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HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
I WENTY-SECOND YEAR
Roosevelt To Ask For Four Billion
BATTLE ON SALES
TAX MAY BE BITTER
ONE THIS SESSION
bonic Indications That Anti-
Sales Tax Group Prepar
ing to Fik'ht To
Finish
SUPPORTERS SEEN FOR
SUBSTITUTE PLAN
Dr. Ralph W. McDonald,
Winston-Salem, Rumored
As Leader of Fight and
Also Reported Author of
New Bill That Has Very
Strong Backing in State
Hail*’ I Mapiitch Rarrac,
In i *a«* Sir Waller Hotel,
Hr J. C, ttawkorvflle.
Raleigh. Jan. 5 The anti-sales tax
I'ot’ces are now in process of evolving (
bill that will yield all the revenue i
ceded- without the sales tax and j
v liich they will propose as a substi
■ 'i*«* for it. according: to reports heard i
b re today. 'Phis is regarded by some
aii indication that the anti-sales
• \ forces, even though they have
been unusually ouiot for several
months now. are preparing to put up
■i fight to the finish against the sales
■ in the forthcoming session of the
.islnture and that they will offer a
definitt revenue-raising plan in its
: !acc something they failed to do
in the 1f33 session.
According to the reports heard here.
1 »r. Ralph W. McDonald of Winston
va.letn, Forsyth county, has been se- j
tinted to lead the anti-sales tax fight. 1
!i is also reported that he has written
the hill which will be proposed as a
substitute for the present 3 per cent |
-nles tax and that it will he supported j
' the North Carolina Merchants As- ,
joinfion. of which Willard L. Dowell
ectetary. by the Fair Tax Asso
-1 '"lion, the organization of anti-sales
uxors formed more than a year ago
John Paul Leonard of Statesville.
- d probably by the Raleigh News
o,<l Oh-i rver. which lately has been j
becoming more and more outspoken I
i its opposition to the sales tax. al
’ bough in the 1931 session of the
general assembly it. anil its then edi
'or. Josephus Daniels, led the fight
for the enactment of a sales tax. It
i understood that Dr. McDonald has
’ ready held several conferences with
b'hnathan Daniel, present editor of
e News and Observer, while his
'her. Josephus, is serving as U. S.
Ambassador to Mexico.
It has not been heard here yet what j
■ attitude of the other editors and ,
i oers in the state which are oppos
’d to the sales tax will be, but it is j
'•uncled that they will also support
I*' McDonald's bill, if and when it
forthcoming.
While no definite information has
been obtained yet as to the nature of j
(Continued on Page Two)
LLOYD GEORGE IS
IDOL LABOR PARTY
His Own Liberal Party Has
Frittered to Nothing; Lab
orites Cheer Him
By LESLIE EICHEL
C entral Press Staff Writer
New York, Jan. 5. —An interesting
’•dug is occurring in England. David
I'loyd George, war-time Liberal prime
minister, is becoming somewhat of
j' idol of the Labor party. His own
Liberal party has fritted to nothing.
When Lloyd George denounced teh
• N dionaJist government for the inade
•juaev of its bill to relieve depressed
' ms Laborites (whom the Conser
' ive- term Socialists) cheered Lloyd
C 1 urge.
'' , 'ld the forr/’r prime minister:
'The age of miracles is past. You
■mot feed the multitude with two
‘■'•mmissioners and five sub-commis
•icners.
"The new commissioners are being
" nt on their apostolic mission, not
Without purse and scrip, but pretty
nearly that—just with a little pretty
ea h to deal with a problem costing
300.000.000 a, year.”
1h ” sum appropriated by parliar
Hunt f Ol ro ij e f Q f the distressed areas
sl(|#'M).ooo. An American con
■sman would be ashamed even to
■ ' e for suclr a small sum, Lloyd
. had said previously.
"'»UK WAR ERRORS
'he fifth and last volume of Lloyd
"nige’s memoirs are feared in of
’yl English circles.
'lie war-time prime minister has
" d r)e will tell of colossal blunders
(CoittLuued on Vnge, Two)
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in East River, New ork, while more than 200 wore aboard, is seen being
questioned by Assistant District Attorney Sylvester Cosent)no, as inves
tigation of crash gets under way. (Central Press)
Outlook For Harmonious
Session Os Legislature
May Mean A Shorter One
%
——— ■ t*
However, Some Believe
That Problems May Crop
Up To Make Ses
sion Stormy
SALES TAX, SCHOOLS
AND REVENUE LEADERS
Most Outstanding Matters
Are Listed With the So-
Called Highway Surplus
Getting No. 1 Position and
The Sales Tax Problem
Ranks Second
Diiily l>iN|iiit«*h tlurraa,
In tbe Sir Winter Hotel,
Bv J. d, Banker-ville,
Raleigh. Jan. 5.—-A fairly harmon- !
ious session of the legislature, at least j
much more harmonious than the past
two or three, seems to be in prospect |
when the 1933 General Assembly con- j
venes here next Wednesday. As a re- ■
suit, a good many observers are in- <
dined to believe that the session will
not last more than 75 days at the
most. However, there are others who
believe that this apparent quiet now
is only the calm that precedes a j
storm and that when the assembly
gets under full steam and into the
consideration of the sales tax. the
school problems, the hunt for new re
venue and the many toher matters to
come before it, that it may turn out
to be as long a. session as any of Its
predecessors.
The more outstanding matters that
will come before this session of the
General Assembly and have to be dis :
posed of by it, are as follows:
1. Disposition of the highway fund |
surplus and whether or not it will
divert any more of the highway re
-1 venue to other than highway uses.
2. The sales tax and whether to
I change it. lower it. increase it, repeal
! it or leave it as it now is.
3. Teachers’ salaries and how much
they shall be increased.
(. State employes’ salaries and how
much they shall be increased.
5. Unemployment insurance and old
age pensions.
6. State drivers’ license and enlarg
i ed highway patrol.
7. Largei appropriation for the Uni
versity of North Carolina and other
State educational institutions.
8. Expansion of other State gov
ernmental services through larger ap
propriations for their activities.
9. Consideration of numerous new
plans for getting additional revenue to
supply the enlarged budgets needed.
10. Prohibition and whether to re
vise or repeal the State's present dry
law.
11. Whether to redistrict the State
in compliance with the constitution
or leave it as it now is.
12. Unemployment relief and the ex
tent to which the State will have to
participate with the Federal govern
ment in continuing relief activities.
Therew ill be still hundreds of oth
er matters that will come before the
legislature, of course, since with its
170 members there will be almost as
many plans proposed for the solution
of all the major problems. But the
prevailing belief here is that the twel
ve matters just named will become
the most important with which this
legislature is called upon to dea'..
That the biggest legislative battle
{of the entire session will revolve a
: round the highway surplus and diver
sion of the highway fund, is already
generally conceded. For the legisla
ture will have available in the high
(Continued on Page Two)
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
Hauptnnmn Trial
Pictures On Page 3 |
I'ag** 3 of this newspaper is a I
pictorial page, depicting the hap
penings at the trial of Bruno
Richard Hauptmann, German car
penter, for the murder of the in
fant son of Col. and Mrs. Charles
A. Lindbergh. The pictures are of
those who have figured much in,
public print since the. start of the> j
trial
ASKS IF REPUBLIC
Milo Reno, Farm Holiday
Leader, In Speech Before
New York Republican
Club
■ |
SET UP DICTATORSHIP
Questions If There Is A Conspiracy i
To Establish Military Rule By
Increasing Poverty
and Want
New York, Jan. 5. —(AP)—Milo j
Reno, leader of the Farmer holiday
movement, today questioned whether
there is a. conspiracy to “overthrow
this republic and establish a military
dictatorship.
In a speech before the New York.
Republican club, Reno asked:
“Is there a determination to de
stroy this republic by forcing our peo
ple into that state of poverty and de
spair that they will either tamely sub
mit and surrender their liberties or
in their desperation resort to revolu
tion which would end the reign of
three governments in America and
result in a military dictator, a mili
tary tyranny?
“If not.” he asked “why permit our
people to suffer the agonies of bank
ruptcy. the discouragement of pover
ty. unemployment and starvation,
when the doing of two things, will
restore a degree of prosperity that ,
will permit a readjustment of the in
equities and establish justice and
prosperity in the place of wickedness
and poverty?”
MANY INJURED IN
0
200 Peasants Attempt To
Capture Police Head
quarters and City Hall
Vera Cruz, Mexico, Jan. 5. —(AP)—
A number of persons were wounded,
several seriously enough to require
hospital attention when gendarmes
fired on 200 peasants, attempting to
capture police headquarters at Los
Tuxtlas, reports reaching here said
today.
The peasants, it was reported, also
tried to take over the Los Tuxtlas
city hall.
ispatches from Jaiaca said troops
have left that town to pursue an arm
’ rid band in the vicinity oi Tlattocojaat.
HENDERSON, N. C. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 5, 1935
REILLY TO CLAIM
FOUR PERSONS ARE
BABY’S KIDNAPERS
! Says He Will Name Them
At Trial Next Thursday
At Flemington,
New Jersey
TWO MEN, TWO WOMEN
FORM THE QUARTET
y
When Asked If Hauptmann
Was One, He Said “No”;
Defense Attorney Will Use
Three Groups of Witnesses
In Trial; Hauptmann Be
First Defense Witness
New York, Jan. s.—(AP)—Edward
' J. Reilly, chief defense attorney for
: Bruno Richard Hauptmann, said to
day that next Thursday in Fleming
ton. N. J., court, he would name four
{ persons and charge them with kici
j naping of the Lindbergh baby.
“They are two men and two wo
men,” Reilly said.
Reilly was here for a conference
with handwriting experts.
He denied published reports that
jvthe defense would attempt to prove
j that the body of the baby was not
I that of the infant son of Colonel
i Charles A. Lindbergh.
; Thed efense attorney declined to
! name the four persons he said, had
j engineered the abduction.
I Asked if his client Hauptmann
{ would be one of the four he would
; name, Reilly replied “No.”
The defense attorney announced
i that Hauptmann would be the first
defense witness and intimated that
' the defense would construct its case
|on three groups of witnesses,
j The first of these groups, he indicat
: ed. would he utilized to establish a
I “complete alibi, ’ the second would be
j handwriting experts and the third,
I fingerprint experts.
ARMSP^FOUNO^
v ) ;
Police and Federal Agents
Search for Five Truck
Loads Headed for
Mexico
Los Angeles, Jan. 5 (AP)—A plot :
to smuggle arms into Lower Califor
; nia was disclosed by police here today
as federal agents and officers went
' through Southern California south to
intercept five truck loads of arms,
machine guns and ammunition re
ported intended for a revolutionary
plot in Old Mexico. One suspect,
whose name officers refused to dis
close, was held here.
The shipment of arms and ammun
ition. which it was disclosed, had
been guarded in Los Angeles for
months, was reported to have been
started toward the border late last
night.
Three Men Given Maximum,
Women Probation in
Union Station Massacre
Kansas City. Jan. s.—(AP)—Maxi
mum sentences of two years imprison
ment and SIO.OOO fines on the four
men convicted of the conspiracy to
release Frank Nash. Federal prisoner,
which ended in the death (by machine
gun fire of Nash and four officers at
the Union Station here June 7, 1933.
The three women defendants were
placed on probation by Federal Judge
Merrill E. Otis.
After he had sentenced the women
for a year and a day fn the Federal
Penitentiary and fined them S3OO
, each, the sentences were suspended
but Judge Otis said that the fines
must be paid on or before Septem
ber 1, 1935. The probation is for three
years.
“weather
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Occasional rain with slowly ris
ing temperature tonight and Sun
day.
FOR HENDERSON.
i For 24-hour period ending at
noon today: The highest tempera
i ture reported was 52; lowest 21?
no rain; northeast wind: The sky
. ' 'ira*. pajrsA; si maj<.
To Testify Monday
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Here is Miss Betty (Sow, Scotch take the witness stand at. the open
nurse of the slain Lindbergh baby 01 cou, t Monday in Fleming
, .. , , ~ ~ ; ton, N. J., in the trial of Bruno Rich
and the last person, other than the Woilfmann D f
aia Hautmann on a jpharge of mur
kidnaper, to see him alive. She will , dei’ of the baby.
Rival Counsels Match
Moves, Call Witnesses
Into Secret Sessions
Mother Sobs Over
Bruno Hauptmann
Kanienz, Germany, Jan. S.—(AP)
Bruno Richard Hauptmann’s
aged mother, Frau Pauline Haupt
mann, wept unrestraingly today
as she reiterated her son’s in
nocence of the charge of kidnaping
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh’s baby,
crying “No it cannot be true.”
“There’s no rest for me in the
world,” the* woman exclaimed sob
bing and wringing her hands.
“Oh, Lord, why has such disaster 1
come over us.”
LEGISLATURE MAY
GIVE MORE PATROLS
! Increasing Accidents Cause
For Movement that Starts
In The East
Daily Disp«tel» Bwrcaw,
la the Sir Walter Hotel,
BV J. C. BASKEBVILL.
Raleigh, Jan. 5. —The people in the
eastern part of the State are at least
thoroughly aroused over the increas
ing automobile accidents on the high
ways and want to see the highway
patrol enlarged and its duties confined
to patrolling the highways and noth
ing else, Senator Rivers D. Johnson
of Warsaw. Duplin county, said here
today. He said he was going to do
everything possible to see that the
highway patrol is enlarged to at
least 200 patrolmen, an average of
two for each county, and also to have
them relieved of their present duties
as revenue collectors and as gasoline
• inspectors.
“Too many people are being killed
(Continued on Page Five)
WALLACE CALLS A
COTTON CODE MEET
Washington, Jan. S.—(AP) —Secre-
tary Wallace today called a hearing
: on a proposed code on the raw cot
ton industry to be held in Washing
l ton January 23.
: The code would seek to regulate
the buying, selling, trading in, or mar
keting of cotton after it is ginned and
, ■vFc.uJd. tecioia • ♦•(.. c. ittl-/ acilli.
PUBLISHHD BVB3RY AFTHMNOOM
BXCifIPT SUNDAY.
Both Legal Staffs Withdrew
From Flemington, State
to Trenton; De
fense to N. Y.
BETTY GOW CALLED
TO TESTIFY MONDAY
Crack Federal Agents to Be
Brought In As Witnesses;
Reilly Calls Conference of
Handwriting Experts To
Prepare Case In Regard to
Kidnap Notes
Flemington, N. J., —(AP) —Bruno
Richard Hauptmann’s prosecution
and defense matched move for move
today, calling witnesses in secret ses
sion to reinforce the contentions that
he did—and did not—commit the Lind
bergh murder.
Both legal staffs withdrew from
Flemington for the week-end and re
cess* in Hauptmann’s trial for life, the
prosecution to Trenton and the de
fense to New York City.
The State summoned several Fed
eral agents, the crack operatives, who
tracked down the Lindbergh ransom
money, and who will be major wit
nesses for examination.
Attorney Edward J. Reilly, chief of
defense, said, “I am calling a con
(Continued on Page Four)
THOUSANDS DYING
OF DREAD MALARIA
-
3,000 Reported Dead In One
District on Island of Celon
In Indian Ocean
Colombo, Celon, Jan. 5 (AP) —-Near-
ly three thousand deaths in the dread
malaria scourge were reported today
from a single district from this In
dian Ocean island surrounding Keg
alle in the southern section.
Os these, nearly one thousand oc
curred among young children, said the
report, which said the infection con
tinued to spread. It was stated some
250.000 persons had been stricken
with the disease, the death rate be
ing extremely heavy -snenalb r - nm.g
wait * _
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WILL USE FUNDS TO ”
AID ‘AMERICAN MAN’
ANDJJIT RELIEF
This Would Begin July 1 So
All Would Not Be Spent
Before Business
Gains
SEVEN STEPS GIVEN
PRESIDENT CONSIDERS
If Congress Grants Huge
Sum Asked, The Budget
Will Be Eight Billion Dol
lars; Congressional Lead
ers Go Into Huddle After
President’s Message
Washington. Jan. s.—(AP> Presl-
Hent Roosevelt intends to. ask Con
jrress, an authoritative source said
today, to provide four billion for what
he termed the “American Man” to
“quit this business of relief' and put
3.500.000 unemployed to work.
This as outlined by persons prom
inent on Capito] Hill would b« the
work relief figure for the fiscal year
beginning next July 1. so it would not
all be spent if reviving business ab
sorbs enough of the jobless.
For ordinary government expendi
ture running in the year, it was in
dicated that about four billion dol
lars would be required. Thus the bud
get would be about eight billion dol
lars.
Congressional leaders went into
last night’s important conference on
the future of the New Deal only a
few hours after hearing the Presi
dent in his first message to the 74tb
Congress enumerate many tasks.
Although there was no detail an
nouncement. of last night’s discussion,
one conferee who would not be quot
ed by name, listed these things ab
among those the President is consider
ing or has definitely decided to re
commend:
1. Old age as well as unemployment
insurance!.
2. Continuation and modification 6t
agriculture administration act. -v
--3. Authorization of telephone-teltP
graph measure with the Federal gov
ernment .possibly fixing t'Atds for the
monopoly.
4. Conlinuatioii (it .{OG.boOXKW! em
ergency “nuisance” taxes,
5. Making permanent t.hfe ’present
$5,000 maximum insurance of bank
deposits under the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation.
6. Continuation of the leading au
thority of the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation.
7. Enlargement of the resources of
the Home Owners Loan Corporation.
Bo I ivian Troops
Rout Paraquayans
In Bloody Battle
Las Pax. Bolenia, Jan. 5 (API—
Paraquayan attacks on the Bolivian
lines in the Indevi Radelo sectors of
the Chaco were bloodily repulsed to
day, the war ministry stated, and
the Bolivians, counter attacking, cap
tured the enemy supply bases.
SPOKESMEN AGREED
CONDITIONS BETTER
Industrial and Commerciol
Activities Have Increas
ed Appreciably
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, Jan. 5.—A majority of
spokesmen for business unmistakably,
are agreed that economic conditions
are somewhat improved with the re
cent ushering in of the now year.
That is to sa.y, these spokesmen feet
some improvement.
That ordinary folk feed much of
it is more decidedly a debatable ques
tion.
Even admitting that industrial and
commercial activity has increased ap
preciably, has there not been a gen
eral lowering of the national living
standard?
Supposing that a modicum more of
opportunity is. available than during
the worst of the depression, as if as
remuneratixe as it was in pre-war
years? It certainly is not as reumun
erative as itw a sat the peak of thef
post-war boom. That indisputably was
a period of artificially, and cannot
fairly be considered for purposes of
comparison. But the pre-war era can!
reasonably he regarded as h ,v; 4
been normal —or a trifle below x r
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