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Fair WEATHER and warmer Friday night and Saturday. i (Tin4 (Ttuu%s - Kcurs VOL. S3 No. 29 HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1934 GOOD AFTERNOON Now Hollywood St thinking of making movie* of wu of Shake* speare's plays. But aot before tho directors will want to improve on the titles and some of the linea. SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS 950 MILLION RELIEF BILL BEFORE HOUSE MM PLANS no mm TRADE OF U. & New Ambassador To U. S. Outlines Hopes For Ac cord With America SPAIN'S TRIBUNAL ' APPROVES PARDONS i A (Copyright bv United Press) LONDON. 2.— (UP).—.. Japar ^-American understanding for peace :n the 1'acific was urge! today by Hiroshi Saito. newly ap points! ambassador to the United States. He emphasized the following: major points: (1) A non-aggression under* 'anding could be reached perhaps with Russia included. (2) There i> no darker of war between Japan anil Russia. (.'{> Japar: would like to see the immigration barrier removed and to be placed on the same basis with European nations n the Uni- ' ted States f (4> The t nited States will rec ognize .Vanc.o ..k.. eventually. (5) Japan does n r menace the United Stare- trade and does not . intend re monopolize the Man I ehoukuo market. RELEASE OF AMERICANS IS MALLORCA SEEN MADRID Feb. 2 (UP).—The supreme military tribunal body approved pardons fot four Ameri cans in Jail on the island of Mal lorca. U. S. Ambassador Claude G. Bowers was informed. The approval will be submitted to the general supreme court which meets on Saturday. Release was confidently expect ed over the week-end. The pris oners are Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Lockwood. Springfield, Mass.; Ed mund W. Blodgett, of Stamford, Conn., and Roderick F. Mead, of New York. Treasury Takes Over R.F.C. Gold WASHINGTON. Feb. 2. (UP). ; The treasury took formal posses ion Thursday of gold acquired by the Reconstruction Finance ' Corporation at a total cost of 1 113.000.000. This includes both J domestic and foreign acquisitions wder the gold buying program in iifect from mid-autumn until the :ew gold program took the RFC >ut of the metal business. The treasury paid the RFC at he >ame rate at which the RFC paired the gold—an average of ibout $'52.50 an ounce. On this goid. therefore, the treasury profits only by $2.50 an ounce, at the new $35 price. Income Tax Man Here March 1-2 In order to help taxpayers in Ming their federal income tax re :urn<. a representative of the U S. Internal Revenue depart ment »i;! be at the post office in Hendersonville, March I and 2. A notice issued by the treasury department asks those who have received blanks on which to file returns take these with them to the office on those dates, if they *sh federal assistance in making wir report. PUN TRADE BANK Washington, Feb. 2. <up). a"s tu establish a government ^'-ng bank finance foreign ' i ('et'.yeen the United States t •' tn- Soviet and other coun iiW r°' ?aled today by Pres - Koosevelt to Chairman Jones 01 Me Rfr Dun and Bradstreet, Inc., rC" Ports clearings at principal U. cities last week totaled $4, ^29,113,000, up 14.8 per cent ffom like 1933 week. Bureau of Agricultural Eco nomics reports consumption ot cotton by domestic mills in first t"e months of current season 'oulled 2,416,000 bales, largesl •n four years. P'ymouth Motor Corporation rePorts orders from dealers fo* ^34 to date totalled 65,000, a,> increase of 500 pc cenl °»er like 1933 period. *7 i Named As NRA Board Chief Earned head of the women's divi-1 ion of the NRA consumers' ad visory board. Mrs. Pattie Ruffner acobs of Birmingham, Ala., is hown here at her desk in Wash ngton. She succeeds Miss Mary lushes. LEGGERS PLAN TO PAY TAXES AND OPERATE — ——- I j. S. May Help State En force Its Liquor Law Later, But Not Now RALEIGH, Feb. 2.—Now that >ootleggers and blockaders may >ay the Federal tax of $2 a gal on on whatever liquor stocks hey may have on hand and eli ninate the possibility of being >othered by Federal officers-, ome of the larger illicit liquor lealers in the state are paying his tax in order to keep out of I rouble with the government, it i-as learned here today. Collec or of Internal Revenue Charles I. Robertson said that they were ccepting the tax from any who wanted to pay it and giving them eceipts, without asking any i luestions, since as far as the overnment is concerned there is 10 prohibition law in North Car lina. Later on. however, he be ieves that the federal govern nent will give the state some as istance in enforcing its prohibi ion law. "But right now. the only thing he government is interested in s collecting the tax of $2 a gal on \>n liquor and alcohol, regard ess of who may possess it or of vho made it," Robertson said. Some of the bootleggers, of •ourse, are still trying to get by vithout paying the government ax of $2 a gallon, since the tax laturally forces them to increase heir prices. But some of the arger and more extensive liquor lealers are quoted as saying that hev are paying the government :ax as protection from federal nterference and taking their rhances with state and county jfficers. Several bootleg liquor iealers in this section are under stood to be paying the tax and absorbing half of it themselves ind increasing their prices to :heir customers only $1 a gallon, rhus bootleg liquor that formerly sold for $3 a gallon is now sell ing for $4 a gallon, and so forth. At the present time no stamp is required to be affixed to the containers to show that" the tax has been paid. But later on, it is understood, all containers will have to carry a stamp showing the federal tax has been paid. Eight Fishermen Leave For Florida Eight Hendersonville men left yesterday afternoon for Florida to gather evidence of their ability as fishermen. Leaving in two au tomobiles. a house car and a truck, the party expected to spend the night in Georgia and then proceed today and tomorrow to the vicinity of Naples, Fla.. far below Miami, where they will set up headquarters for their vaca tion. They will be away about two weeks. The group includes B. L. Foster. Fred Justus. J. N, Brunson. R. R. Arledge, G. C, Richardson, W. K. Lyerly, C. B Harberson and Forrest Hunter. $6,900 IN CWA CHECKS TO BE DISTRIBUTED Around 625 Extra Checks To Be Paid Out; Hollo well In Raleigh complianceBOARD WILL MEET TUESDAY The CWA disbursing office wil pay approximately $6,000 'M checks this week to workers ano for the hire of trucks and teams W. M. Sherard, disbursing officer said today. Approximately 625 checks wil! he paid out by this office in addi tion to the regular administrative payroll which is not handled bj this office. The office last week paid out $4,160.67 to workers on the proj ects. The Hicrease this week will be due to the fact that truck and team hire will be paid from the local office, a recent ruling giving this authority where owners drive their own trucks or team?. In spite of the inclement weath er of this week it was expected that all workers would get in theit 15 hours per week in the county and 24 hours in Hendersonvill'J township. HOLLOWELL GOES TO RALEIGH CONFERENCE Administrator Noah Hollowell, of the local CWA office, left for Raleigh yesterday afternoon for a conference with Mrs. Thomas O'Berry, state administrator. The conference was to be a general discussion following a re cent meeting of state administra tors in Washington, which was at tended by Mrs. O'Berry. Mr. Hol lowell will be in Raleigh for sev eral days. . « COMPLIANCE BOARD WILL MEET TUESDAY A meeting of the NRA compli ance board will be held on next Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock at the city hall. Mayor A. V. Ed wards announced this morning. The board will act on a number of matters, and anyone having a written or oral complaint to make mav attend the meeting and will be heard by the board. One Policeman Is Killed In Holdup Marks Daring Robbery 01 Needham, Mass., Bank NEEDHAM. Mass.. Feb. 2.— (UP). — Four unmasked younj bandits, all armed, engineered t daring daylight holdup of the Needham Trust Co., in the hear! of the business center, and es caped with $10,000 after wound ing four men, including two po licemen. One policeman, Forbes Mc Leod. later died. Two men. one a policeman ant the other a bank employe, wer< shot during the holdup and th< other two policemen were shol when the bandits sniped at then during the dash to escape. MILLS PAY DIVIDEND UNION. S. C., Feb. 2.—(UP) The Union Buffalo Mills yester dpy declared a 1.75 per cent divi dend on preferred stock, payabh FoKriiflrv 15. Groundhog Sees His Shadow, Is Back In Quarters ' 40 More Days Of Bad Weather Due According To Prognosticator Old man Groundhog saw his shadow in Henderson county today and. according to his cus tom, predicted 40 more days of ' wintry weather be! ore taking himself back into his winter quarters. , ... - w* ' Emerging from his hideoUv at about 10 o'clock this morn ing, the famous weather prog nosticator took one look at the blue skies, stretched himself lazily in the warmer sunshine and said :"Well, boys, 1 gues.s I had better take another nap for about forty days." February 2 is always Ground hog Day and it is said that if the animal gets so much as a single glimpse of his shadow on this day the winter is not quite* over. Professor Groundhog's only further comment was: "I'm sorry, boys; If I had come out i yesterday things would have been different, but I must op | erate on my regular schedule, | especially since the NRA codes , went into effect." GRILLING OF SANKEY ENDS Taken To So. Dakota, No Evidence He Was In Lindbergh Case CHICAGO, Feb. 2.—(UP).— Verne Sankey, whom fedora agents call the self-confessed "king of kidnapers," was whisked out of Chicago last night after one of the shortest court hearings on record. He was taken to South Dakota for trial on charges of kid I naping Charles Boettcher, 2nd, of Denver. . x , The sudden decision to send , Sankey to South Dakota marked, the apparent collapse of the g°v* ernment's efforts to prove that the 42-year-old former rancher i had any connection with the kid j naping in 1932 of the baby son ot Col. and Mrs. Chas. A. Lindbergh. I Melvin Purvis, federal investi gator who had questioned Sankey l since Wednesday noon, left his of fice immediately after the brief court hearing and left word that ' he had nothing more to say about the case. . . Sankey. his prominent teeth flashing,'seemed pleased over the sudden decision of the govern ■ ment to stop questioning' him : about the Lindbergh case and take ■ him away for trial on one of the crimes which, they said, he had admitted. . ,, . The brief hearing was held in the federal court of Judge John ■ T. Barnes. Federal men and po lice were present. A Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul train was held 20 minutes awaiting the con 1 elusion of the hearing. CASE IS CHECKED ; FROM EVERY ANGLE WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. (UP). The possible connection of Verne Sankey with the Lindbergh kid naping case is being checked from every possible angle, but thus far no evidence tending to show a • link has been adduced, the de ( partment of justice said yester day. M'SWAIN ARMY AIR FORCE BILL WOULD ADD 1000 MORE PLANES New House Measure Would Bring Combined Air Strength Of 5,400 Planes, But Some Now Obsolete WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. (UP) 1 —A bill which would add 1,000 planes to the army air service was introduced in the house yes terday bv Chairman McSwain of the military affairs committee. If that measure passes con gress and the Vinson bill—pro viding 1,800 additional planes for the navy—receives senate appro 1 val, the American high command ; will have at its disposal a com j bined air force of approximately •5,400 ships. McSwain's bill would provide ! 400 additional officers and 6,200 enlisted men for the army air j service. Most estimates by military authorities credit France with ' having the largest air force— ,3,000 planes of which 1,650 are in the first line category. Rus sia is estimated to have 1,400 ! first line ships and the United 'States about 1,000. Under the Vinson and Mc Swain bills, the United States would become the dominant air power unless ether nations be gin building1 on the same scale. McSwain's bill has the appro val of the general staff which contends there are insufficient ships now to maintain adequate forces in the United States and its insular possessions. Army and navy officials point out that even under the bill the nation would not have an actual fighting force of 5,400 planes because many of the craft are obsolete and others are used for experimental purposes. ALCORN CAPTURED WASHINGTON. Feb. 2. (UP). —The department of justice re pealed today that Gordon F. Al icorn, last of the Boettcher kid naper suspects, was captured last i night in Chicago. 5 Austria Rej ects Berlin's View Of Nazi Activities d Paris' Asks For Direct German Parley On Arms Geneva Conference On Sec ond Anniversary Farth est From Goal VIENNA, Feb. 2. (UP)—A cabinet communique last night rejected Germany's reply to charges of interference in Aus tria affairs as unsatisfactory. The communique said that Ger i many has not appreciated Aus tria's desire for *i direct settle ment and that Austria must now pursue the way necessitated by Germany's conditions Chancellor Engelbert Doll fuss sa«d Jecentlv that Austria might be compelled to appeal to the powers for aid. INTERFERENCE IN AUSTRIA IS DENIED BERLIN, Feb. 2. (UP)—A ; refutation of charges of internal interference in Austria by Ger many is made in the German \ government's reply to the Austr ^ ian regime whicwh was delivered l last night. I The note said that Germany refuted the charges after care I ful investigations, and emphas I ized that the problem of Nazi influence in Austria does not permit of handling through inter national bodies. i«ATM,&E*0P»NY • PARIS. Feb. 2. (UP)—France has invited Germany to resume direct arms negotiations, publi cation last night of the recen | French aide memoire to Berlin reTh°eedQuai D'Orsay published ,! the text of the document which J I the French ambassador in Bei lin, Andre Francois Poncet ed to Chancellor Adolf Hi. »iSTtheir respective KfEdo°uardmMadier decided To place the French thesis off. cially before the public. , The document deplores G -1 manv's withdrawal from Geneva and invites the Reich to resum collaboration toward a final con ^ J 1 vention. »!^,CC^LESVATOFECB0Nf3ER 5'' MeGnacNed VbAy thfeat* otarSU • 3Z '"he"'wLf dUarmament conference, on its second versarv today, appeared further from its goal than when first organized in ivo^. in months of discussion, the statesmen have not * r agreement on arms lim't^1e°nfa?1 control. In fact, they :,asic ed to agree even on the principles of a disarmament * Germany and Japan have quit thp League of Nations and uer. manv is out of the arms confer ence The United States con ence. on arms tinues to keep an e. Davis discussions, but before the . American de'edf he leaving last fall maa. Darlev would not return until the par t„ w asr.-ssss. portant rduction m, worid CStSt«itfbril°iaMh:penW'two vears ago, the conference's com missions and committces a'- . about 1.000 times. A succession of crisis has been met and the nresent deadlock is reg reat« the most dangerous and thiea ening to world peace. f l\ A meeting of the officers® r 1 the conference has been cdje^ ft resumption of fe c-nlTerence «W^43J5s: ference to a bare skeleton. W one Tations were . presented » its opening. Now only a handful', of the most important countnes are represented. PART TIME JOBS FOR 100,000 STUDENTS; WASHINGTON Feb. 2 (J]H Relief and Civil Works Adminis^ trator Hopkins has a"anJ00 000 give part time jobs to pnable needy college ^dents to enable them to attend the second semes ter now beginning. Dollfuss Cheered for Anti-Nazi Stand [t was to voice their support for Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in his fight against Nazi-ism in Austria that this Vienna crowd gathered at the Chancellery, as shown here, to hail him in an enthusiastic dem onstration. In acknowledging cheers from the balcony. Dollfuss inti mated that Austria would call the attention of the League to acts of Nazi-ism within Austria's borders. Memorial Is Held For Miss Lane By U. D. C. Here Chapter Afterward Attends Rites For Late Member, In A Body The Margaret Davis Hayes chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy Thursday af ternoon held a memorial for the late Miss Marie Lane, the chap ter's registrar, who died suddenly from a heart attack on Wednes day. The meeting was held at the home of Mrs. William Lott at Flat Rock, and took the place of the regular meeting of the chap ter. | Mrs. J. S. Brown conducted the devotional program and following brief remarks quoted one of her favorite chapters in the Bible, the 121st Psalm. Members of the chapter were led in the singing of the hymn, I "Rock of Ages Cleft for Me," by Mesdames Michael Schenck and | 0. A. Meyer. Mrs. Walter Groce paid a trib ute to Miss Lane's memory in which was recited the service which had been rendered by the j deceased to the chapter, especial ly her untiring efforts to arrange a roster of the names of soldiers from this county who had fought in the War Between the States, j This work. Mrs. Groce said. Miss Lane had not quite been able to complete before her death. A beautiful wreath of ever greens and fern was placed on a stand at the end of the large liv ing room of the home and each member, wearing a carnation, wove this into the wreath while Mesdames Schenck and Meyer sarg1 "Peace, Perfect Peace," and at the conclusion of this Mrs. M. | M. Bowen placed the Confederate! flag: above the wreath. Mrs. V. C. V. Shepherd read j the resolutions, adopted as fol lows: Whereas, the Margaret Davis Hayes Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy has had removed from its roll by God's infinite wisdom one of its most loyal and faithful mem bers, Miss Marie Lane; Therefore, Be It Resolved: First. That we. her sister members, bow in humble sub mission to His divine will; Second, That we pledge our selves to strive to carry on the (Continued on page three) SECOND SHIP JOINS PARTY OF EXPLORERS Bear Of Oakland At Bay Of Whales And Landing Of Supplies Is Rushed ABOARD S. S. JACOB RUP PERT, BAY OF WHALES. ANT ARCTICA, Feb. 2.—(Via Mac Kay Radio)—(UP).—The coir bined crews of the Ruppert and the Bear of Oakland joined ef forts to unload the winter's sup plies from the vessels to Little America yesterday before crum bling ice again prevented the ships from typing up alongside. The delays already have been costly and Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd led his men in hurrying the work forward so that the ships can depart in time to get out be fore the ice cap begins freezing up for the long South Polar win ter. Since last midnight, the ships have been discharging winter stores on the bay ice six miles from Little America. The old bark. Bear of Oakland, built 60 years ago, completed her four months' run out from Boston at 10:30 p. m. Wednesday night, un der command of Liut. Robert A. J. English, of the U. S. Navy. It was a dramatic sight to watch that ancient veteran of Po lar waters come down the Bay of Whales, the midnight sun rolling above the sparkling ice barrier. Three sharp biases of welcome were sounded from the Ruppert, and the Bear smartly broke out three signal flags in reply. "Welcome to the Bay of Whales," Admiral Byrd shouted across the water. "Thank you, sir," Lieut. Eng lish shouted back, shoving his youthful, lanky figure half thru a Dorthole on the starboard side. "We knew it was the Bay of Whales all right. Ten miles back we passed a pile of hay on a big floe and I guessed it was yours, unless some of the old settlers hereabouts have a dairy farm." That was the hay which drifted out when the ice broke up under the Ruppert's old cache last Wed nesday. Little time was wasted in emenities. English already had clcared his ship for the delicate job of maneuvering and mooring lines were ready. The Ruppert was warped alongside, ., ' WOULD BRIDGE JOBLESS OVER; HELP RELIEF Will Go Before House Monday Under Suspen* sion Of Rules LEGISLATiON"FOR VETERANS DELAYED WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. (UP)' —A unemployment relief bill de signed to continue the federal wing of protection over the na« committee today. House leaders the house by the appropriations committee totay. House leaders planned to put it before the house under suspension of rules Monday. Approximately $450, 000,000 of the amount, according to Hopkins would be used to con tinue tne CWA program until May and the remaining funds would be used mostly to con tinue relief in states. PUBLIC DEBT AT NEW PEACE TIME LEVEL WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. (UP) —The federal government's pub lic debt crossed the $25,000,000, 000 mark as the treasury depart ment showed expenditures for January, at a new peacetime rec ord. CROP LOAN BILL IS PASSED BY SENATE WASHINGTON. Feb. 2. (UP). The senate passed the Smith crop production loan bill today after reducing the appropriation from $100,000,000 to $45,000,000. VETERANS RELIEF ACTION IS DELAYED WASHINGTON. Feb. & (UP). Senate action on veterans legis lation was delayed today when the appropriations committee re ferred the question back to the sub-committee. WASHINGTON, Feb. Z. (UF) —Democratic leaders ap p 11 e <1 pressure yesterday to put the senate to work on pending legis lation as word came from Speak er Rainey that the house could complete its duties in three weeks. An effort by Senator Pittman, Dem., Nevada, to end debate on the St. Lawrgnce Waterway treaty by February 10, failed but Majority Leader Robinson pre dicted after & White House con ference that the treaty would would be disposed of by that date. Robinson said Senator John son, Repn., Calif., had agreed to a d m inistration amendments to Johnson's bill designed to close the American money market to nations defaulting their debts to this government. The measure will be brought up for a vote today. Immediately afterward the leader sartd the senate will begin work either on the Trammell bill to build the naval and air force* to treaty strength, or on the in dependent offices appropriation bill. Thereafter he indicated the senate would wort steadily on legislation sent over from the house. Only four appropriation bills and two deficiency bills await action by the house which today will act on the supply bill for the state, justice, commerce and labor departments. Under rigid rules limiting de bate and limiting amendments to the economy section of appropria tion bills the house has broken records in disposing of the huge supply bills. If the senate can be speeded up congress may be able to adjourn even before thq May 1 deadline tentativly set. DO CANADIAN BANKS . O loan MCTtty ON RCAifeSTAfg { For, CQ*T«<t 4BIV»1 I* q«Mtipa», please tufa to page 8»
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