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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR BOTH SIDES UNYIELDING 630 Are Dead, 460 Injured Fire Engulf s Jap City FIREMEN, SOLDIERS POLICE DIG RUINS FOR MORE BIUIES City, Which Held 213,000 People, Described by Witnesses As A “Living Hell” MEDICAL SUPPLIES AND FOOD SENT IN Warships Carry Bluejackets T<> Maintain Order; Whole Crowds, Trapped in Flames, Jump Enmasse to Death in Water; Direst Tragedy Since 1923 Quake Tokyo, Japan. March 22. —(API — The governor of the prefecture of Hokkaido, announced officially today that the casualties in the fire whicn destroyed the beautiful port city of Hakodate yesterday were: Killed. 650. Injured, 160. Houses destroyed. 23.000. It was Japan’s direst tragedy since the Tokyo-Yokohama earthquake and holocaust of 1923. Witnesses described the city, which held 213.000 citizens, as “a living hell’’ today. Firemen, police and soldiers moved through still smoking build ings on a grizzly search for corpses. Four destroyers and two other wni diips were dispatched from Ominato, carrying bluejackets and medical sup plies. The army rushed blankets and food to succor the destitute and homo less throngs which faced a bitter, shelterless night. The meagre details which seeped (Continued on Pase Three.) Three Killed in Biy; Pan-America Plane’s Crack-Up Lima, Peru, March 22.—(AP) — three persons were killed today In the crash of a Pan-American Air ways plane at the take-off. Man uel Truoco, Chilean ambassador to ♦he United States, and his daugh ter were among those injured. V iolence In Taxi Strike Is Growing Cabs Attacked And Passengers Remov ed in New York Violence, Disorder New York, March 22. —(AP) —Viol- ence flared anew in New York’s taxi strike early today after another clash between strikers and police in the theatre district. At least 1.5 persons were injured and 11 arrested as the result of disorders in various parts of the city. The demonstration in the theatre district, centering in Times Square, was broken up by police reserves, who were called when regular patrolmen were swamped. Strikers and sym pathizers estimated at 5,000 surged down Broadway just as the theatres were emptying. They pulled doors from cabs, yank ed out taxi radio sets, hurled missiles through cab windows and uncermon iously ordered passengers out of the cabs. The demonstrators then broke into groups and continued attacking cabs. One group marched to Grand Cen tral terminal and caused drivers of a.bout 20 cabs parked outside to flee into the station for safety. Policemen* were called to escort them home. Four policemen reported being at tacked by demonstrators. Two requir ed medical attention. Bmixt Btßuntdt wire service of the associated press. AS WORKERS THREATEN STRIKE llrlk ' JHj This k photo shows A. E. Greer, president of the Hudson local, American Federation of Labor, addressing a grojip of automobile fhetory workers at a mass meet ing in Detroit at which leaders reiterated threats to stage a gen 2 Children Dead, 2 Hurt In Bus-Truck Collision Two Small Boys 10 and 8,1 Killed Instantly When School Bus and Truck Crash OTHER TWO MAY DIE OF THEIR INJURIES Truck Driver Arrested Pend ing Investigation; He and Bus Driver Only Slightly Hurt;- Both Vehicles Re ported Traveling at Mod erate Speed Troy. March 22. (AP) —Two Uw harrie school children were instantly killed and two others were seriously injured m a collision between a school bus and » lumber truck about ten miles west of h( re this morning. The dead are: Ray Mclntyre, lb, ton of George Mclntyre; and James Hamilton, .8, son of Crowley Hamilton. The Injured, both critically, are CJme Mclntyre, brother of Rsl, and Pauline Hamilton, sister of James. All live in Montgomery county, and V'cre en route to school when the ac cident occurred, Cicero Hurley, driver of the lum ber truck, was taken ?nto custody by Sheriff C. C. Howell pending an Investigation. Hurley and Raymond Dennis, driver of the bus. escaped with minor hurts. There were no other children on the bus. Evidence was that .both vehicles were traveling at moderate Sp66d. School officials began an invevsti gation of the crash. Verdict Is Asked For Defendant In Bond Theft Case Nashville, Tenn., March 22.—(AP) A verdict in favor of the “goat was asked today .by Jess McCarn, in clos ing the defense argument in the trial of former Insurance Commissioner J. I. Reece, accused of stealing SIOO,OOO of bonds held by the State. Joining in the State’s appeal to be courageous,” the veteran lawyer, told the criminal court jury: “It doesn’t take much courage to bring in a verdict satisfactory to the bankers and the governor of the state and a United States senator. You were appealed to yesterday to be courage ous, and I join in that appeal. It takes more courage to stand by the “goat than it does the bunch that made him the goat. You will receive ap plause if you bring in the courageous and honest verdict which we confid ently expect.” ONLY DAILY eral strike in the automobile in dustry unless company officials met their demands for union rec ognition and a 20 per cent wage increase. Inset, William A. Col lins, national organizer of the A. f. of L Mistrial Ordered On Prison Guards Greenville, S. C., March 22 (AP) —A mistrial was ordered here to day in the ease of four former com let guards charged with mur der for tlie death of Roy Hudson, Negro prisoner* who received a whipping witha leather strap a few hours before he died. The jury, after 18 hours of de liberation, reported it was hope lessly deadlocked, and was re leased. The four former guards were re leased under $1,500 bonds as So licitor .1, G. Leatherwood an nounced their cases probably would lie called for trial again in May. forSSship But There Are Those Who Still Say He Will Run For the Senate Oallr Dispatch Bnreaa, In tlie Sir Walter Hotel. Raleigh, March 22.—Former Gover nor Cameron Morrison, who is being adjured to get into this governorship race, is still held by his supporters as the man who will seek the recov ery of the office that was giving him a national fame. A Charlotte News staff men recent ly did some Looking about and he found quite a power behind the Mor rison for governor suggestion. It is the kind of compliment which came to Mr. Morrison in 1925 and 1926. A turn in State affairs came near bringing him back. And he had been out only a short time. North Carolina will re-elect old gov ernors if the occasion demands. There must be an intermin. Governors can not succeed themselves. They must wait on time. Mr. Morrison will have been out 12 years when 1937 comes. He is far enough now from the tho ugh of direct succession to make the the race without affront to a nobel tradition. There is a lot of interest in Ra leigh. In the story written by a staff man of the News, T. M. Pridgen, it was observed that the Morrison boos ters wished to bring him back to puiy the (State from its long-tim* despair. It is recalled that Mr. Mor rison faced quite a financial difficul (Continued on Page Three.) NEWSPAPE R PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NOFTH CAR OLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON, N. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOO N, MARCH 22, 1934 CANDIDATES OFFER MIRACLES IE SENT INFO LEGISLATURE Some Promise Higher Pay To Teachers, and Others Cheaper Automobile Licenses OTHERS WOULD KILL GENERAL SALES TAX Everygody Is Wondering How It Can AH Be Done; Drop in Tobacco Revenues Puts New Color Into That Picture; Power Revenue Not So Promising Unity UiNpntch llnrena. In the Sir Waller Hotel. Raleigh, March 22.—Surveying the field of announced candidates, some of whom have been in the General Assembly, one finds statesmen who are going to raise teachers’ salaries, reduce the cost of automobile licenses exempt school buses from payment of gasoline taxes, and abolish the gen eral sales tax. Not all of this magic is going to be worked by candidates who are in nocent and think it can be done. Looking at Guilford county, for in stance, Candidate J. Tilden Burrus, who was in the Senate of 1931, is violent against the sales tax. He is strongly in favor of paying the teachers more. He has not .been a diverter of automobile moneys. He be (Continued on Page Sight) • Find Spies’ Nest lh Secret Den of Espionage Bands Paris, March 22 (AP) A “Spies' nest’’ with secret tunnels and other tricks described in my- . stery thrillers was found today in a search for further evidence against an espionage band involv ing Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gordon Switz, of the United States. Hollowed furniture drawers that open at the touch of hidden springs, and closets with false hot toms, police said, were discovered when they searched the apart ment of Madam Bailla Englart, fugitive Bessarabian girl. She is sought on a charge of developing fiui printing secret, code films which Switz admitted mailing to Switzerland for an “acquaintance.” No accomplices were sought to day. Notorious Gangster Is Slain Chicago, March 22.—(AP) — That man whose body they found full or lead in a Cicero, 111., gutter Tues day was identified today as a crim inal long hunted for some of the na tion’s most sensational and cold blooded crimes. Except for his finger prints, tno man might have concealed in death as he so successfully did in life, his true identity—Fred Goetz, 37, college educated gangster, and “brains" of as deadly a group of desperadoes as Chi cago police ever hunted. The law caught up with him post humously in the morgues, where prints taken from his lifeless fingers showed that he was not “J. George Zeigler," under which name he had been tentatively identified, but Goetz, one-time football player at the Uni versity of Illinois, suspected partici pant not only in the St. Valentine day’s massacre of seven George Moran gangsters, ibiut in the machine gun slaying of four officers and Convict Frank Nash, of the Kansas City un ion station last June 17. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy and colder tonight and Friday, followed by rain in west portion Friday afternoon or night. FOR HENDERSON. For 24-hour period ending at.. noon today: Highest temperature, 72; lowest, 52; no rain; southwest wind; partly cloudy. IN AUTO CONTROVERSY “Spy Ring Brains?” if JE i K : jfl K V | Bk ■»wk h Rg. fl |& i I SB ■mi shhm Confessions i in France of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Switz, American couple, of participation in interna tional spy ring, may reveal Mme. Lydia Stahl (above), Russian born but wed to an American, as the brains of the espionage group, French officials believe. (Central Press) HOUSE HOtDSIT” FULL FEDERAL PAY Refuses by 146 to 98 To Join Senate In Voting for Giving Back All Salaries ASSURES DELAY IN COMPLETING BILL Controversial Veterans’ Al lowances Also Tied Up In Same Measure; President Has Assured Veto of sllß,- 000,000 Clause in the Bill Washington, March 22.—(AP) The House today refused to join the Sen ate in voting full restoration of pay cuts to government employees. This action by a standing vote of 146 to 98, assured delay in sending the independent offices appropriation bill to the White House. In that measure is tied up the con troversial veterans’ allowances ques tion. President Roosevelt has assur eda veto if the $118,000,000 voted by the Senate for veterans is retained in the bill. A vote on that question was to fol low. The House voted to restore five percent of the cut Federal pay as of February 1, and five percent more on July 1. The Senate voted for five per cent as of February 1, and the full 15 percent on July 1. A roll call was taken on the pay issue at the request of Representative Connery, Democrat, Massachusetts. It resulted 228 to 168 against the Sen ate action. Senate administration leaders, after a check-up of the situation, expressed confidence the Senate would recede in the final showdown from its more liberal pay restoration amendments. PHILIPPINE MEASURE STILL UP IN SENATE Washington, March 22 —(AP) —The Senate today resumed consideration of the Philippine independence bill, with Senator Long, Democrat, Louis iana, supporting the Dickinson amend ment to reduce the transition period from ten to five years. Lost Air Liner Is Found After Two Years; 9 Dead Mendoza. Argentine. March 22.—■ (AP) —The Pan-American Airways air plane San Jose, lost in 1932 with nine persons aboard, was found today in the Argentine Andes, four miles south of Puente del Inca. The disappearance of the great air liner has been a mystery of aviation for months. For days after it was lost on a flight between Santiago, Chile, and Buenos Ayres, other planes cruised PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. President Talks With Labor Heads During Afternoon Confess Spy Plot JbImS New arrests in connection with the operation of a gigantic inter national spy ring have been made in Paris as a result of the confes sions'of Robert Gordon Switz, young aviator of East Orange, N. J., and his wife, a former Vassar eollege student, shown above. The confessions are said to have been made by the Switz couple after fingerprints of Switz were found on “code films” allegedly dealing with the spy plot; and a lock of hair, admitted by Mrs. Switz to be one of hers, was found in a pack age of the mysterious films mailed from Switzerland. “Big Navy” Bill Passes House Vote 102 Warships and 1,- 140 Planes Author ized at Cost of $580,- 000,000 Washington, March 22 (AP) —The conference report on the Vinson treaty naval bill was adopted by the House. It now goes to the Senate, early favorable action is expected by leaders. It provides for a naval construction program of 102 warships and 1,140 airplanes estimated to cost about SSBO, 000,000. f In presenting the report, Chairman Vinson, Democrat, Georgia, of the naval committee, explained Senate and House conferees were in accord on all points. It is the biggest naval program un dertaken with administration appro val since the World War. It is de signed to build the navy up to the London treaty by 1939. over the regular route in constant radio communication with Mendoza and Santiago. Other expeditions were sent out on foot through snow-covered mountain passes in an effort to determine tin* fliers’ fate. The plane was discovered by em ployees of the Puente del Inca hotel, who advised the Pan-American Air ways that the plane was wrecked and contained human bodies. O PAGES O today FIVE CENTS COPY Green Says Unless Solution Is Reached He Will Ad vocate Licensing Industry TO PROBE CHARGES OF DISCRIMINATION Assures Lab. or Heads That Much at Outset; Company Uniotns. Only ‘‘Straw Men,” Fortner Rockefeller Coal Official. Declares Washington, March 22.—(AP) —The administration let automobile l-abor' union representatives know today that part of its plan for peace in the in dustry is appointment at once of a committee to pass upon several hun dred charges of anti-union discrim ination by manufacturers. President Roosevelt renewed his ef forts for industrial peace in the au tomobile industry today with both- , sides still adamant. It was learned at the White House e that neither the employers nor em ployees in the controversy have yield ed. The President will confer this after noon with the labor representatives. William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, has given notice that unless a. solution is reached his organization will advbt&e that the automobile industry be li censed. I ! Despite the unbroken lines, there was an increasing feeling of hope In the Capital that the controversy would be settled. Talk of a truce was dis counted at the White House, Whefil it was said Mr. Roosevelt has ndt gotten down to a specific proposition pending a report this afternoon from the labor representatives. The Senate Labr Committee receiv ed testimony, meanwhile, from Jothn Cormody, a former vice-president of ». Rockefeller coal company, that com-' pany unions are “innocuous” and’ “straw men.” i Cormody, whose concern had a coip.- \ pany union; said such an organiza *Continued on Pate ' r,> T*e.> ehringhausTarty FROM FROM FLORIDA Raleigh, March 22. —(AP) —Gover- nor and Mrs. J. C. B. Ehringhaus, and their daughter, Miss Matilda, re turned to Raleigh today after spend ing a week in Florida. U. S. Money “Authority” Is Favored ■ Federal Bureau Would Have Sole Control Over Issu ance of Currency Washington, March 22. — (AP)— A House banking sub-committee today approved the Goldsborough bill for the establishment of a Federal mone tary authority, wflh sole control over the issuance of currency. The measure was amended on mo tion of Representative Seraphim, Democrat, Nevada, to include a claus4 permitting the monetary authority to buy and sell silver, so that the value of 371 1-4 grains of that metal wiH (be equal to 23.22 grains of pure gtAd. Chairman Goldsborough, Democrat* Maryland, of the sub-committee, said it had been agreed to ask the fjjiii committee to meet Monday to consid er the revised bill. Under the amended measure, fill existing authority to issue or re-issue currency except circulating notes of national banking associations, would expire 60 days after passage of the bill. National banking associations would lose the currency issuing power in three years. , The Federal monetary authority, be sides having control of all currency also would take over all gold bul lion and be empowered to deal ixs gold on the open market
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