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

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11KNPERSON
CATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
ROOSEVELT ASKS STILL SHORTER WORK
Generous Lending
Urged Upon Banks
By The President
With Banks, Industry and
Agriculture Pulling To
gether, “We Can’t
Be Stopped”
NEW YORK’S MILK
TRICE LAW UPHELD
Supreme Court Divides Just
As It Did on Minnesota
Mortgage Mora torium;
Upholds Much Recent Fed
eral Legislation; Trail Leak
on Air Mail Ruling
Washington, March 5. <AP> Pres
ident Roosevelt beckoned the banks
toward a more liberal lending policy
today at a time when the Supreme
Court was rendering a decision vital
to the administration's program.
By 5 to 4, the same margin with
which the Minnesota mortgage mora
tetium low was upheld, the court sus
tained the New York minimum milk
price law on grounds that the emeV
ncy justified it. Should the finding
Imv< been to the contrary, much re- j
■‘tit Federal legislation would have;
!>► "ii considered jeopardized.
Mr. Roosevelt's message to t;ie ,
ii.mk.s was in his address to the NRA i
••ndc authorities, saying:
If tiie banks come along,, my
fijotids we will have the three great j
elements of American life working to- |
"ether industry, agriculture and j
then we can't be stopped."
Tiie Senate, meanwhile, heard more
attacks <ni the naval construction bill,
hik! tiie House passed several mea
(Continued from Page Two.)
Wvnckoop Defense
Rests Its Case In
Trial at Chicago
Chicago, March ft (AlM—The de
fense in the trial of Mrs. Dr. Alice
Lindsay Wynekoop rested its case at
11:01, central standard time today. It
marked the beginning of the third
wek <if the retrial of the 63-year-old
physicians on charges of murdering
h* i daughter-in-law, Rheta, on an op
etating table.
The rest followed a brief appear
ance of the defendant and her son,
Walker, on the witness stand.
The defendant, weak and white aft
“i a night of illness at the county
mil. testified in a low and trembling
voice.
Kills Wife,
31 )a lighters
And Himself
Middle - Aged South
Carolina Mill Work
er Wipes Out His
kntire Family
Uurens, S. C., March s.—(AP> J.
1 ’ Ross, HO, killed his wife and three
early this morning fend
"on iiiinied their home down around
lii own body, announced
,lu, ing Mie course of their investiga
tion.
At a hastily convened coroner’s in
'l'o* 1 meagre evidence indicated Russ
w his wife and daughters with an
>,x *' and then shot himself after set
t'pß the home afire.
The d<-ad are the wife, Cynthia, 4b,
;, "'l Helen, 16, Ruth, 13, and Ruby, 11.
Tin family lived slightly apart front
"•her families in a. mill village near
ti'ic and the deaths were not dis
< i< d until flames from the burning
home attracted attention, although
oMßiiboiii had previously noted a dla
huia.nce when Russ went home late
in the night.
The bodies of Mrs. Russ and two
'I, the children were found in the
• V; od. while that of Russ and the
' l(i, u daughter were taken from the
"•ins of the house.
Physicians testified at the inquest
"•'U Russ had suffered from ill health
h>r some time and that he had been
'•'■pressed mentally.
Iflrniicrsmt Datlu Btsuatrh
Congressman and
Four Judges File
Raleigh. March 5 (AP)—Notices
of their eaiuiidueies for reitotnina
tion were filed today with the
State Board of Election* hy Chief
Walter I\ Stacy and Asociate .lust
ice lleriot Clarkson and W. ,1.
Adams of the State Supreme Court,
and Congressman Edward W. Puu
of the fourth Congressional dis
triet, and Judge Michael Sclienck,
of the State Superior Court..
HABEAS CORPUS IS
DENIED QUARTETTE
TRANSYLVANIA MEN
. . __
Judge T. B. Finley Refuses j
Writ for I* our Seeking
To Avoid Terms In
State Prison
WITHOUT AUTHORITY
TO ACT, HE ASSERTS
Lawyers For Defendants
Given Two Hours To Look
Up Law Giving Him Right
To Stay Sentence Pending
Certiorari iln the State
Supreme Court
Hendersonville, March ft.—(AP)
Judge T. B. Finley today refused a
writ of habeas corpus for four Tran
sylvania county men who are seeking
to avoid service of prison terms in
flicted for bank law violations.
The decision followed a hearing at
Marion February 22 on the original
petition.
The men, who have been at liberty
under SIO,OOO bonds, were remanded
into the sheriff’s custody. They are:
Thomas H. Shipman, Joseph Pickel
seimer, C. R. McNeely and Ralph
Fisher. They were convicted in Au
gust, 1931, of selling Transylvania
county bonds, and depositing the mon
ey in the Brevard Banking Company
in an effort to prevent its failure.
Immediately after this mornings
decision, counsel asked Judge Finley
to continue the defendants bonds un
til a writ of certiorari could be ask
ed of the State Supreme Court, but
the judge ruled he himself was with
out authority to do so.
He then gave counsel two hours in
which to gather authorities by which
they said they hoped to prove him
empowered io allow the bond.
NAVY AIRMAN LOST
IN HAMPTON ROADS
Norfolk. Va., March S.—(AP) —
At least, one navy flier is believed
to have lost his life this morning
when a navy amphibian plane
plunged into Hampton Roads and
submerged.
Insull Is
Ordered To
Leave Now
Athens, Greece, March 5 (AP)—■
The ministry so the interior an
nounced tonight that Samuel In
sull, Sr., must leave Greece to
morrow.
Athens, Greece, March 5. —(AP)—
The foreign minister telephoned the
American minister to inform Wash
ington today that he had ordered the
immediate expulsion of Samuel In
sull.
The minister of the interior, the
American embassy was informed, was
directed to see that the former Amer
ican utilities operator left Greece and
his expulsion was expected at once.
There were no signs around the In
sull apartment that preparations were
being made for a departure. Insull has
not applied for either a Greek travel
permit or a new American passport.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
L JFt^ ED WIRE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
HENDERSON, N. C. MONDAY
Dillinger, Notorious Killer and Bandit, Escapes From Indiana Jail
Li one of the most daring jail-
InPsnks in the history of Indiana,
John Dillinger, notorious des
perado, below, escaped from the
Lake county jail, shown left, at
FAYETTEVILLE HOST
TO IS. ROOSEVELT
Coast Line Fast Train Stops
For Her To Take Walk
In The City
SLEEPS RATHER LATE
Enjoys Rare Privilege as Train Rolls
Through North Carolina; On
Way South for Flight Over
Ocean Area.
Fayetteville, March 5.—(AP)— The
crack speedster train, the Havana
Special was stopped here this morning
to give Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
a. morning walk -long enough for her
to walk up the streets of Fayetteville
and visit the old market house.
MRS. ROOSEVELT SLEEPS
FAR INTO THE MORNING
Rocky Mount, Aboard Havana Spe
cial with Mrs. Roosevelt, March 5. —
(AP)—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt re
velled this morning in a rare privilege
to her —the chance to sleep as long
as she wanted -as she sped southward
for the first over-the-ocean flight ever
taken by a President’s wife.
She is bound for Porto Rico- and
its poverty problems for “first-hand
information.” and after this visit she
will pay a. call on the Virgin Islands
before returning to the White House.
Today—the first day of her seedad
year as first lady—she sped quietly
through North Carolina., where no
crowds were at railway stations to
greet her because of a sudden change
in plans for her trip. And she -slept.
At first she planned to take a plane
and leave Washington at 10:40 a. m.,
but fog prompted her to start by train
at 3:25 a. m. With her dictation of ar
ticles all done, and her income tax
made out. in advance of her thip, Rfra.
Roosevelt still had along two catch
up pieces of work today.
“There are some letters I have to
write and some bills I have to pay—
but I have them all right here with
me,” she said. She had no secretary
with her, so whatsoever she did would
be by her own hand.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Generally fair tonight and Tues
day; not quite so warm tonight;
colder Tuesday.
FOR HENDERSON.
For 24-hour period ended at
noon today: Highest temperature,
65; lowest, 56; trace of rain; south
west wind; partly cloudy.
AFTERNOON, MARCH 5,1934
Crown Point, Irrth, with the aid
of a negro " gunman, who held
eight guards at bay with a ma
chine gun while the gangster lied
from the heavily-armed jail. Some
Farmers Waking Up To
Burden Os Tobacco Tax
Saturday’s Meeting In Raleigh Indicative of Attitude of
Growers About Federal Levies on Manufactured
Product; Mr. Falkner Is Speaker
Daily Dispatch liureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASK lilt VI LI,.
Raleigh, March s.—The tobacco far
mers of the State are at last begin
ning to wake up to the fact that they,
as well as the consumers, are paying
a large portiion of the $400,000,000 a
year which the Federal government
collects from taxes on tobacco and
that -t. is time for them to begin try
ing to do something about getting
the Federal tax reduced, if the meet
ing of representative tobacco grow
ers here last Saturday is any indi
cation of the trend of thought among
the farmers as a whole. This meeting
also indicated that it might be well
for the tobacco farmers to give serious
thought to cooperating more with the
tobacco manufacturers in trying to
get lower Federal taxes and thus in
FARMERS TO M
Increase in Price About
Equal to Government
Payment to Growers
Dully Dinpiitrli Boren*.
In the Sir Wiilter Hotel,
BY J. C, BASKERVILL
Raleigh. March s.—Dismayed by
the present outlook for increased
prices for fertilizers, farmers of Nortlh
Carolina and of the South are begin
ning to gear themsedlves for a price
battle with the companies, according
to information reaching the agronomy
department at State College. In some
instances, farmers have denounced
the prices os “extortionate” and say
that unless there is a radical rever
sion downward, less fertidlizer will be
used than was anticipated.
Buying has been heavy in the past
few weeks, as many growers were an
ticipating higher prices. But the great
bulk of the growers are not in a posi
tion to buy until they arrange their
credit facilities for the year and in
the meantime the fertilizer code will
go into effect and the farmers say
(Continued on Page Two.)
of the 24 guards assigned to pa
trol the jail, where Dillinger was
being held for trial on murder
charges, are shown right, below.
At top, Dillinger with Lake Coun
crea.se consumption. For if consump
tion of tobacco can be increased to
the j oint where it will balance with
pjoduction, the tobacco farmers will
rot need any more aid from the gov
ernment, it was pointed out.
It was also pointed out that tobacco
is the only agricultural crop taxed
by the. Federal government now re
ceiving aid from the Agricultural Ad
justment Corjx>ration. The govern
ment. does not tax cotton, or wheat
or corn or hogs or cattle or hay or
peanuts or potatoes, although it is
spending millions of dollars right now
in helping the producers of these
crops. Yet it is collecting at the pre
sent. time approximately $400,000,000
a year from tobacco, with the tobacco
(Continued on Page Two.)
CI iEHOTINEAST
Second, Third and Seventh
Districts Scenes of Pres
ent Combat
Dally Dl'patch Bureau.
In the S»» Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BARKERVILL.
Raleigh, March s.—Several candi
dates seeking the Democratic nomin
ation for Congress in several eastern
districts, especially second, third and
seventh, are reported as becoming
more and more active by various ones
from these districts visiting here dur
ing the past, few days.
Rejx>rts from the seventh district
(the old sixth) are that Clayton Grant,
of Wilmington. New Hanover county,
is doing a lot of active campaigning
throughout the district against Con
gressman J. Bayard Clark, of Fayette
ville, the incumbent. For a while there
were reports that there would be sev
eral others in the race against Clark
but so far Grant is the only one that
seems to be out and busily at work.
It is further reported that Grant has
made a considerable gain in New Han
(Continued on Page Two.)
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
ty Prosecutor Robert G. Estell,
center, and Sheriff Lillian Holly,
in whose custody Dillinger had
reposed. Sheriff Holly was re
ported in hysterics.
WILMINGTON’S CWA
STRIKE IS PARTIAL
i
Work Going Forward as
Usual Except on Five of
16 Projects
SKILLED LABOR OUT
Only Five of 16 Prospects Under Way
Are Affected, According to Mrs.
O’Berry, After Talk to
Wilmington.
Wilmington, March 5. —(AP)—To-
day’s CWA strike in Wilmington and
New Hanover county was far from
general as labor leaders went into con
ference with CWA officials.
Check of the 16 projects in the city
and county revealed that with the ex
ception of five upon which skilled
labor is being used almost exclusively
work is going forward as usual.
E. F. Bland, secretary of the trades
council, which called the strike, for
warded messages to Washington thi»
morning asking the status of the
wage scale and he will submit replies
at a. meeting of CWA workers called
for tonight.
Bland termed the call for the ces
sation of work a “temporary suspen
sion,” emphasizing that it was not a
strike. He said, however, pickets would
be posted at. all projects today.
ONLY FEW PROJECTS ARE
AFFECTED, CWA HEAD SAYS
Raleigh, March 5. (AP) Mrs.
(.Continued on Page Five.)
Steamship
Halts Fire
Out At Sea
New York. March 5. —(AP)—A fire
which broke out aboard the City of
Montgomery of the Savannah Line
early today was reported ,under con
trol shortly after 9 a. m. in a wire
less message from the master to the
coast guard.
The City of Montgomery first wire
lessed notice of the blaze at 6:25 a.
m. Her position is about 46 miles
from Chesapeake . Lightship, off
Chesapeake Bay. Two coast guard cut
ters were steaming to her assistance
from the Norfolk base.
8 PAGES
TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
HOURS
MOF INDUSTRY
JUST NOW IS JOBS
FOR IRE PEOPLE
Only In That Way Can Re
covery Continue and the
Balance Hoped For
Be Restored
LOW INCOMES MAKE
“WHEELS GO ROUND”
President Addresses NRA
Code Leaders and Con
trasts Conditions Today
With Those Year Ago;
•Reorganization “Must Be
for All Rest of Our Lives”
Washington, March s.—(AP)—Pres
ident Rooseveu, presented today to the
assembled NRA code authorities a
summons for further reduction of
working hours as a means to spread
employment.
‘‘l give to industry today this chal
lenge,’’ he said to the industrial lead
ers confronting him in Constitution
Hall. ‘‘lt is the immediate task of in
dustry to re-employ more people at
purchasing wages and to do it. now.’**'
“Only thus can we continue r«»-
covery and restore the balance we
seek. It. is worth while keeping in
the front of our head the thought that
the people in this country whose in
comes are less than $2,000 a year buy
more than two-thirds of all the goods
sold here. II is logical that if the
total amount that goes in wages to
this group of human beings is steadily
increased, merchants, employers tyiXl
investors will in the long run get more
income from the increased volume of
sales.”
The President said that a year ago
today, the day after inauguration day,
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Tax Officials of
State Will Meet
Soon In Raleigh
Chapel Hill, March 6—lt was an
nounced here today that, in prepara
tion for the annual listing of real and
personal property for taxation which
begins in every county in the State on
April 1, the Tax Supervisors’ Divi
sion of The Institute of Government
will meet in Raleigh on March 14 and
15, at which time intensive discus
sions of the problems of tax listing
and valuation will he led by Revenue
Commissionerr A. J. Maxwell, Attor
ney General Dennis G. Brummitt, As
sistant Attorney General A. A. F.
Seawell and O. S. Thompson, Secre
tary of the State Board of Assessment
The meeting, which has the official
sanction of the State of Assessment,
will be devoted chiefly to discussion
of problems regarding the listing of
solvent credits, the Constitutional
exemption on homesteads, the listing
of property by corporations, trustees,
estates and guardians, the methods of
valuing various types of personal pro
perty, and the discovery of property
escaping taxation. All discussions
will be informal and questions from
the floor will be permitted at any
time. i
s2s,oooSum
To Princess
In Her Suit
MGM Loses Libel
Action In London
Court Over Filming
Rasputin Picture
London. March s.— (AP)—The jury
in the libel suit of Princess Irrena
Youssoupoff today awarded her 25,-
000 pounds — $125,000 —against Metro-
Goldwyn-Mayer. Ltd., makers of the
film Rasputin and the Empress.”
Ihf award was made after a dra
matic trial in which Prince Youssoup
off testified that he killed the “mad
monk of Russia,” featured the film.
The attorneys representing Metro-
Gold wyn-Mayer contended that the
character Natasha was purely fic
tional.
The film company promised that it
would make no further showing of
the film.