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"HENDERSON GATEWAY to CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTIETH YEAIi HOUSE speaker in favor Eight School Children Are Killed In Florida Grade Crossing Crash 18 Others Hurt, Many Critically, At Crescent City Several of Injured Expected To Die in Hospitals, Where T hey Are Be ing Treated BODIES STREWN FOR DISTANCE 100 YARDS Driver of Bus Among Those Critically Injured; Wildest Confusion Prevails as Cries of Parents Mingle With Screams of the Children Crenci'ii* City. Fla., Dec. 14. (AP) Seven eiemenlary school children were killed, another was reported to have died en route to a hospital, and a; lea t IS others were injured, many critically, when a freight train crashed into a school bus six miles south of | here this morning. There was a probability several of the injur'd would die. Stwn ambulances from Orlando, y.’ind, I'alatka and Crescent City ed to the scene, hurriedly loaded , rushed away to hospitals. .Host of th<' injured were taken to Palatka. The tragedy occurred at Silver Pond Giove crossing, six miles south of here, just after the bus picked up the last of the children on its route. There was wildest confusion, with cries of parents mingled with screams of the injured children. Bodies and parts of bodies were strewn along t he railroad, right of way for 100 yards. The driver of the bus, J. R. Niles, was among the critcally injured. 1. S. Gold Price Again Unchanged For Another Day 'Vn hington, Dec. 14. (AP) —The R. I C. pi icc for newly-mined domestic gold was unchanged today at $34.01 an ounce. London’s bar gold prices was $31.70 today on the basis of sterling open ing at $5.01 1-2 to the pound. II EXPECTED TO EXCEED ITS QUOTA 100,000 May be Given Some of It, However, for Short Periods iiniir l)t«f>«••<-» In Ur Mli Wnlter av J <• BASKVtnvil l Pal'igh. Dec. 14.--Wliile the total 'luota of unemployed to be put. to work Civil Work projects in North Caro lina iti now 83,000 persons, this does not mean that this number Is all that v 'll be put to work in the State as a i“suit of CWA program. For it is re -"ned as inevitable by CWA officials Ini* that there will be a gradual turn “'•t among the >3.000 workers into nUui 0 f work, with the result Li-t hi least 100,0th) or even niore l>o iM eventually find employment ’nrougli the CWA It is also regard •"l b certain that quite a number will ,:r "P out along the wayside because f "ey do noi want to work. An effort will be made, of course, h ’ provide as continuous employment ’ possible for the first 83,000 men f| nd women selected for the CWA v, "k projects. Mrs. Thomas O'Berry, ‘Continued on Page Three.) Paraguay Victory Over Bolivian Troops Grows AircH, Argentine, Dec. 14. — The Paraguayan army was re* J'oitcfl today in dispatches from Asun 'ion, Paraguay ,to have taken Port />aavedra »nd swept on westward to "imbard Fort Munoz- • '.wo of Bolivia’s rt'OKt important strongholds in the Boreal. Paraguay r eported Fort Munoz to be 1,1 flames •he capture of Fo't Saavedra was Hettiicrsrm ™t S S» T^HV.C|s?F Mail Plot Found After Descending Savannah. On.. Dec. Il.—(,\|')__ Charley Meyers, missing air mail pilot, reported to the local office of I',astern Air Transport today that he ran out of gasoline and was down in a swamp at Harris’ Neck, about 20 miles south of Savannah. Meyers fold officials here lie was on his way to Savannah by automobile. They said he did not describe the damage to his plane, if any. Local Id. A. T. officials said Mey ers told them lie was seeking to make his way to Jacksonville, Fla., after being blocked by fog last night while winging his way north ward with the New York air mail. J. B. CARR SLATED FOR ATTORNEY IN EASTERN DISTRICT Said To Have Persuad ed by Bailey To Take Of fice He Held Under Woodrow Wilson KILLS TWO BIRDS WITH SINGLE STONE Gets Carr Out of the Way for Committeeman, Easing The Way for Bailey’s “Man Friday” Shuping; Two Other Bailey Prospects Failed of Endorsement Dally I)lN|»u>i‘b B»rcn». In ike Sir Walter Hotel. MV J C H&MKEUVIL.I, Raleigh, Dec. 14—J. O. Carr, of Wilmington, is now regarded as being the final choice of Senator Josiah W. Bailey for district attorney in the eastern district, and it is expected that the announcement of his ap pointment and acceptance will be made any day now. It is reliably re ported in political circles here that within the last few days Senator Bailey has conferred with Mr. Carr and has persuaded him to accept the appointment, which he wits at first lather hesitant to accept. For Mr. Carr has a large and presumably lu crative law practice of his own in Wilmington, part of which he will un doubtedly base to relinquish if he ac cepts the appointment as district at torney. If Carr accepts this appointment, he is expected to, it will be regarded as something of a diplomatic victory for Senator Bailey, who, according to a good many observers here, was get ting rather deeply into political hot water over this appointment. At first it was expected that Senator Bailey would appoint Harold Cooley, of Nashville, as district attorney, both out of consideration for Cooley per sonally and what he had done for the Democratic party, and as recog nition to the Young Democratic or (Continued On Page Four.) am ounced by the la raguayan minis try of defense on a communique is sued from Asuncion. The communique said Saaverda was captured after the Bolivian garrison had set fire to its barracks. Saaverda and Munoz are regarded by the Paraguayans as the most im portant Bolivian bases in the hotly contested area over which the two countries have been warring for half a century. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER New Deal Takes Sting Out of Their Winter Happy Scene at “Camp Tera” C.C.C. Workers at Peekskill, N. Y. Hli Tu ny . of , tf V csc b °y. s » nd . girls faced a hopeless Winter, jobless and destitute. Now, thanks to the New Deal, they look forward to the cold months ahead without fear. The Civilian Conservation Corn- is S ln W,nte , r qU , arte V S ’ uell d ° thed ’ well and the camp at Bear Mountain sponsored by llrs. Roosevelt for unemployed gir.s, resembles an American edition of St. Moritz as the girls forget their caies in an old-fashioned snowball fight (Central Press) Undertaker Os Wil son | Car Victim J. J. Anderson Killed In Weld o n and Nurse With Him Is Badly H urt Weldon, Dec. 14, —(AP)—J, J. An derson, Wilson undertaker, was killed almost instantly here this morning when the car he was driving crashed into the curbing and turned over. He suffered a crushed head. Miss Encie Gray Banks, a nurse, the only other occupant of the car, was taken to a hospital in Roanoke Rapids. Local physicians who ex amined her declared she was suffer ing from a broken jawbone, but the full extent of the injuries was not known here. At Wilson it had been reported she was in a critical condi-1 tion. Chief of Police J. F. Robinson quot ed the only witness to the accident as saying the car was running about 40 miles an hour on a wide straight street in the city limits when it sud denly turned to the side and crashed into the curbing and utrned over. The undertaker and nurse were on their way to Richmond to return a patient to Wilson. M‘MULLANANSWERS SALES TAX CRITICS Ten Percent Collection On Ten-Cent Sales Explain, ed by Director Daily fliircn*. In (ke sir VVniipr Hotel. Hf J C BASKKHVTIX. Raleigh. Pec. 14—In replying to criticism of the sales tax schedule which permits the imposition of a tax of one cent on purchases of 10 cents, which is a tax of 10 per cent rather than three per cent, Director Harry McMullan, of the Sales Tax Division of the Department of Revenue, point ed out that the 1933 General Assembly (CouUnuad ' t Page Five.) PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. 1 HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 14, 1933 HSHQERSQN* ** ** Bath) tits watch Hospital inmate Escapes, But is Later Captured Dainem*ra, N. Y.. Dec. 14. —(AP) — Wesley Alger, 43, who escaped from Damemora State Hospital, wounding a. pursurer last night, was captured to day in a woodshed at Beekmantown, 12 miles from the hospital. Hospital authorities said he had a i shotgun when State Police tracked him down, but that he did not at-! tempt to use it. Clothed in the regulation hospital j garb of gray trousers, blue undercoat i and sheepskin overcoat, Alger was j missed at the noon check-in at the j hospital yesterday. Attendants imme- I dlately began a search, which proved futile after two hours, and aid of State troops were requested. AUGUSTA COUNCIL STICKS TO LIQUOR Augusta, Ga., Dec. 14.— (AP)- Augusta City Council today refus- I ed to reconsider licensing of li J quor and received a petition from ! a mass meeting here Sunday re questing reconsideration as “infor - mation,” TWO APPOINTMENTS MADE BY REYNOLDS Washington, Dec. 14.—(AP)—Sena tor Reynolds' office announced today that Everett Daniel, of Shelby, has been appointed director of the census for Western North Carolina, and that Young Smith of Asheville, has been appointed an attorney in the claims division of the Justice Department. Girl Dies In Flames; 5 Injured Pittsfield, Mass., Dec. 14.—(AP) The burned body of Miss Mary Burns, 20-year-old Troy, N. Y., girl was found today in the ruins of the fire that swept the Star Realty Company block early today. Miss Burns who was to have been married today at Steventown, N. Y. had been visiting the parents of her fiance. Nelson LaFountaine, who was taken from the building by firemen in an unconscious condition. Seven persons, occupants of top floor apartments, were carried to safety over ladders. Four of them were taken to a hospital suffering from smoke inhalation. OF FREE SILVER Burley Men Asking For A Holiday "Tennessee Governor Ready To Act If Kentucky Will, But Latter Won’t Nashville, Term., Dec. 14. CAP) — Expressions of “great dissatisfaction” among Tennessee growers over bur >ey tobacco prices caused Governor Hill McAlister to declare himself will ing today to proclaim a holiday for sales floors, provided' Kentucky will do the same Governor Laf'foon, of Kentucky, was quoted by the Tennessee executive, however, as saying over long distance telephone that Kentucky prices were satisfactory, and no request to close markets had reached him, NO IDEA OF CLOSING NOW, KENTUCR GOVERNOR SAYS Lexington, Ky., Doc. 14!.—(AP)— Dissatisfaction with prices offered was growing throughout the hurley belt today and some farmers turned toward Governor Ruby Laffoon in hopes he would take action to close tobacco markets throughout the state. The governor, after Glasgow farm ers had telegraphed him a plea to close the market and producers in other cities contemplated the same action, said he had no intention of closing the markets at this time. filf PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Rainey Predicts House Will Pass Roosevelt Plans Fourth of Tobacco Men in State Sign Raleigh, Deo. 14.—(AP)—Some filing like one-fourth of North Car olina’s 30,000 fluecured tobacco growers have signed acreage re duction contracts with the Federal AAA, early reports to F. Y. Floyd, Shite director of the tobacco re duction campaign, showed today. The contracts cover some 150,000 acres of land, which produced close to 125,000,000 pounds of tobacco this year. , Renta’ payments for the farmers who have signed the agreement will run to $790,000, Floyd figures, and he estimated that total rental pay ments for all lands which he pre diets will be contracted for retire ment from tobacco, will be $3,100, 000. COTTON CONSUMED DURING NOVEIIR SNOWS A DECLINE Imports for Month Are Much Higher, However, Than October or Novem ber Last Year EXPORtTaRE OFF FROM LAST TOTAL Less Tha n Either Compara tive Month; Active Spind les Fewer and Consump tion and Active Spindles Are Less in the Cotton Growing States Washington. Dec. 14. —(AP) —Cotton consumed during November was re ported by the Census Bureau to have totalled 475,368 bales of lint, and 59,- 13.1 bales of linters, compared with 503.873 and 66,838 in October this year and 502,434 and 56,963 in November last year. November imports totalled 13.136 bales, compared with 12,121 bales in October this year, and 8,973 bales in November last year. November exports totalled 915,304 bales of lint and 17,908 bales of lin ters, compared with 1,046,524 and 6,- 723 for October this year, and 1,012,- 411 and 7,057 for November last year. Cotton spindles active during No vember numbered 25,423,348, compar ed with 25,875,142 in October this year and 24.368.478 in November last year. Cotton consumed in cotton growing states in November totalled 379,272 bales, compared with 405,157 in Oc tober this year, and 420,263 in No vember last year. Cotton spindles active in cotton growing states during November num bered 17,418.032, compared with 17,- 614,071 during October this year, and 17.018,672 during November last year. Lindberghs Are Safe In Porto Rico On Way Homs San Juan, Potato Rico, Dec. 14. (AP) —Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh arrived here in their big red monoplane after flying the 753 miles from Port of Spain, Trinidad, at 1:35 p. m. today. The Lindberghs had covered the distance in five hours, 30 minutes. Now only 1,180 miles lies between them and Miami, the northern ter minus of the Pan-American Airways route, which they followed today from Trinidad. In San Juan, the flying couple were to be guests of Acting Govern Ben jamin J. Horton and Mrs. Horton. In a message sent previous to their arrival, the Lindberghs accepted the Horton invitation to stay at the acu ing governor’s mansion. 8 PAGES I TODAY| FIVE CENTS COPY “Will Go Through Like It Was Greased,” Presid ing Officer Says At Press Conference ADMINISTRATION MUST TAKE LEAD Rainey Says He Does Not Know How President Foeb on Silver, But Whatever He Wants Will Be Given Him at. Next Session Ol Congress Washington, Dec. 14. (AP) Speak er Rainey at a press conference today declared himself for free coinage of silver, and said that if President Roosevelt, proposed such a step at the coming session it would “go through the House like it was greased.’’ “1 think the House would favor free coinage of silver, but th<> .'idniinistrn tion would have to take (lie initiative" said the House leader. Rainey said he did not know bow the President felt on the silver ques tion. He said, however, that lie felt whatever the administration money policy was it would be upheld by Congress. Rainey said the white metal had been used as money “from the time Abraham bought a cave for 400 shekels of silver,” and from that time until a few years ago “silver has been a recognized standard of exchange in the world. ” Rainey proposed re-omnetization of silver at a ratio of about 20 to 1 with gold. ALIBI CLAIMED IN MOUNTAIN KILLING Clarence Potter Denies Slay, ing of Southern Pacific Official Waynesville, Dec. 14.—(AP) — The defense sought today to prove an alibi for Clarence Potter, 28, one of the three men on trial for the slaying of Thomas Price, 62-year-old former sec retary of the Union Pacific railway. From the witness stand Potter flat ly denied that ho had any connection with the shooting of the elderly phil anthropist on a mountain trail near here on September 24. “Did anybody tell you Mr. Price was to be there riding on the moun tains that day?’’ asked Solicitor John Green, on cross-examination. “No.” Potter replied. W. E. Potter, 62, father of Clarence took the stand and corroborated his son’s testimony in every detail. He said he and Clarence first learned of the shooting at the home of Dock Woods, and added that he and Price “were good friends and never hud any trouble.” W l A Tttiß FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight; Friday cloudy, not so cold, probably fol lowed by rain in afternoon. LEAVE TRINIDAD ISLAND EARLY IN THE MORNING Port of Spain, Trinidad, Dec. Dec. 14.—(AP)—Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, off in another jump in their flight homeward, hopped from this capitol early today. They pointed their (big red and black hydroairplane toward Porto Rico, 753 miles away. From there the Lindberghs’ indi cated route home lay «y way of Miami, Fla., It is 1,180 miles from San Juan, Porto Rico, to Miami. The famous American flying couple arrived here Tuesday afternoon, com pleting an 1,100-mile flight over Brazi lian jungles and swamp lands from Manaos, Brazil. While here, they were guests of Governor Sir A. Claude Hollis.
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