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HENDERSON
(JATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
DIRECT 20 PERCENT
GOVERNMENT GIFT IN
HOUSING IS TALKED
Whole Billion Dollars Would
Be Put Up By Admin
istration For That
Purpose
FOUR TIMES THAT
SOUGHT OF BANKS
Man With SSOO Could Build
Himself $5,000 Home By
Putting Up Only Little
More as Starter; SO Per
cent Loan Would Be Gov
ernment-Backed
Washington, Doc. 4.—(AP)—A di
ri'ot subsidy plan for stimulating:
h< using, through which 51.000.000.000
<>f Federal funds will be used in an
att nipt to put $4,000,000,000 of priv
iii> capital to work, is receiving con
sideration in high administration
quarters.
The scheme now being studied
aid have the government make a
direct gift of 20 per cent of a hous
i. project. The person receiving the
u’l-idy then could obtain an 80 per
i it loan on the remainder of thv
tnst through the insurance guaran
t method of the housing adminis
r ration.
An example of operation of the plan
would be as follows:
V man with a $">00 lot wants to
build a $5,000 house on his property.
The government, after investigation
•!n ugh Housing Administration ma
ehineiy. would advance 20 percent of
the *"’>oo. or SI,OOO. With the in
; litre guarantee of the housing ad
ministration behind him. the borrow
ther could obtain from a bank or
other lending agency a loan of 80
cent. This would mean a loan of
.'S.iioO. putting the housing cost and
th rvalue of the lot together for a
total of $4,500.
This arrangement would require
t o borrower to put up only SIOO in
i ish in addition to his lot.
STATE HISTORICAL
CONVENTION OPENS
Dr. Graham and Poet Pear
son Chief Speaker in
Raleigh Tonight
Hujly h flarena.
in |h«> Sir Waller Motel,
Ilf .1 U. U:iMU«*rvllie,
liilueh. Doe. I.—President Frank
" Graham, former history professor
d now president of the University
North Carolina, and J'>rnn« T.arkm
Pearson of Boomer, one of North Car
ol mas best known and most distin- j
■fished poets, will address the open
i « session of the State Literary and
Historical Association in tile Sn
"’altei Hotel at * o’clock tonight.
I’ l Hewing the addresses, there will
!l < an informal reception held for
"limbers and guests of the associa
-1 ion.
Mi. Pearson, of Wilkes county, well
h "\vn as the author of three volumes
(Continued on Page Five)
Couzensln
Stout Reply
Haps Borah
Michigan Senator
Challenges Idahoan
l o Trot Out New
0. 0. P. Plan
‘•'•■'■•liinaton. Dec. I 'AD) —(Senator
' ■ -■ih. who demanded a reorgan iza
' “■" of the Republican party, received
'■hallengc today from Senator Couz-
R< publican. Michigan, to take
11 chairmanship and suggest a new
I t form.
He said Borah, like Senator Reed,
"i Pennsylvania, campaigned against
•’ : ueets of the Now Deal, hut neither
one was successful because they of
f‘" ed no substitute for the program
tie v criticized.”
"lie Michigan senator’s erirty into
; 'i' party controversy came shortly
•'■fier Henry P. Fletcher, chmairman
of the Republican National Commit
’ had flatly decided to resign at
1 orah’s request.
To step out at this time. Fletcher
oid, would plunge the party organi
st on into confusion. He pointed out
the machinery by which, he said, the
fit "ty could obtain new leadership if
(Continued on Page Foui 1
limtitcrsmt Datht Dtsitatrh
LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
TUB ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Landon for President
Governor London
Largely because he was one of
the very few Republican gover
nors who withstood the Demo
cratic landslide at the last elec
tion, Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kan
sas ia regarded as presidential
timber to the extent that a Lan
don-for-President club already ha?
been established at Wickita. Club?
will be organized in every county
in Kansas and other states will be
asked to form Landon clubs pat
terned after the Kansas organiza
, . tion-
BANKHEAD COTTON
ACT ATTACKED AND
UPHELD IN’ SOUTH
Farmers, Farm Editors and
Cooperative Heads Urge
Retention of Crop
Control
GEORGIA GOVERNOR
BITTER IN ATTACKS
Says No Industry Can Live
Under Tax as High as That
on Cotton; Conditions Do
Not Warrant Change, Co
operative Leader Asserts
(Ky- the Associated Press.)
The Bankhead cotton control act
was the object of support and of crit
icism today, while plans went forward
for tile vote on December 14, which
will decide whether the plan shall be
continued in 1935.
Retention of the compulsory cotton
control act was urged by a group of
25 farmers, farm magazine editors
and directors of farm cooperative
heads from six states tr. a confer
ence with Secretary Wallace in Wash
ington yesterday.
j The group submitted eight recom
mendations which they wish to be
J followed in applying the 1935 program
(Continued on Page Four)
Retail Trode Now
$37,500,000 Total
For Entire State
Dajlf li|**|*ntel»
In the Sir Waller Hotel,
Js> J, tl, Ujiskervllte.
Raleigh, Dec. 4. —Total retail sales
in North Carolina are now amount
ing to at least $37,500,000 a month,
as compared with only about $29,846,-
000 a month at this time a year ago,
according to computation made by
State Department of Revenue offi
cials based on collection sfrom the
sales tax in November of this year
as compared with collections in No
vember, 1933. This signifies an in
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION
mtioSeJs
Senator Nye Says Arms
Manufacturers Sat At
Elbows of Delegates
At Geneva
EUROPEANS SOUGHT
AND GOT AID HERE
|Knew Who American Dele
gates to Conference Were
Three Weeks Before Names
Were Announced; Startl
ing Evidence Promised at
Hearing
Washington. Dec. 4. —(AP) — The
chairman of the Senate munitions in
quiiy committee said today it had
uncovered evidence that European :
munitions makers deliberately "scut- i
tied" a Geneva plan to control world ,
trade in implements of war.
Senator Ny-e. Republican, North Da- j
kota. who heads the investigation,
which already has produced reper
cussions abroad said the evidence
would be revealed in a new series of
committee hearings opening todays
Arms manufacturers, he said, sat at
tile elbows of some official delegates
to an international conference held
at Geneva in 1925 and influenced
them in writing an agreement so in- j
nocuous as to be ‘.hopeless.’’
The European group of arms men. ,
he asserted, also appealed to Amer- |
ican manufacturers for assistance
and got it. Munitions officials knew
who the American delegates were
hree weeks before the list was made
public, he said.
While these assertions were being |
made, it beam known that the State
Department lias taken a new step to
(Continued on Page Five.)
Fishing Trawler
F ast Breaking Lp j
Off Bogue Light
Manteo, Dec. 4 (AP)—The fishing
trawler Mildred J, of Woodwood, N.
J.. aground a mile south of Bogue
Island light, was rapidly breaking up
today and coast guardsmen said she
would be a total loss.
Southeast winds during the night
pushed her well up on the beach and
made it impossible to salvage her.
The five men aboard and their ef
fects were brought ashore by coast
guardsmen. The craft went aground
yesterday while attempting to enter
Oregon Inlet so rharbor.
„
Squeals On
Slayer Os
Kidnap Lad
Tulsa, Okla., Dec. 4. —(AP)— Phil
Kennamer, 19-year-old son of a Fed
eral judge, was quoted today by
Robert Thomas, 19. a companion, as
saying he killed John F. Gorrell, Jr.
because of an extortion note Ken
namer said Gorrell wrote.
Thomas, in a signed statement
made before John F. Conway, assist
ant .Viounty prosecenlor, said Ken
namer confided to him that he shot
and killed "the 3-y-ear-old dental stu
dent because of a note demanding
$20,000 from Homer F. Wilcox, Sr..
Tulsa oil man. under threat of kid
naping his daughter. Virginia Wilcox.
Kennamer. son of Federal Judge
Franklin E. Kennamer, pleaded not
guilty yesterday when arraigned oi.
a charge of murder In the first de
gree.
An examination of the youth by
medical experts was ordered by the
county attorney.
crease of approximately $7,700,000 n>
gross retail sales in November as
compared with November of last year
Sales tax collections in November
—whicli had been collected by mer
chants from customers on sales made
during October—amounted to $739,555
according to the report of the De
partment of Revenue issued Decem
ber 1. If the books had been kept
open one day longer, or through No
vember 30, the collections for the
(Continued on Page Three)
HENDERSON, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 4, 1934
Pacific Flier Is
Blown Off Route
Honolulu, Dec. 4 (AlM—Off his
course and virtually out of gaso
line on a flight from Oakland to
Honolulu, Flight Lieutenant. Chas.
T. I*. Ulm today sent out a gen
eral emergency call as a coast
guard cutter and three navy planes
I dallied to his aid.
EXEMPTION OF SSO
WOULD BE ALLOWED
MONTHLY 1 SALES
No Sales Tax Would Be Col
lected on First! SSO Os
Business by Any
Merchant
IT WOULDSIMPLIFY
ACCOUNTING WORK
Some Commodity Exemp
tions Would Be Removed
to Offset $288,000 Annu
ally Lost if SSO Leeway
Were Allowed; Plan To
Meet Opposition
Rnjl.v Dispatch llare.-ia.
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
II >• J. O’. ilasker» llle.
Raleigh, Dec. 4—One of several
changes likely- to be proposed in the
present sales tax law. will be to al]ow
all merchants a basic exemption of
probably" SSO a. month, to allow for
their non-taxable sales, it was learn
ed here today. Under the present
sales tax law, a merchant to pay
to the state three per cent of his
gross sales, with the exception of the
articles specifically exempted from
the tax, although he is not permitted
(Continued on Page Three)
REFUSED A PAROLE
Governor Thinks Hender
sonville Man Hasn’t Done
Enough Time Yet
Daily Dl*i*:il<-li isamia.
In (he Sir Waller Uwlel,
llv J. V. lia<ikerville.
R, leigh, Dec. 4. —Application for a
parole for Mack Rhodes, former presi
dent of the First Bank and Trust
Company- of Hendersonville, and who
has been in Sfate Prison here since
October 24, 1932, serving two sen
tences imposed following nis convic
tion for embezzlement and making
false entry, was denied today by Gov
ernor J. C B. Ehringhaus, it was an
nounced this afternoon by Commis-
(Continued on Page Three)
$12,000,000
Crop Funds
Paid State
Another $2,000,000
Will Be Paid in Near
Future bv U. S. Gov
ernment
College Station Raleigh. Dec. 1. —
benefit payments to North Carolina
armers cooperating in the agricul
ural adjustment programs this year
lave reached a total of $12,000,000.
Dean I. O. Schaub. of State College,
innounced today.
Another $2,000,000 will be paid in
he near future as the administration
completes payment of the $14,000,000
(Continued on Page Three)
XL) Shopping
days till
OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
Capus Waynick Appointed
As Assistant Highway Head
With Full Powers Os Job
Portrait of a President
'M' : y ■ J”• "•
Newest closcup of Franklin D. Roosevelt, taken at Warm Springs, Ga
speaks for itself. (Central Press j
Three Towns Destroyed
By Honduras Earthquake
Kidnap Suspect Is
Taken In Florida
Marianna, Fla., Dee. 4 (AP)
Sheriff W. F. Chambliss today said
a man answering the description of
Thomas H. Robinson, Jr., charged
with kidnaping Mrs. Alice Sioll,
wealthy Louisville society woman,
was being held here until his fing
erprints could be checked with
Kentucky authorities.
The man, booked as Rufus Clark
was arrested by Deputy sheriffs
when he attempted to run at their
command to halt. Clark told the
sheriff he was on his way to Bris
tol, Tenn.
Deputy Sheriff J. C. Cooper said
he doubted that Clark was Robin
son, although he resembled the
man under indictment for the ab
duction of Mrs. Stoll.
See Return
OfGermany
To League
Geneva. Dec. 4 (AP)—Geneva dip
lomats held higher hopes today that
Germany may return to the disarma
ment conference and to the League
of Nations.
A full Franco-German agreement,
reached in Rome under League spon
sorship. on the Saar basin territory,
created optimism. France is repre
sented as realizing the Saar will prob
ably vote to reutrn to Germany. With
details of the transfer arranged in
advance, the January 13 plebiscite
stands less as a danger spot on the
European horizon, statesmen said.
Germany can not take the initia
tive in returning to the League, said
an article in a Berlin newspaper
quoting Foreign Minister Von Neu
rath.
The tone of the artcile was milder
toward League matters than any ap
pearing in the paper of an official na
ture since Germany left the League.
BURLEY SEASON IN
TENNESSEE OPENS
Greenville, Tenn.. Dec. 4.—(AP)
—The 1934 hurley tobacco crop
w r ent on sale today in tlie Appala
chian belt, with prices averaging
from $lB to S2O per hundred
pounds—an average increase of
$4 to $6 per hundred over the
opening day price last year.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY,
Reports Concern Towns
With Combined 6,500
Population in Cen
tral America
COMMUNICATIONS IN
AREA ARE WRECKED
Government Has Difficulty
Obtaining Details of Fate
of Inhabitants; Shock Be
lieved Same That Struck
Honduras on Last Sunday
Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Dec. 1 (AP)
—Three towns with a total population
of 6,500 persons were reported as prob
ably destroyed by an earthquake in
Ocatepeque department in an offi
cial message today from Sinuapa, the
new capital of Ocotepeque.
The three towns named were San
Jorge, population, 2,000; La Enarna
(Continued on Page Five)
Feggs Rob Safe
For $3,000 From
Bank In Martin
Hamilton, N. C., Dec. 4. —(AP) —
Yeggs lat night burned their way
into the safe. of. the. Bank of
Hamilton here and stole approxi
mately $3,000.
The robbery was discovered
when bank employees came to
work this mrontng. The thieves
had forced the back door to gain
entrance to the building and ap
parently had cut Into the safe
with an acetylene torch.
Jim Wilcox, Pardoned For
Murder Os Nellie Cropsy,
Dies Death Os A Suicide
Elizabeth City, Dec. 4.—(AP) —
James Wilcox, 58-year-old recluse,
may have taken with him into death
today the answer to the question,
“Who killed beautiful Nell Cropsy.”
Lying on his bed in the room which
he occv>ied in the rear of John Tut
tle’s garage. Wilcox placed a 12-
guaged shotgun under his left skull
and iblew his head and face off. Only
his mouth, a part of his nose and the
right cheek remained.
Wilcpa; served almost 16 years in
State Prison after being convicted of
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TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
TEMPORARY OFFICE
IS GIVEN APPROVAL
BY BUDGET BUREAU
High Point Editor To Serve
In Place of E. B. Jeffress,
Long Seriously
Sick
HE ASSUMES DUTIES
WITHOUT ANY DELAY
Will Start Coordinating
Highway Set-Up in Ad
vance of Approaching Gen
eral Assembly; State High
way Commission Approves
Selection
Raleigh, Dec. 4.—(AP)—Capus M.
Waynick, High Point newspaper edi
tor and former State senator, today
was named assistant chairman of the
State Highway and Public Works
Commission, clothed with all the powd
ers and duties of the chairman, due
to the illness of Chairman E. B. Jef
fress.
The budget bureau has approved
the “temporary office of assistant
chairman of the highway and public
works commission,’’ and Waynick will
assume his new duties at once, at a
salary of $411.22 1-3 per month.
Chairman Jeffress has been seriou
ly ill since the last of August, and the
entire highway commission of six
members has been meeting to trans
act business of I the department, us
ually- done by the chairman. With the
legislature only one month away,
and with much other work to Oc
done, it was decided to place the
commission’s authority in one indi
vidual to serve, instead of the sick
chairman, and at the recommendation
of Governor Ehringhaus the commis
sion named Waynick.
Assassins
Os So vie l
Looked For
71 White Russians
Held in Sergie Ki
roff’s Slaying;
Trouble Rumored
Moscow, Dec. 4.—(AP) —Thousands
of mourning workers massed in the
snow before the union house today- a
waiting a chance to view the body of
Sergei Kiroff, assassinated Soviet of
ficial, which arrived from Leningard
this morning and lies in state in the
columned hall of the historic build
ing.
The old building, formerly used as
a club for nobles, was almost en
tirely covered with red and black
bunting, as are the great opera and
other important buildings clustering
along Scerlogv square and the neigh
boring Red square.
Kiroff’s body arrived shortly after
the government announced the arrest
(Continued on Page Five.)
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy tonight and Wed
nesday; colder tonight and on the
coast Wednesday.
second degree murder of Miss Cropsy
on the night of November 29, 1901.
First he was sentenced to hang, but
appealled to the Supreme Court and
was granted a new trial in Perqui
mans county, and then was sentenced
to 30 years for second degree mur
der. He was pardoned by Governor
Bickett December 24, 1918.
For the past three months he lived
in the little room back of the gar
age, despondent and shunting com
panionship of other men. He was
said to have voiced his intention to
commit suicide upon several occasional