' urNPERSON,
GATEWAY to
CENTRAL
CAROLINA-
I
TWENTIETH year
ARRESTS MADE IN
EFFORT TO EXTORT
MON FORTUNES
Man and Wife In Atlanta
Held by Auhorities for
Threatening Letter*
to Joe Cannon
five ATTEMPTS TO
hold a rendezvous
Tiird Threatening Letter
F»orc Finger Mark Regard
ed as First Clue; To Check
Fingerprints With Man
Held In Custody by Atlan
ta Authorities
< lv>rht*«\ -Inn. II—(AP)—A pall
rs (mr which had hung for weeks
ini'r Iht* home of Joe E. Cannon
;in<l his daughter. Mrs. Anno
fVuinnn Revnolds Smith, had been
(IKsiimted today with arrest in
tlliintn of two confessed tortion
isfs who threatened death to An
nrs little girl. or Cannon's son,
if their demands were not met.
The millionaire Concord textile
men left for'Atlanta immediately
nnoii being advised by Federal
rothcrities and police that a long
rffort to trao the extortion letter
wrier* had finally ended in suc
cess.
Atlanta, Ga.. )Jan. 11:4 —(AP) —Off-
ficers disclosed today five attempts
were made to hold rendezvous with
prisons attempting to extort money
from Joseph Cannon, Sr. Concord, N.
C. textile magnate on threats to kid
nap two members of his family be
f(ie they succeeded in arresting Odell
C. Boyles, 35, and his wife, 25, in
Hapeville, a suburb of Atlanta.
Captain N. M. Joyner, of the Char
lotte detective bureau, said the third
threatening letter written to Cannon
Imie a finger mark which they re
jruded as the first clue. Thus far.
Joyner said, the finger print has not
hi "ii checked with that of Boyles and
his wife, but they intend to make com
parison today.
Special ..gent E. E. Conroy, of the
Tnited States Bureau of Investigation
and Joyner went into details today
<h scribing the manner in which
Boyles and his wtife were arrested.
State Negotiates
Renewal of Notes
Os $2,230,000 Sum
Raleigh, >lßll. 11.—(AP)—Gov
ernor John C. B. Khringhaua an
nounced today that Treasurer
Charles M. Johnson had secured
e renewal of $2,230,000 in State
notes due January 15. Mr. Johnson
nnd John P. Stedman, former
treasurer, conferred with New
York hanks this week and suc
ceeded in getting the renewal.
Hoover Asks
Law To Halt
Foreclosing
President Urges
Emergency Legis
lation for Benefit of
Both Parties
Washington Jan. 11 (AP) —In a
speond special message to Congress in
as many days. President Tloover todlay
made a plea for “emergency action”
'n revision of th c bankruptcy law 3in
°'drr to avoid presenft day wholesale
foroi-d foreclosures.
1 he President asked specifically for
an immediate alteration of existing
laws to facilitate the “relief of debt
who seek protection of the courts
the purpose of readjusting their
a f tirs with their creditors.”
Opportunity would be gvien debtors
’’ ,rra nge a settlement with a major
-1 v ,)f their creditors, this to be bind
-111 u P° n the minority creditors,
li' Sem processes of forced liquida
-1,1,1 ’hough foreclosure and bank-
M>t<y .sale, Mr. OUVer are pro.
nR “ uf terly destructive of the in
,fM of debtor and creditor alike.”
«< . alu, wed to continue, he said,
„ ‘, My be sufffered by thou
ered t V ' thout substantial gain to their
i n l insisting upon foreclosure
aon* "° f collectin £ part of the
them.”
H IiTHIR
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ei (icr ’ Wa < mier *n east and
eight portion to
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At Conference on World Problems
Here are Secretary of State Stimson and President
elect Roosevelt as they finished their three-hour con
ference on international affairs at the Roosevelt home
at Hyde Park. N. Y. The conference was held at the
Employ Military Force
In Four Os Six Nations
In Throes Os Uprisings
Actual Fighting Breaks Out In Ireland; Police and Re
bels Battle in Argentine; Clash Occurs In Berlin,
and Seven Are Wounded in Cuban Trouble
(By the Associated Press.)
Military measures were invoked to
day in four out of six countries dis
turbed this week by rioting or open
revolt.
In one of the others—the Irish Free
State —military action was threaten
ed to queM political fighting.
Revolts continued today in Spain
and Alwar, India, and disturbances
which took a heavy tplß4n casualties
also occurred yesterday in Germany,
Argentine and Cuba. The situation in
Argentine continued doubtful.
The Spanish / republican govern
ment ordered martial law for provin
Reynolds Baby Is
Kept In Incubator
Philadelphia, Jan. 11.—(AP)
Libby Holman Reynolds’ new baby
boy. Dr. Norris W. Vaux said today,
weighed 3 1-2 pounds at birth and
is being kept in an incubator.
Both mother and child, said Dr.
Vaux, the obstetrician who attend
ed Mrs. Reynolds, are “doing very
well.”
The child, heir to a large share
of his father’s tobacco fortune, was
born at 6:48 o’clock last night In
the Pennsylvania hospital here, and
came as a surprise to outsiders.
INDICT .WOMAN AND
DR. MIKE ROBERSON
Both Charged With Murder
After Fatal Illegal Ope
ration on Girl
Raleigh, Jan. 11.—(AP)—Dr. Mike
Roberson, of Durham, and Mrs, E.
E. (Carrie 1..) Forsythe, of Raleigh,
were indicted on charges of murder
today by the Wake county grand
jury.
The two were held tor superior
court after an'investigation into the
death here December 26 of Miss
Myrtle Gardner, a school teacher
of Four t»aks and Angier, following
an alleged illegal operation.
Dr. Roberson and Mrs. Forsythe
were charged with murder by com
mitting an illegal operation “with an
instrument’’ on / Miss Gardner, when
such operation was not necessary to
save her life, and with kill'ng the un
born child. Mrs. Forsythe also was in
dicted for aiding and allotting the
physician “to secret hide and keep
from the public” the alleged illegal
aot.
STATEMENT GIVEN
BY BOY ON KILLING
Asheboro Jan. 11. —(AP) — Clyde
Cranford, 15-year-ol<i boy who iwas
found seriously wounded iq a corn
patch near a house in which Wilbur
Yow, 14, was found shot to death
Sunday, has made a statement con
cerning the shooting, Sheriff Carl
King said today, but it will not be
made public until an inquest tomor
row. ,1 : 1
HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON,! JANUARY 11, 1933
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j instigation of Mr. Roosevelt, who some time ago asked!
President Hoover to arrange it. The President-elect
obtained first hand information regarding the relation
ships between the United States and' foreign Dowers.
ccs where further outbreaks were con
tinued. Since Sunday 40 have been
killed and more than 100 injured in
the revolt of Spanish syndicalists and
communists.
One thousand British soldiers ar
rived in Alwar, native state of north
ern India, where Moslems were in re
volt. The rebels were holding the dis
trict against native state troops.
President Augustin Justo adjouxqed
the Argentine Congress fdr the dura
tion of the internal disorders.
A fight between police and rebels
(Continued ou Page Two.)
POOR SECURITIES
Statement Made by Norbeck
As Senate Stock Probe
Is Resumed
Washington. Jan. II (AP)— The
charge that por securities were Sub
stituted as collateral on Kruger and
Toll /securities sold in the United
States with the approval 01 the New
York Stock Exchange was made by
Chairman Nonbeck today at the re
opening of the Senate stock market
investigation.
Before calling witnesses, Senator
Norbeck said he had been informed'
that “bonds of Kruger and Toll were
issued on collateral with a written
agreement providing for substitution.
“The usual* phrase! substitution of
securities of like Value’ mas hot used,
but the substitution f pax value was
used,” he continued. ; , / ,
•JI.-.JI In.
They Shoot Them''
For Stealing Over
In Soviet Nation
Moscow. Jan. 11.—(AP)—Four men
were sentenced to death today and
three others to ten years, imprisoh
ment for stealing jam from a govern
ment warehouse.
The manager of the warehouse and
three employees are to be shot. Three
other employees will go to a prison
camp in the most ermote region of the
country, and two others must spend
three years in jail for the crime,
which was characterized as “causing
great harm to the workers’ supply.”
•-. )
No Arrests Made
Yet of Motorists
Without New Tags
Raleigh, Jan. 11.—(AP) —Motorists
operating cars on ortlr Carolina high
ways today which did not carry 1933
license tags were subject ,to imme
diate arrest, but “no one' will be ar
rested who will immediately buy
plates,” Chairman'E. B. Jeffreys, of
the highway commission, said. ,
“We are much more anxious to run
the delinquent motorists into the li
cense bureau aud have them buy
plates than we are to arrest them.”
Jeffress said.
10 OPPOSE HITS
Attempt Rumored Under
Way To Clip Wings of
Finance Director
VALUE DEMONSTRATED
But for Authority Vested Governor
To Make Cuts, State’s Deficit
Today Wiould Be Many
Millions More
Dolly Dispatch Ilnrcatt.
nV J. C. BASKKRviIi,
Raleigh, Jan. 11.- -Despite the fact
that the 1933 legislature is seeming
i.v economy and looks with favor
upon the idea of doing away with
some boards, bureaus and o'emmis
sions, any attempt to’decentralize the
authority now vested in the State
Budget Bureau created in 1925, which
has enabled the State to save millions
of dollars since, would meet vigorous
opposition at this time, according to
a preponderance of opinion among
the members of the both houses of the
Assembly.
It has been rumored for several
days legislation looking to taking
away some or all of the budget com
mission’s power is now being fram
ed and will be introduced shortly.
While it has been impossible to trace
the origin of this contemplated leg
islation, it is known that certain de
partmental heads have long been
(Continued on "’age Two,)
Favorable Report
On Hoover Requestj
For Ban on Arms
Washington Jan. It.—(AP)— To
meet President Hoover’s request the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
today favorably reported a resolution
authorizing the executive to place an
embargo on arms to nations .at war ,
or threatenrng war. j
Mr. Hoover requested such author
ity in a special message to Congress
yesterday in event ratification' of, the
1925 Geneva convention to suppress
the arms traffic was impossible.
The committee today discussed the
convention but Chairman Borah said
it was preferred to take the other
course. Considerable opposition has
been voiced against the Geneva pact
in the past.
jPPEARS ASSURED
Would Transfer to Budget
Bureau and Make Henry
I Burke Director
Dally DlMiiatfli narrnn.
In the S*r Waller Hotel
l»v J C. IIAJKRrtIM.
Raleigh, Jan. 11. —The abolition of
the Department of Personnel as a
separate department, as recommend
ed by Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus
in his inagural address, i» provided
for in a bill introduced in the Hguse
•by Harris Newman, of Wilmington.
But the bill does not contemplate
abolishing the work that has been
done by this department, since Gov
ernor Ehringhaus recommended mere
ly the transfer of the work to some
other department or division already
in -existence.
The bill by Representative ewman
would tranfer the work now being
done by the Department of Personnel'
to the Budget Bureau and >.make
Burke the assistant director of the
(Continued on Page Pourj^
mOfO of Them Marching
-into Jehol Headed for
City of Lingyuan,
Shanghai Hears
landingTorce IS
PUT ASHORE
Patroling Seaport Near
Shanhaikwan; Answering
Chinese Protest, Japan
“Reserves Right To Make
Demands” ip Connection
With Any Settlement
Peiping China, Jan. 11—(AP)
troops have put the
Chinese defenders to flight and
are in complete control of Chiu
menkow, .“the pass of the nine!
gates” through the Great Wall In
to Jehol, the Japanese legation an
nounced this evening.
Shanghai, Jan. 11.—(AP)—Chinese
dispatches said today that 10,000 Jap
anese soldiers were marching into
Jehol headed for the city of Ling
yuan.
The attacking forces included ar
tillery and cavalry, marching from
Suichung, north of Shanhaikwan,
which is in the hands of the Japan
ese. Lingyuan is in southern Jehol.
These dispatches, which were not
otherwise confirmed, said also that a
Japanese landing force had been put
ashore at Chinwangtoi, a seaport not
far from Shanhaikwan, and was pa
troling that vicinity.
JAPAN RESERVES RIGHT
TO MAKE HER DEMANDS
Tokyo, Jan. 11.—(AP)—The Japan
ese government today replied to a
Chinese protest against the occupation
of Shanhaikwan with the statement
that Japan “expressly reserves the
right to make demands” in connection
with any settlement.
The protest from the Chinese Na
tionalist government was received
earlier, today.
CONGRESSMAN POU’S
WIFE HIT BY AUTO
Washington, Jan. 11 (AP)—
Nrs. Edward XV*. Pou, wife of Re
presentative Pou of North Caro
lina, was at her home today‘suf
fering from severe bruises sus
tained when she was struck by an
automobile yesterday.
Representative Poll said she was :
not seriously hurt, and would not
go to a hospital for treatment.
WINSTON BALL CLUB
WILL BE AUCTIONED
Winston-Salem, Jan. 11.— (AP)
Judge O. O. Efird signed a court or
der today authorizing Luke L. Stew
art, receiver of the WTinston-Salem
club of the Piedmont League, to take
immediate steps to sell the franchise
and players for the benefit of the
club’s creditors
Ehringhaus Still
. Confined to Bed
Raleigh, Jan. 11.—(AP)—Gover
nor John C. B. Ehringhaus was
“feeling better” today, but he was
still confined to his bed at the
executive mansion from a recur
rence of kidney ailment.
The chief executive was sent to
bed with a fever yesterday after
noon. Last night the governor said
he expected to be in his office to
day, but Mrs. Ehringhaus said she
was going to keep him in bed until
his temperature returned to nor
mal.
Relief From Debts, Taxes
Seen As Greater Need Os
Farmer Than High Prices
(This is the fourth of a series
of stories by Charles P. Stewart
on the solution of the farm prob
lem as Washington sees it.)
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Washington, Jan. 11. —“Urgently as
the farmer needs higher prices for
his products,” says Senator Elmer
Thomas of Oklahoma, “he need& debt
and taxation relief ihore.
“If he has means to satisfy his
mortgagee and' the bounty treasurer,
he can get by' somehow until better
days.
“He can eat what he produces. He
has a roof. He can improvise clothes.
“If he Josses his land, he starves.
He must stave off foreclosure or tax
sale.”
Early in this congressional session
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
; EXCEPT SUNDAY„
General Assembly
Renews Attempt
To Cut Salaries
Federal Trade Head
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Charles March
This is the new chairman of the
federal trade commission. He i«
Charles H. March of Minnesota,
shown at his desk in Washington
upon assuming his new duties
certS? would
EVEN THE BUDGET
While It Will Meet With
Stiff Opposition, There
Is Much Sentiment
Favoring It
IS PREFERRED TO
BROAD SALES TAX
Lays Tax of One-Half of
One Percent on all Manu
facturers of All Kinds In
State; Other Taxes Paid
Are Deductible Frc .his
Computation
Dally Dlupnlrh Biirrnw,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
nr .1. r n vsKFcit vit.l,
Raleigh, Jan. 11—At least $7,500,000
a year in new revenue would result
from the- enactment of the bill intro
duced by Senator Hayden Clement, of
Salisbury, in the Senate, which would
levy a production tax ot one-half of
one per cent on the gross income of
ail industries in the State, according
to preliminary estimates made on fig
ures obtained from the State Tajt
(Ccmtir.ued on Page Four) J
OFFER REPEAL BILL
IN SOUTH CAROLINA
Columbia, S. C., Jan. 11.—(AP)
—A bill to repeal the South Car
olina prohibition laws was intro
duced in the State Senate by H.
Kemper Cooke, »>f Horry county,
today.
The measure provided that “all
Jaws relating to the manufactur
ing;, buying, selling, keeping jn
possession, storing and transport
ing of alcoholic liquors now in
force in this State be and the
sair e hereby are repealed.”
It was referred to the judiciary
committee.
the se'nate Democrats met to con
sider plans. They agreed that noth
ing is more important than farm aid
“but,” relates Senator Thomas, “no
one had a program to offer.”
Accordingly the Oklahoman and
Senators Duncan U. Fletcher of Flor
ida and George McGill of Kansas were
chosen to go into the subject fully.
They investigated exhaustively. “They
arrived,” says Senator Thomas, “at
the conclusion that the farmer must
have one of two things:
“1. An outright subsidy to%bridge
the gap between what h can pay and
what he is required to pay on his
indebtedness and to the tax collector—
“Or—
“2. Currency inflation to wipe but
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6 PAGES
TODAY
FIVE CENTS COP"
Constitutional Officers
Would Be Asked to Take
Cut Determined by
Legislature
; l
EASIER DIVORCE IS
AGAIN being ASKED
„• f•' '*„ v
Would Abolish County Sup
erintendents;, Gross Ton
Mile Tax on Buses and
7 Trucks Proposed; Blow
Struck at Nepotism in All
of State Offices
Raleigh. Jan. 11.—(AP)—Another
effort to, bring about reductions i t
salaries of all constitutional officers
of the, State, including judges, was
launched in the General Assembly to
dayy
V/ ith the Senate debating and adopt
if g the joint resolution, each house
'irot another batch of new bills, in
cluding important Statewide proposals
Twb measure® 'to make diivorces
easier hit the Senate hopper, and one
in the House proposes abolishment
of county superintendents of public
instruction, and replacing them with
eleven congressional district school
managers.
The Senate received a bill to tax
electricity one mill per kilowatt hour
and another to place a gross ton mile
tax on buses and trucks. Another
measure would prohibit construction
of State highways with State funds
during the current fiscal stress, ex
cept in emergencies.
Attacks on nepotism started in the
House, with a joint resolution which
would demand that State department
heads provide the assembly with lists
of all married women in each depart
ment and also information as to sal
aries earned by members of the fa
milies of employees.
Other House measures included
bills to cut the salaries of highway
employees, who get more than $1,500
annually, to find out what uncoiled"
cd accounts and checks are on hand
in the revenue department, and to
amend statutes relating to testimony
of wives in abandonment and non
support suits, as well as one to abolish
?£intinued. on Pag* Six)
House Firm
In Favor Os
Farm Bills
By Overwhelming
Votes It Rejects Mo
tions To Throw the
Measure Out
Washington, Jan. 11.—(A’P) — Tha
House showed in large majorities to
day overwhelming sentlrneni'. against
killing the emergency farm bill.
It rejected 161 to 100 a motion to
strike out the measure’s enacting
clause, which, if carried, would have
ended the bill.
Then quickly, after a pifr-.a from
Chairman Jones not to furthrr add to
or subtract from the commodities in
the plan, House members divided 189
to 88 against eliminating hogs.
The vote on the enactment clausa
was forced by Jones himself, who
said, "We might as well have a show-*
down on this bill.”
Goss, Connecticut, Republican, whq
originally sought to force the ballot,
had expressed a willingness to foregq
it. j
Earlier Senator Dickinsron, Repulx
lican, lowa, had told President Hoov*
er the bill was “dead.”
Rogers
’jS/S! 1
Beverly Hills, Calif „ Jan. 11.—
Bernard Shaw stopped over just
long enough to make one speech
in Bombay, India; smarted a war
and 100 Indians kill ed each other.
That’s what I ca’j good speech
making. The only enthusiasm ony
of our speakers er n rouse is a de
mand to kill the speaker.
Shaw is header! for Hollywood
We will buy one of his scenarios
and he will just love us.
They . got tl\e beer thing so
muddled up tl us session of Con
gress’that it hjoks like the people
will get to vol* on it again in the
next campaign,
To art., Skill*