HENDERSON,
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
j CAROLINA.
NINETEENTH YEAR
Insull Extradition
Refused By Courts
In Athens, Greece
American Petition for Sur
render of Former Utili
ties Magnate In Chi
cago Rejected
BEST LEGAITtALENT
IN GREECE IS HAD
Insull Is Under Indictment
In Illinois for Grand Lar
ceny and Embezzlement in
Connection With Collapse
of Middle West Utilities
Company
Uhens. Greece. Dec. 27. (AP>—The
'. rrk courts today rejected an Am
mean petition for the extradition of
S imuet Insull. former Chicago utili
ties official.
Mr. Insull is under indictment in
I '.mois charged with grand larceny
'••il embrittlement in connection with
•lie collapse of the Middle West Utili
*ic.s Company.
II %.s BEST LEGAL TALENT
IN COUNTRY IN DEFENSE
Athens. Greece. Dec. 27. (AP)
Simue! Insull. debonair ind talkative.
vi"..l;cd into u court roo n of *hii-' an
i i<»ni Greek capital today with the
h- -• legal •» lent the cr*un*-v afford
c.i 10 d * C.».l himself against nn ex
t: idition demand from Chicago.
Tlie former multi-millionaire utili
ty- operator ts charged with embet
i rment and larceny.
‘ r h- hearing commenced at 9:80 a.
m Mr. Insull asked for a translator
rt.rt a lawver was r. ppointed.
Mr. Inaul! gave his Identity and
declared he had no profession and
that he agr-ed that the hearing be
public.
Sharp Cut
Sought In
Spendings
Washington, Dec. 27. (AP>—A spe
cial appropriations sub-committee
was designated in the House today
by Chairman Byrns to attempt to re
duce six annual appropriations the
total of which Byrns estimated to be
more than $140,000,000. excluding the
puhMe debt.
These expenditures, which are fixe*
hv legislation, continue from year to
year, and ordinarily are not subject
to change by the committee.
There naa been recent discussion
( f the possibility of abandoning for
a time the annual appropriation of
around $430,000,000 for retirement of
the pubilo debt.
Resolution
Would Halt
Groupings
Bill In House Com
mittee Would. Dis
approve Hoover
Reorganization
Washington, Dec. 27.—(AP)—Chair
man Cochrane, of the House Expendi
tures Committee, prepared for intro
duction today a resolution disapprov
ing President Hoover's program for
government agencies.
Cochrane, whose commitee has
h"id hearings on the changes recom
mended by the chief executive, said
i h» resolution was "very brief and
idvocates disapproval of the entire
Hoover plan.”
The Missouri Democrat said he
Manned to call his committee togeth
er “within a couple of days’’ for ac
tion on the resolution and that he be
•i>v, d it would be approved.
House Madera believe the resolution
will pass. Disapproval by one branch
' f Congress Is regarded as prevent
">sf the recommendations of the Presi
dent from taking effect.
Md. Hoover proposed
and transfers of more than 50 agen-
r ' p *. including the transfer of river
and harbor and flood control work
Hum the army engineers to the De
partment of the Interior
weathlr
FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
Bain tonight, probably clearing
Wednesday morning; not psqwfr
change la temperature.
Ufcttitersmt
WUtB okvici
o» th* associated pr***.
Re*tudymg Debt*?
■ :
k p IfPW?
MBKm JM
Owen D. Young
Bernard Barucb
An informal restudy of foreign
debts by Owen D. Young, top, ano
Bernard M. Baruch, has already
been arranged by President-elect
Roosevelt, according to some close
to the New York governor, to be,
presented to the next president
for action after March 4. Young
and Baruch are considered two of
the foremost financial experts is
the Democratic party.
STATE OFFICIALS
GETTING NERVOUS
OVER THEIR JOBS
Group Serving by Appoint
ment Uneasy as Ehring.
haus Comes Into Of
fice Next Week
MAXWELL BELIEVED
CERTAIN TO REMAIN
Pou Likely To Stay at State
Prison and Jeffress Prob
ably Safest in Highway
Office of Any in Entire
Group; Most Others Fairly
Hopeful
Dally Dispatch flares*.
In tk« S»r W*M« Hole!.,
PV J C. BAfKERVItt.
Raleigh. Dec. 27.—Those State of
ficials who are dependent upon ap
pointment by the governor for their
jobs are about as comfortable as if
they were sitting on hot stoves right
now, despite their efforts to appear
unconcerned and nonchaient. The
other State officials and ail State em
ployes are always more or less ner
(Continued on Page Five.)
Legislative Economy Talk
Is Little More Than Talk
Always Plentiful In Advance of Session, But Scramble
for Job* In qnd Out of G eneral Awembly Frequent
ly Causes Members t o Weaken s Stand
Daflr Diapateh •**£“?*,
ta the Sir Walter Hatal,
■T J 6 UASKJCRVIbIs.
Raleigh. Dec. 27 —There te already
much talk about economy In the
State government and many axe pre
dicting that the new 1933 General As
sembly la going to wield the economy
more vigorously than ever before
and let the chips fall where, they may-
Yet the old timers here point out that
there la nothing about this talk of
economy before the legislature meets
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED
ONLY DAILY
HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON,
CONGRESS RETURNS
TO WORK TO SPEED
LEGISLATIVE -WORK
Democrats Expect Extra
Session, but Will Get a«
Much Done Now As
Is Possible
USUAL CHRISTMAS
RECESS CURTAILED
Reports That Hoover Will
Veto Farm Relief and Bee r
Legislation and Controver
sies Over Budget Convince
. Leaders Extra Session If
; Certain
Washington, Dec. 27. (AP)-Demo
cratic leaders hav e little hope an ex
tra session of Congress can be avoid
ed, but they are determined to force
through the short session ns much
of their legislative progrant rs pos
sible.
This was evident today as Speaker
Garner cut short the usual Christmas
lecess and called the House together
to speed action on appropriation bills
—a major item on the program for
the present meeting, ending March 4
—and possibly dispose of Philippine
independence before the week ends.
Reports that President vetoes will
pile up the Democratic farm relief
and beer legislation, and impending
controversies surrounding proposals
to balance the budget have all but
cenvoinced the leadership that Presi
dent-elect Roosevelt must summon an
extra meeting soon after March 4 if
campaign pledges are to be speedily
fulfilled.
Garner yesterday told newspaper
men that he personally thought pros
pects for escaping an extra session
were “not bright," in view of frequent
reports of Mr. Hoover's opposition to
immediate modification of the Vol
stead act and to the domestic allot
ments farm relief plan.C which House
Democrats are pushing.
Would Call Upon
R. F. C. To Report
On First Loans
Washington. Dtc. 27. — (AP)—A re
solution calling upon the Reconstruc
tion Finance Corporation to report
to the House laons it made during
the first five months of Its existence
was introduced today by Representa
tive Howard, Democrat, Nebraska.
The corporation was not required
to submit a report of loans to Con
gress until July 20. when the relief
act was signed by President Hoover.
It had loaned about $800,000,000 up to
that time.
Floods In
South Are
Impending
M*mphis. Tenn.. L»ec. 27. (AP) —
The deep rivers down south are mis
behaving again and some of the tri
butaries of the Mississippi are even
trying to get “the old man” fulL
A flood warning for the upper Bt.
Francis river district was issued here
last night by the United States meteo
rologist as the stream rose in Mis
souri and Kansas. It was above flood
stage at Chaonla, Mo., and St. Fran
cis, Ark., and a stage of 22 to 23 feet
was forecast for Friday.
Farther down the valley another
western tributory of the Mississippi
was getting slightly out of hand in Its
upper reaches. Fed* by the swollen
Poteau, the Arkansas river went
above flood stage at Fort Smith, Ark.
and flooded lowlands for Arkansas
and Oklahoma was predicted.
Livestock and property in the af
fected areas were evacuated against
further rise.
and that this talk usually .subsides
very quickly after the legislature ac
tually gets In session. For every time
the legislature gets ready to apply
the economy axe or pruning hook ot
gome department, division or bureau,
there is always a delegation of po
liticians and lobbyists ready to shout:
(Woodman, spare that (tree.’" Mine
times out of ten it is spared- Fre
quently the appropriation for the P«r
tContinued on Page Eight.)
v •
Batlu Uis patch
) IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
SALES TAX URGED
BY SENATOR SHOT
TO SQUARE BUDGET
Would Exempt From Provi
•ions Only Farm Pro
ducts As They Come
From tlje Farmer
WILL NOTPREDICT
REPUBLICAN STAND
House. Ways and.'Means
Committee Begins Study of
Fiscal Affairs and Speaker
. Garner Says If Sales Tax Is
.Necessary It Ought to Be
Imposed
Washington, Dec. 27-. (AP)—Chair
man Smoot, of the Senate Finance
Committc-, said today the "only way
to raise the needed revenue" to bal
ance the Federal budget was to adopt
a general sales thx. exempting only
farm products as they come from
the farmer.
Discussing plans of House Demo
cratic leaders to revise the sales tax,
rejected last session in that body, if
that is the only path left that will
lead to a balance* budget, the Utah
Republican said he (would support
such a levy.
Smoot would not predict what the
Senate Republicans generally would
do about a sales tax, but in the past
there has been considerable support
in these ranks for it.
RENEWED DISCUSSION IS
HAD IN HOUSE COMMITTEE
Washington, Dec. 27. (AP)— Re
newed discussion of the advisability
of levying a manufacturers’ sales tax
sprang up in both the Senate and
House today as the House Ways and'
Means Committee laid plans for b»v
ginning its study of the governmental
fiscal situation.
In the Senate the veteran chair
man of the finance committee. Smeet
of Utah, said the sales tax Is the
only means that can be found to bal
ance the budget.
A somewhat similar statement came
from Speaker Garner. He said that if
it were necessary to pass such a
measure, “I’d do It.” Meanwhile the
House Appropriations Committee
tackled the budget problem from an
other angle. Its chairman, Byrns. of
Tennessee, appointed a sub-commit
tee to see what annual appropriations
could be lopped off.
$1,118,145
Paid Out To
Old Banks
More Than $713,000
of Amount Paid De
positors; $307,263
Was Secured
Raleigh. Dec. 27.—(AP) -Gurney P.
Hood, State bank commissioner, to
day reported the liquidating division
of his department had paid $1,118,145.-
92 to 28,710 creditors of closed banks
in North Carolina since October 1.
Oif tfiis amount. $713,485.71 was
paid depositors; $307,263.76 to .secured
creditors and $97,296.45 to preferred
creditors.
Only $123,497.65 of this amount was
borrowed from the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation. Hood said.
One loan of $6,927.27 was made to
the liquidating agent of the Citizens
Bank, Mt. Olive. The loan has been
paid in full. One loan of $116,570.58
was made to the liquidating agent of
the Merchants Bank, Durham. This
loan has been curtailed $14,781.94.
AWILL
Santa Monica, Calif. Dec. 27.
Beet story In the paper today—
and there was ‘many of fine
charitable acts on Christmas—hut
away out oir the Escalante desert,
between Los Angeles and Salt
Lake. I have flown* 7 over it many
times. It’s one of the most de
solate places you ever saw.
One lonely ranch. The father
had died, leaving the mother aad
a whole house full of children.
Well, the pilots on the Western
Air ran took up a purse of SBO
and got the children clothes and
toys; sad then flew low on
Christinas day and dropped ’em.
What a Godsend the and
the radio Is to out-of-the-way
places. Yours,
WILL.
* 27, 1932
R. S. McCoin Missing From
Home Here Since Thursday;
Possible Clue Is Rumored
Missing Five,Days fcrom Home Here
v JiMHi
- K j&BR ' SHF
R. S. McCOIN.
64 HOLIDAY DEAD
COUNTED IN SOUTH
38 Die in Automobile Mis
haps; No Fatalities In
North Carolina
Atlanta. Ua. Dec. 27— (Ap>
The South counted 64 dead from
its Christmas holiday pocAdentp
as routine activities were resum
ed today.
Thirty-eight, died n» automobile
mishaps, five from eating a
Christmas cake that contained
poison, one of alcohol le poisoning,
six from drowning, five in ac
cidental shootings, four in rail
way accident*. one in a faulty
parachute jump and others in
miscellaneous accidents.
TELEPHONE EXPERT
DIES IN BALTIMORE
Baltimore, Md„ Dec. 27. —(AP) -
John F. Catty, 71, retired vlce-presi
dent and chief engineer of the Am
erican Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany, today at Johns Hopkins
hospital ot cardiac complications fol
lowing an operation which was per
formed last Friday.
Many developments in the field of
telephone, telegraphic and radio com
munication were attributed to Carty.
hoover"party now
AT ST. AUGUSTINE
St. Augustine. Fla.. Dec. 27 - (AP)
—President Hoover and his fishing
party arrived here at 1 p. m. today.
Circumstances Will Guide
Policies Os Roosevelt In
y
Bringing Back Prosperity
% w
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Washington. Doc. 27. If any man
in public life Is preeminently quali
fied to 'express progressive-ism's
ttopes and expectations of the com
jjfcg 'Roosevelt administmtirn, ,it
should be Senator
Bronson Cutting of
New Mexico.
Senator Cutting |
not only is one of
the most advanced
of the upper congres
sioral chamber’s in
dependent politico
economic thinkers;
he is one of the
ablest and most en
lightened. He is a
shy individual, still
in his earlier 40 s.
but unquestionably
gravitating rapidly
into the leadership
of his group in
I* ’
B ■? -'
I \ * ; - ;
Washington. Incidentally, ho Is a
PUBUEHBD 11 VERY AFTBRUOOS
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
54 IMPRISONED IN
MINE ARE ALL DEAD
Illinois Village Turn* to
Funeral Arrangements
For Victims
Mowraqua, 111., Dec. 27 (Al*)
Hope was stricken from Mpwta
qua’a vocabulary today as this vil
lage of 1,499 moved to bury its
dead—victims of a coal mint* dis
aster.
No longer was (here a vestige of
belief that the remaining 15 men
trapped some 700 feet underground
could be alive. Saturday 54 min
ers were oiiomhed after an ex
plosion loosened an avalanche of
debris clogging avenues of escape.
•Already 39 bodies have been un
earthed
A.s o the other* —“mot even a
miracle could save them now.”
That was the way the director of
the rescue squads put it.
FOUR NEGROESHELD
IN DEATH OF WOMAN
Daindt idge Tenn . Dec. 27 (API-
Four Negroes were held in Jefferson
county jail today for questioning in
the assault and .slaving of Addey
•Rainwater. 53-year-old inmate of the
county poor farm.
Her body, the clothing torn and
bloody, were found In a thicket rteai
hero yesterday by a Negro youth.
Examining physicians said sh e had
been dead since Saturday. A wde
sproad investigation was launched to
day. I 1
Groton and Harvard product, precise
ly like the president-elect; magnulfi
cently educated and In office as a
conscript, not from any motive of per
sonal interest or ambition.
JrAning such outstanding Repub
lican insurgents as Serrator George
•W Norris of Nebraska Hiram W.
Johnson of California and Robert M.
|La Follette of Wisconsin in support
of Governor Roosevelt during the last
campaign. Senator Cutting spent con
siderable time in the New Yorker's
company throughout the latter half
of the Democratic candidate’s pre
election activities. Later, "he was call
ed Into consultation .with the presi
de nt?elefct at Warm Springs.
Generally. Senator Cutting is re
garded as among those best acquaint
ed with plans for the White House
term, beginning March ,4.
s "Sly understanding," said the sen
ator, in response to my query as to
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CONFERENCE HELD
DURING AFTERNOON
IN PRIVATE OFFICE
Mr. McCoin’s Nephew, M.
A. Sitton, With Whom
He Talked on Tele
phone, Is Here
OFFICERS IN TWO
STATES JOIN HUNT
Nothing Learned Other Than
Unannounced Information
In Hand Here Today; Last
Contact of Friends With
Missing Man In Richmond
Thursday
A development in Hie mysictn*"*
disappearance of R. S MoCoin. wii .
has been missing from his home hei-*
since last Thursday, was thought like
ly late this afternoon. While ft was
understood a possible clue had been
unearthed, those who were in poei
lion to know something refused flat
ly 1o make a statement, merely sat
ing that they could not tell all that
was known just now.
M. A. Slttin, nephew of Mr. McCoin
came here today from Richmond and
was in conference with a local group
thia afternoon. It is also understood
that a private detective is active in
the case.
Cards sent today to police In other
cities announced a liberal reward for
the location of Mr. McCoin or his
automobile, but named no specific
sum.
No word has been received today
and no clues of any nature whatever
had been obtained to furnish the
slightest indication of the where
abouts of R. S. McCoin. prominent
Henderson attorney and real estate
and insurance man, member of tho
State Advisory Budget Commission
and former State senator, who has
been mysteriously missing from hi.t
home here since last Thuist .y. Every
(Continued on Page Eight.)
Theatre Employees
Robbed of $485 In
Rocky Mount Bank
Rocky Mount, Dec. 27.—' M’)—-
William 'Parrish and Mtrvln
Barnes, employees of a theatre
here, were held up and robbed nt
$485 late last night In the nallway
of a bank building.
Parrish and Barnes, who had
gone to the hank to deposit the
theatre's receipts, told police that
a man with a white handkerchief
over his face stuck a pistol into
their faces and forced them to
hand over the hag containing the
money. Police are without clues.
Woman Held
In The Death
Os Teacher
Mrs. E. E. Forsythe,
of Raleigh, Denied
Bail in Alleged
Criminal Operation
Raleigh, Dec. 27.—<AP>—Mrs. E. E.
Forsythe, Raleigh, woman, was or
dered held today without privilege of
bond following the death In a hospital
here las nigtht of Miss Myrtle Gard
ner. 29-year-old Four Oaks school
teacher from what doctors said was a
criminal operation.
Bond was set at SIO,OOO for George
Clifton, of Coats, ordered held as an
accessory before and after the facts in
the case. *
Miss Gardner, who formerly lived
in Angler, Harnett county was re
moved from the home of Mrs. For
sythe to the hospital yesterday after
noon, Chief of Police Clarence Bar
bour said.
Mrs. Forsythe and Clifton pre
viously had been arrested on charges
of being accessories In the alleged
criminal operation, hut the more se
rious chary,-e was lodged after Miss
Gardner's death.