North Carolina Newspapers

HENDERSON, GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA. TWENTIETH YEAR ROOSEVELT URGES PEACE THROUGHOUT WORLD Warlike Actions In Some Capitals Frighten Europe Food, Chemicals, Clothing and Army Supply Fac tories in France Check ed Upon. GOVERNMENT SEEKS DATA ON CAPACITY Hitler Confers With Hin denburg on His Disarma ment Speech to Reichstag Tomorrow; Meantime, Roosevelt’s Daring Pro posal Is Forwarded. (By The Asociated Press Today’s developments In the Inter nationa ldtearmament crisis: Washington—President Roosevelt broke precedent by appealing direct ly to the rulers of the nations to re duce armaments, eliminate aggressive weapons, forget “petty” national aims &nd work for peace ad) economic recovery. * Berlin Hitler conferred with President von Hindenburg about his momentous disarmament pronoun cement to be made tomorrow before the special Reichstag session. Paris—Factories mkaing food, che micals, clothing and army supplies were ordered to report to t'he “passive defense bureau” on their capacity and number of employees. Tokyo—Chinese were reported flee ing in disorder, but preparing to make a stand against the Japanese army only 13 miles east of Peiping. Flood Damage In St. Louis Region Put In Millions St. Loulb, Mo., May 16 (AP) —Mil- Tons of dollars damage today had been charged to norma lrainfall and floods along the midde reaches of the Mississippi riber. Which today- neared their predioted peak. Thousands of acres of rich farm and* are under water. Most of this inundat'on was caused by the over flowing of MUss’ssiippi tributaries in Illinois and Missouri, swollen by al most unprecedented May rains . Two lives were lost yesterday in high water In Missouri. KNOXVILLE TEXTILE STRIKE IS CALLED Knoxville, Tenn., May 16. —(AP) — A s f rike by 240 weavers and loom fixers for increased wages threw more than 600 other employees of the Ch = rokee Spinning Mills temporarily out of work today. The plant had been running day and night shifts when the weavers and loom fixers walked out and forced the shutdown. Earthquake Shakes All Frisco Area Second Shock Three l imes as Violent as First; No Damage Learned San Francisco, Cal., May 16. —(AP) ~-A strong earthqake look shook San -'an Francisco at 3:45 o’clock this morning There were two two shocks, one im mediately succeeding the other, and hein gabou* thre times as strong as the first. No damage was immediate ly reported- he quake awakened residents thro ughout the San Francisco Bay area. Many people in the Sunset district fjf Francisco deserted their homes f' ,r 'lie s’reets. I" San Francisco, Stockton, 75 miles to the cast, and towns down 1 * lf> Nan Francisco peninsula, furni tiin> was shaken, sleepers were awak f,v 1 'o the sound of the rumble of " quake, and creaking dressers and 11 ling windows. ’rcet lights in Santo Rosa, 50 mile r It of Ran Francisco, were extin s'"l hcd by the shock. mntimrsmt Batltf Dispatch F OF L THK A AhhVv-T^ lR * SERVICE US' THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. "Just Sew-Sew!” Elected national president of th« Needlework Guild of America, Mrs, Thomas J. Preston, formerly Mrs. Grover Cleveland, widow of Presi dent Cleveland, is shown leading the guild a good example. The former “First Lady” is working on a gar ment for exhibition at the guild’* convention in Philadelphia, where 2.000 delegates represented every State in the Union. Aftermath of The Session Raleigh, May 16.—(AP)—The 1933 legislature has gone, but the memo ries linger on. • > For the first time in nearly five months, Governor J. C. B. Ehfing haus sat in hi soffice to receive a steady stream of visitors in whidh leg islators were not in the majority The governor has been at his offfice every day, but most of his callers have been law'-makers. The principal clerks and their of fice forces wound up their final work in connection with the 132-day leg islative session which closed yester day. Charles M Johnson, State treasur er has so many titles, now that the legislature has quit, that he had his secretary prepare a list. Here they are: State treasurer chairman of the Local Government Commission, id'i rector of local government, member of the school commission, member of State Board of Assesments, member of the State Board of Education; (Continued on Page Two) Carolina Phone Claims It Can’t . - Stand Rate Cut Raleigh, May 1C (AP) —The State Corporation Commission to day continued its 'se'ries of con- i ferenccs with telephone comp«*Ti|es of the State which it hopes will < eventually nesuJ|t % deducted . rates. i Representatives of the Carolina Telcphjfttie amd Telegraph Coirf* ' pany, of Tarboro, with service in 38 North Carolina towns, told i the commission that the company could (not stand a rate reduction.. 1 The company set forth that it had to draw on its surplus to make adequate dividend disburse ments last year. J i The New Deal! For the best interpretive arti cles on President Roosevelt’s various moves to start business, industry and agriculture on theupswjing read Leslie Eiohel's series of dispatches appearing in the Henderson Daily Dis patch every day. ONLY DAILY NAZIS SEIZE “UN-GERMAN” OOOKS V| I fl Jm w Jb&c 'wSrafif v ’S Br Jeffressj Maxwell Seem Sure Os Juiciest Plums Jcffress Expected To Get Combined Highway - Prison Office, With Pou Under Him; Maxwell Almost Sure of Reappointment for Revenue Department Hally Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. -MV .1 C. mASKEHVILL Raleigh, May 16.—The guessing has already started as to the appoint ments Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus will make, although it is agreed here that there is nothing definite or tan gible upon which to base these guesses For if there has ever been a governor who has kept his mouth more tightly closed about what he plans to do with regard to appointments, no one here can remember it. But in spite of this there* is the usual amount of specula tion and the usual number of political \prophets who maintain they know what the governor is going to do. In dications are he will not make any major appointments for some days yet, and perhaps not for several weeks. Highway Post Best Plum. The number one appointive plum is generally regarded as being the chair manship o fthe new State Highway and Public Works Commission ,which Wyoming, New Jersey For Repeal Make Total of Five States to Favor Abolishing Eigh teenth Amendment Newark, N. J., May 16 (AP) —New Jersey, long considered a “wet” state and one of those which already has repealed its o«vn enforcement act will join Michigan, Wisconsin and Rhode Island todia yas favoring repeal of the prohibition enforcement amend ment to the United States Constitu tion. Specifically the voters of she State will ballot for delegates to the repeal convention. But the fact that “dry” forces failed to file a sufficient num ber of names on petitions in eleven of the 21 counties makes the voting a mere formality. WYOMING JOINS MOVE 1 ' FOR AMENDMENT’S REPEAL Cheyenne, Wjyo., May 16 (AP)— Wyoming today appeared to have lined up with Michigan, Wisconsin and Rhode Isand in favor of repeal of the eighteenth amendment. With returns from 180 of 667 pre cincts conventions, there had been elected 363 delegates pledged to rati fication of the congressional resolu tion for repeal, and only 40 favoring retention of th eamendment. _ NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY MAY 16,1933 Nazi storm troops are shown load ing one of their trucks, in Berlin, with confiscated books, literature and pictures which have been con sidered “un-German” by Hitler government. The confiscated ma terial later was burned in huge bonfires throughout Germany as a j) part of the Nazi nationalist dem onstration to “purify” German libraries of “un-German” litera ture. Among the authors were Einstein, Helen Keller, Re marque. Ludwig and Freud. will include both the State Highway Commission and the State Prison. No date is set for the lav/ to go into ef fect, so that the governor can make the change at an ytime. But it is not believed that the new set-up will :be put into effect before June 30, the end of the present fiscal year. As a result, it is expected that Chair man E. B. Jeffrees will remain at the head of the State Highway Com mission and that Superintendent George Ross Pou will -continue as head of the State Prison until that time. ExpecL Jscfresc To Laud. In fact, a great many of those who have been observing the trend of things here believe that Jeffress will probably be reappointed as head of the new commission and that Pou will be retained as head of the prison di vision, despite the many rumors and guesses with regard to changes in (Continued on Page Five.) AlSwEi Business Expected to Im prove There Now As Uncertainty Lifts Unity Dlipatcl Unreal, In the Sir Wnlter Hotel. BY HENRY LESESXE. Raleigh, Mjay 16 —Most people here today are sighing in relief at the close of the General Assembly and the departure of the State’s lawmak ers. who had been here for almost four and a half months. For with the exception of the hotel and board ing house proprietors and the res taurants, almost every one else hee was gla dto see the second longest ' ; (Continued on Page Two.) SIO,OOO DAMAGES IN AUTO CRASH SOUGHT Fa}(2ittevnte, May 16 (AP) —Mrs. J. S. Jones, of Fayetteville, today filed suit for SIO,OOO against Repre sentative Karris NewtmJan, of Han over county, for injuries alleged to have received when Newm!an’ s auto mobile was wrecked March 19 Newman’s automobile, driven by Fred Cowan, Raleigh hotel man, crashed with a car driven by J. E. Jones, of Fayetteville near Raleigh. wlathFr - FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair tonight and Wed nesday; somewhat cooler in west north central portions tonight. oSlegimure Every Major Project of His Program Enacted Into Law During Recent Session WITHHOLDING JOBS HAS LARGE FACTOR His Own Powerful Person ality and Persuasive Abil ity Credited With Much of the Success of His Venture; Achievements Briefly Out. lined Hally DlMiintcfi Daren*. In the Sir VVnlter Hotel. -v .» r n * VKTCVt vi 1.1., Raleigh, May 16. —Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus has emerged as the undisputed victor in his contest with the General Assembly and secured the enactment of every major project on hi 3 legislative program, it is agreed ■by those who have been following the course of the assembly, whether they agreed with his program or not. Just how he secured this victory, not all agree. But it is agreed that the two most potent factors in bringing it about were his own powerful per sonality and persuasive ability and the efficiency of his withheld patron age. Defeat Becomes Victory. It is well known that Governor Eh ringhaus changed what seemed to be almost certain defeat on several mea sure into victory by a series of per sonal conferences in his office or out at the mansion, and that few mem bers of either House found it possible to differ with him after one of these personal conferences. -They frankly admitted that the compelling logic (Continued on Page Pour.) State Will Renew $4,000,000 Notes Maturing Shortly Raleigh, May 16.—(AP)—Char les M. Johnson, State treasurer, said this afternoon that arrange ments have been made to renew some $4,000,000 in State notes which mature May 25 and June 1, with the interest rate to con tinue at six percent. North Carolina banks hold notes totaling $1,560,000, which mature May 25, and $1,817000 worth maturing June 1. New York banks hold notes running out on June 1 which total $833,000. National Guard Sent to Area of Wisconsin Strike Milwaukee, Wis., May 16. —(AP) — Naional Guard cavalrymen from Mil waukee under command of civil au thorities, today moved into Shawe/UO county, scene of the most serious dis-* orders attending the Wisconsin milk strike. They are to give power to the hands of Acting Sheriff Oscar C: Detter man, who replaces .Sheriff Otto Druckery, suspended for alleged in efficiency. Intense Romance Two me n seek the love of Virginia Oliphant. One is a dashing naval officer, son of a wealthy family, the other a young magazine editor, whose life had been blighted by an earlier unsuccessful love. And there is Vir ginia’s own love for her brother, a vain-glorious selfish young poet. From the whirllpool of these emotions Virginia emerges, but then that’s the story., Read BURNING BEAUTY By TEMPLE BAILEY » Beginning Tomorrow In The ! Henderson Daily Dispatch PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. 52 Nations Asked To Join Hands For Economic Revival New Bank Supervisor IH Bgvy- i ■ . ■ W|psiMnT James F. T. O’Connor Ready for work, James Francis Thaddeus O’Connor of Los An geles, new comptroller of the currency, poses at his desk, in Washington, as he plunges into the tremendous task of supervis ing the nation’s banking system. iss ARE BEING HEARD Arrival of Nanking Govern ment Representative In North Gives Rise to Reports JAP CONDITIONS OF WITHDRAWAL GIVEN Will Retire as Soon as Chi nese Troops Leave Great Wall, Marshal Muto Says; Meantime, Chinese Retreat to New Defenses; Ameri cans Evacuating (By the Associated Press.) The Chinese were reported in Jap anese dispatches today to be in dis orderly retreat from the North China battlefields in preparation for a stand lalong a defense line only 13 miles oast of Peiping. At Teintsin however political chan (Contlnued On Page Four.) M BETTING ELECT! Injuncion To Prevent Horse Racing Referendum To Be Sought Marion, May 16 (AP)—McDowell county commissioners today unani mously ordered a countywide elec tion for June 27 for a vote on legali zation of pari-miutual betting at hors’* racing wthen a threatened injunction sought by a group of tax-payers was not served. D. F. Giles, Carter Hutchins and P G. Story, Marion attorneys, acting for a group of citizens, had warned an injunction would be sought re straining the commissioners from calling the election. The attorneys however, merely pre sented a notice saying a restraining order would be sought to prevent the actual holding of the election. They claim holding of such a nelecition would be unconstitutional. A hearng will be held in Hender-' sonville May 29 before Judge P. A: Mcßlroy, and at that time Judge Mjc- Elroy, will decide whether to grant an in j junction preventing holding of the election. c pages v TODAY FIVE CENTS COP Arms Cuts and Entire Elimi nation of Weapons of Aggression Contain ed In Plea METHOD OF APPEAL IS UNPRECEDENTED Message Casts Aside Diplo matic Formula and Plainly States Its Purpose; Forget ting of “Petty” National Aims Is Urged by The President Washington, Mpy 16 (AP)-iPresi dent Roosevelt appealed directly to the rulers of the nations today to re duce armaments, eliminate entirely* the weapons of aggression, refrain from sending any armed force what soever beyond tiheir own borders, for get “petty” national aims, and join sincerely to assure peace and econo mic recovery. i In a plain speaking message, with out diplomatic precedent, the Presi dent asked for specific steps at once, and declared that if any nation in terposed destructions! the civilized world would “know where the re sponsibility for failure lies.” He mentioned no nation by name but his words rang through the dip lomatic world wfith dramatic signi ficance at a moment wfhe n certain leaders in Germany are asking for greater armaments; when Japanese troops are marching deeper into the territory of and when other peoples are suspected' of harboring aspirations to acquire n e wteritory by force for the United Stater, the plain words of the declaration point to. (Continued on Page Pour) Including Russia Seen as Equal to Early Recognition Washington, May 16 (AP)—lnclu sion of Russia among hte 54 nations addresse dtoday by President Roose vellt was baled by Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho; as the same as ‘(technical recjpgnitlion” of the 9oJ viet. government. Amidst increasing conjecture over President Roosevelt having included Soviet Rmssia among the nations to which he addressed today’s arms message. Senator Robinson —the Dem ocratic leader said in a statement the act may have the “effect” of the Unit ed States recognizing the Soviet gov ernment. Roosevelt Fearful Os Upheavals Threat to Peace In spired Plea to 54 Nations, He Tells Congress ' ' Washington, May 16 (AP) —Presi- dent Roosevelt told Congress in % spe cial message today that he had pro posed a world non-aggression pact “because it has been increasingly evi dent that the assurance of world poli tical and economic peace and stabi lity is threatened by selfish and shor sighted policies, actions, and threats of actions.” i Notifying an enthusiastic Songress of his direct message that had gone morning, the President declared the to 54 world leaders earlier in the “overwhelming miajority of the na tions face the dangers of recalcitrant obstructions by a very small minor* ity.” “It is high time for us and fer every other naticn ” he said, “to un derstand the simple fact that, the in vasion of any nation or the destruc tion of a national sovereignty can be prevented only by the complete eli mination of the weapons that make such a course possible today.” ;