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' HENDERSON
gateway to
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
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TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
FRANCE FACES
FOUR-DEPARTMENT
MONEY BILL GOES
THROUGH IN HOUSE
All Efforts To Add $2,110,.
000 for New Employment
Service Are Voted
Down
STATE DEPARTMENT
GETS AN INCREASE
Allowances Made for For
eign Service, Including
$17,500 Annual Salary of
Ambassador Bullitt at Mos.
cow; Justice, Coffimerce,
Labor Share in Funds
\V'i liinyton, F(4\ 6. (AP) Down
attempts to add 52.110.000 for the
i.< w employment service, the House
today passed and sent to the Senate
t'i> 1!<35 money bill for the State, Jus
lire. Commerce 'and Labor Depart
ment .. carrying $81,170,577.
Nb (awhile, such supply matters be-
! looking up at last in the Senate
v' •< ihe $2*1,000.000 naval approp
i a on lull was approved by the ap
i' pi iatio;, i committee, virtually with
ui! < 11.1,i>ee from the form in which
the House accepted it.
One the four department bill the
House added $117,673 to State Depart
in'n’ funds for added compensations
in it. foreign .-a i vice, including $17,-
ei"i lor the salary of Ambassador
\V I’i un C. Bullitt, soon returning to
Mo cow.
Pifti ' n thou,dollars was also
■idd'<l to ttie .Jus'icv Department sec--
l i n for the Alcatraz Island, Califci
nia. ptison.
BIRD SANCTUARIES
BILL IS APPROVED
Washington, Feb. 6 (Al*) —-The Sen
ate today passed and sent to the
House the Wolcott bill to acquire
areas for use as migratory bird sanc
tum ies by requiring hunters of water
fowl to buy $1 “duck stamps” for at
tachment to their hunting licenses.
Tar Heels
Plead For
Park Road
I ennessee Also
Seeking Gateway
of Scenic Highway
hi Smoky Park
II ill imore, Md., Fob. G.--(AP) — A
legation of North Carolinians, hcaia
(,d by Governor J. C. C. Ehringhaus
today described to public works re
.cd< nal officials and Fcdcrall landscape
hitccts and. engineers “the great--
11 eeuic highway route that could
11 built in America.”
i'hc North Ca iclinians were giv
their proposed location of tho
proposed Federal highway to be built
1,1 1 wi ll) the Shenandoah and Great
Binoky Mountains National Parks. In
' 'i' f, the. argument is where the 500-
"flij road shall run from the peak®
of Otter in Bedford county, Virginia,
i'> fli. Great Smoky Mountain Park.
V' ii'rday Virginlaws who were
'gi( <d that the route should go from
• 'tn iiandoah to the peaks of Otter
Idit on the route from there south.
Om- wanted the route connecting
"illi Itio projiosed North Carolina
ioiji.i. another route connecting with
’lkj proposed Tennessee route Which
• to l>o presented tomorrow.
But h North ■olinians and trie
I ' iiin scoaiis want the main ftn
t'mirc into the park in their state,
:i "d the first scenic highway to be
bum through their mountains.
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WIATHER
I'OR NORTH CAROLINA.
Lair tonight and Wednesday;
sl 'glitly colder in northeast and
"orth central portions tonight.
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LEASED wire service of
the associated press;
12 Cents A Pound Levy
For 1934 Cotton Above
9,000,000 Bales Asked
Wars On* Graft
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W illiam ii. Moran
Seeking to end graft within the
Federal Government, President
"Roosevelt has swept aside a prece
dent dating back tn the Civil War
and liar, ordered William H. Moran,
head of the secret service. Io track
down dishonesty within the ranks
of Federal agencies.
f Cent mJ Presaj
DR. POTEAI WAITS
ON SIGNING OATH
Undecided Weather He
Wants Utilities Job or
His Stock More
Hally Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKHRVIIZL.
Raleigh, Feb. 6. —Dr. William Louis
Poteat, assistant utilities commis
'sioncr-designate, who Saturday could
not take the oath of office because
he holds stock in one North Caro
lina utility, is taking his time in the
quiet of the scholar to decide wheth
er he will sell his stock and qualify,
or whether he will hold to his block
now in depreciation.
The oa.th which Dr. Poteat would
not sign has language that might be
read liberally and let him out, but.
the would not attact) his William
Louis to the obligation until he ask
ed the meaning of it. He saw the
disqualify bug condition and asked
time to negotiate. The stock which
he holds is not worth what he paid
for it, but he does not wish to lose
it. Besides, it pays a dividend and
every little bit helps.
The Saturday ceremony in which
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AFTER LAWRENCE
AS LABOR'S HEAD
One Element Thinks He Is
using Office To Get Poli
tical Pie
Daily DiMpatch Bureau,
In the Sir Waiter Hotel.
BY .1. C. BASK Kit VILL.
Raleigh, Feb. 6.-Signs of a move
ment to oust R. R. Lawrence from
the presidency of the State federation
of labor on the ground that he is
more interested in politics than in
the conduct of his office, are the
first published cvidiwce that. Mr.
Lawrence is again running for the
commissionshiip of labor which is now
(held by his successful ‘opponent of the
1932 race, Major A. L. Fletcher.
That isn’t the kick that the crafts
in their insurgency are making. The
commissionership is the natural of
fice for Mr. Lawrence, but the cri
ticism that is made of him most fre
quently is that he isn’t confining his
aspirations to the State office, that
ho is looking for any government
position that is 'available. And the
Green boro labor members who start
led the assault are not the first to
open on him.
Raleigh’s union Iras not taken any
interest officially in this quarrel but
members do not hesitate to say that
they have been h eair ng many com-
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPE R PUBLISHED IN THIS
Senate Committee Agrees to
Substitute Tax for Pro.
vision Licensing
All Gins
SOME EXEMPTIONS
WILL BE ALLOWED
Experiment Station Cotton
and That Grown Prior To
1934 Would Not Be Taxed;
Taxes Would Be Paid By
Purchaser Who Buys from
Producer at Sale
Washington; Feb. G.—(AP) The
Senate Agriculture Committee agreed
today to report favorably an amend
ment to the Bankhead bill to control
cotton production by eliminating the
bill’s gin licensing . provision, and
placing a tax of 12 cents a pound on
cotton gbnnc din 1931 in excess of 9,-
000,000 bales.
Chairman Smith, Democrat, South
Carolina, upon motion of Scnatoi
Bankhead. Democrat, Alabama, refer
red ttie amended measure to a stiD
coinmittce of senators from cotton
crowing states, and delegated to the
committee authority to report the bill
to the Senate after some minor de
tails were arranged.
Bankhead pointed out that the bill
as amended was a revennue-ruising
measure and must orgi.nta.te in the
House, unless offered as a Senate
amendment to a House revenue bill.
He raid his brother, Representative
Bankhead. Democrat, Alabama, woulo
introduce the. same bill in the House,
but that, the sub-committee also
would report it to the Senate so that
it could be offered ais an amendment,
to “the first House revenue bill that
comes over.”
The bill provides that cotton har
vested by any publicly-owned experi
ment station or agriculture la bora
lory, and upon cotton harvested prior
to the crop year 1931, shall ibe exempt
from the tax.
The taxes the act would impose are
to be paid by the purchaser from the
producer at the time of sale.
The limitation which the bill would
fix for this year would be fixed by
the .secretary of agriculture, starr
ing in 1935.
Interstate
Sales Tax
Discussed
Raleigh, Feb. 6.—(AP) —The appli
cation' of the state sales taxes on in
terstate shipments of merchandise
will be advocated by the North Car
olina Department, of Revenue at a na
tionwide meeting of tax officials in
Indianapolis on' February 19 and 20.
Harry McMuillan, director of the as
sessments and collection of the Re
venue Department, today announced
that an act prepared by his office
will be submitted to the meeting for
consideration.
For several months McMullan has
been working on the idea, of State
taxation of interstate movement of
goods, and has been in correspondence
with other states where there is a
sales tax.
Hoover Naval Secretary
Called In Plane Inquiry
Washington, Feb. 6. —(AP) The
House Naval Affairs sub-committee
decided today to call Charles Fran
cis Adams, former secretary of the
navy, 'and two of his assistants, to
find out What they know about air
plane contracts on which it has been
told profits of as much as 50 percent
were made.
A determination to explore every
one of the many naval airplane and
engine contracts awarded without
competitive 'bidding spread among
members of the House Naval Affairs
Committee.
Already informed that under one
HENDERSON, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 6,1934
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SNOW FLAKES PAY A VISIT TO WHITE HOUSE
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New Development
Over Silver Seen
Washington, Feb. 6.—(AD—Thc
Treasury’s investigation of silver
holdings on the stock exchange was
revealed today as a special slimy
into speculative operations.
With this report from an author
itative source, likelihood of imme
diate moves in the monetary pro
gram relative to silver was dis
counted.
Just what is behind the inquiry
into speculation was not revealed.
However, such a step is regarded
as a preliminary to any new sil
ver action by the government, and
there is jiersisteut. speculation that
new developments to aid the white
metal are in contemplation.
by armistice ”
IN TYROL DISPUTE
Rival Factions, One Seeking
Fascist Control, Agree
Upon Truce
Vienna, Austria, Feb. 6.—(AP) —
Rival factions in the Tyrolese provin
cial dispute over whether a Fascist
commission shall rule the district or
merely advise its elect!co government
agreed today on a. three-day armis
tice.
The Fascist heimehr (Home guard)
and Catholic storm troops will con
tinue to occupy Innsbruck under the
truce, but leaders promised to take
no further action in the Tyrol until
'after a conference with Chancellor
Engelbert Dollfuss Friday regarding
their ultimatum for a Fascist reor
ganization—at least in the Tyrol.
Today, despite the fact that an ad
ditional 1.000 armed guardsmen and
Catholic storm troopers were moved
into the city when the dispute de
veloped last night, Innsbruck was
quiet.
With Doll fuss empowered toy the
cabinet to appeal to the League of
Nations for protection against what,
•he has tremd German attempts to
“Nazify,” Austria, the situation thro
ughout the country today may be de
scribed as outwardly calm, but tur
bulent beneath the surface.
inon-competitive contract for engines
the manufacturer netted a 50 percent
profit on a $10,000,000 order, commit
tee members swung ahead with their
investigation this morning to see if
other such disclosures would be forth
coming.
Rear Admiral Ernest J. King, chief
of the navy’s bureau of aeronautics,
submitted a memorandum to the
committee explaining the navy’s us
ual procedure, but Chairman Delaney
Democrat, New York, of the sub
committee handling the investigation,
said: “More light is needed on the
whole subject.”
SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
CIVIL WAR
.showing the White Hoube at
Washington through a haze of
New Revenue Bill
About Completed
Question of Fixing
Postage Rates
Among Only Three
Remaining Items
Washington, Feb. 6 (AP)—The new
revenue bill, estimated to yield about
$300,000,000 a year, was virtually com
pleted today by the House Ways and
(Means 'Committee, but final action
is not expected until later in the
week.
Only three items remain to be dis
posed of by the committee at an ex
ecutive session tomorrow.
They are the proposal for a tax on
so-called ‘‘hot oil,” submitted by Sec
retary Ickes, continuation of the pre
rates on inter-city mail, and a pro
sent first and second class postage
posal to make the five cents a pound
levy on cocoanut and sesame oil apply
only on oil going into edible products.
WAKEWITNESSiNG
POLITICAL NOVELTY
» ——
R» B. Nichols Switches On
Amendments and Es
pouses Sales Tax
Daily Dispatch Bureau
In the Sir Walter Hotel
BY J. C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, Feb. 6. — Wake county
has a novelty in politics, though by
no means a novice, in R. B. Nichols,
once member of the General Assem
bly, who desires to go back and he
announces a platform favoring the
sales tax.
Mr. Nichols is a. merchant. He has
been a member of 'the House, being
one of the three who represented the
county in 1919 and at th extra ses
sion of 1920. He was one of the sig
ners of the famous round robin a
gainst adoption of the nineteenth
amendment but voted for the 18th.
He has changed completely. He now
favors the 19th but voted to repeal
the 18th.
He will not, however, major in the
/repeal issue. He went with President
Roosevelt and Governor Ehringhaus
in their support of the national plat
form. It is that layalty which makes
(him embrace the more or less hateful
’sales tax. Mr. Nichols as a small
dealer sees the nuisance features
every day but he declares he can see
no otlhr way to make the State’s
buckle and tongue meet, so he comes
out for the sales tax against the
wishes of nearly all the merchants,
Lt is worthy of remark that some
•of the big ones do not object. Re
cently Charles T. Copeland, head of
the Charles stores, told Governor Eh
ringhaus that with all the thousands
his business has provided in sales
taxes the merchant finds small ob
jection to it and sees its good work
every day in the reduced number of
foreclasures and the relief from bur
densome property taxation. Mr.
’Nichols watches its workings on
small scale. He says he will not vote
to repeal if if he is chosen.
The only other person in the race
is Mrs. Stella Barbee, who was on
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
I snowflakes which buried the capi
I tai under a blanket of ermine
Stock Regulation
Proposed In Bill
Washington, Feb. 6. —(AL‘)—Leg.
rslation to create a stock exchange
and security commission to re
gulate transactions on stock ex
changes was offered in the Senate
today by Senator King, Democrat,
Utah.
os. graham eyeing
U. N. G. FOOTBALLING
President Appears Not So
Enthusiastic About Re.
cent Changes
Doily Dispatch Bureau,
lu the N«r Waiter Hotel.
BY J. C, BAsKERVILL.
Raleigh, Feb. 6. —When President
Frank P. Gralham, -of the Univer
sity < f North Carolina, was here
nearly a week ago and made his
statement to the trustee® of the three
great State institutions now under
one head, he said something that
football fans of Raleigh, Chapel Hill
and everywhere else, have been think
ing about.
The president referred to football
as a “racket” The recent hiring of
Funk Anderson, Notre Dame coach
since the death of Rockne, and Carl
Snavely, of Bucknell, has been in
terpreted by many footballists to
mean that the two State institutions
are going'in for what is called “big
time football." And big time football
r lways means going out to get play
ers. And going out to get players
means going out to get ’em. These
players are to be found in North
Carolina, if possible, but in Illinois,
Ohio, Pennsylvania and everywhere
else. To the fans who want football
above everything else Dr. Graham
brought no good news.
It was not exactly what he said a
few days ago as how he has played
the academic game all along. The
fans won’t like it very much. As
head of the whole University if it
should turn out that State is going
too strong on “big time” football, the
head of the University undoubtedly
would make music to the whole body
trustees.
The State students might not agree
with him, but most likely they would
and that would be bad. The Univer
sity hoys from Chapel Hill undoubt
edly would string with him and they
have the bulk of the vote. It is there
fore a somewhat disquieting situa
tion with a possible clash of interests
•among the alumni, some of whom
would wish a team that under any
and all conditions must trim Caro
lina, while Carolina trustees might
feci exactly the other way about it.
The ousting of Coach Chuck Col
lins from Carolina was the direct re
sult of alumni dissatisfaction. The old
students took two beatings from
Duke. It was hard for them to re
member the much worse treatment
that Collins had given to the nearest
Carolina rivals. Collins had beaten
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TODAY
PREMIER SUMMONS
BACKERS TO HELP
RESCUE REPUBLIC
Agitation Menacing the Na
tion Lies in Economic
and Financial Crisis,
Daladier Says
‘DEFEND MY REGIME/
HE BEGS CHAMBER
Cabinet Asks Vote of Confi
dence on Basis of Ministe
rial Declaration by Pre
mier; “United Republi.
cans” Asked to Support
Firm Measures Taken
Faris, Feb. (A F)—Troops
were called out to reinforce the
police battling with a mob in the
Flace de lu Concorde, across from
the Chamber of Deputies.
A crowd packed into the Place de
la Concorde, facing the Chamber of
Deputies, roared:
“Resign! Resign.!”
The shouting was heard into th«
chamber itself.
Solid ranks of police in blue and
black uniforms barred the bridge
over the Seine opixjsite the Chamber
and kept cleared the wide spaces a
round the building.
A mob estimated at 3,000,000 per
sons had broken into a mad riot
atoross the bridge over the Seine which
divides the place from the Chamber
building.
An auto bus caught, in the jam erf
the crowd was destroyed by fire.
Mounted and foot police charged,
into the demonstrations repeatedly
and were pelted by stones and broken
glass.
The police called lor troops.
The United Status Emlbassay, on the
opposite side of the Place de la Con
corde, hastily shut, its huge iron gates
The moib fleeing from the police
delved into the demonstrators in an
attempt to clear the immense his
toric square where once stood, the
guillotine of the French revolution.
Deputies rioting among themselves
broke up a, session of the Chamber
today when Premier Edouard Da
ladier, a vote of confidence behind
him, refused to answer questions
from the floor. The legislators went
wild.
Some shouted: “Fascism.” Others
sang the communist hymn, “The In
ter nation ale.”
The bedlam broke loose when An
dre Tarideau, former premier, and
one of the leaders of the opposition
to Daladier, mounted the rostrum to
speak.
The deputies slammed the tops of
their desks, |>ounded with books and
fists and roared epithets at one an
other.
The deputies of the left accused
the membesr of the rigtist parties of
obstructionist tactics.
Rightists charged the government
with dictatorial methods.
A short time previously the Da
ladier government had reeeivevd a
vote 300 to 217 expressing the cham
ber’s confidence.
Thereafter, Daladier agreed to dis-
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Free City
Os Danzig
Goes Nazi
Section That Divides
Prussia Capitulates
to Control of Dicta
torship
Free City of Danzig, Feb. 6. —(AP)
—Danzig went Nazi today when the
Nazi-dominated Senate appointed a
state commissioner to take over the
functions of the city council.
The procedure was much like that
followed in the city of Berlin When
Adolf Hitler’s Nazis seized power in
the Reich at that time.
At the time, finding the city coun
cil with its then anti-Nazi majority
was a stumbling block to Hitler’s will
in the German capital, the Prussia*
government appointed a state com
missioner to run the city.
The Fiee City of Danzig is politi
cally important because of the lo
cation at the “bottle neck” of Tomor
ze, the narrow strip of land by which
Poland divides Prussia,