HENDERSON
CATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST
COLD WAVE BRINGS DEATHS AND DAMAGE
DOLL AR BILL IS NOW READY FOR PRESIDENT
SENATES CHANGES
QUICKLY ACCEPTED
BY VOTE OF HOUSE
President Telephones Speak,
er Rainey Three-Year
Limit Is All Right
Wilh Him
ADMINISTRATION IS
READY FOR ACTION
Poised for Battle Between
British Pound and Ameri
can Dollar as Result of De
valuation Program; Sen
ate Is In Recess for the En
tire Day
Washington, Jan. 29.—(AP)—A tele
phone message from President Roose
velt sufficed today to have the House
acre pt the Senate-revised dollar de
valuat ion bill.
Inasmuch as the recess of the Sen
ate for the day made it impossible
fur Vice-President Garner to design
the document, however, it can’t go to
the White House for the Roosevelt
signature Into law until tomorrow.
The President had Speaker Rainey
on the wire just before the House
met, told him the Senate three-yea?
time limitation on the $2,000,000,001
stabilization fund and its dollar re
valuation powers was all right with
him. and the speaker straightway had
tin I lon-;<• accept the Senate bill by
unanimous consent.
Meanwhile, the administration pois
ed itself for the use of the stabiliza
tion fund ir foreign exchange deal
lings.
Licking any ugtcement with Great
Britain, some responsible officials
pond, red the need to be prepared in
event of exchange hostilities between
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Italy’s Big
Airplane Is
Cracked Up
I tans - Atlantic Mail
Ship Crashes O n
BeaclijAfter Cross
ing the Ocean
i’"tt Talcza, Brazil Jan. 29.—(AP)
r, a.ly’:> premier trans-Atlantic air
htail plane crashed on the beach
hv« lve miles south of here early tw?ay
mid was found by a Pan-American
Airways mail and passenger plane,
which reported its pilot believed three
of the four Italian fliers escaped
death.
Ih> wreckage of the kalian alr-
I'lam uas sighted at about 7Sa. ni. by
Bert Sains, pilot of the American
air liner.
Htj was unable to land the air liner
Llled with passengers and mail hound
thv United States, but circled low
I't’ove the spot of the disaster.
He reported by radio that he saw
num standing beside the sinash
*' trans-Atlantic ship. His message
"••heated there had been no fire.
'he Italian plane, which left Rome
' Ly Saturday, bad been due in
oeunos Ayres today.
Crop Reduction Problem
Is Now At Crucial Stage
And Force Is Considered
Dolly Dlspntcb Burma,
In the Sir Wolter Hotel.
II) J. C. BASKERVILL.
l '- ; 'lt'igh, Jan. 29. —The problem of
""‘t rolling agricultural production
ia » now reached a crucial stage, not
”nly in North Carolina, but elsewhere
'"'onghout the nation, according to
J| C. w. Forster, head of the de-
of agriculture economics at
• ' ; ite College. As a result the pro
'•■m of the non-slgner of crop re
notion contracts is bothering crop
'“’.lustment officials more than ever.
Dr. Forster is regarded as a keen
indent of agricultural affairs and has
used by the national administra-
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g ni lent. Give us bread. All members of the family seem to be putting up a fight. Note struggling
lather at right and two children at left who refuse to be separated. (Central Press)
Simmons Is Not
To Be Candidate
Goldsboro, Jan. 29.—(AP)—Sena
tor F. M. Simmons, of New Bern,
today said lie was not a candidate
on the third district congressional
"Democratic ticket, nor is he seek
ing “any other public office.”
The statement was given the
Goldsboro News-Argus, winch re
ported the. announcement that
friends of Inc former senator wen
launching a move to have him of
fer for the seat now held by C. L.
Abernathy, of New Bern.
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keniuckymining
AREA HAS KILLING
Deputies and Miners Clash
And Deputy Kills Miner
Near Pikeville
Pikeville, Ky., Jan. 29 (AP)—One
man was killed and another wound
ed today in a clash between deputy
sheriffs and striking miners of the
Edgewater Coal Company’s mine at
Henry Clay.
Fearing further disorder, county of
ficials here enlisted the service of
15 members of the local National
Guard company, swore them in as
special deputy sheriffs and sent them
to the mine on Marrowbone creek, 16
miles south of here.
About 500 men are normally em
ployed at the mines.
The disorder began, according to re
ports here, when 50 to 75 shots were
fired this morning as some of the min
ers began to enter the workings. No
one was injured then, but later De
puty sheriff Marvin Williamson re
ported he heard shots down the road,
left the mine to get a rifle, and saw
a man behind a school house. He and
Deputy Vernon Sanders then noticed
a rifle in the school house and start
ed to get it. Wiliamson reported that
Perry Adkins, 45, jumped up and
grabbed the weapon and he shot and
killed him with his pistol. William
son reported he then shot Avery Hill,
24, when the latter pointed his rifle
at the deputy. Hill was shot in the
lower part of the body and was
brought to a local hospital where it
was said he would recover.
tion as an advisor in many of its ad
justment problems. He is credited
with having written the tobacco con
tract which is believed to be one of
the most favorable to farmers of all
the adjustment contracts prepared
during the past year.
Voluntary Methods Not Enough.
Gradually, Dr. Forster says, the ad
justment authorities are realizing that
voluntary production agreements are
not enough. Some farmers cannot be
persuaded to sign through patriotism
or through a feeling of cooperation
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPE R PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA
W,RE SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
New French Revolution—Of One Family
HENDERSON, N. C. MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 29 1934
December Sales Tax Is
In Excess Os SBOO,OOO
indications Are Total
Amount Will Reach $900,.
000 by the End of
the Present Year
DEPARTMENT GOING
AFTER DELINQUENTS
Public Doubt About State
Getting All It Is Entitled to
Spurs Revenue Officials To
Intense Efforts; Most Mer
chants Believed To Be Co
operating
Daily Dispatch IJureaw.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Os J. C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, Jan. 29. —Collections from
the sales tax this month on business
done in December have already passed
the SBOO,OOO mark, with indications
that they may amount to as much as
$900,000 by Wednesday, when the
books close for January. This was
learned from an authoritative source
today, although neither Commissioner
of Revenue A. J. Maxwell nor Direc
tor Harry McMullan of the Division
of Collections, would make public the
total collections. The exact amount of
the sales tax collections made during
January on business done by the re
tail merchants in the State during De
cember will not be officially announc
ed until Wednesday, January 31, when
the regular monthly statement of all
revenue collections is made public by
Commissioner Maxwell.
Going After Them.
It is no secret, however, that, the
Department of Revenue has been
ibendlng every effort this month to
see that returns and collections were
sent in by every one of the nearly 30,-
bOO merchants now registered with
the sales tax division. There is no
doubt that the entire Department and
the sales tax division in particular,
has been considerably aroused by the
talk that has been going the rounds
to the effect that while the people
have undoubtedly beein paying the
sales tax to the merchants that the
merchants apparently nave not been
turning over their sates tax collec
tions to the State and that the De
partment of Revenue has not been,
checking up on the merchants close
ly enough.
Public Dubious.
As a result of these reports and the
undenialble fact that a large portion
of the people in the State frankly do
not believe the State Is collecting as
much of the sales tax as hey are
paying, the 62 field deputies of the
Department of Revenue were instruct
ed early in January to devote as much
of their time as possible to the col
lection of the sales tax and to check
ing up on hose merchants who did
not seem, to be turning in as much
tax as their business seemed to war
rant. In addition to this, lists of all
merchants who had not made re
turns and sent in heir collections on
the business done in December by
January 25, were turned over to the
field deputies with instructions that
they personally call on as many of
these merchants as possible before
January 31 and either get their col
lections tn and find out why they
had not already sen* them in or get a
satisfactory explanation. This has also
served to speed up collections dur-
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29 Hurt as Train
Hits School Bus
Springville, N. Y., Jan. 29.—(AP)
—A school bus 4*vas struck by a
train here today and 29 children
were reported injured, four criti
cally.
The locomotive crushed one side
of the bus. Eye witnesses said no
liven were lost because the bus
“caught” on the front of the loco
motive and was carried along until
the engineer managed to stop.
nHHF
KILLS HIS MOTHER
Crazed by Liquor, Fights His
Father, Shoots Mother
Over Automobile
Rocky Mount, Jan. 29.—(AP)—Clyde
Smith, 26, young Nash county far
mer, was being held in Nash jail to
day charged with fatally wounding
his mother, Mrs. W. T. Smith, 47, the
mother of seven children, in Nash
early today after an argument over
the use of the family automobile.
According to Deputy Sheriff J. H.
Griffin, who investigated the shoot
ing, and arrested the boy, Smith
seized a shotgun after he had been
denied the right to use his mother’s
automobile, and fired through the
glass front door of his father’s houisp,
the load taking effect in the face of
his mother. She died within a few
minutes.
Griffin said that the boy was un
der the influence of liquor at the time.
Young Smith is said to have fought
with his father earlier in the day
and showed signs of having been bad
ly beaten, the deputy added. Griffin
said he was given to understand tha
the load of shot was intended for the
boy’s father instead of for his moth
er.
Insull Requests
Stay In Greece on
Account of Health
Athens, Greece, Jan. 29.—(AP)—
A formal appeal which he hopes
would give Samuel Insull, Sr., for
mer Chicago utiltilies operator,
from five to 15 days more haven
in Greece, was submitted today to
the ministry of the interior by P.
Bayliss, Insull’s lawyer.
The appeal was based on what
he claimed to be Insull’s bad
health, and was accompanied by
a certificate from a private phy
soefen, who said his pateint’s
health did not remit him to travel.
Another copy of the physician’s
certificate was submitted yester
day.
WEATHEK
FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair and colder; cold wave on
the south coast tonight; hard
freeze to the coast tonight; Tues
day fair and continued cold.
HOUSE COMMIUEE
VOTES 95 MILLION
FOR NAVY PLANES
Would Give President Blau,
ket Authority To Pro.
vide Supply Up To
Treaty Limit
WILL BE~TACKED ON
TO THE NAVAL BILL
Committee, Without Object
ing Vote, Approves Propo.
sal After Hearing Admiral
Standley Tell of Needs; 1,-
184 New Airships Are Con.
templated
Washington, Jan. 29 (AT)—
The House Naval Committee vot
ed today to give the President
blanket authority to provide an
airplane contingent for the navy
commesurate with a treaty limit
fleet, involving 1, 184 new planes
costing $95,000,000.
An amendment providing only for
the general authority, without speci
fying the number of planes or time
of the building, will be offered tomor
row by Chairman Vinson, Democrat,
Georgia, when the House takes up
his bill to provide for building the
fleet to treaty limits.
The committee without an object
ing vote, approved the amendment
after Admiral William H. Standley,
read letters from the budget direc
tor explaining this was more advis
able than to specify tb< number of
planes to bq built by years.
Admiral Standley and Ernest J.
King explained to the committee
that 2,184 planes, including replace
ments, would be needed for the treaty
strength program contemplated by
the Vinson bill.
Mrs. Tilley Goes
To Jail In Brobe
Os Girl’s Death
Wilkesboro, Jan. 29.—(AP)
Mrs. Lutlicr Tilley today joined
her husband and brother-in-law
in the Wilkes county jail to await
a hearing on charges that they
murdered Leota Childress, 18-year
old foster sister of the two men.
Solicitor John R. Jones said Mrs.
Tilley, who has been at liberty under
bond as a material witness in the
case, was taken into custody after a
warrant charging murder had been
issued at the behest of Leota’s rela
tives.
Luther Tilley and his brother, Clyde,
already were in jail awaiting tn«* out
come of a fourth session, scheduled
for iS'aturday, of a jury
which has been investigating tlr‘
Solicitor Jones declined to discuss
the case.
“Well, you know we adjourned that
inquest the other night to let hand
writing experts study that note some
more,” was his ony reply to ques
tions regarding new evidence.
Crop Loans
Are Cut To
45 Million
Reduced This Year
From 100 Millions in
1933 as Need Will
Be Less
Washington, Jan. 29. —(AP)—A drop
from $100,000,000 to $45,000,000 in the
amount to be sought for crop produc
tion loans this year was agreed upon
today by Chairman Smith of the Sen
ate Agriculture Committee, and W. I.
Meyers, governor of the Farm Credit
Administration. The larger amount
was opposed by the administration.
Although Governor Meyers said he
was without authority to agree to
any proposal, the 25 senators and re
presentatives attending Ithe (confer
ence gave their support to the Smith
plan.
They also agreed that the interest
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Wrightsville Has
Fire Loss Sunday
Over Half Million
Asks Bergdoll Pardon
9:1
I ’ -JB
Mrs. Emma Bergdoll
Mrs. Emma (Ma) .Bergdoll, 73-
year-old mother of Grover Cleve
land Bergdoll, notorious draft
dodger, who fled from the United
States during the World war, ii
pictured at her home in Philadel
phia scanning the plea ghe ia
sending to President Roosevelt for
a pardon for her son. Mrs. Berg
doll, who never has relinquished
her fight to have Grover par
doned, contends that he already
has pcld for hfo jE«b«Uke.
ttRIGHFSVILLE HASF
HALF MILLION FIRE
Third of Beach Resort Near
Wilmington Destroyed
On Sunday
Wilmington, Jan. 29—(AP)—A third
of the Wrightsville beach lay in
ashes today, destroyed by a fire which
roared through the island, summer
resort ten miles from here, on the
wings of a gale.
Even before the community had
taken full stock of its loss, estimat
ed variously at from $500,000 to sl,-
000,000, plans were under way for re
building. One hundred and three
buildings, including the 162-room
Oceanic hotel, were destroyed by the
fire yesterday.
While the ashes still smoked, Mayor
J. H. Taylor called a meeting of the
.board of aidermen for today to dis
cuss plans for reibuiding. He said he
was considering asking the State Civil
Works Administration for workmen
to clear away the debris.
U. S. 100 Years Ahead Os
<
Where It Was A Year Ago,
Governor Gardner Thinks
Dally Dispatch Bn/yeau, this progress and that we are still
In the Sir Walter Hotel. „ -
BY J. C. BASKERVILL. moving forward.
Raleigh, Jan. (29—One {hundred “A year ago if any one had dared
years of progress has been made to predict that a year from that time
since President Roosevelt took office we would have the NRA, limiting
less than a year ago, former Governor hours in cotton and textile mills to
O. Max Gardner said here before 40 hours a week, but increasing the
leaving for Washington Sunday. And pay to more than they were then re
this is what has so thoroughly dumb- ceiving for 60 hours a week; limiting
founded and confounded so many of the hurs which machinery could be
the Republican leaders in Washing- in operation and thus controlling pro
ton, he declared. duction, the general verdict would
“In a great many particulars we have been that such a thing could
are just 100 years ahead of where we no t come about within 100 years. But
were in January a year ago, in our it has come about in less than a year,
conception of government, industry, “if any one had predicted a year
business, economics, politics and ago that this time in 1934 the Demo
many other things. Many of us are cratic party would be the high tariff
still confused because of the tremen- party and would be advocating tariffs
dous progress we have made. But
the fact remains that we have made (Continued on Page SIX)
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. i bird of Beach Property Re.
ported Destroyed as
Flames Are Fanned
by Terrific Gale
TWO MEN DEAD IN
FIRE AT TROY, N. Y
Waterfront Town Near
Brooklyn Also Swept by
Flames Driven by High
Winds; Other Structures
Destroyed in Indiana a’nd
Massachusetts
(By the Associated Press)
Cold gales fanned numerous fires
today in widely separVated places.
Three persons were burned to death.
Many were injured. Damage esti
mated ran to seven figures. The ex
treme cold felt throughout the north
hampered fire fighters.
At Troy, N. ¥., the cold house of
the eterans of Foreign Wars burned
down, killing two sleeping men, seri
ously burning a third.
Three-year-old Mary Logoviano lost
her life when flames consumed the
cottage of her parents at Hermanton,
■N. J., and her mother was) burned as
she rescued two other children.
Row after row of frame structures
fed gale-fanned flames along the wa
ter front at Canarsie, on Jamiaco
Bay, in Brooklyn, N. Y. Seven fire
men were injured. A section stret
ching for half a mile was destroyed.
The bitter cold wind whiffed icy spray
from the water of the hoses back into
the faces of the fire-fighters.
At Anderson, Indiana, a fire that
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Colder For
Tonight In
This State
Severest Cold Weath
er of Winter Felt
. After Balmy Day
During Sunday
Raleigh, Jan. 29. —(AP) —North Car
olina shivered in the most severe cold
wave of the winter today and colder
weather was predicted jfor tomor
row.
A blustery wind, which swept the
State from one end to the otner late
yesterday and last night, sent
mercury scurrying down in ther
mometers in near record fashion.
Springlike weather of yesterday aft
ernoon, which say a temperature of
68 degrees, even at Asheville in the
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