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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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'WEATHIfR
FOR A ORTH CAROLINA.
Generally fair and colder ex
cept on the coast tonight; Tues
day fair and much colder.
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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
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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,”
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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
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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
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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
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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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