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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-25
TAXING RELIEF
ERROR IS HARD
TO OVERCOME
Would Strike Out Provi'
sion for 10 Pct. Discount
for Paying Cash
By HENRY LESESNE
the Timcs-Ncws Bureuu
Sir WnIt"r Hotel

RALEIGH, Apr. 25-The senate
is having q difficult time correct
ing its confessed mistake in ap'
proving the house amendment 70
the administration tax relief act
popularity known as senate bill
$50, permitting delinquent tax
PAYERS to get a 10 per cent dis
count by settling in cash. Tho
tax relief act was ratified OF
| March 27, and this week the SEN
ate took up a bill introduced by
Senator Bland of Wayne, to
strike out this precision of the
act However, two days open
discussion on the floor Of the
senate failed to bring about an
agreement, and the Bland bill has
been re-referred to judiciary com
mitteC No. l.
The tax relief act allows the
county commissioners of ma
iority of the counties in the state
to do away with penalties and
interest on back taxes for the
years 1927-1931, inclusive, and
to permit delinquents to pay up
in five annual installments. As
the act now stands, these tardy
taxpayers not only have the bene-
fit of the removal of penalties
and interest, but they may also
get a 10 per cent discount by
paying the full amount in cash,
or by paying all or any Of their
annual installments even as little
as a day in advance of the date
on which they fall due.
Everybody in the senate is will
ing to admit that as the tax re-
! lief measure was finally ratified
it was a bad piece Of legislation
The 10 per cent discount provi'
sion, tackled on by the house, is
the target of attack. But the
fact remains that it has been eff
fective since March 27, and it Is
climed by some senators that the
land banks and insurance com,
panies have already taken advan-
tage of the 10 per cent discount
provision and settled for &c
cents on the dollar, whereas the
farmer and small landowner who
was supposed to have benefited
from the tax-relief act, would
not have a chance to get the
benefit of a cash settlement I'M
til after this years crops are
made.
This group contends that the
Bland bin should be amended sc
as to permit the farmer and small
/ landowner to get a cash discount
as late as the first part of 1884
hut the administration forces are
fighting such an amendment
claiming that the land banks anc
insurance companies have not
taken advantage Of the cash dis
count rate as yet, and that to ex,
tend the date for making a cast
settlement to some specified time
- 1884 would nullify the effec'
of the Bland bill. which seeks tc
correct the existing situation by
which a 1882 delinquent taxpayer
has to pay in full, whereas a de
linquent taxpayer for any prio1
J wear may get 10 per cent re
duction. 49,.
Senator Bland attempted tt
get his bill through the. senate
Friday. and quoted State Treas
urer Charles NJ. Johnson, who
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-25

also a former director of the To-
cal government commission, as
saying that the corporation land
holders have not yet taken advan-
tage of the tax relief to any
great extent yet, but that they
undoubtedly would do so unless
the discount provision is stricken
from the statute. However, sew
eral members disagreed with this
view, holding that a large mum.
Der of corporate lein holders had
taken advantage of the bargain
offered by the tax relief act. Sen
ator Griffin of Franklin, told the
senate that one land bank in his
county had paid $4,000 back
taxes in one day, getting a 10
per cent discount for settling IN
cash.
Those senator's who admitted
that the tax discount provision
of the act was all wrong, but
who contended that by the legis-
lature's mistake the corporate
lein holders have profited and
the farmers have not been able
to do so, supported an amend
ment by Senator Grady of John
son. extending the 10 per cent
cash discount period to Deem
her /. Under this amendment
delinquents who settled for cash
prior to January 1, 1884, would
have gotten a 7 LIZ per cent dis
count; those settling before Feb
ruarv 1, five per cent. and those
settling prior to March l, would
have gotten 2 1-2 per cent dis
count. This amendment how
ever, failed, and the bill was
sent to judiciary committee No
l to he whipped into an accept
able form.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-25
TEARS, LOVE FREE
PRISONER TO MARRY

SALT LAKE CITY. Utah, April
%. (UP)--Dan Cupid and tears
shed by Lola Dunn, temporarily
loosened the iron grasp of the law
while she married Ray Hopkins.
Hopkins was released from jail
by order of Federal Judge Till
man D. johnson long eonugh to
marry Miss Dunn. Then he made
ready for trip to Mcneil Island
Penitentiary, to serve a three-year
term on counterfeiting conviction.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-25
Rocket Cars to
Replace Ferris
Wheel at Fair
By HARRISON SALISBURY
Untitled Press Staff Correspondent

CHICAGO, April %. (UP)-
The thrill that grandfather got on
the giant ferris wheel at the Chi
cago Fair in 1898 will be recap
tured by passengers of futuristic
"Sky Ride" at the Century of
Progress Exposition.
In place Of the great wheel two
slender steel towers rise $40 feet
into the air-higher than any
Chicago skyscraper. Between the
masts. over one of the world
longest cableways, will hurtle
cleaning rocket cars. One mast
is on the mainland. The other is
astride the newly made island in
Lake Michigan nearly half mile
away.
AMUSEMENT FEATURES
This greatest Of amusement
features seeks to create the illu-
sion of travel by rocket car which
inventors hone to make the stand
ard transportation a 100 years
from now.
The towers are open steel frame
work, reminiscent of the famed
Eiffcl Tower. At the foot of one
is replica of an ancient Chinese
pagoda in sharp contrast with the
newest in structural steel con-
struction.
Swift passenger elevators will
rush visitors to the rocket cars at
the 200-foot elevation, where from
an observation platform all Chi
cago, parts of Indiana, Michigan
and Wisconsin are visible on clear
days. At this height the visitor is
on a level with the dirigibles at
the exposition.
ROCKET CARS =.
The rocket cars looming along
the 1,85O-foot galloway, exceeded
in length only by the cable span
of the George Washington Bridge
over the Hudson River, are
stream-lined aluminium cabins.
The cleaning cars resembel dirig-
IDLE cabins.
The cars are double-decked and
have a combined capacity Of 4,800
visitors an hour. Though the
cars will give off streaming dis
charge similar to that of a rocket
they will be, in fact, powdered by
electricity.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-25

There is no substitute for
newspaper advertising.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-25
SHEEP POPULATION
INCREASING DAILY

ROCK SPRINGS. Wyo., April
24.-(UP).-The sheep popula-
ton of the Rock Springs area is
increasing daily. ,.
Many focks of "woolies" are
now being driven into the winter
feeding grounds.
The flocks will Craze here until
about May /. Recent SHOWS have
greatly benefited the range.
There is no substitute for
newspaper advertising.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-25
THIEVES STOLE COOP
AND CHICKENS

PORTLAND, Ore. (UP)-Un-
like the man who locked the barn
after the horse was stolen, Joe
Jorg won't be able to lock his
chicken coop. The thieves took
the coop along with the chickens.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-25
Perfiidious Savages

d
In the Torres Straits Islands in the East Indies,
there are no trees suitable for canoe building. so
the natives, cruel treacherous race import their
canoes from Fly River Delta in New Gulnea-an-
other Mace with an unenviabe reputation, The
distance between these two places is over four
hundred miles, and no native in that region tray
els even one-quarter Of that distance
When a canoe is wanted, the word is simply
nassed on from tribe to tribe On the strength OF
this vague order canoe is built. Then it is re-
layed back. Each tribe of bIoodthirsty cannibals
tests and discusses it before passing it on Final
" the payment, shell necklaces, spear points, arm
bands, makes its way to the canoe builders In the
same leislrely fashion,
There is reason for this honesty in savages to
whom perfdy is natural If any OF the parties In
this complicated transaction were to risk being
dishonest, their credit would be ruined. And
though these natives may kill and eat each other,
they hold barter inviOate.
Even sayages understand that in commerce it
paws to be honest and to let the world realize
YOUR honesty! So in modern business Advertise
inc must be honest. It is proof Of honesty. A
products advertising is the best guarantee OF ITS
=. quality usefulness and value.
The man who advertises is inviting your IN
spection He is letting his goods stand on their
owl, merit. He can't afford to deceive you. You
as:can depend on him. That's why it pays to read
advertising and to buy advertised goods
Anyone can spend money the reader OF ad'
vertisements spends wisely.
1ue<os. .,sau 81 ,ya5
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-05-12


He came out scratching himself and pulling his
Jacket over his torn underwear He stumbled to
the kitchen. A lamp was lit and his shadow
moved across the dirty window panes like weird
fantastic bat
The smell of coffee filled the air. -
Tin plates and cups clattered on the long.
wooden mess hall tables, shining with the grease
OF countless meals under the lamp hanging from
beam in the ceiling.
With harsh grating sound the iron door
of the cage swung open. .s,.o
Everybody OUT the guard shouted. "Come
an get it."
Bare feet thudded to the floor. Twenty-inch
chains rlveted around their ankles rasped and
changed as they struck the rims of the iron bunk
The convlcts struggled sleepily out of the two
loot aisle IN the cage and down the wooden steps
20 the cool soil, ragged crew, three whites and
eight Negroes ~
-. entered the cage while they were at their
breakfast of grits, molasses and coffee. The
Sgench from the pan mingled with the smell of
eleven unwashed bodies which had slept there.
Flies and mosquitoes buzzed and droned angriIy.
Inc mattresses and blankets were filthy.
truck appeared at the st0ckade gate. The
streaks OF drab dawn flecked the sky and the
seminole county convicts were ready to be taken
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-05-12
(BY JOHN L. SPIVAK)

We talked in low tones, sitting there on the
two worn, wooden steps of the Seminole County,
Georgia, convict camp stOckade. The night was
heavy, Sitting.
The rasping sound of SHORES disturbed the
hush over the wire inclOSed world They came
from huge cage, like one in which circus pens
it's most ferociOus beasts. Two lanterns hanging
on the outStretched arms of cross driven deep
in the soil threw a Sickly yellOwish light over
the stockade
In momentary lull in the chorus of shores
the faint sound of rustling could be heard,
sound as Of wild beast creeping through tangle
of jungle brush.
what is that?" asked
Straw mattresses" the night guard replied.
when they turn in their sleep, you know"
eyes" | said land that clinking sound of
iron?'' ~
'"The clank of their chains when they turn
in their Sleep" said the guard.
mosquito lit on my neck and slapped at
it. fly droned about our heads Is s ~at +
strolled over to the cage. A sickening stencil
rose from a zinc pan under it, used by the prs-
oners at night. Through the screened bars saw
them stretched out on the iron hunks ranging
the cage in three-decker tiers, the whites in
compartment near the door and the Negroes in
the rear. Coats and shoes were off, They slept
in their trousers, their chests bare, for few had
underwear In the faint light from the cross
the sweat on their backs glistened
One scratched himself tiredly Another
slapped at one of the insects that hummed and
buzzed in the cage, insects attracted by the pan
under the sleeping men and entering through the
holes in the screen. And one, who could not
sleep, lay on an elbow looking at me through the
bars with despair in his eyes,
What did these men do to be chained and
Gagged like this?' I asked 0. IS M
Anything from vagrancy to murder
Thirty days. and thirty years mingled in
dlscrlminately. There with his face pressed close
to the bars for the cool feel of iron on his hot
forehead was boy who could not have been
more than seventeen; and in the bunk adjoining
a face marked by years of suffering and being
bounded ~Ne
"A killer" explained the guard.
Inc cook, sleeping in sagging, dilapidated
shack IN corner of the stockade, was awakened
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-05-12
NON THE CHAIN GANG =

These flashes of chain gang life are written
by the author of Georgia Niger. the sensational
novel about peOnage and THE chain gangs. In these
sketches Mr.. SDivaks we'll kRown New York
newspaper repcsser paints some of TIE scenes he
Witnessed in Georgia.
The Georgia. chain gangs with their brutal
forced labor ard torture described here are no
different from those found in any southern state.
They are the weapsDn nf the plantation owners and
bankers to keep the Negro peasants of the Black
Belt in debt slavery and peOnage.
During recent years the chain gang has been
used more and more for unemployed white workers
ALSO This only proves that as long as the white
workers permit the enslaNement of the Negro peO-
pie they themselves suffer much the same fate at
the hands Of the ruling class - ,
Both North and South the Negro workers in
industry and other land are fortunately beginning
to istruggle against their conditions The Orgga-
nizatd0n of sshare-crOppers unions and the wide
struggles developed Ground the ScO$tshCre case
Illustrate the beginnings OF these struggles. To-
gether with the white workers the Negroes are
moving forward toward the abolition of the chain
gang and every other form of persecution and
oppression.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-05-12

on the road for their days work, for the State
OF Georgia requires that ''the hours of labor shall
be from sunrise to sunset"
They counted out as they passed through
the gate, struggling, weary crew, their chains
dragging on the dark SOIL
talked with a seventeen-year old Negro boy
sitting on the steps of the stockade comm ssary
There was tragedy in his eyes.
Tell me-" l said, what did you do to get
The boy smiled bitterly and shrugged his
shoulders. '-''
"A white man wanted a road FROM his farm
finished quick" he said helplessly
| understood what he meant. | had heard
similar stories Negroes are arrested for swear
ing. Negoes arrested 70 shooting craps. NEGROES
arrested for talking back to white man." I'm
employed Negroes arrested for vag. ancv. If did
not matter much what excuse was used 60 lone
as husky black boys could be arrested and sem
fenced to the chain gang-to build roads for the
planters to transport their crops or to press the
Negro cropper into debt slavery to q nlanter Pc
tween slavery on the chain gang and slavery on
the plantation there is not much TO chooss
-sssa All OF the county convict camps in Geo,.oia
are run by wardens appointed by the State Pris-
on COMMISSION The Commission consists of three
men elected by popular vote every two vOo,S f0
a term OF SIX years. Their office is in the STATE
Capitol in Atlanta and in little room cl1ttarod
with letters and papers and desks sits Cono~,,iS
sioner Vivian E. Stanley 'i''''i'
How do you rehabilitate your prisoners %,
| asked. piiSOiieiS
az, Georgia" said the Commissioner firmly
takes the attitude that these men committee >
err Crime e. and consequently owe debt to society.
So SCI s ptV d,,t % collect this debt
PRODUCTION from the Commissioner n rov rO ~
its debts" ''"V0 0ONo0'S
went out on the road to watch the Seminole
County prisoners work
nao seen men stripped to the waist before
iOa eal ll1LeinO stoklng ship; had seen men
seen men deep in the bowels Of the earth cuttino
coal, but had never seen Georgia chain gane
at work and said to myself: "This cannot be SO
eyerywnere. : \ will go to larger town. This
ferent in other places"
Continued next week.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-05-12
ARREST MEXICAN
WORKER TO STOP
PEA FIELD STRIKE.

San Jose, Calf, April Al
bertn Vegas, a Mexican worker,
was arrested today while distribut-
irg Spanish leaflets in the pea
fields outside San Jose. He was
charged with vagrancy and bail
fixed at 500 cash. The sheriff
refused to let anyone see him ex-
cept ain attorney.
The international Labor Deferse
Immediately organized a commit
tee which raised the bail and will
obtain a lawyer.
Comrade Vegas is a militant
member of the Cannery and Agri-
cultural Workers Urion. Spanish
speaking workers in the pea fields
are forced to work for as low as
10 cents ma hour and many of them
are joining the union.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-05-12
No Trial Yet on Reichstag Fire

Berlin, April S0-Although two months have
passed since the burning of the Reichstag build.
ing the Hitler government has done nothing to
bring anyone to trial for the case "Investiga-
TORS" of the burning continue. Three Bulgarian
workers have now been arrested as scape goats
for the fascists incendiaries. The Manchester
Guardian of London has printed a full report
showing that Hitler's immediate colleagues di.
rected the burning of the Reichstag to make It
possible for him to suppress the Communist party
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-05-12
Share Choppers Given Vicious Sentences
This Spirit
Will Win
(BY R. A. To

~ H. ~ A'y
Dyerville, Calf. April %.
Please mail to me ten
copies of the Producers
News for free distribution.
| will try to get subs for
the. paper. We are orga-
nizing a local of the United
Farmers League on Bull
Greek.
None have seen your
paper except one of the
Dec. 18 issue that | have
been passing around l
haven't ten cents to send
yuo but will take a penny
collection at our next meet
ing to pay for them.
/ am secretary but none
Of us have much money. I
have to borrow a stamp
for this letter.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-05-12
Burn Home of Scottsboro
Negro Witness

Chattanooga, Tenn.-The vengeance of the Ku
Klux Khan against those who fought to cheat the
lynchers of their prey in Decatur, Ala, reached
into Chattanooga, Monday, April II, and while E.
L. Lewis, Negro witness for the defense in the
ScOttsbOro case, attending court at Decatur
waiting to be called in the trial of Charley Weems
his house here, at 22O Central avenue, was burned
to the grounl, and all its contents destroyed
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-05-12

year the sowing had scarcely COM
menced there by April 20.
COLLECTIVE FARMS FORGE
AHEAD
The collective farms Of the u.
S. S. r. have sown over 10000
600 acres or Is per cent over this
years general program while last
year only 100000 acres had
been sown by this date.
The machine-tractor grain sta
lions sowed over 100000 acres,
or. 81 per cent Of the total plan,
which is more than last years &C
complishments. Sowing is pro-
crossing very successfully on the
State farms. The State farms IN
certain regions of the Soviet
Union have already sown about
so per cent of their program.
SOCIALIST COMPETITION
The sowing campaign in the
Tartar Republic has been brilliant
Iy effected, as illustrated by the
fact that collective and State
farms have already completed the
grain sowing campaign in a num-
Der of districts. The collective
farms in five districts of the Tar
tar Republic are now sowing
wheat as counter-plan to the
program, greatly exceeding the
initial plan.
The socialist competition be-
tween different collective farm
brigades has taken on extensive
scope in the Tartar Republic. The
spirit of the workers on the collec-
tive farms is particularly high.
Reports are pouring in from all
over the country of production
quotas being exceeded.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-05-12
World Economic Conference to
Last Six Months

London, May 5-The world economic confer
cree which will be attended by representatives Of
all capitalist countries will probably last six
months. Public sessions will last for two weeks,
during which these representatives will make long
winded speeches. After that will come the
closed sessions during which skirmishes among
the imperialists will take place
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-05-12
international Committee to Aid
Hitler Victims

New YOrk.-An International Committee to
Aid Victims of German Fascisn has been es-
zablshed to aid the victims of Hitler. It is 10
Gated at Paris, France, with the following MEM
bers from the United States; A. ]. Music, Corr
ference for Progressive Labor Action; ]. B.
Mathews, Fellowship of Reconciliation, George
Soule, John Dos PassOs, Prof. H. w. Dana, AL
fred Wagenlnecht. Workers International Re-
lief
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-05-12
Reforestation Workers Strike
for Decent Food

Camp Dix, New Jersey, May 5-FOrty-five
unemployed workers in Roosevelt's reforestng
camp were sent to their homes because they would
not stand for the Stops which was being handed
out to them as AN excuse for food. The army
officers are blaming it on the "reds."
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-05-12
Cox to Represent Wall Street
at Conference

Washington, D. C.-President Roosevelt may
take part personally in some of the sessions of
the World Economic Conference in London dur
ing June. James M Cox, Democratic candidate
for president in 1920, has been invited by RoOse-
welt to be member of the delegations and since
Secretary of State, Hull, will participate in only
part of the conferences, Cox will probably be the
chief agent of Wall Street for the majority of
the sessions.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-05-12
II NEGROES TESTIFIED

A significant aspect of the trial
was the appearance of no less than
II Negroes who testified for the
defense.
Ned Cobb, one of the leaders of
the Sharecroppers' Union, testified
openly that he and Cliff James
and others told Deputy Cliff Elder
that he could not take the stock,
and admitted waiting for the le-
turn of Elder. and other deputies
after their threat that "we'Ie ccm-
ing back and shoot all the niggeis
in this crowd"
The condemned Negro choppers
expressed faith and confidence in
the workers and farmers, as rep
resented by the l. L. D. fight.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-05-12
Large Surety Company Fails

New Yor.-The business of the National Surety
Co. has been taken over by the State Advisory
Board. $S2,OOO,OOO of the companies assets are
frozen. The National Surety is one of the larg-
est companies in surety insurance field in the
United States. The State Advisory Board was
created for the purpose of salyaging the insur-
ance companies which are on Or near the rocks.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-05-12

HAS SOWu some OJUVV,VVV HcrSSY
considerably more than in 1892.
The sowing campaign is progress
irg with especial rapidity in the
Volga region, the Central Black
Earth Belt, and the Tartar Repub-
lie. The Lower and Middle VOlga
region has sown about. 10000, 900
acres compared with only 100000
acres by the same date in 1892.
The Tartar Republic has sown
some 100000 acres, while last
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1933-05-12
Krupp VIII Give Hitler Ortler.

Berlin, May S-An even closer tie-up ha
tween German capitalists and the Fascist COW.
eminent will result from negotiations which Hit.
Ter has been carrying on with the Federation A.
German Industries, the organization of German
industrial capital. DR.. Krupp, head of the KrVDn
Steel works, will remain head of the Federsti,p
to give Hitler the orders of the capitalist ,,.os