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ASK CONGRESS TO LIMIT TOBACCO IMPORTS
TwoPersons Believed Dead In Forest Fires lit Western North Carolina
200,000 ACRES IN
BURNED TERRITORY
IN IWO COUNTIES
Thirteen Homes Known To
Have Been Destroyed in
Section Swept By
The Flames
WILKES, ALLEGHANY
COUNTIES HARD HIT
Mother of Three Children
and Unidentified Fire
Fighter Thought To Have
Perished in ulaze; Flames
Sweep on Despite Efforts
of Volunteers
Houghton, May 4. —(AP) —De-
spile tlu* efforts of hundreds of
organized fire fighters, four major
forest fires are continuing un
eheeked over a wide front in the
Hlue Kidge section this morning,
and residents of this section feel a
it rung breeze will extend the blaze
into new territory.
Fears for two missing persons
believed to have perished in the
fire at Mitchell’s River were end
ed today when both were found
safe.
Doughton. May 4.—(AP) —Two pet
sons ate believed dead and 15 homes
are known to have been destroyed in
one of several disastrous fires sweep
ing the mountains of northwest North
Carolina. ,
More than 200,000 acres, it is esti
mated. have been tburned over, and
the flames are still raging today in
Wilkes and Alleghany counties.
Reports reaching here said that Mrs.
Alice Calloway, mother of three chil
dren. and a fire fighter whose name
was not learned, had perished in the
fire at the Mitchell River community,
at the foot of Roaring Gap. They were
missing when citiens of their commun
ity evacuated their homes and aban
doned their property to the invading
flames.
Another fire, thought to be even
larger, is raging over Stone Mountain,
on the edge of Wilkes county. Al
though the flames advanced within
two miles of Roaring Gap, exclusive
summer resort, it is not believe the
village is in danger from that source.
However, the fire in the Mitchell com
munity might endanger the resort, un
less brought under control. Thirteen
homes were fed to the flames at this
place and several homes were said to
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HiiSTSWON'I
ELECT ANY BISHOPS
General Conference Refuses,
However, To Limit Terms
of Bishops
Jackson, Miss., May 4 (AP) The
22nd quadrennial General Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, today defeated proposals to
limit the terms of bishops, decided
n ot to elect any new bishops at this
conference, and amended the discip
line to permit the retirement of bl
shops for ‘‘unacceptability and ineffi
ciency.’* ;
Hard To'Find Where State
Can Cut Its Expenditures
Looking Around For Something To Do Without Gets
Little Result; Representative Garibaldi, of Mecklen
burg, Wants Costs Cut, B ut Doesn’t Say Where
Unity in«|trif<-h narrua,
In thr Sir W.-iltrr Hotrl.
Ralc i ' J • f nASKKUVII.Ii
Nmti .^ ay ‘The thing for
co 1 aroli,la to do is to reduce the
wh,. f ' ,a g° ver nment to the point
s»iJ. V can get along without t«e
o- aXi ,J ncle Joe” Caribaldi, of
th* te ’ ,ier y foe of the sales tax in
,wo aessi ons of the General
ann .. 1 y ' is lelli ng merchants in the
ed h v a tax me eting beeing arrang
salc * ° hn Paul eonar d and the antf
bawi x 2 rsaniza tion he heads. Gari
husine'ss the ° Wner of a lar &e jewelry
w m r t do in government what
had to do in our homes —do
MeiiniV* 1 11* 1 * 3 ’” Garibaldi told a
~ ' f "merchants in Albemarle
itettitersmt Urnln Mi&uutch
New Strikes Are Offset
By Strike Settlements In
Parts Os United States
Primary Victor
Hlk
Mile* B. Allgood
Chances of former Senator J.
Thomas Heflin of staging a political
comeback, suffered a severe setback
as a result of his defeat in Alabama
primary for the Democratic nomi
nation for U. S. Representative by
Miles B. Allgood.
(Central Press)
GEORGE P. DOWLING
DIES OFJN JURIES
Man Hurt In Auto Crash
Near Here Feb. 15 Dies
In Philadelphia
WIFE, DAUGHTER HURT
Two Staten Island Ladies Were Kill
ed in the Wreck; Injured Were
Is Hospital Here For
Week
Philadelphia, May 4.—(AP)—Mayor
George P. Dowling, of Audubon, N. J.,
died today from injuries received in
an automobile accident which took tne
lives of two women near Henderson,
N. C., last February.
Dowling, his wife and their daugh
ter were hurt in the collision and
spent several weeks in a Henderson
hospital. All three were brought
home on stretchers and, complications
setting in, the mayor was brought to a
hospital in Philadelphia. Three iblood
transfusions failed to save him.
Dowling had been mayor of Audu
bon for fivey ears.
MAYOR AND HIS FAMILY
WELL REMEMBERED HERE
Mayor George P. Dowling of Audu
bon, N. J., who died in a Philadelphia
hospital today of injuries he sustain
ed in an automobile wreck near here
on last February 15, is pleasantly re
membered by many acquaintances he
made during the weeks he and his
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the other night. But he failed to
specify just what he would have cut
out from the State government.
Does he favor eliminating the State
appropriation of $16,000,000 for the
support of the schools and place the
task of paying teachers and keeping
schools open back upon the property
owners in the form of property
tftX6S ?
Does he favor abolishing the judicial
branch of the State government and
abolish the Supreme Court, all_ the
superior court judges and solicitors.
If he favors doing without courts,
the State can save $318,000 a year.
Or if he favors abolishing the office
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HENDERSON, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 4, 1934 '
2,000 Soup Company Work
ers at Camden, N. J., Ac
cept Wage Raise and
Bargain Plan
LEATHER WORKERS
DECIDE TO RETURN
Strike of Longshoremen At
Gulf Ports Spreads, How
ever, as Workers Demand
More Pay; Dock Workers
Strike at Norfolk; Oil
Workers Also Out
Birmingham, Ala., May 4.—(AP)
—Demanding higher wages, short
er hours and union recognition, be
tween 6,000 and 8,000 iron ore min
ers in the Birmingham district
walked out on strike this morning.
(By The Associated Press)
New strikes were virtually balanced
by settlement today in the nation’s in
dustrial seesaw.
An end was written to the strike of
2,020 employees of the Campbell Soup
Company at Camden, N. J. They vot
ed last night to accept a seven per cent
increase in wages and the company a
collective tbargaining plan.
The general strike of 7,000 leather
workers 'in northeastern Massachu
setts was halted, the employees voting
to return as the manufacturers decid
ed to resume negotiations with tne
National Leather Workers Union.
On the down side, shipping was
paralyed in gulf ports as a spreading
strike of some 4,000 longshoremen
seeking higher wages remained in ef
fect. Several hundred dock workers at
Norfolk, aV., walked out, and 600
waterfront workers at ancouver, B.
C., decided to take a strike vote on
May 12.
A peaceful strike also was on in the
Seminole, Okla., oil area, affecting 800
union employees of the Sinclair-
Prairie organization.
Members of the Pateerson, N. J.,
Typographical Union No. 195 called a
strike last night on the Paterson
Morning Call and the aPterson Eve
ning News, asking a wage increase. .
19 HORSES ENTERED
IN KENTUCKY DERBY
Louisville, Ky., May 4 (AP) —
Nineteen thoroughbred three
year-olds were entered today for
the 60th Kentucky Derby at
Churchill Downs tomorrow.
The weather man today saw oc
casional showers in prospect for
derby day.
Japan Will
Refuse All
Peace Talk
Forever Hereafter
Western Powers Will
Not Be Consulted on
Far East
Tokyo, May 4. (AP) Foreign
Minister Koki Hirota voiced a vigor
ous expression of Japan’s new ‘hands
off China” policy today and imprred
that apan proposes never again to dis
cuss the question of peeace m the Far
East with western powers.
Addressing the annual conference of
prefectural governors, the foreign
minister declared that Japan refuses
to submit to repetition of what hap
pened at Geneva in 1932, "when un
fortunately Japan’s opinions concern
ing the maintenance of peace in east
ern Asia were rejected, compelling us
to secede from the League of Nations .
Although Hirota mentioned oniy
Geneva in this, his first public expres
sion on the Tokyo government s re
cently enunciated policy toward China,
there was a strong implication that
Japan inteneds never again to debaw*
Oriental questions on equal terms with
the Occident as she did at Washing
ton in 1922, when the nine-power
treaty was framed.
Quits G. O. P. Job
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1 . JgUmj
Everett Sliders, of Indiana, for
mer congressman £rom that State,
last night resigned as chairman of the
Republican National Committee after
a growing and persistent demand for
his retirement. He directed the un
successful campaign of President
Hoover for re-election in 1932.
TELEPHONE RATES
SLAMLEDFOR
Winbome Cites Southern
Bell To Show Why
Charges in* Raleigh
Should Not Drop
ACTION BASED UPON
INVENTORY FIGURES
Other Orders To Follow In
Succession as Inventories
Are Filed by Utilities Serv
ing Various Localities; Old
Commission Refused To
Act
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, May 4—r-When Utilities
Commissioner Stanley Winborne think
telephone rates are too high, he says
so. But he does not stop merely with
saying what he thinks. He does some
thing about it.
Accordingly, when Commissioner.
Winborne said yesterday that in his
opinion, and after careful investiga
tion and examination of the inven
tory it submitted, the rates being
charged by the Southern Bell Tele
phone Company in North Carolina are
excessive, he did not stop there. He
issude an order for the Southern Bell
Telephone company to appear before
him the morning of May 17, in Ra
leigh, to show cause why the present
rates should not be reduced to figures
which he considers fair.
More than a year ago, the old Cor
poration Commission, composed of
three men, announced that it was
making an investigation of telephone
rates and would seek to bring about
some reduction by means of voluntary
agreements with the telephone com
panies. It had the authority to issuq
an order such as Winborne has al
ready issued and to compel the tele
phone companies to show cause why
rates should not be reduced. But the
other two mmebers of the old com
mission, W. T. Lee and George P. Pell,
were not in favor of taking direct ac
tion, with the result that no reduction
in the base rates was ever forth
coming, though some reduction in in
stallation charges and in the rental
of hand sets was made.
But as soon as Winborne took of
fice as Utilities Commissioner on,
January 1 of this year and commis
sion then became composed of one
man instead of three, one of his first
acts was to issue an order to all uti
lities companies to prepare and file
a complete inventory of all their phy
sical properties, giving present values
rather than replacement values. This
information, he indicated, would he
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WEATHER
FOB NORTH CAROLINA
Fair tonight and Saturday.
for Henderson
For 24 hour period ending at
noon p. m. today; highest tempera
ture, 81; lowest, 58; rainfall, .42
of an inch; southwest wind; hazy.
U. S. Chamber Criticizes
Varied Aspects Os Laws
Os This Administration
Business Men Ask Modifica
tion of Stock Market Con
trol Bill Passed by
the House
LEADER SNELL SAYS
IT IS GOING TO FAR
Chamber Also Asks Loosen,
ing of Securities Act, Re
peal of Wheat Processing
and More Power for NRA
Code Authorities; Silver
Issue Still Talked
Washington, May 4.—(AP) —Wthile
the Roosevelt program progressed to
day in Congress, various aspects of
past administration-fathered enact
ments were cr)iticJ|Uy appraised in
resolutions by the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States.
“The new deal” as a wnole was not
a subject of any of the 23 resolutions.
Henry I. Harriman sympathetic to the
administration in general, was re
elected president of the chamber.
At the Capitol the Honse did its ia«*
work on the stock market regulation
bill before sending it to the Senate.
Republican Leader Snell opposed it as
“going too far.”
Modification of this regulatory pro
posed was asked by the assembled
business men, and whether the re
quest will be heeded by the Seenate is
awaited.
The Chamber also asked a loosening 1
of the securities act, repeal of tfce
wheat processing tax and more power
for NRA code authorities.
International negotiations on behalf
of silver were favored, but unemploy
ment insurance was opposed.
President Roosevelt, meanwhile, re
ceived! the report from the Darrow
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Roosevelt Wants
Mace of Ontario
Returned There
Washington, May 4. —(AP) —Presi-
dent Roosevelt today asked Congress
to return the mace of the Parliament
of Ontario, Canada, captured during
the W|ar of 1812, and now held at the
Annapolis Naval Academy.
In a special message Mr. Roosevelt
called attention that on July 4 a me
morial tablet to the United States
forces killed in action will be unveiled
in Toronto.
"The suggestion has been made,” he
said, "that it would ibe a gracious act
for the United States to return this
•historic mace to Canada at the time
of the unveiling of the tablet.”
110 Planes
Are To Cost
$7,500,000
Bids To Be Asked By
War Department In
Few Days for New
Air Equipment
Washington, May 4. —(AP)—Bids
for 110 airplanesto cost 87,500,000 will
be asked within a few days by the
W)ar Department as a part of a three
year aviation developmentp rogram.
The money has been made available
by the Public Works Administration.
Bids will be asked for 80 bombing
planes and 30 attack planes.
Objections raised by the army judge
advocates general to terms of a pre
vious advertisement for bids have been
met in the new specifications the War
Department said.
All (bids for the planes were held up
when a District of Columbia grane
jury and a Congressional committee
began an investigation recently into
alleged influence by "lawyer lobbyists”
War Departmentp urchases and con
tr&cts*
Before July 1, the chief of the air
corps will ask for bids on planes to
be purchased during 1935, with funds
recently appropriated by Congress,
and for planes o he purchased during
1936.
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EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Jap Peace-Maker
' |||i IBsl
Mitsuru Toyama
Fearing that resentment aroused by
supposed U. S. opposition to a “Jap
anese Monroe Doctrine” for Asia,
might result in anti-American riots
in Tokyo, Mitsuru Toyama, veteran
Japanese patriot, appealed to his
countrymen to remain calm and
counseled against any demonstra
tions.
(Cent**, Press}
WILLIAM H. WOODIN
DIES INNEW YORK
Was Forced from Office of
Secretary of Treasury by
111 Health
HAD THROAT TROUBLE
Was Intimate Friend of Roosevelt and
Music Composer as Well as Poli
tician; Burial to Be In
Pennsylvania
New York, May 4 (AP)—William H.
Woodin, the frail little secretary of
the treasury who helped pilot the na
tion through the 19331 banking crisis,
is dead.
He succumbed last night to compli
cations which followed a throat infec
tion. He would have been 66 years
old may 27.
The throat trouble developed last
summer and forced him to leave the
Treasury post in November.
When told of Mr. Wood in’s death,
President Roosevelt 3aid at Washing
ton :
“I’m deeply shocked and distressed
by the passing of my dear friend.”
An industrialist at the expense of a
boyhood ambition to he a doctor,
Woodin turned to music after his 60th
birthday, and achieved note as a
composer. I ’ *
He talked affectionately of the Pres
ident shortly before the end.
Burial probably will be at Berwick,
Penn., the Woodin Family home.
Growing Highway Surplus '
Brewing Assembly Battle
Will Be Around $7,500,000 at End of Fiscal Year June
30 After Paying General F und Its $1,000,000; Will
Be At Least $10,000,000 July 1, 1935
Dally Dlapatok Bnrrni,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKERVIIiIi.
Raleigh, May 4. —While it has been
known for months that the surplus in
the highway fund, derived entirely
from the gasoline tax, the automobile
license tax and the sale of titles, has
amounted to several millions of dol
lars, exact figures as to its present
size and its estimated size at the end
of this fiscal year on une 30, the offi
cial estimates as to what the highway
surplus would be June 30 were not
learned until today.
The amount on hand in the highway
fund as of April 1 was $9,936,238.
The amount on hand at the end of
fchisf iscal year after all bills are paid
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AGUIURE HEAD
to mm QUOTAS
Proposal Laid Before House
Committee Considering
the Kerr Crop Con.
trol Measure
ACTION EXPECTED
EARLY NEXT WEEK
Lessening of Flow of For
eign Stocks Into United
States Is Sought; Licensing
of Warehouses and Buyers
Discussed as Provided In
Flannagan Bill
Washington, May 4 (AP) —An
amendment to the Kerr tobacco pro
duction control bill to authorize the
secretary of agriculture to prescribe
import quotas was presented today;
to the House Agriculture Committee.
The amendment, along with the rest
of the bill, is expected to be acted
upon by the full committee at a meet
ing early next week. The commit
tee was in session today, but deferred
action. ' J
The quota amendment, prepared by
the department, embodied* a sugges
tion by Representative Koppleman,
Democrat, Connecticut, who urged its
inclusion in the hill for the purpose of
lessening the flow of foreign stocks
into the United States.
J*.BL Hutson, tobacco chief of the
Farm Administration, and his assist
ant J. C. Lanier, who brought the
quota amendment to the Capitol, also
discussed with Representative Flan
nagan, of Virginia, his bill for licens
ing of warehouses buyffrs.
nn
K. C. Cook, 38, Held in Dal.
las, Texas With Winston-
Salem Divorcee
Dallas, Texas, May 4 (AJF) —Ken-
neth C. Cooke, 38, former tax collec
tor and chief of police at Pilot Moun
tain, N. C., was being held here today;
following his arrest for North Caro
lina authorities on a charge of em
bezzling public funds.
AUDIT SHOWS SHORTAGE
OF SI,BOO FOR ACCOUNTS
Pilot Mountain, May 4 (AP) —Ken-
neth Cooke, held by Texas rangers for
local authorities on a charge of mis
appropriation of tax funds, has waiv
ed extradition and an officer left here
today fqt Dallas to return him here.
When arrested, Cooke was accompan
ied by Mrs. Alice Hester, divorcee of
Winston-Salem. (
Cooke disappeared from Pilot Moun
tain Sunday, April 22, telling his wife'
he would “never come back.” An
audit of his accounts revealed short
ages of more than $2,800, according
to town officials, and he was charged
with misappropriation of tax funds,
The loss was covered by his bond.
and after $1,000,000 has been diverted
to-the general fund, is estimated at
$7,500,000.
It is estimated that the lhalance will
amount to $8,500,000 by December 31,
1834 on the eve of the meeting of the
1135 General Assembly in anuary, and
that the balance on han'd, after all ap»
proprlations are made and another SL
-000,000 diverted to the general fund,
will be at least $10,000,000 by June 30,
1635.
While not obtained direct from the
Budget Bureau, these estimates were
obtained from a source close to the
Budget Bureau and are undertsood to
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