HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
ROOSEVELT SIGNS HALF BILLION DOLLAR LIQUOR BILL
French Deputies
Warned Os Threat
By The Royalists
Premier Chautemps Tells
Chamber Coup d’Etat to
Form ‘ Directorate”
Is Possibility
TROOPS HELD READY
TO MARCH ON PARIS
Government Taking No
Chances With Situation
Growing Out of Collapse
of Bayonne Pawn Shop,
With $40,000,000 Loss to
Investors in the Nation
[’in is, Jan. 12. (AIM Premier
Camille Chaiilcmps warned the na
tion today that the royalist riots over
the Stavisky scandal held the tnreat
of a coup d’etat to establish a “di
reetorate.”
Thousands of troops were held ready
to march on Paris, if necessary, to
stamp out the disorders which have
occurred in a protest against alleged
complicity by government officials in
she Bayonne Pawn Shop collapse,
which cost the French public more
than JPM-MJO.ObO.
The president «>f the Chamber of
Deputies adjourned the body sudden
ly this afternoon in the middle of a
pandemonium which broke out when
Deputy Jan Ybarnegaray charge
that "the police assassinated" Serge
Stavisky, founder of the pawn shop to
hit'll the ease and protect higher up^.
Premier Chautemps jumped to his
feet, waved his arms and protested
that Stavisky killed himself wm
secret service operatives surrounded
(Continued on Page Two.)
Times Demanding
Two Raleigh City
Aldermen Resign
Raleigh, Jan. 12 (AD— The Ra
leigh Times today demanded the
resignation of City Commission
er J. 11. Brown and Ed M. Bar
ton.
In a front page editorial, the
paper said:
“There is one hope, and one
hope only, that the City of Ral
eigh, now in default in its civic
obligations, can weather the
state of Imnktuptcy growing out
of default upon its debts, due to
the collapse of its credit as a
municipality.
“That hope lies in a change of
the city administration through
the elimination of Messrs. J. 11.
Brown, commissioner of public
safety, ami Ed M. Barton, com
missioner of public works.”
Navy Fliers
Are Heroes
In Honolulu
J
Round of Entertain
ment ford() Officers
and Men Starts Aft
er They Rest
Honolulu. Jan. 12. (AP)—-The Pa
cific-spanning fliers of Uncle Sam’s
Navy are heroes here.
Anri when Lieutenant Commander
Lnefler McGinnis, and his 29 officers
Hurl men are fully rested from their
24-hour record-breaking mass flight,
from San Francisco to Hawaii, they
rounds of entertainment.
I he six seaplanes sliced the waters
of Pearl Harbor yesterday. The last
,irie had come to rest «»
Pacific time.
I’lirough darkness, fog and other
hazards of oversea flying for 2,400
n >iles. the squadron came through
without a slip in what the navy in-
ited was merely a “routine move
inent," and Commander McGinnis de
scribed as 'hjust another all night
hop.’’
I he civilian population of Honolulu,
however, reiused to accept such a
matter-of-fact view. On the streets
and elsewhere the flight was the
fopic and supported the opinion that
H regular air route to the. mainland
hud been blazed.
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LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Beheaded by Nazis
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Marinu* V„ n Der Lubbe >
Writing an end to an incident
destined to go down in history ae
an integral part of Adolf Hitler’s
ascendency to power, the German
government unexpectedly execut
ed Marinus Van Der Lubbe,
above, young Dutch Communist,
at Leipzig, beheading him on the
guillotine, for setting fire to the
reichstag in Berlin. Van Der
Lubbe confessed the crime during
his trial with four other defend
ants who were acquitted. A par
don from President Paul von
Hindenburg had appeared likely
for the Dutch youth.
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Two 1. C. C. Examiners Ask
Rejection of Plea Against
Express Line
Washington, Jan. 12 (AP) —Two
Interstate Commerce Commission
examiners recommended today that
the Commission reject an application
for the American Highway Freight
Association for an order forbidding
the Southern Express Company to
reduce its rates on less than carload
freight.
The Southern Express, which ope
rates over the lines of the Southern
Railway System and the Mobile and
Ohio, took steps a year ago to com
bat motor truck competition.
For several years the express com
pany had been losing business to
trucks, and it was decided to try the
experiment of radically reducing rates
This resultde in a considerable in
crease in business.
The American Highway Freight
Association, an organization of mot
or truck owners and operators, com
plained last March that the express
company’s plan was unlawful.
Byrd Flies Deeper Into
Antarctic; Sees No Land
Aboard Byrd’s Flagship, En Route
to Little America, Jan. 11.—(Delay
ed) —(Via Mackay Radio) —(AP)—
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd made
his third flight into the Pacific quad
rant of Antacritca today.
He and thee companions took off
at 3.30 a. m. from a stretch of open
water near the main ice pack at
latitude 69 degrees, 50 minutes south,
longitude 150 degrees, 20 minutes
west.
The flight carried him south to lat
itude 71 degrees, 45 minutes, to about
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Asserting that she had run away
from the home of her wealthy
parents in Pittsburgh because she
had grown tired of its luxurious
surroundings, Miss Viola Sayles,
above, 19-year-oid co-ed at Car
negie Tech, Pittsburgh, following
an absence of several days, has
written her mother, Mrs. Bertha
Sayles, wife of a manufacturer,
that she has obtained a job in
Cleveland and intends to live her
life in her own way.
BE S jXo
Men on Top Will Supervise
the Supervisors of Work
ers in the Office
and in Field
POLITICIANS ANGRY
OVER LOSING PLUM
Naming of George Scott,
Charlotte Accountant, As
Division Head, Rather
Than Politicians, Stirs Sup
porters o¥ Ehringhaus;
Must Deliver Goods
Unity UiNpiiicb llurcnH.
In the Sir Wulter Hotel.
MY .1. C. BASKEHVILL.
Raleieh, Jan. 12.—Now that the new
reorganization plans for the State De
partment of Revenue have been an
nounced, calling for two general di
divisions and four main executives
with salaries aggregating $20,000 a
year and retaining nine division heads
with salaries amounting to $22,320 ?
year—an executive salary outlay of
$42,320 —it is going to be up to the
reorganized department to “deliver
the goods” jp collecting revenue De
tween now and the time the 1935
General Assembly meets —or it will be
just too bad. according to opinion in
political circles here.
It. is agreed ,of course, that the joD
of collecting the State's revenue of
about $25,000,000 a year is a big job
and requires able and efficient exe
(Continaed on Page Two.)
SEED CRUSHINGS IN
LAST OF 1933 LESS
Washington, Jan. 12 (AP) Cot
tonseed crushed during the five
months period August 1 ot Decem
ber 31 was reported today by the
Census Bureau to have totalled 2,-
425.506 tons, compared with 2,586,677
tons in the same period a year ago.
Cottonseed on hand at mills De
cember 31 totalled 1,300,442 tons, com
pared with 1,336,391 tons a year ago.
1,100 nautical miles north of the pole
when he was forced to turn back by
bad weather two hours and five min
utes after taking off.
“I saw no land,” Admiral Byrd re
ported. “It is pretty safe to say now
that no land exists any nearer than
the coastal fronts of King Edward
VII and Marie Byrd Land, x x x x
It is just ice-covered ocean.”
Admiral Byrd had hoped to make
a non-stop flight into Little America,
”t weather conditions prevented.
HENDERSON, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 12, 1934
That Is Why Bad Conditions
Were Not Acted On Dur
ing the Hoover
Administration
EXAMINER BEFORE
SENATE COMMITTEE
Comptroller Was Told “Not
To Do Anything To Rock
the Boat, and Not To Have
Ary More Bank Failures,”
Leyburn Testifies at Bank
Investigation
Washington, Jan. 12.—(AP) A.
White House “command not to roc:
the boat" was described to Senate in
vestigators today as the cause of the
government’s failure to act during the
Hoover administration on examiners’
reports of bad banking conditions.
Alfred T. Leyburn, chief nationa'
bank examiner, testified before the
Senate Banking Committee that the
comptroller of the currency aid no;
act on his reports of ba,d conditions
in the Guardian banks of Michigan
"because lie was told by the higher
command not to do anything to rock
•he boat, and not to have any more
bank failures."
He explained later he meant tii. :
secretary of the treasury and the
White House by the expression “high
er command.”
Earlier Edsel Ford bad testified to
his father’s refusal to extend further
aid to the Guaroian bank in the fran
tic hours before the Michigan bank
holiday last February.
Seek Control of
Growers Refusing
To Sign Contracts
Raleigh, Jan. 12 (AP) —The
North Carolina Tobacco Advisory
Board has requested Congress to
give the AAA complete control
over the production and market
ing of tobacco by growers who do
not sign acreage reduction con
tracts.
The request was embodied in
a resolution adopted by the board
here yesterday, and a telegram
outlining the resolution was for
warded to Chester C. Davis, AAA
administrator. The action was
described as an initial step to “put
feeth” in the AAA tobacco con
trol program.
Governor Gore, of
Porto Rico Quits
Office In Island
Washington, Jan. 12 (AP) —Robert
M. Gore, of Florida, today resigned
as governor of Porto Rico.
President Roosevelt accepted the
resignation of the newspaper publish
er, who attributed ill health as the
reason for giving up the post. He is
in this country now.
Early appointment of a successor
is expected. There also is strong
likelihood that Gore, who played a
part in the Roosevelt election cam
paign, will be given another assign
ment.
Gore was the center of a political
quarrel in the island almost from the
time he took office last summer.
More than a month ago he and his
family returned to the United States.
Report 78 Drown
So. America Flood
Rio de Janeiro Jan. 12.—(AP)—
Seventy-eight persons were report
ed to have drowned In floods which
followed heavy rainstorms in
Brazil and Argentine.
Eight were known to have drown
ed in Rio de Janeiro. Unconfirm
ed reports from Mendoza, Argen
tine, said 70 had lost their lives and
that widespread property damage
was suffered in the mountain re
gions.
In British Guinea, five days of
heavy rain caused damage esti
mated at $1,000,000.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Rain tonight, proaly ending Sat
urday morning; somewhat war
mer in east and north portions to
night.
OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIISINIA.
FOR V ™ rKO " r ' R,AI
Assistant State’s Attorney Charles
S. Dougherty, who will act as
prosecutor in the trial of Dr.
Alice Wynekoop on charges of
murdering her daughter-in-law,
Mrs. Rheta Wynekoop, in the of
fice at her Chicago home, is pic
tured checking over the exhibits
Poteat And Hanft Named
Utilities Commissioners
By Cover nor Ehringhaus
President Emeritus of Wake Forest and University Pro
fessor To Be Aides to Commissioner Winborne; Gov
ernor “Happy” To Make the Appointments
Raleigh, Jan. 12.—(AP) —Governor
Ehringhaus today announced the ap
pointment of Dr. William Louis
Poteat. president emeritus of Wake
Forest College, and Professor Frank
Hanft, of the University of North
Carolina, as associate State utilities
commissioners.
The selection of the two educators
came as a complete surprise to State
capital circles where all speculation
had centered around ~en whose
names are linked with politics.
bldfKeo
Site of First Colony on Coast
To Be Conditioned by
This Labor
Daily Ui«iintch Bureau
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, Jan. 12.—01 d Fort Raleigh,
on Roanoke Island, site of the first
English colony in North America, and
founded in 1585 by the second ex
pedition sent over by Sir Walter Ra
leigh. is to be restored. The project
calling for the expenditure of $20,000
and the rebuilding of the old fort, or
mce accurately of the first and ori
ginal “City of Raleigh,” as it was
first called by the colonists who built
it, lias at last been approved by Mrs,
Thomas O'Berry, State civil works
administrator. Construction work is
expected to get under way next
v T eek, under the general supervision
of the Department of Conservation
and Development, with Frank Stick
of Elizabeth City, chairman of the re
cently appointed North Carolina Coas
tal Development Association, in per
sonal charge of the work.
A Tt has been known here that this
project has been under consideration
for some time. But it could not be
approved as a CWA project as long
as the site of the old fort remained
in the name of private individuals.
This site since 1892 has been the pro
perty of the Roanoke Colony Memo
loal Association, which was organized
for the purpose of acquiring the land
(Continued on Page Four.)
THE INSIDE FACTS!
Dr. Garry C. Myers, author of “The Parent Problem,” with
connections throughout the educational system of the en
tire nation, writes a series giving the inside facts on 1 the se
rious situation that has arisen in regard to the American
school system. Look for first release today.
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
in the sensational case. Thii
operating table, above, on which
the body was found is one of the
important “silent witnesses”. On
the table are bundles of the young
wife’s clothes, found in the death
chamber, and other articles that
have figured in the case.
Associate, /commissioners are. pro
vided for by the 1933 utilities law to
sit in hearing with Stanley Winborne
utilities commissioner, in cases where
the amount involved is more than $3,-
000, or in cases where Commissioner
Winborne desires them to sit with
him. They get paid $25 a day anc'
actual expenses not to exceed S9OO
yearly.
In a statement announcing the ap
pointments, Governor Ehringhaus said
he was “happy” to announce accep
tance by these men.
°gSbsa
That Many in Training,
With 200 Already Placed
In Employment
Dully Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, Jan. 12.—More than 200
formerly unemployed school teachers
are already at work in the State on
CWA teaching projects, while approx
imately 600 are in training at the va
rious State educational institutions in
preparation for employment on more
CWA projects, Dr. A. T. Allen, State
superintendent of public instruction,
announced today. Not all of these 600
teachers now taking a special two
weeks training course with all their
expenses paid by the CWA, are being
guaranteed jobs when they complete
these courses, Dr. Allen explained,
since they must then return to their
home counties, and organize classes.
fCortlnuftd ni« Page Five.)
TO PAY OFF 135,000
DETROIT DEPOSITS
Washington, Jan. 12.—(AP)—
Payment in full to 135,000 de
positors of the Guardian Union,
Bank of Detroit, Michigan, was
made possible today when the Re
construction Finance Corporation
authorized a loan of $3,000,000 on
assets of the bank.
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Raises Levy on Whisky from
sl.lO Per Gallon to $2
for Purposes of
U. S. Revenue
FIRST MEASURE TO
PASS THIS SESSION
Expected by Treasury To
Bring ini from 400 to 600
Million Dollars in Taxes;
Roosevelt Signs Bill Few
Minutes Before Last Mid
night ;^
Washington, Jan. 12 (AP)—Presi
dent Roosevelt announced today that
he signed the $500,000,000 liquor ten
bill shortly /before midnight, thus
making the major provisions of the
measure applicable on today’s sales.
The measure raises the levy on
whisky from sl.lO a gallon to $2.
This was ttye first bill passed this
session, and Mr. Roosevelt lost no
time in making it a law. ,
The measure is expected by Trees
ury and congressional leaders to pro
vide from $400,000,000 to more than
*600,000,000 a year.
The legislation reached the desk of
Mr. Roosevelt just before 7 o’clock
last night. He referred it to Treas
ury officials for a quick check-up and
signed it at 11:55.
Wlnship Named to
Governorship for
The Porto Ricans
Washington, Jan, 12 (AP) — Presi
dent Roosevelt today nominated Gen
eial Blanton Winship, former judge
advocate general of the army, as gov
ernor of Porto Rico, succeeding Rob
ert H. Gore, of Florida, who was re
signed this morning.
The President also appointed
Wright W. Matthews, of Texas, as
sistant to the commissioner of inter
nal revenue.
A new weather man for the nation
likewise was selected, Mr. Roosevelt
naming Willis R. Gregg as chief of
(lie Weather Bureau to succeed Dr.
Charles F. Marvin, retired.
WILES’ CONFESSION
IS READ TO COURT
Columbia, S. C., Jan. 12.—(AP)
Robert H. Wiles’ confession of how he
kidnaped and beat to death Hubbar'’
H. Harris, Jr., at a deserted farm
house was roan into the court record
today by Sheriff T. Alex Haise.
Jap Admiral
Makes Hint
About U. S.
Magazine Quotes
Him Saying Japan
Is Arming Against
American Hostility
Tokyo, Jan. 12. —(AP)—A navy of
fice spokesman today cast doubt on
the veracity of an interview attribut
ed to Vice Admiral Nogumasa Fue
tugs., commander of the navy’s com
bined fleets, in the Gendar magazine.
The magazine quoted the admiral
as saying Japan must prepare "and
is preparing to defend herself against
what appears to me to be America’s
hostility in circling Japan by every
possible means.”
'The spokesman said /the mattatq
would be investigated, and
recalled that at one time the ad
miral was placed on the navy waiting
list for a short time as a penalty for
indiscreet utterances after the Lon
don naval conference.
Instances of encircelment the In
terview cited were Colonel Charles A.
Lindbergh’s leisurely flight along the
Kuriles in the summer of 1931, and
Harold Bromley’s abortive attempt to
fly the Pacific in 1930.
“I may be mistaken, but I think
it is possible they were spying in
those islands,” the admiral was quot
ed as saying.