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11 UNPERSON
OATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
POST OFFICE MOST
PAY THE ARMY FOR
PLANES DESTROYED
House Adopts Amendment
To Meade Air Mail Bill
Providing For Such
Reimbursement
ROOSEVELT POLICY
bitterly attacked
Republicans Call It “Mul
der” and “Sacrifice to Con.
venience Defeat Bill and
‘Stop This Legalized Mur
der” Made by New York
Representative
\\ iisliington. Feb. 21 (AP) -The
1 lyu s*o today adopted an amendment
to the Meade emergency all mail bill
to provide lot reimbursement to the
,mny an corps by the Post Office
Department for planes and equip
ment destroyed while flying the ai.
mail-
Preliminary to passage of the bill
for transfer of funds and the lack
for the temporary army carriage of
the mails, arguments echoed against
and ui favor of the administration
course.
Representative Mott, Republican,
Him; in, said army fliers never should
have been expected to do something
fui which they have not been trained.
"These deaths are a sacrifice on
the altar of convenience.” he said.
"Another Republican, Edith Norse
Rogers, of Massachusetts, called the
policy one of “murder.”
A plea to "defeat the bill and stop
this legalized murder” was made by
Representative Bacon, Republican.
New York.
Assistance For
Small Industries
Sought of R. F. C.
Augusta, Gu., Feb. 21. (AIR— As
istalum, for small industries in getting
financial half) from the R. F. C., and
a discussion of new industries for the
South occupied the executive commit
"f Coastal States Coordinated at
its meeting here.
The committee Friday heard a pro
posal to obtain aid for small indus
ti ios by a provision permitting K. F.
T. loans through a corporation con
h ting' of an association of three such
industries.
Offers Bill for
Curbing Honorary
Military Titles
•Washington, Feb. 24 (AP)-There
will be no more Kentucky colonels
"i honorary military or naval officers
of any kind if a bill introduced in the
House today by Representative Can
non. Democrat, Wisconsin, becomes
-n law.
Cannon told newspaper men he was
aiming at titles conferred upon mo
tion picture stars and other celebri
ties who have not earned them by
service either in the army or navy.
He said Marion Davies. Bebe Dan
iels and Will Rogers were among
'fins of the film world who are "ca
v'oiting about” with titles of “colon
' s. generals, majors or somothing or
other.”
Interior’s
Supply Bill
Is Enacted
M2,000,(MX) Depart
ment Appropriation
Bill Cut Sharply Un
der 1933
Washington, Feb. 24.---(AP) The
House today completed congressional
:i, '’ion on the $32,000,000 Interior De
haitnient appropriation bill iby adop
’ion of tp c conference report on Senr
a| e amendments.
'tin bill, first of the annual supply
"'ensures to be sent along by Con
'ri,''ss this session, now goes to the
iTesident. for signature,
both House and Senate receded
""n various amendments, Altering
specific amounts. Among the items
‘"Hudcd above the $31,108,504 voted
liv the House was a 15,200 supple
""‘iitai allowance for vocational edu
cation.
I he i<)34 appropriation was in ex
of $50,000,000.
hendfbson, n. q,
tmtiirrsmt Datlii Btauatrh
As King Albert Was Carried On Last Journey
Ihrough streets crowded with saddened subjects and most of the crowned heads of Europe the
late king Albert of Belgium in a stately funeral carriage was carried on his last journey. ’The
above photograph, telephoned to London and rad ioed to New York, shows the funeral cortege as
it passed through the streets of Brussels as thousands looked on.
Navy Making Its Plans
To Abandon Defenses In
The Philippine Islands
All Fortifications and Bases To Be Evacuated in Event
of Independence; Will B e Years Away, However;
Dozen Forts and Army Camps Owned There
Washington, Feb. 24 (AP) —The
Navy Department is quietly studying
a plan for abandonment of all military
and naval fortifications and bases in
the Philippines in event of independ
ence for the islands.
The withdrawal would place Pearl
Harbor in Hawaii as a naval spear
head in the Pacific and radically al
ter American operations in the Far
East.
At present the navy maintains a
major fortified naval base at Corre
gidor Island in the entrance to Ma
nila Bay, which is the headquarters
of the Asiatic fleet.
ASK CONGRESSMEN
TO AID MERCHANTS
Governor Appeals For Bill
Imposing Sales Tax On
Outside Goods
Dull) lMsinitch llureuti.
In llii* Ki. Waller Hotel.
||\ J. V. UASKEUVII.L.
Raleigh, B\jd. 24—North Carolina’s
two senators and eleven representa
tives in Congress are being asked by
Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus to help
the merchants in North Carolina by
boting for the bill now before Con
gress which would enable states hav
ing a sales tax to collect the sales tax
on mail order business. The gover
nor’s letter to the State’s delegation
in Washington was made public today.
One of the principal objections of
the North Carolina merchants to the
sales tax has been that it would drive
an increasing amount of their former
retail .trade to the mail order houses
or to merchants in adjoining states.
The bill now pending before Congress
which Governor Ehringhaus asks the
State’s Congresional delegation to sup
port, would invoke the principal of
the Webb-Kenyon law, now in effect,
'to inter-state sales ,of merchandise
and subject such sales to the State’s
3 per cent sales tax. Thus those whom
might seek to save the.amount of the
North Carolina sales tax by buying
from mail order houses or ffrom mer
chants in Virginia or South Carolina
or any border state, would have to pay
the sales tax just the same. The nat
ural inference is that they would then
do their buying at home from local
merchants and pay the sales tax.
This pending bil, the Governor’s let
ter points out, was within the past
few days been unanimously endorsed
by the National Association of Tax
Administrators, meeting in Indiana
polis, Ind., indicating that the states
that do not yet have a sales tax are
fCnnt.lTiiiPd nn Phbp Four '
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Cloudy; probably snow in ex
treme west portion and rain i* l
east and central portions tonight
and Sunday; slowly rising temper
ature.
ONLY DAILY
WIRB SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
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HENDERSON, N. C. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 24, 1934
In addition to this and other small
naval stations, the government owns
a dozen forts and army camps, at
which approximately 5,500 regular
army troops and 6,000 Philippine
scouts are now stationed.
Under the terms of a compromise
independence plan now being negoti
ated in Manila and Washington, the
United States would agree to surren
der all military preserves in the is
lands when the Philippine republic
was established.
Under the Hawes-Cutting law this
woul dtake place sometime between
1945 and 1950.
Greens Sentenced
To Death Penalty
Taylorsville, Feb. 24 (AT) —Nine
<luys ago Bascom Green, 47, and
liis son, Lester, 24, were raptured
as outlaws in Tennessee. Today
they were under sentence of death
as the convicted slayers of T. C.
Barnes, fatally shot last July in
an attempted hold-up of the Mer
chants and Farmers Bank here.
The wheels of North Carolina
justice turning swiftly, the Greens
were sentenced in Alexander sup
erior court last night at the end
of a two-day trial and after a jury
had deliberated less than three
hours.
Waynick Claims It Is Viola
tion of Crop Reduction
Agreements
lliiily Uispnleh Uureua,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
«% J. €. MASKERVIJLL.
Raleigh, Feb. 24.—Lists of tenant
farmers and. their families that have
been out off and turned out by to
bacco farmers evidently because of
having signed tobacco acreagae re
dution contrats, despite the fact that
in signing tobacco acreage reduction
contrats the landlords agree not to
reduce the number of tenants they
have (below' the number they had in
1933, are being compiled Capus M.
Waynick, State director of the
tional Reemployment Service, to sup
port his charges that this is being
done. His declaration made in several
speeches lately that landlord farm
ers are cutting off tenant farmers,
despite the fact that they are violat
ing their tobacco contracts in doing
this, has been challenged by several,
including Dean I. O. Sohaub, of the
U. S. Extension Service at State Col
lege here.
Director Waynick has consequently
written to several of the managers of
county reemployment offices to send
(Continued on Page Two)
MORE ARRESTS IN
FRANCE EXPECTED
Doumergue Cabinet Assured
By Minister of Justice of
Prosecutions To
Follow
PREMIER HIMSELF
WILL JOIN FIGHT
Will Take Hand In Probe of
Stavisky Case and Slaying
of Judge Prilnce, Linked
With Financial Collapse;
Full Facilities From The
Government
Paris, Feb. 24.—(AP)—Henry Cher
on, minister of justice, tokl other
members of the French cabinet gath
ered in a four-hour session today that
new arrests were planned in the
Stavisky scandal.
The cabinet session itself was main
ly devoted to the scandal and to the
recent murder of Judge Albert. Prince,
which has been linked with it.
Premier Gaston Doumergue an
nounced that lie himself would lake a
hand in the probe oi the affairs of
the self-slain Stavisky and his giant
Bayonne pawn shop, which collapsed
and dragged down two governments
with it.
Doumergue said he would jom
Cheron and the heads of two inves
tigating commissions named Iby the
Chamber of Deputies. The premier
promised the investigators the “widest
and most complete” facilities.
Another Os
Touhy Gang
Faces Trial
Banghart Gets Short
Delay To Allow
Time To Get Attor
ney for Defense
Chicago, Feb. 24 (AF) —Basil "The
Owl” Bankhart, who testfied in de
fense of Roger Touhy and two others
in the $70,000 John Factor kidnaping,
was arraigned today in a separate
trial charging him with participation
in the abduction of the wealthy spec
ulator. !
Banghart asked for a continuance
because h ehad no lawyer. Judge
Michael Feinberg set the case over
until Wednesday, saying that if he
did not have an attorney by that time
a public defender would he appointed.
He was arrested in Baltimore re
cently with Isaac Costner, Tennessee
had man, and member of the Touhy
gang who turned State's evidence in
the tria lof Roger Touhy and two
henchmen, which resulted in 99 years
sentences for the trio. (
Former Secretary Os Navy
Denies Ever Owning Stock
In Any Airplane Company
Nine Killed In West In
Two Bus Wrecks Due To
Bad W eather Conditions
Six Mormon Church Work
ers Lose Lives In Arizona
When Westbound
Bus Overturns
UNION PACIFIC BUS
CRASHES ON TRUCK
Driver and Two Negro Pas
sengers Killed in Accident
Near Bethel, Kansas, In
Snowstorm; Driver of
Truck Reported To Have
Escaped Unhurt
Wickenburg, Arizona, Feb. 24 (AP)
-—Rain whipping across a desert high
way brought death to at least six Mor
mon church workers and injury to
more than a score near Aguilla, little
railroad flagstop station 35 miles from
here, early today, when a bus carry
ing them to California overturned.
Five of the dead were tentatively
identified.
All were returning to their homes
in Gardens, Cal., after spending four
days visiting the Mormon temple in
iMesa, near Phoenix. The bus car
ried 35 passengers.
First news of the accident was
flashed by a railroad dispatcher at
Aguillu. An appeal for help had been
taken to the little desert office by a
youth, whose clothing was blood-spat
tered and whose speech was almost
incoherent.
THREE KILLED WHEN IHJS
ON UNION PACIFIC WRECKS
Bethel, Kansas, Feb. 24 (AP) —The
river and two Negro passengers were
killed this morning when a Union
Pacific Stage Lines bus collided with
a truck near here during a snowstorm.
The driver of the truck was report
ed uninjured. However, the bus
driver, Edgar Keith, of Topeka, Kans.
died shortly after the accident.
Guilford Man Is
Found Guilty On
Murder Charges
Greensboro, Feb, 24 (AP)—Rush
Winfrey, 52-year-old Guilford county
farmer, was convicted of second de
gree murder here today in the death
of a neighbor, Paul A Young, follow
ing a drinking bout at Young’s home
last December.
Judge Thomas J. Shaw did not pro
nounce sentence immediately. The
State charged that Winfrey s£ot
Young after an argument in which
his neighbor cut him with a knife.
FACTORY SALES OF
AUTOS CLIMB HIGH
Washington, Feb. 24.—(AP)—
Factory sales of automobiles were
shown by Department of Com
merce statistics today to have
jumped from 84,152 in December
to 161,006 in January.
The January total was some 30,-
000 units over January, 1933, and
more than 40,000 units over Jan
uary, 1932.
Fear Felt
ForEight
On Plane
•Rock Springs, Wyo., Feb. 24. —
(AP) —Fear for the lives of eight per
sons grew today as a wide search was
organized for a United Air Line trans
port plane lost in a raging mountain
blizzard and fog.
The plane, carrying five passengers
and a crew of three from Salt Lake
City toward Cheyenne, Wyoming, fill
ed to reach there on schedule late
yesterday. Officials said it must have
come down last night, probably some
where near here.
This belief hung on a report of a
Japanese section foreman who said
that the plane, frantically calling for
directions, passed over his shack at
Emery, Utah, late yesterday.
PUBLISHED EVERY AB’TERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY'.
Army Mail Pilot Dies
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Lieut. Durward Lowry
Here is Lieutenant Durward
Lowry, army mail plane pilot,
who was killed when hi« plane,
carrying mail from Chicago to
Cleveland, crashed into a woods
near Napoleon, 0., the first fatal
ity since the army began opera
tion of the nation’s airmail sched
ules. Lowry is believed to have
become lost in an early morning
fog and snowstorm.
i
That Is Interpretation Put on
Congressmen’s Cam.
paigin Decision
Washington, Feb. 24. —(AP) — A
quiet effort to shelve Everett San
ders as chairman of the Republican
National Committee was read today
by political observers into the unpre
cedented decision by Senate and
House Republicans to fight next
fall’s campaign “on their own.”
Chairman of the House and Senate
Republican campaign committees an
nounced yesterday that they would
combine to concuct the campaign to
gether without the help of the na
tional committee.
In the decision many an observer
thought he could see the political
finger of McNary, of Oregon, the Sen
ate Republican leader.
For months he has been trying to
prevent a iblitter factional row in the
party ranks from breaking into the
open over the national committee
chairmanship.
Large Crowds At
Funeral Services
Dr. W. McC. White
Raleigh, Feb. 24. —(AP) —One of
largest crowds ever to attend a fun
eral here today paid last tribute to
Dr. W. McC. White, for 26 years pas
tor of the Raleigh First Presbyterian
church.
The large church was filled to over
flowing as more than 2,000 sorrowing
friends from all parts of the State
gathered for the final rites for the
66-year-old minister, who died Thurs
day night after an illness o fa week.
HOLD WINSTON PAIR
ON SERIOUS CHARGE
Win stonrSal em, Feb. 24. —(AP)—
Will Lawson, 22, is being held in the
Forsyth county jail charged with
criminal assault upon a 12-year-old
white, girl, and Leona Macemore,
young white women, is being held as
an accessory before the act as the
result of an investigation of sheriff’s
officers.
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itSSe
Cannot Be Held Down to
Only Ten Percent, He
Tells House Investi.
gatiing Committee
CASE OF MISTAKEN
IDENTITY ON STOCK
Adams Says He Never Had
Any Douglas Aircraft
Shares on Any Other, and
He Sold All Stock In Com.
panies Navy Dealt With on
Taking Office
Washington, Feb. 24.—(AP)—Deny
ing he ever had owned any stock in
an aviation company, Charles Frart
cis Adams, former secretary of th*
navy, told a House committee today
it Would be “impossible” to limit
profits of navy contracts to ten per
cent.
The committee earlier this week
had been told that C. F. Adams, of
Boston, then erroneously identified as
the former secretary of the navy,
owned 500 shares in the Douglas Air
craft Company.
“I have never owned any stock in
the Douglas Aircraft Company or any
other aircraft company,” said the for
mer secretary.
“And I sold any stock I had in any
company the navy might do business
with when I came to Washington.”
Asked about the advisability of li
miting profits to ten percent, Adams
presented a list of contracts he had
signed showing the profit on each,
and added;
“If you examine that I think you
will find it. nlhsolulely impossible. W'h
have a very good check on profits
now.
“It would be very unwise, very un
just, to limit, profits to ten percent.”
Brittin Finishes
Sentence in Jail;
Looking for Job
Washington, Feb. 24. —(AP) —L. H.
Brittin, former vice-president of North
west Airways, was released from Dis
trict, of Columbia jail today after serv
ing a ten-day sentence for contempt,
of the Senate.
He was sentenced along with Wil
liam T. McCracken, attorney and for
mer assistant secretary of commerce,
in connection with removal of docu
ments under subpoena by the Senate
air mail investigating committee.
McCracken announced that he
would appeal to the court, but Brit
tin preferred to go ahead and serve
his time.
“I don’t know what I will do o«r
where I will go,” Brittin said befor*
his release.
“My first business will be to find
a job—any job.”
Postal Head
Denies Any
“Sta te ment”
Farley Tells House
Committee He Nev
er Did Make “Re
mark” on Senator
Washington, Feb. 24. —(AP)—Post-
master General Farley today denied
to the Senate air mail committee that
he had made a “personal remark” to
Walter F. Brown about Senator Black
Democrat, Alabama, committee chair
man, as some inferred yesterday
from testimony of the former post
master general.
A “personal remark”, Brown said
yesterday, was made by Farley on
the occasion of his visit to the post
master general’s office to return of
ficial ocean and air mail correspon
dence he said was found among his
personal effects.
He had refused demands of com
mittee members to say what the re
mark was without Farley’s consent.
Farley came from North Carolina to
deny the implication.