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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR RELIEF BILL FOR 950 MILLIONS GIVEN DOLLAR CLIMBS TO HIGHER LEVELS IN FOREIGN MARKETS Improvement Follows Roos evelt’s Announcement of $35 Per Fine Ou'ncc for Gold OPERATIVES EXPECT WALL STREET BOOM Gold Purchases Abroad To Be Shipped Here As Rap idly As Possible; French Gold Francs Heavily Bought; Gold Bullion At All-Time High dly the Associated Press.) The United States dollar dim,bed U| , in relation to foreign currencies i,ii foreign exchange markets abroad today. Tin* improvement followed Prcsi dent Roosevelt’s announcement that the United States would pay $35 per fine ounce for gold. Operatives immediately began buy ing gold. In Loudon they bought French gold francs heavily. Gold stock, went up in price; gold bullion it. “If sold at 139 shillings, six pence, th<' highest price in history, and ap prox Tnately the same as the Amer ican opffcr. r.ondon financial circles said the gold purchases would be shipped to the United States as rapidly as pos ..ibic in order to permit«operatives to take part in what they anticipated would be a boom in Wall Street. LEXINGTON MAN IS KILLED AT CROSSING Thornasvillc, Feb. 2 (AP) —T. D. Pope, 47, employee of the Wall Box Company of was fatally injured when the heavy truck which he was driving and the Crescent Lim ited. crack Southern Railway limited I lain, crashed here this morning. The truck was swept about 75 feet down the track and almost complete ly demolished. Pope was dead on arrival at a hospital. He is survived by a wife and four children, all of Lexington. SEED LOAN MEASURE PASSED BY SENATE Washington* Fob. 2.—(AIM— The Smith crop production hill, modified to carry $45,000,000 lu stful of $ 100,000,000, for seed loans lo farmers, was passed to day by the Senate and sent to the House. PLANS FINANCING OF RUSSIAN TRADE Washington, Feb, 2 (AF)—Pres ident Roosevelt is considering the creation of a banking corporation here as a medium for financing Russian trade. Satterfield is Sent To Death Chair Judge Parker T ells Jury He Concurs In Verdict Returned ;it Goldsboro •-» ...I-.. Goldsboro, Feb. 2. (AIM— Itufus .'.'illf i field, 43, alleged ambush slay ti of Herbert Grice, was convicted <>r first degree murder In Wayne Su perior Court today and sentenced to die in the electric chair on March 6. The jury which received the case late last night, returned its verdict !| t 12:55 p. m. It egan its delibera tions this morning, and considered the case for four hours and 40 minutes. After the jury’s verdict was heard, Ibe defense moved to set the verdict {| wide, and Judge R. Hunt Parker de »ied the motion. The defense gave notice, and an appeal will be taken to the Supreme Court, automatically staying sentence. Before passing sentence, Judge Barker thanked the jury and told the burn he concurred in their verdict. Infatuation with Mrs. Grice was charged as the cause for the slay- Henfti'rsmt Administration Is To Apply Pressure Upon War Debtors favors Payment Ban fit m ■ wmm ■ Baron Amaury de ia Grange The French debt to the United States should be paid, says Baron Amaury de la Grange, French sen ator, pictured on his arrival at New York to study American aviation methods. But the French solon se riously doubts the likelihood of pay ment under the new ministry. (Central Press J LETTERS ON MAIL “ CONTRACTS MOVED Former Assistant Commerce Secretary Admits Cor respondence Gone SAYS HE ALLOWED IT Whs Taken Away After Senate In vestigating Committee Had Ord ered All of Ills Records .Subpoeiuicd Washington, Feb. 2. —(AIM — Wil liam P. McCracken, former assistant secretary of commerce, testified De fore the Senate mail investigating committee today that he had permit ted officials of the Northwest Air ways and Western Air Express to remove correspondence from bis law office files after the committee had subpoenaed all records relating to an contracts. McCracken said these clients had used his office at times f<4V personal matters not connected with afP* contract*, ants that such "correspond ence was removed yesterday. He had refused to supply the com mittee with correspondence relating to negotiations for afr mat) contracts claiming special privilege due to the relations between a lawyer and client. T CALLINGMEET Laymen and Taxpayers To Say What They Think of State’s Schools Dully Dispatch Unreal* la the Sir Walter fiutel, MV .1 C, MASK EH VI LI,. Raleigh, Feb. 2.—Dr. A. T. Allen, State superintendent of public in struction, has' aroused a great deal of interest and created a very favorable reaction as the result of his calling of a new type of conference on pub lic education here in Raleigh on Feb ruary 16, according to the comments being heard from various sections of the State. For, instead of inviting school teachers and educators to this conference, he has invited almost everybody else and has made It clear that this particular meeting is for the purpose "of finding out what the but cher .the baker, the. Candlestick mak er and the rank and file of the school (Continued rg Page Five.) ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER service of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, HENDERSON, N, C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 2,1934 America’s Dollar Devalua tion Has Wrought Theo retical Reduction of 40 Percent CONGRESS ANXIOUS FOR A RETALIATION Half Dozen Moves in That Direction Have Been Halt ed by Lack of Administra tion Approval, But Seems To Be Near at Hand Now | Washington, Feb. 2. (AIM The Senate today re-pass,*d the Johnson hill, this time with ad ministration support, to deny new credit in this country to. all na tions behind in their debts to the American government. The retaliatory measure, put ting debt defaulters on notice anew that the United States ex pects on all war debts due and overdue, was passed and sent to tile House without u record vote. The measure first was passed un animously January 11, with only a handful of senators on the floor, but had been held up since by a motion to re-consider by Senator Robinson, of Arkansas, the majority leader. Robinson worked out the amend ments with the State Department and Johnson and pronaunced the bill sat isfactory to the administration. As re-passed. the bill provides penalties up to SIO,OOO and five years imprisonment for any person or cor poration to buy or sell any new se curities or lend money to any for eign government or its subdivisions which is in default in whole or in part on its obligations to this govern ment. Washington, Feb. 2. (AP)—- The Roosevelt administration today ap peared ready to apply pressure upon delinquent European war debtors, pointing out that America’s dollar de valuation had wrought a.t least theo retical reduction of at least 40.90 per cept in the sums owed. Sentiment apparently ruled sitting in both tt\e Senate and House in fa vor of some sort of retaliatory de faulting nations. Half a dozen moves in the -past have been halted, principally by lack of acquiescence by the administrat tion Senator Johnson, Republican, Cali fornia, today had the approval of the State Department to certain amend ments to his measure to deny fur ther credit to nations behind in their war debts. The Democratic leader —Robinson, of Arkansas —said the Californian would offer the amendment himself this afternoon, and predicted readop tlon of the measure with little or no debate. From the House, meanwhile, came reports that plenty of support for the bill could be found there. President’s Wife Is To Be At Duke Mrs/ Roosevelt On Program of Interna tional Institute There In June t_ High Point, Feb. 2. —(AP)— Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt has accepted an invitation to the lecture staff of the second annual Duke Institute of Thternational Relations, which will be held at Duke University, Durham, June 11-23, it was announced here to day by Tom Alderman Sykes, field secretary of the institute. The date of Mrs. Roosevelt’s ap pearance before the institute has not been determined, beyond the fact that it will be during the first week. Her topic will be announced later, and It is planned that she spend an entire day with the institute, Mrs. Sykes said. The institute is sponsored jointly by Duke University and the Ameri can Friepds Service Committee. HENDERSON* BatUt Stsuatrlt PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH "First Lady” Lights Candles on President’s Cake The huge birthday party at the nation's capital for President Roosevelt was brought to its climax whr»n ! c lighted the candles on the towering cake while the nation’s political leaders looked on I rft to right are shown Mrs Woodrow Wilson, widow of the former president? Mrs Curtisß. Dali daughter of the president, and Mrs. Roosevelt. The two men in the background are unidentified. (Central Press) U. S. COLLECTIONS Receipts for First Seven Months of Fiscal Year $145,748,145, Col lector Says JANUARY REVENUES 9 1-2 MILLION MORE $25,681,637 Last Month, Compared With $16,100,- 781 Same Month Last Year; Seven Months Totals Year Ago 11 $1,239,400 for Raleigh Office Raleigh, Feb. 2. - tAF) —Federal re venues collected in North Carolina first seven months of the current fis cal year were $34,508,745.24 ahead of the same period a year ago, and Jan uary receipts were $9,580,855.95 great er than the same month last year, Charles H. Robertson, collector, re ported today. January collections were $25,681,637 an ii crease of $782,121 over the De cember receipts, and compared with $46,100,781.05 in Januarq 1933. Seven months totals were $145,748,- 145.35 for this fiscal year, compared with $111,239,400.11 for the period last year. Americans Pardoned By Spain Madrid, Spain, Feb. 2 (AfP) —The sixth section of the supreme court today approved a governmental par don for four Americans serving a jail term in Palma, Malorca, for as saulting a civil guard. The Americans are Mr. and Mrs. Clinton B. Lockwood, of West Spring field, Mass., Roger F. Meade, of New York, and Edmund A. Blodgett, of Stamford, Conn. They were sent to jail last month after a long Igeal battle. The pardon approval today was the result of the intercession of their be half of American Ambassador Claude G. Bowers of the United States. j The pardon for the Americans, now lacks only the official sanction of the full supreme court, to which the sixth section immediately referred it. Court officials said it probably would be considered at tomorrow’s regular session of the entire court, and that the pardon was certain. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Saturday; warmer Saturday and in west and central portions tonight. CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. Wave Os Bank Hold-Ups In Wide Territory Nets Robbers $185,000 Total Two Messengers at Penn’s Grove, N. J., Yield $130,000; Policeman Slain In SIO,OOO Theft In Massachusetts; $35,000 In Texas, $1 0,000 In New York Needham, mass., Feb. 2. (AP) — One policeman was siain, three other men shot and SIO,OOO taken from the Needhan. Trust Company .today oy four bandits two of them armed with what bank employees described as sub-inachine guns. Fcrbes McLeod, policeman, shot through the stomach as he answeretl the bank’s burglar alarm, died shortly afterwards in the Glover hospital. As the bandits fled from the bank they compelled Arnold Mclntosh, treasurer, and John B. Riordan, teller, to climb on the running board of their touring car to protect them a gainst possible pursuit. Riordan jumped as the car speed through the square and escaped un wounded as the bandits fired at him. Mclntosh was thrown out of the machine three miles further on. $130,000 IS TAKEN FROM MESSENGERS WITH CASH Penn’s Grove, N. J., Feb. 2. —(AP) —A band of robbers today held up two messengers of the Penn’s Grove National Bank and stole $130,000. The messengers were within a few steps of the bank building at Main and Oak streets when they were forced to the wall of an adjoining building and robbed of the two sacks containing the money in cashv The two messengers were on their reStstaxable Are Liable for State Sales Tax, Maxwell a'nd Me* Mullan Decree Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel, BY J. V. B ASKER VILL. Raleigh, Feb. 2. —The gross receipts of vending machines, slot machines or other automatic sales devices are subject to the 'State sales tax i»,nd the tax must be paid by the merchant or firm on whose property these ma chines are located, according to a ruling just Issued by Commissioner of Revenue A. J. Maxwell and Di rector Harry McMuTtan of ISie dfPTStartl of assessments and collections. The tax must be paid regardless of whether the machines- are operated on a commission basis by the pro perty owner or whether they are own ed outright. While the order does not mention the many slot machines that are nothing more than gambling devices, it was indicated that the new order is aimed primarily at collecting the three per cent sales tax from hun dreds of thousands of nickels played in these gambling machines and for which no merchandise Is received and which so far have not been reported by operators of these machines. It is pointed out also that the merchant (Continued on Page Five.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. ( way to the bank from the post of i fice with the two sacks of money, which was intended for payrolls for factories in the town. As they neared the bank, the rob bers stepped from a car parked near by, pointed pistols at the messengers grabbed the sacks, returned to their automobile and sped off. THREE MEN TAKE $35,0(81 IN COLEMAN, TEXAS BANK Coleman, Texas, Feb. 2 (AP) — Three men robbed the First Nation al Bank of about $35,000 today and kidnaped six employees and officers, releasing all but one two blocks away. Charles F. Woodruff, assistant cash ier, was knocked unconscious and was loaded in the robbers’ car as they fled, The robbers entered the bank about a half hour before the usual open ing time, made a Negro porter lie on the floor and waylaid the other em ployees as they entered. SIO,(HH) IS SECURED FROM ROCHESTER BRANCH BANK Rochester, N. Y., Feb. 2 (AP)—Four men today held up the Union Trust Company branch bank at Culver and Merchant roads and escaped with ! between SIO,OOO and $15,000. BOOTLEGGERS IT To Settle With Uncle Sam So As To Keep Off Fed eral Officres Dully Dispatch llnrpne, In lh(* Sir Wulfer Hotel. BY J. C. BASKERVILL. Raleigh, Feb. 2. —Now that bootleg gers and 4?-ockaders may pay the Federal tax of $2 a gallon on what ever liquor stocks they may have on hand and elimhmte the possibility of ibieing bothered by Federal officers, some of the larger illicit liquor deal ers in the State are paying this tax in order to keep out of trouble with the government, it was learned here * today. Collector of Internal Revenue Charles H. Robertson - said that they .were accpeting the tax from any who ■ wanted to pay it and giving them re ceipts, without asking any questions, since as far as the government fs concerned, there is no prohibition law > in North Carolina. Later on. however, he believes that the Federal govern ment will give the State some assis i tance in enforcing its prohibition law. “But right now, the only thing tile government is interested in is collectr ' ing the tax of $2 a gallon on liquor and alcohol, regardless of who may 1 possess it or who made it,” Robertson > said. Some of the bootleggers of course, (Continued on Page Five.) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS' COPY HOUSE SPLITBETWEED CWA AND DIRECT RELIEF Measure Will Come up Mon. day for Discussion With out Privilege of Amendments OVER 25 MILLIONS OF PEOPLE HELPED Provides for Seven Million Families; Load Has Sharp, ly Decreased Since March Last Year, Hopkins Tells Hou s e Appropriations Committee Washington, Fob. 2. —(AP) —House leaders today decided to postpone un til Monday consideration of the $950,000,000 CWA-relief appropriation The reason was given immediately, but it was understood that the mea sure would be taken up Monday uje der procedure forbidding amendments Had the resolution been brought to the floor today it would have been subject to amendments, and a num ber of members hs*l indicated they wanted to increase the total appro priation so as to insure a longer ex tension of the CWA. NOT PERMANENT POLICY BUT MERELY TEMPORARY Washington, Feb. 2. —(AP)—An im mediate appropriation of $450,000,000 to carry on the civil works program and its 4,000,000 employees, and $500,- 000,000 for direct relief was recom mended lo the House today by Its ap propriations committee. Simultaneously the committee re leased an account of Harry L. Hop kins CWA and relief administrator, that even with the civil works're quests $100,000,000 higher than was originally intended, it was improbable the CWA program would last thro ugh May. Hopkins told the committee that unless immediate action were taken, the $400,000,000 allotted for the CWA would bo exhausted on February 9, and there would be no funds for that huge payroll The present rale of expenditure, he said, was about $70,000,000 per week. In its formal report the appropria tions committee admonished the House to remember "that these re lief measures are tiot a permanent policy of the Federal government,’’ and added: “They are temporary, and only the extreme emergency Justifies them.” Summarizing the dfretft and indi rect aid furnished by the civil works program and supplemented by state arid local money and the Federal em ergency relief activities It provides (Continued on Page Two) POTEAT AND HANFT TO BE GIVEN OATH Raleigh, Feb. 2.—(AP) — Chief Jus tice Walter P. Stacy of the State Su preme Court tomorrow at 11:30 will administer the oath of office to Dr. William Louis Poteat of Wake For est, and Professor William Frank Hanft, of the University of North Carolina, the State’s two associate utilities commissioners. U. S. Deficit In 7 Months $1,922,598 Cash Outlay for That Period Was $3,602,- 449,624; More To Be Spent Washington, Feb. 2. —(AP) — The government ended seven months of the fiscal year with a each outlay of $3,602,449,624 and a deficit of $1,92>- 598 173. This leaves $7,454,829,000 for the spending between now and June 30 to fulfill President Roosevelt’s bud get estimates that aggregate govern ment outlays this year will exceed $11,000,000,000. The figures of the government’s fi nancial condition at the close of Jan uary were accompanied by Treasury assurances that it still planned to meet the cash needs by borrowing; rather than spending any of irtTßuge gold profits on routine government expenses. ; • fii