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' heNDEKSON gateway TO Ventral CAROLINA IpVENTIETH YEAR SCHOOL VIOLATION OF NRA ALLEGED BY LABOR ■— i Affidavits Filed /With Re covery Administrator by William Green In Strike Report MIGHT REFER IT TO attorney GENERAL Johnson Says That Will Be Door If Report Contains Convincing Evidence; Ford Employees at Edgewater, N. J., Plant Formed Union In Early Fall Washington, Dec. 22. (AP) Wil liam Green, president of the Ameri can Federation of Labor has filed nith llir NRA a report on the strike lit*' Ford Eogcwater, N. J., plant ami accompanied by affidavits alleg *iis cede violations by the autonio [ij|p m i nil fact lit er. I I'll*' tepoil has not yet been ex tiiiiiittl by Hugh S. Johnson, recovery .(Iministtaior, hut from his previous (iterances it appeared likely that if my convincing evidence was contain ed he would refer them to the attor ii,-y general for action. Kind employees at Edgewater form ed i local union and went on strike early in I in* fall. The plan, after a brief shutdown, went on functioning noimally, with the strikers locked out The National La'x»r Board oucht to interveneu, and. through in iliuet negotiations, succeeded in estab lishing some exchange of views be twenn the workers and the manage ment. hut this never proceeded to the point *>r ucitinl negotiations. Negroes Hunted loir Shooting of (iiirage Operator Ihinn, Dec. 22.—(AP)—(AP)— Officers throughout this portion <*f the State were on the. look-out tnd;i> for three Negroes who late hut night shot and probably fatal ly wounded Howard •loiirnegan, M. nffer robbing his filling sta tion. file Negroes drove up to Jour negan’s station, located across the *H!npsoii county line, and had Hieir automobile filled with gaso line. One of the Negroes whipped out his gun and shot Journegan, two Negroes at the station said. The body was thrown into a flitch behind the station and then the bandits rifled the cash regis ter of an undetermined sum. Plan Probe Os Burning Os Farmer I ruck Drivers Barely kscape After Hear ing Guilford Man’s Screams High Point, Dec. 22 (AP)—An in vestigation into the circumstances surrounding the burning to death in his home on the eve of his wedding of Lee Harvell, well known farmer who lived alone on Highway No. 10, iust east of this city, will be under taken today by Dr. W. W. Harvey, Guilford county coroner. The body was removed from the ashes of the home early today after ( ,w o passing truuck drivers had made an unsuccessful attempt to rescue the man, whom they heard screaming in (he midst of the flames. One of the drivers was overcome in the effort, and was dragged from the burning house by hiK partner. The house was burned to the ground and it was an hour afterwards before ambulance at were able to reach the char rHd remains. Mr. Marvell's automobile had been hacked into his garage and was head f‘d toward the highway. In it were his best suit, of clothes, some bed Nothing, five pillows and two pairs of - s hoes. it was learned this morning 'hat he was planning to go to Salis bury today, where he was to ’ * mar red. Hnti) ersmt thb ß^S« e «b»v ICB of PRESS. BABY WEIGHS 20 OUNCES AT BIRTH Resting on an ordinary pie pan i and wearing her mother's wedding ring for a bracelet, this tiny baby, who weighed only 20 ounces at birth, poses rather unwillingly for photo^ Automobiles Kill 105 In The State During November Boy of 14 Den ies Extortion Schenie Winston-Salem, Dec. 22,— (AP) Behind the bars of the county jail a 14 year-old school boy today pleaded innocent of a plot to extort S3O from a merlianic and iiis wife under Uireat of violence. The boy, Elwood Castevens, was arrested when he picked up a de coy package supposed to contain the S3O, but he protested that he picked lip the package only out of cusiosity. The puckuge had been planted after robbers entered the home of D. G. Lewis, here, look a quantity of food and left a crudely phrased note signed “Seven Desper ate Men,” demanding that the money be left at a designated spot. mSense Harris and Farmer Think Something Needed 1 o Make Motoring Safer Dally Dispute# Bureau In the Sir Waller Hotel. RY J. C. BASKURVILL. Raleigh, Dec. 22. With the number of killed andi njured in au tomobile accidents increasing every month —in November 105 were killed and 527 injured in highway accidents —different State officials here are be coming more and more convinced that something must be done to stop this “slaughter of the innocents” on the highways of the State. Director L. S. Harris, of Motor Vehicle Division of the Department of Revenue, and Cap tain Charles D. Farmer, commander of the (State Highway Patrol, are both convinced that a Statewide drivers’ li cense law with real teeth in it, would do more to cudb accidents than any thing else. They both agree, of course, that a larger highway patrol with at least 150 patrolmen rather than only iContinned on Kane s* , our.> RACKET DEVELOPED IN LIQUOR IMPORTS Washington, Dec. 22. (AP) Joseph H. Choate, Jr„ the Federal alcohol control administrator, to day disclosed a racket of wide proportions had grown up in the illegal sale of liquor import per mits. He issued a stiff warning against the practice. gold quotations AGAIN UNCHANGED Washington, Dec* 22 (AF) The government’s gold price remain ed unchanged today at $34.0# an ounce. Bar gold in London was worth $32.07 at sterling opening rates of $6.08 to the pound. ONLY DAILY graphers at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cormen, in Findlay. Or., just three days after her advent into the world. Her proud mother called her “My Baby Doll.” She later died. This Is 40 More Than In No vember, 1932, and 23 More Than October This Year GOVERNOR ALARMED AT RISING CARNAGE Ehringhaus Giving Matter Careful Attention in Hope of Finding Some Remedy for Frightful Condition; Reckless Driving One of Big Causes Raleigh, Dec. 22.— (API—With automobile wrecks in North Caro lina in November having claimed 105 lives. Governor .Ehringhaus to day said he was preparing a state ment appealing to peace officers and motorists to curb reckless driving on the highways. The death list of 105 persons in November was only one name shorter than the record list for any month in six years, complied In December. 1928, by the State Motor Vehicle Bureau. Dally Dlwpaifb Bnrrft*. In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. C. BASKERVILL* Raleigh, Dec. 22. Hhe high ways of North Carolina ran red with human blood in November, when 105 were killed and 527 injured in 415 automobile accidents in which 601 cars were involved, according to fig iConimiied on Pse*> Four) Tobacco Sign-Up Campaign Will Be Pushed Next Week Raleigh. Dec. 22.—(AP)—As farm agents and workers in all parts of North Carolina where tobacco is grown today pushed the weed reduc tion contract campaign, a group of home demonstration agents from 12 counties gathered here to study plans for a rural home condition survey in their counties. The tobacco campaign is progress ing satisfactorily, State College offi cials said, but it is to be pressed with new vigor during the holiday season in an attempt to bring it to an early and successful conclusion. 2 torfL mu] NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED HENDERSON, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. DECEMBER 22, 1933 BONDS APPROVED Umlu Dtspatrfil IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Liquor-Beer Tax Bill For $470,000,000 Is Approved INMcSIITEE ANSW® PRESENT All 13 Democrats on Flouse Ways and Means Group v ote for (Slew Tveve nue Proposal $2 PER GALLON TAX levied This Alone Is Estimated To Bring In 300 Million Dol lars Next Year; Several Administration Rec. o m mendations Discarded By The Committee Washington, Dec. 22. (AID— The House Ways and Means Committee to day tentatively approved a liquor tax bill estimated to bring in $470,000,000 including revenue from beer. By a vote of 13 ayes to nine Re publicans voting present, the commit tee adopted a levy of $2 a gallon on distilled spirits estimated to bring in $300,000 000 in revenue on an estimat ed consumption of 150,000,000 gallons during the first full post-repeal year. The tax bill, secretly agreed upon by the committee, discards several j administration recommendations and ; levies $2 on each gallon of newly-' legalized hard liquor. It was clear, though, that the rea son the 14 committee members over rode recommendations of the presi dential iuter-departmental committee for a .$2.60 liquor tax, with 20 percent of that going back to the states, was. (Continued on Pago Two) Johnson Protests Hig h Pay Washington, Dec. 22.—(AP) — Hugh S. Johnson, recovery administrator, protested to the Civil Works Admin istration today against it paying high er wages than are being given by many industries under codes. “It is an absurd situation,” he as serted at a press conference, “but it is up to the CWA. All I can do is to call their attention to /theinconsis tency.” He went on to explain that the code—fixed a minimum wages in all cases are supposed to represent the utmost that industries now can af ford to pay. He considered it. “ridiculous” that men from bread lines, placed on what he said amounted virtually to a Fed eral dole, should have more attractive pay than those normally employed in industries, some in competing lines. Theatre Program Set for Tomorrow A chance to see a good theatre program and at the same time help a lot of needy children and adults in the community at this Christ mas time is offered the public in the performance to be given at the Stevenson theatre tomorrow morn ing at 10 o’clock. “The Life of Jimmy Dolan,” starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., is the title of the feature picture, but there will also be a comedy to round out the pro gram. Admission will be bringing of a pound or more of groceries or meats for distribution to' needy fa milies by Ensign and Mrs. Joseph Willett, of the Salvation Army. The program is sponsored joint ly by the theatre and the Daiy Dispatch, and no admissions will be accepted in cash. All must be by the offering of a pound or more of foodstuff for the needy. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy tonight and Sat urday; not much change in tem perature. CIVIL WAR NOW COMPLETELY OVER JR v > iw’ WKBmSam Hm. —mM # Wgp : ? MMll , m mm ilfcaw \ Jpli ' Jr • •••• .->% me |§P§| Mm Up IHRi m 1M wm Completely healing the wound left by the Civil war, Confederate soldiers have pledged their sup port to President Roosevelt, the first president to receive the pledge since Jefferson Davis ruled the Confederacy. This photo shows General Tice A. Pierce, Roosevelt Would Spurn Cuba Intervention Plea Charlotte Man Is Strangely Missing Charlotte, Dec. 22, —(AP) — Police today said they were without a sin gle clue to the whereabouts of Bruce D. Whitehead, 28-year-old life insurance agent, who myster iously vanished between his down town office and his home two nights ago. Leaving his office at 10:30 p. in. Whitehead never arrived home. Since then neither police nor mem bers of his family have been able to suggest any reason for his disap pearance or find any clue that might lead to his present where abouts. POLICE KILL THREE But They Thought They Were Getting Another Trio of Gangland Chicago, Dec. 22 (AP) —A band of sharpshooting Chicago policemen, bent on capturing John Dillir.ger and members of his ring of escaped In diana convicts, wrote finis to the ca reers of thre other gunmen with bul lets in a sensational rain on an apart ment in the Rogers park district last night. In a short but decisive gun fight, the police shot and killed the trio last night and for two hours after wards believed that their victims were Dillinger and two of his lieu tenants, Jack Hamilton and Harry Pierpont. Fingerprints taken from the dead men, however, revealed that they were Louis Katzewitz, 28, and Chas. Tattlebaum, 30, alias Chuck Tildy, both of who mwere suspected of the plan to hold up the Union National Bank of Streator, 111., and Sam Gins burg, 33 a paroled convict from the Michigan State Prison at Jackson. A total of $52,000 was obtained in the bank robbery, which occurred May 16. 1932. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. commander of the Tennessee di vision of the United Confederate Veterans,- presenting the framed pledge to the president at the White House, while members of the president’s military staff look on. At left is Adjutant General Harry Rene Lee of the U. C. V, Press Dispatches From Mad rid Indicate Such Request May Come From Spain Soon ADMINISTRATION’S POLICY OPPOSITE All Intimations That Have Been Dropped from High Officials Ptnftt to Hat Re jection of Request Should It Be Received at National Capital Washington, Dec. 22. —(AP)—lndi- cation was given today in authorita tive quarters that should Spain make a formal request that the United States intervene in Cuba, President Roosevelt would refuse. Acting Secretary William Phillips and other administration officials re fused to make any formal statement on press dispatches from Madrid in dicating that some diplomatic over tures concerning intervention by the United States under the Platt amend ment might be made by Spain. Intimations have emanated from administration officials, however, that any such request would be flatly re jected. Many officials doubted that the Spanish government will actually make formal protest, or bring the plight of Spaniards in Cuba to the attention of the United States. Secretary Hull ,in a speech at the Pan-American Conference in Monte video on December 19 made a virtual promise of non-intervention by tht. United States, despite the fact that at that time chaotic conditions prevailed in Cuba. EHRINGHAUS URGES WAR ON ILLITERACY Raleigh, Dec. 22 (AP) —Governor Ehringhaus today urged representa tives of higher educational institu tions of North Carolina to “sacrifice a little more" and arrange to have class instructions to prepar eteach ers to teach adult illiterates. Representatives of nearly every State institution of higher learning, some 35 men and women, were here for a conference in regard to estab • lishment of classes to train teachers who can be paid from civil works funds, if they are qualified for adult teaching. [o PAGES O TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY khaEouiby No Opposition Develops When Proponents of Bonds Present Their Ap peal to Board BUNN SPEAKS FOR COUNTY AGENCIES Hearing Lasts Only Few Minutes; Local Govern ment Commission Holds Vance County Finances in A-l Condition and County Is Well Able To Pay Out Application of Vance county for per mission to issue $227,000 of bonds for a school building program of $301,000 was given unaimous approval of the State’s Local Government Commission in Raleigh at a brief hearing there today, this constituting the final hurdle to be negotiated before the formal petition for the money is for warded to the Federal government in Washington. Today’s hearing, expected to be hot ly contested on both sides, developed no opposition, and the only argument i.i favor of the bond issue was present ed 'by A. A. Bunn, county attorney. A number of friends of the school build ing program appeared in the delega tion that attended the hearing. When the application first came before the Local Government Commission last Wednesday, a group of prominent Hen derson citizens appeared in opposition, but final decision by the commission was deferred until today and the op position was requested to present its ease in writing. A total of $301,000 is sought in the application. Os that amount the Fed eral government is to give outright $74,000, which is slightly less than the customary 30 percent, the difference coming in because the government (Continued on Page Two.) Bailey Ready To Name His Clio ice For tlie Big Jobs Washington, Dec. 22 (AP) —Sen afcor Bailey, Democrat, North Carolina, said today he expected to make recommendations this afternoon to fill several import ant political appointments in North Carolina Bailey plans to leave here for Raleigh during the day, and the recommendations may not be an nounced until after his depart ure. Prices Up On Ruling On Silver Stocks Jump $1 to sl2 on Announcement of New Policy of Roosevelt New York, Dec. 22.— (AP)— Stocks and commodities rallied en thusiastically for a time today oii news of President Roosevelt's sil ver program, hut speculative ar dor subsided later and prices re acted. New York, Dec. 22. —(AP) — Specula tive markets soared today in resopnse gram. to President Roosevelt’s silver pro- Stocks, led by the metals, jumped $1 to $lO a share. Silver futures, in excited trading, climbed two to three cents an ounce, the latter figure be ing the limit o f gains allowed for a trading day. Cotton jumped $1 a bale. The stock market, shaking off its recent "luggish decline at the Presi dent’s ratification of the London sil ver agreement, caught traders <by sur prise, boiled vigorously. Many of the opening blocks embraced 1,000 to 12 r 000 shares as floar traders lumped the buying orders which had poured into the exchange before the opening gong ran g. The largest transaction was 12,000 shares of American Smelting and Re fining Company, which sold at $45 a share, up $5.12.
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