Henderson daily dispatch., February 05, 1934, Image 1

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IIKNDERSON
gateway to
CENTRAL
CAROLINA ,
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■IWENTY-FIRST YEAR
Paris Virtual Armed Camp
Xs Soldiers Guard Capital
In Fear Os Further Riots
FOUR GROUPS PLAN
DEMONSTRATION AS
PARLIAMENT OPENS
Defections by Police Feared
As Result of Ousting of
Paris Chief of
Police
NEGRO CAVALRYMEN
FROM AFRICA USED
Police Head Given Loud
Cheers as He Leaves After
Being Fired by New Pre
mier; Royalists, War Vet
erans and Young Patriots
Are Involved
I’.ni-. Fob. 5. lAP) Fear of more
:i■: ,i ii • rioting brought heavy rein
ii ■< < s of soldiers into Paris to
day.
l-'i.ii! separate demonstrations sche
il i< I against the new cabinet of
I’icinier Edouard Daiadier aroused
.i j>: t Pension that the police would be
<r ei'.axed when the ministry is pre
ted to Parliament tomorrow.
Jlivu’.isis and organizations of war
<'ii;ins and the young patriots all
■ i planning manifestations simul
: , >u-'y with the re-convening of
i ai>■ imerit.
Authorities, fearing police defec-
- ;i . a result of M. Daladier’s
i n fiiiu of .1' .••,!! Chiap|>e as Paris po
ll '■ head, began filling Paris gat
i .oi;s with provincial troops.
Among the soldiers drawn in the
pi•<;iutionary move was a company
of North African cavalry called
Stnii s. Many of the cavalrymen are
Negroes.
M. Chiappe's popularity was demon
-ti lted when a huge throng cheered
him as he finally quit the prefecture
at noon today, giving way to the pre
mie''. appointee. Bonncfoy Sibour.
Subordinates massed in the Grano
Salons of the prefecture and receivecr
' i<!i in turn a kiss on the cheek
firm the deposed prefect.
In broken voice, he said goodbye
i d l< fl hurriedly with his wit»
Un"iie.h ranks of enthusiasts whose
• i’ ;, ing bouts followed the depart
ing car.
League Aid
Now Sought
Ry Austria
Dollfuss Regime
Asks Help Against
Aggression by Ger
man Elements
Vienna, Feb. 5 <AP)—Austria ap~
l"a|ed today to the. League of Na
*mm to protect her against aggres
mn from German elements.
I'he Austrian cabinet, after a leng
thy discussion of the Austro-German
it'mtion, unanimously decided to em-
I'ow t Chancellor Englebert Dollffuss
1,1 aibmlt Its dispute with Germany
diiicfly to the League of Nations at
' >"nev;i.
An Zissociat.ed Press dispatch from
‘l'neva January 23, said; "If Dollfuss
!| PP'als to the League of Nations
''gainst Germany under the first par
!| graph of article XII of the League,
•"id if any member complains, a count
'di meeting shall be immediately
summoned th® secretary general,
A. c. Avenol, must convoke the
‘'"iineil of an extraordinary session."
Earlier in the day Prince Ernst
v, m Starhenberg, a member of the
""imviratf! governing Austria, de-
l "‘ | Chancellor Engelbert Dollfull to
,|;'V and established fascist govern
""'"l in the Tyrol.
He replaced the elected provisional
-'■ver innent. with a commission of
ii'imwehr soldiers, present League
"'•iciais and (Catholic |rtorm |troop
' ‘ders, and told the chancelor that
heimwehr (home guard), which
heads, would support Dollfuss’ an
-11 Naxi campaign only if Dollfuss
''H'ndoned political party rule.
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Navy Bill Means More of These
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With the passage of the Vinson navy building bill through the House.
Uncle Sam’s sea and air forces will be brought up to full treaty strength
by 1939. Included in the 102 new ships provided for in the bill are thirty
submarines of the V 5 type (top), six cruisers of the Indianapolis type
(circle), and a plane carrier like the Saratoga (below), as well as 1,184
fighting airplanes. fCentral Press)
MRS. O'BERRY GETS
HOPKINS' SUPPORT
Attacks on CWA Adminis
trator in State the Work
of Politicians
Unity l>ispn(<*h Iturcnii.
In (In- Sir Wiilter Hotel.
It V .1. C. BASK lUIVILK.
Raleigh, Feb. 5. The back-stand
ing of Mrs. Thomas O’Berry, civfi
works administrator of North Caro
lina, .’:y Harry L Hopkins, not only
supports the story in this correspon
dence last week, it proves that some
body executed a, bonehead in trying
to make trouble for Mis. O’Berry
because she isn’t building up any
body's political organization with gov
ernment money.
The Washington news was timed
well. It cpme out after the several
asaulls on Mrs. O'Berry nad been re
ceived, it. .would appear. There was
no particular point to the Hapkins
statement colateraHy. There was a
reason for its appearance at this time
Somebody down in North Carolina
had been trying to help Mrs. O’Berry
Koo much.
It is one of the worries of all ad
miiii; ti ators. When E. B. Jcffress
took over the highway chairmanship
he was informed that there were en
tirely too many Republicans on the
State's payridl. Mr. Jeffreys probably
has them now and if they work well
Am may keep them. When the depart
ment at, Washington began to send re
(Continued uu Pane Five.)
Inquiry Started
In Silver Market
In New York City
New York, Feb. 5 (Al*> —itepre-
sentalives of the United Stales
Treasury have started an investi
gation into the position of the
investigation into the position of
New York‘‘silver market, it was
reliably reported in Wall Street
today.
Silver interests were in the dark
as to Hie significance of the in
quiry, but it was believed from
the inquiries made, which were
said to have been started on Sat
urday, that lists of the names and
addresses of all holders of silver
either actual metal or futures
positions, were being sought.
It was also understood that a
check-up on the ownership of the
huge amount of silver stored in
bank vaults in this city was also
under way.
The amount of silver stored
here is understood to be well over
100,9(H),000 ounces.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPE R PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROI.ima anii vtilPimia
SERVICE OF
IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
HENDERSON, N. C. MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 5,1934
HUEY LONG LIABLE
UNDER LIBEL LAWS
I
District Court Orders Him to
Defend AnsulFs Suit for
$500,000
Washington, Feb. 5 - (AP)~The
District of (Columbia Court of Appeals
ruled today that Senator Huey P.
Long, Democrat, of Louisiana, must
defend a $500,009 civil action for lib
el brought by Samuel T. Ansell, for
mer counsel for the Senate commit
tee which investigated the election of
Senator Overton, Democrat, Louisiana
The libel suit is one of two civil
actions brought against Long by the
former Judge advocate general of the
army. '
When the suits were filed, Long
moved to quash service of the civil
summons on the ground of immunity
from prosecution while in Washing
ton.
This right is given by the Consti
tution to members of the Senate and
House while Congress is in session,
, Long clained.
The court of appeals ruled, how
ever, that the constitutional
tion against “arrest” as members of
Congress does not cover service of
process in civil suits, so long as the
service does not involve actual deten
tion of the person.
Profits On
Planes For
Navy Vary
Washington. Feb. 5.—(AP)— Dis
closure that one company made a
five percent profit and another a 36
percent profit on airplane engines
sold to the navy, led a House naval
committee today to decide to inspect
' the income tax returns of those two
firms.
| Rear Admiral Ernest J. King, chieii
pf the navy’s bureau of aeronautics,
made this disclosure as the first wit
mess in the committee’s investigation
of whether manufacturers have bees»
making excess profits on this busi
ness.
Although King said he thought the
information should be kept confiden
i tiaj, he gave it in open hearing, up
on the insistence of Chairman De
laney, Democrat, New York, sub-com
mittee chairman, and other members.
Bailu Bisuatrh
COMMITTEE THINKS
U. S. LAW VIOLATED
BY WALTER BROWN
Postmaster General Under
Hoover Sat In Confer
ences Dividing Up
Air Mail Contracts
REPORT ON INQUIRY
IS MADE TO SENATE
William P. McCracken, Also
Hoover Official, Waits In
Private Gallery Under
Guard To Appear Before
Bar of Senate Following
Arrest Last Week
W;> hingto.n, Feb. 5. (AP) Cliair
man Black, of the Senate mail con
tracts investigating committee, told
the Senate today the committee felt
Walter E. Brown, postmaster gen
eral in the Hoover administration,
violated the law by participating in a.
1930 conference here to divide up the
air mail ixmles whii'.e he was a stock
holder in the Pennsylvania, railroad.
A while before, with the Senate
tense and with scats tilled on floor
and galleries alike, he had prescntc'J
a new report asserting that the two
air line officials remove.', correspon
dence from the law office of William
P. McCracken while it was under
subpoena. He asked the Senate to
take what, action) it saw fit.
While McCracken, former assistant
secretary of commerce for aeronau
tics, sat in a private gallery under
guard of the sergeant-at-arms, Black
reviewed the testimony before his
committee last week.
McCracken’s appearance .before the
bar of the Senate to answer charges
of defying the committee in refusing
to produce his air mail record's, was
delayed until disposition of the other
cases.
CANDIDATE WEY
IS REAL OPTIMIST
Seems To Be Only Man In
District Who Thinks He
Can Beat Mr. Pou
Dußy DiNpntch Burenn,
In the Sir Wuller Hotel.
BY .1. <5. BASK Ell VILL.
Raleigh, Feb. 5. "I am making
great gains and I don’t see how I
can fail to be nominated for Con
gress in this district,” Palmer E.
Bailey, Raleigh lawyer and former
secretary to Senator Joseph William
Bailey, says after handing out. 30,000
pieces of propaganda, not counting
this.
Mr. Bailey is not related to Senator
(Continued ou Page Two.)
Speculation
Is Spirited
In Markets
Scores of Stocks and
Bonds H i t N e w
H i g h s for T w o
Years or More
New York, Feb. S—(AP5 —(AP) —Bullish
speculation kept principal security
and commodity markets churning to
day. Scores of stocks and bonds reg
istered new highs for the past two
years or longer.
(Wheat futures at Chicago pushed
up a cent a bushel in the early deal
ings, and cotton at New York ad
vanced 75 cents a bale and more to'
new highs since 1934. Rubber, hides,
copper and silk futures were also
higher in the New York commodities
markets.
Advances in the New York Stock
exchange ranged from $1 to more
than $3 a share in many leading is
sues, and trading facilities were again
overwhelmed, the ticker was a few
minutes behind during the early hours
and the turn-over was at a rate of
more than 1,000,000 shares an hour. ,
The bond market failed to reach
the extremes of bouuyancy and acti
vity touched dui ing last week’s trad
ing, but the trend still continued up
ward.
American markets were undisturb
ed by fresh weakness in the French
franc and a tumble in French gov
ernment bonds in the Paris bourse.
(The dollar shot up 45 centimes in
(Faris to close at 16.17.
Dry Law Violations Prior
To Repeal Cannot Be Tried
In The Federal Courts Now
Hoover Aide Smiles in "Pinch”
£MI s iMMMaL. >.
MW
William P. McCracken Chesley W. Jurney
Following his alleged refusal to surrender subpoenaed documents to
Senate committee probing airmail. William P. McCracken, former As
sistant Secretary of Commerce, listens smilingly while Sergeant-at-
c Cbr w .Turney reads Senate order placing him under arrest
(Central Press]
EHRiNGHAUS MARKS
HIS 52ND BIRTHDAY
Governor’s Aged Father
Guest at Mansion For
The Anniversary
D.'iily Dispatch Bureau,
In Hie Sir Walter Hotel
IBV .1. <;. BASKKIt.V IEE.
Raleigh, Feb. s.—Governor Ehring
'haus is celebrating his fifty-escond
bhthday with his father, Erskine Eh
ringhaus, of Elizabeth City, but get
ting the elder Ehringhaus up here
was was one of the hardest things
that his excellency has undertaken
since he began governing.
There is a. difference of 28 years
in the ages of the father and the son,
but the Elizabeth City banker's work
hours have abated only as the gov
ernment shortens them and he can
do a s good a. day’s |oh as any of
his children or grandchildren. The
visit of the daddy beginning Saturday
ran through today and Governor Eh
linghaus had the delightful domestic
life that he enjoyed before losing X
to the State. !
The governor-son who always made
music a. big portion of his leisure
played old songs that he learned
without, teachers in his home town.
The celebration of a natal day for a
governor was made the occasion of
no other demonstration. The date re
called, however three birthdays of
governors in which North Carolina
has something of a proprietary in
terest. President Roosevelt, much of
(Continued on Page Two.)
Report On
Mellon Tax
Completed
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Washington, Feb. 5.—(AP)— The
Justice Department disclosed today
that a. report on the status of the in
vestigation into the income taxes of
Andrew Mellon, former secretary of
the treasury, had been completed.
Attorney General Cummings said
he had no comment to make, but an
officer of the department said that
an announcement “may ibe made any
minute now, or may not be made
until Mr. Cummings’ next press con
ference on Thursday.
The department was described as
working with the “full knowledge and
iapprova.l” of the Treasury depart
ment.
The department also has made a
re-investigation into the Alumium
Company of America, controlled by
the Mellon family, and termed by At
torney General Cummings a ‘TOO pet
pent monopoly in the prpdueing
field.”
This re-investigation is still in pro
gress.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
GEORGIA HAS SPAT
ABOUT ITS PHONES
Governor Ousts Stations
Owned by Companies
In Rate Dispute
Atlanta, Ga„ Feb. S.—(AP) —Gover
nor Talmade today ordered discon
nection of all State telephones rented
from the eight companies which ob
tained an interlocutory injunction in
New Orleans Saturday against rate
cuts ordered by the Georgia Public
Service Commission.
“I want to further call Ihe atten
tion of the people who live in the ter
ritory served by these eight com
panies to the tact that they do not
have to keep these telephones at the
additional rates unless they want to,’’
the governor said. “The rates of the
Southern Bell Telephone Company
were not enjoined. If they had been,
out would have come every telephone
of the Southern Bell used by the
State ”
The governor said he did not know
how many telephones there were of
the eight companies the State was
using, but ‘‘no budget in Georgia will
provide payments for any of them.”
He said he had asked the Public Ser
vice Commission to determine how
many phones there were subject to
the order.”
DISMISSALS MIGHT
BRING ON DISPUTE
Firing of Old-timers In Ra
leigh Post Post Office
May Be Probed
Unity Dispatch Burena,
In the Sir Wnlter Hotel.
BY .1 C. HASK.KKVI EE
Raleigh, Feb, s.—Peremptory dis
missal of Negro janitors and workers
in the Federal building is expected
to bring a commissioner here to en
tertain protests according to gossrp
about Raleigh.
The facts are somewhat difficult to
gather but it is said in the main to
be a move to make these laborers’
positions more attractive to white
men and Democrats. One of the dis
charged men Phil Haywood who ran
the elevator in the post office build
ing has operated that lift for 32 years
In all that time he and his friends
say he never had any charges, but
it is understood that rather serious
accusations have been brought a
gainst him and four others. There
are eight men affected by the dis
missal.
The general explanation of the dis
missals is that Herbert G. Gulley new
prohibition agent of the State and
field marshal for United States Sen
ator J. W. Bailey, has merely taken
(Continued on Paso Two.)
6 PAGES
TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
TEST BROUGHT BY
GOVERNMENT RULED
IN SUPREME COURT
Decision Was Asked To De.
termi'ne Policy in Thou,
sands of Cases Pend
ing In U. S.
CASE WAS STARTED
IN NORTH CAROLINA
Federal Judge Hayes Had
Held Actions Could not be
Tried After Repeal, and
Now Highest Tribunal In
Land Upholds His Ruling
on the Question
Washington, Feb. 1. -(AP) The
Supreme Court ruled today person*
charged with violating the national
prohibition law before its repeal can
not hie tried for such offenses in the
Federal court
The case was brought by the Unit
ed States as a test to determine nA
policy regarding the thousands of
prohibition cases now pending in Fed’
oral court.
The government appealed from a
decision by Federal Judge Johnson J.
Hayes of the Middle district of North
Carolina, directing the discharge of
Byrum Gibson and Claude Chamber*
on the ground that prohibition re
peal prevented further prosecution.
On December 6, 1933, the North
Carolina court dismissed indictments
jagainst Gibson and Chambers charg
ing them with conspiracy to violate
the Federal prohibition law, and with
specific violations of that law.
The government charged that both
had been convicted previously on si
milar offenses. Chambers had enter
ed a plea of guilty, but counsel for
both men contended that, as the pro
hibition amendment had been repeal
cd, the court was without jurisdic
tion to proceed with the trial.
The court took the position it had
no power, in view of prohibition's
repeal, to hear and determine case*
involving alelged violations of the
Volstead act. It ruled the adoption of
the repeal amendment deprived the
Volstead act and its amendments and
(Continued • * Page Five.)
Vole Funds
To Carry On
( Time Fight
House Committee
Approves $2,800,000
Sum Justice Depart
ment Sought
Washington, Feb. 5. — (AP) — The
Justice Department today had vir
tual assurance that Congress' would
accede to a request by Attorney Gen
eral Cummings that life be made
harder for criminals.
The House tomorrow will pass the.
(regular annual Justice Department
appropriation bill. In going through
it section by section, approval al
ready has been given to a $2,800,000
fund with which the Federal agents
will carry on their anti-kidnaping,
anti-racketeering, fingerprint identi
fication and scientific crime labora
tory work Senate approval is expect
ed.
In addition, the House Judjeiary
Committee tomorrow will have an op
portunity to approve two bills for
which Cummings made ad irect ap
peal to Chairman Summers of the
committee in a just-disclosed .letter.
Already favorably ticketed by a
judiciary isub-committee, one bill
would make it a Federal offense “to
resist, impede, interfere with or as
sault” a Federal officer, and another
would require that motions to quat»n
an indictment must be filed in Fed
eral court within ten days after ar
rangement.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair tonight and Tuesday;
slightly colder in extreme west
portion Tuesday. ,