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HENDERSON gateway to CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR IE CH OF TERROR IN PARIS COMES TO CLOSE * ********* *************** ********* W ™ Edward G. Bremer, Kidnaped St. Paul Banker, Freed After 21 Days U. S. Agents Search For Abductors Amount of Ransom Not Learned, But Friends Say Sum of Money Was Paid St. Paul. Minn., FdN 8. (AI 1 ) and exhausted, Edward G. p,. C nior. wealthy St. Paul banker, was „( ijoine today after being iced about >i o'clock last, night by the kidnap er gang which had held him 23 days fo' .'2'iO.oCNi ransom. I>r. .1. M. Sprufka, a physician ca.ll- M | t(i tin' Bremer home today to cx aiuinc dhe 37-year-old banker, said after Hie examination that Bremer’s phy ical condition was "good.” lie h;ul suffered a beating about the In id. presumably when he was • I'izi-d. His automobile, found shortly aft.-i-n uds. was profusely splotched with Mood. Hr. St i"iifka afterwards raid a ran- I m ha I been paid, but that lie did not know how muc-h. I’.i * mt: captors, who numbered ix or .even, cloise friends of the fa mily said, released him near Roch ca te . Minn.. 85 miles south of here. Hr was turned loose by three men in small sedan, they said. The 37-year-old president and own .r < : ihe Commercial State Bank, for who-(* life fears had (been express i<l. was uninjured. The hanker, friend's said, took a bus from Rochester to St. Paul, then wont t>> his father’s home in a taxi cab, Friends said his eyes had been tail 'd dining the 23 days of hits impri i or/nenl. I n ; announcement of his release v. mule by Werner Ilamni, chief or the Department of Justice offices. Bn mcr was seized between 8:20 a. m. and 8:30 a. in. January 17. His t>lood-:d a!m»d automobile was found tin next day abandoned in an outly ing Msidential district. HKI'.MITMKNT OF .JUSTICE INTENSIFIES ITS HKAItCH Washington, Feb. 8. -(AP) — Depart ment nf Justice officials indicated to day that the search for the abductors of Edward G. Bremer, wealtiiy St. Paul anker, would be intensified now (Continued on Page Two.) Schooners Sails Gone; Is Towed In Norfolk, a., Feb. 8 (AP) —In tow of coast guard cutter the schoonei Perncll T. White, the home port of which is given as crisfield, Md„ was on its way today for the '"onil) of the Chesapeake, presumab 'y to put into Hampton Roads, the Norfolk division headquarters, the coast guard reported. Tl'o schooner was picked up 200 '"'lns east of Wilmington, N. C„ by tbr Mendota, which responded to a ‘ dl for help in a radio message re '‘O'd at coast guard headquarters. 1 message said the schooner’s k -"ls were gone, and that the White ''■as badly in need of assistance. The j lr, ndota and iger were dispatched to "• ''id of the schooner, and the ''"lota made contact at 2:15 a. m. today. New Terrorism Is Threatening Cuba Cdi ,Ua —(AP) —President Meudueia, having apparently *ho threat of a general 11 -i laced the uew meance of ter "' isni today. )( president used stern measures ‘olh* l ° Vf * ni t A 24-hour ‘‘general strike,” l( y *jhe communistic federation Inbor. ( ii ,;" I‘J,|li>L, 1 ‘ J,|li>L, ati< > n« weae suppressed. < U;,;5 aiwi P°Ho® guarded men put vv °*k in establishments deserted strikers. Henderson, n. c. Uritiirrsmt Hatlit Bfamrirh I" . Ht wBbSBbBm lli Ink s 1 A EHki *«»*»»«»*• i # A mgjk % ® J i %|J|, Hn^ySMl William P. MacCrackcn, Jr., right, attorney for an airline and former assistant secretary of commerce, and Harris M. Han fcliue, below, left, president of the Western Airway Express, to gether with Hanshue’s Washing ton representative, Gilbert L. Givven, and L. H. Brittin. vice URGE CARE IN SALE Os OPTION COTTON Important That Cotton i Growers Fill Out Blanks Properly College Station, Rsileigh, Feb. 3 Tiie importance of cotton growers’ following the correct procedure in authorizing the sale of their option cotton by the AAA was stressed to day by Charles A. Sheffield of State College, director of the sign-up cam paign in this state. If the various forms are not filled out properly, he said, the Washington office will return them and hold the cotton until correct forms have been received. The growers who took out options on government-owned cotton as part of their benefits for plowing up cot ton last summer will be given until (May 1, 1934, to exercise their options. (Or they may, pursuant to form C-5-B INo. 3, extend the time for one year. The day on which the cotton is to be sold must be specified. No grow er may instiuct the government to hold his cotton until it reaches a certain price. he instructions may be sent by wire or mail, addressed to the Agricul tural Adjustment Administration, Cot ton Option Office, Department of Ag riculture, Washington, D. C. In mailing his order for setting the cotton, the grower must fill out form 05-A No. 2, notice of exercise of op tion, with all the information re-i quested and see that the signature is identical with that on the option fOont.EniiPfi on Pj,bc Four.' Disorders developed, however, both iai Havana and in the interior dar ling the night and early today. overall bombs exploded in various parts of Havana. There were no casualties and damage wals slight. Added to these developments, the government hoard threats that left ist student factions were plotting bombings and assassinations in pro test against shootings during a de monstration. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPE WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Four Face Contempt Trial in Airmail Probe HENDERSON, N. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOO N, FEBRUARY 8 1934 president of Northwest Airways, have been ordered to appear be fore the senate to show cause why they should not be cited for con tempt in connection with the al leged removal of airmail records in defiance of a subpena of the senate committee investigating airmail contracts at Washington. Freed By Kidnapers Edward G. Bremer Edward G. Bremer, wealthy St. Paul banker, was freed by his kid napers early today 80 miltes from his home after Ibleing held prisoner for 21 days. A ransom, the amount of* which was not announced, was paid the abductors. Jim Holloway’s Writings Getting Attention in Ra eigh Circles Dally Dispatch Barcas, In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. C. BASKERVILL. Raleigh, Feb. B—(Local politicians are trying to figure out the meaning of a series of stabs in a little weekly paper, The Courier-Journal, which carries the letters of James K. Hollo way, descirebed by the Latins as hav ing a ’’furor scribendi” because of his much writing. Mr. Holloway has been writing 20 years to the state papers and has done prophecy on grand scale. In the re cent Courier-Journal article, whose editor supporetd heartily Lieutenant (Continued on Page Four.) R PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. At the same time, a charge *th«s Walter F. Brown, below, form* postmaster general, violated « law by awarding mail contracts to airplane companies in which h» was directly or indirectly inter ested was placed before the senato by Senator Hugo L. Black of Ala bama. top. left, chairman. j SSe Solicitor Williams Looms As Hopeful Successor to Judge Da)niels Daily DUimli'b Bureau, lu the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. C. BASKERVILL. Raleigh, Feb. B. Announceme'ntt from Goldsboro that Judge Frank Daniels will not ask a renomination makes virtually certaim the candidacy of Solicitor Clawson L. Williams of Sanford to succeed him, it is learned in Raleigh. While Judge Daniels has taken him self out only in informal way, his (retirement is indicated in a letter to Justice G. W. Connor, of the Su preme Count bench. Some weeks ago Solicitor Don Phillips, oif the Rich mond district, indicated his purpose to race Judge A. M. Stack. There may be other solicitors on the way u:p. The fact that two of the best and Lfctst known will try for judgeships means also that a pair of the best politicians in North Carolina will be hard to beat. Solicitor Phillips beat Solicitor M. W. Nash, motw of High Point, and •Solicitor Williams defeated Solicitor Walter D. Siler, rated as clever as any off them. Judge Stack trimmed Judge WRlter Brock, at that time a very hard man tio oust. But Judge Brock and Solicitor Nash were ap pointees of Governor Cam Morrison who advanced these gentlemen when Judge W. J. Adams went on the Su preme Court bench. Solicitor Stack went up after leaving the office. The State will watch these races Ibetween Judge Stack and Solicitor Phillips ,aaid between Solicitor Wil liams, if he rums, and the field. It is inconceivable that a superior court (Continued on Page Four.) INTERRUPTS TRIAL OF WOMAN DOCTOR Greenwood, Miss., Feb. B.—(AP) trial of Dr. Sarah Ruth Dean, baby specialist, for the alleged poison mur der of Dr. John Treston Kennedy, Greenwood surgeon, was temporarily interrupted shortly before noon today when one of the jurors became ill, necessitating the summoning of a physician. weather FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Probably snow tonight and Fri day; colder. QUARTERS SEIZED Steel-Helmeted Police Oc cupy Centers as Answer To Contentions of Nazi Group WILL DEMONSTRATE GOVERNMENT POWER Authorities Determined To Show Nazi Their Services Not Needed To Save The Nation from Opposite Group; Troops Occupy Af fected Area Vienna. Feb. B.—(AP)—Stecl-hci moted police, with bayonets fixed, oc cupied socialist centers in Vienna to day as the Austrian government’s dr/ve against Nazis and socialists en tered a new phase. Soldiers joined Vienna police in taking over a number of such build ings, including that in which the so cialist newspaper Arbeiter Zeitung a> published. The newspaper Ibtuilding was heavily guarded. An Associated Press man who attempted to enter was told he might if he desired, but that no one was being permitted to leave. Hater army lorries with troops be gan throwing cordons around the whole district, in which socialist ac tivities were centered, to forestall pos sUble socialist reprisals. The idea behind this new turn of events is to defeat the Nazi political movement in Austria by demonstrat ing that Maxism can be “exterminat ed” without the help of the Nazis. That accomplished, it was believed leaders would claim that the Nazis argument that a national socialist, re gime is needed to suppress Marxism has been proved invalid. Whole Garrison At Army Post Is Hunting for Girl Tacoma, Wash., Feb. 8 (AP)—The: entire garrison at Fort Lewis was mobilized today to search the 70,000 acres of the military post for trace of 15-year-old Eleanor Durnell, niece of Captain and Mrs. Charles Perfect. She has been missing since Sunday. The decision to use the 1,500 offi cers and men was reached when oth er efforts to trace the girl or explain her disappearance had failed. Fear Was expressed the girl had been lured to a secluded spot on the reservation, slain and her body hidden. Three other theories have been of fered to explain the disappearance— that she had been taken by white slavers, that she is being held for ransom, andd, finally, that she had run away with a man acquaintance. salesTaxfighi Sporadic Assault Not Hurt ing It; Bagley Says Roos evelt Is Strong Daily Dispatch Bareaa, In the Sir Walter Hotel. UT J. CJ. BASKERVILL. Raleigh. Feb. 8. —Sporadic assaults on the sprites tax do not make unpop ularity for it, in the opinion of Sen ator Dudley Bagley of Moyock, P*ir rituck county, who says he exp to make hie fight for reinorr : mt; on his record in the Senate d to make that contest on the sure T lief tthat North Carolina would have been gone financially without it. The senator has Ifcteen here attend ing the production credits meeting and talking busines sto business peo ple. They all agree that the unhap piest main in the political universe to day is the gentleman who has to op pose President Roosevelt. One of Mr. Bagley’s neighbors is Dr. Joseph Palmer Kmapp, great New York pub lisher, who has a .home iJn Currituck. This business Yankee is a life-long Republican, or was. Publisher Knapp says Mr. Roosevelt has about con verted him. Mr. Bagley thinks the President (Continued on Page Four.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY*. Ex-President Seeks To Save France gl ’ T** JL gj Gaston Doumergue, 70-year-old former president of France, has been summoned to the helm to form a new cabinet in an effort to save the French republic from ovrethrow. Monarchists arc hoping for restora tion of a king and communists want their form of government. I , -■ S» Prohibitive Tax on Cotton Surpluses Favored By President, He Tells The Bankheads TAX ON CHECKS MAY END ON JANUARY 1 Voted Out by Ways and Means Committee; Roose velt Favors Modified Food And Drug Bill; $950,000,- 000 Relief To Pass Selnate Washington, Felh. B.(AF) —A change from voluntary to compulsory action if or reduction's of agricultural jfctn - pluses, at least so far as cotton is concerned, took firmer shape in ad ministration policy today, while the CWA embroiled Congress. The Haden amendment to provide limited workmen’s compensation for the 4,000.000 civil employees, put off the time for a vote on the bill itself. It was “happy days are here again” for the House, what with an oppor tunity at last for individuals to put through their net private bills. Outstanding committee actions pro vided meat for the day, however, the wavs and means committee voting for repeal of the two-oent bank check stamp tax effective next January. The new revenue bill was estimat ed bv Treasury experts to promise only $235,000,000 a year, tens of mil lions a year less than previously es 'Continued on Page Five.) Got No Air Force, Mitchell Declares Washington, Feb. 8 (AP) —After, hearing former Brigadier-General William Mitchell today say that “we have no air forrce,” the House Mili tary Committee announced that Harry W. Woodring, assistant secretary of war, would becalled to testify tomor row on the manner in which army air planes are bought under his direc tion. Representative Hill, Democrat, Ala bama, acting chairman, made the an nouncement. He said, however, that the committee had no informa a ! 6 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY toTormSnet France Admittedly Was Near Civil War in Riot ing in Paris In the Past Two Days 12 REPORTED KILLED. THOUSANDS INJURED Resignation of Daladier Ministry Averted Worse Bloodshed Wednesday; 71-Year-Old Former Presi dent Moves Swiftly To Re store Normal Conditions Paris* Feb. B.—(AP)—Gaston Doumergue, aged servant of France, told a suddenly tranquil nation today that lie would give it a government of sages—an elder statesmen cabinet. The streets of Paris, after two days of mad rioting, which resulted in the resignation of former Premier Edou ard Daladier and his cabinet today heard only the shout: “Vive Doumergue!” Back from his retirement on lus quiet country estate, in the south of France, Doumergue, former president former premier and former minister in half a dozen governments', an nounced he would exact a true from the dissident political parties. Paris, Feb. B.—(AP)—Premier-De signate Gaston Doumergue, whose new calbiinet may be formed by to* night, seemed today to have ended Paris’ two days of rioting and terror. The 71-year-old former president and France's new man of the hour, took only 15 minutes after his ar rival today to tell President Albert Leßrun what he meant to do. Then he immediately started to caa ry out his program. On all sides it was freely admit ted that. France was close to civil war and I'evdlutkm In the bitter fighting between fibbers and mounted guards Which swept Paris. Today, as reinforced bands of la borers went to work cleaning up the debris left on last night’s conflicts, the dead were counted at 12, and those injured and wounded in th» | thousands. Edouard Daladieir, who resigned as premier with his iabdhet yesterday, in the hope of avoiding further dis orders, urged that martial law be tte (Continued On Page Four.) Duke Men Ask More Liberties Durham, Feb. 8 (AP)— New consti tutions for the student government association of the men’s undergradu ate college, and the Pan-Hellenic coun cils governing the fraternities, ware asked by Duke University students to day in a petition to the administra tion. Asserting the association and coun cil have been too much under admin istration control, the student body, through Joseph Shackford, of Char lotte president, asked that the two organizations be made entirely auto nomous. that anything had been wrong in the procurement of airplanes. Mitchell blamed “merchants” under the Coolidge and Hoover administrar tion for weakness of the aerial de fense, and said: “Compared with Europe, we have nothing.” “The way in which aviation now is handled,” he continued, “is just hodgepodge. “The right hand doesn't know what the left is doing,” he said. “It!s a terrible mess.” <
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