Henderson daily dispatch., July 29, 1933, Image 1

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Henderson,
gateway to
CENTRAL
CAROLINA.
TWENTIETH YEAR
MERCHANTS HERE ADOPT CODE
COMMISSION ORDERS
REDUCTIONS SEPT. 1
IN TELEPHONE RATE
Companies Have Indicated
They Will Fight Cuts,
Commissioner Win.
borne Reports
CONFERENCES HELD
WITH 16 COMPANIES
Some 150,000 Telephone:
Stations Served by These
Concerns; Cost of Moving
Equipment Is Also Order
ed, With French Tele
phone Rent Cuts
Raieigh, July 29. —(AP)—The State
CupcraUcn Commission today order
ed teleph one companies operating in
Noith Carolina to show cause here
August 8 why rates charged for ser
vice connections, moving miscellan
e?:is equipment and use of “French
;ypf" telephones should not be re
drc*'’.
Th? commission set up a new scale
of iates to become effective Septem
ber 1, but the telephone companies
have indicated they will fight the or
(!c: :d i eductions Commissioner Stan
ley IVinborne said.
Under 'he new scale the cost of the
"Fmeh type" telephones w’ould be re
duced froin a maximum of 50 cents
a month to 25 cents a month.
Service charges where instruments
are not in place would be $2 instead
c! -3.50, and where instruments are
in place, the charge would be $1 and
instead of $1.50.
The cose or moving equipment on
the subscriber’s premises could not ex
ceed $1.5 o.where it is now up to $3,
and cost; for extia length telephone
ccrds could not exceed a total of $.50,
whereas now a rate is charged at from
15 c-.n’s to 25 cents monthly, inde
finitely.
Th*' commission’s order sets forth
that it has concluded conferences with
16 major companies out of the 101
telephone firms operating in North
Carolina. Some 150.000 telephone sta
tions are served by the 16 companies.
WHAMiNG
ffl IHE SALES TAX i
Maxwell Says They Are
Trying to Get by With
It Easy as Possible
In tae Str Wnlfer Hotel.
Dully Dinpntch Unreal,
J r. n*«KF.nv<Li<.
Raleigh. July -29 —Merchants of the
S lie are showing better and better
corps-ration in observinigl t.h/e new
ta’as tax. especially since the ne
rules and regulations to go inito ef
fect August 1 have been promulgated,
Crnmissiioner Maxwell said today on
return from holding a series of
Meetings with merchants in various
•ect'-ns of the State.
Commissioner Maxwell and Director
-Mullan. of the sales taxx division,
with the merchants of Asheville
and surrounding towns Tuesday night,
‘h the Charlotte merchant® Wed ties.
night, and had very successful
Mr. Maxwell sa*'d. Friday
r T b t Mr. Maxwell met with the mer
fluntj of High Pint and surrounding
* vns, while Mr. McMullai n went to
JrrbertC'n for ai similar meeting.
r h r -ie meetings were very sattsfac.
ry. with a large number f mferich
an',‘i present at each place," Mr. Mak.
sa d. ‘ Th e medtings were infor
and largely educational. Mr.
Mullan and I tired to answer as
quqestiions as possible and to
‘ r Pl ' n bcXh the workings of the sales
law a® well as ’he various regula.
The approval! given 'the new
Sful’l ions that Jgo i|r.to effect on
lt; ' J L cent a ini ng only one sche
,l :r f° r levying the tax on sales of
• e 'han $1 or fractions thereof, was
I™ 0 ’ 1 Unanimously approved. We
that both the merchants and
. ' PUr) ' ' : he mluc’h better sati®_
Wl ' h tax after August 1".
iiio h« does not expect either the
r vit:, cr thp public ever to become
with the eale® tax,
. are n °t ns much opposed;
yi . tbanv had expected. Commls-
, 'Maxwell said. The merchants
I ’ f’nd.’ng out. that they are go-
’ ob c able to pass it along to the
' ’ more easily han they had
I tbi'it thev "re collecting
, ’ 11 Fhitdoin of the tax. Most
' Merchant® are trying their beet
“'t f'rvc the law and make it work
1 little friction a® possible, Mr.
sr.id. ", , )^ tl
Hendersom
Declines Big Job
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J. MONROE JOHNSON
Columbia, S. C., July 29.—(AP)
Colonel J. Monroe Johnson, of Marion
has declined his appointment as south
eastern regional advisor to the public
works administration, he informed the
South Carolina advisory committee to
day by letter.
The State committee, meeting to or
ganize and begin its work at once,
dispatched a telegram to Colonel John
son urging him to reconsider and ac
cept the position.
BUSTINESmSE
LOWER RAIL FARES
Protest 1 1-2 Cents 'Per
Mile Rates on Southern
Beginning August 1
THEY PRESENT APPEAL
Carry Fight To Interstate Commerce
Commission and Recovery Ad
ministration in The Na
tional Capital
Washington. July 29. —(AP) — Bus
lines serving th|3 territory through
which the Southern Railway system
operates today protested to the In
terstate Commerce Coramiss i o n
against permitting the Southern to
reduce passenger fares on August 1.
The appeal cited berms of the re
covery act prohibiting unfair com
petition between industries, as well as
within industries.
An appeal also .was filed with the
Recovery Administration.
The Southern on August 1 will ap
ply a rate of one and one-half cents
per mile for passenger fares through
out most of its territory.
BOTH LEGS CUT OFF,
RAILROAD MAN DIES
Roanoke Rapids July 29 (AP)—
Vassar Seaboanre, 55, Southern
Railroad conductor, died in a hos.
pital here after both his legs had
been cut toss when h e fell under his
train near Emporia yesterday.
WEATHER
FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
Generally fair tonight and Sun
day.
Italian Annada Delayed
Indefinitely By Weather
(By the Associated Press.)
The 1,800-mile flight of 24 seaplanes
from Shoal Harbor, Newfoundland to
Va’entia, Irish Free State, has been
indefinitely postponed because of un
favorable weather.
Every thing was readly, however,
for the departure of the armada on
the longest hop of the return journey
to Italy from the United States.
Provisional arrangements were
made for using Bantry Bay. in south
ern Ireland, as an alternative land
ing place for the Italians because fog
is frequent over Valentia.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS
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OP the ASBOCIATBD PRBB ,' HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOO N, JULY 2&, 1933
TWO OFFICIALSOF
TAYLORSVILLE BANK
SHOT BY 2 BANDITS
T. G. Barnes, Cashier, And
Solon Little, Assistant
Cashier, In Serious
Condition
ESCAPE APPARENTLY
WITHOUT ANY LOOT
Lone Customer in Bank At
Time Unable To Tell Muqh
About What Happened;
Both the Wounded Offi
cials Are Rushed to States,
ville Hospital
Taylorsville, uly 29.—(API—Two of
ficials of the Merchants and Farmers
Bank hefe were shot and seriously
wounded today by two bandits who
fled immediately after the shooting,
apparently without looting the in
stitution.
T. G. Barnes, cashier of the bank,
was shot four times in the chest.
Solon Little, assistant cashier, was
wounded in the abdomen. Both men
were taken to a Statesville hospital.
The bandits entered the bank just
after it opened, began shooting and
fled.
A check was begun immediately to
ascertain if any funds had been taken,
but Charles E. Eckered, former of
ficial of the bank, who was called in
to take charge, said it was doubtful if
any money had been stolen.
Rowland Chapman ,a customer, was
the only other man in the bank at
the time.
He said events occurred so swiftly
he hardly knew what happened.
“The first thing I saw,” he said,
“was one of the robbers standing in
front of the bookkeeper’s window
with a pistol stuck through the grill
work. The next thing I knew the man
started shooting.
“I made an effort to leave the bank,
and as I did a second man came in
(Continued on Page Six)
Ask Raise
In Peanut
Industry
Suffolk, Va., July 29.—(AP) —A.
Obici, president of the Planters Nut
and Chicolate Company, today called
on others in the peanut industry to
join him in putting in a minimum
wage scale ranging from 15 to 20 cents
an hour for women and 25 to 30 centg
for men.
At the same time he said that the
proposed code which would fix the
wages on a 40-hour week basis at 12
1-2 cents an hour for women and
20 cents for men was “ridiculous,”
asserting that “it is entirely too low
to comply with the request of Presi
dent Roosevelt and is not in keeping
with the spirit of the whole NR A
movement.”
Inviting other companies to join the
Planters, which is the largest of its
kind in the world, in augurating the
higher wage rates next Monday, Mr.
Obici said:
“The quickest the wage boost is ap
plied, the greater good it will accom
plish. The President of the United
States doesn’t want resolutions.. He
wants action.”
The Virginia-Carolina Peanut Asso
ciation, organized here under the
NRA, with a membership of 15 clean
ing and shelling firms in the States
of Virginia and North Carolina, is
scheduled to meet Monday afternoon
to put into effect the code containing
the new rates.
Jimmy Mattern left Winnipeg today
with Pilot Pat Reid en route to New
York on his interrupted world solo
flight.
Colonel Lindbergh, who with Mrs.
Lindbergh has been mapping areial
routes, was said to be considering a
flight to Norway.
The master of the supply ship .Tell
ings /at Godthjaad, Greenland, tele
grapihed Governor Jensen of Green
land that Colonel Lindbergh intend
ed soon to fly from Todthaab to
Baffin Land, a large island west of
/Greenland. , .. ..
tßatlu 11 i snatch
Sentenced to Death I
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Walter H. McGee
Death on the gallows is the sen
tence of Walter H. McGee,
charged with kidnaping 25-year
old Mary McElroy, daughter of
City Manager H. F. McElroy of
Kansas City. McGee, an cx-con'
vict. offered Au defense.
ROOSEVELTW
OLD HOME FRIENDS
AT HYDE MRK, N. Y.
It’s “Hello Sam,” and “How
! Are You, Ed?” as He
Alights From Spe
. ’ cial Train
MOTHER MEETS HIM
AT SPECIAL TRAIN
Brushes Aside All Business
For Week-End Rest, But
Can’t Get National Recov
ery Program off His Mind;
Moffett Resignation In
terests Him
Hyde Park, N. Y., July 29.—(AP) —
Franklin D. Roosevelt came home to
day for the first time as President of
the United States.
.A broad smile spread as Mr. Roose
velt walked from his special train a
amidst a crowd of old friends and
neighbors. His greeting with his
mpther g.t the stgitioi) was drowned out
by the cheers of the gathering. '
“Hello, Sam,” and “How are you,
Ed?” were heard from the President
as t)e shook hands all around before
departing by automobile from the de-
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Henry .'Ford, motor magnate, wtll be
70 years old tomorrow. Mirs. Henry
Ford, who recently celebrated her 45th
annCvsTsary, is one of the
<niy two other shareholders that her
husband has m h ; ® va'st motor enter.
)prises, the other being their son, Ed-
Bel, theiir cinly child, now 40,
SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
IHREEVANCEBORO
BANDITS CAPTURED
AFIER LONG HUNT
Turn Out To Be Trio Who
Escaped Prison Camp
Near Rocky Mount
Several Weeks Ago
ROBBED
MAN AND HIS WIFE
Slugged Oscar Paramore
and His Wife at Their Fill
ing Station Near Vance
boro Thursday Night and
Escaped With SIOO From
. The Couple ♦
Vanceboro, July 29.—(AP)— Three
escaped convicts who officers believe
robbed Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Paramore'
of SIOO and then slugged them with
their pistol butts at their store-filling
station near here Thursday night were
captured early today at a Negro cabin
a mile from the Paramore place.
The fugitives were Clifton Thomas,
of Washington county; Lee Traylor,
of Chowan county, and Whitley Jones,
of Kinston. All three escaped from
a Rocky Mount prison camp several
weeks ago. Although armed with pis
tols and sawed-off shot guns, they
made no resistance.
The capture was made by three
Rocky Mount officers and two Vance
boro possemen, who, with 100 others,
had been searching for the robbeds
since the Paramore hold-up. The men
were brught here and later taken to
'he Paramore home for identification.
Later the ywere to be taken to Rocky
Mount and possibly Battleboro, where
barrdTts robbed a' bank several‘days
ago.
Postmen received a tip that the
men were at a Negro cabin. Arriving
there, they surrounded the house and
found Thomas on guard and Traylor
and Jones asleep.
Major Ellison, the Negro at whose
home the men wsre found, said the
trio arrived there about 3 a. m. today
and demanded a place to sleep and
breakfast. Ellison’s wife was cooking
their breakfast when the possemen
arrived.
FORT OF STOLEN MONEY IS
RECOVERED FROM BANDITS
Rocky Mouniti. July 29 (AP(—Three
bandiit s arrested near Vancebo'ro in
.connection with the hold-up of Mr.
and Mrs. Oscar Paramore at their
(filling sta'tion.store, weire brought to
Rocky Mourft today.’ The men es
caped. from a prison camp near here
several weeks ago.
The officers recovered S6O, S2O of it
in gold, from the men. and the 1 mbtney
was identified as 'part of the SIOO that
was stolen from the Paramoies. A
sawed off shotgun, an automhVc shot
igu<ni and a revolver werte also taken.
The men are to be taken to Batttfeboro
for possible l identification in connec
tion with a bank robbery there.
SEVEN ARE HELD IN
NARCOTIC CHARGES
Chicago, July 29.—(AP) —Seven men
were under arrest at the Federal
building today on a charge of being
members of a narcotic ring and of
“doping” horses at the fashionable
Arlington park race track.
All seven were seized at the track
yesterday after a month's quiet in
vestigation.
FARM CREDIT BANKS
LENO $200,000,000
Raleigh Office Has Ad
vanced $2,799,000 to 3,-
891 Farmers so Far
Washington, Juiy 29.—(AP)—More
than $200,000,000 in loans to help the
farmers have been dispersed or ap
proved by regional agricultural credit
corporations with offices in 34 cities.
The farm credit administration un
der which they are administered, re
ported today that at the close of bus
iness on July 21, the last compilation
made, the corporation had disbursed
$169,245,000 in loans to 132.803 farmers;
that $43,239,000 more for 24.051 far
mers had been approved but not dis
bursed and that applications from 8,-
219 for $20,342,000 were pending.
North Carolina reported loans of
$2,799,000 to 3,891 farmers.
PUBLIBHHID HVBRY AFTBBROOM
BXCBPT SUNDAY,
Time Os Workers
Cut To 40 Hours
Starting Tuesday
Heads Code Here
R. G. S. DAVIS
SIORMIO SIRIKE
FLORIDA TOMORROW
To Reach Southeast Coast
In General Vicinity of
West Palm Beach
COVERS A SMALL AREA
Intensity. Comparatively Speaking, Is
Not Alarming, Weather Bureau
Says In Washington
On Its Reports
Washington, July 29. (AP) —Char-
les L. Mitchell, Weather Bureau fore
caster said today that present indica
tions were that a tropical disturbance
now near Great Abaco island would
reach the southeastern coast of Flor
ida in the general vicinity of West
Palm Beach tomorrow morning.
Great Abaco island is about 200
miles from the Florida coast, south
east of the Wfr'st Palin Beach vicinity.
Mitchell said the disturbance was
traveling northwestward at the rate
of about ten miles an hour, although
this speed might change during the
day.
He added that reports were that the
storm covered a very small area, and
its intensity, comparatively speaking,
was no’ alarming.
EUGENICSBOARD
IN STAIE FORMED
>
Will Regulate Sterilization
of Morons Where It Is
Decided on
Daily Dlßpateh Bnr*ai,
Jn the Sir Walter Hotel.
ttV .1 r. W ASK KU VI 1,1,.
Rileigh, July 29. —The new State
Eugenics Board, created, by the 1933
General Assembly to carry out the
new and far-reaching sterilization law
which it passed has just been organ
ized and met here this week to make
its plans for administering the new
law. This new law supercedes the old
‘State sterilization law, is modelled
(Ca* tinned on Page Five.)
Institute Convention At
Raleigh Comes To Close
Raleigh, July 29.—(AP)—Discus
sions held during this week's session
of the American Institute of Coop
eration at N. C. State College here,
have revealed that “new deal legis
lation has relieved, the cooperative
movement from direct responsibility
of attempting to control production,”
Charles W. Holman, executive secre
tary of the Institute, said today.
Reviewing the week’s work, Holman
pointed out that one of the first steps
in the “new deal” under President
Roosevelt was a survey which showed
more than 11,000 cooperative institu
tions among farmers still to be on the
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cMass Meeting at Court
House Falls Into Line on
Schedule of Operat.
ing Stores
HOURS OF BUSINESS
TO BE 55 PER WEEK
Stores Open at 8:30 a. m.,
and Close 5 p. m. Except
Saturdays at 9 p. m. Means
Extra Help Will Have To
Be Employed Under The
Blanket Code
Merchant’s of Henderson, at a mass
meeting held in the court nouse Fri
day night, unanimously adopted the
Roosevelt blanket code for national
rerovery, and agreed upon houis fo*
operating their places of business. The
i ex syste n gees into effect herfe next.
Tuesday, August 1, and will be obser
ved at least through the month of
August, or until codes are adopted for
specific industries.
It was agreed that no employee
would be worked more than 40 hours
per week, and that the stores would
observe a 55-hour week in their es
tablishments. The opening hour is
8:30 a. m. each day, and the closing
hour is 5 p. m. each day except Sat- .
urday, when the time is 9 p. m. The
arrangement of hours for each indi
vidual employee is a matter left with
the owners of the stores, but in no
case may the sanqe individual be work
ed longer than 40 hours per week, and
salaries are not to be cut to that pro
portionate figure, hut remain at the
same levpls a® before.
Several schedules for operating
hours were discussed, some con
templating a 9 a. m. opening, and
with a closing at 5 or 5:30 p. m. ex
cept on Saturdays and on Saturdays
at 7:30 p. m. These were rejected,
however, in favor of the scheme
adopted.
Most of the employing merchants
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Governor Is
Blamed For
Salary Cut
He and Dunlap Crit
icized for What Leg
islature Did For
State Employees
Daily OispatcM Barenw,
In ike Mir Wnlter
f»V J C WKEnviH
Raleigh, July 29.—Many State em
ployees are already blaming Gover
nor J. C. B. Ehringhaus and Assis
tant Budget Director Frank Dunlap
for the reduction in their salaries ef
fective with their July pay checks,
despite the fact that the 38 per cent
cut in pay was authorized by ths 1933
General Assembly, with the result that
the governor and assistant budget di
rector have no authority to do any
thing except enforce the law as pass
ed by the legislature.
Yet many State employes have be
come intensely bitter since they have
received their July pay checks and
I are “cussing out” Governor Ehring
i --
t
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job and doing business.
The cooperatives "showed every sign
of being alive and giving service of
the character that their members de
sire,” Holman continued. “From these
facts we see that cooperatives are not
simply exploiting agencies run by
grafting and selfish leaders, as is
sometimes thought.”
Dr. Carl C. Taylor, Raleigh socio
logist; Dr. Clarence Poe, of Raleigh,
editor of the Proggamive Farmer and
Southern Ruralist, and Holman spoke
on th? program summarizing the work
of,,the institute, which, closed yester
day.