HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR MAY CUT PHONES TONIGHT * * * * * v * * * * ************.£ More Patronage And Restoration Os Pay Cuts Demanded In Consress UNDER CURRENTS burst an Committee of Senators Wants Third of Pay Cuts Restored Tomorrow, More In July PATRONAGE BOTHERS MEMBERS OF HOUSE Sales Tax Proposal Is Again Killed In House Ways and Means Committee, Mean ing Probably That It Is De finitely Dead for the Cur rent Session \V'i-tiington. Jim. 31. (AP) Two cunti acting undcr-currcnto in Con* •jrnss burst to the surface today in a manner that, forebodes a necessity fur administration reconsideration of rbirnitig omre than a third of the Kcdcral pay checks and of how to piaeate patronage demands. A committee of senators favored re Jenin;: five percent of the pay cut. effective tomorrow, and another tid’d in July. President Roosevelt advocated that only the one-third be p ll l back in July. "More legislative flickering is due before any decision. The meaty matter of patronage was bothering House Democrats, who. like all other representatives, face « fall election. The Texan, Blanton be lated alleged Republican domination of ttu> farm, public works and relief ndmiaistrations, rousing his partisans to applause in the chamber. All of which proved nothing imme diately. hut was taken to indicate more roapproachment conferences be tween the patronage arbiter. James A. Pailey and the legislators. Adcovates of a sales tax to but 11the Treasury were rebuffed by < o' , tinu*«d on Page Five.) Greece To Expel Samuel Insull At Midnight Tonight Washington, Jan. 31.—(AP)— The State Department was ad* vised today by the American Le gation in Athens that the Greek government would expel Samuel Insult, former Chicago utilities magnate, at midnight tonight, when liis police permit expires. The department cablegram was s»>nf from Athens by Lincoln Mc- Veigh, American minister, at 3 p. in. today, Athens time. It said the foreign office had officially in formed the Lcgution that tlio per mit would not ho extended after midnight. William Phillips, under score* lary of stale, refused to comment on what uction the United States would take when Insull left Greece. 3 Russians Lose Lives In Balloon Grew Killed In Land ing After Piercing Stratosphere to New I Lights '■lo; cow, Jan. 31. —(AP)—All three "ii'inborn of the crew of the Soviet 1 ~;d o phere balloon “Osoaviakim” w 'billed between 3:30 p. m. and 5 !’ "I. yesterday several kilometers "Utluast of Moscow near the vli of Totisgyostrog. 1 tie disaster was announced, ■y today by the Soviet civil aviation authorities after 24 nours of uncon fil, ni(l reports and rumors while a search went on for tl]e fliers, who • v ' tciday reported they had reached an , altitude of 67,585 feet. •he offieial announcement said the ' " w was killed while attempting to ■oul the great balloon. I ho balloon bag broke away from u "' gondola as it hit the ground in u hard landing. The force of the con < Continued on Page Five.) Mcnfrrrsmi ' ' 1I . i A king’s ransom, $200,000 in $5 and $lO bills, has been asked for the release of Edward G. Bremer, kidnaped St. Paul banker and brewer. This photo, snapped in a St. Paul bank vvher» the money 6,000 Roosevelt Balls May Net $2,000,000 For Warm Springs Hospital Americans Dance Well Into Dawn to Honor President’s Birthday; Rich and Poor, High and Low Mingle in Great Democracy of Great and Worthy Cause (By the Associated Press.) America, danced into the dawn to day to give its President "the hap piest birthday I have ever kr.pwn.” After the ball was over—the 6.000 or more balls that were held in every state and territory of the Union -a fund that may reach $2,000,000 was held forth to the President for the benfit of sufferers from infantile paraysis. Figures that arc official will not be available for several days, for the committee in New York which direct ed the amazing party honoring the anniversary of Franklin De.ano Roosevelt’s birth, asked the thousand* Disgruntled Politicians Be lieved Behind Rumors Spreading About Dully DiM|».'t<4>b BurriiH, In Ibe Sir Walter Hotel. ItV J. C. MASK 1011VILL>. Raleigh, Jan. 30-Mrs. Thomas O’Berry, State Civil works adminis trator, has not resigned, has not even thought about resigning, has not been asked to resign and has no intention of resigning, she said to day, despite the rumors that have been current for the last two days to the effect that she either had re signed, had been asked to resign or (Continued on Pace Four.) New Coast Ships Cost 11 Million Washington, Jan. 31. (AP) —The Coast Guard today awarded to the Navy contracts totalling $11,625,000 for the construction of seven new cutters. The cutters, each a modified type of gunboat, will have 2,000 tons dis placement and be 324 feet in length. Two will be built at the New York navy yard, four at the Philadelphia yard, and one at Charleston, S. C. Funds were furnished by the Pub lic Works Administration, the ori ginal plans calling for construction of nine vessels, but when bids were received by the coast guard the ag gregate exceeded the money avail able, and seven will be built instead. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRIIiS. HERE’S RANSOM FOR BREMER HENDERSON, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 31 1934 is being held in a vault awaiting payment to the kidnapers, gives an optical estimate of that much money. There are 25,000 sep arate bills in the pile—lo,ooo $5 bills and 15,000 $lO bills. of local committees not to spend money in telegraphing dollar and at tendance statistics to it. A canvass by the Associated Press showed today, however, celebrants numbered more than a million and that receipts will perhaps exceed one million dollars,. Democracy keynoted tt\e night. Swells in tail coats and lumberjacks in flannel shirts, lovely ladies with jewels about their necks and Indian squaws who wear babies on their backs —white man, Negro, Eskimo— all creeds, all colors, all classes— danced at this birthday party, which had 48 states and Alaska for its floor. No Schools To Suffer Over Fuel Dully Dispatch liureuN, In the Sir Walter Hotel. MV J. C. MASKERVILL. Raleigh, Jan. 31. —None of U&p pub lic schools in the State will be per mitted to suffer for lack of fuel, and sufficient coal or wood will be sup plied to keep all t.hej»b(uildings warm and comfortable for the children and teachers, even if present fuel allot ments are used up before the close of the school term, Leßoy Martin, exe cutive secretary of the State School Commission said today. The school commission has held approximately $15,000 in reserve with which to pur chase additional fuel wherever it may (Continued on Page Four.) Prosecution for CWA Graft Cases Has Been Begun Washington' J»»- 31.—(Al*)— United States attorneys in four States today were drafting crim inal charges for prosecuting al legal civil works graft cases. Prosecutions in six states were ordered last night by the Public Works Administration investigat ing division to which Hurry L. Hopkins, CWA head, consigned 175 complaints submitted from 45 states. Plans for expenditures were turned over by Hapkins yesterday to the House Appropriations Com mittee, but House members in general were not able to scan them immediately. Three of the prosecutions order ed were in Kentucky, while Mar land, Arkansas and Indiana had one each. Only the Kentucky charges were described as “se rious.” 43ml n PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION geSSe Only Practical Solution Os Armaments Issued, Offi cial Statement at Rome Says STATUS QUO LEFT TO OTHER POWERS Would Abolish Chemical Warfare, Prevent Bom bardment of Civil Popula tions, Limit Present Level of Military Units Not Bound by Treaties Rome, Italy, Jan. 31.—(AP) Italy came out in favor of the re-armament of Germany a.s the only practical solution of the armaments issue, in an official statement issued todoy. This would be based on status qu# for other powers on the principal as pects of their armaments. The following limitations, however w’ould be applied: Abolition of chemical warfare. Prohibition of bombardment of civil populations. Limitations at present levels of miii tiary units not bound by treaties in force. Limitation to its present size otter restial equipment of these powers. “Public opinion of the world is convinced that the and prac tical question is nojjonger to impede German re-armament,’’ the memoran dum said, “but to avoid that, this should be effected outside the sphere of regulation and control.” Satterfield Case To Reach the Jury At Noon Thursday Goldsboro, Jan. 31. (AP) —Evi dence in the trial of Rufus Satterfield for murder of Herbert Grice, iron worker, slain from ambush last Oc tober 22 was closed at 11 o’clock this morning and arguments to the jury begun. When both sides had rested after rebuttal testimony, attorneys for the defendant, middle-aged married man, whose alleged affair with Mrs. Grice was the motive, the State contends, for the slaying, made a motion for non-suit. Judge R. Hunt Parker de nied the motion and argument be gan. Court attaches estimated the case would not go to the jury before noon tomorrow. There were six attorneys to be heard, as well as Judge Par ker’s barge. H U rHEE FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Increasing cloudiness and war mer; probably rain or snow in southwest portion late tonight; Thursday rain and warmer. FOR HENDERSON. For 21-hour period ending at noon today: Highest temperature, 33; lowest, 5; northwestwind; clear; no rain. Hitler Makes Self Absolute Monarch Berlin, Jan. 31. —(AP) —'Abolition of state rights and the quiet jettisonffl®. of the republican constitution became the new order of things in Germany today without a disen ting voice from the nation’s law-making bodies. Both the Reichstag and the Reich stat whipped Chancellor Adolf Hitler’s monumental reform bill through with no more outward manifestation than minor votes of confidence would have required. There was no debate; the vote was unanimous. Action followed close upon Hitler's fiery address marking the first anni versary of Nazi power, in which he stripped German states of their rights slammed the doors in the face of for mer Kaiser Wilhelm 11, and sharply took Austria to task for suggesting that Germany was plotting against her independence. MEDDLING IN AFFAIRS OF AUSTRIA IS VIENNA VIEW Vienna, Jan. 31. —(AP) —The Vienna Biapatrh OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA French Premier n n Sfc-; ’ • IhH % miffl Edouard Daladier y ter three other statesmen had de clined the post, Edouard Daladier Minister of War in the Ghautemps Cabinet and a former Premier, ac cepts the task of forming a new French cabinet to replace that of Premier Ghautemps which resigned under nre in connection with the Stavisky scandal. (Central Press) clsolidationF STATE UNIVERSITY MOVING SPEEDILY President Frank Graham