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HENDERSON hateway TO CENTRAL CAROLINA Twenty-first year — UiA.UJSx'T SUNDAY,. * A V lil A O \J\JJL X ROOSEVELT FIGHTS SILVER BLOC FOR MASTERY Bulwinkle Makes Apology To Wirt About Statement Jar Heel House Member Re tracts Assertion That Wirt Was Jailed During War < \ID INFORMATION APPEARED correct Thorough Invesigation Has Shown, However, Story Was Not True; Offers Statement to House so As Not To Damage Dr. Wirt Without Justice Washington. April 16 (AP) —In a cpet rh to th** House, Representative Bulwinkle. Democrat. North Carolina today retraced and apologized for his previous statement that Dr. William A Wirt, author of the “brain truster revolution" allegations, had been con fined to jail during the war because of pro-German activities. Meanwhile. Robert W. Bruere, a guest a* the Virginia dinner at which Wirt has testified he obtained his views as to what he termed the “re volution." told reporters the Indiana educator's account of the party was fantastic" and “unfair.” Bulwinkkle is chairman of the spe cial House committee that is investi pMng Wirt s statement. Tomorrow "will hear six persons who attended the dinner last September 1. Bulwinkle quoted this remark which hr had made on the floor last week: H** ipr Wirt) was not here to be investigated. If he hnd been, I would have gone into his private character. If he had been, I would have brought nnt from h.ni thp fact that during the war. on account of his pro-Ger- IContinued on Pago Three.) Sees More Prosperity I hail Ever Senator Smith Says Nation on Thres hold of New Peak of (jood I imes Greenville, s. C., April 16.—(AP,— • " •dor E D. Smith told the Atlantic "n ssociatlon in annual conven ''cda.v that the nation is o« t j ‘ n . ,h,f 'shold of the greatest pros ri,v i f has ever seen. *‘nator Smith had been schedul j, U ' spf * ak o nthe relation of the t 0 the nation, politically and -on^mieaHy. but changed his address # 1P iu.st moment to discuss current "• '"Hurting the tariff, cotton s r| hanking. wo,! ° n this morn 'ng’s program ' rank Lever, former congress of' 1 "' anfl I)avid F. Griffin, president de1,.,.! a: ' !soriatio n. Approximately 200 ■*»*" Lorn southeastern states in attendance. "hiri * ' Smoot-Hawley bill, w.n ,isl ,iarl constructed a taritf said « r " und thp entire nation, Smith b u ... w '‘ nu, bt dean up this tariff ’ 4 ' e * oro can have pros- 17,500 Miners On Strike In Alabama Coal Fields Two Ala - April 16.—CAP)— the n *u° e8 Were in J ure d today at of t|,a ... ' Docena coal mines toad of Bn,lessee Coal, Iron and Rail .ninar ' ' P f" y J,s hundreds of striking Thf.’V ° ted abf>ut the Bhaft lj a nnf,„l nn ? Bee com P a oy Immediate a* four 9Ua P er >sion of operations 00, • d . p n ' iS ' ad ding 3,500 to the 14,- Bhcr'ff 1 j T ‘ n the tSate tf/(,ro j n Hawkins immediately ti Patrni *i * B P ec * a l deputy sheriffs in a tthort" r sea ° rdftr was restored vtetwvt&tnt Bat In Btstrafcfi Quizzed Lindbergh Carl L. Ristine Carl L. Ristine, special assistant to the Attorney General, who is said to have subjected Charles A. Lind bergh to a “star chamber” interro gation at the time the flier was in the capital to testify before airmail quiz. It is thought the Black com mittee will institute an investiga tion at the affair. <Central Prana) Tax Selling In Oklahoma Is Held Up Three More Counties Halt Sales as Gover nor Employs Na tional Guard Oklahoma, City, Okla., April 16. — Governor William H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray, and his national guardsmen today apparently had won another victory as three more counties called off advertising sales of tax delinquent property. The fiery Democratic governor who had ordered the arrest of any offi cial attempting a delinquent tax sale on theg round “protection for the homes of the people in stressful times like these is av ital policy transcend ing any temporary loss in taxes,” an ticipated there would be no othen sales in two other counties to which he had sent troops, and from which there had been no report. Treasurers Garfield, Blaine and Bryan cancelled sales today. Six other counties already had called off sales. These eleven scattered throughout the states, were the only ones to which troops had been sent. MORRISON’S SISTER DIES AT CHARLOTTE Charlotte, April 16. —(AP)— Mrs. Ada Morrison Nut all, sister of former Governor Cameron Morrison, died at her heme here today from a heart attack. The shutting down of the four mines, Docena, Hamtilton, Edgewater and Wylan, completely closed the Tennessee’s coal mining operations, but whether it affect its steel and iron plants at Fairfield and Ensley was not announced. The Tennessee company operates “captive mines, taking the full supply of coal in the manufacture of steel at its Fairfield and Ensiey plants, both of which have been operating at a steady rate for several months. ONLY DAILY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON. N. C. MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 16, 1934 &n Bronzed a.nd wearing the infectious smile, President Roosevelt addresses the cheering crowd that gathered to welcome him at Union Station Washington, on his return from his fishing vacation in Florida waters CANNON VIEW ON PROHIBITION GIVEN Defense Counsel Protests I*i Vain in Behalf of South ern Methodist Churchman LETTERS BY BISHOP TO JAMESON READ Was Written to Man Who Gave $65,300 for Cam paign Against A1 Smith in 1928, Which Government Charges Was Not All Ac counted For Washington, April 16.—(AP) Evidence that Bishop Janies Can non, Jr., offered to have a con tribution “concealed” during his 1928 campaign against the presi dential candidacy of Alfred E. Smith was given today in the trial of the Southern Methodist church man. Earlier Justice Peyton Gordon, in District of Columbia supreme court overruled a defense ob jection to mention of Bishop Can non’s prohibition views. Washington, AprlU 16. —(AP) —De- fense counsel in the trial of Bishop James Cannon. Jr., objected today to introduction of testimony about his prohibition views on the grounds that itm ight prejudice the jury. The Southern Methodist churchman is on trial in District of Columbia supreme court with Miss Ada L. Bur roughs on a charge of violating the federal corruptp ractices act iby fail iConr.mued from Page Six.? Probe Negro’s Connection With Burning of White Man on Sunday (By Telephone to Dispatch). LouisburUg( April 16 Coroner J. W. Freeman this afternoon resumed the inquest into the mysterious death early yesterday of Alton Denton, 63- year-oid tenant farmer, while Pink Hode, Negro, was being held pend ing the outcome of the inquest. Den ton is said to have stated before his death shortly after the noon hour Sunday in Duke Hospital at Durham that Hodge had poured gasoline on his clothes and set it on fire. He was in a critical condition when found at Hodge’s home. The Negrow as arrested shortly aft erwards and has been held in Frank lin county jail here since. There were no signs of violence and no threats were heard against the Negro. The inquest was resumed this afternoon, and was expected to be finished by (Continued on Page Three.) As Congress Welcomed President With a Parade Trotzky Flees Secretly In Fear Os Being Killed w~ ' j Famed Convict Is Shot and Killed Baton ouge. La., April 16.—(AP) —Jimmy Bear, notorious convict desperado, was shot and killed to day at thfe Angola penitentiary. Bear, with a long criminal record and who was one of the 12 convicts who broke from Camp E of the Angola prison penal farm in a >loody riot last September, was shot and killed by a guard near the same camp when he attempt ed to jump a wire fence and get away, penitentiary officials an nounced. mmrn 29 Regional Offices fcVill Eventually Replace Coun ty Units, However Dnily Dispatch U arena In the S«. Walter Hotel. BY J. C HASKEIIVILL, Raleigh, April 16 —Forty-one of the county remployment offices in the State wil be kept open for the time being as well a 1 sthe 29 regional offic es which eventually will probably re place all of the county offices, it was announced here today by Mrs. May Thompson Evans, assistant director of the National Reemployment Service. Mrs. Evans is in charge of the Ra leigh office while State Director Ca pus M. Evans is in Washington at tending the conference of all the State reemployment directors at which the future plans for the service are ex pected to be outlined. It was at first planned to close all of the 102 reemployment offices in the State and to let the 29 regional offices handle all of the placements for all of the 100 counties in the State •from now on. But because of PWA projects now under way in certain counties to be started soon, it was de cided to continue 41 of the county of fices in addition to the offices, Mrs. Evans, said. These coun ty offices will be discontinued later on, however, probably as soon as con ditions permit. As a result of the reduction in the number of reemployment offices, the personnel of the 'National Reemploy-r ment Service in the State is being cut almost in half, thus greatly reduc ing the expense of maintaining the on Paste Three i ~WIATHC FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Cloudy tonight and Tuesday; probably showers Tuesday; not much change in temperature. FOR HENDERSON. For 24-hour period ended at noon today: highest temperature, 73; lowest, 56; rainfall, l ie inches i southwest wind; cloudy. Two hundred Congressmen were among the thousands on hand to greet him. At right, the U. S. Marine band leads the triumphal parade from i the station to the White House. (Central Press) Once Powerful Russian Dic tator Seeks New Hide- Out In France F.rom Long Exile HE FEARED ATTACK BY WHITE RUSSIANS French Officials Start Search for Him and His Wife, and Tfiiink They Are Merely at Another Locality In Neighborhood; His Villa Deserted Barbizon, France, April 16 (AP) Leon Trotzky, fearing an attack on his life by White Russians, fled to day from his newly-uncovered hiding place in Barbizon. Neighbors said the communist lead er, an exile from Soviet Russia, and his wife, left the secluded villa here, where they had been in hiding for three months, shortly after daybreak in a black automobile. Their desti nation was not revealed. The serete generale started a hunt for the fugitive Soviet exile, as soon as his disappearance became known. His flight, after suspicious rural po licemen had blundered into his forest refuge, was so sudden that the offi cials who authorized his stay in the neighborhood were not sware of his departure. Secret police said htey doubted if he had gone far, and hazard the guess that he is seeking a similar haven in a nearby town, since a per mit to live in France restricts resi dence to that locality. "He is a man who feared greatly for his life,” said a sirete detective." The villa had a deserted air behind its barbed wire fence, but the House was still occupied by part of Trotzky’s retinue. These persons, however, re fused to talk on the telephone. Asheville Man’s Opposition To Winborne Is Explain, ed That Way Dallr Di»|*at«*ji In the Sir Walter Hotel, BY J. C BASKERVILL Raleigh, April 16—The last-minute decision of E. C. Macon, Asheville insurance man again to oppose Stan ley Winborne for the Democratic nomination for State utilities com missioner, making it necessary to hg.ve a Statewide ballot in the June 2 Democratic primary is causing po litical circles to hunt for the reason back of Macon’s action. Macon ran against "Winborne two years ago for the nomination as a member of the old Corporation Commission and was snowed unfcer, carrying only four out of the 100 counties in the State. As a con has any chance to defeat Win (Continued on Page Six.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. Training School Boy Is Cremated Rocky Mount, April 16.—(AP; — James Cavin Wngnt, 15, of Ashe ville, was burned to death here early today in a fire that destroy ed the poultry brooder house of the Eastern Carolina Training School. Wright, with Bill Keel Roberson, of Greenville, was assigned to sleep in the brooder house, where thous ands of young chickens were kepi as a part of the regular poultry course, Sam E. Leonard, superin tendent of the school said. The tire is believed to have started from a stove used for heating purposes in the small building. sue IS NOT IN Not Included in Administra. tion’s Demands Upon Congress Now PRESIDENT IS FOR IT “Just as Much for Silver as I Am,” Rainey Says, but Questions Ad visability of Pressing It Right Now WASHINGTON, April 16. (AP) Speaker Rainey told reported today that silver legislation is not included in the administration’sp rogram for this session of Congress. Thespeaker recently issued a state ment urging representatives to agree on a silver bill, e said then he would see that the House was given a chance to vote on it. “You can say the Presiden is just as much for silver as I am,” Speaker Rainey told reporters. “But he ques tions the advisability of going ahead with any legislation now. He prefers to continue the presentp urchaslng underthe London conference agree ment. The speaker said he understood the treasury wasbuying allnewly-mined United States silver and that all sil ver-producing countries, Canada, Peru, Mexico and Spain were doing like wise. Lower Tobacco Tax Means Millions More To Farmer Eventual Removal of Planting Restrictions Also Seen &s Result of Increased Consumption If Congress Cuts Levy on the Manufactured Products Dally Dispatch flarca*, 1* the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. C. BASKERVILL. Raleigh, April 16. —Millions of dol lars more for the tobacco farmers, with the eventual removal of plant ing restrictions resulting from in creased consumption of tobacco prod ucts are regarded as likely to result if the program which Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus is going to ask Presi dent Roosevelt and the Agricultural Adjustment Administration to support is adopted by Congress according to 6' PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY HOUSEMAY SEEK I Idaho Member Says Specu lators Have Made $225,. 000,000 Profit In Devaluation SENATORS DEMAND ACTION PROMPTLY Silverite Committee, Head ed by King of Utah, Wants Silver Made Primary Money; Taxing Tax-Ex empt Securities Is Endorsed by Senate Committee Washington, April 16. (AP) —A struggle for mastery between Presi dent Roosevelt and adamant silver forces in Congress shaped up today coincident with a demand for investi gation of gold speculation. Despite the presidential wish to de fer legislative monetary tinkering, Senator King Democrat, Utah, as head of a silverite committee, said they agreed as one that “silver must be lifted from its status as a commodity, and made a primary money.” An Idaho Democrat in the House, White, proposed to look into gold transactions since the first of the year Speculators have profited more than than $225,000,000 since devaluation of the gold dollar, he said. Rain having prevented the opening baseball game, the President went in' for signing more hills passed during his Florida vacation. Included were those for investigation of electricity (Continue* on Pag* Rtx> Man Named ’ By Dr. Wirt v Hits Back Bruere Says Dinner in Virginia Did Not Plot C o m m u n i s t Revolution Washington, April 16. (AP) A guest at the Virginia dinner made famous by Dr. William A. Wirt's charges of communistic plotting, spoke out today to call Wirt’s account of the patty “fantastic” and “unfair.” Robert W. Bi outre, chairman of the National id list rial Relations Board for the cotton industry, asserted Dr. Wirt monopolized the conversation with a long lcctur •. setting forth his views on gold. Breuere and other guests at the dinner, at which Dr. Wirt had said President Roosevelt was referred to as being “only tne Kerensky of this revolution” will go tomorrow before the special house committee prying in to Wirt’s charges. With Breuere’s statement, five of of the six persons who will appear • before the committee to tell what went on at the party laat September at the Virginia home of Miss Alice Barrows, an interior Department em ployee, have denied flatly Dr. Wirt’S testimony that there was talk of ft revolution. prevailing opinion here. This pro gram, which a group of representa tive tobacco farmers in the State for mulated and asked Governor Ehring hausto present to the authorities in) Wshington, is as follows: I.—Enaotment oy Congress of the Kerr tobacco control bill, similar to the Bankhead cotton control bill, which would levy a tax on all tobacco by farmers in excess at (Ckmtinued on Page Three.} 4
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