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PAGE TWO High Point Triangles Play Tourists Sunday Afternoon Sunday Visitors Rated As A Powerful Aggregation Pitching Choice To day in Oxford Will Determine Starting Hurler After their Central State League game with Oxford thpre this after noon, the Henderson Tourist will re turn to their own stamping ground Sunday to take on the powerful High Point Triangles nine, of High Point. iUp until today, Henderson has not dropped a content in the four games they have played in the semi-pro cir cuit, and they were expected to experi ence little trouble with Oxford's cel lar ite a. " Dixie Davis, skipper of the Oxford Dodgers, was been jeworking his team recently, and they present a fairly decent outfit when on the diamond. The pitching choice this afternoon will determine who is to hurl here Sunday against the Triangles. Wood lief and Pleasants are the main stays of the local staff, one will probably hurl today and the other tomorrow. The Triangles will ride into town backed by a fine reputation as a ball club, information reaching here from Itigh Point to the effect that that ag gregation is one of the best such clubs in iPedmont North Carolina. A number of stars are carried on their roster with plenty of reserves | to call on. Pahlman is looking for a plenty of Support from the fans in this section ad this is the first break in the weath er for a Sunday game here this sea son. Standings] CENTRAL STATE T EAGUE Club W. L. Pet HENDERSON 4 U 1.000 Ca-Vel 4 0 1.000 Jalong 2 2 .500 Durham 1 3 .250 Oxford 0 4 .000 Hillsboro 0 4 .000 PIEDMONT LEAGUE Club W. L. Pet. Wilmington 2 0 1.000 Norfolk 2 0 1.000 Asheville 2 0 1.000 Portsmouth 0 2 .000 Richmond 0 2 .000 Charlotte 0 2 .000 AMERICAN LEAGUE Club' W. 1.. Pet. Cleveland 71 .875 Chicago 7 3 .700 Boston 6 3 .607 Washington 5 4 .556 New York 5 4 .556 St. Louis 2 6 .250 Philadelphia 2 7 .222 Detroit 2 8 .200 NATIONAL LEAGUE Club: W. L. Pet. Brooklyn 8 2 .800 New York 5 2 .714 St. Louis 5 4 .$56 Chicago 5 4 .556 Cincinnati 5 5 JSOO Pittsburgh 4 6 .400 Philadelphia 2 6 .250 Boston 2 7 .222 TodaysGmries PIEDMONT LEAGUE Wilmington at Charlotte. Norfolk at Portsmouth. Richmond at Asheville. AMERICAN LEAGUE New York at Philadelphia. Washington at Boston. St. Louis at Chicago. Detroit at Cleveland. NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia at New York. Pittsburgh at St. Louis. * Chicago at Cincinnati. Boston at Brooklyn. Remits 1 PIEDMONT LEAGUE < Wilmington 7; Charlotte 6. Asheville 3; Richmond 2. Norfolk 5; Portsmouth 4. AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 11; Philadelphia 2. Cleveland 11; Detroit 3. Washington 10; Boston 5. Chicago 11; St. Louis 4. NATIONAL LEAGUE Brooklyn 5; Boston 4. Chicago 3; Cincinnati 2. ' St. Louis 3; Pittsburgh 2. New York 5; Philadelphia 5. (13 in nings, darkness.) B. H. Mixon Contractor and Builder “Builds Better Buildings ” All kinds of Building j Wall Papering - Painting- Roofing and Interior j Decorating. PHONES: Residence 476-J WILSON HIGH TOPS HENDERSON, 5 TO 1 Beckham Wins His Singles Match and Henderson Gets a Doubles Win Wilson high school racket weilders defeated Henderson yesterday afternoon on the West End Country Club courts, 5-2, with the Bulldogs winning one singles and one doubles match from the visitors Beckham was the only Henderson man to crash the win column in the singles, while the pairings of Hecht and Watkins won the doubles match. The scorings of yesterday’s match, Wilson players first were: Plvler over Watkins, 5-2, 6-0; Pittman lost to Beckham, 2-6, 2-6; Fitzberald trim med Phillips, 6-2; 7-5; Lamm won ovei Hecht, 2-6; 6-0, 6-1: and Glover was the easy winner over Crudup, 6-1, 6-0. In the doubles, the team of Plyler and Pittman toppe Beckham and Phillips, 6-4, 6-2 and Fitzgerald and Lamm lost to Hecht and Watkins, 6-1; 2-6; 2-6. 8-3 Victory Runs Stpeak to Nine; Watkins Hits Safe ly in Nine Tilts Middleburg ran its winning streak to nine games yesterday afternoon at Middleburg in defeating Norlina, 8-3, and fattened the team’s baiting aver, age to an even .300 by getting 16 nits. The leading hitters for the Middle burg team were Renn. with two dou bles and a single out of four trips. Jackson, one double and two singles in five tries, and Watkins ran his hitting streak to nine gaimes, getting a home run and a. single. Hendricks mastered the visitors with five hits, two of those going to C. Daeke. He struck out 11 men. Score by innings: R II E Norlina 010 200 000—3 5 4 Middleburg 022 000 04x—-8 16 1 C. Daeke and H. Daeke; Henricks , and O. Short. Senate Will Likely Agree on Revenue (Continued from Pag** One.) of revenue, it provided for the diver sion of $630,000 a year more from the highway to the general fund, in addi tion to approving the diversion of the $1,000,000 a year previously approved by the House. The Senate also removed the divi dends tax, estimated to bring in $600,- 000 a year and the sales tax on hotel rooms, estimated to yield $300,000 a year. But it increased the income tax brackets somewhat, so it would yield $97,000 a year more than as the income tax section was approved by the House. It also raised the income tax limit up to sls, estimated to increase the yield from that tax by $250000 a year. ' . The conference committee agreed to the following changes made by the Senate and recommended their ap proval by the House, which was done: * 1. Approval of the larger diversion from the highway fund, amounting to $1,630,000 a year, with certain safe guarding provisions as written by the committee. 2 Approval of the elimination of the dividends tax and hotel room tax 3. Approval of the modified chair filling station tax section. The conference committee refuser l to agree to the following changes, and the House followed its recommenda tions and refused to approve: 1. The inclusion of the nine basic food exemptions in the sales tax sec tion of the revenue bill. 2. The Increase in the sales tax lim it to sls, insisting that it be left at $lO. r 3. The increase in the income tar schedule affecting smaller incomes Present indications are that the Son ate will agree to every change recom mended by the conference committer except the removal of the exemption 1 from the sales tax section. It was th« disagreement in the Senate over thr one matter that caused it to spend two weeks in considering the reveniK hill. As it finally passed the bill, thr nine food exemptions were still in i‘ after the no-exemptionists had madr every possible move and effort to ge* them out. But now that the House has com promised by accepting most of thr changes made in the bill by the Senate including the diversion of the addi tional $630,000 from the highway f-md a good many observers believe thr Senate will eventually agree to remove ( the exemptions from the sales tax section, having won its point in get ting both the dividends tax and thr hotel room tax removed from the bill Unless the Senate does agree tc take out all food exemptions, it if | generally agreed that the appropria tions bill will have to be trimmed down by at least $1,500,000 a year, thr greater part of which will have to come from the school appropriation This bill mean that the teachers and other State employes will not he able to get a salary increase of even 20 per cent and probably will not gel more than 15 per cent for both years.; HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH," SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1935. Til Experienced political observers be lieve that rather than bring down the condemnation of the school forces and the public for deducing appropri tions and for not being able to keep their promises to the school teachers, the Senate will agree to remove the food exemptions and eventually accept the conference report. High Prices Pay Debt of Farmers iOo*»tlr,ued irom page 0“e ) us in cities who haven’t the money to pay the higher prices for eats?” TAX AVOIDANCE Then there is a letter (creating con siderable comment) written Sen. atcr Jaynes Couzens of Michigan to the editor of the Wall Street Journal. Here is the letter: *T have noted the Wall Street. Jour nal editorial which comments on my remarks Xon tax avoidance. (Issue of March 29, 1935.) "May I respectfully suggest to your editorial department, that they can find out from Mr. Andrew W. Mellon what constitutes a ‘loophole’ and also how many of these loopholes are us ed? Mr. Mellon has used, according to the morning press, five of nine known ways of doing this. While my infor mation was that there were eight well known wsjys of avoiding taxation it now appears from the testimony m Pittsburgh yesterday, that there were nine of them, and that Mr. Mellon used five, instead of seven. "Tax-free securities are and always have been publicly known, but the other means oi\ tax avoidance were apparently tranmitted to Mr. Mellon by the commissioner of internal rev enue, so that is the most effective way of securing the information which the editor of the Wall Street Journal seems to desire.” GREATER HEJIRA The greatest movement of peoples in the world’s history is likely to take place this summer. It will, however, be ai peaceful movement. Americans are travel-bent —by auto, train, boat and plane. The greatest number will be by auto. The number is expected to exceed 50.000.000. Outdoor businesses are expected to leap large benefits. Lipuor Referendum Bill Will Pass and Number of Counties Needed Reduced (Continued from Page One.) his amendment (been reflected, the liberals accepted it, apparently bowing to the inevitability of fate. There was method in their Apparent capitulation, however, for the liberals knew full well, just as they do now, that the Senate would rip the amendment from the hill. The Senate will pass the bill, it is freely predicted, but will lower the 51-county plan to require the ap proval of about 20 counties. The bill will go back to the lower house, not for debate, but for con currence in the Senate amendment. Egjsy sledding is predicted for the bill on its second trip to the lower house. It is believed that the House will ap prove the amendment promptly. There is ample reason for that belief: Many house members who voted against the Day bill are not really opposed to it, but voted against it becaluse they had pledged their constituents that they would not vote to tamper with the Turlington act. As proof for that statement it is necessary only to look back to the day (Thursday) when the House passed the bill on third read ing. It was passed by a vote of 53- 50, but really only 52-51, a majority of one. However, when the liberals successfully attempted to apply the parliamentary clincher to the hill, thus guaranteeing that the liquor bill would not be reconsidered, they found their forces augmented considerably by several who had voted againfct the bill itself. After the drys rad demand ed a roll call vote on the motion to apply the clincher 57 voted to apply it. while only 40 opposed it. This shows clearly that many representat ives who voted against the bill for ourely-political reasons did so with the hope that it would pass in spite of their dissenting votes. Those who *ook that attiutde turned about and vith a. will helped to afpply the clin cher. For the same reason that they aided in application of the clincher they I will, when the bill comes back to the house for concurrence in the county •eduction amendment, vote for con. -•.urrence. Thoes taking that attitude ire satisfied, they rejlllly wanted the ’iquor bill and they got it; they want ed to place themselves on record as opposing it so their constituents back home could read in their local papers how they voted and they did that — hey are satisfied. They will now ap orove hte reduction in the number of ’ounties from 51 to 20 or thereabouts. The most conservative sponsors of I he Day bill believe that 20 counties vill approve the plan, while the on imistie place Fheir estimate at 30. If ■p counties go wet it is believed that he revenue will be more than $1,000.- ">OO a yeair. eHre again the optimists lisagree placing their estimate on 20 'ounties at $1,500,000. I Would Double Tax To Balance Budget (Continued from "Page One.) uimbersi of folk, may yield more rev enue than exceedingly high imposts, laid by a few. Treasury officials and economists generally speak of the shrinkajge of ’olleetions in the face of increased 'evies as due to the working of the ‘law of diminishing returns.” Ways and means and finance com mittee experts in congress are strug ding to find a solution of this pro blem now. DOUBLED COLLECTIONS The national industrial conference hoard s estimates are accepted as ap ; proximately correct. 1 Hi ; THE GILDED LILT Take off your shoes, you mugg, and kiss me! That’s Claudette Colbert for you, with Fred Mac Murray, in Paramount’s sprightly new comedy romance, “The Gilded Lily,” which comes Monday and Tuesday to the Stevenson Theatre. Hr,® : IjPM HraK Rjjgfe, ggggfggP*™ n|!|lggjHpgjg b; ; ; : fi am, rh^h-i^r MBS' a...... MISSISSIPPI- Ring Crosby and W. C. Fields doing their stuff in Paramount’s comedy .romance with music, “Mississippi”, which comes Thurs day and Friday to the Stevenson Theatre. Joan Bennett is also starred in this screen adaptation of a Booth Tarkington play. It is agreed that the government’s income must, on an average, equal its expenditures, or disaster is in evitable. A single year’s error in rec koning does not matter. The federal credit is good enough to offset an accidental mistake in accountancy, but itw ill suffer if a. deficiency be comes habitual. It aslo is reed that existing gov. ernment commitments require a huge increase in income (104 per cent ir the national industrial conference board’s arithmeticians are right) throughout 1936, and probably for many years to come. Is such a(n income obtainable? HIGHER LEVIES, LESS RETURN Import taxation once bftnight into the federal treasury nearly enough to support the federal government. . But it was boosted and boosted and boosted until Americans no longer buyi their one-time volume of imported goods. Today, consequently, the tariff contributes altogether inadequately to Uncle Samuel’s support. The liquor excise has proved disap pointing, too. Internal revenue bureaucrats are not lacking who assert, confidential ly. that half ajs heavy a tax would have paid the government perhaps twice as handsomely as the post-pro hibition rate has paid. Not, they add, that they think a smaller quantity of drinkables has been consumed, but so high a pre mium has been placed on moonshin ing and bootlegging that they* believe legal (tax-paying) stuff has been handicapped in competing with them. Burdensome tobacco taxation like wise is blajmed for having held down consumption of the weed. Legislature Might End Next Week After Money Bill Is Made Into Law (Continued from Page One.) compromise on revenue disputes re commended by the conferees. Yesterday the ouse decided to ac cept the conferencer eport and short ly after midnight today passed the tax measure on its second reading, it is scheduled to receive final House approval and be sent to the Senate on Monday. Th;(|t brings prospects of sine die adjournment by the last of next week although several important pieces of legislation are yet to be acted upon. The liquor bil] passed by the House would call a referendum June 8 and legalize the sale of liquor in State operaHed stofes if 51 of the 100 coun ties voted approval. Proponents of the measure hope to get the number of counties necessary to legalize liquor reduced to not more than 25 in the Senate. They express the opinion that the ouse would ac cept such an amendment. Drys are rallying their forces in the Seriate and if they «< r e unable to kill the liquor measure will resist with full strength any lessening of the rumber of counties In the bill. Revenue succeeded in driving thro- ugh the House sections in controvery to: 1. Eliminate present sales tax ex emption of flour, meal, lard, meat, coffee, sugar, milk, salt and molasses. 2. Increase aftnnual diversion of highway funds from the present sl,- 000,000 to $1,800,000 annually. 3. Retaining filling station tax with an SBS-per-unit maximum instead of the S2OO maximum first approved by the House. 4. Retain the $lO sales tax maxi mum instead of the sls limit approv ed by the Senate. 5. Eliminate the normal Income tax on domestic corporation stock divi dends, approved by the House but rejected in the Senate. 6. Eliminate the sales tax on hotel room rentals, approved by the House but thrown out in the Senate. 7. Elirrfihffjte the Senate proposal to increase .the tax on smaller incomes. A. J. Maxwell, commissioner of rev enue, estimates that the revenue bill is short of the present appropriations measure by about $320,000 for the first year and $1,750,000 for the second year of the next biennium. Although appropriations increas ed by $1,500,000 the se.cond year by reason of an additional five per cent general salary raise, the tax bill is the same and its proponents ape galh-i --bltng on improvement in business conditions to increase income, fran chise and sales taxes sufficiently to keep the budget in balance. Approving the first 14 items in the appropriations measure without a single change, the Senate evidenced a willingness to follow the House on the money-spending proposals. The bill gives to all State functions, in cluding highways and the eight months public schools, in excess of $64,000,000 for the next two years. After prolonged controversy the House yesterday amended and passed a Senate bill to increse the number of highwy ptrolmen to 121, equip them with police radios a|nd set up a department of highway safety. Another safety measure passed tha House would require all automobiles sold in this State after January 1 to be equipped with safety glass. Enefcted into law this week was a measure to submit to the electorate proposals to amend the constitution to classify property for taxation: in crease the income tax maximum from six to 10 per cent, and change the limit on State and local government indebtedness. Another bill which the House a{p_ proved this week allows general hos pitals credit on ad valorem taxes for expenses incurred from treatment of charity cases. The ouse killed a bill to allow par tial payment of automobile license tajfces. Another law enacted this week pro poses to pay actual expenses up to S6OO of children killed or injured while riding in public school buses. The Senate held only a brief, local legislation session today and the House disposed of its business at the midnight session. The Senate will resume considera tion of the Appropriations bill Mon- day and House will go back on its I public calendar after final action en the revenue conference report.. Two bills passed by the Senate and sent to the House proving for a State system of rural electrification. They afte administration sponsored and their proponents do not anticipate serious trouble in the House. 0 | Newman Bill in Legislature Attempts to Prevent Future Defaults. I Daily DUimtcb Bureau, in the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, April 27.—County and city bonds would be permitted to carry important provisos which permit, vary ing interest rates to be paid on bonds ! of the same issue and allow to be written into such bonds provisions which would permit county and city governing bodies to extend the time for redemption according to the terms of a bill offered by Senator Harris Newman, of New Hanover, Senate fi nance chairman. , The first provision, says Senator Newman, would tend to increase the prices paid for municipal and county bonds and stabilize the market for such North Carolina securities. For example, a city might issue SIOO,OOO in bonds, to be retired in proportion ate amounts in 10, 20, and 30 yealrs. The Newman bill provides that. bid. ders might name the interest rates just as they now do by means of of fering a. premium above the face of such bonds. Under present law an entire issue of bonds is sold ad the same price, resulting in the same in terest rate for the entire issue. Under the Newman plan bidders would be permitted to make bids on the differ ent amounts as represented by retire- I ment dates. As at present, low bid ders would be permitted to purchase the bonds. “Low bidder” in this case means the bidder offering the high est premium above tlie fafee value of the bonds because the lowest interest rate would bo found by reducting from the aggregate amount of inter est the total amount of premium above face value offered. In short, the bidders, offering the highest pre mium would be the low Interest bid der because his premium would offset to some degree the interest to be paid. The only difference in the pres ent law and the Newman plan, in this regard is that bidders would be per mitted to make separate and varying bids for bonds of the same issue, the separate bids being made on the a i mounts to be retired on certain dates. The second, and perhaps the most important, provision of the bill pro. > vides, in effect, for re fundi cut following tedious procedure as at . present. Cities, towns and counties would be permitted to include a pro viso in their bonds which would re serve to them the right to extend the time for payment of the principal. A r definite time limit would, of course, • be specified in such cases. Interest payments would continue at the fix ■ ed rate. In other words, a bond issue with interest four per cent might be t designated for retirement in 1950, but if the Newman bill should become " law, local governing authorities might invoke the extension clause and tell - holders of the bonds that they would • not be retired until 1960. Interest would, of course, continue at four t P p »’ cent until 1960. Provision is also . incorporated in the bill for local gov s ernments to require bondholders to exchange their bonds for new issues, I which would be the equivalent of ex j tending the time for redemption. The second bill, a companion meas ) ure, would bring the municipal fin ance act and the county finance act . up to date by the substituting of dates 1 and would define as municipal and , county debt “the principal and ac r cruod interest on funding bonds, re funding bonds, and other evidences of indebtedness heretofore or hereafter 3 issued.” The bill further provides that, r no interest accruing aifter the year b 1938 shall fee funded or refunded. Notice Change Bus Schedule May 1, 1935 NORTH BOUND SOUTH BOUND WEST BOUND (Richmond, Washington (Raleigh) (Durham, Greensboro and New York) ant j Charlotte) Leave 12:30 A. M. Leave 3:00 A. M. Leave 5:15 A. M. Leave 6:55 A. M. Leave 6:55 A M Leave 9:45 A. M. Leave 11:40 A. M. Leave 11:40 A. M Leave 12:55 P. M. Leave 3:55 P. M. Leave 3:55 IV M Leave 3:45 P. M. Leave 5:40 P. M. Leave 5:40 P M Leave 7:00 P. M. Leave 8:55 P. M. Leave 8:55 P M Atlantic Greyhound Line East Coast Stages Phone 18 Linen Suits Washed and Cleaned for 65* Phone Us To Come For Yours. * Henderson Steam Laundry Phone 508. 10 BE RESTRICTED Will Serve Almost Exclusive ly To Safeguard High way Traffic. In the Sir Walter Hotel Daily Dispatch Bureau BY J. C. BASKEBVILL, Raleigh, April 27—One hundred and twenty-one State highway partoltnen will zoom back and forth alone the i 10,000 miles of State highway.® and i when necessary go off into the more ■ than 45.000 miles of secondary in N, ways to enforce the highway laws and prevent accidents, as the result of the passage by the T-Tcuse Friday of ih, larger highway patrol bill. The hm now goes to the senate for concur rence in one or two minor amend j ments and is expected to become law ■within ihe next few days. The larger patrol law goes into ef fect July 1. But inquiries today made at the motor vehicle bureau of the department of Revenue as to whether it would be posible to have 12l patrol men ready for active duty by July t brought the reply that it w'ould prob ably be the middle of July or even August 1 before the patrol could be re cruited and equipped up to its maxi mum strength and ready for duty. It was pointed out that from six week® to two months will be required to so lect the applicants for the patrol give them a thorough training course of at least six weeks and then pick out the men who finally qualify. The pa trol now numbers approximately fji patrolmen, including officers. Tn oi der to select 66 more patrolmen it is estimated that at least 150 applicant will be placed in training and the 00 men who show up to best advantage during the training period wili be selected for the jobs. The bill just passed also provides that the 121 patrolmen and office:® shall do nothing else but patrol the highway and enforce the inotoi ve hicle laws, except in cases of emer gency when they may be called upon 1o assist the regulai .city and county peace officers. But they will no longer act as gasoline inspectors re venue collectors or as agents of tin Department of Revenue. Their pri mary joz wil bo to patrol the highway® to prevent accidents by strict enforce ment of the highway laves. They will continue, of course, to check up on automobile and truck licenses, over loaded trucks and all motor vehicle regulations. The new law also provides that all of the 121 patrolmen and officers ' nil be under constant radio control from four radio stations so placed that they can remain in constant communica tion with patrolmen in every corner of the State. Tentative plans call fo the location of these stations in or near Asheville, Charlotte, Raleigh arm Greenville, although the final plac ing of the stations will be dependent qpon tests made by the radio tech nicians who will install them Bin the plan is to have the four stations so spaced along the length of the Stan that each one, can communicate with each patrolman in the district it serve at all times. These four stations will, of course, be in constant communica tion with each other and can broad cast separately, or sooked up so that the same calls can be sent out from all four simultaneously. They will be short wave radio stations and every motorcycle and patrol car will be equipped with receiving sets. NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION. i I have this day qualified 1 befoie the Clerk of the Superior Court of Vance County as Administrator of the estate, of J. X.i Brady. This is to notify all ■ persons holding claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit the same to me on or before the 27th day j of April, 1936 or this notice will be f pleaded in bar of their recovery. All • persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediaite settle ’ ment. This 27th day of April, 1935. ‘ EARL C. BRADY Administrator of the Estate of J. X. Brady, deceased.