HENDERSON
gateway TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTIETH YEAR
reser ve bank
NOT OPPOSING
THE TREASUR Y
Governor Black Denies
Board Is Working at Cross
Purposes on Monetary
Policy
gold price HELD
AT SAME FIGURES
Unchanged for Fifth Day at
$3376 an Ounce as Re
serve Board Claims There
Is No Connection Between
Monetary Program and
Bond Purchases
Washington. Nov. 25. — (AIM —With
the dollar stronger abroad, the admin
istration field the price of domestic
(.old unchanged today with the fig- 1
ure nearly a dollar above the value of
the metal in London.
A price of $33.76 an ounce was es
tablished ttie same rate as the four
prfvlou-. days. Meanwhile, the dollar
opened on foreign exchange at $5.19 to;
(lie pound, at which tiie London gold
price was $3v,33.
Hovernoi Black of the Federal Re
j?fvf* Boai 1 1 denied that his agency
an H the Treasury were working at
cross purposes.
H<> said there was no connection
Vtwecn the administration's mone-1
Any policy and the reserve system’s;
in the open bond market. For sev- I
ml weeks the reserve banks bought
bond; at a rote of $35,000,000 a week
ThiiWi*i dropped to $10,000,000. Last
w??k put chases were $2,000,000. and
tliio week the reserve board’s state
meiit bowed holdings of government
boml- $1,000,000 less than the week
before.
"Th?ir is absolutely no rift between
Hi? Federal Reserve Board and the
Treasury.” he said in reply to ques
tions
Negro Sought for
Shooting Guard at
Camp at Roxboro
Roxhoro, Nov. 25.—(AP)— Joe
Harris and Sam Day, Person
county Negroes .today were held
for (|uestioniiig regarding the
shooting last night of Butler Gen
try at the State Prison camp near
here.
Roxboro. Nov. 25.—(API —A wide
search was under way today for an
unidentified Negro who last night
shot Butler Gentry. 30-year-old con
vict camp employee, from ambush and
and robbed him of an undetrrmined
amount of money. '
The Negro accosted Gentry on a
road near the camp, seized his pocket
book and fled. Gentry, shot through
the chest with a shotgun, crawled to
the home of N. T. Brooks, superin
tendent. of the camp.
Physicians said Gentry had little
chance to recovery.
hotel inspector
KILLED ON STREET
Columbia. S. C.. Nov. 25—(AP) —
Ellison Capers, of Columbia. State
hotel inspector, was struck and killer 1
hy an automobile as he was crossing
the street here today.
5 Machado
Leaders In
f ul)a Slain
former Officers Tak
en b rom Soldiers by
Unidentified Men
And Shot
Matanzas. Cuba. Nov. 25.—(AP)—
..V forrner officers of the Cuban
rrn ' ' Vere massacred on a highway
idV ( '°* on foday by a group of un-
Jtifi-i men who forcibly removed
" officers fro mguards conveying
’!f'°m Matanzas to Santa Clara.
,r officers, who had served under
'o tnei President Gerardo Machado,
>viM conser iuently were in disfavor
’ ’ n,p present government of Presi
i,. amon Grau San Martin, were
"Mia escorted by a detachment of of
ficers.
~ V a point on the highway near
on the detachment was stopped by
id I .° men * none °f whom was
ont ified, armed with machine guns
an d rifles.
ilolding the oscorting soldiers at
va n t^ley to f° rmer officers six
’ ? f,om the road and killed them
outright in a field.
Htntiirramt iDaiUt lttSfiatrh
Assess $5,567.42
More Sales Taxes
Ruleigli, Nov. 25.—(AP)— The
sales tax division of the State De
partment of Revenue today an
nounced its first tentative assess
ment of additional sales taxes, noti
fying a “merchandising group” it
must pay $5,567.42 additional for
the first quarter.
Harry McMullan, sales tax super
' i *°r. and A. J. Maxwell, commis
sioner of revenue, announced the
tentative assessment.
Under the law levying the sales
tax, the name of the concern which
is a’leged to he delinquent cannot
be announced unless it becomes
necessary to file a suit.
Big Gains
In Exports
Announced
Rise of $34,000,000 Is
Shown for October
As Compared With
September
Washington, Nov. 25. (AP)
United States exports were shown to
day by Department of Commerce to
have gained $34,000,000 in October as
compared with September. Imports
increased $3,000 000. The excess of ex
ports over imports for the month was
$43,000,000. and for the ' ten months
ending October was $111,000,000.
Exports in October totalled $194.-
000,000 and imports were $151,000,000.
The October exports were 21 percent
over the September figure, 27 percent
above October, 1932, and the largest
total since October, 1931.
Imports were three percent over the
September figure and 43 percent
greater than in October, 1932,
The advance in export value has
maintained unchanged the rate of in
crease reported for September.
The increase in exports during the
past two months has occurred, while
the import movement was leveling off
after the rapid rise from May thro
ugh August.
WORK PROJECTS IN
STATE PASSED ON
Strenuous Effort Being
Made To Provide Work
Where Needed Most
Dally niipiie-h n—r»«-
In tiie Sir Walter Hotel.
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Raleigh, Nov. 25—Many civil works
load maintenance projects have al
ready been approved by Mrs. Thos.
O’Berry, civil works administrator,
without waiting for further • argu -
ment about the proportion of the
cost to be paid by the State and by
the CWfA. especially in counties
where the need for putting people to
work immediately 1 is greatest,, she
said today. An effort is being made
by both Mrs. O’Berry and Chairman
E. B. Jeffress, of the State High
way and Public Works Commission,
to Approve projects now that call
for a minimum outlay of materials
(Continued On Page Four.)
Norfolk Canal Workers
Protected By Officers
Richmond, Va , Nov. 25 (AP) —The
News Leader says it learns today
that employees of the Arundell Cor
poration, contractors on the Turkey
Island cut-off canal in James river,
are working under the protection of
the sheriff of Menrico county after
being driven off earlier in the week
by armed men.
When the crew first said sent on
the land to clear it in preparation for
making the canal cut, the paper says,
the men were ordered off at the point
of shotguns by men acting under in
structions of Thomas B. Gay, counsel
for the owners, who have combatted
only daily
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HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOO N, NOVEMBER 25,1933
SLAYER AND VICTIM IN MYSTERIOUS KILLING
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Dr. Alice L, Wynekoop
DICK REYNOLDS IS ’
WINNER IN ACTION
New York Referee Says That
State Without Jurisdic.,
tion In Suit
BROUGHT BY A DANCER
German Girl Had Asked Damages ot
$123,550 on Basis of False
C'hargtjes of Career Offer
ed Her In America
New York, Nov. 25.—(AP) —Referee
John R. Davies today decided that
Richard R. “Dick” Reynolds, heir to
the Reynolds tobacco fortunte, was
not subject to the jurisdiction of thig
state in the suit brought against him
and others by Johanna Risghke,
Czechoslovakian dancer, for. $123,550.
Reynolds was served in the suit in
accordance with an order of the Su
preme Court permitting service ; by
publication. He contended sucessfuily
that he was not a resident of this
State .and that the order of publia
tion should be set aside.
The dancer also named as defen
dant Gray Staples and Ned Weyburn,
dancing instructors. She charged the
defendants induced her to <r He an
engagement in Berlin to come „o this
country, where, she said, they pro
mised to get her engagements.
The sums the dancer asked for re
present the amount claimed to have
been lost by giving up her German en
gagements and the sums she anti
cipated from American appearances.
Orangeburg Man
Found Dead, Girl
Dying in a Car
Orangeburg, S. C-, Nov. 25 (AP)
—A verdict of murder and suicide
was given by a coroner’s jury here
today in the death Last night of
W. L. Jennings, 38-year-old fire
man and Miss May Mills, 20.
Orangeburg, S. C., Nov. 25.—JAP) —
W L. Jennings, 38-year-old World War
veteran, was found shot to death and
Miss May Mills, of Orangeburg, fatally
wounded in Jennings’ automobile on a
road near here last night.
Near the dead man’s hand was a
38-calibre pistol with three discharged
cartridges.
Jennings was shot through the
bead and Miss Mills in the chest. She
died as she was being brought to a
hospital here.
Discovery of the tragedy followed
receipt of a special delivery letter
from Jennings to G. H. Fisher, fire
chief, saying the World War veteran
intended to kill himself. Jennings had
been an Orangeburg city fireman for
nine years, an din his letter asked
that lie he buried in his firemen’s uni
for m
the condemnation of their river front
lands.
Major Gordon R. Young, district
engineer at Norfolk, secured an or
der from • Uudge Julius Dunn, of
Henrico county circuit court instruct
ing the sheriff to attend the land
clearance operations and see that no
violence was committed.
Fourteen property owners whose
holdings on the front are affected by
the canal digging operations, appeal
ed from the condemnation commis
sion award, and there is no indica
tion of an immediate decision in the
case,
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Rheta G. Wynekoop
Here is a new photograph of Mrs. Rheta G. Wynekoop, 23-year-old mu
sician, who was found slain under mysterious circumstances on the operat
ing table of the home office of her mother-in-law. Dr. Alice Lindsay Wyne
koop. Chicage woman physician. Dr. Wynekoop, shown above to the left has
confessed she shot Mrs. Wynekoop to death after giving her chloroform.
Camille Chautemps Will
Be New French Premier
President Leßrun Tenders Task to Statesman After
Lengthy Conferences and Will Be Fourth Man This
Year To Head a Government in the Republic
Paris, Nov. 25.—(AP) Camille
Chautemps today agreed to attempt
the organization of a new French cab
inet to succeed that of former Premier
Albert Sarraut, overthrown two days
ago.
The opportunity to organize the
new ministry, in which Chautemps
would serve as premier, was tendered
him by President Leßrun following a
series of consultations with political
leaders and after the refusal of the
same offer by Edouard Herriot, vet
eran statesman and former premier.
The offer to Herriot, it was under
DEPARTMENT CUTS
WIDELY APPROVED
Shaving of $21,136 Annual
ly In Conservation Work
Is Endorsed
Dally DfMjiati-h Rtttenn,
Ib the Sir Walter liyte*.
BY J, C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, Nov. 25. —The action taken
by the State Board of Conservation in
eliminating jobs and activities suf
ficient to reduce the operating ex
penses of the Department of Con
servation and Development by $21,136
a year js being generally commended
by the public and the sportsmen, al
though some of the politicians are!
shedding some tears over it. This ac
tion did not come as much of a sur
prise, however, since it was anticipat
ed that the board would have to
make heavy cuts in operation costs as
a yesult of the heavy slash made in
the appropriation for the department,
which was sliced from SBO,OOO a year
down to only $25,000 a year. Os this
saving of $21,136 a year resulting from
the curtailments made by the board,
$7,232 will be from salaries discon
tinued and the balance fro mthe cost
of materials and other operating costs
The abolition of the jobs held by
Charles H. England, State game war
den, and J. S. Hargett, commissioner
of inlar.d fisheries, had been expect
ed ever since the 1933 General As
sembly passed the bill ordering the
discontinuation of these two jobs and
their consolidation into a single post.
Both England and Hargett have been
getting $234.37 a month or $2,800 a
year, since their salaries were reduced
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wLArnM
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Cloudy tonight and Sunday;
probably slight rains Sunday and
on the coast late tonight; warmer
tonight; colder Sunday night.
! stood, was more or less a, gesture .as
- his friends previously bad said he
- was still unable, because of his recent
• illness, to undergo the strain of an
! other premiership at this time.
Chautemps becomes the fourth man
tliis year to head a government in
i France.
. The three previous cabinets were
. I overthrown on the question of finan
ces—because ot the lack of balance in
; the government’s budget and the flight
of gold from the French treasury.
| By his acceptance, Chautemps will
undertake to rescue the French franc.
NO JOBS YET FOR
CLERICAL FORCES
Unemployed Women And
White Collar Men Are
Still Out of Luck
Dally D'pjjiateh Bafciid
1« (he Sir Walter Hotel,
BY J. C. BASKERVILL-
Raleigh, Nov. 25 —The unemployed
women in the State who really need
work, of whom there are at least 10,-
000, as well as the “white collar” male
office workers .are apparently "out of
luck” when it comes to getting on the
Civil Works Administration reemploy
ment drive For. after preliminary
Pi ens were under way to develop civil
works projects for unemployed wo
men. word came from Washington
yesterday that no civil works funds
could be used to pay women workers
except in the administration of the
civil works program, and that if any
work projects for women are develop
ed, they would have to be paid from
relief administration funds and at the
basic rate of 30 cents to 40 cents an
hour instead of from 45 cents to sl.lO.
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ROOSEVEL T IS
SILENT ABOUT
SMITH A TTA CK
Pineville Blast
Is Near Serious
Pineville, Ky. Nov. 25 (AP)
Lawrence Dwyer, international
representative of the United Mine
Workers of America, was injured
not seriously, and five children
hurled from their beds, and con
siderable property damage was
caused by a dynamite explosion
here today.
WYNEKOOP ALSO IS
10 FACE CHARGES
IN WIFE'S MURDER
His Mother Is Already Held
for Killing Girl Follow
ing Her Own
Confession
YOUNG WIDOWER IS
AGAIN QUESTIONED
His Mother, a Chicago Phy
sician, Placed in Jail To
Await Habeas Corpus Pro
ceedings Next Friday;
Earle Is Locked Up Until
Next Monday
Chicago; Nov. 25.—(AP)— Earle
Wynekoop will be booked on a charge
of murder in the death of his wife.
Rheta, late today, Prosecutor Charles
Daughtry announced after another
round of questioning of the young
widower.
Hailed into criminal court after a
night of fitful sleep, Dr. Alice Wyne
koop was remanded to the custody ol
the sheriff to await possible grand
jury action for the murder of her
daughter-in-law.
A habeas corpus hearing was de
ferred until next Friday, and Dr.
Alice, throwing a kiss that her son,
Earle, failed to notice, was led away
to a county jail cell.
Earle, too, was locked up until
Monday.
Dr. Alice faltered and all but col
lapsed as she reached the threshold
of the jail, but attendants quickly took
her ar m.and she regained composure.
URGE LEGISLATION
TO ASSIST CITIES
State Treasurer Would Per
mit Municipalities To
Start Over Anew
Dally nt»f»atoh Borm*
In the Sit Walter Hotel,
et J- c tumniiviu.
Raleigh, Nov. 25—Enactment of a
national law which, in effect, will
permit cities and towns so wegihted
down by debt that they cannot pay
out, to go into receivership and pay
what they can, is advocated by State
Treasurer Charles IM. Johnson in a
letter to Senator Josiah W. Bailey,
(Senator Robert R. Reynolds and all
the members of the North Carolina
delegation in Congress. He specifi
cally urges them to support the Wil
cox municipal debt refinancing bill,
already before Congress, when it re
convenes in December. He points
out that virtually all 4he other stats
(Continued On Page Four.)
Says Huey Long’s Group
Kept Financial Records
New Orleans, La., Nov. 25. —(AP) —
Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley head of
the Choctaw club, city politffcal or
ganization affiliated with the Huey P.
Long political machine, today appear
ed before the Senate committee in
vestigating the election of Senator
John H. Overton, Democrat, Louisiana
and said he wished to correct the im
pression that his organization kept no
financial records of its activities dur
ing the period of the Overton cam
paign.”
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FIVE CENTS COP
Quick Retort Comes From
Field Marshals on For
mer Candidate’s
Statement
RECOVERY CHIEFS
AT WARM SPRINGS
Morgenthau, Johnson, Bui*
litt and Others Confer With
President on Recovery and
Monetary Programs Ad
ministration Is Trying To
Put Through
Warm Springs, Ga.. Nov. 25.—(AP)
—President Roosevelt checked up to
day on his recovery and monetary pro
grams witli his chief lieutenants.
Henry Morgenthau, Jr., the acting
secretary of the Treasury; General
Hugh S. Johnson, the industrial ad
ministrator; William G. Bullitt, the
new ambassador to Russia, and oth
ers of the government were here to
talk with the chief executive.
Outside attacks on the administra
tion policies brought a quick reply
from the field marshals, but Presi
dent Roosevelt laughed and proceeded
on his way. The severe attack of Al
fred E. Smith on the commodity dol
lar plan failed to provoke a presiden
tial response.
The President spoke over the air
last night at the dedication of the
new Georgia hall at the Warm Springs
Foundation, but his words were con
fined solely to thanks and hope for
taking care of the children and grown
ups who are fighting back from the
attack of infantile paraysis—and
many of them are here.
In a roadside interview with news
papermen, Mr. Roosevelt made It
clear last night that he was going
along on his dollar devaluation plan.
As for a reply to critics, he had noth
ing to say.
SLAYERS OF NEGRO
FACE TWO CHARGES
Masked Mob at Greenville, 3. C.,
Might be Charged with M'irder If
Apprehended
Greenville, S. C., Nov, 25. —(AP)—
Solicitor J. G. Leatherwood today said
every member of the masked mob
which shot George Green, 73-year-old
Negro, to death could be held on two
charges, if identified.
One charge would be murder, car
rying a possible death penalty and thfc
other is violation of Section 1131,
Volume I. of the criminal statutes,
which makes it an offense to assault
or attempt to assault while wearing a
mask. The latter charge carries a
penalty of from one to ten years im
prisonment upon conviction .
Press To
Dine N. C.
Governor
Raleigh, Nov. 25 (AP)—The annual
governor’s dinner of the North Caro
lina Press Association, will be held
at State College here December 8,
John A. Park, chairman of the pro
gram committee, announced today.
The theme of the event will be the
development of the reconstruction
and conservation ideas of President
Roosevelt and Governor Ehringhaus,
Park said.
North Carolina-raised foods will
constitute the menu.
Walmsley, who testified last Thurs
day that his organization operated
“something like Tammany,” told the
committee today he had testified on
that occasion that his group “did keep
records.” He brought a stack of books
in as contradiction to the testimony
yesterday by Joseph Katz, secretary
treasurer of the Choctaw club that fi
nancial records were “reularly torn up
or burned up” after being submitted
to the club governors.