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HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY FIRST YEAR
FOUR NEW ENGLAND THEATRES BOMBED; ONE BURNED
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Three CCC Men Burned To Death As Camp Is Destroyed By Fire
BARRACKS SWEPT
BY FLAMES NEAR
TENNESSEE TOWN
?00 Are Left '.Shivering In
Ten Degree Weather as
Their Quarters
Are Wiped Out
a
DAMAGE ESTIMATED
ONLY AROUND $12,000
One of Dead Men Is From
New York City, While
Other Two Leave No Ad
dress; Camp Records Are
Destroyed by Fire, Leaving
Very Few Files
Norris. Tenn., Dec. 12.—(AP)— Fire
vviiich broke out in ten degree woath
< at the Clear Creek CCC camp, near
Norris dam, early today burned three
< ICC boys to death, cwept through the j
camp and left over 200 others shiver- :
tag in thtir night clothes.
hour CCC workers were slightly
burned as they fled from their bunks, i
The camp is located on a hillside* and \
a high wind carried the fire through !
it almost before officers could give j
i he alarm. The damage was estimated
by officers at about $12,000.
A tentative check was made by
ending the roll. Lieutenant L. F. Fin
der said the identification of the dead
was not positive, but that pending a
check he believed the bodies recover
ed from the ruins were those of |
Jacob Klein, of the Bronx. New York ]
t’ity: Charles De Palma, no address, j
nd Elwood Kramer, no address.
Camp records were destroyed in the j
'be. Lieutenant Finger said, however \
hat the unit., commanded by Cap
-.31n Douglas S. Mapes, of Buffalo, N.
Y . was made up of residents of New
York and New Jersey.
Lieutenant Finger said the fire i
Parted shortly after midnight in ba>-
jacks No. 1 which contained head- j
quarters for officers. He said he did
not know the cause hut that the first
alarm was when some of the boys
■woke up and yelled. “Fire.”
lev Finger
Os Winter
Hits South
Death and Suffering
Reported; Record
December Cold Felt
In Miami
(By the Associated Press.)
Winter’s siege of the nation, biing
ing death and suffering, reached to
day into the deep Southland.
Miami. Fla., was in the grip of the
••oldest December weather ever record
< d there. The temperature stood at
30.4 degrees at 7:15 a. m. The pre
vious December low was
All over Florida the mercury hit
below the freezing point, causing fears
for the citrus and truck crops.
New England reported a slight rise
in temperatures. Boston’s lowest read
ing in the last 24 hours was six above
zero.
State Auto Tragedies
Blamed Upon Politics
Officers Afraid To Make Arrests and When They Do,
Petty Judges Afraid They Will Lose Votes if They
Convict; Patrolman Tells His Experiences
IJuil? Ulsputcli linreaw,
In tke Sir Walier Hotel,
By f C. Rmkrrvlllr.
llaleigh, Dee. 12. — Policitis is as
much responsible for the mounting
li. t of dead and injured from auto
mobile accidents in North Carolina
au any single factor, according to
those who have been studying the
automobile accident problem here.
I'oi politics is primarily responsible
'or the almost, complete lack of ef
fort to enforce the traffic and motor
vehicle laws by most police depart
ments, heriffs, deputy sheriffs, and
lirttihTsmi tUttlit Bistrairh
LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
...fciJii ASSOCIATED PRESS.
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tion» of iuffering resulting from
the deportation of 28,000 Hun
garians from Yugoslavia i; as
WALLACE DEFENDS
AGRICULTURAL ACT
IN ANNUAL REPORT
' '

Calls It “Economic Demo
cracy” Aimed at “Bal
anced Abundance”
For The Nation
s
SECRETARY UPHOLDS
CROP RESTRICTIONS
But If That Conflicts With
Democracy, He Is In Favor
of Abandoning It; Maui’s
Right To Live, However,
Transcends All Other Con
siderations
! Washington, Dec. 12.— (AP) —Secre-
tary Wallace defended t.he agricul
tural adjustment program today in
his annual report to President Roose
velt as one of “economic democracy”
aimed at. “balanced abundance.’
His report dealt principally with
the work of the adjustment admin
istration prior to June 30, scientific
work of the Department of Agricul
ture and emergency activities carried
(Continued on Page Pour)
NEW BUS SERVICE
GIVEN TO OXFORD
ltaleigh, Dec. 12. —(AP) —Stan-
ley Winborne, State utilities com
missioner. today granted the Car
olina Coach Company a franchise
to operate a passenger bus service
from Raleigh to the Virginia line
byway of Creedmoor and Oxforo.
judges, those who are familiar with
conditions say.
“County and city officials, especial
ly sheriffs and judges elected by the
people and who must come up for
reelection every two years, do not
want to run the risk of making peo
ple mad and losing their votes by
arresting them or fining them for
traffic violations,” an observer of the
situation ‘ said here today. “As a re
sult, the sheriffs and city policemen
are not going to make any more ar
(Continued on Page Three!
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF CAROLINA AND VIKUNIA.
j forded by this picture which was J
flashed to the United States by i
I radio. Scenes of indescribable
privation were common ainon# j
Assent From'
Libby About
Will Halted
Dull Routine of Suit
Over Reynolds For
tune Turns To Sen
sation
Winston-Salem, Dec. 12.—(AP)—■ A
legal matter that was to have been
of dull routine became steeped with
dramatic possibilities as attorneys for ,
Libby Holman Reynolds and her son
postponed the filing of a paper in
Forsyth court today.
It had been announced that a. for
mal answer to the Reynolds heirs’ of
fer of settlement of Smith Reynolds’
estate would be filed early this week.
It was understood this would be »
formal acceptance of the offer, since
lawyers had already announced Miss
Holman was satisfied with the pro
posal.
THREE TRUSTEES OF
ORPHANAGE PICKED
Raleigh, Dec. 12. —(AP)— The
appointment of Ihree members of
the board of trustees of the Mas
onic! Orphanage at Oxford was
announced today at the office of
Governor Miringliaus.
The appointments are Or. K. L.
Flowers, of Duke University, ee
appointed; R. E. Simpson, of
Charlotte, and Benjamin Cone, of
Greensboro.
1
Probably Right in Urging G.
O. P. Reform, But He
Can’t Bring It
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, Dec. 12.—Correct as
Senator William E. Borah may foe in
his contention that the Republican
pfirty needs reorganization from the
ground up, if it is to survive, ;there
are indications that the Idaho states
man was not the ideal individual to
urge it.
The senator made it clear that, by
reorganization, he meant reorganiza
tion on progressive lines.
Now Borah is well known among
his fellow lawmakers as an orator
who speaks with great ability in tu
vor of progressive principles but a
a politician who generally votes with
considerable conversatism when ac
(Continurd on Page Five)
HENDERSON, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 12, 1934
Central Press Undid Photo
i the refugees at Kelevia, on th«
! border, where this photograph
was taken. Calmer nations ar*
i trying to maintain peaco.
LEGISLATURE WILL
LEVY FOR RELIEF
Moreover, State Won’t Stand
For Any Jawing From
Washington About
Its Part
PAYING TWICE WHAT
IT RECEIVES BACK
And Hopkins and Rest of
Then Will Be Reminded of
That if They Hint North
Carolina Isn’t Doing Its
Full Share With the Relief
Load
Daily Dnt|»at< h Barraa,
In Ihe Sir Walter Hutel,
Ur J. C. Maskervllle.
Raleigh, Dec. 12.—Although there
is no doubt that the 1935 General As
sembly will be asked to make a State
appropriation for relief purposes, with
which to augment or match the Fed
eral relief funds, the outlook is not
at all bright for the eventual passage
of such an appropriation. In fact,
there are already definite Indications
that any move in the direction of a
large State appropriation for relief
will he vigorously opposed and that
this opposition may be led by Gover
nor J. C. B. Ehringhaus.
It is the contention of thoses who
have been looking into the question
(Continued on I’uge Four)
(10) Shopping
Mays .till
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair tonight and Thursday; ris
ing temperature.
FOR HENDERSON.
For 24-hour period ending at
noon today: Highest temperature,
34; lowest, 18; northwest wind;
clear, no rain; temperature at
noon today, 34; snowfall Monday
and Monday night i-jj
Roosevelt Starts
Move To Eliminate
Profits From War
Conference Called To Dis
cuss Program To Be
Placed Before The
Next Congress
GENERAL ~MACARTHUR
GETS A N EXTENSION
Will Continue as Chief Os
Staff Through Coming
Session; Time - Has Come
for Action To Halt War
Trafficking, According to
President
Washington, Dec. 12.—(AP> —A con
ference to map a program to “take
the profit out. of war” was called to
day by President Roosevelt.
He alsos directed the re-appoint
ment of General Douglas MacArthur
as army chief of staff to serve thro
ugh the coming- session of Congress,
and to aid in formulating war profits
legislation.
The MacArthur appointment, is tem
porary.
Mr. Roosevelt called to the war pro
fits conference, which meets late to
day. Bernard M. Baruch, the chair
man of the War Industries Board in
the World War, and General Hugh S.
Johnson, former NRA administrator,
and assistant to Baruch during the
war.
Tim President emphasized the con
ference was to frame permanent, leg
islation looking to an event which he
hoped never would happen.
He said the subject was being taken
up now because there is no war
cloud on the horizon.
“I believe the time has come," Mr.
Roosevelt said at his press confer
ence, “when legislation should be en
acted to take the profits out of war."
Gang Charges In
I .indbergh Kidnap
Case Are Ignored
Flemington, N. J„ Dec. 12.
(AP)—Attorney General David T.
Willentz, chief of the staff that
will prosecute Bruno Richard
Hauptmann, Lindbergh kidnaping
suspect, said today that the State
will not investigate the defense
claim that a New Jersey gangster
wrote the second Lindbergh note.
The intermediary of trie ransom
negotiations, Dr. John F. “Jafsie”
Condon was traveling toward
Miami, Fla., on a mysterious mis
sion. At Columbia, S. C., he said
he was going to conduct a “per
sonal investigation” of angles of
the casexwhich h e declined to dis
cuss further.
SEED CRUSHINGS IN
FOUR MONTHS LESS
Washington, Dec. 12— (AP) —Cot-
tonseed crushed during the four
months period August 1 to November
30 was reported today by the Census
Bureau to have totalled 1,767,722 tons,
compared with 1,983,047 tons in the
same period a year ago, and cotton
seed on hand at mills November 30
was 1.232,067 tons, compared with 1,-
357,691 tons a year ago,
old Sins
Writer Points To Need For
Aid, But This Is Not Way
To Obtain It
My LESLIE EICHEI.
Central Press Staff Writer
New York, Dec. 12.—We shall an
swer many correspondent today—on
the Townsend old age pension plan.
The majority of the letters we re
ceive pertain to that plan.
The writer of this column believes
in an old age pension. There will be
one. But the Townsend pension plan
does not seem sound. It might create
more damage than good. For one
tiling, it would not “redistribute”
wealth. It would on the contrary (so
it seems to this writer) take still
more from the great mass of people
and would further enslave the people
(Continued on Page Five.)
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY,
Manchukuo Ruler
■Mpl
Gen. Jiro Mtnatni
Designation of Gen. Jiro Minami aa
Japanese ambassador to Manchu
kuo and commander-in-chief of the
60,000 Japanese troops there, makes
him ruler of. the stale carved oul of
China by Japan.
(Central Press)
TO BEADJOURNED
LATERTHIS WEEK
Whether Disbandment Will
Mean Permanent End or
Temporary One Is
Undecided
CONVERSATIONS FOR
PRESENT COMPLETED
British Cabinet Decides To
Propose Adjournment of
Stalemated Discussions and
American Delegates Are
Advised; They May Sail
Saturday
London, Dec. 12.—(AP)—The pre
liminary nava] conversations between
the United States, Great Briatain and
Japan will be adjourned this week,
it was indicated today.
The decision of the British cabinet
to propose adjournment of the stale
mated conversations was communicat
ed to a meeting of the United States
delegates for their approval.
It was suggested that adjournment
might be made in time to enable the
American group to leave for home on
the Manhattan, sailing Saturday.
The present conversations, whicn
have been in progress for two months
may now be regarded as finished, it
was stated. The next step appears to
be to determine whether the step
should be regarded as complete ter
mination or whether postponement
should foe made to some further date.
Penrose Gave Order
ForG. O. P. Command
To Satisfy DuPonts
Washington, Dec. 12.—(AP) — An
order from the Republican high com
mand in the Senate in 1920, when the
American chemical industry was seek
ing a dye embargo, “to give the Du-
Ponts what they want,” was desscrib
ed today before Senate munitions in
vestigators.
A letter from one DuPont company
official to another told of a confer
ence in which former Senator Pen
rose, Rep iblio.an, Pennsylvania, was.
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TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY j
INTERIORS RIPPED
OUT BI BLASTS IN
OLD NEW ENGLAND
Two In Boston, One In Lynn,
Mass., One in Pawtucket,
R. 1., Ail Badly
Damaged
reasonlforblast
IS UNDETERMINED
Definitely Established in at
Least One Instance That
Bomb Was Exploded;
Theatre Damaged by Fire
Is Located at Somerville,
Mass.
Somerville, Muss., Dec. 12.
(AP) —A fired iHoovered shortly
Indore noon swept the Davis
Square theatre, causing loss esti
mated as high as $20,000.
Police Chief Thomas Damr.v Im
mediately ordered an mvestiga
lion, in view of the bombings ear
lier in the day of three theatres
io Massachusetts ami one in
Rhode Island.
Boston, Mass., Dec. 12 (AP)- Ex
plosions ripped out the interiors of
four moving picture theatres early
today and sent the bomb squads of
three southern New England police
(Continued on Raise Three.)
TRAINMASTER FOR
SOUTHERN KILLED
Columbia, S. C. Dec. 12.—(AP)— W.
1.. Williamson, train master of the
Southern Railroad here, was killed
early today while clearing the track
of a. derailed freight wreck in the
cdunty.
Williamson went to the scene of the
derailment with a wrecking crew and
a derrick. He apparently was struck
down in the dark by the switching
•of some cars to the sidetracks.
23 Dead In
Flo tel Fire
Are Listed
Search of Ruins
Yields Ghastly Toll
From Blaze In Lans
ing, Michigan
Lansing, Mich., Dec. 12 (AP) —As
fire-blackened, ice-shrouded ruins of
the Hotel Kerns began giving up
their dead today, State police an
nounced that 23 persons had been
listed as victims of the flames that
trapped the sleeping guests yesterday
morning.
The roster of “known dead" in
Michigan’s most horrible fire tragedy
included those whose bodies were
taken from the icy waters of the
Grand river .into which many guests
plunged, those who leaped to the
street, dying of injury, and those de
finitely reported by relatives to have
spent the night in the hotel, and to
be missing now.
Searchers began digging into the
still smoking debris this morning and
a temporary morgue set up near the
scene contained the blackened bones
of the first victims to be removed.
said to have ordered Senator Watson,
Republican, Indiana, tos “give the Du-
Ponts what they want just as far as
you possibly can without getting in
to a row.”
Irenee DuPont, testifying before
the committee, explained he and oth
er chemical manufacturers were do
ing all they could to convince the
nation that a domestic chemical in
dustry was essential to the nation’s
defense.

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