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HENDERSON gateway to CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR ROOSEVELT IS ASSURES OF SOITORT IN ROUSE CLAIMS AIR MAIL CONTRACTS GIVEN Witness Tells Senate Com mittee Postmaster Gene, ral Brown Ignored Congress Order FILES WERE BURNED BEFORE LAST MARCH Postal Inspectors Discover Browr Had Some of His Records Destroyed Before Retiring With Hoover; Brown Himself Makes De nial in New York City Washington, Jan. 9. —(AP)— Paul Henderson, foimer assistant post master general, told Senate investi jato's today that Postmaster General Biown awarded aobut 5,000 miles of ait mail contracts without competitive bidding after Congress had specifically tefjicd him this authority. 'I tie investigators were told that tuitions of both official and personal fibs <>f the postmaster general in the' Hoover administration had been burn i eJ just before Ivrarch 4. "So I took them down to the fur race and destroyed them,” said James Mt.hei, stenographer to Brown and tvnie of his predecessors, after testi fying that he had orders to that ef fnc fiom Brown’s secretary. v Questioned aout these developments efore the ocean and air mail inves tigating committee, William W. Howse. assistant postmaster general, told newsmen that the discoveiy that Brown had destroyed some papers was made by postal inspectors in vestigating mail contracts in colla boration with them committee. BROWN ISSUES DENIAL OF DESTROYING HIS RECORDS New York. Jan. 9. —(AP) —Former t’ostmaiter General Brown today de clared that no official files from his office had been destroyed prior to Ins leaving office last March. "No activities of the Post Office De partment during my four years as its head warrant any criticism,” Blow said. Kent Cooper, Head Associated .Press, i To Visit Raleigh Raleigh, Jan. 9 (AP) —Kent Coop er, general manager of the Associat ed Press, will attend a Statewide meeting of members of the Associat ed Press here January 17. Mr. Cooper will be the honor guest at a luncheon of publishers and As sociated Press members of North Carolina at the Sir Walter hotel here at 12 30 that day. The distinguished visitor, who had been scheduled to address the North Carolina presse institute at Chapel Hill, will be unable to keep that en gagement due to pressing business which will call him back to New York on the afternoon of that day. Navy Planes On First Lap Hawaii Trip l ly from San Diego to San Francisco Pre paratory to Hono lulu Jaunt Kan Diego, Cal., Jan. 9.—(AP)—Off '•r a hop to San Francisco and then " non-stop mass flight to Honolulu, ,x K' a n* navy seaplanes leave here today with the commander-in-chief of * ,Tn P*d States fleet as a passen ger Admiral David S. Sellars will ac company the squadron only to San * '' anc >»co aboard the plane of Lieute nant Commander Kneffler McGinnis, m charge of the flight. Commander McGinnis said the 2,- 4 X)-mile flight from San Diego to Honolulu, the first by any aircraft in loiter, and the longest hop attempt ed by a seaplane squadron, may start Thursday. Hpttitersnn Daily Dispatrh IKwsaHHBr NgBMM HHWr 73m IHUfe. ' whet - /- f " H InMHnL 'MS BM| mgr m Ji 11 lIIBBIir' y r*> jr ■ % 0 m jiff «We k a pH 1 JpFj||| M |T -.Mp| Newest members of the capital diplomatic set are Soviet Ambassador M. Troyanovsky and his family who reopen the old Russian Imperial Embassy, closed for sixteen years. William C. Bullitt, first Amer ican Ambassador to Soviet Russia, accompanied the Troyanovskys to this country. (Central Press) Democrats Delay Plans For Gag Rule In House To Bolster Their Lines Tobacco Rentals Almost $9,000,001) Raleigh, Jan. 9 (AP) —E. Y. Floyd, State director of the tobac co reduction campaign, said today flue-cured tobacco growers of the State who have signed AAA pro duction control contracts should receive almost $9,000,000 in rental and benefit payments. The amount of equalization pay ments also to be paid them has not been figured, he said. Addi tional returns through better prices next fall will also result from the program, Floyd said. CHICAGOGETSITS MILK By AIRPLANE Farm Blockade Causes Acute Shortage in Supply for Metropolis Chicago. Jan. 9.—(AP)—Regu’ar shipments of milk into Chicago b> airplane were started today as the fourth day of the city’s milk block ade (brought an acute shortage to the metropolis. The first shipment was 1,000 quarts and police were summoned to the municipal airport to guard the milk. Only small amounts of milk reach ed the city today and the shortage had developed to such an extent that thousands of families were without any, serving only small amounts of it. Patrons of some hotels and res taurants received less than half an ounce of cream with their morning coffee. Hospitals and families with small children continued to receive emergency deliveries from large dairies. I WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy and slightly cold er; probably light local snows in extreme west portion tonight; Wednesday generally fair. Liquor Largely Blamed For Tragic Kyoto Panic Kyoto, Japan, Jan. 9 (AF) —Liquor was held largely responsible by rail way authorities today for a panic in which 80 persons lost their lives. The authorities said unsteady drink ers of sake caused the commotion in Kyoto railway station yesterday which resulted in an uncontrollable stampede. Liquor, they added, in creased the crowd’s’ unruliness. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. First Soviet Envoy to U. S. With Family HENDERSON, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 9, 1934 Move Is Designed To Safe guard Roosevelt Program Against Interruption by Minority BACKERS OPPOSED PROCEDURE BEFORE Minority To Remind Them of Their Attitude Two Years Ago; Plan Is to Make It Harder To Get Bills Out of Committee and on Floor of the House Washington, Jan. 9. —(AP)—A drive to impose what minority factions termed a “gag rule” in the House, designed to safeguard the Roosevelt program against interruption, today was temporarily halted while its Demo cratic proponents rallied to make sure of success. Opponents ot tne projected alterna tions in Mouse rules already have served notice that when the proposal Is brought up for debate .they will remind its backers that .they themsel ves opposed it two years ago as “gag rule.” The new rule would require that a majority of the House membership sign a petition to force consideration of <i bill on the floor. That could mean 218 signatures if all 435 House seats were full. The rule now requires but 145 signers. The 218 rule was a heritage from the Republican House regime which ended in December, 1931. Under the leadership of the then Speaker, and now Vice-President, Garner, the Democrats reduced that number to 145. WOMAN MISSING FOR TWO DAYS IS FOUND Georgetown, S. C-> J an * 9 (AP) Mrs. Van Wyck Ferris, of Wil mington, Del., missing from her mother’s winter home since Sun day, was found today on North Is land and told a story of spending two days and nights there with out food or shelter after being carried there by the tide while swimming in Winyah bay. No trace of the Wilmington, Del., woman had been reported since her bath robe and slippers were found near the water’s edge yesterday. Scores of persons were crushed and suffocated at the foot of a packed stairway when one, falling, cried out and the crowd broke into a mad shifting mass. More than 10,000 persons had jam med their way into the station to bid ■ farewell to naval recruits leaving for the naval base at Kure. JEFFREMPECTS Hundreds of Miles of High way in State Could Be Done With It WARREN IS FAVORABLE First District Congressman Hopes For $400,000,000 Appropriation, Which Meaps $9,500,000 for This State Dully Dispatch Bureau, in the Sir Walter Hotel, IIY J C. BASKERVILL. Raleigh, Jan. 9. —Chairman E. B. Jeffress is hoping that Congress will appropriate another $400,000,000 for use in the further construction of Federal aid highways, since North Carolina would then get another $9,- 500 000 to use in completing or rebuild ing highways now included in the 6,100 miles of roads now in the Fed eral aid system in the State, he said today. At the present time almost all of the $9,500,000 which the State received last year from the Public Works Administration for highway construction, has been allocated, though not all of <he work has yet been contracted for. There are still hundreds of miles o’ highways within the Federal aid sj stem that either need improving or rebuilding, how ever, Chairman Jeffress pointed out. “If we can get another $9,500,000 from the government for use on the Federal aid roads in the State, we can put these roads in excellent con dition.” the chairman of the State Highwya and Public Works Commis sion said. “If we do not get this ad ditional money, however, a great many roads that really need improve ment are going to have to stay as they now are for a long time, since there is nothing to indicate that the < State will have any money to spend on new highway construction for a long time yet.’’ Chairman Jeffress is very hopeful that this Congress will again make another appropriation of at least S4OO -for Federal aid highway con struction. He has received a letter from Congressman Lindsay Warren, in which the congressman said that he regarded highway construction as among the most beneficial of public works undertakings and that he was going to continue to work for an other appropriation for that purpose. Other of the State's congressman are also understood to be in favor of an other Federal appropriation for roads. Unless another appropriation to continue the highway building pro gram is forthcoming, thousands of those who have been given employ (Continued on Page Four.) Next Move Up to Government With The Cannon Case Washington, Jan. 9.—(AP)— W»ith the next step in the Bishop James Cannon, Jr., conspihacy case up to the government, Leslie C. Garnett, dis trict attorney designate for Washing ton, said today it would be “one of the first matters I’ll take up when I as sume office.” The Supreme Court yesterday de cided the Southern Methodist church man and his secretary, Ada L. Bur roughs, of Richmond, must stand trial on a charge that they conspired to violate the corrupt practices act in the 1928 presidential campaign when they were handling funds for the cam paign against Alf re d E. Smith in tne South. Soldiers Guard French Chamber After Charges Over Swindler’s Death Stavisky “Knew Too Much” on High Officials in s4o,* 000,000 Crash of Bayonne Bank SLAIN BY OFFICERS, NEWSPAPERS CLAIM Statement That Stavisky Shot Himself Questioned by Other Organs; Premier Chautemps Hastens To Revamp His Cabinet in Face of Grave Crisis Paris, Jan. 9. —(AP) —Huge forces of mounted and foot police were rushed to the Place Bourbon today to surround the Chamber of Deputies and guard it against a demonstration resulting fro mreports that police had killed Serge Stavisky, alleged swind ler. to keep him from talking. Open charges that Stavisky, found er of the fallen Bayonne Municipal Pawn Shop, was slain by secret ser vice agents because he knew too much involving high police officials, were published today in the Socialist Populare and the Communist Hu manite. Other opposition papers question ed the truth of the statement by au thorities that Stavisky shot himself in the head when surrounded late yesterday near Chamonix. The newspaper Action Francaise, calling for a huge demonstration be fore the Chamber of Deputies to night, said: “Down with thieves—down with as sassins” Premier Chautemps lost no time in revamping his endangered cabinet as a result of the midnight resignation of Colonial Minister Albert Dalimier, accused by police of indirect impli cation in the Bayonne scandal. He named Lucien Lamoureux. min ister of labor, to replace Dalimier. Merchant Marine Minister Eugene Frot going to labor, and Under Sec retary William Bertrand, of the min istry of the interior, moving into Frot’s position. Stavisky’s death in a hospital at Chamonix early today complicated the investigation of the scandal growing out of the collapse of the bank and the resulting loss to investors of ap proximately $40,000,000. NASH NEGRO MOVED FOR SAFE KEEPING Rocky Mount, Jan. 9jaP) —Roland Taylor, Nash county Negro, was held in a neighboring county jail today for safe keeping after threats of mob violence for attacking Miss Bettie Jenkins, 68-year-old white woman led Sheriff C. L, Johnson to order his re moval from the Nashville jail. The Negro was arrested yestereay and placed in the Nash jail, but was removed last night when threats were heard against him. Higgitfs Appointment to Fat Federal Job Mixed Up In Latest Gossip Dully Dispatch Bntenn, In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. C. BASKERVIIjIj. Raleigh, Jan. 9.—The revival of al leged Surry county "primary scandal” of 1932 in connection with the pros pective appointment of Carlisle Hig gins as U. S. district attorney for the middle district, is regarded by most observers here as nothing more than the digging up of a dea dcat that died back in the campaign between Gov ernor J. C. B. Ehringhaus and Lieute nant Governor R. T. Fountain. And since virtually every one here involv ed in that campaign has given every indication of being willin gto forget the bitterness and feeling that was aroused and to let by-gones be by gones, with the possible exception of Attorney General Dennis G. Brummitt the prevailing' belief in a good many minds here is that the attorney gen eral must be the man who has dug up the dead cat. It has been known here for several weeks that Solicitor Carlisle Higgins, of Sparta, has been recommended by Senator Josiah William Bailey for appointment as United States district attorney in the middle district. Nor has it been believed that there was or would be any opposition to this appointment until the Raleigh News (Continued on Page Four.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Puts Teeth in Law JUII |iH|M J| s , ft m—mmmmmmmammmm—mmmmm v Mrs. Elizabeth Bass Appointed Federal Narcotics Chief for Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin by President Roosevelt on August 1, Mrs. Elizabeth Bass already has put the fear of the law into viola tors. Since taking office she secured 432 convictions out of 450 arrests of drug addicts. . - (Central Prcse) KNEARCOUM Crushing Victory Over Fu kien Forces Claimed by National Regime Nanking, China, Jan. 9 (AP) —Na- tional government forces, in a sweep ing advantage over Fukien province rebels, fought their way today to with in 25. miles of Foochow, capital of the province, Nanking military leaders claimed. All of the rebel chiefs were in flight, it was said, with the excep tion of King Tai, commander of the 19th rout army, and chairman of the Fukien military council. On the basis of these reports deve lopments, National government lead ers predicted the early overthrow of the revolutionary movement center ed in Foochow. 15 Percent Cuts For U. S. Workers Extended To July Washington, Jan. 9 (AP)—Pres ident Roosevelt today, by execu tive order, continued the 15 per cent in pay of Federal employees , for another six months. In his budget message the Pres ident asked that the authority to cut be changed from 15 to ten percent, assuring restoration of one-third of the pay cut- begin ning July 1, the start oi the fis i cal year. The President acted today upon the findings of the Department of Labor of the costs of living as provided by law. Though Shorn Os Powers, Douglas Will Keep Post Washington, Jan. 9. —(AP) —Lewis Douglas, director of the budget, made clear today he intends to remein in his present office despite rumors that budgetary differences with President Roosevelt and a recent curtailment of his authorities might cause him to resign. The budget director told newsmen he plans to “remain on the job as long as I can render service.” The President yesterday trimmea 6 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Committee Promises Happy Days for Recovery Pro gram in Lower Branch of Congress PROSPERITY NOT SO ROSY FOR SENATE Liquor Regulation for Dis trict Discussed by House; Louisiana Delegations Tell Investigators Saunders Not Legally Elected To House Membership Washington, Jan. 9 (AP)— Sure of their strength, House Democrats made it a point today to tell President Roosevelt his program would be dis patched there, but the outlook was not so sanguine in the Senate for such matters as the St. Lawrence waterway treaty. The Senate was in recess while the President worked on his messages ad vocating ratification of the treaty and asking Federal guarantee of prin cipal as well as interest on the farta credit bonds. Liquor regulation for the District of Columbia was all the House pro per had to work on. Committees ground away at tax appropriation bi)ls and looked ahead to the other big item of extending the Reconstruc tion Corporation lending authority for several years, and possibly adding a billion dollars to its capital. The ways and means committee, where all legislation must originate, heai-d Representative Patman, Demo crat, Texas, condemn tax secrecy as a “badge of fraud.” The bill tighten ing income tax laws is expected to be ready next week. Adocates of the St. Lawrence treaty in the Senate professed confidence in their ability to get it ratified, and foes are emphatic in denial. The Roosevelt message, going up toftior row, should bring an early focus. Representative Crosser ,of Ohio, and four other members of the House Democratic steering committee, com prised the group that waited upon the President. They spoke as one in giv ing assurance of happy days for the administration program under the heavy Democratic majority in the House. A House elections committee re ceived testimony from Louisiana State officials that the election of J. Y. San ders, Jr., to House was ‘illegal.” The contest over the seat first claim ed by Mrs: Bolivar E. Kemp Is belfig heard for possible conclusion as sooh as possible. The Senate Banking Committee called Chairman Jesse H. Jones, of the Reconstruction Corporation, to ap pear late in the day for examination of his proposal to extend the life of the corporation and increase its bor rowing power. Liquor And Auto Tag Cuts Before S. C. Legislature Columbia, S. C., Jan. 9 (API- Two of the most controversial questions facing the South Caro lina legislature—liquor control and auto tag fee reductions—wOTO injected into the 1934 session to day. Less than an hour after tho leg* isiators convened, six automobile licens emeasures and a bill to pro vide for the sale and manufacture of liquor under county cotitfOli with local option, were introduced. The liquor control measure Was offered in the House by four mem bers, and sent to the judiciary committee of that chamber. powers only recently handed to Doug las for checking on emergency Ex penditures. He modifide a previous order making budget estimates a iprb requisite for emergency spending, tb require in the future only weekly re ports to the budget director. Both Secretary Ickes and lU*ry Hopkins, the civil works administra tor, were said to have objected it the White House that the original ruling might slow down public Wofk# and CWA disbursements.
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