Henderson daily dispatch., May 07, 1934, Image 1

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("HENDERSON
gateway TO
central
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST year
Samuel Insull Here To Stand Trial
deadlock occurs
IN RELATIONS OF
RUSSIA AND U. S.
Soviets Bitterly Resent Ban
Here on Loans to Their
Country in Trade
Agreement
REFUSE TO ACCEPT
OLD RUSSIAN DEBT
Moscow Says Counter
Claims Against United
States Have Not Been Set
tled; Soviet Business Men
Instructed Not To Buy In
America If Avoidable
Moscow, May 7. <AP>—A deadlock
in Soviet American trade moves loom
ed todav as the result of Attorney
Genetai Cummings’ ruling that Rus
,ia is a defaulter under the Johnson
Act
The tiding shutting off American
cr'-di' to Moscow is bitterly resented
here.
The Russian government contends
that it cannot be held to have default
ed on the Kerensky debt because of
intervention and counter claims
against America remain unsettled.
It is understood soviet economic or
ganizations already have been in
structed to make no purchases from
America which can be made else
where.
Court To
Rale Upon
Long Suit
Washington, May 7 (AP) —The Su- I
proroe Court today agreed to rule on j
the action of District of Columbia
courts requiring Senator Huey Long,
of Louisiana, to stand trial on a $600,-
000 suit brought against him by Gen
eral Samuel T. Answcll.
Long, in a Senate speech in Febru
ary. l r '33. assailed Ansell, who had
acted as counsel for a Senate commit
tee investigating the election to the
senate of John H. Overton.
Contending that he had been libell- I
ed by the Long speech, which had !
v een circulated in tbfi Congressional
Record, Ansell brought suit in the!
I'ivnct of Columbia Supreme Courf,
Summons was served on Long, who
claimed immunity as a member of
-ongreau. and challenged the validity
of the action.
Thp trial court and the District of
-olumbia court of Appeals both held
'* ar Lon S must stand trial on the
barges presented in the suit. *
Carolina’s
Income I ax
Increase In 1933
Washington, May 7 (AP)—Nortn
■ n.ma s individual income tax
r*- urns j n 1933 exceeded by 2,877
number filed in 1932,
r he state’s total returns fcr 1933
ut> r. Helvering, internal revenue
commissioner, announced today,
*4#>» '' ,WW- * n 1*32, there were
France Will
Default On
Debt Again
~r fourth l ime No
payment Will B e
.June 15 on
Debt Owed to U. S.
French’ ,t^ y 7 ‘ (AP >—The fourth
the
by hiirh f , ates is considered certain
of thf. ! cials ' who spoke privateiy
The . U<iS lon today.
tr;tiation° fllClalß as »crted that no ne
atly f)r S i '!?. re^ard to the debts “di
*r- Ss lee. I */ Irectly ’ have been in pro
sit-uatir.r V ' and add ed that the
' 18 m,>rf! confused than ever”.
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A crisis in Arabian affairs that is endangering interests of British and other foreigners, is expected to
bring Col. T. E. Lawrence, one-time “uncrowned ruler of Arabia,” out of his obscure role as an enlistee
man in British air corps, and send him back to desert as peacemaker. Ibn Saud, king of Saudi, precipitated
crisis by using planes, machine guns and other modern implements of war to overcome Imam of Yemen
and capture his territory, including important city of Hodeida. (Central Pressj
Settlement Os War Debt
With Finland Is Planned
By President Roosevelt
Quarter Billion Dollar R. F. C. Fund for Loans to Indus,
try on House Program; Roosevelt amd Silver Sena,
tors Make Further Attempts To Agree
Washington, May 7 (AP) —Speaker
Rainey today said he understood
President Roosevelt intends to make
a war debt settlement with Finland,
which is not in default, and then re
commend a similar agreement with
other nations.
Asked when he expected a debt mes
sage from tha President, the speaker
said at his press conference that he
mentdid not know.
The intimation was that the settle
ment with Finland could be held up
FEWER ESCAPES AT
PRISONEXPECTED
Group Conferences Over
State Relied on By Offi
cials for Effect
Dally Dispatch Dnreaa,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. IMHKERVILL.
Raleigh, May 7.—Much
discipline and fewer escapes of prison
ers are expected to result from the
series of divisional conferences held
last week and to be held again this
week, according to Deputy Warden L.
G. Whitley, in charge of morale and
discipline in the various units in the
State prison system. Last week divi
sional meetings were held in Divisions
A and B, at which all the engineering
officials and prison officials partici
pated and talked over problems in an
effort to secure better coordination.
One of these meetings was held in
Wilson Wednesday for Division A, and
m Goldsboro Thursday for Division B.
A similar conference meeting for the
highway and prison officials in Divi
sion C will be held in Greensboro on
Wednesday of this week. The Division
D meeting will be held in Newton on
Thursday and the .Division E will i>e
held in Asheville Friday.
“The principal topics discussed at
these meetings are how to improve
prison discipline and morale, how to
improve the guarding of prisoners in
order to secure a minimum number of
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L ™S7“?.ZX" s ®Rvice of
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Lawrence’s Return Awaited in Arabian Crisis
HENDERSON, N. C. MONDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 7, 1934
to the rest of the world as an indica
tion of what the United States would
do if other nations in default agreed
to pay up to date.
President Roosevelt has said he in
tended to send a debt message to
Congress, soon but no indication was
given as to its contents.
The next installments on war debts
are due June 15.
Negotiations with Finland have
been in progress for some time. It
is the only nation that has paid in
full.
Could Do Much Better Job
Patrolling Roads But For
That, Is Claim
Dully Dispatch Barrai,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J CL BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, May 7. —ighway patrolmen
could handle 10,000 morem iles of
highway per day, or cover 30,000 miles
of additional highwap per month, m
seeking out reckless and drunken
drivers and speeders in the enforce
ment of the highway apd motor ve
hicle laws generally if they did not
have to do all the gasoline and oil in
spection work and collect revenue, in
the opinion of Captain Charles D.
Farmer, commander of the patrol. But
since the 1933 General Assembly put
these other duties on the patrol and
well, the patrolmen are doing the best
made of it a tax collecting force as
they can.
“We are notcomplaining and are do
ing the best we can,” Captain Farmer
said. “But the patrolmen, of course,
cannot spend as much time patrolling
(Continued on Page Four.)
NRA DECIDES UPON
A TELEGRAPH CODE
Washington, May 7 (AP) —The
NRA today decided to impose a
code upon the telegraph industry.
NRA BUS PLEA IS
REFUSED BY I. C. C.
Sought To Abrogate Permit
to Railroads for 11-2
Cents Fares
BUSES SEEK RELIEF
Case Decides for Southern Railway,
But Applies Likewise to Other
Railroads Operating
in the South
Washington, May 7. (AP)—The In
terstate Commerece Commission today
turned down the plea of the NRA for
an increase in railroad passenger fare
rates in the southeast.
In a brief memorandum the com
mission granted the Southern Railway
Company permission to continue to
charge 1 1-2 cents a mile for travel in
day coaches and three cents a mile
in sleeping and parlor cars for six
months after May 31.
Similar permission was granted to
other carriers in the southern terri
tory if they wish to stick to the one
and one half and three cent rates or
to establish a two cent rate for
coaches,, if they desired.
Expansion
Os Credit
Discussed
Washington. May 7 (AP)—Credit ex
pansion plan made headway today in
Congress to the accompaniment of
more attempts of President Roosevelt
and silver senators to agree.
The stock exchange control bill was
put first in the Senate. The House
sought means of cutting some gov
ernment expenses by eliminating vari
ous appropriations.
Well up in line for .future floor de
bate was placed a bill to create a
quarter billion dollar R. F. C. revolv
ing fund for direct five-year loans to
industry. The Senate Banking Com
mittee approved it. Jesse Jones, R. F.
C. chairman, told a House committee
the President favors such loans in
supplement to the Glass bill for Fed
eral Reserve Bank loans.
Before sitting down again with leg
(Continued on Page Four.)
Weather
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Generally fair tonight and Tues
day; cooler Tuesday and in. ex
treme north portion late tonight.
MAY Si! BADLY
IN NEXTASSEMBL Y
Profession School Politicians
Making Mistake In At
-I’. tack on 1933 Leg
islature
*■.< ■ i ■
MISREPRESENTATION
OF SITUATION SEEN
Statements Being Made Not
Born Out by Facts, Is
Claim; Four Good and
Nine Bad Points in Forsyth
Man’s Statement of School
Conditions
Dully Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
BY J. C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, May >.— While some of the
professional school politicians con
tinue to attack the 1933 school law
and the General Assembly that enact
ed it and to misrepresent the entire
law and what it does, experienced ob
servers here are convinced that this
misrepresentation of the facts con
cerning the present school law is go
ing to react against the school forces
in the next General Assembly. No
matter how misguided by this propa
ganda the members of the 1935 Assem
bly may be when they first get here,
they will have an opportunity to learn
the real facts before they get away,
with the result that they are going
to find out that most of the charges
that have been and are beieng made
against the present system of State
operation of the public school system
are not true, those who know the facts
here maintain.
The latest broadside fired at the
present =State-supported eight months
school term, and which has (been given
wide publicity in the Raleigh News
and Observer and other papers in the
‘Continued tn Paae Four.)
Merchant
Meet Hits
Sales Tax
High Point, May 7. (AP) —Willard
Dowell executive secretary of the
North Carolina Merchants Association,
in his report to the annual conven
tion of the association, which today
day opened here its two-day session,
launched a vigorous assault upon the
North Carolina general sales tax, and
offered the opinion that the General
Assembly which will meet in January
will be a “new legislature” composed
overwhelming of “new men” commit
ted to the removal of the tax, which
he assailed as a business destroyer
which serves to pauperize the poot.
More than 150 merchants from all
parts of the State attended the morn
ing session, which concerned itself
principally with reports of the offi
cers and various committees.
MWILEW
One Man Held as Seizure Is
Made in South Carolina
Farmer Case
Sumter, S. C., May 7. (AP) —An at
tempt to extort $5,000 from J. F.
Bland wealthy Sumter county farmer,
was revealed today with the arrest of
Ovie Mathis, 19, who was charged
with writing the extortion letter.
Officers revealed that Bland last
week receeived a letter instructing
him to put $5,000 in small bills in a
package and leave it at Cane, Savan
nah station, Sunday. The letter was
signed “Southern Gangsters” and
threatened death if he failed to fol
low instructions.
The farmer notified officers, and
under their direction left a dummy
package at the station while they
watched from hiding.
An automobile occupied by a Negro
and a white man drove up, and the
Negro got out and secured the pack
age. As he started back to the car, the
officers called- on him to surrender,
opened fire when he ran. The Negro
fled into the swamp and escaped, but
apparently was wounded.
The driver of the automobile sped
off. Officers said, however, that tney
recognized him as aMthis, and the
youth was arrested early today.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Dethroned Utility
King Speeded Off
On Way To Chicago
Wins Doctor’s Degree
Eleanor G. Brown
Here is Eleanor G. Brown, 46-
year-old blind woman of Dayton,
0., who will receive the degree of
doctor of philosophy from Co
lumbia university, New York
City, at the commencement ex
ercises in June. Miss Brown,
sightless since the age of 11, is
believed to be the first woman to
earn the degree while blind.
willbeeSd
Officers Make Prediction
After Return from Trip
Into Old Mexico
SILENT BEYOND THAT
Man and a Woman With Child About
Age of June Robles Seen Cross
ing Border; Little Heiress
Kidnaped
Tuscon, Ariz., May 7. (AP)—
Clarence Houston, Pima county
attorney, at 10:45 a. m. today deni
ed reports that June Robles had
been found or that herkidnapers
had been arrested. His strict or
ders, Houston said, are that he is
to be the first notified of any such
developments.
Tucson, Ariz., May 7. (AP) —Return-
ing from an extended trip into the
State of Sonora, Oliver White, chief
criminal deputy of Santa Cruz coun
ty at Nogales, Ariz., said today that
June Robles, six-year-old kidnaped
heiress, is alive and may be returned
to her parents within 2b hours.
“I can state with a clear conscious
ness that June Robles is still alive
and probably will be returned within
24 hours,” White said.
Beyond that he would mcke no
statement, saying that authorities had
agreed to “do nothing and not inter
fere with the safe return of the
child.”
ASK BIDSfORSIX
NEW PRISON CAMPS
Will Cost About $26,000
Each, And All In West
Carolina But One
n»llr Diapntoh Barota,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
BY .1. C BASKERVILIi
Raleigh, May 7.—Specifications have
already been prepared and bids called
for on most of the materials to be
used in the construction of six new
prison camps to cost about $26,000
eaqh, it was learned today from W. Z.
Betts, in charge of the highway pur
chasing of the Division of Purchase
and Contact. These bids will be open
ed by the Division May 9 and con
struction is expected to start as soon
as possible after bids have been re
ceived and the contracts let. All these
prison camps will be built according
to the same general specification us
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TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
Two Bench Warrants For
His Arrest Are Issued by
Federal Judge at
Chicago
his midas Touch
IS ALL GONE NOW
Charges Carrying Long Pri
son Sentences Will Face
Oince Powerful Business
Czar; Thousands of Invest
ors Denounce Him for
Swindles
New York, May 7 (AP) —The god
dess of Liberty, who smiles welcome
to the humblest immigrant, held an
ironic torch today for Samuel Insull,
runaway Midas and patron of classic
songs, come home at last to face the
music.
Once he came—a young Englishman
then —1$ a New York full of hope and
dreams. He returned today a broken
man at 74, his Midas Jouoh gone, and
the maledictions of half a million in
vestors ringing like swelling disson
ances about his head.
The government of the United
States provided a welcoming commit
tee—officers who moved secretly to
take him from the steamer Exilona
and start him quickly overland to
Chicago, where charges carrying long
prison sentences have been placed
against him.
The Exilona, aboard which Insull
was delivered by the 'government of
Turkey, on demand of the United
States, arrived off Sandy Hook dur
ing the night. She had proceeded
slowly for several hours before that,
so as not to reach quarantine ahead
of the officers assigned to take the
one-time king of utilities in charge.
Insull was landed at Fort Hancock,
N. J., at 8:15 a. m., daylight time
today.
He was taken to Princeton Junc
(Continued On Page Four.)
Big Blaze
Eats Into
Cork Plant
Lyndhurst, N. J., May 7. (AP)—Fire
raged today in the $400,000 plant of
the United Cork Company on Grant
avenue, threatening the entire estab*
lishment and forcing the D. L. and
W. railroad to suspend its service
through the city.
Three of the seven buildings com
prising the huge plant were quickly
destroyed, causing damage estimated
by firemen at $125,000. The blaze then
spread to the fourth building in the
series, and threatened to continued!
its destruction despite the efforts of
fire companies from five towns to
halt it.
Strikers
Returning
For Jobs
Automobile And
Leather Workers
and Coal Miners
End Walk-Outs
(By Tho Associated Press)
A wholesale march of workers out
of the strikel ines into the shops and
mines was ordered today as four,
major labor disputes were settled.
Automobile industry strikes at St.
Louis and Kansas City a leather work
ers strike at Peabody, Mass., and a
coal miners strike at Vandergrift,
Penn., ended, bringing more than 10,-
000 men back to their posts.
Thfe strike in the Chevrolet and
Fisher body plants at St. Louis and
Leeds, Mo., Kansas City suburb, were
settled on identical proposals by R. L.
Byrd, labor member of the National
Automobile Board. ,