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Attend President’s Birthday Ball Tonight And Helfi A Onl hknderson GATEWAY TO central CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR SOUTH IS PROMISED RELIEF FROM COLD WAVE American People Are Celebrating President Roosevelt’s 100,000 MESSAGES SENT PRESIDENT ON »ANNIVERSARY! Mail and Telegrams Arrive at White House by Bas. ketload for the Great Occasion THOUSANDS WILL GO TO BIRTHDAY BALLS Six Thousand of Them Esti mated To Be Planned for Tonight; President Plans for His Own Yearly Party, and Family Will Likewise Honor the Chief Washington, Jan. 30.- (Al') Even ;i> other happy boys and men. Presi dent Roosevelt indulged today in a birthday party- but one that swelled into itch national proportions as have few similar occasions. More than 75.000 birthday greeting card- <l< eroded upon the White lloii <•, with mail rind telegrams ar riving by the lUaskctload, presiden tial aides estimated the number won tol d 100.000. And 6,000 balls to aid the Worn Springs Foundation were plan ner! elsewhere. Mr. Roosevelt hud arranged for his own party. It will as usual, be with (Continued ou Page Two.) GREECE TO PERMIT INSULL TO REMAIN Athens, Georgia, Jan. 30 (Al') — The ministry of the interior indi cated today that Samuel Instill, Sr., former Chicago utilities ope rator, would be given a ten-day extension of his permit to remain in Greece when it expires tomor row. What official decision lias been taken was not immediately an nounced, but the minister of the interior said he believed the ex tension would lie accorded. Ills statement followed a conference held with Premier Tsaldaris. CWA Trims Its Outlay By $300,000 Few More Workers Employed In State But With Third Less Money Paid Out Lalcigh, Jan. 30.- (APl—The Fed »i;d order curtailing civil works pro in North Carolina resulted in ,t "' reduction of more than S3OU,OC in ih<> State’s CWA payroll last week, 1 compared with the preceding week. . Thomas O’Berry reported today. J hiring the week ending January ’• payrolls of $640,554.72 were distri '"iLd among 75,7*27 workers, compar 'd with pay the week before of $973,- <!’• i (i:! for 71.120 workers. The reduc li"" aggregated $333,1129.90, or 34.2 of tt| ( . amount paid workers the week ending January 20. Whether Satterfield Is ‘Pigeon-Toed’ Is Argued ** I * -oldsboro, Jan. 30. —(Al’) —On the opinion of a Wayne county jury as to "In ther Rufus Satterfield is “pigeon- Pji ri ' Ol “slough-footed” may rest the 1 ~ll‘ of Satterfield, charged with mur diiing Herbert Grice. •hlicers testified for the State that 4 "pigeon-toed" person lay in wait “•ar Grice’s home here the night of October 22 and shot him when he came out on his porch to investigate lhe t barking of his dog. The defense today introduced photo- Dailn Biaiiatrh LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Duke Trustees To Meet at Raleigh Raleigh, Jan. 30.—(Al')—- The I trustees of the IJukc Endowment, meeting In New York today, ac cepted an invitation extended by the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce to attend an elaborate celebration here December 11, 19J1, marking the tenth annivcrsaiy of the sign ing of the indenture by the late James B. Duke which created the endowment. POLITICSOCCUPIES NATIONAL CAPITAL MUCH OF THE DAY Democrotic Leaders in House and Senate Criti cize Ogden Mills’ Speech in Kansas SEEN AS HARBINGER OF HIS CANDIDACY Huey Long Holds Forth In Senate In Defense of Pur. ity of Louisiana Politics; St. Lawrence Waterway Pact With Canada Is Dis cussed in the Senate Washington, Jan. 30.—(AP)—Poli tics, past and future, tinctured this busy day in the national capital that was otherwise largely bereft of the unexpected. Democratic leaders of both congres sional branches seized upon a Kansas speech of Ogden Mills, former secre tary of the treasury, tor criticism. Robinson, Democrat, of Arkansas, of the Senate, called it a ‘‘harbinger’ of Republican presidential candidacy. Arms waiving, Huey Long in the Senate at length assailed charged cl a committee there against the purity of Louisiana politics, saying the same committee had found Senator Overton “as clean as the angle’s ghost.” Encouraging pats were given the Jones bill to make cattle a basic com modity under the farm act, and the Vinson-Trammell treaty navy mea sure, the former getting committee approva in the House, and the atter (Continued on Page Two.) LEWIS GREGORY, OF ROCKY MOUNT, DIES Was 45 Years a Leading Tobacconist, and Was First to Re-Dry Weed For The American Rocky Mount, Jan. 30.-—(AP) Lewis B. Gregory, 63, for the past 45 years leading tobacconist, and un til recently head of the American! Tobacco Company intereSte here. >it his home here today after a oriel ILLnessa. Tobacco sales will be suspended here Wednesday morning for the fun eral services, market officials have announced. • Mr. Gregory was the first man t<. ic-diy toibiacco for the Amcrica.fr com pany, an achievement that resulted in tremendous expansion of business by the company in Eastern Carolina. He is survived by one son, one daughter, four sisters, including M C. E. Jackson, of Warrenton, and Mrs. A. G. Green, of Henderson, and ' four brothers. ( graphs tending to prove that the de fendant is “slough-footed.” Dr. A. R. Sands, head of the or thopaedic department of Duke Uni versity, testifying as an expert, said Satterfield is “slough-footed,” and gave as proof of his assertion various skeletal structures, comparing them with Satterfield. Five additional witnesses for each side were yet to be called, and offici als expected the case would go to the jury tonight. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA Looking Back Through the Years with Roosevelt ■RE ■ < -iStegyJ ■ I - -■ 14 9 ' oßfe v\ Above, cutting o*o - birthday cake ll®- .< ■JU Favorite baby picture \\ with Warm - m ® IWr/ \\ tients. Right, > |l|| \ W'. /■ \\ as Ass’t Scc’y K I K \ of Navy. BMMM wMf I, 3g||s|L Left, a* boy of I I agOgs#' * seven. Above, t/ j at sixteen,with BsHfe H mother and \ J9S father. Right, 4Wffiw • recent por- B. // trait of the v. : President of the United State*. All the nation honors President Franklin D. Roo&civeJt on his fifty second birthday. His life and career stand as an inspiration. Here arc some interesting pictures of the President which take him from jabyhood to the White House. That of the President sharing his birth av cake with young natients at Warm Springs Foundation, the Geor- Stock Mart Probe Soon Will Start Pecora Intimates Senate Inquiry To Start Next Week, Seek Regulation Washington, Jan. 30 (AP) —An ear ly investigation of the New York Stock Exchange is planned by the Senate Banking Committee prepara tory to drawing up regulatory mea sures. Ferdinand Pecora, committee coun sel, indicated today the stock market investigation would begin next week. Meanwhile, Senator Couzens, Mich igan, announced the committee would draft a bill in the next two weeks to regulate the New York Stock Ex change and other exchanges. One Negro In Florida Is Lynched Tampa? Fla., Jan. 30—(AP) —A band of men early today lynched Robert Johnson, Negro, held for investiga tion for an alleged attack on a white woman. Deputy Constable T. N. Graves re ported he was kidnaped, beaten and then freed when the Negro, whom he was transferring from the city jail in charge ’of State authorities, was shot down. The shooting took place in an is olated section 15 miles froh Tampa at 3:15 a. m., a short time after Graves took the Negro from the jail. Police reported they released John son to Graves at 2:30 a. m. when the deputy constable appeared with war rants charging Johnson with petty larceny. Graves said his automobile was stopped and he was overpowered and tossed into the rear seat. Graves said a dozen cars followed the party to the scene of the lynching. Police arrested Johnson Sunday and reported he was partially identified as the Negro who attacked the wo man. HENDERSON, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 30, 1934 New Recovery Machinery Is Hurrying Into Action Unemployed To Be Shifted To Points Where Jobs Wait; Home Building, CWA and Relief Funds Being Pro vided; Roosevelt To Sta rt Operation *of Law Washington, Jan. 30.—(AP)— New machinery that may expend billions, altering in its course the nation’s in dustrial and agricultural map, today advanced in part beyond the blue print stage in the administration’s reconstruction laboratories. Among the developing plans were these:* A movement to shift hundreds of thousands of unemployed from com munities where once booming indus tries had left then stranded into the TAX WuWr “ IN STATE TALKED Would Use Revenue to Dis place Automobile Li cense Reductions Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel, nr j. c. baskervill. Raleigh, Jan. 30. —The State levies a tax on gasoline for the mainten ance of the highways. Why should it not likewise levy a tax on whiskey made and sold in the State for the same purpose and reduce the cost of the automobile licenses proportion ately? This question is being seriously talked in politicial circles here, al though not by State officials or the that come up for nomination this ’spring—a.t least not to be quoted. For State officials know that any open discussion with regard to repeal or mdoification of the Turlington Act, the State’s prohibition enforcement law, is political dynamite. But this is not keeping the public generally from discussing it and advocating it. They point out that just as much if i Continued or. Paae Three i HEATHER FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Fair and not quite so cold to night; Wednesday fair and war mer. gia health resort for sufferers from infantile paralysis, shows Mr Roosevelt’s warmest interest. The proceeds from hundreds of dances being held through the United States to honor the President are to be used as an endowment for the foundation, where Mr. Roosevelt him self regained his health. (Central Press) open country or "smaller commun ities where industries are moving.” A half billion dollar emergency pro gram to aid the dairy industry thro ughout the country, and to help cat tle men, located principally in the west. A new effort toward moderniza tion of homes that the Federal Home Loan organization hopes will send hundreds of millions into such chan- (Continued on Page Two.) fIAILTOTALHERr IS ABOVE VIRGINIA I Better off With Sales Tax Than Neighbor to North Without It Dully Dispatch Bureau In the Sir Walter Hotel, BY .1. C. BASKEHVIIX. Raleigh, Jan. 30 —Retail business in North arolina during the six months period ending December 317 1033, in spite of the sales tax, showed a steady gain with the exception of Septem ber and showed an average index figure of plus 16.33 for that period, according to figuures obtained from the Federal Reserve Bank in Rich mond, Va., and released today by Di rector Harry MoMullan of the De partment of Revenue. The index fig ures for retail business in Virginia, for this same six months period from July through December, and where there is no sales tax similar to the North Carolina sales tax, the index figure for the six months is only plus 5.1. For the month of December, the retail business index figure for the Carolinas, based almost entirely on reports sos retail merchants Krom North arolina, the Federal Reserve release states, plus 18.7 while the in- (Continued on Fajce Three.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON s EXCEPT SUNDAY. Southern To Delay Its Taxes Raleigh. Jan. 710.—(Al’)— The Southern Railway System today notified A. J. Maxwell, State re venue commissioner, that it would again this year have to delay pay ment of about $715,000 in county taxes due in this State February 1. Haddon Johnson, the railway's tax cominissauiier wrote Mr. Max well that payment of the taxes would have to be deferred for a short period of time. Regional Bank In Raleigh Will Move to Georgia Washington, Jan. 30.—(AP) —Repre- sentative Vinson. Democrat, Georgia, said today he had been informed the Raleigh office of the Regional Agri cultural Finance Corporation would be transferred to Macon, Ga., March 31. The representative said he request ed the transfer of the corporation, for merly part of the R. F. C., but which -has been made a part of the Farm Credit Administration for the purpose of liquidation. II will require a year or more, Vin son said, to liquidate the activities of both the Raleigh ana Macon offices of the agricultural finance corpora tion. Soviet Balloon Reaches New Stratosphere Peak Moscow, Jan. 30.» —(AP) —A Soviet civil aviation stratosphere balloon, which took off on an unannounced ascension today, was reported in a message fro mils crew to have reach ed the record-breaking height of 20,- 600 meters (67,585 feet.) The balloon, known as the “Os caviakim,” attained that altitude at 11:59 a. m., Moscow time (4:29 a. m. EST.) A radio message from the bag said a descent was being started imme- 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Birthday TEMPERATURE HITS ZERO AT POINTS IN WESTERN CAROLINA Wilmington and Hatteras Shiver With Mercury at 10 and 16 Degrees Respectively DEATH HEREONLY ONE DUE TO COLD Every Indication of Cold Weather for Tonight, But Not So Cold as Last Night; Raleigh Has Eight De grees, Henderson Six and Other Places Low (By the Associated Press.) Many sections of the Carolinas had the coldest weather in years today. The coldest report was in the two states was from Caesar’s Head, S. C., where there was an official reading of two below zero, Asheville reported a zero mercury early this morning and on the op posite side of the state extremely hard of the extremely hard freezes were recorded at Wilmington, Hatteras and other coastal points. Wilmington had a reading of ten degrees anu Hat teras 16. The mercury in Raleigh dropped to eight degrees, the coldest day since a reading of seven hi January 1924. Ihe weather man said there was every indications of continued cold weather, though the temperatures probably would not go quite as low to night and early tomorrow as they did touay in ’most places. One death in the Carolinas was at tributed indirectly to the cold wave. (Continued on Page Two) Cold Wave Break Seen In Sections Temperatures Mod erating in North west; Number of Deaths Reported (By the Associated Press.) The traditionally Sunny South had its bright sunshine today, but along with it the coldest weather of the winter. A break in the cold wave that has gripped most of the country appar ently was in sight, as southerners shivers in freezing temperatures along the Gulf of Mexico. In the northwest, temperatures wero moderatin, and it was predicted to /be warmer for parts of the central states during the day and for the east to morrow. In Chicago, apparently hardest hit of the country’s big cities seven deaths had been attributed to th* cold snap. Two deaths were reported at Bir mingham, Ala., as due directly to the coldest weather of the season. Elsewhere ther ewere a few addi tions to the list of prsons whoG* deaths were blamed on the cold. diately. At that position the crew reported that temperature outside was between. 33 and 49 degrees below zero, and four below inside. The message "All is well,” waa flashed from the balloon only to be followed with the additional word that visibility was so poor the crew could not determine their exact position. Airplanes were dispatched from the Moscow military airdrome to help the stratosphere crew lodate themselves.
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