Henderson daily dispatch., May 10, 1934, Image 1

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, \TKVVAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST year
$417,000,000
********** **
London Press Says England To Pay No More War Debts
[|[ll [ LIKELIHOOD
SEEN OP PAYMENTS
BEING MADE AGAIN
Roosevelt May As Weil
Know the facts, Says
Daily Express In
Its Comment
SURPLUS REVIVES
LATE “FALLACIES”
Times Says Budget Reserve
Brirgs Lip Former Dispute;
Roosevelt Said Yesterday
United States Stands For
Collection of Debts Owed
Here
London. May 10 (API The British
press*, commenting widely on Presi
de! t itooseveelt’e declaration on the
win debts, saw little likelihood today
„f Europe’s paying th ebillions owed
the United States.
The London Express flatly said.
"Roosevelt may as well know that
this country is paying no more war
debts,"
In his declaration. Mr. Roosevelt
emphasized that the United States
stands for collection of the debts, but
will yrant hearings to nations seek
ing reduced payments.
The London Times remarked that
the British budget surpluses has “re
vred all of th r old fallacies.”
WEALTHY OIL MAN
KIDNAPED AT HOME
William F. Jettie Seized
After Party at Estate
Near Los Angeles
Loi Angeles, Cal., May 10 (AP) — 1
T m o masked men brandishing pistols
snatched William F. Jettie, 47 weal
thy oil man, from his newly purchas
ed 6 state in the foothills district of .
Arcadia at a midnight party, declaring :
this is a kidnaping."
James Wolffe, a Westwood furni-A
ture dealer, was left bound and gag- j
£cd and strapped to a tree on the es- i
tate His wife freed him.
JatUe was abducted after a party of
ten entertained at the estate of Mr.
Mis .Jettie, who are residents of
B°"erlv Hills, had left a swimming
pool
T iirht members of the party enter- j
erl 'he house, while Jettie and Wolffe
i r ' a small summer house to
pull on i rou. eis and shirts over their
dimming suits.
Premier Os
Austria Has
Close Call
Aimed at Doll-1
Hiss Discovered Be-;
h're His Arrival At
Salsbum
r ' v,Uh ' n - Austria, May 10. (API
fiance"*,, Engelbert Dollfusa Doll
t( a!' . na, rowly escaped death
’’ authorities found a high
h, ~0 , ’ at: Die airport stau«n
y " before he arrived from
| f a a patriotic front meeting.
, " '"lotnal machine contained 11
f,t okrasite, and was equipved
*' h Dock work.
i')W( vo, the little cwance u or av _
Unvot 'turbed by the discovery.
U) ! t V lfl ,>r ‘nce Ernst von Starhem
thi p. " vice chancellor and head of
' l '’ cißt heimwehr were showerea
w ‘ f n flowers.
bj/". ! W ° loflflers were almost moh
aroun H *? easant griris, who awarmeu
f hei " . m re P ea tedly, holding up
a lHbiu'g , " rftSS Dirouyh the streets of
4ttwtiter
At Odds on NRA Criticism
.fry,, <* • ■*
Lyjiw j .JXm%
John F. Sinclair (left), former vice-chairman of the National Recovery
Review Board, and Clarence Darrow, noted criminal lawyer and chair
man of the board, pictured with General Hugh Johnson (center), NRA
Administrator. Sinclair and Darrow are at odds over Johnson’s
policies, with Darrow attacking and Sinclair defending.
(Central Press)
Slash In $200,000 Bail
Is Denied Samuel Insull
Rev. Tom Sikes Is
New Rotary Head
Greensboro, May 10 (AP)—The
Rev. T. A. Sikes, of High Point, to
day was unanimously nominated
for governor of the 57th district of
Rotary International by the dis
trict convention here.
The International congress of
Rotary elects the governor and the
district has power only to nominate
but that is equivalent to election.
Mr. Sikes received the nomina
tion of the district unanimously
after Earlly Moser, of Zebulon, and
Robert Poole, of Elizabethtown,
had declined to become candidates.
The three men were nominated by
their home clubs, but Moser and
Poole withdrew in favor of the
High Point minister.
AXE FALLS HEAVILY
IN REVENUE OFFICE
Nine More Employees of De
partment Given Gate by
Higher Powers
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
nr 4. C. IHSKEHVILI*.
Raleigh. May io.—Eleven more em
ployes of the State Department of
Revenue have been dropped as a re
sult of the reorganization of the uw
partment, according to an announce
ment just issued by Commissioner of
Revenue A. J. Maxwell. The fact that
two of these eleven would be cropped
had previously been announced. These
were Miss Bettie Davis and Miss
Marion Baker. Miss Davis was employ
ed in the franchise tax division and |
Miss Baker was formerly a steno
grapher in the office of O. Stedman
Thompson, former assistant commis
sioner of revenue.
The nine others dropped from the
department are A. S. Carson, formerly
cashier but whosed uties were entire
ly absorbed in the reorganization of
the department by the installation of
the accounting division; Miss Meta
Adams formerly head of the inherit
ance tax division; Mrs. W. L. Humph
rey, in the inheritance tax division;
Mrs. J. H. Fryer stenographer in the
income tax division; Miss Ila Osbourne
in the license tax division; W. E.
Hawkins, license tax division; Mrs. V.
C. Thompkins, file clerk in the Income
(Continual on Pane Six>
SENATOR SMITH TO
SPEAK IN RALEIGH
Washington, May 10 -Senator
Smith, Democrat, North Carolina, will
leave here at midnight for Raleigh,
N C where he will be the principal
speaker at the city’s annual farmers
night celebration tomorrow.
ONLY DAILY
THR A iSrn, IRE SERVICE OP
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
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NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIKJINIA.
HENDERSON N. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 10, 1934
TAX BILL IS MADE INTO LAW
Evidence Does Not Entitle
Aged Defendant To Any
Reduction, Judge
Sparks Says
HABEAS CORPUS IS
DENIED BY COURT
Insull, Meanwhile, Remains
In County Jail Hospital,
Where He Has Been Kept
Since Tuesday, When His
Bond Was Fixed at $200,-
000 by Judge Barnes
Chicago, May 10 (AP) —Samuel In
sull today was refused a reduction of
the $200,000 bond under which he is
held prisoner in the Cook county jail.
Judge Will M. Sparks, of the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals, said
he felt the evidence did not entitle the
74-year-old defendant to any lowering
of the bond, which Insull's attorney,
Floyd E. Thompson, asserted was the
highest ever defended on a defendant
in any United States court.
Thompson had brought his plea be
fore Judge Sparks in a petition for a
habeas corpus writ. Insull remained
in the county jail hospital, where he
has rested since Judge John T. Barnes
Tuesday fixed the bond on his charges
of using the mails fraudulently and
violating the bankruptcy act.
Contracts
On Cotton
Are 70,249
College Station, Raleigh, May 10.—
A total of 70,249 cotton adjustment
contracts were signed by North Caro
lina producers in the recent sign-up
campaign, according to a final check
completed in the office of Charles A.
Sheffield at State College and an
nounced today.
Thisf igure was several thousand
more than had been estimated previ
ously, and includes practically all
growers with more than two or three
acres in cultivation.
Sheffield, director of the cotton con
trol program in this State, said that
the contracts cover approximately 1,-
250,000 cotton acres, 475,000 of which
are to be retired from production.
The rental payments on the retired
acres, aggregating more than $5,000.-
000, will be made to the growers soon
after the revised contracts are ac
cepted in Washington.
The review of contrats in which
base acreage and production figures
were overstated has been completed
and many of them are being forward
ed to AAA headquarters tn the na
tion’s capitol A few, however, were
returned to the county agents for
further adjustment when rney were
(* wtiU'Jod ou Pag* Six)
New Alcohol Tax
Unit Is Launched
Washington. May 10 —
Uncle Sam let fly a new blow at
bootleggers today.
Under an executive order of
President Roosevelt, effective to
day, the Treasury’s new alcohol tax
unit went into action under Arthur
H. Mellott, 45-year-old Kansas City
attorney.
Fourteen hundred men were dele
gated as a front line battalion
against bootleggers and other
liquor tax evaders in charge of Cap
tain William R. Sayles, U. S. N.,
retired, who had a record as the
navy’s “police chief.”
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RUN-OFF ELECTION
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Much Raleigh Opinion Is
That His Gains Are Fea
ture of Five-Corner
ed Contest
COOLEY SPECULATED
AS QHIEF OPPONENT
But He Is Talking Too Much
And Is Already Alienating
Support; Mrs/ Zollicoffer
Is Quite as Good Cam
paigner as Her Husband
and Getting Results
Dolly Dlapntch
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY .1. C B4SKERVILL
Raleigh, May 10.—While the contest
for the congressional nomination In
the fourth district is admitteedly get
ting hotter and hotter, the most in
teresting aspect of the campaign dur
ing the past week or ten days, accord
ing to many in political circles here,
has been the decided gain made by
Jere P. Zollicoffer. of Henderson,
Vance county. Two weeks ago there
were few who believed that Zollicoffer
would be able to do more than run
third the majority taking the position
that the main contest would be be
tween George Ross Pou and Harold
(Continued on Page Seven.)
Canada Now
Talks Plan
On Tobacco
Top Price for Mini
mum Grades Urged
In Parliamentary
Meet at Ottawa
Ottawa, Canada, May 10 (AP) —Es-
tablishment of a top price for mini
mum ggrades of tobacco, together
with a policy, which would require
growers to raise only certain types of
leaf tobacco, were advocated as a
means for improving the tobacco grow
ing industry by Joseph Marion, may
or of St. Jacques, L’Achiegan, Quebec
before the parliamentary mass buying
and price spreads committee today.
Marion is both a grower and a trader.
He told of petitions circulated
throughout several counties by the
large tobacco companies favoring the
imposition of a 20 cents excise tax on
leaf tobacco sol dto others than manu
facturers. Ten cents a name was paid
for signatures. At the same time an
other petition opposing the tax was
circulated, and, said Marion, “95 per
cent of those who signed the first
petition also signed the second one.”
The effect of such a tax would have
have been to eliminiate a large num
ber of people handling the tobacco,
centralizing control in the big manu
facturing companies.
In a brief read to the committee,
Marion urged that no tax be levied on
leaf tobacco. Half of the production
in Quebec was sold in raw condition
directly from producer to consumer
without passing througs hte factory.
Undermined Insull’s Throne
A view of the Commonwealth Edison Building, Chicago, which was the
throne occupied by Samuel Insull when he ruled a vast utilities empire,
and from which he was toppled by financial of Cyrus S. Eaton,
(left), Cleveland financier, who acquired control of an insull company
and sold it back at his own price, and S. Z. Mitchell (right), whose
activities as head of Electric Bond and Share Co., drove Insull to erect
the financial pyramid that toppled and buried him. <
. f Central Press)
Leas Due At State Pen
Late In The Afternoon
Former Senator in Good
Spirits and Smiles After
Night In Buncombe
County Jail
OLD FRIENDS GREET
HIM BEFORE START
Says He Can Go To Jail, But
Doesn’t Want Son To Go,
As He Has Malignant Dis
ease, and Prison Sentence
Would Be Death Sentence
For the Young Man
Asheville May 10. (AP) —Two deputy
sheriffs left Asheville at 10:05 a. m.
today with Colonel Luke Lea and Luke
Lea, Jr., for Raleigh to commit them
to State prison to serve terms for vio
lations of the banking laws.
The former Nashville, Tenn., pub
lisher, and one-time United States
senator, and his son ate breakfast in
the Buncombe county jail, where they
were brought last night after Ibeing
turned over to North Carolina authori
ties at the end of an unsuccessful
fight against extradition.
Smiling and affable, Colonel Lea ap
peared in good spirits as he climbed
into an automobile with Deputy
Sheriff Tom K. Brown and Frank
Lakey, and began the approximately
270-mile drive to Raleigh. The two
officers and both Leas were in one
car. ;
In contrast to the dash from Tenn
essee yesterday, when they carried a
machine gun and an automatic rifle,
the two deputies had no visible arms.
Before the trip began, Colonel Lea
spent a few minutes with newspaper
men. many of them friends of long
standing from the days when he was
a political and financial power in
Tennessee.
“I’ve een through a lot of things my
self, and can go to jail, ut I don’t want
mv son to have to go there ’ said Col
onel Lea.
Colonel Lea said he hoped to secur®
a reprieve for his son until his friends
could raise the money for the fine.
“My son is ill of a malignment dis
ease and a prison sentence would dc
a death sentence for him.”
WEATHER
FOB NORTH CAROLINA
Generally lair tonight and Fri
day; warmer in east and south
portions tonight; cooler Friday.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY*
Says Cotton Cut
To Ruin Tenants
Memphis, Tenn., May 10 (AP) —
A Southern committee of the Lea
gue for Industrial Democracy
charged today that .‘at least 15 per
cent and probably 20 percent of all
share cropper families have lost
their opportuniy tto make a living
on the land by the only labor they
know,” as a result of the govern
ment’s cotton reduction program.
The report, made public in New
York yesterday, was amplified here
today by Dr. William R. Anberson,
H. Clay Fast and H. L. Mitchell, of
Tyronza, Ark., members of the
committee which made the survey
of 500 tenant families in Missouri,
Arkansas, Tennessee and Missis
sippi.
GEF™ FIRST
But It’s According to Regu
lations of the Relief
Administration
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. B ASKERVIIiIj .
Raleigh, May 10 —Because the teacn-,
ers in cities and towns of 5,000 popu
lation and over will receive fheis pay
checks for the last month of school
without any delay and before the
teachers in the rural schools will get
theirs, some are charging that the
State chool Commission is discriminat
ing against the teachers in the rural
schools, it was learned here today.
But this is not the case, since the
School Commission is not responsible
for this condition, but the Federal vov
ernment. Under ther ules and regula
tions of the Emergency Relief Admin
istration, which has allotted $500,000
to the State to Ibe used in paying school
teacherb who have no other means o Z
support, none of this money can be
used in paying any teachers employed
in cities and towns of more than 5,-
000 population. As a result, the State
must pay all the teachers in the larg
er cities and towns and hence will
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FIVE CENTS COPY
House Debate Demands Reg
ulation of Commodity as
Well As The Stock
Exchanges
STILL DICKERING
OVER SILVER ACT
New Army of Liquor Tax
Enforcers Take Field; Na
tional Aviation Policy Is
Also Debated In House;
Telephone Head Opposes
Regulation
Washington, May 10. (AP) The
$417,000,000 bill tightening income
taxes and imposing heavier lebies on
the wealthy became law today with
President Roosebelt’s signature
Other major legislation still was en
snarled in congressional debate.
A House committee’s demand for
regulation of commodity exchanges in
vited increased notice to Senate prog
ress on the stock market control bill.
With those arguments out in the
open, there were renewed attempts to
ward agreement between the admin
istration and Senate silber supporters
for legislation to increase the metal’s
value.
Differences as to the mandatory
bersus permissilbe extent of the pro
jected law had to be reconciled
further.
Busy with that Secretary Morgen
thau had something to say also about
a changed Federal attack on illicit
liquor. The new alcohol tax unit came
Into being, impelling the Treasury
chief to declare its force of 3,300
“means business” against the boot
legger.
Unless commodity markets are
regulated along with those for Se
curities, reported the House Agricul
(Continued on ’“age Two.)
Posse Kills Negro
Who Shot a Deputy
At Clinton, S. C.
Clinton. S. C., May 10. (AP)—Five
hours after he had wounded Deputy
Sheriff K. F. Johns, an unidentified
Negro was shot to death today by a
posse which cornered him in a wood.
s the posse closed In on the Negro/
who was armed with a pistol, several
shots were fired. Three struck the
fugitive and he died instantly.
Sheriff L. B. Owens, of Laurens, was
in the group which cornered the Ne
gro. He said hed id not know who
fired the shots that killed him.
The sheriff said upwards of 200 men
took part in the hunt for the Negro,
most of them from thg Lydia mill
village, where Johns was shot this
morning, when he attempted to arrest
the Negro, who was riding a freight
train.
An inquest into the Negro’s death
was called for this afternoon.
Roosevelt’s
Urge Might
End Strike
Weight of Adminis
tration’s Power
Thrown in To Bring
Industrial Peace
(By Tho Associated Press-
The weight of President Roosevelt’s
administration was thrown against
spread of strikes today, bringing:
promise of settlements in two la&OC
disputes.
Secretary of the Interior Ickes, oil
•administrator, recommended a “fair
and equitable method” of ending the
strike of 2,000 Cleveland gasoline star
tion operators.
The major oil companies accepted
the six-point peace proposal, but the
operators union called for clarlfloar
tion. The “closed shop” question re
mained in dispute.
An ultimatum by Secretary of the
Navy Swanson brought a “turning
point” in the strike at the Camden, N.
J., plant of the New York Shipbuilding
Company, with a final conference call
ed for Saturday. Secretary Swanson
(Continued on Page Three.) j