HENDERSON
gateway TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
Phone Receivership
Guerilla Warfare
By The Socialists
In Austria Begun
Reports Heard But Not Con.
firmed That Dollfuss Has
Been Marked by
Assassins
SOCIALISTS URGING
ACTS OF SABOTAGE
France and Czechs To Give
Dollfuss Non - Military
Aid; Italy May Demand
Probe of Reports That
Czechs Furnished Austrian
Socialists With Supplies
(By the Associated Press.)
Whole-ah* fighting was at an end
in trifetorn Austriatoduy, but. the
teiricious Socialists began a campaign
of guerilla warfare against the Fas
cist home guard, backbone of gov
ernin'nt support.
Reports were circulated today that
Ch inc' llor Engelbert Dollfuss, "game
cork" < f European politics, had been
Die object of an assassination at
tempt. along with Vice Chancellor
Emil Fey and Prince Ernst von
Starhemberg, home guard leaders.
The tumors were unverified.
Socialist leaders called for acts of
salx't a.g»*.
other European nations, meanwhile
clu-ely scanned the Austrian situation
which they considered fraught witn
dang' t to European tranquility, es
pi' ially should the Nazi gain control.
To avoid this, France and Czechos
lovakia decided to give the Dollfuss
;;o\ •> t rmient non-military aid.
Il ports wen- current in Rome that
Italy might, demand an investigation
by ttie League of Nations of published I
charges that Czechoslovakia support-
(Cartlnufed nu Page Five.)
MOOERATESKEEP
CONTROL OF REINS
I
Inter-Racial Conference In
Raleigh Held In Bounds
i of Reason
Dully Dlapnteb Durens.
In the .Sir Walter Hotel.
ILaleigh, Feb. 16. —The moderates
who attended the inter-racial confer
ence here yesterday had the situation
-'is the Marines say, "well in hand,”
and most of the owners of monkey
wrenches left them at. home.
I’lie moderates, in view of the fact
that Dr. James E. Shepard and C. C.
Spaulding, of Durham, signed the re
cent protest against certain inequities
and inequalities, expected those two
CnntiniiciT nn Patre Rlv«.)
France To
Talk Plain
To Germany
Doumergue Openly
Charges Chancellor
Hitler With Re-
Arming the Nation
'""is, Feb. 16.—(AP)—Premier Gas
~jn Doumeigue, armed with the big
* ir k of popular support by France,
'"’WeH firm hand to Germany to
'b’V.
l, is m w ministry, with its eyes fix
do ~|y on Austria’s troubles, open
!.V charged Chancellor Adolf Hitler
w 'th having re-armed Germany.
H<neo, said a note to Berlin, draft
'■'* •' - one. of the cabfnet’s first acts,
birth,. Franco-German talks on arms
ar « useless.
•" the Doumergue governments
fil ' encounter with Parliament, it
w on the almost unprecedented sup
of a.n .save 193 of the 595 de
puties.
1 his, it W as recalled today, was a
u?gei margin, than was accorded the
Gloved Raymond Poincare, “the
savior of the franc,”’ in 1926.
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Airmail Chief
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Lieut. Col. Horace Hickam
When airmail service under army
administration goys into effect oil
February 19. Lieut. Col. Horace M,
Hickam, of the H S. Army Air
Corps, will have charge of service
in the central area with headquar
ters in Chicago. Eastern and West
Coast air mail service will be under
separate command.
'('unital Pressi
or. Wearing
CRITICS Os SCHOOLS
Leaders of 50 or More Crafts
Vent Their Views at
Raleigh Meet
SUGGESTIONS SOUGHT
State Superintendent Says Frankly
People Are Not Satisfied With
What They Have in Way
of Education
Dully DiH|inl<-b Hurettn.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh,.Feb. 16.—State Superinten
dent A. T. Allen of the department of
public instruction is trying today to
gather from critics of the system sug
gestion that will help him to renovate
it to the (State’s desire.
He has a big conference of leaders
in fifty or more differen 'professions
and crafts, from whose aggregate of
suggestions he hopes to get something
that will help him and his co-work
ers. The State superintendent has saia
many times that the people are not
satisfied with what they have, that
the impression abounds over the
State that the schools are run Iby peo
ple who are too much concerned with
themselves and too little taken up
with the real needs of the State.
All the people who think that way
(Continued on Page Five.)
Confesses
Sinking Os
Son s Body
Rockford, 111., Feb. 16. (AP)—Chas.
(Backus, a middle-aged vegetable ped
dler, stood near the ice-covered rivei
here, pointed to a hole ( in the ice, and
told police: „
"I put it there; I was scared.
The "it” was the body of his eight
year-old son, Charles, Jr., who had
been missing eight days. The father
had persisted in denying knowledge
of his son’s whereabouts. Last night,
after long questioning, he said to.
Joseph Tank, of the State Highway
patrol:
"All right, I’ll show you where it is
Then followed the trip to the river,
where the peddler pointed out he air
hole into which he told police 1 e had
stuffed the boy’s body.
There was no trace of the body,
however, and the river was to be dy
namited in an effort to bring it to
the surface.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION 0
wire service of
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
HENDERSON, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 16, 1934,
Austrian Fugitive?
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I i li —————
Dr. Otto Bauer
Believing revolution of his foilow
'Ts foredoomed to failure, Dr. Otto
Hauer, president of the Austrian
Socialist Parly, is reported to have
Il *d the country in the midst of san
cbinary uprising at the cost of
hundreds of lives.
(Central Press)
dIcTBOUNTYBF
GOVERNMENT TO BE
GIVEN TO AVIATION
Administration Looking
With Favor on Proposal
for Replacing Air
Mail Contracts
EXCESSIVE PROFITS
TO BE PROHIBITED
Whatever New Govennment
Plan May Be, It Appears
Certain Air Mail Scrap Is
By No Means Ended;
Brown To Appear Monday
In His Own Defense
Washington, Feb. 16. —(AP) —A di
rect Federal “bounty” for aviation re
placing scrapped air mail contracts,
received strong administration tho
ught today.
An idea behind such an undisguised
bounty would be to build up strong
er aerial defenses in case of war.
Another disclosure today was that
Comptroller General J. R. McCarl,
watchdog of Federal expenditures, is
shaping a. stopgap against excessive
profits on army-navy airplane con
tracts. This move is at congressional
request.
Whatever the new Federal plan, it
appeared that the air mail scrap is
far from over.
Walter F. Brown, oover postmas
ter genera), said that charges of con
spiracy and illegal acts by his ad
ministration, as put forward by hio
successor, were completely lacking in
justification.
Waiving immunity, Brown arrang
ed to tell the Senate air mail inves
tigating committee on Monday his
version of the tangle.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy tonight and Sat
urday; probablly snow flurries in
extreme west portion tonight:
colder in east and central portions
tonight; warmer in north and
extreme west portions Saturday.
Roosevelt Backing New
Radical Banking Scheme
Washington. Feb. 16—(AP) —A radi
cally different banking order for the
period of the economic emergency
would be set up under plans tenta
tively approved today by President
Roosevelt.
The plan means shifting the load of
capital financing from the banks to a
chain especially created for the pur
pose.
At Mr. Roosevelt’s word, the Fed
eral Reserve Board is perfecting leg
islation for a chain of banks organ
ized to make capital loans to little
industries.
COMPANY ORDERED
TO CONTINUE HERE
TO GIVE SERVICES
Must Proceed at Own Ex
pense, Too, To Remove
Poles and Wires from
Garnett Street
COURTS TO DECIDE
ON ISSUES RAISED
Condemnation and Fran
chise Matters To Form Ma.
jor Suit in March Term of
Civil Court Starting Here
March 12; Barnhill Sche
duled to Preside
The temporary rcceiverwhip for the
Henderson .properties of the Carolina
Telephone and Telegraph Company,
ordered L.y Judge Henry A. Grady in
Raleigh on February 1, was dissolved
by Judge Clayton Moore at a. hear
ing in Bertie County Superior Court
in Windsor today, and the property
was turned back to the telephone
company under the court order. At
the same time Judge Moore set. up an
injunction against the company re
quiring it to continue to give com
plete service in Henderson and for
bidding it to remove any of its pro
perty from the city pending final ad
judication of the. 1 issues at stake.
The court’s order further requires
(lie telephone company to proceed at
once at its own expense Io remove its
poles and wires from Garnett street,
Henderson’s main business thorough
fare, in order to make way for in
stallation of a modern lighting system
and white way in connection with the
re-paving of the street by the State
Highway Commission with Federal
.funds.
Meantime, the issues in the, con
troversy between the city and the
company will be settled by civil suits
to be heard in Vance Superior Court,
the civil session of which opens Mon
day, March 12, with Judge M. V.
Barnhill, of Rocky Mount, presiding.
(Continued on Page Eight.)
Cotton Tax
Favored By
Witnesses
Washington, Feb. 16. —(AP) — Fur
ther support of the principle of com
pulsory control of cotton production
was given before the House Agricul
ture Committee today by two large
cotton cooperative associations, half
a dozen southern representatives and
a New York Cotton Exchange gov
ernor.
While some of the witnesses sug
gested changes in the bill introduced
by Senator Bankhead, Democrat, of
Alabama, to fix this year’s produc
tion 9,500,000 bales, and tax all cotton
sold in excess of that limitation, all
agreed Ibalage control was necessary
and voluntary acreage reduction
would not necessarily mean a smaller
crop.
C. O. Moser, of New Orleans, vice
president of the American Cotton Co
operative Association, and C. G.
Henry, of Memphis, Tenn., manager
of the Mid-South Cotton Growers As
sociation, gave their support to the
Bankhead bill.
Representative Patinan, Democrat.,
Texas, in endorsing balage control,
said the Bankhead bill ould have to
be amended to “protect the right of
tenant farmers.”
Other agencies are cooperating, in
cluding the Treasury, NRA and Re
construction Corporation. And if some
officials have their way, the securities
act and 1933 banking law will be
somewhat amended to lift restrictions
bankers say their statutes place on
capital flotations.
These banks would be somewhat
analogous to the intermediate credit
banks that lend to farmer coopera
tives. But no decision has (been reach
ed on whether their capital should be
subscribed by the government—as in
the case ot the farm banks—or pri
vately.
Dispatch
F NORTH CAROLINA AND VlffilNlA.
Is Dissolved
400,000 Workers Will Be
Dropped By CWA Feb’y 23
In Nation's Rural Areas
Figure in Airmail Test Case
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Granting of a writ to Transcontinental and Western Air, Inci, by Federal
Judge John C. Knox (left), of New York, ordering Postmaster General
James A. Farley (top right) to appear in court to show cause why he
cancelled the company’s air mail contract, raised furore in capital, where
Karl Crowley. Post Office Department Solicitor (lower right), declared
Judge Knox lacked jurisdiction. (Centra). Press)
Roosevelt Halts
Rail Wage Slash
Washington, Feb. 16.—(AF)—
A White House plea that railroad
wages lie continued without further
reductions will receive considera
tion by raij chiefs, it was establish
ed today.
Railway chiefs gathered in Chi
cago let it be known today that
Mr. Roosevelt’s proposal would be
placed for discussion alongside one
of their own—a 15 percent cut in
the rate of back pay effective July
1.
Only by Federal intervention was
a quarrel between railroad execu
tives and their employees settled
last fall, with agreement on a ten
percent reduction in the basic rate.
The rail chiefs now propose an
other five percent slash.
DEAN MILLEOitT
AT MEDICAL FEES
Claims Many Operations
Not Needed and Public
Being Filched
Daily Dispatch Uareaa.
lu the Sir Walter Hotel,
BY J C. BA-SKERVIIiIi.
Raleigh, Feb. 16—The howl that has
arisen from the doctors, and especial
ly the surgeons, as a result of the
statement made by Dean Justin Miller
of the law school of Duke University,
in the recent speech in Chicago is
causing many people to wonder if
dean Miller is nut much surer of his
facts l than some think and that even
thedoctors know it. Dean Miller, in
addressing the Congress on Medical
Education, sponsored by the Ameri
can Medical Association in Chicago
• this week, sai dthat “if it be true, as
has been stated to me, that from 40
to 60 per cent of all operations for ap
pendicitis are unnecessary and that
a considerable portion could be
avoided by proper psychiatric diag
nosis, then the public has only a little
more to fear from fakirs than physi
cians.” This statement brought forth
a retort by Dr. Dean Lewis of Balti
more, president of the American Med
ical Association, ful of sarcasm and
indignation, but no facts.
In commenting on the situation and
the tiff between Dean Miller and the
doctors, the Raleigh News and Ob
server yesterday morning in an edi
torial entitled "What Are The Facts”
(Continued on Page Eight.)
published every afternoon
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Tax Bill Is
Due To Pass
On Tuesday
Republicans To Back
$258,000,000 Meas
ure as Non-Partisan
Bill
Washington, Feb. 16.—(AP) — The
House of Representatives will pass
the $258,000,000 tax bill Tuesday.
This was decided today before that
branehjoined the Senaite in recess over
the week-end.
With acceptance of the Ways and
Means Committee measure already a
foregone conclusion, any last possible
doubt was smothered by formal Re
publican descrition of it as “non-par
tisan.”
Committee preparation for the
stock exchange control measure pro
gressed, meanwhile, with Thomas Cor
coran, of the R. F. C. legal staff—
one of its drafters —saying it is pri
marily aimed "to prevent speculation
on the part of the little fellow who
doesn’t know what it is all about, and
(Continued on Page Five.)
sympaThyllost
BY TRANSYLVANIANS
Continued Bickerings In
Courts Not Making
Friends for Quartette
Daily Dispatch Bureaa,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Feb. 16. —Public sentiment
for the four Transylvanians who are
due here for a term of two years each
for conspiracy, was built up slowly
but the general impression here is
that the builders have tom it down in
one move.
The habeas corpus resort Wednes
day night in Wilkesboro, which gave
the convicted banker Thomas H.
Shipman, County Commissioner Joe
Pickelsimer, County Attorney Ralph
Fisher, and County Accountant C. R.
McNeely liberty for another week, has
proved the most unpopular act of
(Continued on Page Three.)
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TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
HOURSOF LABOR
TO REMAIN SAME,
HOPKINS STATES
Ten Percent Per Week To
Be Dropped Until 4,000,-
000 Are Demobiliz
ed by May 1
QUARTER MILLION
ALREADY CUT OFF
All Persons in Homes Where
Others Are Working Will
Be First To Be Cut Off;
Those With Other Re
sources To Follow; Wage
Scale To Be Local
Washington, Feb. 16 (AP) — The
(Civic Works Administration will drop
400,000 workers in rural sections
throughout the country on Friday,
February 23.
Announcing new regulations for the
next ten weeks, Harry L. Hopkins,
administrator, said that for the pre
sent hours of labor would remain at
24 a week in cities and 16 in rural
areas.
The demobolizatlon, which started
last night with the dropping of be
tween 150,000 and 250,000 workers on
Federal projects, will be carried on
at the rate of approximately ten per
cent a week through March. After
(Continued on Page Eight)
Arctic Blizzard
Grips Passengers
From Lost Vessel
Moscow, Feb. 16 (AP) Alt Arc
tic blizzard howled today around
a party of 100 shipwrecked per
sons as they camped in on the
ice of Behring Straits and waited
for 60 dog teams racting to
rescue.
In the party is a five-months
baby, born aboard the vessel Chei
iuskin, which sank three days
ago on its way back from Wran
gel Island, with scientists and col
onists, both men and women.
Russian airplanes assigned to
rescue work had to wait at Pro
vidence Bay and Cape Welland
for the storm to abate. It was a
mutter of chance whether the
fliers or the dog sledges would
reach the scene first.
Eight women and a three-year
old girl are among those strand
ed.
Governm f t
Challenges
Mail Suits
New York, Fdbu 16.—(AP)— The
suit of the Transcontinental and
Vijestern Air, Incorporaited, to prevent
cancellation of its air- mail contracts?
was challenged by the government to
day on the grounds that it could not
be brought without the government's
consent.
Martin Con boy, United States at
torney, told Federal Judge John C.
Knox that he was without jurisdio
tion in the matter.
He contended that, even though the
suit named Postmaster General James
A Farley and New York’s postmas
ter, James J. Kiely, as defendants, it
was really against the United States,
which can be sued only with its con
sent.
Judge Thomas Smith, attorney for
the air lines, contended that the suit
was not against the United States
but against officers of the United
States to restrain them from, improper
acts.
Attorneys explained that Judge
Knox’s ruling meant that he could ta
sue an injunction should he decide
himself with jurisdiction, even though
Farley was absent.
It