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HENDERSON
C ATE WAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
GASTON DMIERGUE TAKES- HELM IN FRANCE
FREE TRIP GIVEN
POSTAL OFFICIALS
ACROSSATLAMTIC
Director of International
Mail Division and W.
Irving Glover Taken
To Europe
PARTNER OF BROWN
ALSO GIVEN FAVORS
Joseph Bagley Likewise
Went to Europe; Specifi
cations in Post Office
Flooring Restricted To
Point Where Only Mem
phis Firm Could Comply
Washington, Dec. 7 (AP) —Furegen
11. White, director of the internation
al mail division of the Post Office.
Department, testified today to the
Senate air and ocean nail investi
gating committee that he and W. Irv
ing Glover, an assistant postmaster
General in the Hoover administration
ii'ceivcda free trip to Europe in 1931.
«>n the llamburg-American Line.
White also told of acting as the in
termediary in the purchase of steam
ship accommodations at a special
price for Joseph H. Bagley, previous
ly described as a brokerage partner
of Walter F. Bi own, postmaster gen-!
mil in the last administration.
Bagley obtained higher class quart-,
eis at a minimum rate, the witness
said.
Earlier limitations of specifications
for post office flooring contracts, so
that only those made by the E. L. ;
Bruce Company, of Memphis, could
be used, was described by Frank E.
.Bruce, of tin; manufacturing concern,
and Frank McMuilan, former post of-'
fiee superintendent of engineering I
and research.
RALEIGH SEEING
LOAN OF 1800,000
Wants PWA Funds for Dis
posal Plant and Is
Likely To Win
lintly Dispatch Iturcao,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
IIV J. V. HABKIIR VI 1,1,.
Raleigh, Feb. 7.-- Application for
s£<>o,ooo with which to construct ;ii
sewage disposal plant for Raleigh
prthably will be made Wednesday aft
ernoon and the Public Works Ad
ministration is expected to approve
the big project.
R.ilcg-h’s city government, rarely
together, is again divided, but this
time in a different way. Mayor iseley
find' himself inharmonious with his
associates, Commissioner Brown and
Barton, but on the construction of
the disposal plant Mr. Barton, who
h commissioner of public works,
with Mayor Iseley, and Mr. Barton's
old pal, Commissioner Jim Brown of
•he department of safety, is opposing
!, »y Increase in the public debt of
Raleigh.
To make the loan possible it lias
been agreed to increase the water
mli ; 10 per cent. The disposal plant
i apparently the only recourse for
the city which is about to be sued
by citizens who find Raleigh's raw
•"Wage flowing down Wake’s -creeks
into Die Netn-f! River which washes
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Speedy Developments In
Legislative Jam Likely
Washington, Feb. 7. <Al*> ICigtht
"millainroijn Federal inquiries today
'ciatched a. huge question mark as
’lie sym' oi of a Washington scene
studded with swift developments, in
cluding a HejVate move to slice a legits
lativo jam nvolving many billions.
Among c .iy develoipmcivts wore:
Disclosure of a private Senate poll
disclosing a ititlficatk) , ir total stiln
t’lojiinjr for the Roosevelt-bucked St.
I .awumre seaway treaty, and a dc
' Ision by leaders temporarily to side
• isiek h vote.
A promise of House leaders for
"'ore power, If needed, for a commkt-
Wc probing airplane contracts.
Initiation of a similar inquiry by
another House Committee into mili
Hi'ttJU'rsmt
LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Named in Steamship Line Suit
Vincent Astor Kermit Roosevelt
Chaining that the defendants “perfected a concerted scheme” to avoid
payment of dividends, the United States Lines, steamship company, has
brought suit in N. Y. Supreme Court against Vincent Astor, Kermit
Roosevelt and other directors of the line for moneys allegedly lost by a
co-firm, the United States Lines Company.
(Central Press)
U. S. Expenditures
Pass Two Billions
This Leaves Five Billions
More To Be Spent Yet
Before June 30 To
Reach Big Goal
ALL OF IT PART OF
EMERGENCY PLANS
Huge Profit on Gold Devalu,
ation Leaves Surplus Near
One Billion Dollars, Hut
This Will Melt Rapidly As
More Billions Are Poured
Out Shortly
Washington, Fob. 7. (AP) Gov
ernment expenditures for this fiscal
year’s emergency recovery costs to
day passed the $2 000,000,000 mark.
Tills leaves more than $5,000,000,000
1o be spent between now and June
30 to equal budget estimates of $7,-
523,000,000 for emergency expenditure
in the 1931 fiscal year.
The exact figure of emergency ex
penditures of February 5, the latest
available, was $2,009,776,070, of whisch
$1,50 050.289 was by the Reconstruc
tion Corporation.
Total expenditures for the, fiscal
year, including routine government
costs, amounted to $3,702,185,851.
The huge profit of devaluation of
the gold dollar left a, surplus on tne
Treasury books of $812,113,126. but.
experts still expect the government
to borrow nine ibiillioms between now
and the end of June.
That would change today’s surprus
to a mono than $7,000,000,000 deficit.
SNATCHES DOWN
ANOTHER OF EAGLES
Washington, Feb. 7. (AP) The
NRA today snatched down its blue
eagF. in a, case involving violation ol
<(’iild I'latbor provision's, laictUng just
ps Administrator Hugh S. Johnson,
prepared to opjio.se suggestions for a
I general 30-hour week in industry in
I America before a House committee.
tary aviation supplies, with a request
to Secretary Dern for a complete re
cord of all army airplane contracts.
The apparent halting of the army
motorization program while a Dis
trict of Columbia grand jury ponder
ed Justice Department charges
against a citizen after hearing two
automobile company representatives
testify.
Meanwhile, the Senate, under an
urge of speed to keep the 4,000,000-
man civil works payroll alive, set it
self for debate on the $950,000,000 re
lief appropriation.
Senate majority leaders expressed
confidence of being able to down ef
forts of a group of Republicans and
independent Republicans to hoist the
bill’s figure to $2,500,000,000.
ONLY DAILY NLVVSI'AI’L U PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
0 1935 LEGISLATURE
Complaints of Neighbor
States May Be Influence
In New Laws
Hail}' Disiiafi'h II lire sin.
In (lie Sir Walter Hotel.
BY .1. C. BASK ICR VI Id,.
Raleigh, Feb. 7. Representative
James Masseuburg, one of the wet
leaders of the General Assembly, ex
pects to come back to the House from
Polk, which he regarded a very moist
county when he was here a year ago.
The county went dry overwhelmingly
“Blit if our people instruct me as
to how I shall vote on the question
and fell me that I am expected to
vote dry I shall have to represent
their wishes,” Mr. Masseuburg. said,
“j still think the drys got out and
voted and that the wets did not.,
but if my county wishes dry legisla
tion I will have to stand by it.”
The Polk member thinks the large
number of Republicans in his county
helped to make the election one-sided,
tie had w> doubt, that the Polk cit
izens would go wet when lie was
down there. He thought so until a very
short time before the election. But
when other wets put up money that
vntlnued ou Pag# Six)
New WeatKerman
tef ■
v™ C?
Willis R. Gregg
If you are not satisfied with
weather conditions, you will have
to blame Willis R. Gregg from
now on. Gregg, appointed chief
of the United States weather bu
reau to succeed C. F. Marvin,, to
pictured at his desk in Washing
ton after being sworn in by Chief
Clerk William Weber.
HENDERSON, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 7 1934 published every afternoon
* 1 I, 1 EXCEPT SUNDAY.
fiatly fhspatrh
Government Plans To Pay
Farmers Billion In 1934
WILL BE IN FORM !
OF BENERISFOR
$766,512,695 for
Corn, Cotton, Hogs, To
bacco, Five Times
That Last Season
200 MILLIONS MORE
IN EMERGENCY FUND
This Would Go to Beef And
Dairy Cattle Farmers; Only
Fifth To Come from Treas.
ury t Rest from Process
Tax; North Carolina To
bacco $12,147,600.
Washington, Feb. 7. —(AP) — The
handing of about a billion dollars to
American farmers during 1931 as
benefit payments for production con
trol and corn loans is planned by the
Farm Administration.
Official estimates covering the
wheat, corn and hogs, cotton, tobacco
and corn loan programs were dis
closed today to call for an estimated
expenditure of $766,512,695, or more
than five times the $152,521,177 spent
in 1933.
In addition, an emergency fund ol
$200,000,000 would be provided for
benefit payments to beef, and dairy
cattle farmers in a bill passed ley the
House and favorably reported by a
Senate committee.
In addition, four payments to wheat
farmers under a mow-con tern plated
second acreage reduction would bring
the total well above one billion dol
lars.
Officials revealed that only $200,-
000,00 of this would be paid out of
the Treasury, if their plans carry
through, the balance being due to
come from processing tax receipts,.
Secretary Wallace even plans on re
paying this sum out. of the proposed
processing tax on, butter fats.
According to the various programs
now under way, the total will be ex
pended as follows: Corn and hogs,
$367,055.6301; wheat., $81,021,721; cot
ton $173,220,620; tobacco, $35,115,000;
corn loams, $109,796,721.
Southern farmers will receive $153,-
283,330, or practically all, of the
money to be spent on the cotton pro
gram, and will receive most of the
tobacco payments, $33,092,939.
Os the total tcfciacco payments.
North Oa.rolima would receive $12,-
117,600.
LOT OnlK SUI^
Ehringhaus Chauffeur Cited
At Albemarle on Speed
ing Charge
Dinpntt’fc Bureau,
In til** Sir Walter Hotel.
Bi* J, V. BASKEllVllili,
Raleigh, Feb. 7. —Albemarle's com
plaint against the speed of Governor
Ehringhaus’s oar Friday afternoon
when he was going to Gastonia to
make a speech has furnished a lot of
talk.
1 tie governor was taking off to
Washington and Baltimore when he
received notice from Albemarle that a
warrant had been issued for his driv
er, Nis sen Aldridge, (tetter known as
“Red.” The governor, of course, does
not look out for the traffic signals,
but it was charged that his excellency
car was going from 50 to 65 miles
an hour and that the driver ignored
the traffic signs.
The executive car was being es
corted by the highway patrol through
the city and followed the lead of the
driver ahead, it was said here yes
terday. Nevertheless, Governor Eh
rknghaus sent a message to the Al
bemarle people assuring them that
he meant no harm in the trip through
the town and telling them that, de
spite the pace set by the highway
escort, the executive would watch the
town signs hereafter. The warrant for
’"Red” Aldridge had not been re-,
ceived when the governor left.
A circumstance of some interest
was the proceeding against the chauf
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Graft In Motorizing Army
May Involve Legion Figure
Washington, Feb. 7.-—(AP) —"Tlio
Evening Star says today that indict
ment of at least three persons, two
of them high in the ranks of the Am
erican Legion, will be asked of the
Federal grand jury by the govern
ment in connection with the alleged
conspiracy to graft on the millions ol
dollars allotted for (motorizing the
army.
As President Roosevelt today asked
Attorney General Cummings to go to
the bottom of the irregularities, a pro
Ouster Stirs Riot
M. Jean Chiappe
Dismissal by Premier Daladier of
M. Jean Chiappe, as prefect of po
lice in Paris, has stirred up the
royalists of the French capital and
provincial troops arc being mar
shalled to curb the uprising. The
deposed police chief was cheered
wildly as he left the prefecture.
(Central Press)
Roosevelt
Is Invited
Into State
Washington, Feb. 7.—(AP)—Presi
dent Roosevelt was urged today by
Governor Ehringhaus and Represen
tative Doughton oT North Carolina,
to use his influence to secure & SIOO,-
000 loan from the Public Works Ad
ministration for development of the
port at MorohcaU. City, N. C.
The North Carolinians, in tiheir call
at the White House, also invited the
President to spend a vacation in tne
mount aims or Western North Carolina
Trouble In Spain
Might Result In
Fall of Cabinet
Madrid, Feb. 7 (AP) —A captain of
the Spanish assault guards was shot
and seriously wounded today and sev
eral persons weie injured in a clash
between leftist members of the Stu
dents Federation and police.
Students had demanded liberty for
three members pardoned for disord
ers during a recent student strike,
but who had not been released from
jail.
Several hundred students appeared
demanding their liberty. Guards dis
persed them and the crowd returned
to the faculty of medicine, wwhere
another demonstration was staged, re
suiting in the gun battle.
After a conference with the min
ister of instruction, students obtain
ed the release of their three compan
ions.
A report of a cabinet crisis schedul
ed tonight or tomorrow was wide
spread, with a general shake-up of
portfolios predicted.
WEATHER
FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy; not quite so cold
tonight; Thursday fair; warmer
in south portion.
cession of army officers and motor
company representatives went into
the grand jury room some blocks
away.
i The only name publicly mentioned
by the War and Justice Departments
is that of Joseph Silverman, Jr., of
i New York, but the Star reports ftiai
; evidence presented to the grand jury
j today is said to have incriminated a
former high executive of the Legion
i ‘ now practicing law here, and a legal
associate.
bankeKws
Eight Days Yet Before Time
Their Sentences Are
Set To Begin
Unity DUimifb Burisin.
In the Sir Wnllrr lintel
BY J. C. BASK UR VI Li 1,.
Raleigh, Feb. 7. — Transylvania’s
four prominent prisoners. Thomas H.
Shipman, Joseph Pickelsimer, C. R.
McNeely, and Ralph Fisher, whose
terms are set to begin February 15,
have but eight days, unless Governor
Ehringhaus in ter venues, and the gov
ernor has not intimated that he has
changed his mind.
Attorneys and iriends of the four
men have been doing a. great, deal of
work for them recently and have
called on newspapers to talk the case
over with them. The complaint of
most of the papers Urns not been a
gainst the men but against the ac
tion of the State in delaying so long
the beginning of the prison service.
Whether there wiH be any move
ment to halt the beginning of that
confinement noLody seems to know.
Western North /Carolina has been
pretty well canvassed and the sec
tion seems to be almost unanimous in
its belief that, the fouir men ought not
to be required to go to prison. Re
cently the county commissioners of
Transylvania gave the convicted men
<a letter absolving them of any trick
<ery in making an effort to pay a
$30,000 fine instead of the two years
sentence imposed by Judge N. A.
Townsend. The letter is "being used,
but whether there will be tried any
legal remedy before the men actual
ly begin their terms, is doubtful. The
impression here is that the Transyl
vanians will go to Raileiigh, enter up
on their terms and ask for clemency
at flic earliest moment.
The case has worried Governor Eh
iringhaus more than any that he has
had to hear. The Supreme Court di
vided on the issues and two of them
dissented in the opinion affirming the
conviction in Judge Hoyle Sink’s
court. But Judge Sink fined and im
prisoned and the court overruled him.
It remanded the case for proper sen
tence Judge Townsend gave no al
ternative judgment. He sentenced
the men, but announced that if they
Would pay $30,000 to the county’s Ln
debtmlness as much as they had in
creased it tLy depositing the SIOO,OOO
short term loans in Thomas H. Ship
man’s bank, the judge would recom
mend that the men be pardoned. The
men raised $30,000, but there is a
dispute as to whether they turned it
over to the eounty. The commission
ers declare they did, but tlie prose
cution disagrees in part with the de
fense of the accused men.
The charge against them is that
they conspired together to defraud
the county of SIOO,OOO in issuing the
county’s credit and getting the money
to be deposited in the Brevard Bank
ing Company. It was the contention
of the State that this money was ap
propriated for the purpose of sav
ing the Brevard bank. It is not al
leged that there was any embezzle
ment of the funds in such way as to
make any of the accused richer
therefor.
Politicians from the west argue
that there could have been no com*
spiracy, that Mr. Shipman and Mi.
Pickelsimeir were lifetime poflitical
enemies and that Attorney Ralpn
Fisher would have done his utmost
to hurt the Shipman bank, so violent
ly did those men dislike each other.
As fellows in suffering they are bet
ter friends. The community stands
by the accused. The Methodists put
•Mr Pickelsimer on the board of trus
tees for their new college and the
new bank elected him a director of
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seeHpeace
Doumergue Called In To
Save Situation After Da
ladier Ministry Toss,
es in the \ owel
MARTIAL
DECLARED AS YET
War Ministry Denies Drastic
Action Has Been Taken;
Meanwhile Lists of Injured
Grow and Nightfall Finds
Paris In Extremely Ugly
Moqd
Paris, Feb. 7.—(AP)—The miniatry
of war today denied reports that mar
tial law had been declared in Paris.
Gaston Doumergue, 70-year-old for
mer president, agreed today to be
come premier in an effort to calm a
rioting France.
The riots continued, with mobs pa
rading tilie boulevards.
Vioolnce broke out in the Place de
la Concorde, around the president’s
palace, around the Madeline church
and down the Rue Royale leading
into the Place de la Concorde.
Doumergue was called in to save
the situation shortly after Edouard
Daladier, premier unti ltoday, resign
ed. taking his entire cabinet with
him.
But the attempt to change govern
ments, although political observers
thought it would succeed, did not ap
pease the fighting spirit of the mobs.
Sabres flashed as mounted guards
men charged against the angered
crowd in the Place de la Concorde.
In other open spaces of the city,
mobile guardsmen and police wrest
led in hand to hand combat with the
shouting civilians.
The list of injured, seriously and
slightly, gained steadily throughout'
the day, and as night drew in private
cars were pressed into duty as am
bulances to rush the wounded to hos^ -
pitals.
The horses of the guaids, many of
them riderless, plunged madly thre*-
ugh the confusion of the Place de la
Concorde.
Every hallway and corner of tlie
buildings surrounding the great
square were packed by persons seek
ing shelter from the battling rnoibe
and the police.
The apparent hostility of the crowd
increased steadily.
The courtyard of the marine min
istry, which tiho mob set afire last
fContinuert n THuart- BIX)
Dollfuss Is
After Pact
In Hungary
Austrian Chancellor
Leaves for Budapest
and Fur May Fly
Back Home
V ientnta, Feb. 7.—(AP) —Chan cel lot;
Engelbert Dollfuss, with two pro
vincial capitals —Inudbruck ajid Lintz
—occupied by Fascists troops bearing
drastic demands, departed for Budoc
past today to see \JPremier Julius!
Goemboos of Hungary.
The chancellor left Vice-Chancellor
Emil Fay, a leader in the Fascist
iheimwehr (home guards) in charge
of Austria.
Fey has been 'left in Charge before
and once took drastic steps by issu
ing a decree in his own name creat
ing political concentration camps and
authorizing the incarceration of po
litical suspects without trial.
Socialists were anxious enough
then; their anxiety was ten timea
greater today. Privately, socialist lead
ers admitted a critical situation haud
been created by developments, and
warmed against possible moves of
Vienna-
One thousand F ascist heimvtfehrmen
with bayonets fixed, took over Linz
during the night to give emphasis to
a list of demands, chief of which
was one calling for a formation of u
Fascist commission!, such as that set
up at Innsbruck in the Tyrol,
More than 100 Nazis have been jail
ed at Innsbruck in the last week, lit
1 was made known today.