swung sharply to the north The shift saved the bath houses and the portion of the board walk near them. A great part of the Brooklyn fire apparatus was called out* Fatal Wedding I --.'.v 7. gJwflK*’ :doi ■wßf I I ■ -• - 1 rrrfmtTtT ~ nt'r —in mmijj Like a stage melodrama was the wedding celebratiof of John Coyne, 66, of Pittsburgh Ind his 20-yeafr oid bride, the fornfer Irene Carbet (both above) Coyne’s 22-year-old sen flew from Detroit to Pittsburgh in an effort to prevent the wedding. Failing, he shot and killed the bride and attacked his father with a hammer. TRIBUTE PAID TO CALVIN COOLIDGE BY HIGH OFFICIALS Nation’s Assemble For Eulogy and Memo rial in House of Representatives ARTHUR T. RUGG IS PRINCIPAL SPEAKER Chief Justice of Massachu setts Supreme Court De livers Eulogy; President Hoover, Supreme Court, Senate, Diplomats and Others Join in Services Washington, Feb. 6.—(AP) —Tribute was r" ’ ’ Calvin Coolidge today by I the nation’s officials in a cere mony as simplDe as the life led by ■the former president. : Held in the spacious chamber of. the House of Representatives, the memo rial service consisted of an eulogy by Arthur T. Rugg, chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, an in vocation and a benediction. Led by President Hoover, who ser ved in the Coolidge cabinet, and suc ceeded him as executive, the pro cession of officials that wound slow ly into the chamber included Vice- President Curtis, member of the Su preme Court and the diplomatic corps. Members of the Senate, over which. Mr. Coolidge presided as vice-presi dent before the death of President Harding elecated him to the highest (post, suspended work and marched into the House. NEW Oil BANKS WEATHERING STORM Deposits Exceed Withdraw als as Fears Appear To Be Fading Away New Orleans, La., Feb. 6.—(AP) With stacks of money in their vaults, New Orleans banks threw open their doors an hour earlier today and in vited depositors to withdraw their money if they were excited over false rumors of banking difficulties in New Orleans- An hour after the opening most of the banks reported receiving more funds in deposit than they were pay-j ing out. Normal banking business was' ■reported by all of the banks, except, the Hibernia Bank and Trust Com pany, where a line of approximately 100 persons, mostly women, was stretched before the savings account window. The bank was paying all demands for savings and did not resort to* the legal 60-day clause for withdrawing savings accounts. There was no crowd before the other windows and bankers were satisfied that any fear on, the | part of bank depositors had been al-‘ [ layed. SENATE COMMITTEE DEFERS ACTION 1 PUNISHING BARRY * • - Sergeant -at - Arms Given Hearing On Magazine Article Charging Bribes In Congress GLASS STATEMENT IN SPRING CITED Barry Says Senator at That Time Said in Senate That Banking Interests Had “Hired Some-Congressmen To Oppose Banking Leg islation” There Washington, Feb. 6. —(AP) — The Senate Judiciary Committee today re cessed its investigation of the state ment by David S. Barry. Senate ser geant-at-aims, that seme members of Congrers sell their votes for money, without taking action in the case, but with an agreement to continue to morrow. Appearing in his own defense before the Senate Judiciary Committee to day, David S. Barry, Senate sergeant at-arms, cited public charges of con gressional bribes to support his mag azine article saying some members of Congress sell their votes for money Holding his derby hat and cane in one hand, the nattily-dressed Official, now under suspension for his writ ings, read a prepared statement to the committee considering what pun ishment to mete out to him. He c ; ted a statement made by Sen ator Glass, Democrat, Virginia, in the Senate last spring that banking in terests had “hired some congressmen to oppose banking legislation.” The committee was inquiring into Barry’s having said in an article that there are “not many crooks in Con gress,” and also that there are only a few senators and representatives “who sell their votes,” and “it is pretty well known who those few are.” Prussian Diet Is Dissolved by Vote Pending Election Berlin, Feb. 6. — (AP)—The Prus sian diet was dissolved today by vote of the new “triumvirate.” consisting of Vice-Chancellor von Papen, Hans Kerri, president of the diet, and Con rad Adenauer, president of the Prus sian State Council. A new diet will be elected on March 5, the date on which an election for the national Richstag is to be held. Fatal Auto Crash Near Morganton Marion, Feb. 6.—(AP) Eugene j Br|a.nch, 21, of Morganton, was in stantly killed and two companions se- | rjiously injured when their automobile 1 crashed on Highway 10 a few miles <j3®t of here today. State highway patrolmen said the 'machine failed lo Lake a curve and crashed. Branch was dead when taken from the wreckage, and his com panions, Joe Lane and James Car rison, both of Morganton, were taken to a hospital, wihere physicians said Lane might not live. Branch was a mill employee. Lane, 16, is the son of a prominent Morgan ton business man and Carrison is the son of a mail carrier. All three were returning from Marion in a rented car- Officials sa’d an inquest was un certain pending the outcome of Lane’s condition. Highway officials said Lane was driving Roosevelt Is To Ask Cuts In Armaments And Tariffs In Return For Debt Slash By CHARtES P. STEWART Washington, Feb. 6—ln return for further war debt modifications, if any President Franklin D. Roosevelt, it is clear indicated, will ask the debtor countries for armament reduction, tariff cuts and international exchange stabilization. As to armaments— If Europe’s maritime powers (and Japan) will trim their navies, Uncle iSam can trim his. The saving, all told will total billions. As to tariffs— For years it has been Uncle feiam’s PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY, Senate Drive For Help For Cotton L X' K Farmer Revealed Suspended by Senate David S. Barry Because he wrote a magazine article in which he said “there are not many senators or representa tives who sell their votes for money, and it is pretty well known who those few are”, David S. Barry, 74-year-old sergeant-at arms of the United States senate, has been suspended. The suspen sion of Barry, a former news paperman, followed a lengthy ses sion of the upper chamber, sitting as a trial court, with senators heatedly cross-examining the vet eran sergeant-at-arms. Barry said he could not name any members of congress “who sell their votes for money” and asserted his arti cle had been carelessly written. BE CHINESE REPORTED SUICIDE TO AVOID CAPTURE’ i_‘ 1— ■ i Shanghai Newspapers Tell of Alleged Action by Be sieged Group At In terior Point TRAGEDYOCCURRED IN SMALL VILLAGE Was In Heart of Chinese Soviet Distrist; Women and Children Had Pre viously Been Sent to Safety < Before Siege Began by the Communists Shanghai!, Feb. 6. —(AP) —An ap parently extravagant story of how 4,- 000 Chinese farmers committed suicide rather than fall captive to com munists in the southern interior pro vince of Kiangsi constituted today’s sensation in the Chinese newspapers. The papers declared the tragedly occurrd ein a village near Ningtu, southeast of Kiangsi, in the heart of the Chinese soviet district. The reds were reported to have besieged the villagers for many months. When it appeared the former would soon gain entrance, the farmers were said to have ended their lives. The women and children, the stories said, had been sent to safety before the siege started. The farmers’ food stores were reported replenished by airplanes which flew over the vil lage, dropping foods and salt. ipractice to levy heavy taxes on im (ports, to keep other countries’ pro ducts out of American markets. The others tried to retaliate by excluding American products from their mar kets in the same fashion. Exchange Complicated. International exchange stabilization is far more complicated. Transactions in a mixture of dol lars, pounds, francs, marks, lira, etc. are coherent enough if each of these (currencies is based on a recognized, (Continued on Fact Three.). 6 PAGES , TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Smith To Push His Bill For Lending Farmer Money To Purchase Cotton Off Market WOULD CUT CROP TO THAT EXTENT Strong Opposition to “Farm Parity” Bill Including Cot ton Voiced by Manufactur. ers at Final Hearing, In cluding Jiilius Cone, Greensboro 1 Washington, Feb. 6.—(AP) A Sen ate drive for aid for the cotton pro ducer by emergency legislation en tirely independent of the “farm parity” bill was disclosed today ns hearings on the latte* measure finally closed. Senator George, Democrat, Georgia, revealed his intention o surging the agriculture committee Wednesday to report out immediately the bill by Senator Smith, Democrat, South Car olina, under which producers would buy a part of their crop on govern ment credit at the present depressed price, cutting their crop proportion ately. Proponents of this measure feel it would have a good chance of Presi dent Hoover’s approval. Strong opposition to the parity bill's application to cotton was expressed at the closing hearing by Charles D. Owen, president of the Beacon Manu facturing Company, New Bedford, Mass., and Julius W. Cone, Greens boro, N- C., cotton manufacturer. * T" " Few State Officials Take Cut Raleigh, Feb. 6.—(AP)—Only feu* of the State’s constitutional and*clec~ tfvti officers outside of the judibiafy have thus far decided to take a voluntary salary cut, books in the Of fices of/ the State treasurer and (au ditor showed today. Dr./A. T. Allen, State superinten dent 1 of public instruction, is thwonly constitutional officer thus far to :turn, back part of his January pay. Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus and other officials have said they wi tl ac cept cuts. William A. Graham, commissioner of agriculture; Dan C. Boney, insdUr ance commissioner, and A- L. Fleboher commissioner of labor, are the three elective officers who each have given back 15 percent of their pay. BOILER EXPLOSION IN PARIS IS FATAL Paris, Feb. 6. —(AP) —Eight persons were killed and about 100 injured when a boiler exploded otdav in the power house of the Renauit Auto mobile Works on the edge of I aris. Lame Dueft Amendment Is Now Law Secretary Stimson, Signs Measure Abolishing Short Sessions Congress Washington, Feb, 6.—(AP)—Secre tary Stimson today signed the “lam* duck” amendment to the Constitu tion. Senator Norris, the sponsor of th<S amendment, was unable to attend the signing because of a previous engage ment. The ceremony followed recaption by the State Department of official noti fication that a sufficient number of states had ratified the amendment to put it into the Constitution. weaThlr FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Increasing cloudiness with rain Tuesday, and in east and central portions tonight; rising tempera ture in central and east portions Tuesday.