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HENDERSON
gateway TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
MOSTLY “INS” WIN IN SATURDA
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Famine Imminent In Middle West Drought Area Unless Rain Falls
ROOSEVELT MOVES
SWIFTLY TO POSH
AID TOTHE WEST
Conferences Are Held To
Discuss Situation and To
Outline Plans For
Relief
BILLION DOLLARS
MAY BE REQUIRED
Every Resource of Relief
Administration Thrown
Into Action To Handle
Emergency; Telegram from
Relief Board Stirs Presi
dent To Action
Washington, June 4. (AP)—A re
port that famine conditions would pre
vail in at least one drought stricken
section, unless early rain or Federal
aid intervenes, today brought
government response.
President Roosevelt opened confer
ences withh is aides to size up the sit
uation and outline relief plans within
a matter of hours after returning to
the capital this morning.
Senator Robinson, the Democratic
leader, after an earlier White House
parley, said he expected a message
from the President within a day or
two on drought relief and predicted
legislation on that subject. The
amount to be recommended, he said,
was not determined, Estimates have
ranged between $500,000,000 and sl.-
000.000 000.
Every resource of the relief admin
istration today was centered on get
ting relief into the affected sections.
tl became known today that one re
lief representative telegraphed Harry
L Hopkins, rlief administrator, on
Saturday that unless immediate as
sistance is forthcoming, or there are
drought breaking rains within the
next two wees, a famine is imminent.
This telegram was reported to hai»
stirred both the relief administrator
and the President.
Bristling
Reply To
The Japs
Moscow. June 4. (AP) —Russia, an
swering a Japanese protest over the
alleged firing upon a steamer on the
riv «r Amur, charged today that the
Soviet border had been violated by
Manchukuoan ships.
in a firmly worded note in response
to Japanese correspondents, Russia
Kabe assurances that laws regarding
traffic on the river would be enforced,
but said:
For elimination of further incidents
along the Soviet shore, it is necessary
that the Manchukuoan government
take energetic measures to see that
S hips under Manchukuoan colors
should not violate Sobiet law”
■Japan claims one of its subjects was
killed and another wounded when a
steamer was fired upon from the Rus
sian bank of the river recently.
Russia replied that if any Japanese
w ete wouned. it was by the bandits
w ho shot from the Manchukuoan side.
Remnants Os Annies Os
The Old South Assemble
Chattanooga, Tenn., June 4. (AP) —
The remnants of the old South’s
W jth time alone as an enem>,
“'•scan moving into Chattanooga today.
, f,n Wednesday the veterans of the
-mfMeracy W ill open their reunion
'he 44th of a series which has
"'gilt them together annually since
keep alive the memory of a
that ceased to be in 1865. and
; 1 war they fought for it in those
a y«. almost three-quarters of a cen
Uwtitersmt Hailtt Biapatdi
Congress To End
Probably Last Os
The Coming Week
Steel Companies
‘Arm’ for Strike
Washington, June 4 (AP) —Pres-
ident Roosevelt was informed to
day by Governor Pinchot of Penn
sylvania that the steel companies
are arming in preparation for the
threatened strike of workerrs.
NRA BEGINS STUDY
OF TEXTILE WAGES
STRIKE
Union Leaders Late Satur
day Called off Strike
They Had Ordered
For Tofday
PRODUCTION CUT IS
CONTINUED, HOWEVER
Textile Labor Gets Voice on
Labor Advisory Board;
Production Wage - Hour
Study Will Be BroaH In
Scope and Include Numer
ous Angles
Washington, May 4 (AP)—lnstead
of a threatened strike, an NRA —duly
of whether cotton textile workers
should get more pay got under way
today.,. i 'Midi'
Union leaders Saturday afternoon
called off the strike scheduled to start
this morning after protracted confer
ences with Hugh S. Johnson, NRA
chief, and Representatives of the mill
owners.
The workers withdrew their de
mands for withdrawal of an order ef
fective today reducing working time
by a quarter of the next three months,
or, as an alternative, increased pay to
compensate for lost time.
In return for that concession, NRA
and the owners agreed:
1. That NRA make a detailed study
of production, wage sand hours.
2. That cotton textile labor be giv
en a voice on the labor advisory board
and the cotton textile code authority.
3. That the production wage-hour
study include the questions of what
productive machine hours are neces
sary to meet normal demand; what
increase, if any, in - wages would be
possible; whether wage differentials
above a minimum have been main
tained; what changes have taken
place in man hour produc^vity.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Cloudy tonight and Tuesday,
with showers Tuesday; little
1 change in temperature.
tury ago. ,
They will remain here through Fn*
day to visit the scenes of old battles —
Chickamagua, ookout Mountain and
Missionary Ridge—to hold a 'business
session and elect officers for the com
ing year, to give a grand hall and
finally to choose another of their
dwindling years with a parade Friday.
Records show that there are today
about 1,600 veterans of the Confedet*
4te war services tilll iving.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
wire service op
the associated press.
HENDERSON. N. C. MONDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 4, 1934
Tariff, Silver, Housing and
Wagner Labor Bills
Wanted By Presi
dent This Session
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HE TELLS LEADERS
ABOUT HIS DESIRE
Drought Relief Another
Complicating Factor In
Situation; Tightening of
AAA Set--Up and Oil Con
trol Changes Slated For
Side-Track
Washington, June 4. (AP)—lt be
came certain today tjiat the congres
sional session will run well into next
week and possibly longer.
President Roosevelt had hardly re
turned to the White House before Sen
ate and House leaders were received
and acquainted with his „*esire for en
actment of the tariff, silver, housing
and Wagner labor board bills.
So Senate arrival at the voting
stage on the tariff bill late in the day
after two weeks talk did not signaL
the respite thereafter that had
expected.
Drought relief was another of the
complicating factors.
“We arem ighty anxious to dispose
of our business and adjourn”, plain
tively remarked Representative Bvrns,
the Democratic leader, in connection
with the adjournment date, “depend
ing on Senate progress. Many a Con
gressman wants to get back home
soon, both because of the heat here
and because this is an election year.
The administration burs for tighten
ing the agricultural adjustment act
and oil control seems due to go by
the boards for this session.
Senator Robinson. Democrat, Arkan
sas, made it a point to say, however,
that the Senate would get around to
action on Rexford Guy Tugwell’s no
mination for under-secretary of agri
culture. He expects confirmation.
There was little concrete in other
happenings of the day. Seeking to
avert a steel strike, Hugh S. Johnson,
of NRA, was understood to have ap
pointed new industrialists to talk over
the situation. Officials refused even
to admit the talks were on.
Missing Youth’s
Body Found Buried
a Mile from Home
Philippi. W. Va., June 4. (AP) —Po-
lice announced today that a posse had
found the body of Dale Janes, 15-year
old school boy whod isappeared from
his home a week ago.
The officers said they believed he
had been beaten and buried, perhaps
alive.
The body, found yesterday, was con
cealed in rocks and leaves in a cave
about a mile from the home of his
grandmother.
Lieutenant H. C. Myers, of the
State police headquarters in Charles
ton, said State Trooper Paul Thomas,
of Phillippi, told him two men are be
ing detained for questioning.
Miss Ethel Smith in Serious
Condition; Brother-in-
Law Suicides
Durham, June 4. (AP) —M.
Needleman, proprietor of the “Wee
Shop” here, shot his sister-in
law. Miss Ethel Smith, of Hen
derson, twice in the abdomen,
wounding her seriously, and took
his own life in his hotel residence
shortly after noon today. After
shooting the woman, Needleman
shot himself through the mouth,
dying instantly.
Mrs. Needleman, formerly Miss
Luta Smith, of Henderson, still
makes her home in that city. She
has been spending week-ends in
Durham and owned a half interest
in their store here.
British War Debt
Offer Sent Here
London, June 4 (AP) —The Brit
ish government cabled its war debt
communication to Ambassador Sir
Ronald Lindsay at Washington to
day and the note will be delivered
to President Roosevelt tonight.
mmm
Really Victory for J. W.
Bailey’s Machine, Accord
ing to Much State
Capital Gossip
POU IS MENTIONED
AS FOE OF BAILEY
May Become Senatorial Can
didate Two Years Hence;
Lot of Trading and Double-
Crossing Sedn by Pou and
Zollicoffer Forces in the
District
!>fllljnVfiipnf»l Rnrctia,
In the Sir Waiter Hotel.
BY J C. BASKEUVILL.
Raleigh, June 4. —Even the most ar
dent supporters of Harold D. Cooley,
of Nash county, are still surprised
here today at the size of his vote to
the primary Saturday in fourth con
gressional district. While oColey sup
porters were confident that he
would be high man in the primary
for the Democratic! nomination f®r
Congress, many of them were frankly
worried and few believed he would get
such a plurality and lead George Ross
Pou by almost 8,000 votes and get a
(Continued On Page Four.)
Chief of Works,
Two Assistants,
Murdered in Cuba
Camaguey, Cuba, June 4 (AP) —The
chief of public wwrks, Serapio Recio,
and two other officials were killed
and two persons were wounded by a
mob which attacked the public works
office here today.
The attacking groups were said by
police to have been made up of re
cently discharged employees of the
office. The assailants were driven
out by police and soldiers.
The mob entered the office and
immediately opened fire on the em
ployees. After the fight they fled
into the open country, pursued by the
soldiers and police.
Slaying Os
2 Admitted
By Boy, 21
Los Angeles, Cal., June 4. (AP) —
Louis Rude aPyne, 21, cracked under
the strain of an all-night grilling by
police and confessed early today, of
ficers said, to the details of the
hatchet slaying of his mother and
brother in their Westwood mansion
here:
“I killed them last Tuesday night”,
detectibes quoted the youth as crying.
'‘Many thingsm my mother and
brother had done to me finally multi
plied themselbes a million times in my
mind, and at last something set off
the spark, and I couldn’t stand it any
it any longer—so I killed them”.
Mrs. Carrie L. Payne, 45, and her
son, Robert, 14, were fotrnd hacked to
death in their gedrooms of the luxuri
ous Spanish-type Payne residence
near the University of California cam
pus at Los Angeles yesterday.
Several hours later an alarm was
broadcast for Louis, but before the
extensibe police net had had time to
spread, he nonchalantly waHcea into
the Huntington Beach police station,
30 miles south of here, with the an
nouncement that he was wanted in
Los Angeles for murder.
Fourth District Congressman
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HAROLD D. COOLEY
Cooley Nominated
To Congress Seat
Nash Candidate Springs Surprise by Winning in First
Primary; Zollicoffer’s Main Strength Is In Vance
County, Which He Carries About 65 Percent
Harold D. Cooley, of Nashville,
Nash county, was nominated for Con
gress in last Saturday’s Democratic
primary with a safe maority over the
field of four opponents amounting to
804 on the face of complete unofficial
returns today. There were 53,606
votes cast of that number Cooley got
a total of 27,200; George Ross Pou,
9,303; Jere P. Zollicoffer, 6,304; W. F.
Evans, 462; Palmer E. Bailey, 337.
Jere P. Zollicoffer, of Henderson,
polled most of his strength in Vance,
his home county, with «* total of 3,-
353, with the remaining vote in this
county divided between the four other
contestants as follows: Cooley, 984;
Pou 799; Evans, 15; Bailey, 16.
On the face of the unofficial re
turns, Zollicoffer got a fraction under
two-thirds of the Vance county vote.
The Cooley vote was surprising both
as to its size and in the fact that it
exceeded that of Pou in this county.
Federal Agents Seriously
Wound One Man In Ex
change of Firing
Baltimore, Md., June 4. (AP)—De
partment of Justice agents today shot
and seriously wounded one man dur
ing a gun battle with a group of
bandit suspects here.
The wounded man, a woman and
another man were taken prisoners.
According to the post office depart
ment circulars offering a reward for
their capture, they are wanted for
robbing the mail.
The cottage in which the suspects
were (believed to be hiding was locat
ed Saturday. Department of Justice
agents, augmented gy a police detail,
surrounded it today and called an or
der for the occupants to surrender.
The response, the police reported,
was a rattle of gunfire. The officers
returned the fire, and a prolonged ex
change was said to have preceded the
capture. , .
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY #
Y’S ELECTION
No one expected Evans or Bailey eith
er to poll much of a vote. >
Zollicoffer carried every precinct in
the county except Nutbush, the small
est in the county, where he got ten
votes, Pou 18; Cooey 2, and the others
none. The largest Zollicoffer vote
was that in East Henderson. 605, his
own precinct giving him a vote of 578,
as against 103 for Pou and 201 for
Cooley.
The Henderson man commented to
day that his greatest wish was that
his candidacy had done nothing to
jeopardize the interests of his own
county in Washington, and that it
had done nothing to hurt the cause
of the Democratic party. He thought
conditions had been grossly misrep
resented to him and that he had been
greatly misled in many instances. He
said he believed he had more strength
<Continued on Page Five.)
SAILOR DROWNS IN
TAR RIVER SUNDAY
Tarboro. June 4. (AP) —Leaning
over the water to recover a pocket
book which had fallen in, Hubert
Hopkins 18, a sailor here on vaca
tion, slipped into the Tar river
yesterday and was drowned.
Will Be Two New Faces
' For N. C. Next Congress
Charlotte, June 4 (AP)—There will
be two new; faces in North Carolina’s
congressional delegation as the result
of Saturday’s Democratic primary.
The veterans representative, Chas.
L. Abernethy rounding out his sev
enth term from the third district, was
eliminated from a second primary
June 30, on the face of fairly complete
unofficial returns.
Harold D. Cooley, Nash county at
torney, will be the fourth district’s
representative, succeeding the late 1
Edward W. Pou, who was dean of the
House at the time of his death April 1.
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TODAY
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Hamlett, Robinson, Cle
ments and O. S. Falkner
Re-Nominated by Safe
Majorities
THREE NEW MEN TO
BE COMMISSIONERS
Only One Candidate on Pre
sent School Board Re-Nom.
inated; Second Primary
Considered Unlikely, Al
though It ds Possible Far
Two Offices
While Jere P. Zollicoffer. of this
city, on whose shoulders were carried
the hopes of Vance county to send a
native son to the Congress of the
United States, was defeated, moat, of
the “ins” in county offices here were
re-nominated in last Saturday** pri
mary election. The vote cast, which
amounted to 5,191 at the high mark,
for sheriff, was the largest by ap
proximately 1,000. ever to be cast in
any election in this county.
Sheriff J. E. Hamlett, incumbent,
was renominated with approximately
1,000 votes to spare, in a field of five,
his total being 3,101; L. A. Jackson,
1,131; D. L, Kearney* 482; K. I*.
Davis. 348, and G. O. Ferdue, 129.
Horace M. Robinson, incumbept;
polled 4,091 votes to be renominated
as register of deeds over A. R. Tarry,
whose vote was 966.
For recorder, R. E. Clements w-as
re-nominated with a vote of 4,126 over
C. B. Beckham, who got 854. Clem
ents’ vote was the largest ever given
tp any single candidate in any election
(Continued or Page Eight.)
Legislative
Fights Are
Under Way
Sales Tax, Auto Tax
and School Support
Loom Now as Major
Issues
Dnfly Dispatch Bareai,
. In the Sir Walter Hotel.
tSY J C. BASKEUVILL.
Raleigh, June 4. —Although the pri
mary is over and the personnel l of
the next General Assembly that meets
in January, 1935, is now fairly well
defined, the major contests that will
reach their peak during the next As
sembly are only just starting it la
agreed here. Foremost of these, ae«
cording to present indications, is tb*
contest over the sales tax. Next in
importance or at least in controversy*
will be the fight over highway reve
nues, whether or not the tax on au
tomobiles will be reduced and whether
any of the highway revenue will be
diverted to other uses. Another bitter;
The Democratic nomination is equiy
alent to election.
With only seven precincts missing,
Abernethy was trailing the two lead
ers by 1,300 votes. Graham A. Barden
of New Bern, was in the lead, yrith
7,908 votes, and Luther Hamilton, of
Morehead City, was second, with 7,214.
Abernethy polled 5,900.
Cooley was nominated by a major
ity of about 1,000 votes over four op
ponents, including George Ross Pou,
former State Prison superintendent,
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