Henderson daily dispatch., April 21, 1934, Image 1

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HENbKRSON
gateway TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
Twenty-first year
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ROOSEVELT IS ADVISED AGAINST PRICRIXING
Air Mail Contract
Cancellations Are
Upheld By Farley
Says Act 4 Deliberately Mis
construed and Misrepre
sented” In “Poli
tical Sniping”
charges COLLUSION
AND FRAUD EXISTED
Says Millions of Dollars of
Tax Money Went to Avia
tion Companies in Viola
tion of the Law; Speaks at
Cornerstone Laying of Ne
wark Post Office
Nowni'v. X. J.. April 21.—(AF)
Pii-tniHstrf General James A. Farley
today stoutly defended the cancella
tion of oil mail controcts in a speech
tlrlivereil at the laying: of the corner
;o:<t' of the new $6 150,000 post office
8 i;l Fed oral building here
The contract cancellotions, Farley
.mii have been “deliberately miscon
strued and misrepresented" in som*
quarters and have brought on “much
political spining.”
"When one goes behind the fog and
moke screens raised ity selfish fi
nancial and political interests, he finds,
these contracts were conceived anJ
rxfcuted by collusion and fraud, and
that millions of dollars of the tax
payers' money were being distributed
selected groups in violation of the
plain mandate of the law that such
fontiacts could only bet let by com
petitive bidding.” he said.
"Some of the concerns whose con
tracts were conceded were owned or
affiliated with powerful banking in
terests holding and manufacturing
companies.
"Unconscionable profits have bce.i
mail**, and exorbitant salaries and
bonuses have oeen derived from stock
promotions based on these fraudul
ent contiacts. The system in vogue
wa; dishonest, and it was my plain
duty, under the law, to end it all and
put the airmail system on a sound,
honest and legal basis."
Doumergue
In Warning
For World
trench President
Says Order at Home
and Protection
Abroad Assured
Pari?, April 21 <AP)—Premier Gas
p’ ri boume> gue served notice on
rurice and the world today that order
*** be preserved at home and the na
lfai will protect herself abroad.
h“ premier's declaration was made
ln ” nationally broadcast talk.
e said sharply that the govern
en would tolerate no “rebellion
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Farmers’ Tobacco Incomes
About 214 Millions 1933
Increase Over 1932 More Than 100 Percent, With Bene
it Fay menls Included; Prices of All Types 25 Per
cent Higher, With Flue-Cured the Best
Fa?m B A , ? St °“' Ap,U 21 The
' '"inistration estimated today
co ft ' incomc of American tobac
lv .'r ,H Wou * d reach approximate
dur‘ng the 1933-34 mar
-I<K) ! K . an inc, 'case of more than
Inci*"/ nt . oVer the Previous year,
fit , U ' (l ' n CCf, timates were bene
»nado t mPntß totaU,n S $28,000,000,
Kj " producers operating under
f or th Contrac ts. Market receipts
tfcl tis 2 ft eaHOn wcre ex pected to to-
OPOOoor Jo,oo °- compared with $105.-
Price 7 th “ 19332 ‘ 33 Mason,
■ > ° r R " of tobacco aver
«easo nthT percent hi Sher this
tht s V s ast ' des P ite the fact that
lion Pound-? WaS about 200 mll
- percent—above world
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Mark L. Requa
Pondering in a characteristic man
ner before giving an answer to a
question, Mark L. Tteqaa, Repub
lican national committeeman from
California, is pictured testifying
before the senate airmail investi
gating committee in Washington.
During his testimony Requa de
nied that he had sought aid for an
airline company from former
Herbert Hoover.
1211,937 BENEFIT
PAYMENTS IN STATE
All of It For Cotton Except
$36,400 on Wheat, All
Before April 1
VANCE GIVEN $18,176.47
Cleveland County, With $174,779,
Highest County in State; No To
bacco Checks Are In
cluded in Figures
Washington. April 21 (AP)—North
Carolina farmers have been paid $2.-
ft«i .937.35 in benefit payments fofr re
ducing their cotton and wheat crops
under the Farm Administration’s ag 1 -
ricultural adjustment program.
In announcing these figures today,,
Comptroller John B. Payne did not
include the hundreds of checks to to
bacco farmers cooperating in the vol
untary reduction plan, as his report
covered expendiutres only from the
AAA’s organization through March 31.
Wheat payments totalling $36,400.15
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consumption, while the crop in the
1932-33 season was approximately 200
million pounds below.
Higher returns to producers were
made possible, officials said, because
of the prompt action of a large per
centage of tobacco growers, in con
tracting to reduce this year’s produc
tion, and through marketing agree
ments made with domestic tobacco
manufacturers. The manufacturers
agreed to pay higher prices to pro
ducers.
Growers of flue-cured tobacco re
ceived the largest increase <in In
comes. The 1933 crop brought them
$112,000,000. In addition, they re
ceived $8,600,000 in rental benefits an,d
price equalizing payments.
ONLY DAILY
SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIR'mNIA. *
HENDERSON N. C. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 21, 1934
STATE TREASURY’S
CASH BALANCE PUT
JAT $9,826,938,05
But General Fund Continues
To Show an Overdraft
in the March 31
Statement
DEFICIT REDUCED
GENERAL FUND
Highway Fund Has $10,510,-
516 Cash on Hand; Total
Receipts for Fiscal Year to
Date $22,479,744, But $4,-
000,000 Overdraft Cuts It
Sharply
Raleigh, April 21. (AP) North
Carolina had a cash balance in its
State Treasury of $9,826,938.05 on
March 31, but its general fund con
tinued to show an overdraft.
The monthly report of the auditor
and treasurer released today, showed
the general fund deficit had been re
ducedto $7,781,501.65 from the $4,339,-
412.75 it totalled on February 28. but
the highway fund cash on hand of
$lO 510.516.75 was the reason for a
cash balance.
The general fund received $5,846,
743.55 last month to push total receipts
to $22,479,744.93 for the fiscal year,
but an overdraft of $4,084,932 which
existed when the year started, cut the
balance to $18,394,812.
Farmers of U. S.
Get $179,702,687
For Cut In Crops
Washington. April 21. (API
Chester C. Davis, farm administrator,
said today American farmers parti
cipating in acreage reduction on pro
grams up to April 1 had received
$179,702,687.
The payments were made to 1,862,-
532 farmers who signed wheat, cotton
and tobacco contracts, renting por
tions of their acreage to the govern
ment.
The payments were distributed by
commodities as follows:
$112,472,672 to 1,032.15: cotton grow
ers; $65,632,728 to 798,614 wheat farm
ers and $1,597,288 to 31.764 tobacco pro
ducers.
Benefit payments in North Caro
lina totalled $2,8861,937.
Savings of $7,800
Daily Expected on
New Mail Flyings
Washington. April 31. —(AP)—
The Post Office Department ex
pects to save $7,800 a day on the
air mail as a result of the new
bids opened yesterday.
Department officials estimated
Ihe average bids was 30 cents a
mile compared with 42 cents be
fore the old contracts were can
celled.
Examining data accompanying
the bids, officials found that E. R.
Breech, former General Motors
executive, was president of three
companies, Eastern Air Unes.
Inc.. T. W. 1., Inc., and General
Air Lines,; Inc. Breech also is
chairman of North American
Aviation, holding company for the
three lines.
Labor Job
Continues
To Dec. 31
Dally Dlapntoh Boren®,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, April 21 —'Flans to continue
the activities of the National Reem
ployment Service at least for the bal
ance of the present calendar year and
then merge it with a permanent Fed
eral Employment Service to be set up
under the Wagner-Peyser act were
discussed at the conference in Wash
ington, D. C„ this week called by Sec
retary of Labor Perkins, State Direc
tor Capus M. Waynick said today fol
lowing his return from the confer
ence. All of the State directors at
tended the meeting, as well as offi
cials from various divisions of the
department of Labor,in Washington.
Although the National Reemploy
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President Signs
Bankhead Bill For
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Control Os Cotton
Silver Solution
Looms As Likely
- Washington,- Apr®* 21 (AP)-
Hope that a plan of administration
action requiring no legislation can
be worked out to aid the status of
silver was expressed today by Sen
ator Harrison, the acting Demo
cratic leader, following a confer
ence of silver senators with Presi
dent Roosevelt.
President Phillips of State
Association Talks About
Salaries
Dully Diapntch Boren®.
In the Sir Wnlter Hotel.
BY J C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, April 21.—The orth Caro
lina Education Association and its
president, Superintendent Guy B.
Phillips of the Greensboro city schools,
are again putting out misleading pro
paganda and figures concerning the
pay of teachers in North Carolina,
according to several State officials
eber today after attention had been
called to several stories that have ap
peared in some papers lately.
One of these stories, which is based
on figures contained in a bulletin is
sued by the public relations commit
tee of the North Carolina Education
Association, starts with the following
quotation:
“No state in the nation is paying
teachers as much as they are paid in
North Carolina.”
The next paragraph, admitting that
the first statement is not a statement
(Continued on Page Two.)
Elections Board
To Probe Charges
In Bladen Countv
Raleigh, April 21.—(AP)—The.
State Board of Elections today
voted to hold a colled meeting in
Eiizobethton on Monday, April 30,
to investigate allegations f “cor
ruption and crookedness” among
Bladen county election officials.
The hoard also voted to bar from
entry on the official primary bal
lots all candidates who are known
not to have personally signed their
party declaration, or did not have
their notices of candidacy in the
hands of the State board by 6
o’clock last Saturday afternoon.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair tonight and Sunday; warm
er Sunday; light frost in west por
tion tonight.
Aim Is for SouncT Financial
and Economic Basis For
the Industry, Roose.
velt Says
there is nothing
NEW IN THE PLAN
Efforts at Control Urged
Many Times Before; Meas.
ure Is Aimed at Chiselers
Who Refused To Sign for
Cuts and Limit of lO Mil.
lion Bales
Washington, April 21. —(AP) —Presi-
dent Roosevelt today signed the Bank
head compulsory cotton control bill,
and declared its purpose ‘is to place
the jcotton growing industry on a
sound financial and economic basis.”
The legislation is intended to limit
sales from the 1934 crop to 10,000,000
bales in an effort to improve the
status of the commodity.
The President gaveh is views in a
statement after the brief signing cere
mony in the presence of the authors
of the legislation-—Senator Bankhead
and Representative Bankhead, of Ala
bama.
Mr. Roosevelt said:
“I am advised that the overwhelm
ing majority of the youth's cotton
producers desire the enactment of leg
-station now embodied in the Bank
head ibill.
"It aims to prevent small
minority which has refused to. co
operate with their neighbors and th»
government from impairing the ef
fectiveness of the current cotton pro
gram, which now includes 92 per cent
of the cotton acreage.
"There is nothing new in the senti
ment which has resulted in he pas
sage of the Bankheadbill.
During the days of the Confederacy
methods to adjust cotton production
were advocated. Again in 1905, 1915,
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Park Road
Inspected
By Plane
Dolly Diupntch Bnrena
In the Walter Hotel.
BY J. r BA SKKRVILL.
Raleigh, April 21. —Assistant State
Highway Engineer W. Vance Baise is
representing the North Carolina State
Highway and Public Works Commis
sion today on the inspecting trip of
the proposed park-to-park highway,
being made by airplane. Chairman
E. B. effress of the commission haa
expected to ibe able to make the trip
but found it impossible to go, so desig
nated Baise as his representative.
The largem ulti-motored plane was
scheduled to leave Washington this
morning at 8 o’clock with the party
of engineers and architects, and to
return to Washington late this after
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EXCEPT SUNDAY.
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Edward J. Ahearo
Here is the rew Tammany Hall in
New York, vaiiously called the
“Tiger’s Lair,” The Wligwam”, and
other names not quite so poetic by
fees of the organ:: ation. The wigwam
is r.ow a house oivlded as factions
buttled last rrybf for control, result
ing in the complete overthrow of
John F. Curry long time leader and
the election of former New York State
Senator Edward J. A, < urn as leader.
Ahearn sought the place five years
ago when Curry won out. In the lower
part of the picture above is the com
mittee room, which in the days of
Tammany’s power was the “unoffi
cial” City Hall cf New York.
DOCTORS AGREE TO
SLASH IN CHARGES
Medical Association Group
Sees Industrial Commis
sion’s Side of It
Dnlly Diapntch Bnrena
In the Sir Wnlter Hotel.
BY J. C SASKERVILL
Raleigh, April 21—The differences
which have existed for a long time
between some of the doctros in the
State and the State Industrial Com
mission over the fees to be chahrged
in handling compensation cases were
pretty well adjusted here this week in
the conference between the commit
tee named by the North Carolina
(Continued on Page Two.)
Vinson To See President
On Opposing Tobacco Cut
Roosevelt Doubts Wisdom of 40 Percdnt Reduction and
Also Inclines to Graduated Cut in Favor of Low-
Priced Brands, He Told Newsmen Friday
Washington, April 21 (AP) —Rep-
resentative Vinson, Democrat, Ken
tucky, chairman of the House Ways
and Means sub-committee which re
commend a 40 per cent reduction in.
federal tobacco taxes, said today he
planned to confer with the President
before commenting on the latter’s op
position to the proposed reduction.
President Roosevelt told newspaper
men yesterday that he believed a 40i
per cent-reduction would be unwise,
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mSf is
NOTJIIPEAS YET
Friends and Foes of \ Propo
sal Are'Demanding That
Policy Be Enun.
ciated at Once
MERIT OF QUESTION
AVOIDED IN REPORT
Whether Prices Have Risen
too Far Under NR A Regu
lation Not Determined;
Secretary Perkins, Roper,
Wallace and Attorney Gen
eral Make Report
'Copyrighted by the Associated Press)
Washington, April 21 (AP) — Presi
dent Roosevelt has been advised di
rectly by a special cabinet committee
that the creation of a policy on price
fixing is not yet feasible.
This conclusion was laid on the
White House desk by Secretaries
Perkins, Roper, Wallace and Attorney
General Cummings, despite the de
• mands of price-fixing’s friends and
foes that a policy be enunciated.
The report, still withheld from pub
lication, was authoritatively describ
ed as recommending that positively
step he taken to make an objective
judgment possible.
The report is short. It makes no
attempt to decide the merits of ques
tions as to whether prices have risen
too far under NRA price-control pro
visions in codes or whether such pro
visions are being conducted toward
monopoly. ■ .
The document was sai dauthorita
tively as stating that, many factors
besides prices or thei misuse of price
control methods may have brought
harmful results. Thus, it was said- a
specific determination on the part
prices have played is at present im
possible.
Legislation
Feared Less
By Business
U. S. Chamber More
Cheerful In Its Lat
est Statement About
Recovery
Washington, April 21. —(AP) —The
dumber of Commerce of the United
States reported today that the legis
lative situation, which recently ap
peared threatening to Business recov
ery, has become somewhat more as
suring.
“As Congress enters the home
stretch,” the Chamber said in its
Washington review, “a number of
measures are being laid aside to pave
the way for the earliest possible ad
journment.
“Business feans of new regulatory
and reform legislation, are somewhat
relieved as the administration dia«
closes its tentative program for the
remaining weeks of the session Tm*
program, in the main as thus far in
dicated, is more moderate in tone. Its
major items include taxes, reciprocal
tariffs, stock exchange regulations
modification of the securities act.
Labor and silver lfegislation remain
uncertain.’’
in view of the needs of the Treasury.
He also said he thought there was
some merit in the desire of manu
facturers of cheaper cigarettes for a
lower tax than that paid by the so
called standard brands.
Vinson said he was not willing to
comment on the President’s state
ments until he could learn the de
tails of the chief executive’s infor
mation and opinion on the subject, on
a personal conference. __ ,