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[HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTIETH YEAR AMERICAN ********** ***** *****- Roosevelt Talks Plainly At Convention Os Legion hcon omy Program Stoutly Defended By The President Tells Chicago Convention Non-Service Disability Entitled To No Fed eral Pension SPECIAL BENEFITS NOT TO BE GIVEN i President Greeted Wildly as He Steps Upon Platform Wearing Legion Overseas : Cap; Proud of His Part In War and of His Legion Membership, He Says Chicago. Oct. 2.—(AP)—President Roos'V'lt backed up his veterans eco nomy prt gram with plain talk and ai comrade's smile today before the i World War -oldiers assembled in the! American L- g.'on convention. Th“ band swing into the national anthem as he P: sid'-nt took his place on the platform. With an oversees cap of th*- National Pr**ss Chapter of ♦he American L gion set jauntly on his lvarl. h" stood rigidly at atten tion wh'k the band finished play ing He 'old the cheering men in blue, afMr a tumultuous reccp'.tton, that greater btnefits w»-re hoped for the v» te:Bn3 who suffured disability >n service hut he stood by his rule • ageinst “special benefits” to thohe who incurred injpry or d'sase not con needed woh service. Walking onto th piauorm, where he accepted the nomination for Presi dent from the Democratic convention in 1932. Mr. Roosevelt donned the , cap of the Legion as the mass sta dium roaied with cheets and applause. Striking at class distinction as an enemy of national unity, President Roosevelt assur'd the veterans that any suffering and destitute would b« assured of the same relief of the gov ernment was giving t»b other citizens in the sarm- pligh'. r , Vy ' Franklin D Roosevtelt,. who, served in the un: ar, assistant secretary of the navy, was cheered as he recalled his own service and i|is Legion mem bership. sir ■ H f spoke aso as a Veteran disabled (Continued On Page Four.) Forest Nurseries 1 o Grow Seedlings Are Badly Needed Dnlly IflMpnfoh nnrrn«, In the Sir Walter Hotel, nv .1 C atHKI'.HVIM. Haleigh Oct,. 2.—Forest nurseries in Western North Carolina to supply «eedlinga suitable for planting in the higher altitudes wre pointed out to day by ft. Biuce Etheridge, director of the D'-paitmcnt of Conservation and Df-vlopment, as being among the mr.st pressing needs of the State’s con servation program. Mr Etheridge said that the only nursrry for reforestation stock op erated by the State is in Eastern j North Carolina where seedlings suit for planting in the mountains cannot be produced. -he conservation department, along w !th other agencies interested in re forestation, have made, repeated ef fe'-ts to establish a nursery in Western North Carolina, but os far have been unable to obtain the funds necessary for such a project. One of the rea- K ' ;ns blocking the acconplishment of purpose has been the inability of th» State to purchase the land nec<?s *arY for this purpose. If a tract suitable fer the purpose ('tn be obtained without cost, Mr. Etheridg believes that the Federal government might be induced to es tablish th' nursery in its program of cc operatic if with the State in for estry. in case the CCC camps are continu ed long enough, Mr. Etheridge is of *he opin on that a considerable a meunt of reforestation by planting could be accompuishtd in North Car o.ina. he continued, at least two years are required to bring a ni)*aery into production of stock suitable for reforesting. J 1 * 9 conservation director hopes hat North Carolina will be able to akf> fuiier advantage of the services of the CCC camps in actual planting of trees on areas needing reforestation •y llm method. Compared with mil lions of tr.es planted in other States ttth Cuiolina has not been able to a great deal in this phase Os forestty, fae sa id. _ iimxiirrsmt £1 atilt tltsuatrlr — — ONLY DAILY NEWSPAP ER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION CAROLINA AND VlfftlNlA. » “League a Farce!” , f f , I *'•’ . Henri Barbusse, French apostle of Communism and one of the most famous pacifists in the world, pic tui*ed as he arrived at New York to speak at the opening of the United States Congress Against War. "Barbusse, who knows some thing about war, having been badly wounded in the last one, in which he won three medals for bravery, said the League of Nations is “a farce.” /Central Press) STARTEXAiINING INSURE DEPOSITS Score of Examiners of De posit Insurance Corpora tion Doing Job, Hood Announces ONLY 50 OUTOF 180 STATE BANKS APPLY Can Take Choice of Joining or Closing Bank, Hood Says He Told One Banker; National Banks Automati cally Become Members of Guaranty Body I»aily niunntc* BnrMi, ' In tne Sir Walter «otel. av j (’ baSKKiivim Raleigh, Oct. 2. —Examination of j state banks that have already ap plied for deposit insurance and for membership in the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, will start to day with a force of about 20 bank ex aminers most of them employes of Deposit Insurance Corporation doing tho work. Commissioner of Banks •Gurney P. Hood announced today. So far, only about 50 of the 180 State bank* that are not members of the Federal Reserve System have applied for membership in the new* corpora tion. 'Rut Commitsisignitir Hood ex pects that of them will before the new insurance goes into effect Jan uary 1. “I think this deposit insurance law is going to do more to clean up all tli<* banks and make them safe and sound than anything thai has yet been done” Commissioner Hood said. “It is not only going to restore con fidence >n the banks from the stand point of the public, but it is going to help the bankers by insuring them against loss and providing them with ready credit in case a bank should close. I consider it the finest thing that has ever happened to American banks. ” Asked what would happen to any banks that did not become members of the Federal Deposit Insurance Cor poration, Commissioner Hood said that while there was no'hing to'com pel banks to join the corporation, he 1 (Continued on Page Four.j* WIUE SERVICE OF the associated press. KIU.ED IN HAVANA STREET BATTLE HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 2,1933 ,i, PROBES St A MAIL DtALS C. Dascom Sloinn - ~| M'-Mm Revelation that the Export Steam ship corporation in 1929 received $66,000 a pound for mail car ried on the vessels of the line has been made in the findings of a ) special senate committee investi gating own mail contracts and ship construction loans at Wash ington. The committee, of which Senator Hugo L. Black of Ala bama, is chairman, also learned Smith Would Eliminate* Cotton Processing Tax And Make Appropriation South Carolina Solon Ready To Ask for Money In Next Congress If Processing Is Abandoned; Intimates Sec retary Wallace Not. Familiar With Problem Washington, Oct. 2 —(AP; —Senator Smith, " Democrat, South Carolina, Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, said today he would ask Congress for an appropriation to pay the Southern cotton farmers for the acreage they plowed under if the ad ministration would suspend or abate the processing tax until that could be done. Smith, speaking at a hearing called to ascertain whether competing in terests, such as paper and jute, are given an unfair advantage over cot- SALES TAX UPS ’ IS FAD FROM GOAL Total State Revenues Slight ly Above First Quarter . Last Year ~ < 5 • Dally Dispatch Bnreaa. In the Sir Walter Hotel, BT J C- nAmKRRVILIi. Raleigh, Oct. 2.—While sales tax collections in September amounted to $411,755, as Comparted With collec tions of $35,579 in August, a gain of $53,17n, the, revenue from this three per cent general sales tax is still fail ing far short of the $700,000 a month which the Budget Bureau has esti mated the tax should yield, or the SBOO,OOO a month which the 1933 Gen eral Assembly estimated it would ibring in. The revenue from the taa on beer is also proving disappointing with only $31,356 collected in Sep tember and only $39,930 collected in August, despite the prediction of the beer tax advocates In the General Assembly that it would bring in. “millions’ in new revenue. The en tire revenue from tha tax on beer for the first three months of the fis cal year amounts to only $110,375. Total collections of the sales tax for August and September, on sales > iOoß&touca on P&fce Fyurji K in a letter from Henry Herber man, president of the corporation, that C. Bascom Slemp,•secretary to former President Coolidge, de manded a fee of $50,000 hut re ceived $15.0Q0 for obtaining 3 compromise on tne price to be paid for shipping board vessels in 1925. T. V. O’Connor was chair man of the shipping board at the time of the sale. ton because of the processing tax, said if Congress refused to pay for the acreage ployed up, the adminis tra< ion could then levy a compensa tory tax on the competing products. “If we can appropriate millions for a forest army, millions for the A. A. A., and millions for this, that and the other,” Smith said, “Ie believe that we in Congress will stand for an appro priation to ttakc care of that acre age so the government will not be (Continued On Page Four.) WHISKYTOMORROW Governor Says He Will Vote Wet and Work for Tem perance in State Richmond, Va., Oct. 2.—(AP)—Vir ginia. after an unusually quiet cam paign of drys against wets, will vote as the 32nd state totmorrow on repeal of the eighteenth amendment and on ! substitution of a liquor control law for her State prohibition act. Interest during the final hours of the campaign was heightened by the announcement of Governor John Gar land Pollard that he would vote for repeal. In a formal statement the gov ernor, a lifelong dry, said it would not be lair for Virginia to vote for retention of the eighteenth amend ment after 31 states ha.d voted for repeal. “I shall, furthermore, exert myself” the governor added, “to secure the very best liquor control law which pub lie sentiment will support to reduce intemperance to a minimum.” WEATHER FOll NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy; slightly cooler tonight; Tuesday cloudy. IiTO3O Robert N. Page Is Near Death Door Aberdeen, Oct. 2—(AD—Robert N. Page, former eocngressman was j critically ill ?t his home here to day and members of his family said he was expected to live but a few hours. Page, whose brother Walter Hines Page, was ambassador to Great Britain during tht World War, ha* been ill for mornie than <” year with a heart affiUctiton, and late Saturday suffered e cerebral hemorrhage. He will be 74 years old this month. SeSoiSt j AI LABOR’S MEET; Convention In Washington! I Will Be as Momentous as Those field in World War Days DEMAND MORE PAY AND FEWER HOURS That Is Labor’s Remedy for Speeding Recovery; Wil liam Green May Face Con test for Re-Election as President of Great National Organization Washington, Cot. 2. —(AP) — Old jurisdictional problems, plus new ones added by tho recovery act, promise to fulfill predictions that the Ameri can Fedt ration of Labor convention starting coday will be at least as mo mentous as those during war days. This was the forecast of its officers and President William Gre<m was ihopeful that a little adpt reasoning .would induce the approximately 500 delegates ti lay aside-their factional disputes and work together in a re covery* war as they had in the last real war. ’ ’ ' ’•* ' He and his aides were confronted with a number of major' problems, among them the contentions of many that the recovery program is moving too slowly and that only a forceful show of strength, possibly through strikes, will bring the desired speed. Already Green had issued an ap peal that organized workers use strik es only as a last resort after taking (Continued on Page Four.) Wait Word On Prices Os Tobacco Growers of State Look for Roosevelt’s Move as Sales Are Resumed Here Washington. Oct. 2.—(AP)— The White House todayy said a telegram from Governor Eh ring haus of North Carolina, asking President Roosevelt to take per sona»l section to increase prices paid for tobacco had been received and forwarded to Hyde Park. N. Y.. for the chief executive’s atten tion. The President was in Chicago today to address the Airierican Legion convention. Karikh, Oct. 2 (AP) Tobacco 1 markets of North Carolina and South Carolina openled for another week’s sales today, wih’.'He growers awaited word friuirt PreisfdtenJt Roosevelt on itihe appeal for aid semit him Saturday by Gvernor Ehringfhaus. Asking- the President to .personality,” Governor Ebringhaus iav ihis telegram to Mr. Roosevelt Salt, urday said parity prices -were neces sary “it© avoid results whVoh it i-st difficult to forecast.” The governor poimtde out growers who signed govemmient aicroaige re duction contracts during the recent cn Page Fcur.i PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON ’ EXCEPT SUNDAY. American Shot Joseph Gihson One of many civilians suffering from gunshot wounds following a street fight in Havana, Cuba, be tween soldiers and Communists, in which six were killed, is .Jo seph Gibson, American newsreel photographer. Gibson was shot four times in the legs by sniper® as he was taking pictures. FIRING CEASES AT ~ TRUCE IS SOUGH! American Ambassador Wants Chance To Evacu ate Some 90 Americans " Trapped Thdre MANY AMERICANS IN DANGER IN BATTLE Shooting Stops as Two Men Carry Red Cross Flag Make Way Into Hotel Through Scattered Firing; Ford Motor Company’s Building Is Damaged Havana. Oct. fAP) —The firing around the National Hotel ceased shortly after noon today after one American had been killed, approxi mately 20 soldiers slain, many other Americans endangered, and the Ford Motor Company’s building damaged in a battle between soldiers and officers besiged in the hostelry. The shooting was stopped after two mn carryying a Red Cross flag made their way into the hotel through scat tered firing. Tihe United States em bassy, meanwhile, initiated efforts to arrange a truce between the embat tled factious to permit the evacua tion of the 90 Americans inside the battle zone. gunmen getaway • WITH $20,000 LOOT Brookline, Mass., Oct. 2.—(Al*) —Five gunmen invaded the Wash ington Square branch of the Brookline Trust Company today, ccwed 20 clerks and customers with sawed-off shotguns and es~ cacde with loot purported to amount to $20,000. U. N. C. Professor | Killed in Wreck Lake Mahopac, N. Y., Oct. 2. (AP) —Morgan Fisher Vining, 35, a member of the faculty of the University of North Carolina, was killed and. hi® wife and two friends were injured in an automobile ac cident near Mahopac emergency hospital yesterday. 1 Vlning was on leave of absence to t a ke graduate work at Colum bia University. The driver of the automobile with which the Vlning car collided, was slightly hurt. 1 ; ~ ~ _ T “““■ i £ PAGES vTODAY FIVE CENTS COPY SS BY STRAY BULLET Walks Into Exposed Place to Watch Battle In Pro gress and Loses His Life NO POLICY CHANGE BY UNITED STATES Secretary Hull Says Every | body Is Sorry American Was Killed, and Urges That Americans Get Out of the Way When Fighting Is Going on There Havana;, Oct. 2 (AP)—A.® Amo riean spectator and more than 20 sol dfens were Wilted today, it whs ep nounced officially. in binter f g’hting between army and navy officers bar. hioadcd in the National hotel, and .soldiers firing on them, from many (points outside. The battle,, which had. raged for hours assumed the appearance of a real warfare as the Red Cross estab lished a first -ai dotation a half block \away from the hotel. oilo-nel Ful igiencio Baitlista, corntmia/ndlmg Cuba’s “enili'sted army,” set u,p field head quarters in tihe district and person, ally directed the attack. Meantime two army tanks wh dh •had left the hotel on, an unexplained (mission, rumbled back to the scene of action and loosed heavy machine ,gu n fire airound the hostelry. Five wounded soldiers lay he'lplsss on the ground and more than an hour before comrade® could pick them up. Fire appeared to have broken Out in the hotel fater an artillery yib'll whtned through a Window trr* ":t --iplodod. I Another big shell shatterc * r the maim entrances arid other h •ed aigains ttihe (interior, with 1.. i trous results. The American ctehjct wht Robert G . Loitspeirh, Havana manager fcr (Swift and Company, felled by stray bullets as he watched the flighting from tihe Lopez Serrano aipartmeiifca, where he lived, nearby. Amid scenes of wild confusion thert spread throughout the city. a,n atnay airplane roared over the hotel eat roof fop space was at a premium, as groups watched the fighting. NO CHANGE IN POLICY IS ANTICIPATED, HULL SAYS Washington. Ocjt. 2 (AP)— ; 3ecro hairy Hull today declared that no •change in policy toward Cuba is con. fCanttoued on Page Four.! Examine 29 Books By Tar Heels For Mayflower Award Dolly niopntrh n«*ren«. In ihe Sir Waller Hotel, nr .i c. BisKF.rn im,. Raleigh, Oct. 2.— I Twenty-nine books by residents of North Carolina, pub lished during the year ending Sep tember 1, ar f: under consideration for the 1933 award of te hMayflower So ciety Cup, made annually by the State Literary and Historical Association to the residents of North Carolina author of the best published original work. Dr. A. R. Newsome, director of the State Historical Commission, announced today. The: large hand-wrought silver cup, on permanent display in the Hall of History at Raleigh, was established three years ago by the North Carolina •Society of Mayflower Descendants, of which B. S. Colburn, of Biltmor 1 Forest, was governor. The) name of the winning author and book is en graved on a silver band encircling the base of the cup and a small replica of the cup, suitably engraved, becofn* ; the permanent possession of the win ner . The first winner was Prof. M. C. S. Noble, of Chapel Hill, for his ‘ Hu tory of the Public Schools in Norih Carolina." and the award last year was ma/i«' to Prof. Archibald Hender son, of Chapel Hill, for his “Berna l Shaw, Playboy and Prophet.” The award this year will be* one ->f features of the State Literary and His torical Association program, to bo held Ra-high, December 7 and 3. The board cf award consists of the pre? dent of the association and this heal; of the history and English depart mnts at Duke University and the Urn- versify of North Corolioa* i
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