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"lIENDEKSON (•ateway to central • CAROLINA TWENTIETH year WOODIN QUITS TREASURY JOB THIS WEEK-END Relief Workers Lay Plans To Give Jobs T0' 4,000,60b Persons Relief El OF PROGRAM IF BE SPENDING WOO,OOO SUM Idea Is To Get Work for All Funds Put Out and To Supplement Other Moneys rRRSIDENTTELLS GROUP WHAT TO DO 500 Governors, Mayors, Re lief Workers First Hear Harry L. Hopkins, Direc tor, and Secretary Ickes Outline Plans for Furnish ing Many Jobs W i .Jimgloii, Nov. IS. (Al’l A re jiligiini'iif of relief funds already granted ami still to com*' was sug gc rd today by Harry Ij. Hopkins, v tbs civil works administrator *o > governors, mayors and r<-liof work'is gathered Ju re as a relief con v n'ion. To the officials sha 1 throng' da I hug meeting room of the Hotel May- j flow:. Iv urged that rt-licf funds, both State and Federal, be translat 'd whet' ver possible into wages for work clone imjead of direct grants. He stressed that these funds might well be used as an addition to the 5,'00,000,000 sum to be distributed by him for work around communities in Ih* itdrmnl-tta*ion efforts to put 1,- nr n to work in th*' next month Peer*'ary lck".s, himself the admin- ! I'drator of the 53.000.000.000 public j works fund, joined Hopkins on th<•! Oi-is in unfolding administration I ho|>cs. Lti|cr the meeting was to! Hi Whit* House to receiv the idea* (Continued on Page Two.) Young Vandervilt Killed When Auto Crashes in S. C. UirJgeluml) S. ()., Nov. 13. (AlM—William li. Vanderbilt HI, was Icillrd and two other per sons were injured today when 'underbill, on route from Miami to New York, attempted to pass »n orange trnek on a curve and loried ||is ear over. VatnlerblM’s injured companions • 'fierrs reported, were Erskine Cw>mih and a. man named Duffy Young Vanderbilt was the son of " illiucu K. Vanderbilt. J. Details of the accident were meagre, as officers had not re turned fro rnthe scene and hos pital attaches refused <o answer telephones, saying they were “to busy.” Nevvßelief Plans Are Discussed Mrs. O’Berrv, State j 7 Director, In Wash ington for Hopkins Conferences Dully Dispntefe nnrena. In the Sir Wnlfer Hotel. RV J. C. 3ASKKBVILL. *to Icig h. Nov. 15.—Mrs. Thomas Horry, State director of relief, is in v :,s hlngton today at [he call of Em ncy Relief Administrator Harry *■ Dopkins for the purpose of dis ' tiding the plans of the new Civil w, rks Administration, of which Hop in;' is «lso 'he h*ad. All of the other :,t ' '* lief directors are also expect *' at'end this meeting. Uiiio it is nos yet definitely known '" t t| lf „,. w civil Works Adminis- I'Km is expected to do. it is be ‘ V( :d that this will be a new auxi- H, .v agency to bridge jhe gap between liv Wo, 'k of the Federal Relief Ad ■el ni-t ration and the Public Works ''•ministration and to provide more ' tuploymcnt for those on the relief and jhus put more on work re am! reduce the amount, of direct '“' f to a minimum. It has already "th announced Dj Administrator Jtiop •.CDntn.ued ca Page Four.s, IH Hat lit jSisunfrh Big Mail Robbery Had In Charlotte Business District Recognition Advisor [gralffljSi 1 mm • WH re Yv I \s tkri r- William C. Bullitt Long an advocate of U. S. recogni tion of Soviet Russia, William C. Bullitt, special assistant to Secre tary of State Cordell Hull, took a prominent part in the talks between President Roosevelt and Commissar Maxim Litvinoff. At one confer ence in the White House, Bulfiti was the only other official present, f Central Prcaa) REVENUE SHAKE-UP LIKELY 10 BE MILD But Raleigh Is Wondering If Whole Project Has Run into Snag AFTER TAX JUST NOW Governor Says More Attention Being Given t« Getting In Money and Lews to Personnel of The Office Dally IJiMpoK'h n«»re?«». In (lie Sir IV'ilf'T Holrl, BY J. C. BASkERVILI,. iial'igh, Nov. J 5. Has the long predicted reorganization of • h«■ State Department of Revenue run into a snag? Is Governor J. C. B. Ehring haus hesitating to follow out. the re commendations of his one-man “brain trust," Dr. Marcus Cicero Stephens Noble, Jr., executive assistant com missioner of revenue, or has Commis sioner of Revenue A. J. Maxwell de cided jo continue to bo commissioner of revenue and has he objected to some of th' recommendations? Also what has become of the report of Ac countant George Scott, of Charlotje, on his audit of the Department of Re venue and the admitted irregularities he found in some divisions? These questions are being asked more and more here, especially since both the audit of the revenue depart ment, and the special report and re commendations of Dr. Noble with re gard to its reorganization, have been in the hands of the governor and Com missioner Maxwell since the first week in October. But so far both Governor (Continued on Page Four.) Train Wreck Is Deliberate, Say {Rail Officials Boonevilte, Ark. Nov. 15 (AP) — The engine of a westbound Rock Is land passenger train overturned and several coaohes were de:u : led here ■early today as a result of what rail road officials described as a delib. crate attempt to wreck tb" train. Three persons were Injured slightly. The injured are Engineer W. E. McOolfim. of Lilt tie Rock; Mrs. James McGwynn of Amarillo Texas, a passenger and Bruin Goodwin ne gro brkeman. The it rain ram into am open swifeh officials said" had been tampered with as it entered -the yard-:. Engineer 'M.cGolfim end Fireman W. F. Eu bainks both of Little Rock jumped iana CHcop' d serious inju^ej ONLY DAILY L TiIK E A^ n , IE SEU VICE OF IHL ASSOCIATED PRESS. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VII^HNIA. HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 15, 1933 Four Bandits Use Two Auto mobiles To Block off United States Mail Truck There MACHINE GUN USED FOR A PROTECTION One Registered Mail Sack and four First Class Bounti es Included in Loot; Gang Gets Drop on Clerk and Driver Riding on the Mail Truck Charlotte. Nov. 15. —(AIM Four bandits used jwo automobiles to block off a United Slat's mail truck in the bu.sinc.ss district here today, mount ed a machin'' gun in the street to hold interf'rers at bay. and escaped with an undetermined amount of loot. First reports said one registered mail sack and four first class pouch es were included in jhe haul. C. L. Koontz, of Lexington, mail clerk on the train from which the mail had just been transferred, was accompanying the driver. Tink Honey cutt to the local posj- office when the hold-up occurred. He told police the bandits blocked the truck out and had the machine gun mounted in jhe street before he (Continued on Pace Four.) SCHOOLLAw'viEWS Answer Found to Arguments of Charlotte High School Principal Dally SiU|itilch Bnrpnn. In the Sir Wnlifr Hotel. RV .1 D n.VSKKHVIM,. Raleigh, Nov. 15 If the school sup mltndenis principals and teachers of the State arc planning to 'launch a 'new attack againsd jhe new State school law which provides for H State supported eight mcnlths school term they had better be more careful of j heir fact's that the ones in the story in The Charlotte News of Sunday in which I. Eppes 'Ready principal of the Central high school,' of Charlotte listed 25 disadvantages of the new school law and mentioned only four advantages according to information obtained today ffrom the offices of the Staite School Commits ion. For most- of the disadvantages listed by the Charlotte principal aire not the (Continued on Page Three.) Progress In Soviet Plan Being Made Roosevelt Says De lay Over Week-End No Sign of Recogni tion Failing Washington Nov. 15 (AP) —Presi- dent Roosevelt said today after a con versation with Maxim Litvinoff that [negotiations' on Riissian relations were proceeding normally but did not indicate a definite time for any an nouncement. The Presidet advised news men ad a press conference not jo limit them selves to Friday or even Monday in forecasting a n announcement adding that if things are not signed wealed and delivered by Friday it would 1 by no means indicate that his conversa. f ion with the Soviet ©ommisar had broken, down. The president said that this discus sions With Litvinoff have made and' sstiti a-ro making distinct piOgreoH • SON FINDS MOTHER AFTER 30 YEARS W jit*”**- Jtek 3| •*•>*; v. : . ./'; i-sjSz!B&/;,- W; Lieut. Gov. Albert B. Chandler, of Kentucky, is snapped at Jack sonville, Fla., with his mother, Mrs. A. W. Chamberlin, whom he saw for the first time In more than 30 years when he went to the Florida city to visit a grave he believed to be hers. Parted Pandemonium Reigns In Louisiana Vole Inquiry Crowd at Huey Long-Overt on Hearing Resents Senate Committee Chairman’s Charge of Cowards and He Is Invited Outside To Settle That Issue New Orleans, La., Nov. 15. —(AP) — Today’s session of the special Senate committee investigating Senator John H. Overton’s eiecjion opened in an uproar from the crowd when Chair man Tom Connally, Democrat, of Texas, said 'he “only people” who were “afraid of the investigation were thecowa: ' ; of Louisiana.” A score of men unj women jumped <o Ih<'ir feet and demanded an ex planation. from jhe chairman. “Come outside, if you think I'm a coward,” shout'd a man in >he gal-j Icry. Burt Henry, president of the Honest Election League, that vvijhdrew from the investigation wi<h the statement thaj 'hey had no confidence in the committee, walked down the center aisle exclaiming: “Where do you get 'hat. coward sturf?” Chairman Connally sought vainly 'o qudl the disturbance, calling for or der and pounding the. gavel until it broke at the head, and the gavel’s bead fell into the: water pitcher. Norlina Man Free Os Manslaughter Greensboro, Nov. 15.—(AP) —P. j I- Bobbin, of Norlina. driver of truck which crashed with a car near here October 30, resulting in the deaths of Misses Ora Jones and Ethel Swanson, was freed to day when a Guilford county grand jury returned a not true (>iH in th*- case. AUTO CARDS WILL ~ BE SENT OUT SOON Applications To Go To All Automobile Owners Throughout State Dolly Dl*t»n#cl» Id ine Sir W nit or Hnl*l. HV J C- H4SK 1011 VI 1,1.. Raleigh. Nov. 15. —Employes of the motor vehicle bureau of the State De partment Revenue are working overtime and eve nat night, in order to get readc’y to start the sale of 1934 automobile Hcensfs' tpiaf.es De-: cember 1 instead of December 15. The biggest task right now is the printing of the 400,000 applies J ion cards with (Continued ca rass Two-i from his mother at the age ol four when she separated from hi;; father, Chandler recently was no tified by a relative that sm had died. Going to Jacksonville for the cxjj) css purpose of visiting hb mother’s grave. Chandler found her alive and well. Police guards who were stationed in th<- room mov' d among the crowd and sought to quiet them. Mrs. Hilda Phelps Hammond, chair man of 'ho women's committee, of •Louisiana which is seeking to unseat (bojh Senator Overton and his ally. .S' nator Huey P. Long, jumped to her feet and said: “The women of Louisiana, are no cowards" and announced the wom en’s commitetc had made definite charges against the Senate committee and were willing jp go anywhere to prove them. The chairman sought, to quiet her, but the crowd yelled. “Ten it to him, Mrs. Hammond.” Calm finally was restored by Sen ator M. M. Logan, who had been the butj of the crowd’s jibes for two days before Chairman Connally arrived I from Texas. Logan divert'd the crowd* by asking them to stop smoking as it was against the committee rules. He told jhe angry crowd he was sure they did not mean to be discour teous and appealed to them to be quiet. GRAFT CRUSADER IN GOTHAM CONVICTED Isadore J. Kresel Held Guilty of Misapplying $2,000,000 Funds New York. Nov. 15 'AP) —Lsadore J. Kresel the fiery little lawyer who in 1930 crusaded with Samiuel Sea- | Bury againslt 'corruption in the mag- ! vilstrates’ courts, was convicjed today j of aiding aind abetting in the misap- ' (plication of $2,000000 of funds of an 1 affiliate of ttJhe defunct 'Bank of! United Stajes. The eminent attorney —he has often i been called one of New York’s mPsI taiented criminal counsel—was emo tionless when shortly before 7 o’clock this morning (he Supreme Court jury which for itwo months had heard testimony itn the case returned its ver dict. Nine indictments originally were returned against Krese. in cornice, tion With the failure of the Bank of the United States. One was a charge of perjury of which he was acquitted. Kresel was a director amd counsel ■for she Bank of United States. Ber nard K. Marcus president of the 'bank and Saul Singer vice president are serving sentences in Sing Sing prison fallowing conviction on charges growing out of the bank's failure PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Henry Morgenihau Made Acting Head Os U. S. Treasury Gets Leave William H. Woodin Secretary of the Treasury LUMBER FIRM GETS BIG SUM FOR SITE Buncombe Jury Gives Rav ensford Company sl,- 075,163 for Lands ALL IN NATIONAL PARK Mill Village and 13.3 Acres of Land in Swain and Haywood Coun ties Included In Smoky Mountains Tract Asheville, Nov. 15.—(AP)— A special superior court jury today awarded sl,- 075.163 to the Ravensford Lumber Company for 32,511 acres of land con demned by the Norjh Carolina Park Commission to complete this State’s area of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. A mill village and 188 acres of land in Swain and Hay wood counties also was included in the park j ract. Three commissioners had set a juice of $975,000 for the land and the pre sent case grew out of an appeal taken by both the commissioners and the lumber company. The Appalachian railroad, which owns property in Swain county in which pai'f of the tract was desired, comprised with both parties to «ell its land a< $50,000, making a total of $1,235,163 to be jiaid tor the entire tract- Dry Leads In Excess 0f170,000 Raleigh, Nov. 15.—(AI*)—NorHi Carolina's majority against repeal of eighteenth amendment in thte referendum |Of November 7 will approximate 000 and 175 000. Raymond C. Maxwell secretary of the State Board of Elections, today had received official election returns from 94 of the State’s 100 counties, and by estimating the unreported votes, figured the ma jority. It i" estimated the total vote cast was about 412,000, as compared with a general election vote of 710 000 in 1932. The State Board of Elections will meet here Saturday to can vass the official returns. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair and slightly colder, with heavy frost to the coast tonight; Thursday fair, slowly rising t ein ‘ peraturc in afternoon. 6 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COl’Y Under Secretary Dean Ache, son Resigns To Make Way For Morgenthau In Department PRESIDENT REFUSES WOODIN RESIGNATION Suggests Secretary Be Com pletely Freed of All Gov ernment Responsibilities to Allow Complete Rest; Sus. sering from Throat Infec tion Long Time Washington, Nov. 15. —(AP)—Presi- d'-nt Roosevelt today announced {hat Secretary Woodin would begirt a “com plcte leave of absence” at the end or thv week, and that pending his return Henry Morganthau, Jr., would be act ing secretary of the treasury. Under Secretary Dean Acheaon has resigned and Morganthau will bo ap pointed to that post. Mr. Woodin tendered his resigna- I ion to the President several days ago, but Mr. Roosevelt declined to accept it, suggesting instead thta the seere- Uuy be completely lreetl of a „ }v _ ernmen(,al responsibilities whilo iio takes a complete rest. He lias been suffering from a t) UO at infection which has required constant treatment by New York- specialists. Duiing his absence, Woodin will uc cepf no remuneration from the gov ernment. in tendering his unaccepted j-e'- 'j )R --t'on, Woodin said he had a! c pi ( '<> stay away from his desk j,„. , and so far as possible recupcnu l; j , his ailment. He added, however, {hat h able to do this fully, and, that . i his physicians had ordered rest and -t clxange of climate, he was submitting his resignation. Labor Body Says Plea Is Ignored Greenville, S. C., Council’s Assertions Denied by NR A Chief In State Greenville 3. C. Nov. 10—(AP)— J. L. Sowers Ulead of the Greenville Trades and Labor Council today char ged the NRA. had declined to 'hoar Charges that lextile plants were fighting un ionization of workers. Sowers made his ateitememf in re ply to one by Dr. D. E. Geer of the National Indufetxtol Relations urn mission that local labor leaders had presented a' general indictment against the textile industry without offering to cite apecific instances. Geer yesterday demanded “specific charges” and court action by the labor loaders instead of the blanket. Charges which, were forwarded to President Roo.se velp General Johnson of NRA and Secretary Perkins that mills were violating their codes. “If Mr. Geer can Ihelp us we will only be (too glad” said Sowers todav. “We have been seeking opportun ity for five weeks to present t.h* specific charges hut Mr. H. H. Wil lis chairman of th© State Industrial Board has not given us a hearing. Perhaps Mr. Geer knows why. We do not.’* WILLIS SA\S NO CLAIM HAS BEEN MADE TO HIM Graniteville, S. C., Nov. 15.—(AP) —H. H. Willi*, chairman of the South Carolina Industrial Board, said today Greenville labor leaders had made no complaint to the hoard rgarding al leged violations of the collective bar gaining clauses of NRA by textile mills.
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