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11KNPERSON (GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR Roosevelt Calls Motor Leaders *|* *V *V* y y y , President Warns Rail Employers And Workers To Settle Dispute ROOSEVELT WARNS OF FAKING A HAND 10 REACH ACCORD Public Commission lo Examine Situation if Agreement Is Long Deferred SAYS THE PUBLIC IS BEING IGNORED Writes Conference of Labor Heads and Rail Executives of Profound Disappoint ment” That No Agreement Is Reached; Demands Min imum Wage Be Hoisted H ;i'l»ingt(>n, March 20. <AI • > I'n cih'Mt lioo.seveil today warned railway employers and workers to -•ttle their w;ige disputes and sug :* 0(1 a public commission to ex :ir(iill»• in*- controversy. I he President took this action !-iil> alter railway employees had il< iiianded a 20 percent wage increase vr what they are now getting, ef i-' tive July 1. In a, letter to the conferring raiJ " iy executives and labor officials, the I t- ident repeated his proposal for a x months extension of the present lurecment. It is a profound disappointment,” 'ml the F’resident, “to learn that no l»i ngress toward an agreement has I" n made at the conference. I fear Thai sight is being lost of the most important factor of all, the good of the country. If no agreement is reached, and in '■"fault of arbitration, it may be nec is.ouy for me. with due regard to the protection of the general public in terest. to appoint a commission to ex amine thoroughly into the labor con troversy covering all classes of rail i"iid employment, in order that the country may be advised of the merits.” Mi Roosevelt also gavev notice to tie railroads that, he felt some of the wages being paid employees were b low the minimum established in the NFiA codes, "if not actually below a subsistence basis." The President demanded that this i'ualion be immediately corrected. Mr. Roosevelt repeated his belief Mint this was not the time to fix per manently the railway wage scale. l iv e Are Injured When Belk Store At I .enoir Burns lenloi*. IVlarch 20.—(AD —Four firemen ami a store employee, were injured here today in a fire which destroyed the Belk Depart ment Store, doing damage esti mated at *IOO,OOO. The firemen were injuhed when the front coping of the store fell, showering them with debris. They were holding a liow at the front door when the coping col lapsed. As (lie flames roared out of '•ontrol of the local fir© depart •"ent, a truck from Hickory re- Mmndcd to a call and aided in preventing Hie. fire from spread ing through tlie entire business Mnek. Old Man Winter Paying His Farewell Call Here 'By the Associated Press.) ' »i<i Man Winter paid a farewell '■'i-a to the Carolina* today to inter "i: .-now, sleet and rain, followed with "'•''ini sunshine, through large areas of the states. Spring arrives of * i<*i?i.lly tomorrow. h was the latest snow in North '-u-olina since 1915, and sleet and flakes fell from one end of Tar **''< lia to the other, as a storm traver- M, l the area from the southwest {t ''iOKs to the coast. I' mperatures over the two states '"vered just above or at the freezing and a bright sun, which shone 'Mi.st (daces today, meited the snow Hntiirrsmt Datln iltsuatrh WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. GAVE BEST SCREEN PERFORMANCES MWL Jm |h . ■: > S M \ «ffigSß^BßßßßßgliSiii«!l»»aaßs^ Katharine Hepburn Katharine Hepburn and Charles Laughton, shown abdve, are re cipients of the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for giving the Spy Plots Against U. S., Britain And F rance Are Revealed By The Police 15 Held Under Arrest In Paris After Midnight Questioning of Ame rican Couple germansTrussians ARE BENEFICIARIES Vast International Espion age System Uncovered Paris Police Claim; ‘Full Confession” Alleged To Have Been Made by Ame rican a|nd His Wife Paris, March 20. (AP) a gainst the United States, France and Great Britain was charged by jxdice today In a widespread plot they said finally had 'been revealed through the. testimony of two American prisoners. Investigators said Germany and Soviet Russia, 'had been the bene ficiaries of what authorities describes as a va»t, international espionage syn dicate. Police of the limited States and England have been cooperating in the investigation of the spy ring, it was explained, and it is largely through their efforts that the tangled skein of the mystery of the so-called plot, fi nally is commencing to be unravelled. Police voiced tlieir charges as do velopments came thick and fast for lowing a. seven-hour questioning of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Switz, the Am ericans, in a secret session before Judge Andre Benon, investigating magistrate, which did not end until shortly before last midnight. Early today five persons, including (Continued On Page Four.) or sleet rapidly. High Point had shivers of appre hension when it sleeted hard last ■night. Citizens recalled the damage and inconvenience done by the sleet and glaze storm several weeks ago, but their fears were abated when the sleet turned into snow and then rain. This morning the sun came out and started melting the ice. At Raleigh the lowest temperature was 33, but a two-hour snowfall today gave lawns a white covering f° r a ■short while. Durham, Greensboro, Fayetteville, Rocky Mount, Henderson. Greenville and Washington also had snow today. ONLY DAILY Charles Laughton best screen performances during 1933. Miss Hepburn was chosen for her performance in “Morning Glory”, and Laughton for “The Private Life of Henry VIII”. Senate Asks for Silver Hoarders Washington, March 550.—(AI'j The Senate today called on Secre tary Morgen than for a list ot hoarders of silver. It adopted without debate a re solution of Senator Hobinson, Re publican, Indiana, requesting the information if such a list was avoii able, and if not incompatible with the public interest. The resolution said it had been "currently reported” that there had been speculation in the white metal and that "certain people were hoarding it.” BETTER PROGRAMS FOR FARMS LIKELY County Colntro] Associa tions To Transform Fu ture, Schaub Asserts Dally Dispatch Hnreac, In the Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh. March 20. —County control associations to be set up in North Carolina as a part of the work in ad justing acreage and production of cot ton. tobacco, wheat and other crops will likely be an important factor in building better farm programs in the State in future years, believes Dean T. O. Schaub, director of extension at State College and head of the ad justment. programs now under way. In some counties, Schaub points out. about 95 percent of all the farmers have signed adjustment contracts. This means that the great bulk of the more progressive men and women are cooperating in the work of fit ting crop yields and acreages to de mands of the market. When these people sign coht.racts, they automati cally become members of the county control associations and are therefore interested in seeing that the con tracts are fulfilled in detail by every person signing them. In addition, however, these tract signers will oe further interested in using the land taken from the production of the cash crops. In North Carolina, definite canning and good production budgets have been prepared by the Ext ensid n forces showing just now much food mater ials is needed for an acreage family and how much feed must be produced for the various kinds of livestock. Planning the acreage so that these food and feed requirements may be (Continued from Page Two.) NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 20, 1934 REALTORS LINE-UP ON THE SALES TAX Politicians Glad for These Two Groups To Wage The War Over Much. Debated Levy IT RELIEVES THEM OF EMBARRASSMENT Ehringhaus and Maxwell Will Dislike To Go Out and Explain Why They Cussed the Sales Tax and Then Come Out for It; Business Men Take Burden Unity Dispntch tlut^ns. In Hi** .N». Walter Hotel. Rnleigli, March 20. Merchants ver sus Realtors is the line-up that of ficialdom is assured will carry the wales tax battle this primary, the lands and house sellers assuming the burden of proving 'this tax a dHiever and the bacon and bread vendors the pleasure of demonstrating that tax a devil. Politicians will welcome this war. First place, the fighting will be trans ferred from them to the two groups ideally fitted to fight it out on this line if it takes all the summers and all the winters. The furious blast from Secretary Willard Dowell, of the mer chants association, leaves no doubt as to organization’s purposes. Jt. is going to fight every man in office or seeking to get in who favors that tax. The merchants do not pay it. hut they do collect it and, of course, suffer just so much loss of money as the tax requires to he taken from the purchase of goods. Neither do the realtors pay it. The men who buy houses and live in them, own farms and kindred prop erty, have felt abounding relief. The sales tax proponents say this relief has been salvation. The merchants say it is damnation. No two such ex pert groups have offered the en (Continued on Page Four.) Four Men Areßound To Court Raleigh. March 20.—(AP)— Four men involved in robberies in the lock quarry section of East Raleigh last week today waived examination police court and were bound over to su perior court by Judge Wi'ley Barnes. R. J. Corbitt, Jr., of Henderson, was held under $750 bond on a charge of robbing Dorothy Wasson of $52 at her home on Starr street, and W. B. Evans, of Heuderson, a companion of Corbitt, was held under S3OO bond on a charge of aiding and abetting in the robbery. Thomas Rogers, a. carnival conces sion operator, and W. C. Tripp, a salesman, were ordered held under $750 bond each on three charges of robbery with firearms growing out of the hold-up of Robert B. Coleman, a picture salesman, of Holly wood, Cal., at the home of Margaret Wil«on, at 712 East Worth street. Coleman reported the robbery. During presentation of evidence in the Evans case it was developed in testimony that Dorothy Wasson wad alleged to have sold Evans and Coi biitt whiskey, and budge Barnes or dered Staton Iscoe to draw a warrant against her charging her with selling whisky. Chief of Police C. B. Barbour said he expected to arrest the women dur ing the day. “WEATHIR FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Fair and colder on the coast tonight; Wednesday fair, with ris ing temperature; heavy frost to night in the interior and light to heavy frost on the coast; low est temperature tonight about 30 degrees. FOR HENDERSON. For 24-Hour period ending at noon today: highest temperature, 40* lowest, 32; temperature at noon today, 33; rainfall, 109 inches; one inch of snow; north west wind; cloudy. Bargains for Freedom a&reSbx> im.. ■ jjmmSrf; j^BBSSKx' b. . • |jsS»|§r* Norman Wliitaker Norman Whitaker, above, impris oned lawyer companion of Gaston B. Means, convicted of swindling Mrs. Lvalyn Walsh McLean of $104,000 on the pretense of re covering the kidnaped Lindbergh baby, asserledly is attempting to bargain for his freedom by tell ing where the money is* hidden. In a letter written to District At torney Roger Robb at Washing ton, Whitaker also is said to have declared that Means knows the “inside story” of the Lindbergh kidnaping. TOBACCO TAX LOSS CUTS N. C. REVENUE Nearly Two Million Dollars Less Paid by Cigarettes Manufacturers TEXTILES INCREASED That and Other Sources of Income Help Materially in Offsetting To bacco Loss; Federal Revenue Holds Well. iliiiljt' Unrenn. In Hie Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, March 20 —Federal income taxes are holding up well and State collections have gone beyond the ex pectation of collectors, both revenue departments said today without hav ing final figures. The budget estimates for Incomes made at the 1933 General Assembly for North Carolina will hardly be reached, owing to the heavy losses from tobacco, but after the companies reported on their year’s work and the earnings fell so far below normal, years, budget figures were disregard ed as to those sour ces. However, text iles boomed, and the low estimates of the budgetary commission were sub ject to revisa.l. The two collecting agencies, State and Federal, ure, therefore, in the jam unable to say how much of a recapture is possible through the increased revenues from unexpected sources. Collector Charley Robertson, of the Federal revenue office, will have a (Continued on Page Four.) 1933 Cotton Crop About 1932 Total Was 13.043J10 Bales of 500 Pounds, Com pared With 13,001,- 508 Bales in 1932 Washington, March 20. —(AP) —Fi- nal figures on the 1933 cotton crop, announced today by the Census Bu reau, showed 12,659,953 running hales, or 13,043,110 equivalent 500-T'Ound bales were ginned, exclusive of lin ters. The 1932 crop was 12,709,647 run ning bales, or 13,001,508 equivalent 500-. pound bales, and the 1931 crop 16,628,874 running, or 17,095,594 equi valent bales. The average gross weight of the bale for the crop, counting round as half bales, and excluding linters, was 515.1 pounds, compared with 511.5 pounds for the 1932 crop, and 514.0 pounds for the 1931 crop. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. President Wires Detroit To Defer Strike Wednesday Veteran General HI j|| ggflgt. ■ : miik. ■' General Scott Major General Hugh L. Scold, veteran U. S. army officer and chief of staff when the United States entered the World war, is reported seriously ill at Walter Reed hospital, Washington. He is 80 years old. Eight Lose Lives When Home Burns Negro Man and Sev en Young Children Perish in Flames at Town of Raeford Raeford, March 20 (AP)—A Uegro man and seven young children were burned to death here last night in a fire that destroyed their home. The dead are Arthur Mcßae, a boarder, and seven children and grand children and Lizzie Martin, Negro woman who owned the house, and who was away at the time. One child, an eight-year-old girl, was awakened before the flames reached her, and escaped. The oth ers apparently suffocated before they could reach exits or died in their beds. Government Files -Suit Upon Wiertdn Firm on NR A Act Washington, March 20 (At’) The government today filed suit against the Wierton Steel Com pany, charging it with “violating the national recovery act and the code of fair competition for the iron and steel industry.” Greek Lawyer Declares Insull Will Return Here Toronto, March 20 (AP)—Sir William Murloh, chief justice, to day signed the order of the court of appeals for extradition of Mar tin *J. Insull to the United States to face charges of embezzlement. Athens, Greece, March 20.—(AP) Samuel Insull plans to return to the United States after the excitement of hi's case dies down, and live in Am erica peacefully the rest of his life, one of the aged fugitives Greek attor neys told the Associated Press today. The lawyer, Mr. Xeros, declared he was in communication both with In sults ship on the Mediterranean and his London solicitors, who are hand 6 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Industry’s Leaders To Ad journ New York Confer ence and Hasten To Washington LONG CONFERENCE WITH GEN. JOHNSON Sloan, Chrysler, Macauley and I hree Other Leaders Call on NRA Head in New York Hotel, But Events Transpiring Are Kept Guarded Secret Detroit, Mich., March 20— (AP>— A telegram from President Rooaev&it asking that any fiction in the autp moibile industry be deferred until Thursday was made public here, this afternoon 'by William Collins, Amer ican Federation of Labor tive here. CALLED TO WASHINGTON TO CONFER WITH ROOSEVELT New York, March 20.—(AP)—Lead ers of the automobile manufacturing industry, in session here in an at tempt to avert a threatened strike In the industry, announced this after noon they would go to Washington to night in response to a request from President Roosevelt. Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., Walter P. Chrysler and four other leading au tomobile manufacturers were closeted for an hour with NRA Administrator Hugh S. Johnson today discussing the general strike which threatens to paralyze the automobile industry US morrow. ■ The meeting which was surrounded by the greatest secrecy, was held in General Johnson’s suite in the Wal dorf-Astoria tower. At its conclusion, the six represen tatives of the manufacturers hurried to the headquarters of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, only a few blocks away, where the chamber’s board of directors was in session discussing strike policy. Three members of the group of six who called on General Johnson were not identified. Alvin Macauley .president of the Packard Motor Car Company, and president of the chamber, was with the delegation. When the manufacturers got 'back to the building housing the Chambers quarters, they took great care to avoid the battery of reporters and photographers awaiting them there. On the ground floor of the building is a clothing store. The six men has ten ded through this store and board ed a private elevator, which bore them aloft. BANKER ASKS FOR CERTIORARI WRIT Raleigh, March 20 (AP)—The State Supreme Court today took under ad visement a motion by counsel for ;W. S. Swan, former cashier of the Bank of Pamlico, lor a writ of certiorari so that the entire record might be plac ed before the court. Swan was convicted of making false entries in a bank with bbranches at New Bern, Bayboro, Oriental and Arapahoe. ling the former Chicagoan’s affairs. Although Insult's destination re mained more of a mystery than ever to the public, the attorney said Mrs. Insull and her husband's lawyers were maintaining close touch with In sull 'by special code. ‘‘lnsull seems happy now in calm weather,” the lawyer said. “Wherever he is going now, he will make his permanent home if the Unit ed States continues to persecute him. “Mrs. Insull will go to Paris Sat urday and thereafter will leave for London withi na few days.” Insull may visit as many as 20 countries before he finds a haven, said Xeros.
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