Henderson daily dispatch., January 19, 1934, Image 1

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HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
Mm
Roosevelt’s Representative
In Cuba To Confer
With Secretary
of State
MENDIETA ATTEMPTS
TO RESTORE ORDER
Following Day and Night of
Riotous Celebration, He
Calls Out Soldiers, Cars
Being Searched for Arms
As Touring Bands Fire on
ABC Cars
llivai)!i, Jan. ID. (Al’) Jefferson
C:i.ff<vy. President Roosevelt's repro
• jntative in Cuba, boarded a United
States destroyer at 10:20 a. m. today
to meet Secretary of State Cordell
Mull, now at sea, on the U. S.
C u r Richmond
Caffe y intends to confer with the
lici'l if the Stale Department and
then ir’um to Havana tonight.
Cailo* Mendieta gave proof today
tl-it he is determined lo restore pea?
rni I order in the strife weary island.
Afire a day and night of riotou 1
< ;l< In at ion of his inauguration as
pie kind succeeding young Carlo
Ifevia. Mendieta called out soldiers to
make a general search of all auto
mobile i for arms.
The principal reason for this search
move, the Associated Press learned,
wa.: that touring hands of opposi
tionists were reported filing upon
< v:' occupied by meni(';.crs of /he
AI ;< * loiilieul society which led the
r y wide celebration over Mendieta’s
inaug illation.
The most imminent threat to Mon
de! as token for success and restor
in'.' peace were strikes alleged raas-
Imd by former Miiusrer of War An
tonio Gulteras.
BOWIE'S PROGRAM
NO! VERY POPULAR
Home County Citizens
Doubt If He Will Go To
1935 Assembly
MANY TAX TROUBLES
Tax Hill* rut Through By Boxvie Are
Proving Boomerangs And
Malting Him Unpopu
lar In Ashe
llnil) IJlN|intfh mjreiiu.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
IIY J. C. BASKERVILL.
I’a 1 ' gh. Jan. It;. Thomas Coatee
Mow;? <jf Ashe county, better known
"Tern" and who was the leader of
the "Ke'uiomy at any price” bat
talion in the 1933 general assembly,
who wanted an appropriation of only
$lO 000,000 for a four months school
• erni and favored cutting salaries of
01 f>t..'ilofficials and employe's some
it pet rent is not getting along so
well in his home county, according to
'•polls heard here recently. So much
in fact, that some of the citizens
of Ashe aie beginning to doubt if
Tam will be renominated and re-elect
' I to Mii‘ 1933 general assembly, dca-
I'ile the fact that. Tam is not only
planning on returning here as a mem
br.i of the 193. r ) house, but on running
for governor in 1936.
The trouble seems to center, bow
' v- cr, about Tain’s efforts to relieve
A h<> county taxpayers from paying
tFor while Tam evidently tho
ught h*' was helping the county at the
• me, some of the bills he got thro
ugh new seem to foe proving boom
'-'angs and to be making him imcrcas
'"gly unpopular instead of adding to
'"•s popularity.
Due of the notable bills he manag
",l *o get enacted Is what is now
f-’hapter 60 of the Public Local Laws
°f 1933, prohibiting Ashe county oi
!1, ".V ciiv or (own in it from issuing
:, "y bonds for any purpose, either
willi or without a. vote of the people,
except to refund bonds already is
’•ed. Another one of his notable bills
w,f| a that in which the county com
l,|! loners ore “empowered and di
o»«*d to levy a tax, which in their
j'J'lgnietit, thr. people of Ashe comity
aide to pay” without any regard
net ds, debt service or anything
“1 e. This is in Chapter 396, Public
Local of 1933.
The result of these two laws is that
’ be county, which was in default be
f'.tc these laws were [tossed, is deep
;' in default than ever, that it hence
unable to borrow any money or
1 • u»- any bonds and that the tax rate
''' ied has been inadequate for the
1-11 - of the county. For in addition
t,) dl *his, the county commissioners
'•dueed pi operty valuation® 63 per
1 d this year as compared with last
Ah of this was perfectly "hotsy
''' 1 V* with th'» taxpayers in the coun-
1 ' ipparently, unti? she Federal gov
, | " 1 "" >• came rlor/g with the Public
’ '•‘■s Administration and still more
tCuuUuued on page Three.)
Mztwvt&mx Bmlu Wx&mtth
LEASED WIRE SERVICE OR’
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
CHARACTERS IN MURDER DRAMA
mJ ■B||c
Relaxing from the strain «> I ! lie
I rial of his mother. Dr. Alice
Wynekoop, for the murder of her
daughter-in-law, Rhctu Gardner
Wynekoop, in Chicago, Wallnu
Wynekoop is photographed in an
anteroom of the courtroom, read
BLOOD STAINS ARE
AUTOMOBILE TODAY
sUiiu» Inspire Fear For Safe=
ty of 70-Y car Old Man
Kidnaped Last
Wednesday
BANK HEAD HELD
FOR $200,000 RAMSOM
Was Going To Office After
Taking Daughter to School
Wednesday Morning When
He Was Kidnaped; Per
sonal Friend of Presi
dent Roosevelt
St. Paul, Jan. 10.—, (AP) Blood
stains on both front and rear seats of
Edward G. Bremer's automobile to
day inspired fear lor the safety of
the seventy-year-old bank president
hc|!d for $200,000 ransom by kid
napers who have threatened him with
death.
Blotches of blood near the front
peat of tiie Bremer sedan when if
was found in an outlying residential
district shortly after 10 a. m. Wed
nesday, it was reported today.
Indication's were the kidnaped
owner and head of the Commercial
'State Bank, who is a personal frieno
of President Roosevelt, was brutally
slugged over the head when he re
sisted his captor when they invaded
his car.
Then presumably, sources close lo
the family said, the unconscious man,
who at 8:10 a. m. Wednesday who
bad left his daughter, Betty, 8, at
;lhe exclusive Summit! grade school
and started for his office, was dash
ed into the back seat, which also, was
blood stained.
m otqSnes
Says Fact Cannot Be Chang
ed ,By Denunciation;
Johnson Replies
Washington, Jan. 19 (AP) —'Reply-
ing to the criticism aimed at him by
Hugh S. Johnson, N. R. A. adminis
trator, Senator Borah. Republican,
Idaho, said in a statement otday “no
amount of denunciation can change
the fact that trusts and combines and
monopolies are fixing prices in this
epuntry for the American People.”
Johnson, last night in New York,
assailed Borah and N.ve, Republican
North Dakota, for finding fault with
NRA on the grounds that its was not
helping the little business man and
said that “rather than accept a place
oji a board to workout such prob
lems —the Senators preferred sit out
side and conjecture evil."
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA ANn vt^tnta
ing a newspaper. Inset, Mr*
Robert H. Duncan, next door
neighbor of the Wynekoop faniily,
who was the last person to see
i Rlieta alive, shown on the wit
j ness stand testifying for the pros
! eculion.
SaSeak
Bob Brady and Jim Clark In
Group; Lock Guard In
Cell Block
Lansing. Kansas, Jan 19 (AP)—
Seven convicts scaled the walls of
the Kansas State Prison here about
seven a‘ nT today amid a. fusiladc oT
shots. Two of those who fled were
Bob Brady and Jim Clark, who wore
recaptured and returned to prison
after escaping with nine others last
Memorial Day.
Prison officials believed some of the
convicts were wounded. No guards
were. hurt.
The convicts were believed to have
scattered into the timber surrounding
Die prisons and are not believed to
be armed.
In their escape they used as a rope
a long piece of hose which they were
using in their work.
All available prison guards were
sent in search.
Also aiding in their escape was
hastily const i not ed ladders made of
scrap timbei.
. The convicts over powered their
guard, Clyde Deer, took his keys and
locked him in Cell house No. 2 un
burt.
FIVE BIDDERS for
1934 N. C. STATE FAIR
Raleigh, Jan. 19. -(AP) -The State
Board of Agriculture today received
live ids from private interests seek
ing to operate the 1934 North Caro
lina State Fair.
FIDAMAGEHttVY
Losses During Month In
Control Counties Placed
at $150,520
Dally Dispatch Ilurean,
In the Sir Waller Hotel.
nV J. C. IIASKEIIVILL.
Raleigh. Jan. 19.—The old year of
1933 went out i/ti North Carolina to
the tune of crackling flames in the
woodlands, judging from the monthly
forest fire reports for cooperating
counties during the month of Decem
ber.
Losses from forest fires in Decem
ber, according to the report issued
by the division of forestry of the De
partment of Conservation and De
velopment. amounted lo $150,520 in the
counties organized for the control ot
forest fire, the heaviest for any month
■during the last two years.
Although the number of fires oc
cuiing in cooperating counties was
smaller than for the previous month,
the destruction was almost three times
as great as the total damages of $56,-
156 for November. An accumulated
■deficiency of some 15 inches of rain
fall for. the year, foresters pointed
out, added to the difficulty of con
trolling the llames iby leaving the
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HENDERSON, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 19, 19!F
Sift DRIVE
TO WAHL
Captain Farmer Orders Pat
rolmen to Arrest Drivers
Responsible For
Accidents
NO MORE ROADSIDE
“COURTS” TO BE HELD
Guilty Are To Be
Arrested and Carried Intc
Courts Wherfc Penalty Will
Be Imposed Upon Them
l)lt>H:>|i>k It fir «*:•♦«.
In »*• XV'.IOr Hotel.
in ,r. r. UM«Ki:it yii.l.
[t-i'eigh. Jar-, life - Orders for the
-H'-'e- enforcement cf all the nr»c*o»
vehie’e law's by the State Highway
T, r l ”ol v.’Mh instructions to patrolmen
‘o arrest the drivers of all automo
biles involved in -HJcVlents whereve*
'*»« are were is
sued to all lieutenMit and patrolmen
•‘oclay by Captain Charles D. Farmer
commander of the patrol, in accord
once w'th instructions from Gcvemo;
J. C. B. Ehringhans.
The cider further directs tha‘ when
ever patrolmen arqf unable to deter
mine which driver » to blame in eon
ncci'cn with an accident hi wliieh
mope than one driver is involved, that
kc'h drivers be arifpsiled, so that the
courts may decide which driver war
rc ponsiible. The paragraph of the or
••]cr dealing wulh this particular mat
ter is as follows:
“In the future, theme will be ik
re-advJdc settlements of any accident
no mai'tar how small and if the guilt)
parttes can be determined, they shal
I'je arrested and the courts decide
what, penalty shall be given them II
the guilt camniot be placed upon anx
one individual or be deeidicd by the
investigating officer, both operator;
of both vehicles shall be arrested ant
the courts be permitted to decide a:
■to which was guilty of any viol ait ion.’
These new order# were issued wit!
the lull appiwal of Commission?!' o
Revenue A J MaxJw<rll and tbi'diito'
L. B. Harris of the motor vehicle bu
lean. It. has been known for rum?
time that several new steps have beet
under consideration for stricter en
forcemeat of the motor vehicle an?
highway laws. But it was not knowi
until today that, this order wouk
make it. mandatory for patrolmen tx
arrest virtually all drivers involved h
automobile accidents, even if the ac
cidcmts arc not. serious. Only thosK
drivers who can establish he fact tha‘
they an e in- no way to blame for ac
cidcifs in which they are involve*
can hope to escape arrest.
“Not having a state drivers 1 icons'
law, It has been necessary to devise
;:oine other method to d)eal with
motorists that insist upon driving
(Continued from Page Two.)
Governor Thinks
Auto Accidents
Can Be Reduced
D»ll> Uistnfeli Bnrruii,
In the Sir Walter Hutel.
IIV .1. C. IIASKEIIVILL.
Raleigh, Jail. 19.—“ The only com
ment 1 have to make on the heavy
toll of those killed and injured in
automobile accidents in North
Carolina, as reflected in the Decern
ber report showing 103 killed and
463 injured in 357 accidents, with a
total of 853 killed for the year
1933, is the order just issued to the
State Highway Patrol by Captain
Charles D. Farmer,” Governor J.
C. B. JEhringhaus said today. ‘As
all thoughtful persons can see, the
automobile accident toll in the
State is too large and must be re
duced.
“I realize, of eoufse, that the
Highway Patrol will not be able to
do much without the whole-heart
ed cooperation of the individual au
tomobile driver in the State and
of all the other law enforcement
officers, over whom I have ab
solutely no control.
“However, I am confident that
the great majority of the more
than 406 000 automobile owners
and drivers in the State, as well
as the police officers In the va
rious cities and towns are anxious
to cooperate with me and with the
Highway Patrol in the effort we
are going to make to reduce the
number of automobile accidents in
the State. I believe they are go
ing to work with us to banish the
drunken driver, the reekless driver,
the hit-and-run driver and the
thoughtless and careful driver
from the roads of the State and
make the highways of North Caro
lina as safe as any in the United
States.”
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Cloudy tonight and Saturday
probably rain Saturday and .in
west and central portion tonight.
Somewhat colder Saturday* and
t)»i the coast tonight.
Forays May Come Against
Administration’s Policies On
Monetary, NRA And Vetrans
SABY RECOVERS AFTER DEATH RACE
Recovered from a delicate brain .
operation, for which she was i
Hown from Texas to Baltimore iri :
a race with death during a bliz- |
sard, by James R. Wedell, well- j
known raving oilot. five-month-old j
1
Ice Cliff Topples In Bay of
Whales As Flagship
Sails Nearby
LVtle America, Jan. J.O---(AP)'—(Via
Atackay Radio) AdmiTal Richard E.
Byrd a Anartic expedition narrowly
■escaped destruction today when a
huge ice cliff toppled into the Bay
■e.f Whaley. The flagship, hearing
most of the members of the expedi
tion, was moving slowly through the
Bay of Whales, seeking a permanent
mooring place from which supplies
could be transferred to the perma
nent. camp at Little America.
Admiral Byrd, himself, was on the
bridge. The ship was moving at
‘‘slow 'speed" about 200 yards off the
barrier. •
Hancock In Favor
Guaranteeing Os
Home Loan Bonds
Washington, Jan. 19. —(AP)—Repre-
sentative Frank Hancock, Demo
lorat, North Carolina, a member of
the House Banking and Currency
committee, gave his support today to
President Roosevelt’s recommenda
tion that the government guarantee
the principal of bonds issued by the
Home Owners Loan Corporation. I
Revival In Building Os
Homes Held To Be Vital
Building Costs Still Low, But Tax Burden Is Stifling
Construction Industry, Babson Declares; Says Spend
ing Program Not Cure for All Evils
BY ROGER W. BABSON,
Copyright 1934, Publishers
Financial Bureau.
Babson Park, Fla, Jan. 19.—Build
ing is one of the most important of
all industries, both in the United
States and Canada, It is a fundamen
tal industry—one of the so-called
“capital goods” group. We can have
no real prosperity without prosperity
in private building. Therefore, statis
ticians eagerly watch for an improve
ment ir. building figures which would
indicate that business as a whole i®
again approaching normal. In order
to hasten the general recovery, I sug
gest that the Administration stimulate
private (building, especially of the
small home type.
How Important Is Building?
In 1928, the building industry ac
counted for $6 (628,300,000 worth of
business, and in 1929 for $5,750,800,000.
Os this amount, 42 per cent went for
building homes in 1928, and 34 per
cent in 1929. From a two billion dol
lar industry in the “boom,” home
building dropped to $360,000,000 in
1932. From a monthly average of
.$159,600,000 ia 1929, residentail build-
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Sue Trammell is photographed
being carried from a Baltimore
hospital in the arms of her nurse,
Anne Swinson, while her happy
mother, Mrs. W. D. Trammell,
walks alongside.
FOUR U. S. CIIIZENS
JAILED IN SPAIN
Sentenced to Six Months and
a Day for Assaulting
Civil Guard
ONE IS ACQUITTED
Five Were Arrested Last Year After
Altercation With Guard In
Hotel at Palma,
Mallorca
Madrid, Jan. 9 (AP)—Four United
States Citizens were sent enced to
six months and a day imprisonment
for assaulting a civil guard last year
at Palma, Mallorca.
At the same time, the court ac
quitted the fifth American concerned
in the incident.
All five of the Americans were ar
rested last year following an alterca
tion in a hotel with a civil guard.
Under the 'Spanish law, the matter
was rendered serious and was the
subject of a court martial.
The military court, however, ac
quitted them of guilt after they had
been in jail six wekes while the U.
S. Government sought their release.
The verdict was later refused by
military auditor Morales, who placed
the case in the jurisdiction of the su
preme court of the republic.
ing values shrunk to a low of sll,-
■805,000 in March of 1933. These fig
ures represent the value of finihed
homes only. They do not include the
value of allied Industrie's or the great
army of workers wtio make their
livelihood therein
Rece> tly there lias been a consid
erable improvement in building con
tracts awarded. This revival, however,
ha® been principally due to govern-
Iment stimulation in diviions which
really need no stimulation in division®
which really need no stimulation.
Residential construction still lan
guishes. The fact that home building
today amounts to only 16 per cent of
it 9 1929 value, while industrial active
ly as a whole measures 57 per cent
of its 1929 figure, makes an unfavor
able contrast. I feel strongly that the
■government could do far more for
(business and employment today by
lencouragihg the building of homes
than by appropriating vast sums for
many projects which are not now nec
essary.
What is holding back improvement
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6 PAGES
TODAY
five cents copy
Will Pass Dollar Devalua
tion Bill; Glass Give*
Memorandum to
Senate
willingnesslfor
COMPROMISE SHOWN
Discover Democratic Power
for Edification of Presi
dent; To Approve District
of Columbia Liquor Bill;
Consider Interior Depar
ment Bill
Washington, Jan. ID.—(AP)—Por
in's of forays to come against the
administration's monetary, NRA, and
veterans’ policies provided a subter
-1 anean stir today in Congress, Where,
-fr'-Mirately, all was placid enough.
The house agreed to meet at 11 a.
m. tomorrow, an hour earlier than
usual, to pass the dollar devaluation
Ibill. Senator Glass, Democrat, Vir
gin ia, in a memorandum given the
Senate, which doubtless will be ela/-
iharaited when the measure reaches
the floor next week, showed he
1 hought little of Attorney General
Cumming's opinion that the govern
ment could take over all monetary
gold.
Discovering Democratic strength foa?
edification of the Roosevelt court on
Veteran Compensation and Federal
pay cuts, the administration leader
ship began to show a willingness to
compromise. House committee hear
ing will be conducted next week o:.
the numerous bills for tempering th«>
economy act.
Further objections to legislation for
diasimation of birth control in forma
tion mainly by Roman Catholics held
a number of representatives in hear
ing before they returned to consider
ation of the interior department bill
on the floor. One of their first act.;
cm getting back into session, was to
approve the revised bill for District
of Columbia liquor regulations which
new goes to the President for sign
ing into law if the Senate quickly fol
low;; the house example.
Mrs. O’Berry And Capus
Way nick Study Plans
For Remedying
Conditions
BE ANNOUNCED SOON
CWA and NRS Jointly Involved In
Civil Works Program, To Do
Away With ‘‘Buck Pass
ing” in Two Services
Dully Dispatch llurena.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BV J. C. IIASHKItVIIiIj.
Raleigh, Jan. 19. —Plans for hand*
ling complaints concerning the opera
tion a of the Civil Works Adminls
jtration and of the National Reem
ployment Service and for remedying
conditions where the complaints are
found to be justified, are now being
studied by Mrs. Thomas O’Bexry,
■state CWA administrator and Capuis
M. Waynick, State director of the
NRS and an announcement of a de
finite program is expected very soon.
Mrs. O’Berry is expected to confer
rwilih Mr. Waynick as soon as she re
turns from Washington today and the
final plans are expected to be com
pleted within the next day or two.
Since botn the CWA and NRS ap#
jointly involved in carrying out the
Civil Works Program, with the CWA
supplying the money and approving
the projects and the National Reem
ployment Service supplying the labor,
both Mrs. O’Berry and Mr Waynick
have already agreed that the plan for
‘handling complaints must tbe oqo
which will both fix responsibility and
remedy the situation complained of
and do these with a maximum of
promptness and speed. . Both agree
that so far there has been entirely tOo
much “buck passing” between the lo
cal CWA and NRS officials. Th#y
also agree that most of the complaint#
should be handed locally, if
and only the more important com
plaints sent here for settlement.
It is understood that the plan Uft
(Continued on Pa&e Three.)