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IIENDEKSON gateway to CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR Tells Os Burning More Records For Mail Agreements Secretary to W. Irving Glov er, Second Assistant Postmaster General, Gives Testimony all correspondence declared destroyed Previous Testimony Told of Burning of Brown’s Files Bearing on Air Mail Con tracts Let by Post Office Department During Hoover Regime Washington, Jan. 17. —(AP) FI. L. John, formerly personal secretary to W. living Glover, second assistant jk imc or general in the Hoover ad nimi-tiation. told Senate investigators ttfiay that all Glover’s air mail files were destroyed in January. 1933. on iSilver's order. John said that Glover also had dr ovrd all correspondence taken from r's record front 1921 to 1921. -hra lie was third assistant. This *vh- gathered tip with the later cor respondence, he said. Hr tc.-tified that it was customary for copies of Brown's official corres r ndr —o to be sent, to Glover’s of fice for filing Shortlty after the investigation started, a Post Office Department .iciiogiapher told the committee he had burned sonic of the official cor , , mdonee of former Postmastct (ie.icial Biown at the order ot Cii.'.vn's roc r clary. G'dvor’s correspondence win de rovr l "in the usual way,” John said. ,h hn -aid that much of the cones [ t:donee wc.3 of a personal nature, and that none of it had anything t. (|ii with aclua mail contracts, altho ugh they related to mail routes. Chairman Black later issued a sum nnnis to Glover to testify regarding ill til, gi d destruction of air mail cor '* .poudenee (icorgc (>. Perry New Governor for State of Virginia State Capitol, Richmond. Jan. 17. <AP> George Campbell Perry, of Caswell, today became the 50th gov ernor of Virginia. The oath was administered by Ch’* Justice Preston W. Campbell, of the Supreme* Court of Appeals before a gathering of several thousand per sons. who packed the south side of Capitol Square. A governor’s .salute was boomed from the Richmond howitzers as soon as the oath was administered. Governor Perry immediately launch ed into his inaugural address. SURVEY BY HOMES FOR INCOME TAXES Washington, Jan. 18. —(Al*)— A house to house canvass by Trea sury agents to make certain in come tax returns arc filed by all who ought to file them was sug gested to internal revenue collec tors today by Secretary Morgen- Ihati. Merchants’ Tax Returns Checked On State Revenue De partment Planning To Go After Money Due on January 15 Bideigh, Jan. 17. -(AP)- With the 1 in" having expired for filing of tax " !>' ■(•> by every retail merchant, in Die State ,the State Department of B' iiuo today was ousily engaged checking over the field sltat>e<men't , - " d ascertaining if any merchants hi've not complied with tlie law. Time f,>r filing reports expired Jan uary 15. Every retail merchant In the State required to file by that date a ’abluent of his status In regard to Mi -tales tax of three percent. Today, A J. Maxwell, commissioner revenue, released an appeal from Hn office of Dennis G. Brmnnii'tt, at 1 'ey general giving the revenue de- I’Ri'tinent the {rower under the sales 1 < law not to examine the books am' ’"■'•omits of retail merchants to see i ’' * y are compilying with the law but ; giving the department power to 'Xrunine accounts and books of whole bis and distributors who have made sales to the merchants. HrttJirrsmx B atlit Brsrmtrh Heads Chicago Bank Walter J. Cuaaminaa Walter J. Cummings, newly install ed chairman of the board of the Con tinental Illinois National Bank and Trust Co., largest bank west of New York City, is shown at his desk in Chicago. Formerly chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance corpora tion, at Washington, Cummings was named head of the Chicago bank aft er the RFC had purchased 1>50,000,000 of the bank’s stock. But the treasury department said his naming was not at government instance, that the ma- j jority of directors had favored Cum- • mipgs. a Chicago man. METALLIC BASE OF House Coinage Committee Announces Separate Study of Proposal WILL PLAJNPROCEDURE Dispute With Banking Committer Over Jurisdiction Is Settled, With Coinage Committee Win ning Its Point. Wshingtor , Jan. 17.- ~(AP)-- Eager !*'-> speed along the President’s devalu ation bill, the House Coinage Commit tee today announced its separate (study of the “advisability” of stab ilizing the. dollar on a metallic base.” At the call of Chairman Somers, the committee went into executive session to plan how it would handle the revaluation measure referred to that, committee yesterday after a dis pute with the banking committee over jurisdiction. “It is my hope,” .Somers said, “to ask the secretary of the treasury to discuss the bill with us at his con venience. Then we will have, I suspect some further and open hearings. “The Republicans have been urg ing adequate hearings. It is my in tention to let them give us a list ot persons they think we »nould hear — and then hear them.” One of Escaped Texas Convicts Is Re-Captured Huntsville, Texas, Jan. 17. — (AP> — J. B. French, one of the five con victs who escaped when Clyde Bar row, Texas desperado, raided the ■Bajstham State Prison farm yesterday, has been recaptured. Warden W. W. Wtiid said French was caught near the farm late last night. French is serving 12 years for assault to murder, robbery and au.o mobile theft in Hunt county. Meanwhile, the phantom trail of Barrow had vanished In the pine for ests of east Texas after his specta cular delivery. J. C. DAUGHTRIDGE, ROCKY MOUNT, DEAD Rocky Mount, Jan. 17. — (AP) —John Cflarence Daiughtridgei for ja nunum ber of years an attorney here, and later a leading merchant died at his home here today after an illness of several years. He was 46 years of age. Mr. Daughtridge was the son of the late Lieutenant Governor Elisha ongstfreet Daughtridge {And Willie Odom Daughtridge, and was a grad uate of the University of North Caro lina. Funeral services will be held to r lorrow- LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA DEFAULT On December 1 There Were 58 Counties Behind In Obligations Total ling $6*410,171 138 CITIES, TOWNS ARE BEHIND $5,040,239 Figures Do Not Include Bun. combe County and Cities of Asheville and Greensboro; Many Can Come Through if Given Time; Others Must Re-Finance Dnlly l>is|t:i(<-h llurrnn, In (hi* Sir Hotel. I»Y .1. V. IItSKHItVII.f<. Raleigh, Jan. 17. —More counties, cities and towns are in defau’t now 'n North Carolina than a year ago although on the whole the fiscal con dition of most of these governmental units is in better condition, it was! lc?i pad today from W. E. Easterling, I r .Lit'! ant director of local govern- j front. For a large number of tin j ( aunties, cities and towns now in de- ! fault are really only in technical do-! fault pending the refunding of many! of tlicir bond issues. A good many | others, if the bondholders will only be | I -alien! with them and give them a 1 Utile time, will undoubtedly be able tc i pay all their interest and principal j within the next six months to a year ! without having to refund any of their j present indebtedness, Easterling be lieves. There are others, however, that 1 will have to refund present bond is- 1 sues if they ever expect to pay out. On December 1 there were 5S coun fic i in default, exclusive of Buncombe county for a total of $6,410,171 of j Which $2,919,222 was principal and S - j 490.9 LS interest, the records of the Lo cal Government Commission show. On 'Ma;ch 1, 1933, nine months earlier,! GofiMmien on h„«.- Knur.* Momentous Happenings Be fore Tuesday Election Are Looked for iNew Orleans, La., Jan. 17 (AP) — j Apprehensive of the outcome. New Orleans today was primed for mo-, mentous happenings between now and next Tuesday when a mayor is to he named in tlie municipal Democratic primary. A scare of martial law, a side threat that 10,000 policemen would be used, , if necessary, to insure a "quiet and orderly election,” and a derision of the judiciary characterized the latest events in the three-sided campaign, which is featured by Senator Huey P. Long's injection of his candidate, John Klorer, resigned levee board en gineer. Rumors floated about the city last night that troops would be called into action under "King Fish” orders, and the old regulars, Mayor T. Senimes Walmsley’s political group, who have members on the parish Democratic executive committee, got busy and secured an order from Judge Walter L. Gleason, of civil district court, for the registration books to be removed, if necessary, "from the registrar of voters office to any safe place.” Mayor Walmsley, endorsed by the old regulars as a candidat eto succeed himself, warned Long last night in the regular political rally that, if ne cessary, he would use 10,000 men as policemen in holding the election. North Carolina l iquor Is Government Problem There Is No Federal Law Forbidding Issue of Licenses in Dry Tarheelia; Internal Revenue Collector Goes to Washington To Obtain Instructions Hail) liifttinti'b linreim, In the Sir Walter Hotel BY J, V. BASKEItVILL. Raleigh, Jan. 17—What i*s the Fed eral government going to do about taxing and regulating liquor made in North Carolina? Is it going to ignore the State prohibition law and license moonshiners and not molest those who sell liquor if they pay the gov ernment tax of $2 a gallon, or will the Federal government cooperate with the State in trying to prevent its manufacture? The office of the Internal Revenue Bureau here has already received a general order from Washington to re quire an inventory of all dealers in distilled spirits, wines, brandy, alcohol HENDERSON, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON JANUARY 17 1934 PUBLISHED EVERY AFTE'RNOON * f EXCEPT SUNDAY. Assigned to Moscow jSjgppi i * Lieut. Thomas D. White Lieutenant Thomas D. White above, expert in military aviation now attached to the army air corps at Bolling Field, Washing ton, has been assigned to the American embassy at Moscow as an assistant military attache. White will be attached to the mil itary intelligence department at the capital for a short period of training before his departure for Moscow. But Want United States To Grant Preferential Trade Relations for Ten Years PROPOSAL IS LAID BEFORE PRESIDENT Philippine Mission, Headed by Manuel Quezon, Here lo Further Cause of free dom for the Islands; Alter native Asked Is Autono mous Government Washington, Jan. 17 (AP)- Inde pendence for the Philippines within two or three years, providing the United States grants a ten-year per iod of preferential trade relations aft er independence, was proposed by the Quezon independence delegation to day to President Roosevelt. As an alternative, the mission headed by Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippine Senate, proposed a flat grant of independence on July 4, 1940, with present trade relations be tween the two countries to continue until that time. This was the written report which had been requested by President Roosevelt. In the alternative proposal, the mission suggested establishment of a more autonomous government dur ing the six-year period in order to pre pare the islands for self-government. FAY WEBB VALIEe AMENDS HER SUIT Los Angeles, CaJ., Jan. 17.—(AP) In a surprise legal move, Fay Webb Vallee today amended her separate maintenance suit against. Rudy .Val lee, accusing him of misconduct with >a “Jane Doc, No. 3, of Dos Angeles,” and specifically charging him .with •misconduct with Miss Alice Faye, 'blues singer in various eaistern and southern cities ■ ' and so forth showing stocks on hand as of January 12 and to collect the government tax of $2 a gallon on spirits of 100 proof. But no detailed instructions were received as to how this law shall be administered in states where no liquor is supposed to be made or sold. So Collector of In ternal Revenue Charles H. Robertson has gone to Washington to try to find out what he is supposed to do. He is expected to come back the lat ter- part of the week. But it is re garded as doubtful if he will know even then just what he and his in ternal revenue collectors are sup (Continued on Page Four J. . Roosevelt Will Soon Ask Additional Billion Dollars For Program Os Recovery Intensive Cultivation Os 1934 Cotton Crop Is Southern Farmers’ Aim Senate Committee Told Os Efforts To Make As Much This Year As During Last Lear ARGUMENTS GIVEN FOR GIN LICENSES Memphis Farmer Says He Ca\:’t toe How Any One Can Oppose Plan Declar ing Surplus Can Be Con trolled Only in That Way; May Prohibit. Crop Fore casts Washington, Jan. 17. (AP) IC. E. George. Memphis, Term., farmer tol'J the S'cuatc Agriculture Committee to Jay he did "not see hew any one could object” to the Bankhead bill to control the cotton surplus by licens ing gins. ‘alie farmers of the South,” George v _v.d, “rue planning to intensify their culton cultivation this year in an es , ci t to make as much on 25,000 00C acres this season as they did on 10,- 000,000 acres last year ” George said he had recently made a trip through the South and that il was his opinion that farmers are 6C Ai\ys ahead of normal in their pre ,'orations for cotton planting. He raid he did not see. how the cotton surplus (could “puwsibty" bci ;onLolted without’the ginning license. PLANS BILL TO PROHIBIT PREDICTIONS I'OB COTTON Wshington, ‘Jan. 17. —(AP)—Senat tor Smith, Democrat, South Carolina, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee said today lie planned to introduce at this session a. bill to pro h:< ft government cotton crop predic tions. Persons Holding Gold by Tonight Face Big Penalty Washington, Jan. 17 (AP)—Persons who fail to turn in their gold or gold certificates to the Treasury by mid night will be subject to heavy pen alties, hut Treasury officials say each case will he judged on its merits. For instance, if a store or a restau rant should take in a gold certificate after tonight’s deadline, it is not thought likely that any penalty would be assessed when the certificate was turned in to bank. But if there was evidence the gold was held in direct violation of Secre tary Morgenthau’s order calling in all monetary supplies, except those held by Federal Reserve banks, the Re construction (Corporation and coin collectors, the holder would be sub ject to a penalty double the value of the gold held. Thousands Quake Dead Over India Calcutta, India, Jan. 17.—(AP) The estimate of India’s earth quake victims had leaped into four figures today. Some observers said 2,000 was a conservative estimate of those kill ed In Monday’s catastrophe. The paralysis of communication lines made accurate information most difficult to obtain. Officials were confining their statements to the list of known dead, still standing at 112, bttt re ports from aviators flying over parts of the shaken area were much morj horrifying. Hundreds were killed at MUzaf farpur. Some said the streets there were littered with corpses and that the town lay in ruins. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair, somewhat colder in east and central portions tonight; Thursday increasing cloudiness, possibly light rain in afternoon in extreme southwest portion. New Cuban President mm «9 HR ' , UnHHk^» .■ ■' • H "^8 i I y||j 111 Carlos Hevia Amid demonstrations by throngs in Havana, government leaders com prising revolutionary junta, chose Carlos Hevia, young Secretary of Agriculture under President Ramon Grau San Martin to succeed him as provisional president of Cuba. CCentral Press) =o Revolutionary General Strike Is Called as En forcement Weapon Havana. Jan. 17.—(AP) —Under the threat, of a "revolutionary genera) istrike.” the ABC secret society, the student, director, federat ion of Tabor and Dr. Antonio Guiteras, former min inter of war, formed a united front to day demanding the resignation ot Colonel Fulgeneio Batista, commen der of the army, before noon. Communications throughout the republic were tied up shortly before noon when government telegraph p.nd postal employees walked out. They were joined shortly In their strike by employees of the depart ment of state, public instruction, pub lie works, justice, agriculture and the interior. A spokesman for their strike com mittee declared: “This is not a political strike. It is simply a protest against the mili tary dictatorship which Cuba is suf fering at present.” Rum Boats Speed Liquor For Entry In Final Quotas Washington'. Jan. 17. —(AP) — Rum Iboats, 163 of them, were riding the Gulf Stream today toward the Spanish main in a race with the law that brought no frown to the Federal gov ernment. The flotilla., hearing around .2,000,- 000 gallons of liquor, is bound for Belize, British Honduras; the Bahama Islands, and other foreign ports in the south in an effort to get the liquor Consulated for legal shipment into the United States before February 9. Ralph Pulitzer Will Administer Newspaper Code Washington, Jan. 17.—(AP) —Ralph Pulitzer, member of the newspaper publishing family today was named a deputy administrator of NRA to have charge of the newspaper and allied codes when they are approved. Administrator Hugh S. Johnson made public a etter from Pulitzer- in which the latter accepted “with pride and pleasure” but pointed out pos sible objections to his service, since 'he is a trustee and stockholder in the concern publishing the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and still has an inter est in payments to he made to the old New York World, though not ac tively connected with any publication. 6 PAGES TODAY five cents copy mesSVhortly Raliroad and General Trans* portation Questions Also To Be Treated By President FINANCING OF CWA WILL BE PROVIDED District of Columbia Liquor Regulation Bill Considered in Senate; Attorney Gener al Approved KooseVelt Monetary Program Before It Was Begun Washington, Jun. 17.—(AP)— gross had a far-ahead glimpse into the administration's legislative pro gram today while setting out to dis patch the business more immediately at hand, the extraordinary monetary bill. Rejoicing that it was given juris diction, the House Coinage Committee •put aside its dollar stabilization hear ings to polish tiie Roosevelt dollar bill. Senatorial doubters, meanwhile, had White House word that President Roosevelt obtained an affirmative op inion from Attorney General Cum mings on Ihe constitutionality of his plan for the Federal government to take, over all monetary gold before ba put it into a recommendation for the ,(gi,station. There also flooded to the capital from the other end of FennsylavntH avenue, that the news lor the prom ised ret jurat for over $1,100,000,000 df additional recovery program funds for this year wnl he along soon. Trailing behind a few weeks will be what Mr. Roosevelt has to say on stock ex change regulation, war debts, tariff reciprocity powers, railroads and gen (Continued on Page Pour. Anglo-American Dollar Accord Is Talked In London London Jan. 17—(AP) —ITeporta of an informal lAnglo-AmcFfcari agreement to maintain the dollar pound ratio fairly steady around the mark of $5 to one pound were received in London today as a likely development of President Roosevelt’s monetary declaration. The British treasury and the Bank of England were silent, as usual, but highest authorities as sured The Associated Press that rumors and alarms of a currency war emanating form some quar ters of the financial district and gaining prominence in sections of the (tress were without foundation No authorities in London be lieved that any currency agree ment has been reduced to writ ing, nor is there likely to be a written pact. President Is Resentful Os Partisan Act Angered at Reports Some Democrats Using Influence In Capital for Pay Washington, Jan. 17 (AP)—Presi dent Roosevelt was shown at the White House today to be aroused lay reports that men holding party offices are using this influence in earning a livelihood in the capi* tal. The issue approached a head when he was asked baout these reports at his newspaper conference. Not mentioning names, Mr. Roose velt, with evidence of feeling, said he didn’t think it is quite in accord ance with the spirit of the adminif* (Continued On Page Four.)
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