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WM's What-at a Glance P^IrWASHINOTONCrWORLg^-lCffl B.V CHARLES 1». STEWART Central Press staff Writer Washington, March 12.—President Roosevelt’s request for authority to make tariff bargains, for Uncle Sam, with foreign countries, will be desper atelv fought in Congress. In fact, it probably will spin out the session well on into the summer, much against the wishes of the Presi dent. who would prefer to have the lawmakers go home by midspring, leaving him to dictate, uncriticized, whatever short cuts he may choose, from time to time, on the road to re eovery: against the wishes, too of most of the lawmakers, who have re-elec tinn campaigns, requiring their atten tion in their various bailiwicks. In this particular matter, however, ilie power sought by the White House j. -o enormously at the legislators’ ex pense that their hesitancy to grant it is hardly to 'oe wondered at. HITS BOTH HOUSES Tariff-making always had been re minded as financial business, in Its very nature. The constitution provides that mone tnry measures, without exception, must originate in the House of Rep resentatives. Even the Senate is en titled to consider them secondarily - the President, of course, possessing the light of veto, but absolutely none of an initiatory characted beyond the milking of mere suggestions. If, on llie opposite hand, the view i- taken that the compacts the presi dent would like to be able to eon ehide, independently of congressional indorsement, are not essentially of a fiscal description, but should be view ed rather as diplomatic treaties, then the Senate’s tenderest sensibilities are roughly touched upon for the con stitution provides that no treat*' **m> State Department may conclude shall he binding upon Uncle Sam until the senators have ratified it. I.O(’AL INTERESTS Yet, if ever tariffs are to 'be ade quately scaled downward, to give fresh encouragement to American export trade, no person, who has the least familiarity with Congress’ past handling of the problem, is likely to dispute that some one, other than tin? legislators, must, do the scaling. This is because it is difficult to finct a senator or representative who has* not, in his state or district, some brg interest (or several of them) which insists upon a high import tax on goods corresponding to its own espe cial output, to protect it against for eign competition—-or it will do its utmost to beat that senator or repre sentative for re-election, and the sen ator or representative generally is shrewdly suspicious that the big inter est (or interests) can do it, too. Outline Federal Relief Plan for Farm Families (Continued from Page One.) of various sorts. At the present time there are thou sands of families stranded in indus trial cities and towns in North Caro lina and other states in the south, which originally came from farms in the boom days prior to 1921) ln ‘•ause they could make more money then in mills and factories than they could on the farms. But now many of these mills and factories have clos ed or are employing only the more expert labor, witfy the result that thes efamilies are without work ana virtually dependent upon Federal re lief, Mrs. O’Berry pointed out. They will undoubtedly have to be main tained by relief agencies unless some thing can be done to help them l)e» come self supporting, she said. Thar is why the Relief Administration is now trying to work out a new re habilitation program that will make many of these families semi-indepen dent if not entirely so. While Mrs. O’Berry would not un dertake to predict what the regional conference would decide upon, if any thing, she did point to what Presi dent Roosevelt had said in outlining his plan for returning these families of rural origin who went into indus try and became stranded there among tiie unemployed, back to the land. The President said: “Relief funds will be expended in such a manner to permit them to achieve self-support. Wtork for wages front relief funds is not an essential part of this phase of the program. No extension of competative farming is contemplated, but rather the plac ing of thousands of persons who have made their living from agriculture, in i'* a relationship with the soil that will provide them 'a security they do not now enjoy. ‘Some of the methods that may be employed include building or rebuild ing to provide adequate farm homes; the provision of seed and stock for other than commercial purposes; op portunities to these workers to earn modest cash incomes through pnrt tiinc or seasonal employment in small industrial enterprises. Then should also be a planned distribution of the regular jobs on highways in the na lumal and state parks and other pub lie works in rural communities.” Mrs. O’Berry pointed out that the Civil Works Administration will cease to exist as a separate unti on March 31, according to new instructions re ceived from Washington, and that all CWA projects still in operation on that date will automatically be trans ferred to the Emergency Relief Ad ministration on April 1. This in reality is only a change in name, since the Emergency Relief Administration and the Civil Works Administration have been almost identical as far as per oimei is conccnped from the start, •tie. only difference being that the money forte CWA came from one ource—the Public Works Administra tion—and the money for relief ac tivities from the Emergency Relief By LESLIE EICHEL Central Pres* Staff Writer New York, March 12.—President Roosevelt’s NR A speech made New oi optimistic. It’s a strange thing -mention of higher wages to come ? n heav,er buying immediately Retail trade in New York is splen did -that is. in comparison with what it was. Indeed, compared with a year ago. nearly all businesses have shown a re markable recovery. future? The larger executives, however, are not so optimistic. As one remarked today: “Roost xell may mark the beginning of the end of property. After Roosevelt tm people will be satisfied with no one except he be a great ‘Socialist’ than Roosevelt.” Then the executive laughed. It’s a changing world we may as well smile. FINES Arc fines against persons of mod erate or impoverished circumstances just? That question is arising increasingly Those who have money escape pen al punishment. Those who haven’t must suffer. Or, if one is in moderate circumstances, his family can ‘be im poverished by a fine. There are many persons jailed in the United States simply because of lack ol money- and they may be far less guilty of wrongdoing man those who are able to pay for freedom. SWITCHES This rumor seems to be true: Frank Murphy, governor general of the Philippines, is to return to his native Michigan to campaign for gov ernor. The former mayor of Detroit is a staunch Roosevelt man. Homer S Cummings, attorney gen eral. originally intended for the Philip pines’ post, is to go there. Martin Conboy, recently appointed U. ,S. attorney at New York, is to be come attorney general, succeeding Cummings. He was President Roose velt’s attorney when Roosevelt was governor. Fredinand Pecora, investigator of banks for the senate, is to be named U. S. attorney at New York. And, then—Pecora will campaign for the U. S. senatorship now held by Senator Copeland. It’s the kind of rumor that political writers dote on. Pecora would have a difficult time winning the senatorial nomination over Senator Copeland—who is known to thousands as a medical writer of note. Administration. But from now on all the money will come from the $950.- 000.000 appropriation for the Emer gency Relief Administration. hnoirl obout, or mtitipy cun fiiiy, S v . M I I m ■ ■ can make a milder cigarette, ■ I _ I _ [ a cigarette that tastes better, is j |l 4* I 4 I uaed in making Chesterfield* lit I!) Ivlilvm "I the cigarette that’s MILDER • the cigarette that TASTES BETTER __ • •• • • • 1 © 1934, Ligoitt ft My«m TO9AGG4 Co, HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH, MONDAY, MARCH 12, 1934 Jap Torpedo Boat Wrecked With 120 Probably Drowned (Continued rrom T'&ge One.) her size. It was reported that on her fatal tri P. in connection with maneuvers off the naval base, she carried 120 officers and men -far above her nor mal compliment. The naval office said “rescue ef ortsi are proceeding,” but made no with T °l Rny survivors Contact with the ship was i ost ear i y today. May Seize Forgers of N. C. Checks (Continued from Page One.) make use of the State Highway Pa trol in running down the forgers and check flashers. The ring leader of the forgers is believed to he Claude Horne, from Columbus county originally, who has id ready sei ved two terms in the State h ' ,v for fmgery. Horne* was arrested several days ago at his home 1,1 Columbus county and is now being held in the Harnett county jail m Lillingtoi on charges in connection with tne passing of some of these bad checks in Dunn. He is also want eu ii Rocky Mount on similar charges and has been identified as the man who passed one of these checks there. Horne served his first prison sen tence of one year for forgery in the State Prison here in 1931-32, having been convicted in Gastonia. In No» vember, 1932, he started serving his second term, a sentence of from two to four years for forgery, from Wil mington, New Hanover county. He completed this sentence, because of time off for good behavior, on No vember -1, 1923. “Horne is one of the smartest pri soners we have ever had out here and .is a real student of forgery” Warden H. H, Honeycutt said today The other man being- sought as Hoi ne s associate in forging- and pass ing these Sitate vouchers is C. R. Younts, of Thomasville, who served a term in the State Prison from Sep tember 10, 1932, until November ■», 1933. for store-breaking and larceny from Durham. He has not yet been arrested but indications are that the police are on his trail. Highway patrolmen have arrested one of two women who had been pass ing some of the forged checks. The two comely young women who. posing as school teachers, last week passed two forged State vouchers off on Raleigh merchants, are believed to have visited the State Prison here the same day, according to Warden Honey cutt. He is wondering whether they visited the prison to get some word to some prisoner or merely to get an idea of where they might eventually be sent if they got caught. One of these check flashers, who gave tne name of Rebecca Westmoreland, 22, of Thomasville is now in the city jail here, while police and highway patrol men who have been aiding- in tracing their movements, are confident that - ——— Not*bit Anniversaries Told in In The “Good Old Days” Announcements by Clark Kinnaird, author of “Today is the Day* 1 BEHIND THESE ALPS DIES NEW YORK—The famous blizzard of ’BB which buried the northeastern seaboard in 10 to 40 feet drifts, 46 years ago today, wasn’t any worse than many which rage through the northwest, but it was the most disastrous in U. S. history because it struck a densely populated region Where blizzards are rare. New Yorkers were lost within sight of their homes before Madison Avenue (above) and other streets were dug out. j her confederate will be arrested very soon. “I didn’t think about it until $ read in the paper that the two women who passed the forged State .vouchers had told the merchants they passed the checks off on that they were school teachers,” Warden Honeycutt said to day. “Then I happened to remember that two nice looking young women had come out here to the prison the same day the checks were passed, ’ which was not a regular visiting day and said that they were school teachers and that this was the only . day they could see the prison and asked to be permitted to be shown through it. That was a week ago Sat urday. “I took them at their word, since they seemed to be nice girls, and as signed a guard to show them thro ugh. But when I read a few days later taht two young women, posing POWER AND GLORY-Came to U. S. Grant, March 12, 1864, when he was madei general-in-chief after five other men had. tried and failed to do the biggest job ever given an Ameri can military leader. Four years ear lier Grant had been jobless and pen niless; five years later he was Pres ident. A Brady phot made at his headquarters in Tennessee. i as school teachers, had passed off I these forged State vouchers here that * same day, I began to wmt,«r if they l were the same two that visited the i prison, and if so, why they wanted to - see it.” If these two girls are convicted of ; forgery, as now seems likely, they will be sent to the women’s division of ■ the State Prison, Warden Honeycutt i said that while the prison is some what crowded, he will be able to make GUESS WHO? BARING A SECRET UNDERSTANDING —Leiial Koerber, Canadian-born catup, panicked ’em with this act when she was trouping the tank-towns 30 years ago this month. Now she’s at the head of her profession and one of Hollywood’s greatest, stars under another name. Recognize her? •jaissajQ; au-ej^; room for them if they are convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary. INSURANCE—RENTALS REAL ESTATE—BONDS AL. B. WESTER Phone 129-J—Office 115 Young St. PAGE THREE