Henderson daily dispatch., May 09, 1934, Image 1

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CENTRAL
CAROLINA
T WENTY-FIRST YEAR
NORTH CAROLINA GETS LEAS
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Roosevelt Demands War Debt Payments, But Will Listen To Appeals
MEN PAYMENTS
WILE 8E DECIDED
ON THEIR MERITS
Debtor Nations Thai Have
Made Such Payments
Exempted So Far from
Credit Ban
OFFERING NO TERMS
OF DEBT REVISIONS
President Also Says No Ne
gotiations Have Been Ent
ered Into With Foreign Na
tions Obligations Due Next
Morth; No Relief Asked,
Either, As Yet
Washington. EMay #9 <AP> —Presi
dent Roosevelt emphasized today that
ttio United States standards for col
lation of war debts, hut will grant a |
hearing to nations in distress who j
ask for reduced payments.
Whether token payments, which
have been made in the past by Great
Britain and some other debtors, will
he accepted in June will be deeded
upon the merits of the individual case, j
the President say* at his press con- !
ference.
Debtor nations which have made j
token payments a part of the obli
gation owed have been exempts! so
fat from the rigid terms of the John
son bill barring financial transactions
with the United States by defaulting
debtors.
The President said that no negotia
tions have been entered into with for
eign nations for payments due next
June 15.
No applications have been made for (
a hearing for reduced payments.
It was made plain that the United j
States still insist s upon war debts
collections and is offering no terms
of revision. , tfc ’
TELEPHONE ORDER
TO AID WINBORNE
Move for Lower Rates Takes
Winds Out of Sails of
His Opponent
Dally Dl i»n*oh Bureau,
tn *hc Sir Walter Hotel,
ni V. ItAMKKIiVII,L.
Raleigh, May 9.—The order issued
week bv Utilities Commissioner
Stanley Winborne, citing Southern
Bell Telephone Company to appear
*i d «how -’auite why its rates should
not be reduced from 20 to 35 per cent.
' North Carolina i 3 r.garded in poli
hni circles here to have greatly
honed his chances for nominee
hon a? utilities commissioner in the
June 2 primary. It is also regarded
a Utving d» pi ived his single oppon-
K C. Macon, of Asheville, of
heietofore has been his chief
*« lki l -<■ point, namely, that the pres
,nt Utilities Commission has not done
•Continiieo on Fa«e 'T^ree.)
France Asks
Attitude On
Debts Here
Important Movement
°n Debt Situation
Expected at Capital
In Few Days
Washington. May 9 (AP)-Coinci-
J nt W ‘’B a statement by President
bori • 11 ,hat United States ex
•hii' * UI! ~!jy rnent on war debts in
r Unl,; ss there are convincing
Boui. 11 . Jl^j Uf, tments—Andre de Le
ferr f the Fl ' , ’ Rnch ambassador con
offic i today with state Department
of r !! H , 011 that country’s obligations
of u „ ar , y tour dollars, on part
1,* hlch i» In default.
dor J‘ Slt with William Phillips, un
? cretar V of state added to the
vCantmued on Page Seven.)
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InsulVs Bond May Be Cut
In Half To Free Prisoner
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By looking at these pictures of Samuel Insull, former Chicago utilitle*
czar, it is possible to gauge what an 18-months flight from justice can
do to a man. At left, Insull is shown as he appeared on arrival back
on United States soil; at right, one of the last pictures made of him
before his flight from Chicago. (Central Press)
One Han Held In
Robles Kidnaping
Boiler Explosion
Fatal to Woman
Tyler, Texas, May 9. (AP—One
person was killed .and five others
were hurt seriously today when a
boiler in a cleaning plant here e*
ploded and was blown into another
building across an alley. Miss Lucy
Lee Andrews, 38< ’employe at a
hardware supply store next to tnc
cleaning plant, was killed.
One wall of the cleaning plant
was blown out, and windows in the
vicinity were shattered. The cause
of the blast was not determined.
CONGRESS ARGUES
STOCKSJILITIES
Members Speculate on Im
pending Battles Over
Numerous Problems
Washington, May 9. (AP The
Roosevelt attitude on war debts and
silver was re-defined in part for a
listening world today at the White
House.
At the Capitol end of Pennsylvania
avenue the arguments of the moment
had to do with stock exchange control
and legal procedure in utility rate
cases. Here and there legislators clus
tered in private, however to assess the
latest turn on controversies yet to
come.
They were not long in learning that
the President after his press confer
ence, signed the sugar control bill, and
planned to do the same with the 3417-
000,000 tax bill tomorrow.
There was divided opinion on his re
duction of the sugar tariff by half a
cent a pound.
Therew as nothing substantially new
in the Presidential stand on debts and
silver.
The silver case remained one of
waiting for putting into bill form the
tentatively agreed declaration of policy
for nationalization of the metal, and
to set an objective of having a quar
ter of the currency based on the metal.
The President wants discretion left to
him in effecting a broadening of bi
metalism. ....
Incidentally, he favors legislation ai
this session to control oil production.
WEATHER
FOB NORTH CAROLINA
Generally fair and warmer to
night and Thursday.
ONLY DAILY
-ERVICE OP
IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
How Flight Changed Insull
f NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OP NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. *
HENDERSON, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 9, 1934
Document Written by the
Man and Giving Details
of the Plot Has Also
Been Found
HE IS IDENTIFIED
AS BEING MEXICAN
Person Delegated To Collect
Ransom After Another
Man and Woman Took
Six-Year=old Tucson Heir
ess Into Mexico Frightened
Away by Search
Tucson, Ariz:, May 9 (AP)—The
Asociated Press was told by an autho
ritative source today that one of the
men who figured in the kidnaping
plot of June Robles, six-year-old heir
ess, *has been found by investigators
and is now within their custody.
It also was told that a written docu
ment giving details of the plot, and
location where the child had been
secreted, was found, penned by the
man.
Not formally under arrest nor the
subject of any charges, the man has
been in the custody of investigators
(Continued on Pave Three )
Wets, Drys
Await New
Enforcing
Federal Government
Plans Drive Against
Evasion of U. S.
Liquor Tax
Dally Dispatch Darrm,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
BV .1. C BASKERVILL
Raleigh, May 9.—Both wets and drys
are interested in the announcement
that the Bureau of nternal Revenue
is going to go after bootleggers and
liquor tax evaders with vigor, as the
result of the organization of an en
forcement unit of 4,000 special agents
They are especially interested in how
many of these enforcement officers
are going to be allocated to North
Carolina and who will ibe in command
(Continued on Page Ssven)
on Hotly Hisoatrb
WRIT IS GRANTED
BY JUDGE SPARKS
AND HEARING SET
Utilities Defendant Prepar
ed To Furnish SIOO,OOO
Bail for His Release
from Jail
TO BE ARRAIGNED
IN COURT FRIDAY
Use of Mails To Defraud and
Also Violation of Bank
ruptcy Laws Are Charges
to Which Once Mighty
Captain of Indusry Must
Answer at Trial
Chicago, May 9. (AP) —Judge Wil
liam M. Sparks, of the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals granted a
habeas corpus writ for Samuel Insull
this afternoon, and agreed to hear pe
tition at 9:30 a. m. tomorrow for the
reduction of his $200,000 bond.
The petition signed by Insull him
self in the county jail hospital, was
presented by his attorney, Floyd E.
Thompson, after another Federal
judge had refused an informal motion
to trim the heaviest Ibond ever requir
ed in a Chicago Federal court.
Thompson said he would argue that
5100,000, which Insull can furnish was
imple bond to assure his appearance
for trial, and that theh igher sum was
exhorbitant and violated his constitu
tional rights.
Judge Sparks said the aged defend
ant need not appear in his court for
the hearing. He will remain ap risoner
(Continued on Page Three.)
Two Killed
In Battle In
Mine Areas
Guardsmen Patrol
Alabama Field; Dy
namite Destroys
Coal Valley House
Birmingham, Ala., May 8. (AP —
Steelhelmeted National Guardsmen,
bayonets flashing in the sun today pa
trolled the quiet mining district in eJt
ferson county where last night’s short
but deadily pitched battles between of
ficers and strikers brought two deaths
and the wounding of eight others.
As the guardsmen, hastily rushed to
Ishkooda patrolled the district, search
ing the battle areas for additional
wounded, Sheriff James M. ©awkms
announced he would place evidence or
communist agitation before a grand
jury now in session.
The announcement was made after
Sheriff Hawkins had questioned three
lAligroes arrested on charges of assault
(Continued on Page Two.)
Six Die As Plane Falls
In The English Channel
Le Bourget, France, May 9.
(AP)OThe Air France, tri-motored
plane, Breguet, with her crew of
three and three passengers was
lost with all hands in the English
channel today.
Her wreckage was sighted 18
miles northwest of Boulogne by
rescuep lanes sent out from Croy
don airdrome England aryl
Bourget field.
Le Bourget, France, May 9 (AP)
—Pour Frenchmen and two Eng
lishmen were believed killed today
Poisdllß Family
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Chester Barrett '
Chester Barrett, 32-year-old fa«
: ther, assertedly has signed a con
fession at Sapulpa, Okla., that he
administered poison to his wife
and eight children on the pretext
that it was medicine because he
“could not bear to see my family
starve”. Three of the children
died and other members of the
family were made ill by the
poison. Barrett has been charged
with murder.
EASTERN COUNTIES
CONffIOUSSEIEY
They Are Re-Electing And
Returning Experienced
Men To The 1935
Legislature
THEIR COURSE HAS
PROVED EFFECTIVE
By Attracting Far Western
Agricultural Counties, They
Have Closed Down on In
dustrial Piedmont With
Nut-Cracker Effect in Tax
Levies
Doily Dispatch Bwrcn«
In the S Walter Hotel.
BV J. C DASKERVILL.
Raleigh, May 9—Despite the fact
that there will probably be more new
and inexperienced members in the
1935 legislature than in years, since
a majority of the several hund -ed i
didates now nomination and
election to it have never had any pre
vious legislative experience, indica
tions are the eastern counties are
again going to hold the balance of
power. For most of the candidates
credited with being assured of elec
tion in many of the eastern counties
have had previous legislative experi
ence and are hence destined to be the
leaders and the chairmen of th more
important committees in the 1935 as
sembly.
It is generally conceded that the
eastern counties usually control most
legislatures. There is no doubt that
they controlled and dominated the
1929, the 1931 and the 1933 sessions,
and that Angus Dhu Mac Lean, of
Washington, Beaufort county, sup
•Oontinued on Page Three.)
when an “Air France,” tri-motor
ed passenger plane, disappeared
on a flight across the English
channel between Dieppe, France,
and New Haven, England.
It was believed to have plunged
into the channel, 50 miles wide at
that point, sinking immediately.
The plane was sought on both
sides of the channel by air and sea
for several hours before hope was
abandoned.
The air ministry notified ships
along the coast to search the
channel but they reported they
were unsuccessful.
PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY,
Tennessee Hands
Over Violators Os
State Bank Laws
In Toils at Last
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Luke Lea, Sr., below
Luke Lea, Sr., former United States
senator from Tennessee, and former
Nashville publisher, and his son, Luke
Jr., were given over to the custody of
Buncombe county officials by the Ten
nessee Supreme Court in Nashville to
day and started on their way to North
Carolina to begin penitentiary sent
ences for their part in of
the Central Bank and Trust Company
of Asheville, a $17,000,000 hank, late
in 1930. They were delivered to North
Carolina officers after exhausting
every legal technicality in an effort
to escape their sentences.
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Deficit Near 3 1-2 Billions,
But Five Billions Under
Estimates
Washington May 9. (AP) — Fed
eral expenditures today passed six
billion dollars for the fiscal year
which ends June 30 to represent
the first outlay of this size since
1920.
The exact expenditures up to
May 7, the latest day available was
$6,000,153,779.
Os this, $3,342,715,504 was for emer
gency purposes and $2,657,438,274 tor
routine government costs.
The deficit on this day was $3,410,-
509,129, as compared wltn $2,710,203,g9T
a year ago.
The expenditures, which included
$358,156,400 6f sinking funds, still were
$5,000,000,000 short of Ibudget estimates
for the fiscal year after sinking fund
adjustments.
FURjlll®
Reemployment Service Pre
pared To Provide Extra
Help as Needed
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. IIVSKERVILL.
Raleigh, May 9. —The various
regional offices of the National Reem
ployment Service over the State are
getting ready to supply extra help to
(Continued on Page Seven.)
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FIVE CENTS COPY
Buncombe Officials Start for
Asheville With Father
and Son Under
Heavy Guard
HABEAS CORPUS IS
TO BE ASKED HERE
Counsel for Former Senator,
Publisher and His Son
Plans Another Final Stab
To Gain Freedom of His
Clients; Federal Hearing
Ends Abruptly
Nashville, Tenn., May 9. (AP
L. E. Gwinn, chief counsel for
Luke Lea and Luke Lea, Jr., in
their long fight for freedom, left
Nashville just before noon today
for North Carolina, and it was re
ported a habeas corpus action
might be brought in that State.
Nashville, Tenn., May 9 fAP) —In
two automobiles, with a machine gun
and an automatic rifle, Luke Lea "»/l
Luke Lea, Jr. were started for North
Carolina today to receive penalties
imposed for hank law violations.
The Tennessee Supreme Court turn
ed the former United States senator
and his son over to Sheriff Laurence
E. Brown and Deputy Sheriff Frank
Lackey, of Asheville, N. C., whom
Governor Hill McAllister had nam&l
as agents when he ordered the Leas’
extradition more than a year ago.
The Supreme Court room was pack
ed to capacity to hear the order utrn
ing the ex-publisher and his elder
son over to the custody of North
Carolina. The crowd of several hun
dred poured down the Capitol steps
to see the Lea senter automobiles park
ed across the street.
Neither of the defendants made any
statement, and the cars sped swiftly
away.
As the head car was leaving, Luke,
Lea, Jr., was asked if he expected
to pay his fine.
“I haven’t any money,” he replied.
Luke, Sr., is under a six to ten
year prison sentnece. His son has the
alternative of paying $25,000, his fine
and costs, or serving two to four years.
A hearing on a petition in Federal
Court seeking to prevent removal of
the two Leas to North Carolina end
ed abruptly when information was re
ceived that the State Court
had placed them in custody of" North
Carolina officers. Federal Judge
John J. Gore did not rule on the peti
tion.
7 Die When
Police Fire
On Strikers
Machine Gun Let Go
on Crowd in Athens
Protesting Loss Os
Jobs in Harbor
Athens, Greece, May 9 (AlP)—Police
and troops turned machine guns upon
strikers today, killing six men and
one woman during disturbances in
Kalmata harbor.
An undetermined number of persons
were injured.
Despite the police an dmilitary fire,
the mob of strikers held hteir ground.
The bodies of the dead lay in the
streets. . ~
Authorities unlimbered machine
guns when the strjkers attempted to
destro ytlae new grain loading devices
which have been installed in the
harbor.
tffle workers were protesting againpt
the construction of the modern device
contending they would throw a num
ber of men out of work.
The government immediately issued
a communique saying the situation
was serious.