Henderson daily dispatch., May 11, 1934, Image 1

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HENDERSON
gateway TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
T \VENTV-FiRST YEAR
GREAT DROUGHT
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Insull Is Freed By Federal Court Only To Be Arrested By State
11,000 BOND OF
INSULLPOSTED BY
SUREIY COMPANIES
by Cook County Dep
uty Sheriffs as He Steps
trorn Federal
Court Room
WHISKED AWAY TO
ANOTHER HEARING
$50,000 Additional Bond
There Expected To Be
Raised During Afternoon;
Aged Utilities Czar Refus
es To Plead In Federal
Court Hearing
Chicago, May 11 <AP> Samuel In
sull was freed from custody of the
Federal government today on $200,-
000 bond supplied by a surety com
pany after he had declined to plead
guilty or not guilty to the indictments
that accused him of fraudulent use of
the mails and violating the bank
ruptcy laws.
Seized hy deputy sheriffs of Cook |
county as 'ne stepped from the court
room of Federal Judge Philip L. Sul
livan. ho was served with State war
rants -barging embezzlement.
Back to the criminal courts building
the aged prisoner was whisked for
another bond hearing, hut his attor
neys had smoothed the way and it
was expected that $50,000 additional I
bond would be approved by mid-after- j
noon.
Samuel Insull. Jr., planned to take '
his father to St. Luke’s hospital for
several days rest as soon as he is
free.
Judge Sullivan withheld an imme
fhate ruling on the Insull attorney’s j
!>lea that he was illegally seized and |
returned from Turkey to the United '
on Pupp Pivp.)
$75,000 Is
Ransom For
Wm. Jetter
Man on Phone Starts
Giving Instructions
As Connection ; Is
Snapped
L " 3 Angeles. May 11. < AP»—A ran
som of $75,000 has been demanded for
s he release of William M. Jettle. kid
riapori Beverly Hills millionaire, the
r i't r ic; t attorney's office announced to
day
h’nest E Noon, attorney for Mrs.
- , informed District Attorney
’non Fitts he had received a tele-
P n.ne call “from a party who inform
,f, 'i? 1 had Jettle alive and want
ed -75,000 ransom”
'About 8:30 o’clock this morning,”
"poit.d Noon, ‘.I had a telephone
‘Continued od '’age Two.)
Los Angeles Kidnaping
Believed Near Solution
1,08 An Kelea, Calif., May 11. (AP)—
h ' sllerif ‘ s office today announced
lention of a. woman in connec-
Jptli W ' th the kidnaping of William F.
T ‘ ,: ; millionaire oil man.
aW 1 oman ’ described as a brunette
finV '■ ears °*d. and fairly well
thu V ’ in, ° a P°'ice dragnet early
fcuriv r,,, ‘ al °ng with six other per
. ’ho also were questioned,
man '' lf d>arently examining the wo-
Sten«ir Jf° me lenf?th - Captain Norris
Pert all' Bhoriff s office extortion ex
of a’„ n , a tigure behind the solution
l-11l >( ‘ r nf f ktier kidnaping cases
vtetmvr&an Hatln Iltstratrh
Novel Wins SIO,OOO
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Samuel Rogers
Samuel Rogers, above, 39-year
old French instructor at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, Madison,
has been awarded a SIO,OOO prize
posted by a monthly magazine for
the best novel submitted in its
annual contest. Rogers is the
first American to win the prize,
which was awarded for his “Dusk
at tiie Grove”.
EFFORTS MADE 10
END BAKER STRIKE
Akron, Ohio, Fears Bread
Famine Unless Workers
Go Back to Jobs
PLANE PLANTS OPEN
Curtis and Consolidated Factories at
Buffalo Lack Full Forces, How
ever; More Remington
Workers Quit
(By The Associated Press)
The mayor of Akron, Ohio, called a
meeting of 600 striking bakers today
in an effort to avert a threatened
bread famine.
Cleveland’s filling station operators,
on strike, rejected a six-point peace
plan offered by the Secretary of the
Interior Ickes.
The acting head of the International
Oil Workers Union, ‘understood” that
William Green. American Federation
of Labor head, had advised workers
in the Oklahoma Seminole field to
return to their jobs.
The Consolidated Aircraft factory
of Buffalo, N. Y., reopened after six
weeks of idleness with a strike still
in force. Company officials said 118
of the 1,000 men on strike for higher
wages had returned.
The Curtis Airplane and Motor
Company, of the same city, reported
500 men at work aftere an ultimatum
by which men failing to return before
iContinued on Page Three.)
COTTON CONSUMED
IS SLIGHTLY LOWER
New York, May 11 (AP>—The New
York Cotton Exchange Service es
timates consumption of cotton by do
mestic mills in April at 520,000 bales,
against 543,000 bales in March, and
470,000 bales in April, 1933.
"It looks hot, boys. I think we have
something. It is possible that we will
-have this solvedw ithin five hours.
To Stensland’s declaration, Blayney
Matthews, hies of thed istrict attor
ney’s investigators, added that tn®**
inquiries gave "promise that we might
I have something important.
The woman was taken into custody
!by three police homicide officers in
ferreting out haunts of the under
world.
She was turned over to the sheriff s
and district attorney’s offices for ex
amination, but the officers who ques
tioned her declined to disclose the na
ture of the information obtained.
ONLY DAILY
THKAtSrSfS? SER VICE OF
AHE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIfSIINIA.
HENDERSON, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 11, 1934
IN MIDWEST ALARMS NATION
B 5e s
Walk-Out Follows Close on
Heels of Strike of 5,000
Fisher Body
Employees
WILL STAY CLOSED
UNTIL NEXT WEEK
Shutdown of Buick Plant
Comes on Eve of Presenta
tion of New Model; Rate of
Pay of Bodies of New Car
Cause of Fisher Company
Strike
Flint, Mich., May 11. (AP) The
Buick Motor Company plant, closed
here today close on the heels of a
walk-out of union employees in the
Fisher Body Corporation No. 1 plant,
whicn makes Buick bodies.
Fourteen thousand Buick employees
and an estimated 5,000 Fisher em
ployees were idle.
Although H. H. Curtice, president
and general manager of the Buick
Company, was out of the city, it was
learned from reliable cources that the
plant will remain closed until Tues
day. By that time it is expected that
the Fisher strike will be settled.
The closing of the Buick plant comes
on the eve of the presentation of a
new model. The rate of pay for piece
work on bodies of the new model was
one of the avowed causes for dissatis
faction among union employees of the
Fisher plant.
The Fisher union workmen walked
out yesterday afternoon, and union
leaders said that fewer than 100 men
returned to work this morning.
Evaders Os
Sales Taxes
Are Known
State Revenue Heads
Plan To “Crack
Down” With Penal
ties Shortly
Rally Dispatch Btireaa,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
BY J. C UASKERVIMj.
Raleigh, May 11. —The names of all
the merchants in the State who have
been evading the State sales tax law
or who have been making excessive
deductions and exemptions, are now
known to officials of the State De
partment of Revenue, it was learned
from an authoritative source here to
day. It was also learned that the
department has issued orders to its
field deputies to go after these mer
chants and require them to turn over
the full amount of sales tax they have
collected from customers, but which
they have not turned in to the State.
Approximately 20 per cent of the
merchants who have made returns for
the first nine months the sales tax
law has been in effect have not paid
State as much as they should, It was
also indicated. Estimates are that
these merchants, comprising only
about about 20 per cent of the total
number in the State, still owe the
Department of Revenue (between sl,-
000,00 and $1,500,000, on the basis of
returns already made. If the depart
ment can collect this amount be
tween now and June 30, the end of
the present fiscal year, it will bring
total sales tax collections for the year
to at least $7,500,000. The estimated
revenue from the tax for the first
year was placed at $7,775,000 by the
1933 General Assembly that enacted
it.
All Partly Wrong
TITe contention of many people, ever
since the sales tax went into effect
last July, has been that while the
buying phblic was paying the sales
tax, the State has not been getting
what the merchants have been col
lecting. Both the mgEfhants and of
(Continued on Page Four.)
WEATHER
FOB NORTH CAROLINA
Fair tonight and Saturday; some
what cooler in north and extreme
west portions tonight.
SENATORS CONFER WITH ROOSEVELT ON SILVER
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Senator Adams Senator King Senator Pittman Senator Borah
Four senate leaders in the move
ment to nationalize and remone
tize silver are photographed leav
ing the White House at Washing
on o"o v-ny a conference with
South s Crop Outlook Good
But Drought Blisters West
Atlanta, Ga., May 11 (AP^ —The \
South rejoiced today over prospects of
abundant crops.. Most southern.states
reported favorable weather conditions,
and indications of excellent harvests.
Only three states —the Carolinas and
Tennessee —have had dry weather, i
Three others—Georgia, Florida and J
Louisiana —had too much rain.
The outlook was not alarming in the j
three dry states. Small fruits and :
grain suffered in North Carolina, j
where farmers were late in planting j
crops. Cotton needed rain and so did I
tobbacco. Lack of rain held up to- !
GEORGIA’S TOM |
Will Seek Better Marketing
Conditions Without Rush
ing Season
Nashville, Ga., May 11 (AP) —Far-
mers of the Georgia flue-cured tobac
co belt today had organized the- Geor
gia tobacco growers association, which
will seek an exclusive selling season
free from last year’s difficulties,
when opening of the Carolina markets
drew buyers and warehousemen from
the Georgia belt before the auction
period had ended.
Judge J. F. McCracken, of Valdosta,
Ga., was elected president at the
meeting yesterdav. Besides represent
ing the Georgia growers in regard to
opening and closing dates of the to
bacco markets, the association is in
tended also to support legislation fav
orable to the tobacco growers and sos
ter other interests of the industry.
Daniels To
See Fleet
With F. R.
Washington, May 11 (AP) —Josephus
Daniels, World WJar secretary of the
navy, today accepted an invitation
from President Roosevelt, his assist
ant in the Wilson administration, to
review the United States fleet on May
31st.
Daniels reviewed the fleet from
upon its return from the war waters
in December, 1918.
Franklin D. Roosevelt as assistant
secretary stood beside him then.
Daniels, now ambassador to Mexico,
conferred at luncheon today with the
President.
President Roosevelt at which pro
posed silver legislation in con
gress was discussed—left to right,
Senator Alva B. Adams of Colo
rado, Senator William H. King of
bacco growers in South Carolina.
While Tennessee had only half nor
mal April rainfall, university, officials
said there was no threat of a drought.
The dry weather has helped cotton,
and corn in Tennessee.
APPREHENSION IN WEST
GROWS SERIOUS HOURLY
Chicago, May 11 (AP)—Apprehen
sion over Middle America’s crop pro
spects grew hourly today.
Parched prairies and plains, long
baked by a hot sun and swept by
swirling choking “Black blizzards of
“Stretch-Out” In
South Is Probed
Washington, May ll(AP)—Rob
ert Bruere, chairman of the Na
tional Textile Industrial Releations
Board, today ordered L. R. Gilbert,
his assistant to South Carolina to
investigate charges of “stretch out
system” violations and discrimina
tion against union workers at the
Cowpens, S. C., Manufacturing
Company’s plant.
U. S. Plans
Waiting In
Dry States
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. B ASKERVILL.
Raleigh, May 11—Final details and
plans with regard to participation of
agents of the U. S. Bureau of Inter
national Revenue in the enforcement
of prohibition laws in dry states have
not yet been worked out, according to
Charles H. Robertson, collector of in
ternal revenue in North Carolina, who
has just returned from Washington,
where he conferred with bureau heads.
“While the bureau yesterday form
ally took over the task of enforcing
the revenue laws with regard to the
payment of Federal taxes on liquor
and alcohol with an enlarged force of
4,000 special gaents, many of them
formerly With the Department of
Justice, plans have not yet been made
with regard to what steps will be
taken indry - states,” Collector Robert
son said today. “They are working
on several plans that have been sug
gested for use in North and South
Carolina, but it may be several weeks
yet before we kknow here just what
is going to be done. I do not know
Whether a group of enforcement
agents will be assigned to my office
here or whether they will work un
der some other head.”
For the time being, Collector Rob
(Continued on Page Three.)
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.,
Utah, Senator Key Pittman of Ne
vada, and Senator William E.
Borah of Idaho. It was indicated
that the silver bloc had reached
some accord with the president.
dust,” swelled the alarm of agrarian
and city dwellers alikke.
The only note of hope was the fore
cast'.of local showers tonight in Ne
braska and northern South Dakota
and in lowa tomorrow. Elsewhere no
relief was in sight.
“The weather,” said the official fore
caster, “will be fair almost generally
Friday in the north central states,
but unsettled conditions are likely i
parts of the great plains area, with
some prospects of local showers in
that section by Friday night or Sat-
,. |Jg
aimeSate
Congress Candidate Spends
More Time Attacking
Senator Bailey
Dally Dispatch Bnrena,
In the Sir Waller Hotel.
BY .1 C, BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, May 11. —Although W. F.
Evans, of this city, is one of the five
candidates for the Democratic nomi
nation for Congress here in the fourth
district, also being sought by George
Ross Pou, Harold D. Cooley, Jere P.
Zollicoffer and Palmer Bailey, the im
pression is rapidly growing that Evans
is running against Senator Josiah W.
Bailey for the Senate in 1936 and
merely using the campaign to get be
fore the people of this district pre
paratory to a State-wide campaign in
1936. So far Evans in the speeches
he has made has had very little to say
about the other four candidates in the
race for the congressional nomination,
but he has had a great deal to say,
none of it complimentary, about Sena
tor Bailey.
Those familiar with Evans’ political
history here know that he was elected
(Continued on Page Three.!
Leas Now Full-Fledged
Inmates State’s Prison
Raleigh, May 11 (AP) —Clothed in
vertical prison stripes, but refreshed
by the "best night’s sleep we have had
in several nights,” Luke Lea, former
"maker of governors” in Tennessee,
who served as a Unite dStates sena
tor, and his son, Luke Lea, Jr., today
were full-fledged inmates of the North
Carolina State Prison.
Both of the Leas appeared in jovial,
excellent spirits this morning.
As a newspaper man they had seen
only once before approach them in the
prison corridor, both arose from the
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Dry Drabness Easily Visible
From Roosevelt’s Office
Window In White
House
VIRTUAL AGREEMENT
REACHED ON SILVER
Senate Sponsors of Measure
and Secretary Morgenthau
Near Accord; Municipal
Bankruptcy Relief Bill
Nears Passage; Road Bill
Is Debated
Washington, May 11. (AP)— Aware
of drought ravages to western crops
and intent upon its plans for adjust
ment of wheatp roduction, the Farm
Administration decided today to ex-,
tend its reduction of acreage cam
paign until May 16 to let farmers in
dust-ridden states join up.
It was explained, however, that the
insuring of incomes to farmers under
conditions such as this drought was a
secondary factor. The foremost pur
pose in seeking contracts to cut acre
age was given anew as crop redutioru
Os special interest also was a repdlt
of virtual agreement between Senate
silver advocates and Secretary Mor
genthau on phrasing of the measure
to help the metal. President Roosevelt
will see it before final drafting is un
dertaken. It was said that the policy
would (be for making silver primary
money, and that silver should com
prise 25 per cent of the metallic cur
rency base. No mention was made of
nationaliation.
Governmental Washington, while
concentrating on many immediate
(Continued rc Page Five.)
Debt Stand
Here Riles
Englishmen
To Be Labelled In
Default in Face of
Token Payments Is
Just Too Much
London, May 11 (AP) —'Indications
in Washington that Great Britain may
be considered in default of her war
debt to the United States, despite the
fact tha tshe has made “token pay
ments” consistently, were received
with a storm of protest today.
Both morning and evening newspap
ers crit.cized such action as unfair,
and Sir John Simon, British foreign;
secretary, spoke in Manchester on the
subject of the war debts. While dis
claiming that he was making any an
nouncement of government policy, the
foreign secretary said there seemed
to be some commentators on the other
side of the Atlantic, "irresponsible
ones,” who overlook the fact that any
argument for British payment based
on the fact that Great Britain has al
budget surplus, was entirely fallacious
as far as the American debt is con
cerned. ' \
chairs and in which they were sitting,
and with a |mile and a warm hand
clasp wished the interviewer a "good
morning.”
"Did you have a good nigght’s sleep.’*
the interviewer queried.
“A fine night,” both replied, and the
elder added, “Yes, and about the best
nigght’s sleep we have had in several
night, I guess.”
The father and son entered the pri
son yesterday toward mid-afternoon
following a 700-mile journey from
Nashville, Tenn., in the custody o t
North Carolina officers. (