’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
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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
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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.
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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
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wOTHIr
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Cloudy, with occasional rain to
night and Tuesday; slightly colder
tonight; slowly rising temperature
Tuesday in extreme west portion.
Home Again—And Are They Glad?
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—lnternational Illustrated News
Burley Sign-Up Pushed
Despite Holiday Called
In Two Tobacco Stales
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
touching four continents. They cross
ed tlie Atlantic twice during that. time,
first in easy stages over the far north
ern route and more recently over the
route from Africa to South America.
They were to start from Miami today
for the final hop to New York.
sign up growers under production con
tracts is going ahead rapidly. J. B.
Hutson, chief of the tobacco section
of the AAA, said.
“We are doing everything we can
to speed up the signing oftracts,” he
declared, “and the program is going
ahead as rapidly as possible.
“The last of the supply of contracts
and other material will be sent to field
(Continued «e Page Five.)
TOPLMGOILTY
Negro’s Colored Lawyer
Would Waive Appeal In
His Conviction
Washington. Dec. 18.—(AP)—A pro
posal that George Crawford. Negro,
plead guilty to a second murder indict
ment. now resting against him at Lees
burg, Va., provided the death penalty
were not imposed, was put forward to
day by his Counsel, Charles Houston,
dean of the Howard University Law
School.
The Negro was sentence dto life im
prisonment last Saturday at Leesburg
after being convicted of the murder
of Mrs. Agnes Boeing Ilsley, society
sportswoman at her Middleburg. Va.,
home The second indictment is for
the murder of Mrs. Usley’s maid.
Mrs. Mina. Buckner.
Houston’s proposal was contained in
a letter to John Galleher. common
wealth’s attorney, who prosecuted
Crawford.
Tlie Negro attorney said that if
such an agreement was reached, the
Crawford case would not be appealed
and settlement of constitutional ques
tions arising out of the absence of
Negroes on the jury that convicted
Crawford would be left for future
cases involving different circum
stances.
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GWE ARE MAIN
CAUSES OF DEATHS
Girl Is Strangely Missing
From Her Home in South
Carolina and Search
Is Started
OAK RIDGE MAN IS
HELD FOR SLAYING
Two Boys Riding Bicycle
Killed When Hit by CaEat
Hudson ; Roanoke Rapids
Man Killed bv Hit-and-
Run Driver; Many Injured
Besides the Dead
(By the Associated Press)
Gunfire and traffic accidents took
15 lives and injured a number of
persons in the Carolinas over the
week-end.
A girl was strangely missing.
Automobile accidents took the ma
jority of lives, but. a, railroad switch
engine and firearms boosted the cas
ualty list.
A wide search was under way for
Rose Warren, 18, who had been miss
ing from her iStateburg, S. C. Home
since yesterday. Her parents could
not explain her absence.
Rush Winfrey, of Oak Ridge, was
in jail at Greensboro charged with
murdering a neighbor. Paul A. Young
during an argument in which Win
frey was stabbed and Young shot.
L. A. Fields, night policeman at
Troy, was in a hospital suffering
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Four Dead
In Tornado
Louisiana
Shreveport, La., Dec. 18— (AP)— A
fitful tornado which roared out of the
southwest to break the Sunday quiet
of a Caddo parish lumber camp and
a plantation took four lives, injured
19 and caused heavy property loss.
Tiie blast, so terrific that it stripped
the clothing from individuals, killed
a white woman and two Negroes at
the Grayson lumber camp, 18 miles
west of her, and a Negro at Soda
Fountain plantation, ten miles to the
north.
Relief agencies took charge of the
stricken area.
Flying timber, debris and wreckage
of houses caused pandemonium at tne
lumber camp.
Government
Gold Price
Moved Up
May Mean Diversion
of Buying from For
eign Market to Do
mestic Mart
Washington, Lee. i 6. - (AP) — The
government jumped its gold price to
$34.06 an ounce today for the first up
ward movement since December 1.
The five-cent increase resumed the
upward trend ebgun when a price of
$31.36 was fixed October 25 at the be
ginning of President Roosevelt’s ef
forts intended to boost commodity
prices by raising gold values.
It also was the first price increase
since the disclosure of recent heavy
gold purchases abroad, estimated to
have exceeded $35,000,000.
This foreign buying was believed to
have taken place during the Decem
ber weeks that the domestic price was
remaining stationery. Whether the
new increase in the R. F. C. quotation
represented a return of emphasis to
the domestic price and a lessening of
foreign purchases could not be learned
officially.
Bar gold was bringing $32.48 an
ounce in London today on the basis of
sterling opening at $5.12 1-2 to th*
pound.