HENDERSON
CATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
CONCILIATION
VIOLENCE BREAKS
IN ALABAMA MINE
STRIKE DISTRICT
Sheriff and Deputies Hurry
to Scene of Trouble in
Jefferson County
Area
JPLANS UNDER WAY
TO GET SOLDIERS
Striking Miners Reported to
Have “Beaten Up” Num
ber of Men Seeking To Re
turn to Work; Deputy’s
Courage Saves One Mine
From Destruction
('.it mingham, Ala., March 13. (AIM
Violence was reported this morning
in mines at Bradford and Porter, in
Jefferson county, and Sheriff J. M.
Hawkins. with a corps of deputies,
went to the former place, where
mines ait* operated by the Alabama
l’.\-Products Company, while prepara
ti<m> were made to move troops to
hoth shafts.
IP ports reaching the sheriff said
hiking miners “beat up” a number
ni i who sought to return to work
in the Bradford mine this morning.
At Porter, Carson Adams, vice- j
|in -iJont of the Porter Coal Conv-
I :iny. said from 500 to 600 striking
Illinois assembled there when an cf
foi t was made to reopen the mine,
ami only the courage of Deputy
Sin i iff Bill Alexander, who has been
ci duty there, saved the mines from
dost ruction.
\dams said Alexander drew a gun
and held off the pickets.
Brigadier-General John C. Persons
called for <|\>ick mobilization «by Na
ti<mil Guard units for duty at both
places to preserve order, pending
ci mpletion of negotiations now in pro
uross here for a settlement of the
strike.
Two Are Killed
In T enement Fire
In New York City
New York. March 13 < AP) —An
liiily morning tenement hour fire,
from which two Negro women drop
l>ed five stories to death, and a boy 1
was critically injured, brought to 17
today the number of victims of tene
nu'iit house fires within the last
month.
The women leaped to the sidewalk
and were instantly killed after flames
had cut off escape by a rear fire es
'•ape. A ten-eyear-old grandson of
one of the women was tossed out of
a window by the women before they
leaped and was injured so severely
•hat he may die.
Twenty-five families were made
homeless as the fire destroyed the
five-si ory old tenement on Edge
'•or'nhe avenue, in upper Harlem.
The fire was the fifth to strike a
‘'o w York tenement building in the
tast month, 15 persons having perish
"(l in the previous blazes.
Facts Not
A ll Out In
Bank Case
linHy OitpnO-h ItpreMW,
In (he Sir Walter Hotel.
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italejgh, March 13.—Translyvania’s
hixe prisoners have begun their
•''■vice, but without that measure of
puhlif favor which was theirs before
""y came to Raleigh on very slow
schedule.
Tactical blunders seem to have been
niiton, with them They were here two
" u r.tago, and, in response to their
"■'l'Jcst, they saw Governor Ehring
ll;ms. They did not ask for clemency
but to be allowed a brief statc
nt about their case. They made it
s,| ap|»y, but near the end of it they
lf, ld CJovcrnor Ehringhaus that they
had been asked to “go Into the rotten
\ of the North Carolina courts.
1 hmnas H. Shipman, who appears to
,J " too .-peaking for the party, is re
h:ded to have made the statement to
:l " governor, but assured his excel
v tnat it was not the wish of the
i 1 ‘ met to make the expose now.
1 c-i'miioi Ehringhaus bade him go to
It.
■ ere was another egregious blunder
w1 1 e 11 the Transylvanians took their
days respite and chose the latter
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The scientific world is agog over
the report that two French avia
tors have down over the legendary
town of Sheba, supposed capital
of the realm of the famous Queen
of Sheba, character of the Bible
and in the works of Koran. The
map shows where the French men
Rescuers Try To Save Men
In Hull Jap Torpedo Boat
Sasebo, Japan, March 13. — (AP)
With three men rescued out of the
113 trapped in the hull of the cap
sized torpedo boat Tomozuru, rescue
workers cut doggedly at a steel wall
late tonight in the hope that eight
more men might be found alive.
Officers said, 40 hours after the.
heavily armed little ship turned over
Experts To
Probe Army
Mail Flying
Undbergh, Orville
Wright and Cham
berlin Named B y
Secretary Dern
Washington, March 13. —(AP) —Sec-
retary Dern today named a special
committee of aeronautical Authorities,
including Orville W/right, Charles A.
Lindbergh and Clarence Chamberlain,
to investigate the army carrying of
the air mail. .
He asked it especially to consider
“such flying instruments as are deem
ed necessary for efficient navigation,
and night, Deacon and radio control
flights and landings,” and. in con
sideration of personnel, to weigh
“their training and experience in
cross country flying, in night flying,
blind flying and in instrument fly
ing, and their understanding and em
ployment of instruments referred to
afbove.”
The commission will be authorized
to call all witnesses and take any tes
timony it may deem necessary.
Two Cadets Lose
Lives When Plane
Crashes Ini exas
San Antonio. Texas., March 13 (AP)
—'Flying Cadets Nelson C- Samuels
and J. W. Carson, of Kelly Field,
were killed today in the crash of
their ship three miles north of Camp
Bullis. ’
Cadet Samuels was 22 years old.
His mother lives in Severana Park,
Maryland. Cadet Carson was 26
years old. His father lives at Spart
anburg, S. C.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED
URGED IN ROW ON VETERANS’ BENEFITS
CAPITAL OF QUEEN OF SHEBA’S REALM LOCATED?
HENDERSON, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 13 1934
assertedly discovered the remains
of the town in Arabia, saying that
some towers and temples are still
standing. At top is an artist’s
conception of the meeting of the
Queen of Sheba and King Solo
mon in Solomon’s court, as re
lated in Hebrew history.
during maneuvers, that it would be
impossible to cut through the hull
and find what lay inside before mici
iniigh t.
They were spurred on in their work
by a story from the rescued men
that eight of their companions were
still alive in the engine room when
they escaped through a. hatch under
water to reach the surface.
The three sailors rescued said their
Beddingfield and
Collie Given Air
Raleigh, March 13.—(AP)—The
Raleigh Times said today that A.
10. Beddingfield and J. It. Collie,
divisional heads of the State. De
partment of Revenue, are “on their
way out” as the result, of notices
given them by A. J. Maxwell, com
missioner of revenue, in what looks
to be the first of a series of per
sonnel releases in the State's chief
money collecting department.
Beddingfield is director of the
income tax division, and Collie is
clef supervisor of te department
field force.
NAILS. COHEN
PARTY TREASURER
Atlanta Publisher, Former
Senator, On Way To
Washington Now
Washington, March 13 (AP)—The
administration has asked John S. Co
hen, Atlanta publisher, to become tre
asurer of the Democratic National
Committee.
Cohen, formei senator from Geor
gia, is unuderstood to be en route to
Washington to talk over the situation
with Postmaster General Farley, the
Democratic national chairman.
Farley said today as he left the
White House that Cohen has been
decided upon for the treasuryship.
The office became vacant when
iFrank C. Walker, of New York, re
signed to head President Roosevelt’s
National Emergency Council.
40 AND 8 CONVENTION
BROUGHT TO AN END
Winston-Salem, March 13.
(Al*)—The Mid-Atlantic group of
40 and 8, fun-making section of
the American Legion, closed its
annual session here today after
selecting Danville, Va., as the
next meeting place.
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comrades in the engine room had
been too weak to follow their avenue
of escape.
The floating coffin, still bottom up,
as it. was when a. cruiser found it ofl
the coast, was shoved into the Sesn
bo dry dock, its mast and funnel In
the cutaway where keels ordinarily
go.
Pumps went into operation forcing
out the water from the vessel.
Five Indicted
In Kidnaping
Backlnl93l
Woman and Four
Me n Accused in
Ransom Abduction
of St. Doctor
St. Louis, Mo., March 13. —(AP) —
Mrs. Nellie Tipton Muench, wife of
Dr. Ludwig O. Muench, a physician,
and four men, were indicted at sub
urban Clayton (today on a charge
of kidnaping Dr. I. D. Kellye for ran
som April 20, 1931.
The men indicted by the St. Louis
county grand jury are Felix Mc-
Donald, former convict: Bart Davit,
who was indicted with McDonald on
a chaige of attempting to kidnap a
St. Louis man, but was acquitted;
Angelo Segrant. salesman, and John
C. Johnson, Negro, tenant on a farm
where Dr. Kelley was held captive
after he was lured from his home
on a fake call.
Mrs. Muench was widely known in
St. Louis as a proprietor of a fash
ion, able dress shop which want bank
rupt in ?G2B, with a loss of $77,000
to creditors. She is also a member
of a circle of musical devotees.
BANKS FOR SMALL
BUSINESS SET UP
Washington, March 13 (AP)—
Arrangements for intermediate
credit ban to supply capital for
small business neared completion
today at a White House confer
ence.
VEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair tonight and Wednesday;
warmer tonight and in east and
central portions Wednesday.
iSSoRED
Would Reduce Minimum
Area of Great Smoky
Park and Permit
Use of Money
$1,550,000 ALLOCATED
TO PURCHASE LANDS
Acquition of Land by Pur
chase, Condemnation Or
Gift Authorized in Bill;
Pennsylvania Republican
Casts Olnly Opposing Com
mittee Vote
Washington,' March 13.- (AP)— The
House Public Lands Committee to
day favorably reported the Weaver
bill to reduce the minimum area of
the Great Smoky Mountains National
Park and to allow addition to the
ipark lands purchased with $1,550,000
allocated by executive order.
The bill, sponsored by Representa
tive Weaver, Democrat, North Caro
lina, in whose district a large poo
tion of the park lies, was amended
so as to allow the acquisition of lands
by purchase, condemnation or gift,
rather than by purchase alone, as ori
ginally provided.
An eflort Dy Representative Ed
monds, Republican, Pennsylvania, iu
strikeout a provision making the
park eligible for any funds which
may “hereafter” be allocated was vot
ed down. Edmonds was the only com
mittee member to vote against the
favoratb'le report.
The bill reduces the minimum area
of the park from the 427,000 acres
fixed in the original act of 1926, to
400,000 acres. -
EXPECTED 1 SHORTLY
Federal Office-Holders In
State May Be Forced
From Party Jobs
Daily Di*|»:t(<-h Murom.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
IIY J. C. IIASKERVILL.
Raleigh, Marcn 13.—Notwithstand
ing the ill favor accorded the Homer
Lyon resolution introduced at the
late meeting of .the State Democratic
Executive Committee meeting, in.
which he sought, to remove Federal
officeholders from party positions, or
holders of party honors from Federal
positions, there is a recurring sus
picion that some of them are going
to turn loose in time.
Wlhen this question was first raised
one of the most determined of the
party honorees was Governor Nellie
iTayloe Ross, of Wyoming, national
committeewoman*from that State. She
did not practice law as director of
the mint, and she did not come with
in the prohibition that Mr. Roosevelt
had set up. It was announced in North
Carolina that Mrs. Ross would not
let go and therefore North Carolina's
committeewoman and North Caro
Jina’s vice chairman would not be af
fected by the presidential position.
But Governor Ross has resigned.
,She has changed her mind about it
and is out. There is a point made in.
(Continued on Page Three.)
Woman In
Two Posts
Quits One
Washington, March 13. —(AP) —Mrs.
Katherine Connor, Democratic na
tional committeewoman for Kentucky,
has resigned her position with the
Federal Emergency Relief Adminis
tration, but will remain a member or
the national committee.
Mrs. Connor told reporters today
she was given her choice of remain
ir g with the committee or continuing
her duties with the relief administra
tion. and chose the former.
She offered her resignation in a
letter to Harry L. Hopkins, relief ad
ministrator, to take effect April 1.
This was the first instance of a per
son holding both a government and
a party post giving up the former to
conform to the wish of the Presidem
that one or the other of such dual
capacities be abandoned.
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AND VIRGINIA. *
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
House Hears Plea
For President And
Congress To Agree
Fulfills Promise
t&P' . ~'-N<>*vw... i .
HHr
Wilbur Huston
Justifying faith of the judges wht
awarded him the Edison Scholar
ship in 1929, Wilbur B. Huston,
who was graduated last June from
th« ‘Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, already is busy on a
device that he expects will change
materially advertising methods in
retail stores. He is working at
West Orange, N. J., under direc
tion of Theodore Edison, son of the
Late inventive wizard.
(Central Press)
™Slaw
Collector Robertson At Ra
leigh Expecting Orders
Any Day Now
ORDER CONSOLIDATION
Roosevelt Asks Congress To Sanc
tion Immediate Merger of Fed
eral Alcohol and Liquor
Control Bureaus
Dully UiN|inU'b Uttrom.
In Hie Sir Walter Hotel.
UY J. IIA SK. 1411 VI 1,1,.
Raleigh, March 13. —Collector Char
les H. Robertson, of the Bureau of
Internal Revenue in North Carolina,
is expecting to be ordered at any time
to take over control of ail alcohol and
liqquor law enforcement as a result
of the message which President Roose
velt send to Congress Saturday, ask
ing that all the various agencies now
having to do with alcohol and liquor
be consolidated under the commission
er of internal revenue, he said today.
The President’s order will become ef
fective within 30 days without any
action by Congress. But he asked that
they pass a resolution to make the
order effective immediately, and it is
expected that this will be done with
in the next few days, in which cases
all these agencies in North Carolina
lContinued on Page Three.)
Horne and Woman
Held for Court In
State Check Fraud
Raleigh, March id iAP) —Claude
Horne, of Columbus county, and Re
becca Westmoreland, of Thomasville
waived preliminary hearings in Ray
leigh police court today when arraign
ed on charges of conspiracy to de
fraud the State of North Carolina
through forgery of checks.
Horne was bound over to superior
court under $5,000 bond, and the wo
man’s bond was set at $2,500. No evi
dence wa spresented.
Horne, an ex-convict and former
bank employee, is alleged by State of
ficers to have been involved in the
forging of more than a score of
checks aggregating about SI,OOO,
which have come into the State treas
ury in recent months.
The woman is alleged to have pass
ed some of the spurious checks here
last week.
The next term of Wake Superior
Court is set for April 9. ■ ‘
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Senate Unlikely To Vote for
Bonus Payment or Rat
ifying St. Lawrence
Treaty
WOODRUM HOLDS UP
THE OLIVE BRANCH
Virginia Democrat Tells
House There Is Every Indi
cation President Is Willing
To Play the Game; Bank
head Cotton Bill L Debat
ed in the House
Washington, March 13.—(AP)—Con
ciliation rather than a knockdown,
dragout combat between the Presi
dent and Congress over veterans’
benefits was urged upon the House
today.
It came up with the question of
accepting the multi-millioned Senate
liberalization of the economy act.
The Democratic leadership doesn’t
want this done, but sentiment has to
wait until tomorrow.
The Bankhead cotton Control bill
took up this afternoon in the House,
while opponents ot tne waterway pact
with Canada held sway in the Senate.
On this tne sunny 13t.h of the
month, the House was reminded that
the disputed Senate economy ‘billl
amendments total exactly 23. Results
can be obtained only by specific
means, exhorted Representative Wood
rum, Democrat, Virginia, without ap
parent effect on the veterans’ advo
cates.
‘‘We have every reason to believe
the President will meet the legislative
'branch in a spirit of conciliation,”
Woorum said, citing that since the
economy act has been passed, “some
thing line $150,000,000 a year has been
restored to the veterans through re
vision of executive orders.”
In the Senate, disavowing influence
from the “big bad wolf of Wall
Street”—to use his 'words —Senator
Clark, of Missouri, and others rap
ped the administration support for
the St. Lawrence treaty. It was in a
day-long familiar sounding succession
of arguments.
At the Treasury, however, con
gressional devisors of stock market
legislation conferred to get agreement
(Continued on Pass Two.)
Touhy Gang
Member Is
Found Dead
Charles Connors,
Wanted In Char
lotte Mail Robbery,
Killed In Chicago.
Chicago, March 13. —(AP) —Charles
“Ice Wagon” Connors, one of the
Touhy gangsters long hunted for the
kidnaping of John Factor, was found
shot to death in a remote section of
the Southwest side today.
The body, shot twice through the
chest, the head battered in with bul
lets and another wound in the arzu,
lay unidentified several hours while
officers tried to compare the fea
tures with these of the hunted gang
ster. Identification was finally made
by fingerprints.
This was the first kilting since
the gang round-up began last sum
mer at Elkhorn, Wis., where Roger
Touhy and several confederates were
captured.
Four of them were tried and ac
quitted at St. Paul of the William
Hamm, Jr., kidnaping, and after the
acquittal, Willard Sharkey hanged
himself rather than face trial at Chi
cago for the kidnaping of John Facto®!
Another of the gang was on trial
today for the crime, Basil U. Bang
hart. And chief among the witnesses
against him were Isaac Costner and
“Buck” Henrichsen, two of the Touhy]
aides, who turned against their gang.
Connors had apparently tried ta
averat identification by growing «
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