HIvN'DKKSON
gateway TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
$4 1 7,°00,000 TAX BILL GIVEN TO PRESIDENT
Justice Departmen t Asks $2,000,000 To Fight Cvifue Iti Nation
MORE GUNS TO BE
BOUGHT AND MORE
IN TO BE HIRED
Shortage of Federal “Artil
lery” Forces Use of
Weapons fSeized
From Gangsters
CONGRESS WILL BE
ASKED FOR MONEY
Little Difficulty Expected In
Getting Bill Through in
Face of Sharp Cut In De
partment’s New Budget;
Slashed from $41,231,835
to $28,700,778
Washington, May 3 <AP)—'The Just
ice Department outlined today a $2,000
000 thrust at crime. It will ask Con
ns- for this sum to buy more guns
ar.d pay more men.
A shortage of Federal “artillery”
was disclosed to have led to the arm
ing of Federal Dillinger chasers with
machine guns captured from other
mobsters.
Several machine guns taken from
Harvey J. Bailey. Albert Bates and
George “Machine Gun” Kelly, convict
id as kidnapers of Charles F. Urchel
Oklahoma oil millionaire, have been
rumored quietly from a show case at
the department in the last few days
and issued to agents assigned to the
Dillinger case.
Attorney General Cummingr. was
represented as “ready” to ask Con
gress for sufficient funds to engage?
as many as 200 or 300 additional divi
sions of investigating agents and to
equip them not only with guns but
also with fast motor cars.
The Justice Department’s appropri
ation for the present fiscal year to
talled $41,231,835. For the year be
ginning next July 1. the department
has been allotted only $28,700,778. With
Congress speeding through a variety
of Federa lanti-crime bills, officials
anticipated little trouble for the now
money request.
Car Sales
Hit Record
For Month
Most Since Septem
ber, 1929; Trucks
Most of Any Month
Since 1924
Hull)’ DiMpiiteb flnreiui
In the Mi, Wnlter Hotel,
n v .1 C IIA SK Hit VILL.
Raleigh, May 3—More new automo-
Hes were sold in North Carolina dur
mg April than in any month since
September, 1929, while more new
bucks were sold than in any month
f »n record since 1924, according to the
n> w car sales for April announced to
,lav b .v Director L. S. Harris, of the
motor vehicle bureau of the State De
tail ment of Revenue. These figures
show ,bat 4,950 passenger cars and 1,-
lf!t I,Uc ks wpre sold during April,
,n '' ing a total of 6,114 new, cars and
tn,cks combined. In April, 1933, the
n " w car sales amounted to 1.601 pas
cars and only 394 trucks. In
" h of this year the new car sales
w< i,, 2,980 passenger cars and 582
trucks.
•he sales for April bring the total
f Continued nn Pag»» Four.!
Old Fort Raleigh Is Fast
Being Restored A t Roanoke
Correspondent Tells of Work Now In Progress~On Island
In Reproducing History of Early Colonial Times
Permanently for Posterity
Dift|»nt<*fc Kama,
nv , lh< * S,r Wnlter Hotel.
R aUi " V i, nASKEHVHX.
olri c' h ' ay ®-—Ther estoration of
tiic 01t n rialei ßh as well as of the en-
Sfetti, ° mont of Raleigh — thef irst
tho \ Unt started by the English on
i„ 7 me,, ican continent in 1584—now
’ °& r "ss on the site of the settle
TLctthcrsmt -0 atlit tßtspatrh
Roosevelt Opposes
Silver Monetary
Bishops Retired from Church
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Bishop De Bose Bishop Candler
The first Methodist Bishops in history to be retired before death, Bishof
H. M. De Bose, of Nashville, Tenn., and Bishop Warren A. Candler, oi
Atlanta, Ga., are pictured as they attended the Quadrennial General
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, at Jackson, Miss.
(Central Press J
France Tracing Leaks In
Guarded Defense Secrets
Nation’s Best spy Catchers
Work Feverishly In His
toric Border City
of BeTFort
FORMER OFFICER IN
POLISH ARMY HELD
Stanislaus Grauss Arrested
as German Spy, and Cap
tain Froge, of French Army
Is Accused of Being His
Accomplice in Obtaining
Military Date
Paris, May 3. —(AP) —France’s Desz
spy catcher worked feverishly in the
historic citadel at Belfort today in an
effort to trace the leaks in her closely
guarded military secrets.
They bent their efforts particularly
toward following the trial of Stanis
laus Krauss former Polish army of
ficer, who was arrested yesterday as
a German spy.
At the same time, however, a force
of detectives and secret police weru
investigating the activities at this
fortified town near the Franco-Ger
man frontier of Captain Froge of tne
French army, accused of having been
Krauss’ accomplice.
White Farmer and
Negro Are Taken
In Man’s Killing
Wilmington, May 3.—(AP)—Faison
Gore, farmer of the Castle Hayne sec
tion, and Robert Johnson, a Negro,
were arrested today in the slaying and
robbery of Karl Hayduck, 26, last Sat
urday.
Sheriff C. Davis Jones took Gore
into custody charging him with ac
cessory to the slaying, and said John
son had been arrested at oGldsboro
and was brought here.
Gore was one of two farmers who
reported finding Hayduck beaten to
death last Saturday. The other, Jake
Mazur, was held as a material wit
ness.
ment and fort on Roanoke Island in
Dare county, is already attracting the
attention of the entire nation as well
as thousands of visitors. While the
restoration is less than half way com
plete, several thousand people have al
(Contlnued o*> Pane Three.)
ONLY DAILY
L thr E d a oYrS® ser vicb of
the associated press.,
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIITOINIA.
HENDERSON, N. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 3, 1934
7 1-2 Inches Rain
Had at Hatteras
Hat ter as, May 3.—(AP)—Rainfall
here during the past 18 hours was
reported by the Weather Bureau
today to have total 7.59 inches, the
heaviest since the hurricane last
September, when nearly 14 inches
fell.
mm of [
Diversion To State General
Fund Made Possible by
Huge Surplus
Dally Dispatch Bnrena,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, May 3 —Diversion of sl,-
000,000 paid by motorists in license
and gasoline taxes, from the highway
fund to the general fund to be used
for other general State expenses, is
about to become an accomplished fact.
Under the terms of the 1933 Revenue
Act ,the Budget Bureau is empowered
to transfer $1,000,000 from the high
way fund to the general fund when
ever the balance in the highway fund
amounts to $1,000,000 more than the
highway appropriation and if and
when that amount or any portion of
it is needed for general fund purposes.
Collections from the gasoline and
(Continued on Paste Three.)
France Calls On
Japan To Observe
Nine-Power Pact
Paris, May 3. —(AP) —The French
government today called upon apan to
observe the nine-power treaty to the
letter in a straightforward reply to
Tokyo’s note explaining Japan "Asia
for Asiatics” doctrine.
"In the opinion of the French gov
ernment,” the French reply says, “the
only equitable and satisfactory solu
tion of Chinese affairs” lies in 'the
principles of Washington’s document,
notably by application of the friendly
procedure described by Article 27 or
the treaty of February 26, 1922.”
The aJpanese statement to which
the French reply is made is identical
to that given to Washington and Lon
don stating that apan has no intention
of enfeebling Chinese independence or
interests and assuring the western
powers that treaties will be respected.
"The French government notes witn
satisfaction,” the reply said, “Japan’s
intention is to remain faithful to in
ternational law.”
Senate
Proposal
THOMAS,DEMOCRAT,
OKLAHOMA, FATHERS
LEGISLATIVE MOVE
g t
New 16-Point Plain Brought
Before Senate as “Rider”
To Pending Bank
Measure
PROPOSAL SAME AS
THAT FROM HOUSE
Lower Branch Already Has
Approved Dies Bill;
Thomas Wants Mandatory
Proposition, Looking To In
creased Use of Silver As
Monetary Base
Washington, May 3. —(AP) —Senator
Thomas, Democrat, Oklahoma, jolted
Senate leaders today with a silver
monetary proposal.
The white-haired, smartly dressed
Oklahoman, who is responsible tor
much of the new deal’s monetary leg
islation, brought his new 1-point plan
before the Senate as a “rider” to a
pending bank bill.
Thomas’ latest proposal is the House
approved Dies silver bill in a new
dress.
He outlined Tt as a' mandatory pro
position looking to increased use of
silver as a monetary base, and ulti
mateley to a bi-metallic currency foun
dation consisting of 30 per cent silver
and 70 per cent gold.
The President was described by as
sociatese today as still desirous of aid
ing silver prices but as wishing to
avoid any proposal that would tie his
hands in a possible international
agreement, or confine him to one plan
in the face of rapidly changing world
currency conditions.
Cargoes In Texas
Harbors Untouched
Result of Strike
Houston, Texas, May 3 (AP) —Car-
goes in Texas ports remained untouch
ed for the most part today as striking
longshoremen stood firm in their de
mands for settlement of a wage dis
pute with steamship operators.
Violence remained in the back
ground, except for a nafrior disturbance
at Beaumont, wwhere a barge line of
ficial was knocked down when he pre
pared to unload a barge.
Ships either remained in port or
steamed away without full cargoes.
Pickets patrolled the waterfront at
OBeaumont, Fort Nechs, Port Arthur
and Corpus Christ!.
May Never
Find Little
Robles Girl
*
Unvoiced Fear She
May Not Be Return
ed Alive Is Felt At
Tucson, Ariz.
Tuscon, Ariz., May 3.—(AP) —The
unvoiced fear that little June Robles
may never be found alive was felt by
many here today—the eighth day
since she was Kidnaped.
If the family had reason for new
hope of her return, the fact was not
made known. The only definite facts
are: The six-year-old child is stiu
missing and the ransom money—sls,-
000 in bills of $5, $lO and S2O denomi
nations —is ready.
There has been no development to
lend substance to the beleief that tne
child may have been killed by abduc
tors, other than the continuous silence
family’s readiness to meet terms of
payments for June’s return.
WEATHER.
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
- Fair tonight and Friday; slight
ly warmer in east portion tonight.
PRESIDENT GETS FIRST POPPY
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Muriel Morgan J. E. Van Zandt President Roosevelt
Officially inaugurating the 1934
Buddy Poppy campaign of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, little
Muriel Morgan, three-year-old
daughter of an ex-service man, is
shown presenting President
' the first poppy at the
Britain May Make Token
Debt Payment In Silver
First Ocean Hop
Os 1934 Delayed
New York, May 3 (AP) —Lower-
ing skies and fog halted for an
other day at least the projected
New York to Rome flight of Ces
are Sabelli and Captain Georgie
Pond.
The two fliers, who intended to
inaugurate the year’s trans-Atlan
tic flying season, did not even take
the trouble to drive through the
rain and fog to Floyd Bennett field
today, wwhere their monoplane
stands in readiness.
At 1 p. m., E. S. T., there were
signs of clearing weather, but air
port attendants said it did not ap
pear sufficient to warrant risking
a take-off.
MMUGHTON, 96,
CIAiEDJY HEATH
Mother of Congressman and
of Former State Official,
Passes Away
Laurel Springs, May 3. —(AP) —Mrs.
Rebecca Doughton, 96, mother of Con
gressman R. L. Doughton, died at her
home here at 9:15 o’clock, this morn
ing.
Mrs. Dughtn was stricken with
paralysis a week ago, following a win
ter siege of pneumonia, and could not
rally.
She was the widow of J. Horton
Doughton, Alleghany county pioneei,
who died 28 years ago, and the moth
er of nine children, six of wfcom sui*-
vive. hey are Congressman Doughton,
W. F. Doughton, Mrs. F. Miller, all of
Laurel Springs; Mrs. T. J. Carson, of
Sparta, and Mrs. W. A. Fender, of
Washington, D. C.; and Rufus A.
Doughton, former chairman of the
State Highway commission, and form
er State reveenue commissioner.
Funeral services will be heled at 2
p. m. tomorrow at Laurel Springs Bap
tist church, of which Mrs. Doughton
was a life-long member. Burial will toe
in the Doughton family graveyard.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
chief executive’s office in Wash
ington, after coming all the way
from Eaton, Mich., to do it. J.
E. Van Zandt, commander-in
chief of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, is shown watching the cere
mony.
Financial Circles In London
Hear Rumor in Wake of
Decline in Silver
Prices
nothing OFFICIAL
ABOUT IT, HOWEVER
Britain’s Present War Debt
to United States Is $4,636,-
157,358; Next Installment
Due June 15 Is For $85,-
670,7f65; Paid $7,500,000
December 15
London, May 3. —(AP) —Great Bri
tain is prepared to make a silver token
debt payment to the United tSates inf
June, it was reporter. in financial
circles today, as a result of the recent
drop in silver prices.
While official confirmation was
lacking, it is believed probable the
British government took advantage of
the low price.
Although the day of reckoning is
only a little more than a month away,
there is still no official indication that
Britain is making any kind of a pay
ment on her debt to the nited States,
but it is believed it will he another
token payment.
Great Britain’s war debt to the
United tSates totals $4,636,157,358.
The next installment on the British
debt, due June 15, is $85,670,765.
The token payment made at the
time the December 15 British install
mentfell due was $7,500,000.
Luke Leas To Know Fate
Probably On Wednesday
Nashville, Tenn., May 3. —(AP) —An
agreement between counsil was reach
ed today for Luke Lea and Luke Lea,
Jr., who have been denied a review
by the United States Supreme Court,
after losing their Tennessee court
fight against extradition to North
Carolina, to appear in the State Su
preme court next Wednesday.
Former Governor Albert H. Roberts,
of Tennessee, local counsil for the
State of North Carolina, said he and
Henry E. Colton., of counsel for the
Leas, had conferred, and “we have
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ADDING 10 PERCENT
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Conferees Eliminate Asses*,
ment on Initial Levy 1 and
Senate Then Act*
Quickly
HOUSE TURNS DOWN
STOCK AMENDMENT
Would Have Cut From 45 to
40 Percent Margin Requir
ed for Purchase of Securi
ties; More Trouble Faces
30-Hour Week Bill In the
Lower House
Washington, May 3. (AP) The
$417,000,000 tax bill was sent to Presi
dent Roosevelt today for his signature.
Without a record vote, the Senate
adopted the conference report on the
legislation after eliminating the Cou
ens proposal to boost by ten per cent
the levies assessed on individual in
comes.
Almost simultaneously the House re
jected an amendment to the stock
market control bill which would hj&ve
reduced from 45 to 40 per cent the
margin required for the purchase of
securities. The House shortly after
wards approved the 45 per cent mar
gin requirement.
Senate debate on silver legislation
was postponed until Monday to await
the result o a conerence with Presi
dent Roosevelt on Saturday by mem
bers o the silver bloc.
More trouble appeared in store, too,
on the 30-hour week ibill. An attemepi
to orce a House vote contrary to ad
ministration wishes was initiated.
Concerning the variety o other oe
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Battle Won
By Cannon
To Keep Job
Methodist Confer*
ence Votes To As
sign His Work As
Bishop Next 4 Years
Jackson, Miss., May 3 (AP) —(Bishop
James Cannon, Jr., the militarnt dry
crusader of the Methodist Episcopal
church, South, today won his prelim
inary fight for continuance in office!
as bishop wwhen a test vote in the
quadrennial General Conference ord
ered his name added to the list of
bishops recommended for effective
re-assignment.
The vote was 269 for re-assignment
and 170 against, or a majority of 90
votes for Bishop Cannon, giving the
bishop a pronounced victory over his
opponents.
Bishop Cannon’s face wreathed in
smiles over the decision of the con
ference to retain him as an active
member of the college of bishops.
After the vote was announced, he
said he had no statement to make,
that the conference had spoken, and
it was “their business.” He occupied
his accustomed seat on the rostrum
among his fellow bishops during the
bitter debate over his proposed sup
erannuation, which came up suddenly
and deferred the regular order of bus
iness.
agreed tha on next Wednesday morn
ing, at the convening of court, the
Leas will bep resent to anser such
orders as the supreme court may is*
sue.
Roberts forecast that when the
father and son appear, the high court
will remand them to the custody of
Sheriff Laurenece Brown and Deputy
Sheriff Frank ackey, of Buncombe
county, North Carolina, who were
named by Governor Hill McAlister as
agents when he ordered their extradi
tion in February of last year, ,