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CENTRAL
CAROLINA
-I'WENTY-I'TRST YEAR
HOOVER
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East Still Staggered By Blizzard, With No Immediate Relief In Sieht
25 PERSONS DEAD
AS TEMPERATURES
SUCK NEAR ZERO
Many Towns Still Practically
Isolated and Transporta,
tion Crawls At
Snail’s Pace
—
SOUTH IS HARD HIT,
BUT FINDS RELIEF
New England, Where Bliz
zard Is Worst, Has Snow
drifts Six to 12 Feet Deep;
New York To SpencT $2,-
000.000 To Dig Out From
Under White Mantle
1 1’.\ tin* Associated Press.)
Cold that knifed to the marrow j
in';”, icd the c;ist today as it strove;
!,, sink*' off paralysis caused by the
•\v« st blizzard since *88.” At least |
•>:, jn i oiis lay dead, struck down by
the storm.
Many towns were still practically i
: ol iird, 1 1 ansportation systems craw- •
|i 1 at a snail's pace in numerous
po» • and whistling winds imperiled j
-'tipping
Tin rni tcury plunged toward zero,
i! the cold glazed the land with ice. !
h;;:(luting snowdrifts that impeded
:■ affic. No immediate relief was in
- gh• The frigid wave extended as
fa; until as Florida.
1 1 . the South, nowever, temperatures
nuiili'iated some from the low reacl
iig of Tuesday.
New Kngland, hardest hit hy the
la liiir; »’><» mile gale, was still buried
in 111 a 11 \ pl ii'i ; under snowdrifts six i
to I.’ fret deep, There wei*e at least
nine dead there, ten in New York
City, and six in Pennsylvania.
N w York will spcnd # $2,000 000 to'
dig out of the snow that marooned j
*>00.009 workers in their homes and j
found the stock exchange to open!
an hour late yesterday.
Highway traffic is still tied up in j
■i knot in many places, but most
min. were moving, although regular
(indull.n were largely disregarded.
School , courts and businesses were
Ko|i"iiing after suspending because of
the itorm.
Through the night 30 sailors stuck
to tin collier Northern Sword, which
imuii'd a.hore off Winthrop Head,
nr"if Ho don. Coast, guardsmen with
bn erhrs buoy stood ready to take
them off if smashing sets started to
hi oak up the vessel.
Gang of Yeggmen
Will Get Hearing
In Raleigh Court
Raleigh. Feb. 21- (AP) Worth
Tick) Proctor, alleged leader of an
I'm Ninth Carolina gang of yegg—
""■u ami lone of his alleged aceom-
I'ti l «• . Mi Ivin Archer, alias Tom
Moon, will he tried oil three or more
charges in Raleigh police court to
morrow, pending lodging of charges in
other places.
iTotctor and Archer will be charg
'*d with house-breaking and robbery
on three charges.
Hearing In
Hank Case
Is Started
1 I-" mile. Feb. 21.—(AP)— Baa
""" (ben, 17, and his son, Lester,
*'• w ‘itt on trial in Alexander Su
lH,ioi Court here toduy for murder
' l '" i attempted bank robbery after
•I'ldgi; Wilson Warlick for the second
l| "" IhkJ overruled a defense motion
r ' ,r continuance.
When the cases were called, defense
id!oi lays asked the continuance, con*
'''"‘ling they had not had sufficient
i"u to prepare their cases, and,, had
"01 heen given an opportunity to que»
'R. 12. Black and Mike Stevenoff,
"’ ’h'l companions of the Greens, in
1,1 ftii'inpted bank robbery here last
Jl|| y which resulted in the charges,
and Stevenoff have been con
of murder of T. C. Barnes,
of the Merchants and Farm
|' 5 Rank here, who was fatally wound
!' ‘ n Hie attempted hold-up, and sen
' "' rU to die. They are in State’s Pri
j/' 11 a waiting outcome of their appeals
1, ' ln conviction which are now pend
in the State Supreme Court.
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endurance hop in the Question Mark, whose task it was to fly "Hell’*
t-lreten" m the run to Cleveland. .The above pielure wa, ".WjusL
be foie the first mail was taken aloft. (Central Prett)
Roosevelt Is Studying
Mass Production Homes
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Treasury Asked How It Can Help in Doing That; How
To Crush Bootlegger Still Is Problem, Despite Repeal;
Senate Debates Treaty Limit Navy
Washington, Feb. 21. (AP)
Blocking any single major problem
to take all his time, President Roose
velt applied himself today to such di
vergent subjects as mass protection
of homes and better liquor for the
public at lower prices.
He had a select committee at work
on whether Congress should be asked
how to have the Treasury aid a long
program for private home building.
Its advocates claim increase ot vol
ume through means of credits to build
would make possible small comfort
able homes at half the present cost.
Other aides tackled now to crush
the bootlegger. That survivor of pro
hibition is still alive, judging by what
was said at the presidential press con
ference this morning, and liquor im
ports arc far from what was expected
PUBLISHER
E. B. Adler, of Davenport,
lowa, Attacked by Two
Men; One Arrested
Ohuiago, Fob. 21. (AP) E. B.
Adler, publisher of the Davenport,
lowa, Times, and head of the Lee
syndicate of newspapers, was attack
ed by two men in a hotel corridor to
day in an apparent attempt at kid
naping.
Slugged twice*, Adler dodged tho
full effect of the blows and ran down
the corridor from his room, eluding
his assailants.
One of them was arrested-
In the room next to Adler s, de
tectives found a large trunk in which
air hose had been poked. They said
it was apparent the two men intend
ed to lock Adler in the trunk and
have him carried out.
The suspect, whom Adler recogniz
ed as one of the attackers, turned and
raced away, but was caught by House
Detectivo Michael Colligan. He was
taken to the first district police sta
tion.
The suspect told the police he and
his companion had driven here from
New York in a coupe. The trunk
bore the initials, “B. M. K. Pitts
burgh.”
¥iathTr
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Cloudy, rain Thursday and in
west and central portions tonight;
warmer tonight and in east por
tion Thursday. .
ONLY DAILY
S S SL W . lItE SERVICE OF
ilill. AUbUC.tATED PRESS.
NAVY HEAD HAD AIRPLANE STOCK
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIKiINIA.
HENDERSON, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 21, 1934
to supply ample stocks.
Other situations held Congress. The
House put in a last day of talk on
the $258,000 000 tax tightening hill,
with passage a certainty.
Senatorial business remained the
treaty limit navy measure, with de
bate shipping all over the lot,.
The regular Friday cabinet meet
ing was held today to permit cabinet
members to have a week-end off.
(Secretary Ickcs received a report
of indications of improve demand foi
State and municipal bonds and rising
prices for construction materials.
Congressional committees spent the
. morning in the usually talkative com
toalttee sessions, former Postmaster
(Greneral Brown testifying again on ait
mail contracts of the Hoover admin
istration.
HOUSE PLUGS UP
INCOME TAX LAW
$258,000,000 Bill As Much
To Get Evaders As To
Raise More Money
Washington, Feb. 21. —(AP) — The
House hammered plugs into the
j
holes in the income tax law today.
A $258,000,000 tax bill, intended more
to stop up tax leaks than as a re
venue bill was as good as passed. On
ly a final ballot or two remained.
Loaders who piloted legislation
through the long debate, expressed
pleasure. Only two amendments had
been allowed.
"The little fellow” will benefit by
the bill's revision of the income tax
rate structure, leaders said. The bi
is aimed at the “big fellow.”
The surtax ranges up to 59 per
cent on incomes over $1,000,00.
HABEAS CORPUS FOR
ROCKY MOUNT GROUP
Rocky Mount, Feb. 21.—(AP)—-
Habeas corpus hearings before Judge
N. A. Sinclair, of Fayetteville, for Mrs.
Edith Holden, alias Edith Johnson, of
Greensboro, and Elsie Johnson, ar
rested here when officers raided the
home occupied by Worth Proctor ana
Eugene Gunter early Monday morn
ing, was scheduled here this after
noon at 3 o’clock.
No charge had been preferred a
gainst either of the women this morn
ing at 11 o’clock.
Jury Chosen for
Wynektfop Trial
Chicago, Feb. 21.—(AP)—A jury
for the second trial of Dr. Alice
Lindsey Wynekoop, accused of the
murder of Rlicta Gardner Wyne
koop, her 1 daughter-in-law. was
completed today in the court of
Justice Harry I»- Mtilier.
The 63-year-old defendant said
at the opening of the session she
“felt terrible.”
“I’m not as stroqg as I thought
1 was,” she said. “f*m glad tomor
row is Washington|i Birthday, and
that there will be| no session of
the court. At firs* I was sorry
about the delay, bit now it looks
good to me.”
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Long Neglected. Publishers
Now Scheduled To Get
Some of “Gravy”
NEW BOOKS
But Present North Carolina History,
Sold by Raleigh Concern in Use
20 Years, Long Out of
Hate, Is Continued.
Doily Dis|>nt<>h Hureon,
In tlu> Sir Wnltrr Hotel.
HY J. C. UASKiatVIM.
Raleigh, Feb. 31— In addition to re
quiring the 232,185 school children in
the fifth, sixth and seventh grades in
the State elementary schooll system
to expend not less than $2-12,235 for
new history textbooks next year, pro
vided the State Board of Education
acts favorably on, the recommenda
tions of the State Elementary Text
book Commission just made public,
at least five textbook publishers who
are not now “in the gravy” by hold
ing book contracts at the present
time, stand a chance of getting fat
five year contracts. For if the his
tory textbooks are changed, those
companies getting new contracts will
get them for a period of five years.
In fact, it is understood on good
authority that the textbook commis
sion, in making its list of history
books which it has recommended for
adoption, not only had in mind books
suitable for the various grades, but
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NR A Better
Way To Get
30-ITr, Week
Johnson Thinks Lit
tle of Flat Order, He
Tells Congressional
Group
Washington, Feb. 21 (AP) —The
(Opinion that such a flat work week
limit as 30 hours cannot be applied
to industry was expressed to the
House Labor Committee today by Ad
ministrator Hugh S. Johnson, of the
NRiA.
In his first capital appearance as
blue eagle chief, he said the NRA was
a “much more flexible and intelli
gent way” to reach the ends sought—
more employment.
Gerard Swope, of General Electric,
likewise opposed the 30-hour week as
pr >vided in the Connery bill.
He intends to carry hour reductions
farther under the NRA.
Swope had insisted it be done,
through the present NRA set-up.
Practically two-thirds of the 756,500
personal injury auto accidents in 1933
were due in somte degree to driving
trrors. These accidents brought 29,-
900 deaths and many times that num
ber of injuries. Are you up on the
rules of careful driving? Follow the
new series entitled “Curb on Mount
ing Death Rate,” first release of
which appears today. It will help
you do your part in reducing these
appalling figures.
As Brown Denied Air Bid Fraud
M\~ S Mm? '**.
Walter F. Brown
Climaxing the investigation of the senate airmail committee into aiimaii
contracts, Walter F. Brown, postmaster general during the Hoover
administration appeared before the inquiry body at Washington to deny
charges of fraud and collusion in the award of contracts during his
term of ollice. The above photo shows him as he testified before the
committee - —i . 'Central Prcus)
New Currency Expansion
Threat Strikes Congress
House Passage of $2,400,000,000 Bonus, Regarded Cer
tain, and Farm Mortgage Measure, Also Pressed, Cast
Shadows Across Legislative Pathway
Washington, Feb. 21. - (AP) A new
threat of currency expansion develop
ed today in the apparently bonus
bound House of Representatives.
In the wake of a vote forcing peti
tion on the Patman $2,100,000,000 green
back-bonus bill, pressure was applied
today for a ballot on the Frazier fa-sm
mortgage-currency expansion mea
sure.
Democratic leaders' saw no chance
to do anything about it in the House.
The expansionists are using the
same method which assured, consid
Two Carolinas Ask Money
To Expand Their Consoli,
dated Systems
Washington, Feb. 21. —(AP)-—Dr. A.
T. Allen, North Carolina superinten
dent of public instruction, and James
H. Hope, South Carolina superinten
dent of education, conferred today
with Dr. R. L. Alderman, director of
relief education in the interest of
grants for their states to expand the
systems of consolidated public schools
The relief uummisiraiion has an
nounced its willingness to aid finanf
cially in the construction of rural
schools, provided plans for building
them are completed in time for the
schools to be constructed by May 1.
Each of the Carolinas has outlined
a construction plan and each has en
tered a request for $5,500,000.
The State education heads plan fur
ther conferences with Alderman De
fore leaving Washington.
McGRAW’S condition
SLIGHTLY IMPROVED
New Rochelle, N. Y., Feb. 21. —
(AP) —John J. McGraw passed a fair
ly comfortable night, his physician re
ported today, with signs of the uremic
poisoning with which he is suffering
“much diminished.”
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTLRNOON
13XCEPT SUNDAY.
eratiou of the bonus measure on
March 12 the petition. Representa
tive Limp, Republican, North Dakota,
early today had 96 of the 115 neces
sary signers to bring the Frazier bill
to a. vote, and.said he was “quite con
fident.”' the petition will go over.
But to make sure, he, with Sen
ators Thomas, Democrat, Oklahoma,
and Frazier, Republican, North Da
kota ,and Representative Swank,
Democrat, Oklahoma, called a mass
meeting for tonight to discuss the
measure.
HABEAS CORPUS OF
BANKERS THURSDAY
Tactics Similar to Luke Lea’s
Being Pursued by Bre
vard Group
Unity Uinpntch Uurenu,
in the Si, Walter Hotel.
11l J. V. IIASKERVILIi.
Raleigh, Feb. 21. —While the habeas
corpus proceedings in behalf of the
‘‘Brevard Bankers” is expected to W
held in North Wilkesboro tomorrow
before Judge T. B. Finley, the gen
eral opinion is that he will deny the
writ and hold that the four prisoners
must serve the sentence imposed up
on them by the court, which was
from two to three years in prison.
But. this will give the attorneys for
the Brevard men Thomas H. Ship
man, Joseph Pickelsimer, C. R. Me-
Neely and Ralph Fisher a chance to
appeal to the State Supreme Court
and eventually to the United States
Supreme Court, just as Colonel Luke
Lea and his son have done. They
should thus be able to postpone the
starting of their sentence for several
months if not for a year or more.
The Luke Leas have been able to post
pone their prison sentences apparent
ly indefinitely by using similar tac
tics, in spite of the efforts of Attor
ney General Dennis G. Brummitt to
get them into North Carolina and the
State Prison.
Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus has
announced, however, that he will not
designate the attorney general or any
additional counsel to assist Solicitor
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SECMIf ADAMS
That Concern Did $4,286,-
341 Worth of Business
For the Navy In the
Years 1930-32
21 PERCENT PROFIT
MADE IN THAT YEAR
Secretary Accepts Invitation
I o Appear Before House
Naval Committee To Test
ify About Naval Airplane
Contracts, Probably Com
ing Next Week
Washington, Feb. 21 <AP)—The
House Naval Committee learned to
day that Charles Francis Adams, sec
retary of the navy from 1926 to 1932,
owned 500 shares of stock in the
Douglas Aircraft Company on Nov
ember 30, 1933.
Navy representatives already had
shown that the Douglas company did
$4,288,341 worth of business for the
navy in 1930-32, and eight months of
1933, making 21 percent profit.
Adams has accepted an invitation
to appear before the committee, prob
ably next week, to testify about navy
airplane contracts.
Lottery Queen In
Winston Arrested;
18 Others Nabbed
Winston-Salem, Feb. 21.—(Al’>
- Mrs. laiinie J. Richardson
Thompson, undisputed lottery
queen of the Twin City, was ar
rested last night at midnight on
three statutory and lottery char
ges, after 20 policemen raided two
hotels operated by Mrs. Thompson.
At the same time the raid netted
18 others.
Ten women were charged with
vagrancy, three, while men with
violating the hotel laws, two white
nun violating the prohibition
law, and two Negro porters accus
ed of aiding and abetting hotel
law violations. Another white man
was held on a technical charge.
l ax Officials To
Seek Sales Taxes
Interstate Sales
ludianpolis, Ind., Feb. 2i.—(AJP)
—The newly-formed National As
sociation of State Tax Administra
tors carried to Washington today
requests for legislation to permit
states to tax incoming retail ship
ments.
. A committee ot four planned to
request President Roosevelt to re
commend the proposed bill to Con
gress to eliminate discrimination
against intrastate soles in favor of
interstate sales.
Harry McMuUan, director of as
sessments and collections for the
North Carolina Department of Re
venue, was one of the delegation
of four that went to Washington.
Roosevelt
To Act On
Ocean Mail
Washington, Feb. 21.—(AP)—rA vir
tual certainty that President Roose
velt will take some action on ocean
mail contracts added interest today to
a Senate committee’s questioning ot
the man who made many of them.
Walter F. Brown, widespoken post
master general of the Hoover admin
istration, has a thing or two to say
about these ocean pacts. Whether ha
would reach that point in his testi
mony before the mail committee to
day was problematical.
President Roosevelt today sat on
the receiving end of three separate
investigations into the ocean mail
question. He himself says he would
like to change the present system,
probably along direct subsidy lines.