Henderson daily dispatch., June 05, 1933, Image 1

About Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995

Image provided by: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library, Chapel Hill, NC

                
HENDERSON,
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA.
TWENTIETH YEAR
WORLD FLIER LANDS AT MOSCOW
m X X X V. V. O' u a* as
o F rx ->' * / * *******'**'* ***********
Roosevelt Demands Balanced Budget Despite Veterans* Increases
CONGRESS’ SPEED
IS SLOWED DOWN
BY NEW COMMAND
President Warns Leaders
Addition of $170,000,000
Must Be Raised by
New Taxes
PAYING-AS-YOU-GO
PLAN IS DEMANDED
Danger of Upsetting Econ
omy Program and Indus
trial Control Proposal Ap
pears as Congress Waits on
Reaction of the Public
Sentiment Now
Washing’on, June s—(AP)—Presi
dent Roosevelt passed on to the re
calcitrant Senate his command for a
budget in a talk today with
Chairman Harrison, of the Senate Fi
nance Committee.
Harrison, Democrat, Mississippi,
was called to the White House just
before the finance committee met to
vote on new levies to f.nance the pub
lic works program.
Mr. Roosevelt last night warned
House leaders if they accepted the
Senate increase in veterans’ expendi
tures they must add new axes to pay
for the $170,000,000 cost.
The presidential ultimatum appear
ed today to be slowing up the move
mentment in Congress, but that has j
upset the economy program and the |
industr al control proposal.
Congressional leaders delayetfc:*o«te,i
sideration of the Senate’s 25 percent
limitation on veterans’ cuts until pub
lie sentiment and a new tax program
could be determined.
Mr. Roosevelt made it most em
phatic that he regarded a balanced
government budget the keystor? to
the return to prosperity.
Lewis Douglas, director of the bud
get, told last night's White House
parley that 1,300,000 men had been pu f
'o work since March 4, and if this was
to continue the government must be
kept on a pay-as-you-go basis.
Representative Snell, of New York,
the Republican leader, indicated that
l.ttle help could be expected from his
party in an effort to reject the Sen
ate amendment.
IHREE ACCUSED IN,
SLAYINGINGASION
Father and Son and Third
Man Involved in Lat
ter’* Wife’s Death
Gastonia. June 5. —(AP) —A. F.
Whitworth, P. C. Falls and Fort
Falls son of P. C. Falls, were charg
ed with murdering Mrs. Maude B.
Whitworth, 45, Gastonia dress-maker,
in one of the three bills of indict
ment handed the Gaston county grand
jury here oday by Solicitor John G.
Carpenter.
W htworth was the dead woman’s
husband, while Falls had been acting
as a deputy sheriff. Fort Falls was
driving an automobile from which
P. C. Falls and Whitforth claim Mrs.
Vlhitworth jumped and was fatally
injured last month. /
The indictment handed the grand
jury' charged:
Wh'.tworth and both Falls with
murdering Mrs. Whitworth. (Solici
tor Carpenter said the degree of mur
der would be decided upon later.)
Whitworth and P. C. Falls with
conspiracy unlawfully and lalsely to
arrest Mrs. Whitworth on a charge
of disorderly conduct.
Whitworth and P. C. Falls With un
lawfully assaulting Mrs. Whitworth.
Solicitor Carpenter said the last in
dict men l presented the grand jury was
on the ground that “Falls was no a
qualified depuy sheriff.”
’’’he false arrest and ind-ctment re
ferred t 0 testimony given by Steven
tf'-uwe to a coroner’s jury that Whit
worth and the elder Falls planned a
Plot in an effort to secure evidence
f&ainst Whitworth to be used
by her husband in contesting a di
vorce action*
The grand jury did not act imme
diately on the presentation.
weather
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Generally fair tonight and Tues
day; »-l ghtly warmer tonight in
extreme southwest portion. n ...
. <v,,.
HcnJiprsmt Datht Dispatch
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRF,BB.
Rise Os Van Sweringen
Railroad Holdings Told
At The Morgan Hearing
Mrs. Roosevelt Is
Flying to Coast
Dallas, Texas, June S.—(AJP)
After a short stop here for break
fasts during which she w’as welcom
ed by Governor Miriam A. Fer
guson, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
continued her airplane journey to
Los Angeles for a visit with her
son, Elliott.
,1
SSI
Jeffress Seems Likely For
High way.Prison Job,
.With Pou in Charge ;.
i of Prison End
maxwelltcTstay,
IS latest belief
Appears Sure of Revenue
Post, While Harrelson Is
Likely To Be Kept at Head
of Conservation Work;
'Commissioner of Paroles
Most Uncertainty
Raleigh. June 5 (AP)—Gover
nor J. Cl B. EJhinghaus, still “un
der the weather” from an attack
of neuralgia suffered the latter
part of last week, stayed at the
j executive mansion today.
Tomorrow the governor will at
tend commencement exercises at
Elon College during the day, arid
at the University of North Caro
lina at night. He said he ex
pected to make short talks at both
places.
The governor Is giving thought
to the major appointments he ex
pects to make this week, but the
date of announcement is still in
definite.
Doily Dlupntrh Burena,
In the Sir Wnlier Hotel.
11V .1 C. HASKERVILL.
Raleigh, June 0. —“Yes, we ehave no
appointments,” continues to be the
theme song in the office of Governor
J. C. B. Ehringhaus, who is said to
be consiuering having a phonograph
record made that will start playing
automatically as soon as any one —
especially a newspaper man —enters
.his office. The first question asked
the governor by almost every on©
these days is “What about your ap
pointments?” Only the echo answers,
Governor Ehringhaus beams his win
ning smile and pleasantly talks about
some thing else.
The only thing encouraging said
by Governor Ehringhaus so far with
regard to his appointments is that
he Was sidetracking everything elsee,
in so far as possible, in an effort to
finish his slate of appointments and
(Continued on Page Three.)
Guard Placed at
Bedside of Youth
In Girl’s Slaying
Spartanburg, S. C., June S. —(AP)
—A guard was t\ibioned at the door
of the hospital where Madison Stone,
young business college student, lay
today recovering from a bullet wound,
possibly to face charges in the slaying
of Miss Thellma Martin.
A warrant placing the youth under
arrest for investigation in the case
was served on him in the hospital
yesterday by Sheriff Sam M. Henry
carrying out instructions of a coroner
jury. A guard was then placed at the
hospital.
Dissatisfaction with Stone’s story
that two Negroes killed the girl after
shooting and beaing him on a lonely
road near here last Monday the jury
ordered Stone held for investigation.
Although he was seriously wounded
in the abdomen, he is now on the
road to recovery. ;
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. *
Began With $2,000,000 Bor
rowed in 1916, O. P. Van
Sweringen Telit
Committee
MORGAN FREQUENTLY
SOUGHT IN MATTER
He Repeatedly Advised the
Brothers, Because They
Looked Upon Him, “As
Does the World,” As Wise
Counsellors jn Finance;
Tax Returns Protested
Washington, June 5.—(AP) — Ad
vance of the Van Sweringen railroad
holding from $2,000,000 borrowed in
1916 to the vast expanse now held was
chronicled today in the Senate inves
tigation of J. P. Morgan and Com
,pany by examination of O. P, Van
Sweringen.
Prodded by Ferdinand Pecora, com
mittee counsel, the Cleveland operator,
traced the entrance of himself and
his brother into the rail field to a
deal by which they got entree into
the Nickle Plate 17 years ago.
It was developed that the entire
down, payment of $2,000,000 of the ’sß,-
500,000 cash agreed upon was borrow
ed.
At the start the witness, in a pre
pared statement, sketched acquisition
of his varied transport interests, show
ing the big part taken by the Morgan
bank. Repeatedly Morgan advised the
brothers, they going to him —O. P.
testified—because they looked upon
the firm ‘‘as does the world as wise
counsellors in matters of finance.”
Objections by John W. Davis, as
Morgan counsel, in a closed commit
tee session before the hearings, made
for postponement until tomorrow of
a decision whether to inquire into
the personal income tax returns of
three partners in the huge bank,
Thomas C. Lamont, William Ewing
and Harold Stanley.. The vote agaihst
deciding At o'ncfej wAs 12 ti; 2.
Members of the committee said
Davis raised the point that the law
does not permit publication of in
come tax returns.
It was his question that the com
mittee decided to study.
J. P. Morgan paid little attention
to much of Van Sweringen’s exam
ination, although he had looked over
the opening statement while it was
(being read.
M. J. Van Sweringen sat near him
in the hot room that once again was
jammed to the doors by spectators.
Two on Trial in
"Bhy’s Death From
Liquor. Given Him
Gastonia, June 5. —(AP) —I*. O.
Gardner and Caldwell Brown, of
Mount Holly, went on trial in superior
court here today on charges of mur
dering 12-year-old Spencer Buford, by
giving him whiskey, which the State
claims caused his dteath several
weeks ago.
A true bill was returned by a Gas
ton county grand jury shortly after
it was presented by Solicitor John G.
Carpenter.
Rain. Threatening
As- Illinois Votes
On Dry Law Repeal
Chicago, June S—(AP5 —(AP) —Predicted
showers and thundershowers in Il
linois today threatened to drench its
citizens as they passed on the ques
tion of approving or disapproving of
the eighteenth amendment.
Both the wets and drys were out to
, roll lip the largest vote possible, the
anti-prohibitionists being particularly
anxious to win because of the effect
the voting may have on the same ques
tion in Indiana, which votes tomor
row.
KINSTON YOUTH IS
AUTO CRASH VICTIM
New Bern, June 5. —(AP) —William
Bradham, 28, of Kinston, was instant
ly killed near Morehead Bluffs last
night when his car was sideswiped
by another machine!. Bradham, en
route home after a day on the coast,
was thrown o the pavement in the
cr*>h. His skull was crushed.
HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON,JUNE 5, 1933
MATTERN FLYS TO LOWER POST-GATTY WORLD RECORD
>/ . VA*CUT»K
—J- J *r NnScrthSK M **wo»lo /te
\\ £ crashed in a \ \\
Lowering the globe-girdling mark
of Wiley Post and Harold Gatty
of eight days, seven hours and 51
minutes, is the objective of James
Railroad Reorganization Program
Is Given Approval In The House
Washington, June S.—(AP) — The
administration’s railroa reorganiza
tion bill was approved by the House
today as th*.Senate started debate on
another of President Roosevelt’s big
emergency measures, legislation to re
finance mortgages on small homes.
The railroad bill, creating a Fed
eral coordinator to aid the carriers
in getting back to a sound working
bas s, will be sent back to the Senate
for adjustment of differences on
minpr amendments before going to
the White House.
A dominating question in Congress
DEggey
Wallace Says immediate
Choice Urgent as Crop
Already Planted
Washington June 5 (AP) —Secre-
tary Wallace said today that a deci
sion on whether the farm act will be
applied to cotton will be made before
the end of the week.
Wallace said that because ’Ouost i>f
the cotton had been planted, and
some of it in the extreme lower cot
ton belt si nearing maturity, that the,
department believes an early decision
is “necessary.”
Representatives of growers, includ
ing the American Cotton ooperative
Association and the American Farm
Bureau have urged an
acreage reduction plan under which
30 percent of the area devoted to cot
ton this year wbuld'TJe retired from
production, They proposed that the
areas be leased from farmers and
that the departmieinLL miake cash pay
ments to farmers this summer.
Five-Day-Week in
Shore Stations of
- Navy Inaugurated
Washington, June 5 (AP) —Es-
tablishment of the fiv©-day week
at all shore starti* sis was ordered
today by the Navy Department,
effective Jvuur%s.
The order applied to the civiliaki
field service of Marine Corps,
as well as the Navy Department.
The normal work day will be
from Monday to Friday, inclu
sive. Saturday will be consider
ed a non work day the same as
Sunday.
Employee? on a per annum arid
a per month basis will be fur
loughed on Saturday. This ac
tion has been taken, the depart
ment said, because of the neces
sity for economy in expenditures
and to obr \* te discharges) by
spreading wbrk any rig employees
as far as practical.
The order was issued by Assist
ant Secretary j
J. Mattern’s solo flight, en ro f ute
from New York around the world
to New York. Above, Mattern,
his ship, and rout* of his flight.
today was what to do abouV slashing
veterans’ compensation and new taxes
in view of Mr. Roosevelt’s ultimatum
that the budget mus be kept in bal
ance. The President told House lead
ers last night that if they accept the
$170,000,000 increase in veterans’ ex
penditures voted by the Senate they
must add new taxes.
House leaders decided to meet to
morrow to reach a decision, and,
meanwhile, deferred consideration of
the independent offices appropriation
(bill continuing the veterans’ increases
until late in the week. They wanted
to give the representatives time to
sound out public sentiment.
- - ■ - f
I
Submits Names of
Hoarders of Gold
Washngton, June s.—(AP)—At
torney General Cummings said to
day he had transmitted to the field
offices of the Bureau of Investiga
tion more than 1,000 names of sus
pected gold hoarders, with a view
to compelling compliance with
President Roosevelt’s order that all
gold or gold certificates above SIOO
be returned to the Treasury.
Revenue Head Is Cheerful
Over Outlook for First
Time In Three Years
Dnllx UlMpafeli Rnrent.
In the Sir Wnlter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, June 5. —Commissoner of
Revenue A. J. Maxwell is actually op
timistc about busness conditions and
revenue collections for the frst time
in almos three years. He smles broad
ly whenever the revenue collectons
;for May are mentioned which were
$250,052 as compared with collection
in May, 1932, of only $240,514 —an in
crease of almost $300,000. These fig
ures do not include any oi the State
tax on beer and only $23,000 out of a
total of more than $55,000 collected
from the sale of beer licenses. When
the figures for the revenue collected
ifrom the State tax on beer which will
not be available until June 10 are in
cluded in the total it is expected to
be much larger.
“The revenue collections for May
were the best the State has had for
ia long time and undoubtedly indi
cate a mearial improvement in busi
iness and financial conditions gen
erally over the State," Commissioner
Maxwell said today. “Judging from
the increased collections, here is every
reason to believe that North Carolina
ihas passed through the worst part of
the depressio nand is now definitely
on the road back to recovery. I think
conditions in all lines of business are
going to improve steadily from now
on, although the improvement will, of
(Continued Page Three. i
PUBLISHED EVERT AFTIBMOOI
EXCEPT SUNDAY*
Mattern took but six oranges as
his food supply for the first leg
of the flight from New York to
Berlin.
The Senate Finance Committee took
up the question of new taxes this
morning in executive session. The
taxes have been included in he in
dustrial recovery bill to finance the
cost of the $3,300,000,000 public works
bond issue.
The veterans controversy was heard
in the Senate soon after it met when
iSenator Cuting, Republican, New
Mexico, a supporter of Mr. Roose
velt, unleashed sharp criticism of
Louis M. Howe, one of the President’s
secretaries, for asking the people in
an address to stand with the admin
istration in making cuts in the former
pay of the soldiers.
Expenditures of Various
Workers at Legislature
Are Filed
Raleigh, June S.—(AP) —R. L». El
lis, of Asheville, lobbyist for the
Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Ashe
ville. incurred $1,400 in expenses in
working here during the 1933 legisla
te,tore, he reported today to Secre
tary of Sate Stacey W. Wade.
The Coca-Cola Company reported
it paid him $445.24 to be applied on
his expenses.
Rivers D. Johnson, of Warsaw, for
mer State Senator, listed expenditures
of $420 lobbying for the North Caro
lina Education Association, and said
he received SBIO. Johnson reported no.
lobby expenses-in work for the Junior
Order and the Duplin Fair Associa
tion.
The David Pender Grocery Com
pany listed a payment of $117.90 to
McLean and Stacy, Lumberton attor
neys, for lobby work, and Francis
N. Whitnye, New York tax attorney
for the Western Union Telegraph
Company, showed he incurred $36.18
in expenses in. attending hearings here
C. L. Carter, lobbyist for the Tide
water Power Company, was. paid $73.-
43 in expensese, and J. M. Broughton
of Raleigh, got SIOO for work for the
Isaac Walton League,
INQUEST ORDERED
IN WOMAN’S DEATH
J, L. of Hendersonville,
Held in Fatal Shooting of His
Wife in That City
Hendersonville, June 5—(AP)—An
inquest into the death of Mrs. J. L.
Dalton, 29, who died Sunday from
gunshot wounds alleged to have been
inflicted by her husband, was called
today for Wednesday.
Solicitor J. Will Pless, Jr., said he
would attend the inquest. Dalton, a
highway employee is alleged to have
held Mrs. Dalton by the arm and
fired three shots into her body on
May 28. After the shooting, he sur
rendered to officials and has been in
the county jail here.
Prior to the shooting, Mrs. Dalton
had left her husband following his ar
rest in a hotel with another woman.
8' PAGES
, TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
MATTERNALREADY
IS AHEAD OF TIME i
Os POSTAND GATTY
Reaches Russian Capital
After Stop in Oslo 51
Hours, 31 Minutes,
From New York
FEELING FINE BUT
HE IS 4 DOG TIRED”
Doctor at Airport Prescribes
Rest, But Flier Digs in for
Short Sleep Before Head
ing East into Siberia;
Only Three Hours Sleep
So Far
4
Moscow, June 5.—(AP) — James
Mattern, United States aviator, bound
round-the-world in a solo flight land
ed in Moscow this afternoon, dog
tired but “feeling fine.”
He was exactly 51 hours and 31 min
utes out of New York City. (This put
him almost three hours ahead of the
Post-Gatty round-the-world fight rec
ord he is trying to break.)
Mattern landed at t7:57 a. m., east
ern standard time, swooping down on
the muddy field from a sky darkened
by angry clouds. He said he would
remain in Moscow two hours and than
press on toward Siberia.
After taxing his ship to a standstill,
the Texan was gathered up by half
a dozen Soviet aviators and tossed
into the air several times in the most
enthusiastic reception ever given an
American airman here.
The weather conditions were not the
best, but Mattern declared he would
go on. He ate hungrily of a sumpt
uous meal which was waiting for him.
An ,'u/trport doctor intervened to*
feel Mattern’s pulse, and with his
fingers still on the aviator’s wrist, he
said:
“He is very tired and needs rest,”
When this was translated to him,
Mattern grinned and remarked:
“I feel fine, but I would like to
have about an hour’s sleep.”
As soon as Mattern finished his
meal,' he was provided with a shower
and put to bed i na room at. the air
port. He emphasized that he wished
to be ailed promptly, in order that
he might lose no time.
Mattern said he hoped to hop nop L
stop at least as far as Novosibirsk
(about 1,700 miles) on leaving Mos
cow.
He landed here after he obtain* l
only three hours sleep since leaving
New York, ail of which he obtained
during his halt at Oslo, but he look
ed extremely fit .despite his obviou3
weariness.
RELAISMIGHT
HAVE TAKEN CHILD
Cincinnati Police Work on
That Theory For Tar
Heel Couple
Cincinnati, Ohio, June 5 (AP) —A
possibility it 1 hat relatives may have
kidnaped Pansy Sneed to give her a
better home was considered by po
lice today as they entered the fifth
day of their search for the five
weeks-old girl.
Proceedings on the Itest s'ory, offi
cials planned investigation in the
fo,ranter home of Mr. and Mrs. John
Sneedt, poverty-stridden parents of
the child. Sneed comes from Mur
phy, N. C. and his wife from Clay
county, in tit© same state. They
came here last October ffrom Hlawa3-
se’ei Ga. I ' 1 '’'' 1
Detectives said they were without
a clue -to the identity of a wom*n
who, posing as a nurse, took Pansy
from her home Wednesday, tellng
her mother she was removing her to
a hospital for treatment of a birth
iniury. | • i
NO REQUEST IS RECEIVED , ’
BY OFFICIALS AT MURIPHY
Murphy, June 5 (AP) —Officers
here today said they had had no re
quest from Cincinnati officers for an
investigation in connection with tha
kidnaping of Pan«y Sneed, five
old daug,h io T of John Sneed, who
formerly l'ved heie.
j There are several families of Sneeds-.
; in this section .and officeix
said they were unable to identify
John Sneed, who now lives in Cin
, ctouatt Ohio,