’HENDERSON GATEWAY to CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTIETH YEAR 15 DIE BY VIOLENCE IN CAROLINAS OVER WEEK-END I Six Killed, 13 Wounded In Latest Outbreak In Strife-Torn Havana 100 SPANIARDS IN Cliy ARRESTED AS TRODBLE SUBSIDES Shooting Breaks Out In Con. nection With Sacking and Burning of News paper Office occasional"shots HEARD ALL NIGHT Moh Comprised Largely of Negroes Fires Spanish Newspaper Plant; Most Casualties Result from In. discriminate Shooting Near Paper’s Office Ilavutwt. I>ec. 1H (AP) —Havana coui'O’il ix dead and 13 wounded to- H:n in tin’ capital's latest bloodshed and disordeis. \loip than 100 Spaniards were poinded up and taken to old Cabana fortress during the night, charged with having participated in the out hrea I<. While soldiers massed to prevent w violence, preparations were made Ip receive Jeffei son Caffery, Presi dent Ron .evelt’s representative, who will pick up where former Ambassa iloi Sumnet Welles left off in efforts i Ktin - ;i settlement of Cuba's po!i (leal -ilnfe. Sh'yjdni: broke out yesterday aft nnr">'' wtfli the sacking and burning of Hi*' offices of the newspaper 'EI pari- tiring spread. Soldier did not succeed In restor ing n •cniblaiice of order until early night fall Throughout the night oc casional shots were heard. A mob comprised largely of Nc groes fired El 'Paris’ offices because they considered the Spanish news paper unfriendly to the government. Most of those killed and wounded ' vr o' struck by bullets fired in in •Ji'Ci iminate shooting in and around s he F,l ('mis building after soldiers at Fiapt'd to prevent tlie mob from en j feting. Only one large daily remained, with fhr, damaging of the El Paris building. This is El Diario, publish ed under threats from both govern ment and opposition forces. CWA WOMEN’S JOBS ARE GIVEN APPROVAL Kaleigh, Dec. 18.—(AP) —Mrs. flu,man O'Berry, State civil works administrator, today announced approval of Vi projects to put 60 unemployed women at work on payrolls of $7,549.20, and or 4-* other projects to give jobs to 1,293 persons on payrolls of $139,924.80. murder charge at MORGANTON TRIED I Morganton. Dec. 18.—(AP3—Dwight Heard, banished for hog stealing from North Carolina, to which he was re turn'd from St. Paul, where police said he h id become a society bandit, wnt on trial in superior court here today on a charge of murder. Hi tler Aim Is Opposed By France War Conncil In Paris Will Not Agree to Ke-Arming of Ger many, It Decides Paris, Dec. 18 (AP)—The war chieftains of France, in a secret session attended by General Wey •an dand former Premier Edouard Daladler, today decided they were flatly opposed to a re-arm ament of Germany. Tlie army leaders met as the su peior war council, carefully sur veyed the reiterated demands of Chancellor Hitler of Germany for increased armaments for his na tion, decided adversely against his dmeands, and prepared to pass on their recommendations to the government. liimiicrsmt D Cuba s Move To Outlaw Intervention Brings On Hot Debate At Meeting Tackles lax Riddle W tMB ■ in Henry Morgenthau, Jr. Declaring himself opposed to any “soak the rich” policy, hut urging a lower Federal tax on earned in comes than on income from invest ment, Acting Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., is shown as he made his suggestions before the House Ways and Moans Committee. f Central Presa J RFC MAY PAY OFF SMALL DEPOSITORS More Than 700,000 Credi tors of Two Detroit Banks Would Benefit Washington, Dec. 18.— (AP) The Reconstruction Corporation, at a special board session yester day, approved a loan of lip to $5.- 000.000 to the Guardian National Bank of Commerce, Detroit, Mich., to enable the liquidators to pay 103' (MM) small depositors 100 percent of their remaining de posits. Announcing the Guardian Na tional loan, Jesse If. Jones, chair man of the corporation said a si milar plan is being worked out for the First National Bunk of Detrit by which 609,000 depositors, witli less than SSOO each on deposit, would get al lo ftheir money. The Guardian National payment will he to depositors with less than SIOO on deposit. Tar Heels Don’t Know How Well Off They Really Are Maxwell Brings from Kentucky Sad Story of Chaotic Condition of State Government; Teachers Poorly Paid and Some Schools Closed for Lack of Money null? *>l»|»a(«'h Wareaa, In Oir sir WoUer Hotel, nr j c BASKunviMi. Raleigh, Dec. 18.—Most of the peo ple in North Carolina do not realize how much better off they are than those in some other states and do not appreciate what the State government is doing for them along many dif ferent lines. Commissioner of Revenue A. J. Maxwell said today. This applies particularly to the school system in North Carolina as compared with some other states, he said. “Having just returned from a leg islative conference in Kentucky, where I learned something of the school sit uation there, I am more than ever im pressed with the North Carolina school plan, which is providing an adequate eight months school in every community in the State paying the teachers promptly and in full in cash each month and doing this without ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED L Tm: E ?.*! RE service of •IF Ar,oJCIA’IED press. HENDERSON, N. C. MONDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 18, 1933 Foreign Minister of Brazil Accused of Effort To Block Consideration of Plan OUSTER THREAT IS FREELY INTIMATED | Will Be Discussed Fully At Tuesday Session of Pan- American Conference In Montevideo; United States Had Nothing To Do With Shelving Plan Montevideo, Uruguay, Dec. # 18. — (AP) The Cuban delegation to the Pan-American Conference today charg ed Afranio Mello Franco foreign min ister of Brazil, and chairman of the I international law committee of the 1 conference, with varying the agenda of the. conference in order to thwart, j discussion of a Cuban proposal to out law intervention in American nations. The Cuban charge was backed up (Continued On Page Four.) Tennessee Lynching Is Probed Nashville, reun., Dec. 18.—(AP) —Shortly after a special lynching charge was delivered to the David sou county grand jury. Governor llill McAllister decided today to offer a $1,060 reward for the ap prehension of the perpetrators of tlie kid nap-lynching of a Negro last week. ’""jNasTTviTle, Tenn., Dec. 18.—(AP) — Ordering that other matters be laid aside, criminal Judge Chester K. Hart today instructed the Davidson county grand jury to take immediate steps to bring to justice those guilty in the last week's lynching of Cord Cheek. 19-year-old Negro. To hear the special charge. Judge Hart summoned a grand jury as soon as court opened. “Mob violence or lynching." he said, “strikes at the very base of orderly government, and should not be. under any circumstances, tolerated or con nived at. If for a moment mob rule is substituted for the orderly process of the law, we are bordering on anarchy." The charge recited that while the Negro’s body was found hanging in Maury county, where he had been ac cused of an attempted attack on a white girl, he was abducted 'by a band of armed men in Nashville. He had been brought to the David son county jail for safe keeping and had been released when the Maury county grand jury failed to return an indictment. imposing one cent of taxes on pro perty," Commissioner Maxwell said. “This is in sharp contrast with the situation in Kentucky, as outlined by the State superintendent of public In struction there, who spoke just ahead of me on the program. Among some of the things he mentioned was that there was no unified state school sys tem in Kentucky .that each county was a separate unit in maintaining its schools, that one-tfourth of the schools in the State were open for a term of only six months or less and that now many were not being kept open at all. He also said that there were still 5,000 oneteacher schools in the state, only 17,000 school teachers —we have 23,000 school teachers in North Carolina —and that the schools were administered by 23,000 school (Continued on Page Seven.) IN Tins SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Lindberghs Near Home Miami, Fla. Dec. 18.—(AIM Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lind bergh took off for New Y.ork at 9:48, eastern standard time, this morning on the last leg of their 28 000-mile tour, which carried them across tlie Atlantic twice. While no announcement was ma le that the Lindberghs planned a non-stop flight to the east, be lief that this was their intention was strengthened because the plane was loaded with more than 400 gallons of gasoline, enough fuel to carry their hydro-monoplane more than 1,600 miles. ——l PASS OVER CHARLESTON AT EARLY HOUR IN AFTERNOON Charleston. S. C., Dec. 18.—(AP) —Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh passed over Fori Moul trie at 2:05 p. m. flying due north. They were flying at. about 1,500 feet elevation and were not visi ble from the city of Charleston, nearby. TSemi ON LIQUOR LIKELY Test Case Brought From Federal Court in North Carolina To Be Heard January 15 JUDGE bIgGsTaSKS FOR EARLY RULING Says Department of Justice Without Precedent To Guide Its Actions; Florida ‘‘Loan Shark” Statute Up held in Decision by The High Court Washington, Dec. 18.—(AP) — The Supreme Court today set for hearing on January 15 a test case brought by the government to determine whethe* pending litigation charging violation of the national prohibition law can be prosecuted or must be dismissed. Every possible effort will fcb made fContinued on Page Five.) Governor Has No “Christmas Gift” Paroles in 1933 Unlb (JiM|»nt<’h Barm* In the Sir Walter Hotel. RV J. C. BASKERVILL. Raleigh. Dec. 18. —No more parole hearings will be held until after Jan uary 1, Commissioner of Paroles Ed win M. Gil said today. Nor wil there be any “Christmas present’’ paroles issued, despite the hundreds of re quests that have been received, Gill said. At the present time Commissioner Gill has on his desk more than 500 requests for parole hearings. But he does not expect to be able to hold any of these between now and January 1, although two or three hearings al ready scheduled may be held. WILSON NURSE IS STILL IN A COMA Roanoke Rapids. Dec. 18. —(AP) Miss Lucy Banks, Wilson nurse, who was injured near Weldon Saturday in automobile wreck which cost of the life of J. J. Amerson, Wilson under taker was still unconscious here to day, and physicians announced they would take her to Richmond at once for treatment by a specialist. - aUu Sltapatrh Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lind-, bergh are shown here as they step-1 ped back on United States territoryl at the international air base in Miami! last Saturday afternoon after an | epochal flight of 25,000 miles and j AAA Doing Everything Possible To Speed Acceptance by Growers in Flope Prices Will Rise as Result of Prospective Sharp Pr oduction Curtailment Washington, Dec. 18.—(AP)—Offi cials of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration went ahead today with their work of applying the farm ad justment act to hurley tobacco with out officially recognizing the market ing holiday in Kentucky, Tennessee and a few markets in Ohio and In diana. Contracts and instructions to field workers in hurley states were sent out last week and the campaign to IDEAL TAX PUYN i Endorses Single Tax on Liquor, But North Caro lina May Miss It Dally Dlspatcfe Bureau, In tne Sir Walter Hotel. rfT J I' B*SKHItVILI, Raleigh. Dec. 18. —Hearty approval was given here today by Commission er of Revenue A. J. Maxwell to the “ideal tax plan," outlined recently by Mark Graves, president of the New York in which he re commended that the Federal govern ment collect under a single tax many of the taxes now collected by the Fed eral government and the states, and then rebate proportionate amounts back to the states. Commissioner Max well also expressed approval of the plan to permit the government to im pose a single Federal tax on liquor and then distribute part of this tax back to the states, rather than have * -