HENDERSON
gateway to
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
NAVY APPROPRIATIONS BILL PASSED BY HOUSE
Huey Long’s Rule
Meets Big Defeat
At New Orleans
First Major Reverse at Polls
In Six Years for Louis,
iana’s Famous
“King Fish”
WALMSLEY FAR OUT
IN LEAD FOR MAYOR
Lacks Only 9,000 of Having
Clear Lead Over Whole
Field; Third Man Is Anti-
Long Candidate With
Nearly as Many Votes as
Long's Entry
New Orleans. La. .lan. 21. <AP)
Senator Huey P. Ixmg’s political ma
chine today had apparently met ito
fit-i tii - ior defeat at Hie polls in six
m:h.- unofficial and incomplete re
fum. fiotii yesterday’s mayoralty
jiiirMy continued to send the Walm
..|<v old regular faction far out in
fieiif in a four-cornered race for city
hall control.
The Ijong candidate for mayor,
John Kloter, was running more than
lt.ooo votes behind Mayor T. Scmmes
Walmsley on the face of returns j
from 240 of the city's 262 precincts
thL morning, but Kiorer headquarters
and Senator Ix>ng continued to with
hold a statement on whether the is
.-u, would be forced into a second
tun-off primary.
The Walmsley total at 9 a. m.. was
.-onic 9.*M>o votes short of a clear no
minating majority over his three op
ponents.
When the weary (Milling commis
. ioners .tip all night, suspended count
ing this morning to take a three-hour
rest, the unofficial returns from 243
precincts showed Walmsley, 41,066;
Klota. 26.854; Francis W'illiams, inde
pendent anti-Long campaigner, 23.682.
and Herbert B. Holmes, independent
nun-factional candidate, about 500.
LONG REFUSES COMMENT
UNTIL RETURNS COMPLETE
New Orleans. La., Jan. 24.—(AP) —
Senator Huey P. Long, whose city
ticket ran second to that headed tby
Mayor T. iScmmes Walmsley in yes
terdays Democratic primary, said to
day he would have no statement until
he has heard from the less important
c< ntests as well as further returns on
the mayoralty race.
Mayor Walmsley was out in front
on the face of returns from all but
22 of the city’s 252 precincts.
Long’s candidate, John Kiorer, was
running in second place, with Fran
cis Williams, independent candidate,
in third place.
Streets Os
Paris Look
Like Battle
Street Fighting Near
Chamber of Depu
ties Continues Far
Into the Night
Palis, Jan. 24.—(AP) —Streets of
Paris resembled a battlefield at sun
today, strewn with the debris
from several sharp clashes, between
*he police and royalists and commun
i’* demonstrators.
Street fighting in the vicinity of
Chamber of Deputies continued
!f *r into the night, while the Cham
*”‘i endorsed Premier Camille Chau
nips' protest against a campaign of
"iud-slinglng in the Stavisky bank
’’andal.
Five thousand Communists fought
Un- police on the boulevard Mont-
I’artnasse and eight manifestants
w,, re taken to hospitals.
loyalist elements laid waste streets
in the aristocratic Faubourg St. Ger
maine district, and extended their op
•‘>ations to the lake water.
On the boulevard St. Michael riot
*’is demolished news stands and
florist stands, drenched them with
gasoline and set them afire.
weather
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Increasing cloudiness and slight
•y warmer tonight, followed by
rain Thursday and probably by
rain in southwest portion tonight;
banner Thursday; much colder
Friday.
Hi'ithi'ramx Hathi SBispatrfr
LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beats Long Ticket
Ml'
Mayor T. Scmmes Walmsley was re
elected mayor of New Orleans in yes
terday's election in that city when he
defeated the ticket strongly sup
ported by U. S. Senator Huey P. Long.
howayßldwT
IS IN ITS INFANCY
Vast Expansion Essentia! if
New Social Order Is To
Be Success
COORDINATION NEEDED
Four Things Should Be Kept In
Mind, Jeffress Points Out in
Address at Chicago Road
Convention
By Staff Correspondent.
Chicago, Jan. 24.—Despite the pro
gress that has been made so far in
the’ building of highways in the Unit
ed States, highway construction is
still in its infancy, and so far little
effort has been made to coordinate
highway construction with future
needs and requirements, Chairman E.
B. Jeffress, of the North Carolina
State Highway and Public Works
Commission, said this afternoon in an
address before the American Road
Builders Association. Most of his ad
dress dealt with the highway needs of
the future.
properly planned highways are essen
tial to the successful continuation of
the new industrial and social order
mow coming into being largely as a
result of the government’s eperiments
in limiting working hours and pro
duction of industry, Jeffress pointed
out. For a continued curtailment of
■the work week throughout the nation
is going to make it necessary for
workers to live outside congested
areas where they may operate small
farms or gardens in the time they
are not regularly employed and thus
help supplement their wages. But in
order to do this, adequate highway
facilities must be provided iby which
these workers may get to and from
their work.
‘‘The only way this new policy can
continue and become fixed in Anir
erica is to base our industrial life up
on a coordination of industry and
agriculture, so that workers may di
vide their time between the factory
and their farm or garden operations,”
Jeffress said. “For in order for a man
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Little Chance of
Durham Negro To
Escape the Chair
Raleigh, Jan. 24.—(API—There was
i apparently little hope today at the
end of an executive hearing that exe
> cutive clemency will be extended to
Theodore Cooper, Durham Negro,
- scheduled to be electrocuted Friday.
J. Elmer Long, Durham lawyer and
- former lieutenant governor, and Dr.
i R. L. Flowers, of Duke University, led
a delegation of some 25 white and
Negro people who appeared before
- Edwin M. Gill, parole commissioner,
to plead for Cooper, but, after the
hearing Gill indicated there was little
chance for a commutation for him.
Cooper was convicted of the mur
der of J. N. Lasater, allegedly acting
as the hired killer of Will Hessee, a
white man, who was convicted and
given life imprisonment under State
law, which classes the employer as
an accessory.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRWNIA. *
BIG SLASH MADE
IN TREASURY AND
■ POST OFFICE BILL
I
House Appropriations Com
mfttee Recommends $820,.
693,270 for Year’s
Operations
OVER 400 MILLIONS
UNDER 1934 AMOUNT
Shows Increase, However,
of $185,429,629 in Annual
Public Debt Service Re
quirements in View of In
crease in Public Debt to
23 1-2 Billions
Washington, Jan. 24. -(AP) — The
House Appropriations Committee to
day recommended • $820,693,270 for
operating the Treasury and Post Of
fice Department during the next, fis
cal year, representing a, $403,623,327
decrease from the current allotment
ai d a $6,683,830 cut in the budget es
tm ates.
The report submitted to the ll\use
also showed an increase in annual
public debt service requirements of
$185,429,628, in view of the increase of
the public debt to $23,534,000,000, as
of November 30. 1933.
This brought the total annual debt
service requirement to $1,350,087,850,
including $525,738,850 for the sinking
fund, and $824,349,000 for interest.
The Treasury was allotted $149,842,-
330 for the fiscal year beginning July
1, and the Post Office Department
$670,850,940.
With the public debt and other per
manent annual and indefinite appro
priations, ’ amounting to $1,363,494,000
as reported in the supply bill, the
money is withdrawn for payment au
tomatically, and Congress does not
pass on them.
In reporting the bill, Chairman Ar
nold, Democrat, Illinois, of the sub
committee in charge, said the group
was not inclined to make any in
crease in the present rate of expen
ditures until all investigations and
studies of the air mail contracts and
practices have been completed.
The committee allotted $14,000,000
for domestic air mail, $1,000,000 less
than for this year; $37,500,000 for for
eign air and ocean mail, or SBOO,OOO
less than for the current period. Os
the latter, is for foreign air
mail.
secretarYdern on
FLIGHT TO FT. BRAGG
Washington, Jan. 24—(AP)—George
H. Dem, secretary of war, left to
day by airplane for Fort Bragg, N.
C„ where he will make an inspection.
While in North Carolina, Secretary
Dern will also visit friends at Win
ston-Salem.
TREASURER URGES
CITY FUNDING BILL
Johnson Asks Bailey and
Reynolds To Back Mea
sure in U. S. Senate
Daily Dispatch B«rea«,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Bf J. U. BASKEttVILL.
Raleigh, Jan. 24—Enactment of the
Wilcox municipal debt refinancing
bill, already passed by the House and
now in the Senate, is regarded as es
sential by State Treasurer Charles M.
Johnson, since until such a bill is
enacted by Congress it wil be im
possible to refinance many local bond
issues by cities and towns in North
Carolina because minorities of bond
holders continue to block refunding
for selfish reasons, he said today. He
has just written again to Senator J.
W. Bailey and Robert R. Reynolds,
asking them to support this bill when
it comes up for a vote in the Senate.
No trouble is being experienced
here in North Carolina in refinancing
the debts of counties, cities and towns
that are entirely solvent and in good
financial condition, Johnson points
out in his letters to Senators Bailey
and Reynolds. But a good deal of
trouble is being experienced in try
ing to refinance bond issues of coun
ties and towns that probably cannot
ever pay off their present indebted
ness in full, because of the objections
of minority bondholders.
“In my opinion, the bonds in these
units can never be refinanced until
we are able to bring in the minority
holders of these bonds and put them
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HENDERSON, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 24, 1934
New Jap War Chief
PR i H
A ./-s'J
S
'Tw'wSii
General SenjUro Hayashi
Following resignation of Genera)
Sadao Araki as Japanese Minister
of War, General Senjuro Hayashi,
Inspector General of Military Edu
cation, has been appointed to the
important Cabinet post. While a
grim soldier and a stanch patriot,
the new War Minister is believed to
be much more conservative than his
predecessor.
<Central Press)
BREMER'SRiSOr
WAS NOT PAID UP
10 EARLY MORNING
Sources Close to Family of
Kidnaped Banker Said
Exchange Has Not
Been Effected
salesmanTtkely
SAW KIDNAP GANG
Was Told To “Beat It” On
Highway North of City
When He Came Upo'n Two
Cars That May Have Been
Maneuvering for Meeting;
Near Hamm Kidnaping
St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 24.—(AP)
The $200,000 ransom demanded by kid
napers for the release of Edward G.
Bremer, wealthy St. Paul banker, had
not been paid up to 3 a. m. today,
“well authenticated sources close to
the family said.
State highway patrolmen said this
bear out their investigation of the
«tory told by Harry Bachman, St.
paul (salesman, who yesterday Ad
vanced the theory he might have
stumbled across the kidnapers as
they drove along a highway north of
here to keep the purported pre-ar
ranged meeting.
Bachman related how he was bot
tled up between two automobiles
North of Hinckley, Minn., and was
prevented from forging' ahead by the
jockeying of the two cars. After sev
eral miles, when he finally succeeding
in drawing up alongside the leading
car, he was told to “beat it,” and he
speeded away.
Investigators pointed out this oc
curred about 2:15 p. m., while the
ransom money was known to have
been kept in St. Paul up to 1230 p.
m„ central standard time, today. The
scene of Bachman’s experience is in
the vicinity where the SIOO,OOO ran
som was paid last June for the re
lease of William Hamm, Jr., held
prisoner almost four days.
Cuban Government
Now Recognized by
Britain and Spain
Loudon, Jan. 24. (AP) The
British government today recognized
the new government of Cuba under
President Carlos Mendieta.
RECOGNITION BY SPAIN.
Madrid, Jan. 24.—(AP)—The Span
ish government today announced its
recognition of the Cuban government
of President Carlos Mendieta.
INSULL LOSES OUT
IN FINAL PLEA TO
REMAIN IN GREECE
Supreme State Council Adds
Its Decision to That of
Other Government
Agencies
GREEK COURTS HAD
HELD WITH INSULL
Twice Before They Had Re
fused To Throw Him Back
To United States for Extra,
dition to Chicago To Stand
Trial in Crash of Vast Uti
lities Empire
Athens, Greece, Jan. 24—(AP)—The
Supreme State Council rejected
Samuel Insjill’s appeal today and thus
placed the official stamp of legality
upon the government’s order that he
must seek another refuge at the end
of this month.
The council oraered the former Chi
cago utilities operator jto pay thei
cost of the proceedings.
Insull appealed after the minister
of the interior refused to extend his
residence permit beyond January 31
and thus enable hi mto continue evad
ing extradition to the United States
by remaining in his Athenian re
treat.
Twice before, Greek courts had held
in Insults favor in cases' through
which the United States sought his
extradition to face charges of lar
ceny, embezzlement and violation of
bankruptcy laws.
The formal announcement said to
day that the minister of the interior’s
decision constituted in itself an ad
ministrative act, and, therefore, was
a matter which could not be dealt
with by the council.
It added, however, that the evidence
before the council plainly showed the
decision had the consequence of in
fluencing Greece’s foreign relation
ships and, therefore, the matter be
came a government and not an ad
ministrative act.
KENT-COFFEY CASE
STATE PRECEDENT
Means Heavier Tax Collec
tions by State from Out
side Concerns
Daily Dispatch Uureas,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKHRVILE.
Raleigh, Jan. 24—Thousands of dol
lars a year in additional corporation
income taxes should be collected by
the State of North Carolina as a re
sult of the decision just handed down
by the United States Supreme Court
in the Kent-Coffey Company case, in
■which this company, located in Le
noir, Caldwell county, sued the State
to collect an additional tax assess
ment levied against it by the Depart
ment of Revenue, in the opinion of
both Commissioner of Revenue, A. J.
Maxwell and Director Harry Me-
Mullan, of the Division of Assess
ments and Collections. For while the
amount of money involved in this
case was only about $4,500, the prece
dent set in going to result in the
collection of a great deal more cor-
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Claimed by
Two Men
John Norman followed his
wife to England to take her
back with him to India. Tig
gie Turner, who had fallen in
love with her, refused to give
her up. Norman and Turner
met face to face, one claim
ing the woman by right of
law, the other by right of
conquest. Who wins her?
To learn the answer, read
Storm Drift
by Ethel M. Dell
Beginning Tomorrow in
The Henderson Daily
Dispatch
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Dollar Bill Near
Action In Senate
As Debate Flares
Curry’s Successor ?
■' i
< I
•> . IM
George L. Donnellan
Tentative agreement is said t«
have been reached by a faction of
Tammany Hall, Democratic or
ganization of New York City, for
the selection of Judge George L.
Donnellan, above, of the general
sessions court, as a candidate to
’’oplace John F. Curry as chieftain
of the famous wigwam.
SME ofoeposF
UNCONSTITUTIQNAL
Supreme Count Decides Suit
Against Bank Commis
sioner Gurney Hood
SCHENCK RULED ON IT
Lower Court Had Held That Hood
Should Accept Deposits in Deposits
in Defuncts Bank Which
Plaintiff Had Offered.
Raleigh, Jan. 24.—(AP)—The State
Supreme Court today held tnat the
so-called Sullivan law to allow the
sale and transfer of deposits in
closed banks in North Carolina, coun
ties is unconstitutional.
One of the 40 opinions nanded down
written by Associate Justice Connor,
it disregarded whether or not the
law contravenes the ’United States
Constitution, but held that, in view
of the fact “it is clearly in contraven
tion of Section 7 o£ Article I of the
Constitution of Noith Carolina,” it
“for that reason is unconstitutional
and void.”
The Connor decision decided the
suit of J. H. Edgerton and Mrs. F.
R. Morgan and G. E. Morgan vs.
Gurney P. Hood, State bank commis
sioner, and the Rutherford County
Bank and Trust Company, appealed
by the defendants from a ruling of
Judge Michael Schenck that Hood
should accept deposits in the defunct
bank which G. E. Morgan had pur
chased and offered in settlement of
notes he had in the bank.
Spanish Official
. Requests Pardon
For 4 Americans
Madrid, Jan. 24.—(AP) —The attor
ney general of Spain recommended to
the supreme court today a pardon for
four Americans held in ail at Palma,
Mallorca, for assaulting a civil guard.
The four Americans are Mr. and
Mrs. Clinton D. Lockwood, of West
Springfield, Mass.; Roger F. Mead, of
New York, and Edmond A. Blodgett,
of Stamford, Conn.
They had been held in custody at
Palma since last Sunday when they
were arrested following a supreme
court reversal of a military tribunal
verdict. The military court had ac
quitted them of the charge, but the
supreme court found them guilty and
sentenced them to six months and a
day in jail.
The question of whether the Amer
icans will be set free now rests with
the sixth section of the supreme court
here. A decision favorable to the pri
soners was expected to be handed
down tonight or tomorrow.
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TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
White House Se*nds Senate
Word of Accepting Time
Limit on Dollar De.
valuation Plan
BOARD OF FIVE IS
BITTERLY OPPOSED
But Administration Opposes
It, and Wants Treasury
Secretary to Handle It
Alone; Roosevelt Askfe
$850,000,000 for Relief,
Some of It for CWA
Washington, 21 '(AP)—Thh
•House today passed the $284,747,000
Navy Department appropriation bill,
while the Senate thrust toward a vote
on the Roosevelt dollar devaluation
bill. i f
Without a record vote, the House
sent the supply bill to the Senate aft
er plans had been abandoned for at
taching to the legislation a construc
tion program to bring the United
States Navy to treaty limits.
It then started general debate on
the Treasury-Post Office bill, just re
ported from committee.
Administration spokesmen in thb
(Senate, after (receiving word from
President Roosevelt, agreed to accept
a time limit on dollar devaluation
powers and the proposed two billion
dollar stabilization fund.
All was not so serene, however, in
asmuch as the Senate simultaneous
ly learned of administration opposi
tion to having a board of five—in
stead of the Treasury secretary—ope
rate the stabilization fund.
“Obnoxious and impracticable,"
Robinson, of Arkansas, called it.’
Vice-President Garner gave the
monetary measure right of ways as
soon as the Senate met, and the for
ensic forays were on. It was hoped
the spirit of compromise would make
a vote possible this week, but therW
■were doubters.
The Senate is expected to accede
with little question later with the
“‘bigger navy” proposals, receiving
much commendation in the House
these days.
Os the other problems facing the
nation, meanwhile, another 850,000,-
000 for relief, $350,000,000 being to
carry the CWA at least until May,
was advocated by the President.
It became known that Mr. RooSe*
velt expects Congress to legislate
with regard to the stock exchange,
but elsewhere it was indicated that
official recommendation will not be
as stringent as had been expected in
some quarters heretofore.
, The administration’s quick set-up
in the top-heavy House, meanwhile,
was put behind the newly-arrived
$820,000,000 bill to carry the Treas
ury and Post office departments
through the year beginning in July*
PLANWEUPON
TAX DELINQUENTS
Names of Sales Tax Arrears
Will Be Sent to Field
Men Tomorrow
Daily Dispatch Bares*.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKtJRVIIX.
Raleigh, Jan. 24—Beginning tomor
row, January 25, the names of all
merchants in the State who have not
yet sent in their sales tax returns for
December or for the quarter ending
December 31, will be turned over to
the 62 field deputies of the Depart
ment of Revenue with . instructions
for them to visit every merchant and
collect the sales tax due and find out
why these merchants did not send in
their collections voluntarily, it was
announced today by Director Harry
MoMullan, of the Division of Assess
ments and Collections.
At the present time there are 29,-
400 registered merchants in the State
subject to the sales tax law. All of
these should have made out return*
for the month of December or for the
quarter or six months ending Decem
ber 31 and have sent in collections by
not later than January 15, according
to the law, with the result that all
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