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CENTKAL
CAROLINA
YEAR
CUBANS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST THE U. S.
GERMANS’ SPY RING
NOW SUSPECTED IN
ARRESTS IN PARIS
france Sees Shadows of Hit
ler System in Mysteri
ous Bard With
Twi Americans
INVESTIGATION is
EXTENDED ABROAD
Thread* of Evidence Lead
in? to Berlin Declared in
dicted in Mass ol Cons s
cated Documents Turned
Up; Communist Papers
Also Are Found
Phi is). Ptc 21 (AP) Shadows of
Germany's reputed master spy sys
tem were seen by police today behind
the operations of a mysterious band
t ,{ p) spies in whose alleged network
two Americans were caught.
With ten persons under arrest and
•hr investigation broadening outside
he holders of Fiance, fears were ex
:'--ed l»y authorities that highly
Suable documents containing French
aiitary secrets already had left the
country.
Threads of evidence leading to Ber
lin were declared to have been indi
cated in the huge mass of confiscat
ed documents studied by the investi
gating magistrate.
The discovery of communists docu
ments among the many papers and
hook' seized caused police to believe
h! fil'd that Soviet espionage was in
volved chiefly, but as the invest i
eation sped forward today, officials
conjeeted it might have been part of
the plan to allow such documents to
he found.
Greek Officials
Again Call Upon
Insull To Leave
Athens, Greece, Dec. 21. (AP)
The Greek government decided today
that Samuel Insull, former Chicago
utilities operator, must leave Greece
January 31.
The alien uepartment was serving
him today with a written notice that
'he government will make no further
“xtension of Insult's permit to remain
in this country, from whicli the United
States seeks to extradite him.
Insull made no statement and did
not indicate what his future plans
would hi*, other than he had not de
vnbd 'in what course he will take
next.
Gink courts twice have refused the
American request for the 74-year-old
fugitive, hut the present course has
no connection with that move.
Warren Is
Protesting
()n Merger
Congressman Wires
Roosevelt Against
Navy and Coast*
Guard Uniting
Washington. N. C., (AP)— Announ
«t the national capital that
President Roosevelt was considering
» merger of the navy and coast guard
brought objection today from Con
s’lessrnan Lindsay 'Warren.
The congressman telegraphed the
President today saying that, as rep
resentative of the district containing
more coast guard stations than any
other in the nation, ho desired to en
vigorous protest against the pro
posal.
He said his objections were shared
by the entire coast guard personnel.
t he telegram pointed out that func
'•ons and duties of the two services
arQ entirely dissimilar, with the coast
X'tard dedicated to humanity and life
saving and carried Warren’s belief
'bat no real economy could be ac
'-''mplished by the merger.
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Nat Metzger
Pulling into Cincinnati, 0., at 2.30 in
the afternoon. Nat Metzger, “B. and
O.” Pullman conductor, ushered his
passengers on their way, dusted him
self off and made his professional de
but as a concert baritone, after which
he climbed back into uniform and was
back in his Pullman when it left for
New York, where he is shown arriv
ing.
LINER ABANDONED
AFTER GROUNDING
Crack Canadian National
Ship Goes on Rocks off
Pacific Coast
Seattle. Wash., Dec. 21.—(API— The
crack Canadian National liner Prince
George was abandoned by her crew
shortly after midnight this morning
on Vadso Rock in far northern Bri
tish Columbia waters after its 12 pas
sengers had reached shore safely in
life boats.
Running aground about 11 p. m.,
Pacific standard time, last night,
frantic calls for immediate assistance
were sent out, and within a short time
the vessel's plight became serious. The
passengers and part of the crew were
ordered to the lifeboats.
With the weather not severe, the
lifeboats found their way safely ty
An’yox, a mining center four miles
away, wireless messages picked up
here said.
The Prince George left Prince
Rupert, B. C., yesterday morning and
was near her journey's end. Anyox.
when she truck the rocky coast of
Observatory Inlet.
School Bonds of
Vance To Come Up
Friday Morning
Raleigh. Dec. 21.—(A F)—The
executive committee of the Local
Government Commission has ap
proved Issuance of bond Issues for
phlic improvements by three
North Carolina sub-divisions if the
Federal Public Works Adminis
tration will buy the bonds, and
three more proposals will be con
sidered tomorrow.
Tomorrow, the commission will
consider, among other issues, a
$227,000 school bond issue for
Vance county.
Wf ATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair, slightly colder in central
and east portions tonight; Friday
fair.
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HENDERSON, N. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 21, 1933
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CLEANERS' CODES
Officials Hope Objections of
Virtually Ail Opposing
Groups Have Now
Been Met
HORIZONTAL CUT IN
SCHEDULES IS MADE
Special Blue Eagle Designat
ing Grade A Work Is Auth
orized; First Time NRA
Stepped inti the Field of
Quality Diffe renti a lions
Washington, Dec. 21. (AP) NBA
officials today watched for reactions
to the new price schedules ordered
into effect tomorrow for dyers and
cleaners all over the court ry, hopeful
that objections of virtually all oppos
ing groups had been met.
Instead of rafting a differential in
favor of cash and carry stores, the I
NRA ordered a horizontal cut. in all
of the schedules promulgated a montu
ago amounting, roughly, to 20 percent,
with the provision that cleaners giv
ing high quality service should re
main at the old price level displaying
a special blue eagle insignia identify
ing them as producing Grade A work.
This was the first time the NRA
has stepped into the field of quality
diffcrenciations, and reactions were
particularly sought.
Instead of issuing a complete new
schedule of prices for each new trade
area in the country, NRA made pub
lic a table of reductions in mini
mums which showed a 20 percent eut
in all prices above 05 cents, with a
gradually decreasing reduction from
that point.
The net effect will be that where
the price of cleaning a man’s suit un
der a former schedule was 95 cents,
the minimum for low quality units will
be 75 cents. In place of 85 cents, the
low price will be 70 cents. The 65 and
75 cents prices will be replaced by
minlmums of 50 and 60 cents.
BOOZE HI-JACKED
FROM THE POLICE
Norfolk Va.. Dec. 21.—(AP)—
A Norfolk police patrol wagon
bringing 240 gallons of bootleg li
quor from the Ocean View pre
cinct. to headquarters was “hi
jacked" by liquor runners this
afternoon and they escaped with
the wagon and liquor.
Livermore%
Home , Still
A Mystery
New York, Dec. 21. —(AP) —Jesse L».
Livermore, prominent Wall street op
erator, whose disappearance led to
fears he had been kidnaped, is safe
at home again after an absence of a
little more than 24 hours.
He said he awoke in a loom in a
mid-town hotel yesterday afternoon,
saw a newspaper which told of the
search beingmade for him, and imme
diately took a taxicab home.
There he told police and Depart
ment of Justice agents that he had
been “with friends." Later police re
ported Livermore told them that from
the time he had left his office around
5 o’clock Tuesday afternoon until he
awoke in the hotel "his mind had been
a blank.’’
His disappearance, however, still
was something of a mystery. Liver
more appeared pale and distraught
when he reached home, and a short
time later he was said to have gone
to bed.
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PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
As Cubans Hail U. S. Envoy
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Coming to the island republic as special representative of the United
States, Jefferson Caffery is greeted by delegation on arrival by air at
Havana, where crowd cheered him. He took up duties as observer for
State Department. (Central Press)
U. S. Inquiry Resumed In
Huey Long’s Income Tax
Understood To Have Roosevelt’s Approval; Long’s New
Orlears Machine Is Breaking Up As Senator Cancels
Plan To Put Ticket Into Field
Washington, L»ec. 21.—(AP) — The
Evening Star said today that the Fed
eral government has just renewed an
investigation into income taxes paid
by Senator Huey Long and others af
filiated with his Louisiana political
machine.
•Special agents of the Internal Re
venue Bureau started such an inquiry
in 1932. but this was said by the
paper to have been suspended several
months before the end of the Hoover
EVANS CASE GIVES
Senator’s Patronage Troub
les Extend to Ousting of
Wake Man
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In #he Sir W?Hter
P V I c. BASKFRVILL.
Raleigh, Dec. 21.—Attention is again
being focused upon the patronage ac
tivities of S< nator Joseph \V. Bailey
as a result of the report from Wash
ii.gitn yesterday to the effect that W.
F Evans, formerly solicitor h-re in
Wake county an 1 more recent,y on s he
legal staff of the Bureau of Internal
Revenue in Washington, is to be sep
arated from his job there by January
l. One of the dispatches from Wash
ington by R E. Powell, attributes the
displacement of Evans to the fact
that ‘ Senator Josiah William Bailey
has built a fire under the Depart
ment of Justice” and adds that ‘‘as
a result former Solicitor W. R. Evans
of Raleigh is going to get from Santa
Claus a notice that he is no longer
necessary to the operation of the gov
ernment.”
It has been generally believed here
for some time that Senator Bailey has
been trying to get Evans ousted from
his post in the legal department of
Bureau of Internal Revenue so that
he could give this rather juicy piece
(Oont.imifMi .hi khat- i*oiir.i
Agreement Upon
Burley Price Is
Being Drawn Up
Washington, Dec. 21.—(AP3 —Rep-
resentatives of ten large tobacco com
panies met here today for a public
hearing on the Agricultural Adjust
ment Administration’s proposed mar
keting agreement for buyers of bur
ley tobacco.
Based on an estimated crop of 400,-
000.000 pounds, the agreement would
pledge the buyers to purchase an ag
gregate of approximately 260.000,000
pounds of the 1933 crop for an aver
age of not less than 12 cents a pound.
Should the crop fall below the esti
mated yield the amount which the
companies were asked to buy would
be scaled down in proportion.
> administration.
A. B. Bufi’ord, who directed the eai-
Her investigation, went to New Or
[ leans about two weeks ago in charge
■ of a force of agents who have orders
to make a thorough probe of Long s
financies and those of his political al
lies, in so far as income taxes are con
’ | cerned.
• The resumption of the investigation
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New Jersey Paper Praises
Ehringhaus for Courage
In Wet Vote
Dally D!s(*i«le(s Baieffli,
In tiie Sir Walter lintel,
RV J, C B4SKERVILL.
Raleigb, Dec. 21—The action of
Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus is vot
ing for repeal of the Eighteenth
amendment, though personally dry
and in favor of prohibition, and then
in announcing how he voted after
repeal had been defeated by a major
ity of 175,000, is commended in an
editorial in “The Monmouth Ameri
can,” published in Long Branch, New
Jersey, which has come to the atten
tion of several here. The editorial is
printed under the heading “New High
Mark of Courage Set by Governor
Ehringhaus of North Carolina,” and
reads in part as follows:
Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus of
North Carolina, who had always been
in favor of prohibition, at the recent
election there on ratification of the
(Continued On Page Four.)
Benefit Saturday
At the Stevenson
If you are looking for some good
entertainment, you can find it by
attending the benefit performance
to he given at 10 a. m. Saturday at
the Stevenson theatre by the the
atre and the Daily Dispatch. Ad
mission will be by the bringing of
one pound or more of groceries
and meats to be distributed later
to the needy of the community by
the Salvation Army. The perfor
mance is sponsored by thbe Stev
enson theatre, which is furnishing
the picture, “The Life of Jimmy
Dolan,” and one or two other reels
and the Dispatch is contrbiuting
front page publicity.
It is hoped there will be a large
attendance for the benefit of the
poor people of Henderson.
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EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Government Leads
Protests Against
Platt Amendment
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Colonel tfrasted
Appointed to the United S’-Hes
Army as Chaplain with the rank
of lieutenant in 1913, when ho be
gan his Army career, Lieutenant-
Colonel Alva J. Brasted has just
been appointed Chief Chaplain of
the U. S. Army at Washington,
D. C,, with the rank of Colonel.
(Central Pi ess)
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$895 CWA Money Allotted;
Week End Payroll To
Be $1,000,000
Raleigh. Dec. 21 (AP) —The gov
ernor’s mansion, • built some 30 years
ago, is going to have its roof re
conditioned, with the Federal gov
ernment paying the toll instead of
the State.
The Civil Works Administration to
day approved a project allotting
$895,72 for work on the mansion
roofs.
Mrs. Thomas O’Berry. State civil
works administrator, announced the
civil works offices would close at
noon Saturday for a Christmas holi
day and would not open until Wed
nesday .
She figured that $1,000,000 will be
paid to more than 50,000 civil project
workers in the State this week-end.
POLLARD TO VISIT
IN SOUTHERN PINES
Richmond, Va., Dec. 21.—(AP)
Governor Pollard will set up tem
porary executive offices at Southern
Pines next week, and there, in com
pany with his bride, a former execu
tive, he will prepare his last message
to the Virginia General Assembly.
Spinning
Industry
96.3 Pet.
Washington. Dec. 21. —(AP) — The
cotton spinning industry was reported
today by the Census Bureau to have
operated during November at 96.3 per
cent of capacity on a single shift basis,
compared with 101.9 percent during
October this year and 96.9 percent
during November last year.
Spinning spindles in place Novem
ber 30 totalled 30,881,964, of which
25,423,348 were active at some time
during the month, compared with 30,-
827,726 and 26,002,148 for October this
year, and 31.464,872 and 24,349,506 for
November last year.
Active spindle hours for November
totalled 6,796,429,109 for an average
of 220 hours per spindle in place, com
pared with 7,260,822134 and 235 for
October this year, and 6,966,828,759
and 221 for November last year.
North Carolina reported 1,414,841,-
433 active spindle hours and an aver
age of 230 per spindle in place for
November.
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Three Trains Coming To
ward Havana for Gala
Occasion Are Wreck
ed in Mysterious Way
TWO PERSONS DEAD
SEVERAL ARE HURT
Wild Outbreak of Shooting
Occurs on Eve of what OU
ficials Said Would Be
‘Largest Demonstration
Cuba Ever Saw”—City’*
Mayor Resigns Office
Havana. Cuba, Dec. 21.—(API-
Three trains coming into Havana with
supporters for the government demon
stratton today against the Platt amend
ment were wrecked by unidentified
persons with at least two deaths and
several injured.
Passenger :ra:n No. 2 was derailed
near Aguitar with the death of a
trade man.
A wrecking tiain sent from Sangua
also was derailed near Cascajal.
Passenger train No. I was derailed
near Manduilo, with the death of the
fireman and with several other train
men injured.
A wild outbreak of shooting op the
eve of what officials said would be
“the largest demonstration Cuba ever
saw’’—against the Platt amendment-*-
precipitated early today the resigna
tion of the city’s mayor.
While scattered shooting echoed
through Havana’s deserted streets
after a barrage laid down from house
tops by snipers last night, Mayor Ale
jandro Bergara was reliably reported
to have presented his resignation to
President Grau San Martin.
He was said to have told the presi
dent he could not continue in office
“after the burning of El Pais’’ (One
of the city's few remaining news
papers. which was destroyed by fire
Sunday at the hands of a mob) dnd
other outrages.
Four Negroes In
'Wilson Jail '(Jag
Jailor and Flee
Wilson, Dec. 21.—(AP) —Four Negro
prisoners overpowered the Wilson
county jailo rearly today ,took his
keys and pistol and fled.
Officers were on the lookout for
them, but no trace of them was found.
They locked the jailor in a cell
fore they left.
Quotas For
Liquor Now
About Used
France Trying To
Get Allotment In
creased To Send Ift
More Shipments
Washington, Dec. 21.—(AP)— The
administration disclosed today that &
rush of foreign liquor into the United
States had brought a majority of thp
import quotas near exhaustion, and
at the same time moved to
domestically what Attorney General
Cummings described as “a rattier
wholesale plan to violate internal re
venue laws on liquor.”
The attorney general told news rqiftn
the entire force of 1,170 prohibition
cases will be deputized by the Inter
nal Revenue Bureau to prevent boot
legging of and other illegal operations.
Joseph H. Choate, Jr., alcohol cpa
trol administrator, meanwhile
nounced that both France and Por
tugal have exhausted the liquor im
port quotas allotted them and thfct
other foreign quotas were nearing that
point.
The French allotment was 78*;(#0
gallons, while Portugal was allodvbd
60,000 gallons.
The French commericial attache re
newed his efforts to have his countrjfi
quota increased in a lengthy confer
ence with State Department officials.