'HENDERSON gateway to CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTIETH YEAR 11. S. OFFERING Five-Point Peace Program With Franee To Be Proposed By Hitler, Paris Has Heard ARMY OF 300,000 CONSCRIPTS WOULD BE GIVEN GERMANY Reich Would Also Be Allow, ed To Possess Airplanes and Tanks as De. sense Weapons DISARMAMENT ALSO OF MAJOR POWERS i World Prohibition of Gas and Bombing Planes And Return of Saar Basin To Germany Proposed; France Utterly Opposed to Most n/the Plan Paii' Dec. V- (AD)—Rumors Cliancelloi Hitler of Germany has pre pared a five-point program for per manent ppace with France were given something of an air of authenticity to day by a French foreign office refusal to deny or confirm them. The alleged Hitler program was re puted to be as follows: 1. Allowance of a conscript army of 3(i0,000 to Germany. 2. The right to Germany to possess defensive weapons such as airplanes and tanks. 3. The international prohibition of the use of gas and bombing planes. 4. Disarmament of the heavily arm ed powers. 5. The return of the Saar basin to Germany, without a plebiscite.. French officials insisted there had been no discussions whatsoever with Hitler since his talk with Andre Fran cois-Poncet. French ambassador to Germany. It was said the French are flatly opposed to surrendering their interests in the Saar, granted them by the Treaty of Versailles at the end of the World War, without a plebiscite and were equally opposed to the sug gestion that Germany re-arm. TARBORO MAN HELD IN COUNTERFEITING Tarboro, Dec. 7.— (AP) — Bill Laughtridge was held today on a charge of passing counterfeit money. Daughtridge was arrested here last night by Deputy Sheriff •I. M. Traylor and taken to Rocky Mount for a preliminary hearing. 3,071 Given jobs In N. C. On Roads Working on Projects Estimated To Cost Near Two Million, Dollars Washington, Dec. 7. (AP) — The Bureau oi Public Roads reported to day 3,071 men had been given work f >n North Carolina public works highways through December 2. These men are working on 55 con- Pact projects for which the Public Works Administration has allotted D 411,000. The estimated total cost of th « Projects is $1,935,000. A total of 95 projects, including 'hose to be built by day labor have h*en advertised for contract and al lotted a total of $2,713,000. This is 2ft.5 per cent of North Carolina’s total allotment. The estimated total cost of these projects is $3,683,000. Contracts have been awarded for ‘h projects, but work has not yet Darted on all of these. Their estimat ed °ost is $2,770,000, of which $2,144,- will be paid by the Public Works Administration. This is 22.5 percent of the State’s total allotment. ■''lx public works projects costing •MIB.OOO have been completed. The Public works paid $68,000 of the cost of these projects. HrmrU'rsmt LEASED WIRE SERVICE the associated press. READY FOR DASH TO SOUTH POLL N. voe> ::-:3 m ■'< w M ■ * Balchen Ellsworth Preparing for the final dash to the South Pole, members of the Lincoln Ellsworth transantarctic expedition are pictured on the deck of the expedition’s motor ship, Wyatt Earp, at Dunedin, New Zealand, where the ship stopped for refueling and restow ing of cargo. In the front row, left to right, are Bern’ Balchen ANOTHER HIGHWAY LETTING ON DEC. 19 Bids To Be Opened on New Lists of Road Build ing Projects llflily ()in|»M Department of Justice Policy Announced by Tbe At torney General PROSECUTE HABITUALS Decrease In Prison Population At tributed to More Liberal Treat ment of Prohibition Law Violations Washington. Dec. 7. —(AP)—At- torney General Cummings said today that, the Department of Justice’s gen eral attitude toward prohibition law violators ‘‘of previously good char acter” would be extremely lenient, but he promised vigorous prosecution of the habitual criminal type. He estimated that of 2,219 Federal criminal cases pending, 500 were pro hibition cases, ana said that 3,764 Fed eral prohibition offenders were in jail out of a total prison population of 16 016.557. The prison population was described by Cummings as 6,809 below the fig ure for a year ago. Hhe attributed the decrease to a more liberal treatment of prohibition cases, because repeal was in sight. Cummings estimated that within the next year there may be as many as 10,000 cases of liquor revenue laws. “Pending liquor cases,” Cummings told newspapermen, ‘‘fall into two classes, those in which offenders are in jail waiting trial and those in which the yare out on bond TO TRANSFER PEEK TO DUTIES IN NRA Washington. Dec. 7.—(AP)— Transfer of George N. Peck, now agricultural administrator, to the National Recovery Administration to take over the agriculture code newly placed there appeared today as likely to be decided upon by President Roosevelt as a solution of disagreements in the Agricul ture Department that have de layed action on these important codes. • patrolmen and five other inspectors challenegd 16 men who had waded the river with 150 gallons of liquor. When the smugglers reached the American side ,the officers leaped out of hiding with drawn guns. A blaze of gun fire met their commands to sur render. Dome C. Melton, 31, U. S. border patrolmen, fell at the first volley. The other inspectors returned the fire as the smugglers dropped their loads and backed into the river as they retreat ed. The firing lasted from three to five hours. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. FOR SALE DISPELS ALL TALK OF PAPER MONEY IN MEETING PAYMENTS Reveals Nazi Threats : / ®IIIB ■nt - ■ \ • 4 Emiia Gauvreau Emile Gauvreau, managing editoi of a New York newspaper, i? snapped in Washington before the house committee which is con ducting a probe of reported Nazi activities In the United States. Gauvreau charged that agents of Chancellor Hitler of Germany are employing threats of violence and death to intimidate German- Americans into co-operating with the Nazi government. RUM BOAT SEIZES " COAST GUARDSMEN Alleged Liquor Runners Make Getaway on Being Towed Into Pork Glace Bay, N. S., Dec. 7.—(API- Four Canadian coast guardsmen were captured today by the crew of a sus pected rum running craft who turned on the guardsmen as they were being towed into port and escaped with their seized vessel. The escape was effected after the coast guard cutter Stumble Inn had seized the ship Kilmut, seven miles off Flint Island, early today. Captain E. L. Croft, assigned four seaman to the Kilmut and began to tow it into North Sydney, along with the reputed rum runners. Striking quickly, the Kilmit crew overpowered their guards, cut lose their ship and raced out of the range of the coast guard’s guns. An extensive search for the seized ship was started immediately off the Cape Breton coast. It was assumed the four guardsmen were still prisoners. 12 Banks Not Under Insurance Raleigh, Dec. 7.—(AP) —Guerney P. Hood, State bank commissioner, said today one more bank in North Caro lina has applied for membership in the Federal Deposit Insurance Cor poration, leaving only 12 banks in the State which have not signified in tention of coming under the insurance law. Mr. Hood said he still hoped the four commercial and eight industrial banks which have not applied for the insurance would join the other banks of the State by January 1. On January 1 the Deposit Insurance Corporation will release a list of all banks qualified under it. 8 PAGES I TODAY! FIVE CENTS COPY First Big Financial Opera tion Since Government Began Its Gold Buy ing Program MATURING DEBTS TO TAKE MOST OF FUND Half Goes For That Purpose, With $114,000,000 for In terest Payments on Public Debt; Total Debt Now At Huge Sum of $23,500, 000,000 Washington, Dec. 7.—(AP)—Routine methods for raising a billion dollar were chosen by the Treasury today its first big financial operation . .. . gold buying began. Dispelling by its action all talk that greenbacks might be used to meet December maturities, the Treasury of fered the money market 2 1-4 percent for funds to meet immediate needs. Books were opened for subscriptions of $950,000,000,000 of one-year Treasury certificates, dated December 15, and paying the 2 1-4 percent rate. The money will be used to retire $728,000,- 000 of obligations maturing on the same date—5473,328,000 of 4 1-4 per cent certificates, and $254,364,000 of bills bearing 3-4 of one percent. Another portion, $114,000,000 .will go to interest payments on the public debt. The remainder of more than $100,000,000 will be added to the Trea* sury's cash balance, which stands now above $1,000,000,000. By exceeding December maturities by $222,000,000, debt financing will push the public debt much higher. Its stands now at more than $23,500,000, after reaching a low of just above $16,000,000,000 from the war debt peak of $26,586,000,000 in 1919. Government Again Holds Gold Price At $34.01 Figure Washington, Dec. 7. —(AP) — The government’s gold price today remain ed at $34.01 an ounce for the sixth consecutive day. Today’s R. F. C. quotation for new jy-mined domestic metal compared with London’s bar gold price of $32.22 an ounce on the basis of sterling open ing at $5.11 1-2 to the pound. The government gold price has re mained unchanged since the Thanks giving holiday. The $34.01 quotation is the highest level yet made. Lindberghs Honored By Brazilians Little Town of Natal Hardly Knows How To Pay Tribute To Fliers Natal, Brazil, Dec. 7—(AP)— Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh to day tuned up the motor of tF monoplane in which and W- Lindbergh flew from Africa terday, and it was believed he preparing to start a retturn flight to the United States byway ol Para (Belem) tomorrow. Natal. P.azil. D"e ' -(AT'-Nats accustomed as it is to feting fliers, ad mittedly had a problem on its hands today in the matter of honoring—or trying to honor —Colonel and Mrs, Charles A. Lindbergh. The smiling tac'tuvniry with which the Americans responded to cheers from throngs that hailed them on their arrival yesterday from Bathurst, Gambia, Africa, continued to mask their plans and movements. The usual rumors flew the rounds —flights into the interior, hops along the coast, and even a grand tour skirting the continent. But there was neither “yes” nor “no” from the fly ing couple officially. So, Natal had to be content with occasional glimpses of “Lindy” and “Anne” going to and from the Bri tish consulate —there is no United States consul here —and of speculat ing, apparently groundless, upon their future movements.