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•ateway to CENTRAL CAROLINA twentieth TEAR FOUR-POINT PROGRAM political circles IN TURMOIL ABOUT STATE HAPPENINGS Raleigh Seeks Motive Be hind Reorganization In Highway-Prison and Revenue Units MORE EFFICIENCY CLAIMED BY SOME Others See In Firings And Hirings Merely Move To Furnish More Political Jobs and Build Up Ma chine; But It May Be Un doing of Ehringhaus n«Hr DHiinli'b Hu "«*?«■. In tni* Sir \V«»lt-r Yloti-I it v I < lUSIiEIIVILL. r?! '7.1. .va.g -1. What is the mo tive brhlnrt the reorganization going on in the ?tate Highway and Public Works Commission and in the Depart omt of Revenue? Are the shifts that Jiivc been mad; or still in prospect intend? I to he for the “good of the lervice" or have they been inspired more by political considerations than 5 d 1 ’ire to look out for the interests of the peop’ ■’ Is Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus seeking only to get great er efficiency and economy of operation in these departments, or is this jug gling iu tli name cf efficiency and eccnimv merely a smoke screen un 4er which to get rid of certain em ployee j in order to have more pat ronage to di -.taibute? The questions are being asked on every hand here as a result of the shake-up in the State Highway am Public Works Commission, and of the reported shortages found in the ac counts of certain “former yriploy.;.*!' o£ the Department of Revemie by Exe cutive Assistant Commissioner of Re (ConUnued un Page Kour.i ACCUSED WOMAN IB ABLE 10 BE TRIED Doctors Examine Dr. Sarah Dean, Held for Murder of Dr. Kennedy G-rnwood. Miss., Aug. 21.—(APi— j The report o 1 two physicians who ex amined Dr. Sarah Ruth Dean, confin- \ aT in a ho pita 1 here and charged with I the p' json whiskey murder of Dr. I Jchn Hi?~,ton Kennedy, said today she i v'ae vv'l enough to stand preliminary' trial, but advised that she not be re- j committed to jail. Sheriff Harry Smith made public [ the report, which was rendered by Dr. j J T. Bate? and Dr. F. M. Sandifer. j They termed Dr. D; an’s illness as aj 'Srave secondary anemia induced by, a chronic ulcer of the stomach.” Th • Kennedy died August 6 after ] he had been poisoned by a! whiskey high ball given to him by T J " Dean, his former professional as sociate. Relatives said that Dr. Ken- r -tdy had planned shortly to re-wed his divorced wife. Johnson Is Protected From Reds Special Guard At Commerce Building After Rumor of Communist Plans fl ’H-ofon, Au.gu.Tt 21 (AP)-A spe at '' ""-rd wis p’aced o n duty -i r i ommicrce Department today r V.V f - 1 s ’ !fl t hat they had re ' 1 'Oi that a group of com. u. i , , were on thenr way hero from ,tnri - to call on Hugh S. John son. , , ( D par merit of Justice agents first r ;" 1 u »» ‘he information that the „ ° ::t) W;, .s coml-njj. from the Baltimore and was conruposed largely of nn g ; 'Twemc. n and other workers. I '■ i ( ' til guard was reqqucsted i 'ent of preventing th P on ] ! " <f the party into the Com r " r(! n, ’p rtnrmnt until it. wms detor ’ ' 1 ‘'oo' - a.vy uncword dtmon 'n vvas planned. Hcttitcrsmt Safin Stsualrh \ Johnson Wviting | Code Os His Own On Coal Industry Handles Protests Milton H. Pettit Protests on provisions of the NRA blanket codes henceforth go to Milton H. Pettit, former Kenosha, Wis., industrial executive, who i has been named chief of the bu reau of exceptions by Gen. Hugh j S. Johnson, administrator of National Recovery Act, ~—: • sjoskiz —n —serz ■. ANOTHER BOMD BY BRUMMITT LIKELY Search of 150 Bank Liquida. tion Statements Leads to Speculation STATE DEFICIT LARGE Attorney General Cites Figures To Show $18,362,932 ture During the Four Gardner Years Daily DlNpnfeli Rnrenw. In o>i> Sir VVnlter .»•«»•! .1 C RsSKEIIVIt./ Raleigh. Aug. 21—What is Attorney Gencral Dennis G. Brummitt up to new? Why has he had one of his as sistants go through the more than 150 bank liquidation reports in the office of the secretary- of state and copy from these the names cf all the attorneys employed by the Banking Department and the amount each was paid? Is this an indication that the feud be tween the attorney general and Com missioner Gurney P. Hood is to be resumed and that another interde partmental repercussion is going to shake governmental circles here? These questions are being asked as (he result of the revelation that As sistant Attorney General T. Wade (Continued on Page Five.) burkelnlleb IN SHOOTING FIGHT Woodrow SHuping Dead and Jack Walker Surrend ers; Both Are 23 Mrrgantcn,*August 21 (AP) —Wood- row Shuping, 23, was fatally wounded near here easily today in a rhnoting affray and a short while later Jack Winker. 23, surrendered to Sheriff •Fred W. Ross ' A preliminary hearing on i murder charge against Walker was set for tomorrow. The sheriff said Shuping was wound ed during a fight among ten m:on near a fiil’ng stat Ton, dnd That the scene changed to the inside of the station. Walker, an employee of the station, asked the men to leave, the officer said, and then Shuping is said to have thrown a bottle ait Walker hitting him in 'ho chest. Ross said it was reported to him that Fhupin<r Then threw another bot tle and Walker fired a, shotgun he | had picked un. Th e load took effect I iu Shuping’s head. w ONLY DAILY j FULL LEASED WIHK Mfnnvti<h OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWSPAPE R PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF MmTH CAROLINA AND VlfilNlA. HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 21, 1933 Bituminous Operators able To Agree Between Themselves He Prepares Scale HOUSE-TO-HOUSE CANVASS TO BEGIN Store-to-Store Solicitation Has Goal of Putting Blue Eagle in Every Place; NRA Administrator Hopes To Finish Job and Quit In Late Fall Washington. Aug. 21- (AP) — Re covery administrator?, jubilant over their success with steel and oil, today modeled a code of fair competition to bring the great bituminous coal indus try strictly within NRA’s widening circle. At the same time, Hugh S. Johnson, NRA chief, pointed his aides for the big drive —the house-to-house, stoi*e to-store canvass that starts next month with the objective of placing a b ue eagle in every window and insur ing victory to President Roosevelt’s re-employment campaign. Johnson himself, it was learned au thoritatively, has tentatively fixed mid November, or the end of the year at the latest,, to retire fro mthe post he holds,. By tarn, tie expects his emergency work to be finished. He plans to return to private industrial life as an asso ciate of Bernard M. Baruch, with whom he has World War dhys. A permanent administrator will carry, on in Johnson's place. As soon as President Roosevelt ap proved codes for the basic steel and oil industries late Saturday night, Johnson and his aides turned imme diately to coal, a stumbling block for weeks. When a committee of 15 coal operators were unable to agree agqin yesterday, Johnson started writing his own to place before them today. The coal men will be able to suggest amendments to this trade charter, but they will not be permitted to renew their wrangling. Trial of Lamson For Murder Opens At San Jose, Cal. San Jose, Gal., August 21 (AP) — David A. Lamson, 31, Stanford Uni versity press representative, goes to trial today on a charge of murdering his wife. Allene Thorpe Lamison, “the Juliet of an idyllic college romance,” in the words of the chaplain who mar ried them. Criminologists who have miade sci entific studies 'of the physical evi dence ate expected to play an im_ port ant part in the trial. The prosecution. conceding there was no eye-witness to the slaying, charges Lamison k.'llled his 28-year-old wife by striking her on the head with a blunt instrument. Her unuclothed body was discover ed in the bathtub of their Stanford campus home last Memorial! Day. There was blood on the floor, the walls the ceiling and on the walls of the hall leading to the bathroom. Will Start Marketing For Swine Hogs In West To Be Sold in Feed Short age and To Get Meet for Needy Washington, Aug. 21. —(AP)— An nouncement was expected later today from farm administrators setting a date for beginning the emergency movement of swine to market to help farmers who face a feed shortage and to provide meat for the needy. Under this program approximately 5,000,000 swine —4 000,000 young pigs weighing up to 100 pounds, and 1,- 000,000 sews soon to farrow— are to be marketed. Administrators said a few details remained to be completed, and that they hope to dispose of these by the end of the day. TO AID COTTON PRICES OFFERED ~,„'E, i „ILF, break LIVE, ,i[,, ~jll,, -L™— ***** tinl Above are shown the principals in the battle over the acceptance of the automobile industrial code, which was delayed by a split among the recovery leaders over the 28-word phrase calling for an open shop policy in the auto plants. The break occurred when Gen. Hugh Johnson (3). adminis 7 Perish In Storm At Beach Atlantic City, Aug. 21.—(AP)—Seven persons were known to have drowned during a terrific northeaster that lash ed the Jersey coast yesterday, sud denly tossing comparatively calm seas into a fury, catching scores .of fishing craft off guard Coast guardsmen wrote further re scue history against great odds, but feare.l another half dozen fishermen aboard the <Aaft Gertrude may have perished. The boat was the only one unreported late this morning of all those known to have been at sea when the storm broke. FOUR BIE, 20 HURT AS TRUCKS COLLIDE One Loaded With Picnick ers, Other With Gun Cot ton, In Delaware Wilmrngton, Del., August 21 (AP) The crash of two trucks, one loaded with picnickers, th© other with gun cotton, early today turned a straw ride into an inferno, killing four per sons amid injuring, a score of ethers seriously enough to require hospital treatment. Police said that the truck, carrying cellulose nitrates, part of a freight shipment bound for ParTui N. J. crashed into the rear of the merry makers’ truck. Fire followed instantly and a mo ment later there came an explosion which aroused the countryside. Young people "v*«ire strewn over the roadside, but it meant th esaving of fives. The four who burned to death were trapped in the straw-strewn p ernio picnic truck. Firemen and po lice braved the peril of mor? explo sions to drag out the bcdV*. hm fire raged too furiously for them to be brought out alive. CLAYTON LADY DIES OF AUTO INJURIES Fayetteville. Aug. 21—(AP)— Mrs. Albert Mitchell 70. of near Clayton, was fatally injured near here yester day when an automobile in which she was a passenger overturned as it was sideswipe*) by another car, which was attempting to pass it. Four other passengers in the car in which Mrs. Mitchell was riding were injured. t rat or of the National Recovery act, refused to join his aides, Donald Richberg (2), chief NRA counsel; Edward McGrady (1), assistant NRA administrator, and William Green (5), president, American Federation of Labor, in demanding that the phrase be de leted. The automobile manufac Tropical Storm May Hit Coast During The Night Storm Warnings Issued For Area from„ Boston to ’ Cape Hatteras by Weather Bureau 0 STRONG WINDS ARE PREDICTED LIKELY Vessels Off Coast Warned To Seek Shelter; Second Disturbance of Less Inten sity Is Also Reported; Ber muda Fears Course of Storm Near There Washington, Aug. 21. — (AP)— The Weal her Bureau this morning issued the following storm warning. Advisory 10 a. m. Northeast storm warnings ordered 10 a. m. Boston to Cape Hatteras. Tropical of great intensity about 150 miles west of Bermuda, moving northwestward, together with him pressure area New England and Lake region will cause strong northeast winds, probably reaching gale force late night or Tuesday forenoon. Delaware break water northward to Boston, and strong northeast winds, shifting to north late tonight or Tuesday forenoon south of Delaware breakwater to Cape Hat teras. * “Caution advised vessels off the coast. “Another tropical disturbance prob ably of light intensity possibly attend ed by strong, shifting winds, central aebut 200 miles southwest of Jamacia, apparently moving west northwest ward.” BERMUDA APPREHENSIVE OF DISTURBANCE THERE Hamilton, Bermuda, Aug. 21.—(AP) —Bermuda waited apprehensively to day to see what course would be taken by a tropical hurricane last reported at 4 a. m. 100 miles southwest of the island and moving northwest. All day yesterday residents of the island stayed in their homes, the win dows and doors of which weire locekd and barred. Today, however, business was being carried on as usual. The wind reached a velocity of 60 miles during the night and did not abate when dawn came. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Probably rain in aentrial and east portions tonight and Tuesday; not much change in temperature. PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY, turers, with the exception of Henry Ford (4), who has been maintaining a passive attitude to ward the code negotiations, re quested that the phrase be labeled definitely as the ‘‘open shop policy” but this request was denied unanimously by Gen. Johnson and hi« lieutenants. Repeal Could Win Possibly by Nov. 8 Washington, Aug. 21—(AP)—Pro hibition could be voted out of the Constitution by November 8. Twentj -two states, including Missouri in Saturday's election, al ready have given ballot approv *i to the 21st constitutional amend ment, which repea’s the 18th. None has voted the other way. Texas will decide Saturday a i, a Statewide election whether it shall join the unbroken line of states voting for repeal or head a revolt in the other direction. GETSBEsf BREAK That Class of Teachers Will Receive More Money Expected Dally lilspntoh flnrois, In the Sir Walter Untol, IIV J U. DASKF.ItVILL Raleigh, Aug. 21. —The classroom teachers have been gfven as square a deal as possible in the new salary schedule worked out by the State School Commission and the State Board of Education and a majority of them are going to receive larger salaries this year and next than they expected, it is agreed by those who have studied the new schedule. Many class roon teachers will not have their salaries out more than 14 or l£T per cent, under the new schedule, as a result of the restoration of the yearly increment, or increase for experience. The heaviest cutting has been done In the salaries of the superintendents and principals One of the most important things contained in the ne wsalary schedule is the allowance of the increment, or salary increase, of $2.50 a year for eight yea-s, instead of for only four years as i nthe past, for Class A teach ers, and for six years for Class B. teachers. The new schedule also per mits this increment for experience to be cumulative from one class to an other, formerly not permitted. Thus if a teacher is employed three years as a Class B teacher and then gets into C’ass A, for two years her increment is figured on a five-year basis. For merly a teacher lost all her increment allowance and had to start back at the bottom classification whenever she (Coutmucd on Page Five£ 6 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS OUPY HOPE TO SPEEB UP ANNOUNCEMENTOE Early Hearing on Readjust ment of Rate in 4.2 Cents Processing Tax Is Sought COMPENSATORY TAX IS ALSO SUGGESTED Would Levy It On Jute, Rayon, Silk and Other Pro ducts Sold in Competition With Cotton; Also Urge Embarkation at Once On Plan for Inflation Washington, Aug. 21, (AP) A four-point program to aid cotton prices to farmers was laid before Sec retary Wallace today by a delegation °f members of Congress from southern states, headed by Senators GeoTge and Russell, of Georgia. Members of the delegation asked that the Department of Agriculture speed up announcement of an acre age reduction program covering plant ings for the seasons of 1934 and 1935 as the first step in aiding prices. As the second proposal, they sug gested an early hearing to determine whether a readjustment in the rate of the present processing tax of 4.2 cents a pound on lint cotton should be made. Their third proposal was for early levy ink of compensatory processing tatxcs on jute, rayon, silk and other products sold in competition with cot ten As the final point in theirprogram, 'hey ujtge(i«Jihat the administration embark without further delay on a program of inflation. Members, however, did not specify what ferm they believed inflation should take. Representative MeSwain. of South Carolina, suggested a postponement of from 60 to 90 days in the processing tax. He said a postponement would make possible a substantial increase in the price of cotton during coming months when farmers will be market ing their crop. MORE EMPLOYMENT COMMITTEES NAMED Ra’cigh, Aug. 21.—(AP)—Re-employ ment committees for Bladen and Wayne counties were announced here today by Capus M. Waynick, State director of the Federal rc-emplciTtien 3 campaign. Havana Mob Sought For Punishment Hate - Crazed Gang Ex limes Body of Slain Machadist and Mutilates It Havana, August 21 (AP)—Punish, ment of leaders of a hate-crazed mob Which took from it§ new grave the body of Gerardo Machado's police chief and burned and mutilated it was demanded today by several depart ments of the week-old Cuban govern ment. A manhunt for th© few remaincog Machadists went on. Leaders of the opposition who had been forerd into exile were coming back, and solders and members of the ABC secret so ciety began digging aga : , n in Ata-r&s castle for bodies of those who died because of opposition to the Machado regime. Antonio B. Ainciart, vilified as the! director of bloody and repressive me a. sums under the deposed president, committed suicide Saturday night while soldiers and ABC men closed i n on his hiding place. \ A« soon ns soldi'era left the place of burial. 2,000 shouting persons op°ned th© fresh grave, took the body in a C truck to Havana University. i it and hoisted it to the crossbar of j an electric light pole. Thousands watched the mob pout gasoline over it and apply f match. Finally the crew of an anvU.iian-e scattered the crowd and took the re mains to a morgue, .. ,
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