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HENDERSON GATEWAY to CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR MRS. ROOSEVELT DENIES WIRT’S CONTENTIONS CANNON BENEFACTOR DONATED LARGE SUM TO FIGHT AL SMITH District Jury Told Jameson Contributed $172,800 in 1978 Against The Democrats BOTH REPUBLICANS, [DEMOCRATS BENEFIT Contributions Included $20,. OCO To Republican State ; Committee In North Caro lina, Testimony at Bishop Cannon ’s Trial In Wash ington Indicates Wa.-hmgton, April 11.—(AP) —Testi mony that Edwin C. Jameson. New y o ik insurance executive contribut f(] $172>00 in 1928 to aid in defeating ! Alfred E. Smith for president was given n jury today in the trial of F! hop James Cannon. Jr. The Southern Methodist churchman ami Miss Ada L. Burroughs are on dial in District of Columbia Supreme Court on charges of conspiracy to violate the Federal corrupt practices act by failing to report all of $65,300 received from Jameson. Bishop Cannon was active in Vir ginia in opposing Smith for President Reports made to a • congressional committee read into the court record shewed that Jameson also collected J 29.045 as chairman of the insurance division of the Republican National Committee. Jameson, the report said, contri te $30,000 to the Republican State Cmmittee of Virginia, in addition to sh« $65,300 to Cannon. * His contributions included $20,000 to ih*» Republican State Committee of North Caiolina; $50,000 to the Nation al Constitutional Democratic Commit te#>. $5,000 to the Republican State Committee of Indiana, and $2,500 to the Republican National Committee. Jameson testified he did not know the name of the organization to which he «as contributing the $65,300 until after the election. Third Person In New York Shot By A Mystery Sniper | New York April 11.—(AP)— The gun of a phantom sniper has barked again this time in Brooklyn. William Badalamante. 24, was shot to the back about 10 o'clock last f-ight as he was wlaking through the crowded Williamsburg section. He was th‘ third ,person this week to be uck by a sniper's shot. The others • man and a woman, were instantly killed. Badalamante’s condition was de |oibed today as not serious. The bul ’vhich penetrated the back was of 2^-calibre, the same as dropped Na thari Ellentuek, 21, on a Queens golf c urse, and a day later Mrs. Yetta E nhorn as she stood before a small storf* in On-hard street, Manhattan. Cuba Plans Moratorium Upon Debts No Principal To Be I’aiil in Two Years Debts to Ameri c'lr >s, British Havana. Cuba, April 1 <AP) -<!uba as declared two-yea* moratorium * "mt $!>0,000,000 in loans from iewi," n '. Hnd British houses, and - said today it may be extended *’en longer. It Wttvj tx . ext.i 4 government officials tlor** 1 ' e Hing national obliga en,,,?’ ,IH ’ lu Hing salaries of public 80 un,:)a,d or of suspending tion s r v° n certain national obliga- Undfe IJ >a choße the latter course, by s h . *' ,he moratorium approved Mendi»*« Ca i hinCt of Carlos paid on th aSt n ‘ ght ’ nothin 8 wlll he throucrv, J Principal of bonds floated 1904 to 192? eyer and Wtor^an from temst 14,!®I 4 ,!® em P haai zed that the in w,n h e paid. lUntiirrsmt <3atht Btsuairh ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA t acks Labor Bill Bp jttj b -Ik \. nj i r . i -«■ « JBHC, ■ .■» Mr*. Gifford Pinchot Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the governor of Pennsylvania, is pic tured as she appeared before the senate committee on labor at Washington, hurling a critical at tack on Hugh S. Johnson, admin istrator of the NRA, and urging the passage of the Wagner labor bill to outlaw employer-dominated company unions. She charged that Administrator Johnson had “thrown down his arms” in the interest of big business. DEMOCRATS SWEEP ILLMISELECTION Mighty Tribute for Roose velt Rolled Up In Tues day’s Balloting Chicago, April 11 (AP) —'Leaders of organized democracy in Illinois, whose candidates won nominations in yes terday’s Statewide primary almost as they pleased, labelled “the tremendous democratic vote” today as a “tribute and compliment to the Democratic ad ministration, both national and local.” The significance of the election lay largely in the fact that it was the first in which an entire state was af forded opportunity to register its opinion of ist congressmen since the Democratic landslide of 1932. Henry T. Rainey, congressman from the 20th district, and speaker of the House of Representatives, scored a fiye to one victory ov«r James Kirby, a State representative. 2 Firemen Perish In N. J. Blaze Perth Amboy, N. J., April 11.— (AP) —Fire Chief Roland Ne son and Fireman Sylvester Taylo are believed to have perished at a fire which swept through the F. and W. Grand 5 and 10-Cent Store in East Fifth street early today. The two were first to reach the scene of the fire And immediately went into the blazing building. They were seen no more. Other firemen .worked frantically to conquer the flames in an attempt to resepe missing men. It is believed they went to their deaths when the roof gave way, hur ling them Into an inferno of flames. THR SE ACa^i RE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 11, 1934 Insult’s “Escort” tMm WSSgmm ■ ffr* 1 . •I 1 J "JjqWiSs; -v >v • jjjijMlgl** * 'i a yjpt f 4: Burton Y. Berry On the shoulders of Burton Y. Berry, young American Vice Con sul at Istanbul, Turkey, rests the responsibility of escorting Samuel Insult back to the United States to face charges in connection with col laDsa of his utilities empire. <Centred Press) INSULL MART 32-Year-Old Embassy {Sec retary To Accompany Utilities Magnate INSULL FACES TRIAL Embezzlement And Fraud Charges Await Him in Illinois; Last-Min ute Moves By Attorneys Not Now Feared Istanbul, Turkey, April 11. —(AP) — Samuel Insull will be placed aboard the S. S. Exilona Friday at Smyrna and started on his return voyage to the United States in custody of Amer ican authorities. Burton V. Berry, 32-year-old third secretary, of the American Embassy, will accompany Insull on his trip to face charges of embezzlement and fraud in Illinois. American authorities said they ex pected no further difficulty in finally bringing to an end the 74-year-old Chicagoan’s long flight from justice. They minimized the significance ot Jast-minute moves by Insull’s legal staff to delay his extradition. Tar Heels Back Clark In Pou Job Washington, April 11 (AP) —Repre- sentative Clark, Democrat, North Caro lina ,today had the endorsement of his North Carolina House Colleagues as successor to the alte Edward W. Pou, Democrat, North Carolina, as a mem ber of the powerful rules committee. Clark is one of approximately a dozen canddiates for the vacancy on the rules committee. Should he win this important assignment, he would be required to resign his other com mittee memberships, including the chairmanship of Elections Committee No. 1. In addition to endorsing Clark, the delegation yesterday endorsed Repre sentative Doughton, North Carolina, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, as North Carolina’s mem ber of the congressional executive com mittee. Says Tourist Business Could Be Greatest Here Dnllr Dl*|)tit«»fc Darrua, In the Sir VVnlter Hotel. BY J. C BASKERVILL Raleigh, April 11—JWith the south ern states becoming* increasingly at tractive to visitors from other states, JNorth Carolina become in creasingly active in its efforts to tell the nation about its incomparable ad QBSERVERSTHfNK ~| — Henderson Candidate for Congress May Make Pou and Cooley Wake Up As Fight Warms POU MUST OFFSET ♦ DIVINE RIGHT IDEA He Will Reply With His Resignation and Familiar ity With Father’s Office In Washington; Little Mud- Slinging Expected in The Campaign Daily Dispatch Rnri>n« In the S.« Walter Hotel. BY J. r* IIA SK Hit VI 1,1,. Raleigh, April 11.—'While most po litical observers continue to think the principal race for the Democratic no mination for Congress in the fourth district is going to b* between George Ross Pou. son of the late Congress man Ed wir'd W. Pou, and Harold D. Cooley, of Nashyille Nash county, there are others who believe that J. P. Zollicoffer, of Henderson, Vance county may give both Pou and Cooley a lot of truoble before the primary campaign is over. Most observers do not take the candidacy of Palmer Bailey, of Raleigh, seriously despite the fact that Bailey is contacting thousands of people and is passing out thousands of pieces of literature. Bailey spends several hours daily standing on the Washovia Bank build ing corner here handing out campaign statements to any who will take them. He says he has already handed out more than 60,000 pieces of campaign literature. A Pou Advantage. From the standpoint of organizar tion most observers are inclined to <Continued on Page Two) WINSTON MERCHANT KILLED AT CROSSING Winston-Salem, April 11.—(AP) —E. B. Vaughan, retired merchant, former member of the Winston-Salem hoara of alderman, and otherwise prominent community leader, died at 12:14 o’clock this afternoon at city hospital ■of injuries he sustained when struck by a train at a street crossing this afternoon. Payment of Money By Associated Gas Shown In Letters Washington, April 11.—(AP)—Con tinuing its investigation of alleged legislative activities by the Associated Gas and Electric Company, the Fed eral Trade Commission put into its records today a letter bearing the name of D. Mallory Stephens, New York assemblyman, and further let ters from W. T. Thayer, New York State Senator. Stephens, a Republican, was listed as a resident of Putnam county, New York. Other monies purporting to have been sent by Associated Gas to Char les W. Huitt identified only as “chair man of a finance committee” and Eberlu Hutchinson, a member of the New York legislature, were filed at the same time by W. T. Chantland, commission counsel. These letters asked the recipients to oppose legislation. No letters sign ed by Huitt or Hutchinson were in troduced. Chantland also placed in the record an Associated Gas into-office memor andum suggesting too many people were writing to Thayer. wiiniii! FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy and probably rain on the north coast tonight; Thurs day fair; colder in west portion tonight. vantages with a view to attracting more and more tourists, in the opin ion of Lindsay Russell, of Wilming ton, long interested in promoting the welfare of the State. He is convinced that North Carolina and South Caro (Continued On Page Four.) WHITE SQUAW FIGHTS F.OR INDIAN V?: y ; : <jll. * • : . Indicating her intention of fight ing the decision, Mrs. Anna Bar nett, the former Anna Laura Lowe, wife of Jackson Barnett, assertedly the world’s richest In dian, shown above, declares that “no person, nor even a govern ment, is going to take my hus band from me”, in response to the verdict of Federal Judge William Tobacco Cooperatives’ Selling Problems Aired At Hearing Before AAA Washington, April 11. — Pro blems of tobacco growers cooperative associations were discussed today at a Farm Administration hearing on a proposed marketing agreement for buyers of “stemming tobacco’’ grades of domestic cigar leaf used for scrap chewing and smoking tobacco. Under the agreement, four com panies—Bloch Brothers Tobacco Com pany, Liggett and Myers Tobacco, P. LorillardandCompanyand cmfwy shi Lorillard and Company and Scotto and Dillon Company, were contracted to buy a total of 18,500,000 pounds of this type of leaf during the present marketing season. Frequent references were made to the northern Wisconsin tobacco grow ers cooperative pool, which was rep resented by Emerson Ella, of Madison Wisconsin. 33 Are Rescued From Ice Floes Moscow, April 11.—(AP)—Thirty three members of a party of 83 men, marooned on an ice floe in the Behring Sea were rescued by daring Russian airmen late last night and early today. Plans were rushed, said reports to the govern ment’s rescue commission here, for the rescue of the 50 castaways still imperilled on the cracking floe. Twenty-two persons were taken to safety last night by the Russian airmen Kaminin, Molokov and iSletney in three separate planes and flown to Cape Van Karmen, Siberia. Earlier today the aviators Kam inin and Molokov picked up eleven more. Rivers In East IS!\ C. Overflow Raleigh, April 11 (AP)—Spring freshets prevailed today in the Cape Fear, Roanoke, Neuse and Tar rivers in Eastern North Carolina, as a re sult of recent heavy rain?, but over flow waters from the streams were doing little damage, Lee A. Denson, in charge of the United States Weather Bureau here, said . The Cape Fear at Fayetteville was five feet out of its banks, and stood at 35.7 feet this morning, while the Neuse at Smithfield was at 16.8 feet and overflowing by three feet. The Roanoke at Weldon was 39 feet eight feet above its hanks. The Tar river was in flood, ’*pt had not passed tis banks. AND VIRGINIA. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. P. James at Los Angeles, which held the 92-year-old Indian to be incompetant and his marriage in valid. Mrs. Barnett, who mar-, ried the Indian 14 years ago, says there are “unseen forces at tempting to destroy my mar riage” and asserts they are going to continue to live together, do spite the court’s verdict. J Representatives of the manufactur ers testified they had not purchased from the pool for several years .be cause prices asked by the organiza tion were considerably higher than those of independent farmers. In response to questions from AAA officials, W. W. Flowers, of Liggett and Myers said continuation of this policy of not buying from the pool probably would make it impossible for the organization to remain in ex istence. T. M. Bloch, of Bloch Brothers To bacco Company, said that, although his company had followed a similar policy toward the pool, and for the same reason, it did contemplate pur chasing from the pool under the ag reement and had already bought to bacco this year from the pool. Nobody in Department Seems Inclined To Dis. cuss Discharges Dully Dispntch Barenn, In the Sir Wnlter Hotel. BY J. C. BASKERVILL. Raleigh, April 11.—Although it has ibeen more than six months since the investigation of alleged shortages in the accounts of some former employes of the State Department of Revenu* was completed by Dr. M. C. S. Noble, Jr., executive assistant commissioner of revenue, and his findings turned over to Attorney General Dennis G. Brummitt to take whatever action thought best, there is still no indica tion of what action will be taken, if any. Whenever Commissioner of Re iContinued on ”a«e Two.) Stocks Control Measure Substantially Modified Washington, April 11.—(AP)—Fur ther substantial modification of the stock market control bill and House approval for Interior Department control of 173,000,000 acres of public domain were high points of congres sional action today. In committee drastic marginal re quirements were snipped from tne stock exchange measure to give au thority over that problem to the Fed eral Reserve Board and the supposed commission to regulate the mart. What the Senate itself will do later is uncertain. Just now it was staying on the tax bill, the immediate focus 6 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY PRESENT'S WIFE Gives Her Views in Re sponse to Questions at Coinference With Newspaper Women WIRT IS TOLD HE IS NO LONGER NEEDED House Inquiry Advises Him He Is Free To Return To His Gary, Ind., Home; In quiry Next Week To Hear Men Wirt Named In His Testimony Washington. April 11.!—,(AP) —Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt today contra dicted the contention of Dr. William A. Wirt that the subsistence home stead project at Reedsville, W. Va., is “a communistic effort.” The wife of the President gave her views in response to questions at a White House conference with news paper women. A while before. Dr. Wirt—on a visit to the Capitol—had been told the House investigating committee desir ed no further testimony from him and he was free to return to his Gary, Ind., home. The inquiry will resume next Tues day with the appearance of the six persons named by Wirt as having at tended a September dinner in Vir ginia at which he testified he heard talk of revorut.\:nary plottings. Some of those named iby him have denied that conversations related by him took place. Peace For Automobile Group Near Conferences Relied Upon To Affect Agreement In Great Motor Industry (By the Associated Press.) Hope for peace in the automotive industry grew today as representa tives of 18,000 tool and die makers planned a conference with employers on demands for a 20 percent wage in crease and a 36-hour, five-day week. Workers at an Enid, Okla., oil re finery postponed indefinitely a strike scheduled for 8 o’clock this morning, pending mediation efforts of the Fed eral Labor Policy Board. The result of a vote by 3,000 strik ing shipyard workers at Camden, N. J., on an offer of a ten percent wage increase was to be made known today The strikers had demanded a 25 percent increase and a closed shop. Aircraft workers in Connecticut started what they said would be a progressive strike by walking out of a propeller factory, threatening to), strike at another plant today, and a third tomorrow, unless demands for wage adjustments are met. being a Norris amendment to give back to the Philippine government all taxes collected on Phillippine cocoa nut oil under the present three cento per pound levy in the bill. The public domain legislation em powers Secretary Ickes to collect fee* for grazing. A part of the money col lected is to be returned tx/ the states. Ever present politics had its place, Democrats contending yesterday’s Il linois primary result showed popul ar determination against wrecks of the recovery program. Memebrs of both parties got a bow in the House from Speaker Rainey when they ap plauded his renomination. - t
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