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lIKNDEUSUN 0 vi i : wav 'ru ( I'lN I IvAL < akolina I \\ i;\TY-SKCOND YEAR HAUPTMANN DUE TO DIE NIGHT OF MARCH 22 > - * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * - * * * * * * * : * * * * * * * * * Bill To Prohibit Slot Machines In State Is Pass ed By The House ILL 10 REGULATE PHOTOGRAPHERS IS BEATEN BY HOUSE .Senate Hill Would Permit Schools To Lend Text hooks Without Mak ing Charges ROADS committee FOR CHEAPER TAGS Will Recommend Minimum of $9 Instead of Present $12.50; New Bills Would Prohibit Minors from Play ing Slot Machines in North Carolina t; ,l i :li. Feb. 11. — i AT*)—Tin* House , i,v lo prohibit slot machines N'niili Carolina, killed a bill to re i. photographers and took the l iii' -how from the Senate and • •inmit t Tin- Senate met an hour without .inv i major bill. It got a bill , ?in it school authorities to lend •, v |<- without charge, with no fu ,| provided, and two measures to i| law- on building and loan as ■iociHt ions. Or, an oral vote. House approval -r . ii the Thomas-Thompson-Er vii, nn n.-urr to ban slot machines and er gambling devices and sent the tji- a.-iii'' to Oie Senate, ftepi r •entative Bowie, of Ashe, h-d -■ utr.K’k on the photographers’ bill, n-ing it would tend to create a mono j ■ "lv, a11(| the House tabled it. The joint roads committee agreed ' e it would recommend a reduction automobile license tag costs ru tke the fee »() cents instead of 53 P i hundredweight with a min '■ it)i of <9 instead of $12.50, and told mb-committee to draw the TUfT to l ent to the legislature. A House judiciary group approved bill by the Wake delegation to cm- I"'vet counties to contract with lios (< nolimied mi rage Four) I. S. Hopes Tor Curb Os Vrmumciiis Hu-li Wilson Tells ( icnc\ ;i Conference I li ;i t Is Nation’s Dearest Aim '•"lirvii, F. h. ] t_( AP> Hugh Wil- i 1 nilcfl Slates minister to Swit- ■ I "'b told a special committee of j II 'l' to filament conference today ihe dearest hope of the United i i g'neral agreement for the "" lotion of armaments. 11 "' ' oimnit.tee, which will attempt l"t at. t.he eveils of arms manu l"lll' and traffic, was just opening 1 ioa when Wilson spoke, kllU'li nj_. t(> negotiations with Gcr ",|,v sot a European air securities " ant,limed nn Page Three) Anti-Sales Taxers Seek Return To Property Tax 1 "'Tii'u and Domestic Corporations Would Have Levies Upward by Leaps and Bounds Under Tax On Basis of Assessed Property Valuatioins '""l.* I>i»|»nt<‘b llumm, tit Mm? Sir Waller Hotel. ,lv <’ A. I* A UK. Feb. H.—A partial return ' i'"'l»i!it.y tax which would result , “ ' corporations paying four s -an'• "P ,c sent shore of the ,; ' x Nil, and domestic corpor ,,, ibutinjr an amount three i,l !( ' as at present is one jj., ‘ , IIHII Spots of tlie tax program ,r »»ttfM.' V' J Ut ttle j° int finance com- K, :,/ V lflc a,l ti-sales tax group. ' ,l ' cot|h>r&t,ioiia would still pay mtnuttßmi Uatlg Btspatirh ONLY bAM.Y NEWSPAPISK PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OE NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA ’ Work-Relief Bill Facing Hard Road In The Senate May Be Slashed by Two Billions and Two Billion Bonus Rider May Be Attached; But President Will Like ly Get It Later in Fair Form Washington. Feb. 14. —(AP>— Tem pered by a. heated passage through Min appropriations committee, the Roosevelt $1,880,000,000 work-relief bill today entered still hotter contro versy in the Senate itself. It faced strong moves to slash the figure to $2,880,000,000, to make the payment of prevailing local wages on public works mandatory instead of discretionary with the President, and possibly also to attach a $2,100,000,000 cash bonus rider. PROF. J. M. FOSTER, OF N. C. STATE, DIES llfiid of Aeronautics Department bios of rne.urnoiiia After Stroke Os Paralysis Raleitrh. Feb. It tAP) John M. Fos ter. professor of aeronautics at N. C. State College, died in Rex hospital litis morning at 5:30 o’clock. Hc had been connected with the college since 15*18. Professor' Foster suffered a stroke of paralysis last Wednesday. Yester day he developed pneumonia. He was Hi years old. Funeral services will be held from Hiller Memorial Christian church here tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. I the present franchise of $1.50 per sl.* 000 of net worth, but, in addition, would be required to pay a property tax of one-half of one per cent on their assessed property valuation. In the actual substitute section which the antis will offer they will specify that, for tax-levying purposes, the as sessed property valuation of foreign corporations shall be exactly the same as their net worth. This means that, for ail practical purposes, what the (Coiitiuued oil Page Tiiiee) LKAHBD Wlltß NERVICB OF 'fHB ABSOCIATKD TRESS. il. lights in Hauptmann I rial 1 hat Helped Determine Fury’s Verdict m ‘ tt~ —~ .... - z_ J *■ »n<lon. |lf Y „ . r ..Jh-ll /j| : nMiSmi ■■ l • 1 an \ ’f \ flf Lg|i. t J /' || r biinrelf. Hi jMkjmm \Bl Jlm ~ M Osborne, Si., /jßj Wjjjjjt ~J TaL A\fl| n handwriting MmYt?/ /9 —'' — vfl :^wr^iiujb,^, •■■ ■■ ■■ ■ «.■ ■ X ’*‘"U.v:;v: . HF M Anne luiulheigh I I arincnC HE KB| I Bnfi |h| 1 *',<.< li••! HENDERSON, N. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 14, 1935- Administration spokesmen, hopeful of action within a week, expressed confidence the bill will eventually reach the White House with part of the broad powers desired by Mr. Roosevelt for spending $4,000,000,000 in giving work to 3.500,000 employ ables now on relief. As congressmen travelled over rainy streets to the first session since Tues day, talk of the. death sentence given MlrinliniiAtt on Pa?* Four* ANTI-SALES TAXERS WILE LIKELY LOSE Finance Committees Expect ed To Reject Most of 1 heir Proposals bi'l*) Oi»|n»t* , fc tlttrrua. In llm- S|r Wiiltrr Hotel. H\ J. C. HASH lilt VIM.. Raleigh, Feb. 14.—After spending the next, week or ten oays holding additional public hearings on the new tax proposals submitted by Represen tatives McDonald and Lumpkin, from which they maintain the State can get $12,361,094 in new revenue and thus eliminate the sales tax, the joint finance committees are expected to i eject most of these plans and report the revenue bill to the house virtual (Coiilinued on Page Three) Par Heel Tobacco Growers Ask Less Tobacco for 1935 Washington, Feb. 14 (AP) Farm administration officials were told today that the production of flue-cured tobacco proposed for this year was highly eexcessive and threatened a return to “star vation prices.” A delegation of growers from North Carolina, where the great est amount of cigarette tobacco is grown, appealed for a lower pro duction quota before Chester C. Davis, the farm administrator, and J. H. Hutson, AAA tobacco ehiet. HILL’S LIQUOR BILL 10 GET FAVORABLE REPORT IN SENATE Referendum Will Most Likely Be Authorized by This Present Gen eral Assembly BEER HEARING HAS FLAVOR OF LIQUOR Drys, Opposing Increased Alcoholic Cointent of Beer, Offer Heavyweight Speak ers, Some of Whom Get off Into Attacks on Hill Mea sure, Not Yet Up UIIII.V l)i«t|»:i(rh lliir«-;in, lii the Sir Waiter Hotel. Raleigh. Feb. 14. —The much talk ed about Hill liquor control bill will get a favorable committee report some time next week. Virtual assur ance of committee approval is indi cated as the result of a private poll taken by this bureau and interviews with Senate leaders. The bill is now in the hands of Senate Judiciary Committee No. 2, headed by Senator Horton, of Chat ham. A public hearing on the bill will be held next Wednesday, if that date is suitable to the drys. Strenuous ob jections will be voiced by Cale K. Burgess and his United Dry Forces whenever the hearing is Held. Certain men high in State councils say that liquor would be legalized by this legislature without a referendum except, for the fact that a “general” election was held on the eighteenth amendment in 1933. The results of that election, in which 300.000 quali fied voters did not vote, does admit tedly have a deterring influence on certain legislators. There is considerable sentiment a mong members of the judiciary com (Continued on Page Four) Cotton Consumed On the Increase Washington, Feb. 14—(AP)—Cot ton consumed during January was reported today by the Census Bu reau to have totalled 546,787 bales of lint and 61,832 bales of linters, compared with 413,535 of lint and 52,066 of linters In December last, and 508,021 of lint and 56,387 of linters in January last year. First Os Italian Soldiers Off To Africa Saturday Mussolini, Meanwhile, Ponders With Fascist Grand Council Course To Take In Face of Ethiopian King’s Defiant Ajnswer O ver Border Clash Paris, Feb. II (AP)—Troop re inforcements were ordered to French Somaliland today to guard against any further frontier inci dents in connection with the Kalic-Ktbiopian trouble. Kthiopia agreed to a French de mand for indemnity for the kill ing of the eoloniai official, Al bert Julien Bernard, and 18 So mali police January 18. Coincident with the ordering of the additional troops to the French colony, the government announced the Kthiopian government would be held responsible for the pacifi cation of the border tribes. Another Seriously Wound ed at Miine Near Wilkes- Barre, Penn. ! Wilkes Barre, Pa., Feb. 14.—(API— J One man was shot to death and an i other was seriously wounded in near by Larksville today as a miner’s strike in Luzerne county entered its eleventh day. Frank Petrosky, 28, of Larksville, said by police to be a member of the striking anthracite miners of Penn sylvania, was killed, and Anthony Legosh, 31, of Edwardsville, member of the same union, was seriously j wounded in a clash near the Wood (Cont.inued on Page Three). I Former King Ali Os Hedjaz Victim Os Heart Ailment Bagdad. Iraq., Feb. 14.—(AP)—For mer King Ali oT Hedjaz died this morning of heart disease, following an attack Tuesday night. In poor health for several months, the former monarch had been unconscious most of the time since yesterday. Ali died in th e palace of his nep hew, King Ghazi, who succeeded his father, King Feisal upon his death in 1933. ' , PUBLISHED EVER? A FTBRNOOM EXCEPT SUNDAY, Rome. Feb. 14 (AP) The first de tachment of Italy’s African expedi tionary force will leave Sicily for Eri trea and Italian Somaliland Saturday, a government spokesman announced today. This information was divulged as Premier Mussolini prepared to confer with the Fascist grand council to de termine his policy in view of the de fiant communication sent him by King Haile Salassie of Ethiopia. The official spokesman said other units would follow Saturday and on suc ceeding days. He emphasized this move does not (Continued on Page Three) FERGUSON ADMITS CRUISER PROFITS Newport News Builder Sur prised at Making So Much on Contracts Washington, Feb. 14 (AP) -Testi mony that his company has made $5.- 861,351, or 25 per cent profit, in 1927 on two cruisers when it expected only $1,800,000, was given the Senate Muni tions Committee today by Homer L. Ferguson, president of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Com pany. At the same time he told the com mittee that, although the cost of cruisers had increased several mil lion dollars in the past six years, they actually cost the government less in the long run, because there was a great deal more material in them, which made them more valuable. The contract price for the cruisers with the government was $20,960,000, and the net cost was $15,753,457, the witness explained. “I was amazed we made so much.” the shipbuilder declared. WEAIIIIT FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Probably occasional rain tonight and Friday morning; slightly cold er on the north coast Friday; slowly rising temperature in cen tral and west portions Friday, fi PAGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY COUNSEL 10 FIGHT ' IN HIGHEST COURTS 10 SAVE BIS LIFE j Reilly Says Appeal Will Bf! Carried to United States Supreme Court, If Necessary JURY VERDICT WAS GIVEN LAST NIGHT Hauptmann Totters As He Hears Foremarn’s Fateful Words After Jury Deliber ates Over 11 Hours; Back In His Cell, He Breaks Down and Cries Flciiiingtoii. N. •»., Feb. M (APT ■ —Bruno Iticliurd siiintmaiin will be taken to the death bouse in Trenton Saturday. Sheriff John H. Curtis said at noon today. Flcmington. N. J.. Feb. 14. —(AI J i Death has been decreed for Bruno Richard Hauptmann, convicted of kill ing the Lindbergh baby, but his cou/u scl drafted today a fight through high courts which may last months. Prison precedent combined with judge and jury to fix the night of March 22 as the tentative date for Hauptmann's elect l ocution. H c was sentenced “to suffer death" the week of March 18, and Friday is doom's day* in the death house at: Trenton. While Hauptmann wept in his cell. Edward J. Reilly, chief of defense staff, said an appeal would be car ried to the United States Supremo Court, if necessary. The first tribunal to hear the plaa, the State court of errors and year old prisoner turned to hrs faltip ful wife and said: U “It's all right, Annie." .? / : 1 Back in his cell, out of thte guz£, * ' 'jin (Continued on Page Two ) Routine Os Life Flies For Anna Flcmington, N. J., Feb. 14.—(API The routine of life went on today for Anna Hauptmann. She came out on the second floor back porch of the house in which she lives with her infant son to hang some of his clothes out to dry. One garment was a white sleeping suit. She had washed the clothes earlier. Mrs. Hauptmann lingered at the porch rail a moment, gazing out at the dreary rain, which was falling steadily. She was bareheaded and wore the brown dress she was wear ing last night when she heard her husband condemned to death. Tlion she went in to remain out of sight behind drawn shades. Hauptmann Lapses Into Fitful Sleep Roused for Break fast, Only To Lie Back Again After He Had Eaten Flemington, N. J., Feb. 14.—(AP)— Bruno Richard Hauptmann, under sentence of death, early today fell in to fitful sleep in his Hunterdon jail quarters. The anguish to which the German carpenter gave way after the jury of Hunterdon county plain folks pro nounced him the Lindbergh’s baby’s slayer passed as dawn approached and he stretched himself upon hi 3 cell cot. At the customary hour, he was awakened by his gu„ ■. and, ate oatmeal, bread and coi ‘"hen. I he lay back again, silenr. ien pressed to resume hi? r | ||t^