HENDERSON,
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA.
TWENTIETH YEAR
Million Dollars As
Nest Egg Was Had
By Van Sweringens
With That as Shoe String,
Cleveland Operators and
Their Associates
Started Out
presentholdings
GREW OUT OF THAT
0. P. Tells Senate Commit
tee Investigating Morgan
Banking House That “We
Were Poor When We
Started Out In Life;” Ans
wers Pecora’s Questions
Washington. June 7. (AP)—A mil
lion dollar “shoe string” gave the
brother* Van Sweringen their start on
the path they tread today as railroad
royalty.
That loaned one million dollars was
all the cash O. P. and M. J. Van
Sweringen and their associates first
put up n 1916, the former revealed to
day to Senate investigators as he told
hew J. P. Morgan helped them on
their way to the many millions of in
vestments represented in current Van
Sweringen interests.
; “You may say that is starting on a
fhos-string” the Cleveland operator
remarked almost casually. “I agree
that i sso; but' we made what we have
today out of that shoestring
"We were poor when we sarted out
in life. I’ve never been reluctant to
admit that.”
r lie had been asked the amount yes
terday by Ferdinand Pecora, -as coun
sel for the Senate Committee and said
h< could not then comply.
‘‘l read over your question, and am
plesed to say I can answer frankly,”
he said a 1 the start of this morning’s
examination.
"The amount of dollars was one mil
-lon dollars with which my brother
!nd my alftociates started back in
1916.”
J P. Morgan and his cunsel, John,
W. Davis, listened intently, as did
another crowd that jammed the hot
htaiing room.
85 AUTOMOBILES IN
MAY WERE STOLEN
Raleigh, June 7. —(AP) —There were
85 automobiles reported to the State
Motor Theft Bureau as stolen in May,
L. S. Harr s director of the bureau,
reported today.
During May the bureau listed a
total of 75 recoveries, 47 of the ma
chines stolen in the month being rei
turned to owners before June 1, while
38 cars stolen prior to May were
found during the month.
South Carolinian
Is Shot to Death
And Two Are Held
Fiedmont, S. C., June 7. —(AP) —
Frank OWens, 25, was shot to death
in a pistol battle at R. T. McAbee’s
store here today. His brother, Ode
(Vens. 30, who was slightly wounded
and A. C. McAbee, son of the store
owner, were arrested and lodged in
jail at Anderson.
Young McAbee was cnarged with
murder pend ng an investigation of
the case by Anderson colunty author
ities
Witnesses said the Owens brothers
went to the store this morning and
engaged in an argument with
McAbee, a youth of 20. Ode Owens
■wa sreported to have had a pistol, and
during the argument, witnesses said,
AcAbee' also secured one.
N one appeared to know who fired
the first shot.
Unemployment Overstate
Is Decreasing Very Fast
Dali? UlipntPl lifent.
In the Sir Wnlter Hotel.
BY J. 0. BASKERVIIX.
Raleigh, June 7. —Unemployment in
the State Is rapidly decreasing 1 , with
a corresponding decrease in the need
lor relief work according to Ronald
k' Wilson, acting director of the Gov
ernurs Office of Relief. Many addi
tiona 1 mills and industries are either
starting U p again or materially in
°rfng their shifts, thus giving em-
Hoyment to many who have not had
Jobs tor a long time.
In fact, indications are that if we
hlr l not filed the State’s quota of 6, :
~ ( > () men for the Civian Conservation
t orp, camps when we did, or that if
th « quota had been any larger, we
Wo 'i!d have had difficulty in getting
enough to (ill the quota,” Wilson said.
In some of the counties where large
mills and cotton- mills have re
fl my parted operations again, the
'- f ur,'y welfare offices last week had
/■'ifficulty in. getting the number of
'"' xiit-j assigned to their counties.
In a few instances, several who
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Returning Heroine
* V-’'
HI aSS&i
Alma Roach
Being able to spell “propitiatory”
when the other 15 best spellers in
one United States , couldn’t,
brought the title of national
spelling champion and SSOO to 12
year-old Alma Roach of Twins
burg, O. So when Alma, above,
returned from Washington, where
site won the title, the home town
folk gave her a reception she’ll
probably remember the rest of
her life.
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MAKE PROPOSITION
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Administrator Holds To
Theory That Debtor Can
Lay Its Cards On
Table Freely i
$140,000,000 SUM DUE
ONE WEEK FROM NOW
British Cabinet Will Meet
Friday to Discuss Situa
tion; Meanwhile, French
Ambassador Calls On
Roosevelt To Discuss Ob
ligation Owed Here
Washington, June 7. —(AP)—As the
date for collecting the next war debt
installment approaches, the adminis
tration is sticking to the principle
that a debtor nation can approach its
creditors and lay its case before them,
but that such a move must be initiat
ed by the debtor.
Various statements of an informal
nature have been received from the
debtor nations in the course of the
last few months, but they have not
laid before the Washington govern
ment anv official proposal or request
for reconsideration of the funding
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had already eni sled in the conserva
tion camps were released to go home
to take jobs offered them after en
listment. This wa strue in the case of
a Henderson boy who got a job in a
cotton mill that had reopened there
after he had enlisted. Down in
Craven and Carteret counties where
several big lumber companies have
resumed operations there is little un
employed labor now.”
It remains to be seen, of course, as
to how well the present, increase in
employment holds up, Wilson said,
agreeing that it may be temporary
arid sporadic. But if employment in
creases during the next two or three
months as it has for the past month
there will be a decided decrease in
the reed for Federal relief work.
Relief allotments for June to all
the count es were decreased 12 1-2
p«>r cent below May allotments and
all the county relief directors have
said they would be adequate, while
some say they will have a surplus,
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OP NORTH CAROLINA AND VuTOINIA.
Van Sweringens at Senate Probe
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Goldsborough.
Billion Dollar Loan Is
Asked For By Uncle Sam
Money Will Be Used To Launch Big Recovery -Public
Works To R etire Maturing Notes;
Small Holders in Capital Asked To Take Notes
Washington, June 7 (AP)—The
Treasury called on the public today
to lend the government a billion dol
lars to launch the big recovery-public
works program and irteet current fi
nancing needs.
The invitation for funds was direot-
abysmtoll holders of oap
as partners of the government.” To
Hal, when Secretary Woodin wants in
favor these, he announced he was re
serving the right to accept all sub
scriptions of SIO,OOO or less, even
though they require more than the to
tal of securities offered. Bids wpre
called for on “500,000.000 or there
abouts” of five-year 2 7-8 percent
s 2Kke
Britisher Says Modern Eco
nomic Machine Must
Have Moral Basis
S--- _ . 4
Durham, June 7.—“ The economio
machine as we have it today is fram
ed to deal with definite elements of
human psychology arid judgment,”
Sir Joslah Stamp, distinguished Bri
tish economist, told Duke university’s
eighty-first graduating class today in
delivering the commencement address
“It. is finally workable only if there
is in the mass of the people a certain
minimum stability and calmness of
judgment.”
“In other words,” he said “the eco
nomic machine pre-supposes for its
successful action and productivity a
minimum level of character in the
people as a whole. This means that
materialism being independent of
morals and the finer elements of
character to be successful, it is cri
tically and tragically dependent upon
them. ”
Sir Josiah v speaking in Page audi
torium took occasion to pay a re
markable i*o<- Walter Hines
Page, war time American ambas
sador to Great Britain and a mem
ber of the class of 1875 of Trinity
college, after whom the auditorium
was named. “His broad sympathetic
and penetrating understanding, com
ing to our aid aJt a time when the
most precious of our national assets
was at stake, that is, purity of our
■motive, make him essentially a part
of British history. He stands in Eng
land as one of the greatest Americans
of all time.”
Surveys World Situation.
Thoughtfully examining the present
world situation and the part educa
tional institutions are playing in con
tributing to its solution. Sir Josiah
address was on the subject. “M tern
Life and Modern Learning.”
/‘/These have ft>een rightly called
(Continued on Page Four.)
CRASHING CHIMNEY
BURIES 20 KIDDIES
Winona, Ontario, June 7. (AP)
About 20 children were buried beneath
falling • brick and othe rdebris today
when a chimney on the public school
building crashed through the roof in
the midst of an electrical storm. On
ly one child was reported seriously
[injured. __ . . _
HENDERSON, N.€., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 7, 1933
notes, whose proceeds will go largely
to the public works spending In ad
dition, there was offered “$400,000,000
or thereabouts” b| nine-months three
quarter percent certificates. Custo
marily issues a|e over-subscribed,
and the billion fijjure is expected to
be’ reached with p*ase.
- the 1
n«w funds include paying off $374,-
000,000 of maturing certificates and’
3104,000,000 interest on the public debt
due June 15.
The issues will bring the Roosevelt
administration securities sales to $2 -
372000,000, since in March the Treas
ury sold $800,000,000 worth and in
April added $572,000,000.
Gandhi Suffers
Sudden Setback
f
Poona, India, June 7.— (AP)—A
sudden setback in the condition of
the Ji b~t-'V’ Gandhi, who recently
concluded a ikus weeks fas* in
■protest the treatment accorded
India’s “untouchables,” was an
nounced this afternoon by an ex
amining physician.
The Mahatma has lost 2 1-2
pounds in two days, and, although
there are no definite complications,
the doctor ordered that the restric
tions regarding visiors be ightened
gastWiahomeis
DAMAGED BY BOMB
Windows and Doors Blown
in and C. D. Brice Auto
mobile Is Wrecked
Gastonia, June 7—(AP) —The up
town home of Mr. and Mrs. C. D.
Brice was damaged early today by
an explosion believed to have resulted
from a dynamite bomb.
Windows and doors were blown in
and the Brices’ automobile was wreck
ed. The detonation shook the neigh
borhood for blocks.
J, C. Elliott chief of police said
the had found a dwnamite fuse at
the scene of the blast.
He said the dynamite had been
placed under the hood of the auto
mobile which belonged to Mrs. Brice.
She formerly operated a beauty par
lor here.
The macnine was parked in the
Street about 20 feet from the front of
the home, the chief said.
He said the Brices were awake at
the time and that immediately after
the explosion Brice called police.
Chief Elliott quoted Brice as say
ing, “I know of no reason for the
explosion.”
The officer said he had no clues
as to the guilty parties, but that “I
ihave an idea we will have some suc
cess in our investigations today.”
He would not amplify this state
ment.
WitHIR
for NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair tonight and Thursday*
Roosevelt In Controversy
With House Over Rates Os
Compensation Os Veterans'
Mattem In Far Siberia
On Flight Around World
Fifteen Hours Since Last
Reported, But Communi
cation Facilities Are
Poor There
favorabuTweather
ON ROUTE OF FLIER
Leaves Omask Just as Day Is
Breaking and Heads To
ward the East; Should
Have Reached Chita, Sib
beria; Average Speed 130
Miles an Hour
Nova Sibrisk, Siberia, June 7. —
(AP) —Jimmy Mattern was sighted
here at 4:10 today Moscow time (8:10
p. m. eastern standard time Tues
day). He was flying high and fast
toward Chita, Siberia, his destination
n the fifth lap of his round-the-world
flight.
This town is aPout 400 miles due
east of Omsk, Siberia from where he
flopped off at 1:10 a. m. Moscow time
5:10 p. m., eastern standard time,
Tuesday. His average speed was about
il3o mile san hour.
Cita is about 1,300 miles east of
Novo Sibirrks Siberia.
Day was jusit breaking when the
American took off from Omsk for
Chita, just three days, 12 hours and
50 minutes after leaving New York.
Before him on the fifth leg of his
long journey was favorable weather,
with very light headwinds, a clear
sky and good visibility.
MOSCOW HAS NO NEWS
15 HOURS AFTER HOP
Moscow. June 7. —(AP)—Fifteen
hours after he had passed over Novo
Sigirsk. Jimmy Mattern, American
round-the-world flier, was unreperted
today as far as Moscow knew, but,
unless he had encountered difficulties
with his plane he should have reach
ed Chita, Siberia, the next stop on
h's schedule.
Delays in communication, which in
creased the further eastward the flier
progressed, left Moscow without word
of his whereabouts.
Lobbying
Fees Are
Big Sums
Raleigh, June 7 (AP) —The North
Carolina Central Railroad Commit
tee, of which Major L. P. McLendon
j \of Durham, was listed as chairman,
expended $4,729.71 in lobby expenses
during the 1933 General Aesemibly, ti
reported today.
The report showed that George K.
Freemjhn, of Goldsboro, an attorney
wlas paid a total of $3,800 by the com
m,ittee, wtiith $3,300 of it ah own as
fees.
Norman C. Shepherd, of Smlthfield
another lawyer, was paid a fee of
$l5O. he remainder of the total went
to incidenta lexjenses.
Today’s reports of payments miade
to lobbyists ran the total reported
to Secretary of iStdtet Stacey W.
Wlade to over $51,000, and a bother
week remains during which they
might be filed. '
Indiana Becomes
The Tenth State
To Favor Repeal
Indianapolis, Ind., June 7.—.(AP)
—lndiana, hope of prohibitionists
to stop a steady march of states
toward repeal of *he( 'eighteenth
amendment, today had joined the
wet parade.
In a special election Tuesday it,
became the tenth consecutive state
to decide that prohibition has no
part in the Federal constitution,
find should be removed through
gratification of the twenty-first
amendment.
The popular Statewide vote on
' the question was two to one in
favor of repeal. The unfficiai tab
ulation was 517,544 to 284,806 in
3,378 of the State's 3,691 precincts.
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CYRUS H. K. CURTIS
Tirade Against Burke Seen
As Thinly Veiled Strike
At Ehringhaus
OLD FEUD IS RENEWED
Represents Resentment of Elective
State Officers Against Executive
Budget Act Restricting
Their Spending.
Daily Dlnpntch Unreal*,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
UV J. C. IIASKER VILL.
Raleigh, June 7. —The newest at
tack made by Attorney General Den
nis G. Brummitt upon Henry Burke,
Jassistant director of he budget, in
which he charges that Burke was re
sponsible for the delay in the pay
ment of the teachers, is being inter
preted here by some not only as a
direct attack upon Burke and the
(budge bureau, but also as a thinly
veiled attack upon Governor J. C. B.
Ehringhaus, who is ex-officio director
of the budget. For Burke, as unof
ficial assistant director of the budget
has absolutely no authority except
that given to him by the governor,
who has tremendous authority under
the executive budget act. So any at
tack made upon Burke is in reality
an attack upon the governor and the
■executive budget adt.
An Old Grievance.
The present rumpus between Attor
ney General Brummitt state Auditor
Baxter Durham and Budgeteer Burke
however, is merely a fresh eruption
of an old grievance, and is directed
not so much at Burke personally, as
against the entire State budget sys
tem as represented in the executive
budget act of 1925, according to those
who know the inside hisitory of the
situation. For, ever since the budget
act was passed in 1925, under the
leadership of former Governor A. W.
McLean, centering the financial con
trol of the entire State in the gover
nor as director of the budget, the va
rious elected State officials have
fContinued on F««e Six.)
Farley Denies Having Man!
Here Working For Repeal
Washington June 7 (AflP) —.Post-
master General James A. Farley,
chairman of the Democratic National
ommittee, today denied reports that
be had personal representatives in
North Carolina working for repeal of
the eighteenth amendment. His
statement read:
“There is no truth whatever in re
ports from North Carolina to the ef
fect that I have a personal represen
tative or representatives working in
that State for repeal of the eight
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FIVE CENTS COFY
IFWES RAISED ;
Should Congress Votes In
creases Without Levies,
Another Extra Ses
sion Certain
CONGRESS WILL BE
CALLED BACK AGAIN
Speaker Rainey Reveals
Roosevelt’s Purposes; Re
publicans Pressing For
Sales Tax in Senate To
Finance Recovery and
Control Legislation
Washington, June 7.—(AP)— Debate
on two important administration
measures was started in Congress to
day, while President Roosevelt and
House leaders strove to reach a set
tlement of the controversy raging over
war veterans’ compensation.
The Senate took up the industrial
recovery bill a few minutes after Re
publicans had decided to press for
adoption of a 1 1-2 percent sales tax
to finance costs of the proposed huge
bond issue.
On the other side tne House tackled
.agaiin the once rejected legislation
requested by Mr. Roosevelt which
would allow him to appoint a non
resident governor of Hawaii.
Members of the House Democratic
steering committee conferred with the
President at the White House on vet
erans’ benefits with Mr. Roosevelt in
sisting that if the Connally amend
ment increasing outlays to the iotrtiet
soldiers is voted by the House, new
taxes must be raised.
Rater Speaker Rainey and Repre
sentative Bryns, the floor leader, said
(Continued on Page Six.)
Curtis Dies
Os Ailment
With Heart
Cyrus H.K. Curtis, of
Philadelphia, Call
ed by Death After
Lengthy Illness
Philadelphia June 7.—(AP) —Cyrus
H. K. Curtis noted published and
philanthropist, who began his career
as a newsboy died today at his home
in suburban Wyncote after an illness
of more than a year. He would have
been 83 June 18.
Death came to him at 1:10 a. m.,
climaxing a fight he had waged since
last Friday, he day his condition be
came critical.
With him at the last were his only
daughter, Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis
Bok, and other members of hi 3 family.
One of the world’s foremost pub
lishers, Mr. Curtis was stri-ken vith
a heart attack in May las year while
on his yacht near New York. Rush
ed to his city, he entered a hospital.
His wife took a room in the same in
stitution to be near him, and died
five days later from a heart ailment.
Funeral services are to be held *
Mr. Curtis’ home Friday afternoon
and burial will be in West Laure.
Hill cemetery here.. Friends were re
(Continued on Page Four.)
eenth amendment.
“T have no" such representative*
either in North Carolina or in anj
other state.
“The handling of the campaigns Tor
repeal of the eighteenth armehdtnen
in the various states is entirely
hands of the people of these states
“Such communications as T wi!
have on th. J subject are tc
the party’s chosen leaders or To the
people generally.
“No one is authorized to represent