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f <-/ \ jtf • k /t>vv Jl \<j -firJji M _ _* j s s*" ■ wi cfrnM^^ikarw^ Mr"«i fv \ - HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA 'WENTY-FIRST YEAR 16 DEAD IN RECORD RAINFALL IN LOS ANGELES AREA Many Car Owners Are Arrested For Having Old Tags More Than 200 Taken into Custody in Raleigh and 40 Are Taken In Rocky Mount CHARLOTTE FORCE IGNORES VIOLATION Governor Ehringhaus Insists on His Order That Motor ists Without New 1933 State Automobile Plates Be Arrested All Over The State Raleigh, Jan. I.—(AP) With Gov ernor Ehringhaus holding firmly to hi.-* order that motorists who venture upon the highways without 1931 auto mobile tags be arrested, the big round-up was on today—the first of the year Reports (<• .S*ate Highway Patrol headquarters here indicated officers were strictly enforcing the law re qniri. j* display of the new plates to day. Moi r Mian L'UO motorists had been a n str<i in Raleigh, and the drixo was reported to be under way with fuli force in other localities. Police 11 Rocky Mount reported the uriest o> lo license violators be foie nocn, cli of whom were order ed to appear in city court on Tues day morning. Cumberland county reported 39 ar re. ts for use of the old plates. A State Highway patrolman in Eluabeth City said he had arrested 12 motorists for not having new li cense tags. Members of the Charlotte and Mecklenburg county police forces ignored violation of tile use of 1933 automobile license tags. New Angle In 1934 To “New Deal” Insurance of Bank Deposits Radical Departure; S o m e Codes Run Out Washington, Jan. I.—(AP)—This is w hat the start of the New Year means to the “new deal.” Insurance of deposits up to $2,500 for 97 percent of all persons in the country having bank accounts. Deposit insurance for nearly 99 per fContinued on Pace Pour) All License Offices In State Open Over Holiday Unify Dlnpnfrb Bureau In the Sir Walter Hotel. BV J. C. IIAMKKRVILL. Raleigh, Jan. 1. —All the windows in the automobile license bureau, where licenses are being sold, are open here today and all of the 55 branch offices in the State are staying open throughout the entire day despite the fact that all other State departments are closed. “We are trying to give the best service possible to the late comers and to cause them a minimum amount of delay, despite the fact that the li censes have been on sale for 30 days now,” Director L. S, Harris, of the motor vehicle division of the Depart- lirttiirrsmi Datlti St snatch OF THENEW YEAR Opens Speculative Vistas of New Financial Moves and Closes Epoch of Past Year BANK HOLIDAY WAS IMPORTENT EVENT Government Offers Fresh Help for Banking Structure With Surplus Funds; Roos evelt’s Monetary Program Moves Toward Commodity Dollar Goal Washington, Jan. 1 <AP) —A new banking era begins today with a new year which opened speculative vistas of new financial moves and closed an epoch stamped indelibly with a na tionwide bank holiday. Lock-step with the new 1934 is a national insurance of deposits in more than 13,000 institutions —99 percent of all banks, according to Jesse H. Jones, Reconstruction Corporation chairman, and 97 percent of all bank accounts,, in the estimate of the Fed eral Deposit Insurance Corporation. Outstanding also is a new year’s offering of government help for banks with surplus funds. Simultaneously taxes bringing | $300,000,000 annually are listed. Still closely veiled amid other de velopments, President Roosevelt’s monetary' program moved toward its commodity dollar goal. IGold buying is scheduled to continue, may possibly expand, and silver coinage under the international agreement is in 1 its in fancy. General Johnson On Hunting Trip Near Charleston Charleston, S. C., Jan. 1 (AP.) — General Hugh S. Johnson was among the New Year’s sportsmen after duck and quail in South! Carolina. The NRA administrator came to Bernard M. Baruch’s winter estate and hunting preserve in Georgetown county yesterday for a brief vacation, and said he plans to spend most of his time hunting. He will return to Washington Wednesday. ment of Revenue, said. “If the car owners had only started coming in for their licenses about two weeks ago the way they have been coming for them the last two days, they would all have been sold by this time.” Director Harris said he. did not have any report yet of the number of arrests that have been made so far today of drivers who have not yet purchased their 1934 license plates, but he did not believe the number was large. "(Most of the automobile owners (Continued from Page Four.) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIfSINIA. * LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C. MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 1, 1934 .New Life—New Cheer—New Year v y nmumflfjnn iy r** "7 / i Roosevelt Accepts Woodin Resignation From Treasury Washington, Jan. 1. —(AP)—Presi- dent Roosevelt today accepted the re signation of William H. Woodin as secretary of the Treasury and ap pointed Henrj- Morgenthau. Jr., now acting secretary, to his place. The resignation of Mr. Woodin, on account of hit, physical condition, was :.iaae effective today. Morgenthau las been serving as acting secretary for more than a month. i Full Record of Applicants in Past Sought by Pardon Officer Dully Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hutel, BY J. C. BASKEIIVILL. Raleigh, Jan. I—Despite the fact that Commissioner of Paroles Edwin !M. Gill has put in one of the busiest terms and handled more important clemency rOquests during the past year than any previous commissioner has in the same length of time in many years, he has also found time to start building up the new parole system which he expects to put into effect this year, it was learned here today. The 1933 General Asembly passed a law empowering the com missioner of paroles to set up a com prehensive parole system, although no appropriations was made for carry ing it out. But in spite of the handi cap of not having any funds, Com missioner Gill has quietly been going ahead with plans to put the system into effect through existing agencies and without incurring any additional expense to the State. One of the most important aspects of this new system is that it gives the commissioner of paroles authority to (Continued On Page Four.) He was sworn in as secretary at the White House this morning. The oath was administered in the cgal room in the presence of the President and members of the Rfoose ve.lt family, Mrs. Morgenthau and Henry Morgenthau, Sr. The new secretary is an intimate friend of the President. He is a resi dent of Duchess county, New York, the Lome county of the President. Morgenthau is a graduate of Cor W MS Brings State Over $580,000 for Month; Two-Thirds of General Fund Dally Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. C. BASKERVILL. Raleigh, Jan. 1. —The general sales tax on retail sales yielded $580,546 in State revenue in December, thus con tinuing to be the largest yielder of revenue of all the various taxes, ac cording to the report of collections just issued by Commissioner of Re venue A. J. Maxwell. The total re venue collected for* the general fund, from which all State and school op erations are paid, was $895*103.74, of which $580,546 came from the sales tax. The total collected from the sales tax during the five months it has been in operation is $2,506,107.14, for, while the tax has been in effect for six months, collections have been re l ported for only five months, begin ■ ning in August when collections a mounted to only $358,579. Total general fund revenue collected from all sources for the first six (Continued on Page Three.) 'WEATHIfR FOR A ORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair and colder ex cept on the coast tonight; Tues day fair and much colder. isoii nell University, and lor several years has operated a farm in Duchess county and runs a farm paper. He ca ne to Washington with the President and served governor of the barm Credit Administration. When Mr. Woodin was forced last fall by 11 health to go west for a complete rest, the President, called on Morgenthau to take over the difficult Treasury portifolio. Woodin is at Tucson, Arizona. mSi John Steelman Believed To Have inside Track for Manning’s Job Dally Dispatch Bureau, In the S>» Walter Hotel. BY J. C. BASKERVILL. Raleigh, Jan. 1. —There is already a scramble under way for the office of Veterans’ Loan Fund commissioner, although the office, now held by Colonel John Hall Manning, is not yet vacant. However, Colonel Man ning is slated to be appointed assis tant disttrict attorney here in the mid dle district, in which case he will have to resign as loan fund commission er. So far there are four applicants for the appointment, as follows: John P. Stedman, former State treasurer and now executive vice-president of the Raleigh branch of Regional Agricul tural Credit Corporation; William B. Grimes, Jr., a clerk in the purchas ing division of the State Highway and Public Works Commission; Heber G. Clark, one of the auditors in the State auditor’s office and Frank D. Grist, former commissioner of labor. Os these four, Stedman is under stood to have the strongest political backing for the appointment and to have strong support from the Am erican Legion, in which he has long been active. It is understood that the (Continued on Page Three.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. EIGHT INCHES RAIN IN ONLY FEW HOURS AND STILL FALLING Hopes To Complete Job by End of January for from Four to Six Million Workers FOUR MILLIONS PUT BACK ON THEIR JOB Results Seen As Recovery Chiefs Take Stock With Ending of 1933; Blue Eagle Codes Granted Thus Far to 182 of Most Important of Industries Washington, Jan. 1 (AP) —The NRA today set itself a| task of regimenting before the end of January if possible, the wages and hours of industries employing between 4,000,000 and 1 6,- 000,000 workers. Taking stock as the year ended, the recovery administration estimated that “some 4,000,000 members have been restored to gainful employment,” (Continued on Page Three.) AH Reserve System Banks Will Honor Them, State Manager Asserts Salisbury, Jan. I.—(AP)—All banks which are members of the Federal Reserve system will cash coupons from bonds of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, which became pay able today, Alan S. O’Neil, manager of the corporation's North Carolina ranch, announced this morning. Mr. O’Neal said arrangements for the banks to cash the coupons had been made in Washington by John S. Thayer, chairman of the corporation. The bonds bear four percent inter est are due in 1951. More than one million dollars worth of them have been distributed to North Carolina mortgagees, who have exchanged their mortgages for the bonds in the government’s drive for re-financing of homes. Suspects Deny Slaying Os Wilkes County Girl High Point, Jan. I.—(AP) —Blaine and Taft Norman, facing charges of murder and robbery in Wilkes county, in the slaying of Oday Childress, 18- year-old adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Warrick Tilley, whose home was ransacked, apparently after the mur der Saturday afternoon, was carried this morning to Wilkesboro by Sheriff W. B. Somers and Deputy Sheriff H. C. Kilby. Both men denied any connection with the crime, and a relative in whose home Blaine was arrested last night supported the alibi of the men. A check made to determine if Blaine worked Saturday as he says, showed he was on the job until noon, and the |q PAGES IoTODAYI o TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Pasadena, Scene of Tourna ment of Roses and Rose Bowl Game, Has 12 Inches Rain FIVE ARE DROWNED AS BRIDGE CRASHES Nine Bodies Discovered and Six Identified, All Told in Stricken Area; At Least 110 Persons Injured and Thousands Driven from Their Homes Los Angeles, Jan. I.—(AP)— Nine deaths by drowning and seven more in traffic accidents were reported to day from the worst rainstorm In the history of Southern California. Five died when qt,n automobile plunged through a weakened bridge at San Gabriel Boulevard and Mercel street in Potreoro Heights. Nine bodies had been discovered and six identified. At least 110 persons were Injured and thousands were driven from their homes by the raging flood waters which swept every section of the metropolitan area. The situation grew worse hourly as the rainfall continued. By 10 a. m. (1 p. m. eastern standard time,) near ly eight inches of rain had been mea sured here ,and more than 12 indhes had fallen in Passadena, scene today (Continued on Three ) Finds Body Os Wife In Their Home Maryland Farmer Discovers Grue some Tragedy on Return Home Crisfield, Md., Jan. 1 (AP)—Thd nude body of Mrs. Margaret Brumbly, 59-year-old farm woman, was fount by her, husband, Fred Brumbley, ear ly today. She had been stabbed. Brumbley told Somerset county au thorities he discovered the body ly ingl across the bed when he returned to their home at Marion Station, near here, from Crisfield, shortly aftid midnight. > A Negro, Sam Jones, 55, who Ivies (Continued On Page Four.) brother-in-law says he was with the men throughout the afternoon. Taft Norman, 22, nervously denied any connection with the crime, and said that he had not been in the vichv 4 ity since last Tuesday. The officers said that he was reported seen there on last Friday, and bloodhounds led ft direct trial from the Tilley home ts the home of the boy’s step-father, where they stayed when in the com munity, nearly a mile away. Taft worked in the Tilley home for some years and admitted here this morning that he had “courted” the girl. He said he had not seen her since the “big meeting,” when he escorted her home last summer. )
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