"lIKNI'MtSON
iiATKWAY to
central
i'AKOLINA
pVENTY-I'TItST YEAR
GOVERNMENT GAINING UPPER HMD IN AUSTRIA
Senate Gives In
To House, Making
CWA Fund Ready
Only Slight Formalities Re
main Until $950,000,000
Relief Bill Goes
To President
CONTEMPT CASE IN
SENATE CONTINUED
Virtually No Chance Now
For Administration To Su
stain Reverse in Air Mail
Policy; Cabinet Committee
Working on Internal Deve
lopment Plans
W.i.-hiivuton. Feb. 11. (AP) Bj Pi
i<i ilk- Senate retreated today and
•i,,hy n■- nred that the CWA’s $50,-
wcrl;-end payroll will be met.
s iii f«.ii mailt ies remained Ibofon
<l»•>!mmni.ooo relief-civil works ap
|,u,|n e.limi would be signed by tile
President.
M nilin -of the House took sntisfac
»./! from battering down the Son
r . attempt in having something to
•iv or selection of State relief di-
Hnvinl; taken the CWA step, the
,i, i imned to closed session foe
,1 Im i; imi-i on contempt charges
, William T. McCracken, Harris
X linn-hue. Gilbert L. Givvin and
h ii. l’.i it tin in the air mail inquiry.
Tin House Democratic leadership
: 1 t vpi rased confidence from the
..■it (. uniting the “no amendments
fliuih rule they sought. Another
lfir.int prediction from Byrns oi
T ’ ■■■ was for modification of Ui*>
!)• t llayhiu n .stock exchange
i'in ll ini in',ime before any final vote
l.iitli chance for an administration
iti'iiel; on its drastic cancellation of
:m mail emit rants was said to exist.
Tim .iffieials who so spoke altSo
(Continued On Page Four.)
COTTON CONSUMED
SHOWS SHARP RISE
Jaiuary Figure Far Above
Last December and of
January Year Ago
Wii-diinglon, Feb. 11. (AX’) — Cot
t'ni con. umid during January was re
port'd today by the Census Bureau
have totalled 508,034 running bales
"f iii t, and . r *7,769 bales of linters,
'•onip.i».-1 with 348,393 and 51,621 for
b'( rnbt I and 170,182 and 55,328 for
•I an nary last year.
i tor January totalled 739,-
1 ' t»ai< ( ,f imi , in( i 18,117 of linters,
'oiniiaii'd Willi 820.099 and 17,655 for
inl'ii and 793,676 and 12,944 tor
•I'liiuary )a | year.
lini"iii:, for January totalled 12,693
compared with 14,013 for De
""dur and 21,352 for January last
year. i
f ''tton spindles active during Jan
l,: "' y "timbered 25,653,324, compared
1.810,870 for December and 23,-
• ■'.tJ.d's for .lantiary last year.
J'oii eon-aimed during January in
growing states totalled 406.343
,! compared with 282, 941 In De
"ll|,M| '’"id 396,998 in January last
year.
f '«>tt oi, pjndlcs active during Jan
. Iry 111 rot ton growing states num
"_ l1 17,693.360, compared with 17,-
in December and 16,848,427 in
j!lnua ,y last year.
Wingate Hall Destroyed
By Fire At Wake Forest
Feb. 11.—(At*)—Fire
11 '-his morning' completely gutted
ngate hall, second building
i, ’' l * <-*«•<! on the campus of Wako
1 College .some four score years
~ ll| ,‘ was Iho second disastrous
1 'Crai ion here in a year, an ear
<j( ‘"'Jining fir© last winter, having
,| 1(: co jj e g o ' a fj building,
' V; “t hall.
oil,] 1 Furman D. K itch In, president,
' 'hat Wingate hall was “an aii>
total loss.”
‘ ''thing remains but the bases of
_ HENDEKSQn, H. G*
Hettitersmt Uatht Utsuatdt
REPORT WOODRING
WILL QUIT JOB IN
WAR DEPARTMENT
Assistant Secretary of War
Expected To Resign
Shortly in Con
tract Disputes
CALLED TO MAT BY
PRESIDENT LATELY
Magazine Article He Wrote
Characterizing Civil Con
servation Corps Potential
Military Outfit Incurred
Anger of Roosevelt, Breach
Following
Washington, Feb. 14 (AIM The
Washington Evening Star said today
that Harry H. Wood ring, assistant
secretary of war, is expected to re
sign shortly.
The Star said reports to the effect
“were current in government circles.”
“The resignation,” it added, “is look
cd for, regardless of the outcome of
investigations being made of Wood
ring’s handling of War Department
contracts."
Wood ring recently incurred criti
cism for his article in a magazine re
ferring to the civilian conservation
camps as a potential military outfit,
and was asked for an explanation at.
the White House.
“A wide breach als6 has develop
ed between Woodring and the gene
ral staff of the army over policy."
Open Camp
Os Jobless
In Pender
Raleigh, Feb. 14 (AP)—Pcnderlca
camp, North Carolina’s first camp for
unemployed, will be opened next week
in Pender county.
Miss Pearl Weaver, State transit di
rector for the CWA said today the
camp will be located at the Pcnder
lea Homestead Corporation, near Bur
gaw. Others will be opened later in.
other parts of the State.
Barracks and shelters at 'Fenderlea
arc nearly ready to house unemploy
ed men while they clean forests, drain
meadows, lay out homesteads and
build homes, she said.
The men will be drawn from tran
sit centers now operating in Ashe
ville, Charlotte, Salisbury, Durham,
Greensboro and Raleigh, and 200 can
be accommodated at Penderlea.
A regular weekly program of 30
hours of workk, 15 hours of study and
regular hours for athletic work will
be followed. The men will be given
a cash allowance of 90 cents a week
each, but opportunity will be afford
ed the unemployed who go there to
do extra work up to 15 hours a week
at 30 cents per hour.
•the walls,” the president said after
a survey of the damage.
The historic structure, housed the
chapel, physics, psychology, Latlin
land Greek departments, and every
•student who had attended Wake For
est since it was built had attended
meetings in it.
The president said the fire appear
ed to have started in the chapel, be
ing discovered on the second floor
about 2 o’clock this morning. No
•theory as to how the fire may have
started had been advanced today, Dr.
Kitchin said.
ONLY DAILY
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
HENDERSON, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 14, 1934
As Austria Sought to Halt Socialists and Revolution
Answering with martial law in the
cities of Vienna, Linz and Graz, Aus
tria authorities led by Chancellor
LITTLE HOPE FOR
BREVARD BANKERS
No Indication Today That
Quartette Will Escape
Prisofn Terms
Dully Di*i»ati’b llurrun,
In the Sir Waller Hotel.
Raleigh, Feb. 14—Letters pour into
tlie executive office in behalf of
Thomas H. Shipman, Joseph Pickel
simer, C. It. McNeely and Ralph
[Fisher, Transylvania county men un
der sentence of two years for con
spiracy in connection with the issu
ing of SIOO,OOO in notes, the proceeds
of which were lost in the failure of
the Brevard Banking Company, but
it looked today as if automatically
the sentences will start tomorrow.
Clemency is quite improbable.
From Atlanta It. If. King, regional
executive secretary of Iho Nat ional
Council of the Young Men’s Chris
tian Association, comes a letter in
behalf of Mr. Shipnmn, who was pres
ident of the bank. Mr. King served on
the original State Board of Charities
and Corrections, later the State Board
of Welfare in South Carolina- under
the appointment of Governor Rich
ard I. Manning. Mr. King was also
a close friend of the late Governor
R. B. Glenn, of North Carolina. The
recommendations are confirmed to
Mr. Shipman whom the Y. W. C. A.
official personally knows.
‘'At the moment I wrote you,” Mr.
King says, "in spite of a full know
ledge of everything which has hap
pened in the past three years in Bre
vard and in the county, I am proud
to hold him as one of my most inti
mate and trusted friends. He has
built up during his life-time a deposit
of right living, honesty, integrity and
Christian character which cannot be
wiped out by one doubtful draft. I
have such confidence in him that I
would be willing for him to adminis
ter my estate. I will respectfully say
to you that in my judgment if I
know a thoroughly honest and up
right, thoroughly trustworthy hus
band, father, citizen and Christian,
Tom Shipman stands as high in these
regards as does any other friend I
have.”
The writer of the letter says he ex
pects the executive when he haw gone
thoroughly into the cast to "pardon
Tom Shipman,” but the outlook is
entirely against such faith. It is not
improbable that early clemency will
be sought and probably granted, but
there doesn’t appear any sort of
chance today that the prisoners will
be granted any further stay. If they
do not receive that help, they are ex
(Contixiued on Page Four.)
Englebcrt Dollfuss' 4snght to avert
a revolution as outbreaks, resulting
from a nationwide strike called by So
Cash Balance $6,897,890
Had By State February 1
General Fund, However $3,354,277; Overdraft Well Be.
low That of Last July 1, S(art of Fiscal Year; State’s
Total Debt Is $176,806,000
Raleigh, Feb. 14. (AP)—The State
of North Carolina had a cash balance
in the treasury February 1 of SO,»
097,890.10, though its general fund was
overdrawn by $3,354,277.66.
The monthly statement of the au
ditor and treasurer, released today
showed general fund receipts last
month were $1,938,946.55, which lack
ed $822,343 of absorbing the overdraft
accurucd in December. January ex
penditures of $2,531,933.89 pushed the
overdraft close to the $3,500,000 mark.
Government Inspectors To
See if Growers Live Up
To Contracts
Hull? Dtatintcli Uureits,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh, Feb. 14. —The acres of land
removed from the production of cash
crops, such as cotton and tobacco,
and rented to the secretary of agri
culture for the years 1931 and 1935,
will be inspected by local commit
teemen and others to see that no
violations of the contracts occur, says
Charles A. Sheffield, in charge of the
cotton reduction campaign for the
State College extension service.
Many lturners are planning how
best to use the land which they re
move from cotton and tobacco and
some of them believe they will be
permitted to grow crops or livestock
products for sale. “This is not the
case,” Mr. Sheffield says. “These
acres may be used to the utmost ex
tent in ‘growing food and feed crops
foir the family and all the tenants on
the farm. The acres may also be
used for soil improvement crops and
for the production of grain and hay
for livestock feed provided the live
stock so fed is not sold or the pro
ducts from the livestock is not sold.
The acres may also be used to pre
vent land washing.”
Mr. Sheffield emphasizes the fact
that the reduction contracts provid
(Continued on Page Four.)
cialists, claimed the lives of more
than 50 persons. Photos show the
Tustrian military in front of the city
hall at Vienna, prepared to cope with
The overdraft was well below tjiat
of July 1, 1933, when the fiscal year
Marled. The treasury was in the red
$4,081,932.41 in its general fund then.
The highway fund had a balance
of $9,197,077.61 the first of Februaiy.
Receipts in January aggregated $lO,-
1238,564.35, and disbursements of $6,-
696,742.31 were made.
The State’s funded debt February
1 was $164,576,000 and, including gen
eral fund notes, the total debt was
$176,806,000.
Will Be Harder To Get Dr.
Poteat’s Successor Than
To Get Him
Muily Ulswitfli OufFfia,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh. Feb. 14.—Governor Bli
ringhaus is looking again for an as
sociate utilities commissioner who
will fjll the place selected for Dr. W.
Li. Poteat, of Wake Forest, who finds
in addition to his ownership of some
stock in k utility, some personal and
financial reason for declining the
•nomination.
Governor Ehringhaus has had a
great deal more trouble getting the
(associates than the commissioner
himself. Stanley Winiborne, the com.
missioner, was reared in the Ehring
haus territory. The incumbent had
held place on the corporation com
mission. He is the survivor of that
regulating body. Mr. Winborne is a
good lawyer and one is needed on the
commission. But the associates do not
get compensation enough to make the
(honor of serving financially attrac
tive. And it probably would be dif
ficult to find many capable men who
do not have some little stock in pub
lic service corporations.
The governor went over to Durham
last night to get a touch of grand
opera as given by Madame Jeritza.
His excellency is using the leisure to
think. It will be harder now than ever
(Continued on Page Four )
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
previous disorders; a view of Linz
where rioting has been intense; Chan
cellor Dollfuss at right; and Prince
von Starhembcrg, left, Fascist leader.
Reichsrat, or Federal Coun
cil, Wiped Out of Exist
ence in Germany
Section of Democratic Government's
Charter Abolished; Provided for
Representation by
The People
Berlin, Feb. 14.—(AP)—Chancellor
Hitler’s government today abolished
the reichsrat-the Federal council —
thereby abrogating Section IV of the
republican constitution of Germany.
The articles abrogated provided for
organization of the reichsrat as fol
lows:
"The reichsrat represents the states
and consists of 66 members. Each
member has one vote for every 700,000
inhalbiitants; any surplus over 350,000,
if equal at least to the population of
the smallest state, counts as a full
vote.
“A member of the government pre
sides over its plenary and commit
tee sessions. The reichstrat has rights
of preliminary sanction of and pro
test against a Reichstag (parliament)
bill, and if matters reached a dead
lock the president of the republic
may order a, referendum where a
Reichstag majority is less than two
thirds, and he must where the ma
jority is over two-thirds,”
France To Back Austria,
While Italy Holds Back
Paris, Feb. 14. —(AP) —Money and
business are the two remedies France
will urge for Austria before the Lea
gue of Nations Council when it
meets at Geneva again.
The cabinet of Premier Doumergue
•decided today that Chancellor Engel
bert Dollfuss of Austria must (be sup
ported.
It took the stand that economic
help would be the most effective
means by which other nations might
enable him to rule firmly.
The French expect to enlarge quotas
on Austrian goods, particularly wood
aaid to join other countries in extend
ing credit —preferably under League
auspices.
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Battle in Capital City of
Vienna Resumed Through
Streets Already Lit
tered With Dead
THOUSAND PERSONS
ESTIMATED KILLED,
Socialist Fight Is Madlness
and Their Undertaking Has
Entirely Failed, According
to Chancellor Dollfuss;
Death Sentences Are Now
Being Imposed
Vienna, Feb. 14. —(AP) —Socialist
women l'ought grimly throughout the
night Ibeside their men aagiust an
overwhelming wave of government
troops.
The death toll in Austria’s uivil
war stood somewhere between 1,000
and 1,500 this evening. There are un
counted numbers of wounded.
Today, after a. short lull, the battle
was resumed through streets tsllll
Uttered with the dead.
The women fought like old pioneers
of the American prairies. A govern
ment commander said they helped
carry munitions and re-load rifles of
their embattled husbands and broth
ers, who fought from the windows
of their homes.
Their resistance was smashed by
artillery.
“There were plenty of iunooeqt
non-combatants,” said one officer,
"who had no choice but to go thro
ugh the shelling.”
The state ol civil war between the-
Socialists and the government con
tinued serious throughout the nation
but in outlying regions the govern
ment r apidly appeared to be gaining;
the upper hand.
Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, de
termined to retain control of the gov
ernment, declared the Socialist fight
was “madness.”
“One may say already,” said Doll
fuss, “that this undertaking lias en
tirely failed, and that the petition of
the federal government is stronger
than ever."
At Linz, one of the bloodiest spots
in the relb/ell km, the government waa
definitely in control.
The government carried out its
tlireal of death sentences against the
rebels when a eourtmartial sentenc
ed a 43-year-old shoemaker to hang.
The government, summoning all
available man power to its side, pour
ed reserve troops into the capital.
Elsewhere in the nation the situa
tion was believed to be coming under
government control.
However, spokesmen for both the
government and the Socialists confi
dently predicted victory.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair and wanner tonight and
Thursday.
FOR HENDERSON.
For 24-hour period ending at
noon today: Highest temperature,"
39; lowest, 12; no rain; northeast
wind; clear. - —-
ITALY WOULD INTERVENE
ONLY AS A LAST RESORT
Rome, Feb. 14.—(AP)—Italy, in th«
opinion of well-informed persona,
would consider intervention in Aus
tria's civil war —as suggested in Paris
—only as a last resort.
Many Italians fear the Nazis may
seize upon the Austrian crisis as an
opportune time to drive for political
power.
It is this factor which causes chief
concern.
There was no official comment on
the unofficial proposal in Paris by
Henry Berenger, Senate foreign af
fairs committee chairman, that Au»<
tria’s independence be protected by,
France. Britain and Italy.