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HENDERSON gateway TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR TO WARN GERMANY TO KEEP HER HANDS OFF AUSTRIA CW/4 To Drop Half Million Workers End Os Next Week 20,000, OR ABOUT ONE-FOURTH, TO BE DROPPED FOR N. 0. Will Leave Only 55,000 on Payrolls in This State After February 23, It Is Stated LITTLE OVER THREE MILLIONS ARE LEFT Administrator Hopkins Sends Instructions To State Directors Advising Method of Cutting Down Total Number; Least Needy Will Be Cut off First W liingtoii. Feb. 17. lAP) Tile Civil Wprks Administration plans to (I;, p '72.5(H) persons from the payrolls in xt Friday instead of the 400,000 pre viously decided upon. This, it was announced today by Hany L. Hopkins, the administrator. will 1< ave approximately 3.101,400 pee .-oiis on the payroll. Hopkins made public the text of in stiuctions sent to State admin Istra lion.-, and the quota reduction to 'be m effect during the week beginning Feb luary 23. The instructions are. • To accomplish necessary reductions you -hould lay off those needing em ployment less, dropping first all work ers in whose immediate family an «th< r member is working, leaving no mot • than one person gainfully em ployed in the family, and then work ers who have other sources, making .-'tire that needy women receive equal attention with needy men. ■M; ke major reauctions in those (Continued on Page Eight.) Greens Will Face Court Next Week Father and Son Held At Taylorsville For ’Fatal Bank Hold- l p Last July Taylorsville N. C., Feb. 17.—(AP) Ba.-com Green, 47, and his son, Les hi. 21, alleged bank bandits, were i'dgid in ja.il here today and ar rang< meats made to try them next ' k on charges of murder and ait tempted robbery. I'iw two men, declared outlaws and Ininhd .since last July, when an at b nipt was made to hold up the Mer ehants and Farmers Bank here, and lrti.uk offieia.l was fatally wounded w "e arrested Thursday in Morris town, Tenn., and were carried to Ashe ville yesterday after they waived ex tradition. Sheriff H. L. Mays of Alexander 'ounty, and Sheriff W. C. Somers, of Wilkes county, brought the father and ■'•'on on here today. Solicitor John R. Jones came here hiis morning to arrange for the trial, ! " I( T id they would be arraigned Monday when superior court here ' P'-ns. and would go on trial Wedncs 'l iy. Judge Wilson Warlick will pre side over the court term here. rn, nt. three rooms and bath, steam Roosevelt Endorses Idea Os Cotton Surplus Taxes Washington, Feb. 17 (AP)—Presi dent. Roosevelt today endorsed the I't'nciple of the Bankhead bill for control of cotton. , 1,1 aletter to Chairman Jones, Dem- 1 at, Texas, of the House Agricul- 111.1 Committee, the President said ‘study of the various methods” ’’ 'lealing with the cotton situation 1.1 him to “believe that the Bank- LESLIE PERRY MEMORIAL HENDERSON. N. O. ttenitersmt Batin Bisnatrh New Air Mail Bill Will Deny Post Office Right To Hire Private Planes Envoy Ordered Back Ji *?•- ® ■ |I I Hn w*-" IL 1 George Earle Here is Gevrge Earle, America!, minister to Austria, who has been ordered by President Roosevelt to cut short his stay in the United States and return immediately to Austria to protect American in terests in the current disorders between government forces and Socialists schoolgatherinT IS PEP MEETING TO RAISE MORE MONEY Most of Speeches Mention Money Oftener Than Textbooks or Courses of Study MOST OF SPEAKERS ALSO SCHOOL FOLK Every Time Sales Tax Men tioned There Is Applause and Suggestion of Raising It To Get More Money Is Applauded More Than Ever; Skinner Is Heard Daily Dispatch IBurean. In the Sir Walter Hotel. UY J. C. MASK LHV ILL. KaJeigh, Feb. it.— inc great meet ing here Friday called by Dr. A. T. Allen, State superintendent of public instruction, supposed to be for the purpose of the laymen and father and mothers of the State to discuss changes in the public school curri culum in the State, developed into little more than a pep meeting for the drive already under way by the school people and textbook pulbilishers for anywhere from $5,000,000 to $lO,- 000,000 a year more for support of (Continued on Page Four.) head bills, in principle, best cover the situation.” "I hope,” the President wrote, “that in the continuing emergency your . committee can take action.” The Bankhead bills, introduced by the Senator from Alabama, and his brother in the House, would limit this year’s cotton crop to 9,500,000 bales, and place a heavy tax on all cotton sold in excess of that limit. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 17/1934 House Committee Approves Emergency Measure, But Eliminates Objection able Parts LIMITS TEMPORARY SERVICE ONE YEAR Meantime, Permanent Plans Will Be Drawn; Govern ment Considers Abrogation of Foreign Air Mail Con tracts if Ground Found Justifiable Washington. Fdb.. 17. (AP, The House Post Office Committee, in ap proving the emergency air mail bill today .eliminated sections which would have let the postmaster general negotiate contracts with private car riers. It was aecided between the army and ihe Post Office Department, meanwhile, that the first army mail flight would leave Newark airport at 3:15 p. m. Monday for Miami, where it is scheduled to arrive at 5:40 a. m. Tuesday. At the capital the bill also limited the temporary air mail service to one, year. The amendment, said Chairman Mea.le, made the mail carrying ex clusively an army job until perma nent legislation can be eneacted. AGREEMENTS ON FOREIGN AIR MAIL INVESTIGATED Washington. Feb. 17.—(AP) — torious against the first legal chal lenge of its rights to annul domestic (Continued on Page Eight) Death Penalty on Touhy and 2 Pals Is Again Sought Chicago, Feb. 17 (AP)—The State again asked the death penalty for Roger Touhy and two associates, on trial a second time for the $70,000 John Factor kidnaping, and promised a jury today that it would give a more complete story this time. Prosecutor Wilbur F. Crowley, hint ed that the new information had come —or would come —from two oth er Touhy followers now on their way to Chicago in custody. Crowley told the jury that “before this trial ends, the State may be able to locate the farm prison where Fac tor was held for 11 or 12 days he was a prisoner. dukeWrinity FEEL TRANSITIONS Doubt if Old Trinity Men Big Enough To Bridge Gap to Greatness Daily Dispatch Bureau. Jit the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Feb. 17.—Duke University campus is the center of collegiate in terest in North Carolina not because the public is greatly stirred over the football, baseball or basketball, box ing or wrestling supremacy, or even the academic dominaney. People are watching the contest between Duke University and Trinity College. The disturbance of last week, trif ling as it was as an incipient uprising is ajlmobt universally regarded the preliminary (battle between Duke ana Trinity. To be sure, Trinity became Duke some years ago, but Duke has grown to greater stature. Many alum ni of the old college founded by Dr. Braxton Craven think the new in stitution is anxious to expand and they are not certain that the Trinity teachers who wrought with Bishop Kilge are able to make the great transition. The persevering prominence and popularity of Dean Justin Miller of the law school, coupled with his well known modernism, his youth and F personality make the Duke youngsters (Continued on Page Eight.) ITALY GUARDS BORDER AS AUSTRIA RIOTS CONTINUE K > . - - '■' ''' : Ai : ’• ’•• ’ <• 1 i T IL. . L HIP 1 ; 1.- Ll PT With rioting in Austria continu ing unabated, Italian troops are reported concentrating near the Austrian border, reinforcing the Italian northern frontier as a pre- FRANCE DECLINES BRITISH PROPOSAL FOR DISARMAMENT Rejection Politely Conveyed in Face of “The Hitler Menace” as Seen in Germany BRITISH ENVOY HAS LONG CONFERENCES Wants Germany To Have Few More a(nd Other Pow ers Few Less Armaments; French Want Talks With Germany on Armaments to Be Given .“First Class Funeral” Paris, Feb. 17 (AP) —France today politely rejected British overtures for disarmament with a refusal to cut the armed force of France in the face of “the Hitler menace.” That was the answer given Captain Anthony Eden, under secretary of foreign af fairs of Great Britain, after he had talked four hours with a high power ed national defense board here. Captain Eden, complete with de tains of the latest British proposal for a compromise agreement with Germany, whereby Germany should have a few more armaments and sur rounding nations a few less, was con fronted by Doumergue himself, Louis Barthou, minister of foreign affairs; Vice Premiers Tardieu and Herriot and three ministers of defense. The French group was willing to dis cuss disarmament, but was opposed to talking about re-armament. And consensus of the French was that Franco-German talks on the subject should be given a first class funeral. SOCIALISTS CLASH WITHCOMMUNISTS New York, Feb. 17 (Afl?) —Social- ists and communists, meeting at Mad ison Square Garden to protest against atrocities of Austria fascism, engaged in one of the bitterest battles that the home of pugilism has ever seen. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair, and continued cold tonight Sunday fair and warmer. cautionary measure. A typical scene in the maneuvers of Italian troops in the Alps on the Austrian border is shown, top. Below is a view of Steyr, Austrian city which Austrian Fascists Get Greater Representation Gain Cabinet Posts, While Government Ousts Thous ands of Socialists from Public Office; Five Rebels Hanged in Vienna; Others Are Commuted Graz, Austria, Feb. 17.—(AP) Joseph Stanek, 50 years of age, seeretary of the Graz chamber of workers and employees, was hang ed at 4:06 o’clock this afternoon. He was accused of participation in the Socialist uprising. Vienna, Feb. 17. —(AP)—Austrian Fascists scored big gains in their drive to dominate the government to day with the elevation of another leader <to a cabinet post, and the oust ing of thousands of Socialists from public office. They won, too, in Chancellor En gelbert Dollfuss’ failure to heed ths demand of his own Christian Social party that parliament be re-convened seelmmiiiaF SCHOOL CHAMPION I He Denies Sales Tax Suffi cient for State Support of Institutions Daily Dispatch Uurraa, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, Feb. 17.—Attorney General Dennis G. Brummitt has not an nounced his candidacy for governor by categorical statement that he means to run, but voters will have no doubt about his purpose and none about his platform after reading the extracts from his address last night (Continued on Page Four.) North Carolina To Get SBOO,OOO For Relief Work « Washington, Feb. 17.—(AP)— The Federal Emergency Belief Or ganization this afternoon announc ed a grant of SBOO,OOO to North Carolina to aid in meeting unem ployment relief costs during Feb ruary. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. has been the scene oi numerous clashes between Socialists anc soldiers. Arrow points to tin munitions factory, scene of a re cent bloody battle. at once Emphasizing the ascendancy of the Fascist influence under Secretary Neustaedter-Stuermer, member of the Fascist heimwebr, or home guard, has been appointed minister of social wel fare. The caibinet accelerated its general anti-Socialist campaign by declaring null and void the position and pre rogatives of every official elected on the party’s ticket. Five more Socialists condemned for insurrectionary activities were hang ed in Vienna today. Six others were sentenced to death but their sentences were commuted to prison terms a lew hours before they were to have died. Not even the “hanging courts,” however, could halt the guerrilla war fare waged against the Fascist heim wehr by ragged bands of Socialists. Several heimwehr sentries have been wounded in the streets by gun fire from speeding automobiles. Un confirmed reports said today that two of the sentries were dying. Police im mediately called for extraordinary precautions. Cars were searched and even pedestrians were watched close ly. A taxicab in which an Associat ed Pi'ess correspondent was riding early today was halted twice during a short ruin. Even the cushions were removed in the police search. Burning Denunciation By Czechs Sent To Dollfuss Praha, Czechoslovakia, Feb. 17. (AP) — A telegram of burning de nunciation warning Chancellor Doll fuss that his war against the Social ists! “is endangering the peace of our Fatherland, as well as other parts of Europe,” was dispatched, to Vienna this afternoon by the Czechoslovakian Social Democratic party, the second largest party in this country. “We cannot endure any longer the torture which news of the catastrophe 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY FRANCE, ITALY ANO ENGLAND DRAFTING BOLD DECLARATION Joint Statement To Be Ad dressed to the World at Large, Setting Forth Position INDEPENDENCE FOR AUSTRIA INTENDED Manifesto Purposes To Pre. serve Nation’s Interests and Will Be Released in 48 Hours, Paris Says; Pro posal Came Originally from Premier Mussolini Paris, Feb. 17 (AP) —Three great powers of Europe—England, France and Italy—drafted today, relief re ports said, a warning to Germany to keep her hands off Austria. The joint declaration will be ad dressed to the world at large, the un derstanding here is. It is a move ment on the part of the three pow ers intended to preserve Austria’s in dependence. The manifesto is expected to be re leased within 48 hou?s. Premier Mussolini, espousing efforts to keep Nazi control away from Aus tria, proposed the three-power an nouncement. Seven Die In Flames At Homes iNew York, Feb. 17 —(AP) — Seven, persons, including two children, per ished in a fire that swept a five story tenement house on the lower East Side earlyl today. The bodies were found on the fourth floor of the tenement, while four bod ies were found in the third floor apartment. Starting in the basement, the blaze spread -rapidly through the brick building, breaking through tiie roof and shooting flames more than 15 feet high. The barking of a dog awoke the family but the fire had made such headway that they were unable to get out. Fascists In England Are Being Held Police Make First Raid Against Group Blackshirts Nabbed at Norfolk Wortham, Norfolk, England, Feb. 17.—(AP)Police made their first raid against British Fascists at noon to day, taking into custody the “black shirts” of Sir Oswald Foseley’s or ganization. Nearly 200 policemen made the raid. The Fascists several days ago en camped on two farms as voluntary pickets in the “tithe” war, in which (Continued On Page Four.) in Austria causes us,” said the mes sage, signed by the president and seo reary of the party, and unanimously approved (by the executive committee. “Our whole population is paralyzed with horror over the events to which your regime has led. These hangings of critically wounded prisoners awaken in us and our people a feel ing of abhorrence unprecedented ih the history of civilization. That’s not justice, nor is to politics, but re verge.”
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