"HENDERSON
CATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
ROOSEVELT ASKS FOR $1,322,000,000
BIG LINER OLYMPIC
RAMS AND DESTROYS
COASTAL LIGHTSHIP
Nantucket Is Sent to Bot
tom 43 Mile* off Island
By That Name Near
New York
FOUR OF CREW ARE
REPORTED AS LOST
Radio From Ocean Liner
Said It Was Standing By
To Save the Crew; Only
Scant Details Are Given in
Brief Message To Land
Stations Nearby
New York, May 15; (AP) -Coast
guard headquarters reported today
that t h e liner Olympic sent it a mes
sage stating it had sunk Nantucket
Soute Shoals! ight ship and was stand- i
ir2 hy to pica up the crew.
Have sunk Nantucket lightship,”
the message from the liner to the
coast guard. “Am standing by to pick
up crew ”
The message was signed by the com
mander of the ,J r»r. No further de
tails were given.
A message saying the lightship had
sunk also was picked up by Radio
Murine Corporation.
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AT LEAST FOUR OF CREW 7
ARE REPORTED AS LOST
Boston, Mass., May 5. (AP)—At least
four members of the crew of the Nan
tucket lightship were believed to have
lost their lives today after their craft
was rammed in a dense fog at her
lonely mooring 43 miles southeast of
Nantucket island, off the Massa
chusetts coast.
OIFFICUIIY BEHIND
KERR TOBACCO BILL
Mow To Identify V eed Aft.
ei It Is Sold Is Problem
Studied
Dally Dl pnteh Bureau,
In the Sir Wnlter Hotel.
BY .1. C BASKF.nVIL.Ii
Riltigh, May 15.—Thed ifficulty of
working out a plan whereby tobacco
rra;: be identified by its grower after
it hac been sold, is one of the things
holding back the enactment of the
Kerr tobacco control bill by Congress,
it v?■ s learned here today from sev
eral who have been in Washington re
cently And unless it is possible to
trark tobacco in some manner so it
can '( identified after it has been
told, it will not be possible to put the
Ken b 11 into effect, it is maintained. [
The Department of Agrculture is now
trvir.g to work out som- plan wherebq
tobaorr, may be identified after its sale
• the Kerr bill is enacted.
The Kell bill providesthat a tax of |
from 25 to 33 1-3 per cent of the sell
ing prme shall be levied on all tobacco
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Longshore
Strike Has
Fatal Riot
One Dead and 21 In
jured in Clash Os
Harbor Workers At
bus Angeles
• -
San Pedro. Cal.. May 15. (AP)-
‘ f ’ rrn * n K A stockade in which 400 non
-,H,k 1 lfi been housed, a mob of
' ' 01 more striking lnogshoremen
r ‘ 'H a bloody riot at Los Angeles
a,h, ’ r a hout midnight, in which one
J*" Was slain and 21 injured, two so
■ piously they may die. Scores were
hurt slightly.
Jbe violence brought to an end to
mar ( .f U | string of car g Q handlers
with °* whom had walked out
era t t^° Usan<: * s of others in Pacific
Wor s , r ’orts in protest against wages,
■ uig hours and demands for recog
not t ;° U w? hout y ester< lay there was a
and t 6 restlea »ness at the harbor
>y nightfall rumblings of disor-
Wr * were heard.
IkmiUramt SaWßfemrtrfi
Labor Hea^Testifies
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jy. . .-J
<• William Green
William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor, is
photographed at Washington,
testifying before the senate labor
committee.on the La Follette bill
which provides for a $10,000,-
000,000 public works program.
STRETCH FOR END
Communications Control
and Unemployment In.
surance Next Behind
Emergency Fund
INSURANCE PROJECT
WILL BE DISCUSSED
Roosevelt and Party Leaders
Go into Huddle at White
House Debate Plan to Com.
mission All Naval Acad
emy Graduates and for
Promotions
Washington, May 15—(AF) —Con-
gress headed into the adjournment
stretch today under spur for a $1,322,-
000,000 appropriation with communi
cations’ control and unemployment in
surance hurdle in the offing.
All was set for the presidential re
quest that huge moneys be made abail
able to (finance the multi-pointed re
covery program through another year.
Expecting to take that in stride, ad
ministration jockeys in the Senate
gave this afternoon over to the Dill
bill for regulation of telegraph, tele
phone and radio by an independent
by-partisan commission. The Senate
met early and expeditions were to get
this debate behind in a day or so.
An unemployment insurance parley
was set for late in the day between
president Roosevelt. Secretary Perk
ins, Senator Harrison and Wagner and
Representative Doughton, all Demo
crats.
The plan apparently is to pass that
legislation in days immediately ahead,
but if the opposition barrier is too
high the bill may go the way of oth
er less urgent ones that invariably
are put aside at the session’s end.
For the House, the day’s assign
ment was legislation to commission
all naval academy graduates and have
a “new deal” in naval promotions.
At the White House, thought obvi
ously was being given to what was
necessary before Congress could sight
the end.
Even before it went to the Capitol,
the appropriations measure was drawn
nn Psire Flv*.'
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Showers tonight and Wednes
day; slightly cooler tonight
ONLY DAILY
SERVICE OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED
HENDERSON, N. C.
Davis Sent Back
To Arms Meeting
Washington, May 5. (AP) —Pres-
dent Roosevelt today ordered Nor
man H. Davis, American ambassa
dor-at-large, to return to Geneva
for their re-convening of the world
disarmament conference on May
29th.
Davis, who conferred overnight
with the President, said he had
no new proposition to present to
the two-year-old parley.
The administration has assumed
the position that it is up to Europe
to compose its political difficul
ties as a solution ror the disarma
ment problem.
In sending Davis back to Geneva
the President appeared disposed to
stand by as long as there was a
chance for reaching an agreement.
FIND ROBLES GIRL
IN A DESERT TOMB
IN ARIZONA WILDS
Letter Mailed in Chicago
Gives Directions Leading
To Rescue of the
Child
PHYSICIANS WATCH
* AS SHE RECOVERS
Chained in Secluded Hole in
Blazing Sun and Chilly
Nights; Too Weak to Walk
When Found But Is Calm,
and Horrors of Experience
Are Evident
Tuscon, Ariz., May 15 (AP) —
Carlos Robles, assistant Pima
county attorney, and uncle of six
year-old June Robles, flatly de
nied today rumors that the child’s
kidnapers had received SIO,OOO in
ransom money before the little
girl was released from her desert
ed prison.
“We absolutely did not pay a
cent of ransom to any one,” de
clared Carlos. ' »
Tuscon, Ariz., May 15 (AP) —‘Little
June Robles is home again, rescued
from the desert tomb where kidnap
ers had kept her prisoner for 19 ter
rifying days.
Physicians watched over her today
anxiously to ascertain how seriously
she may have been affected by an
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2 Eastern
States In
Elections
(By the Associated Press)
Ifennsylvania and New Jersey pick
ed the winners today in two primary
electionsone hot and one cold
In Pennsylvania, Governor Pinchot
turned his back on his old job to fight
Senator David A. Reed for the Repulb
lican senatorial nomination.
The issue: President Roosevelt’s
new deal —backed by the liberal Pin
chot, attacked by the conservative
Four thousand other candidates
sought nominations to congressional,
state and county offices.
In New Jersey a four-cornered fight
for the Republican nomination for the
governorship eneliven anj otherwise
dull eleection marked by an absence
of vital issues.
Missouri voted today on a $10,000,-
000 state-wide bond issue to finance
improvements in penal and other in
stitutions.
Plane In Ocean Flight
Has Not Been Seen Yet
New York, May 5. (AP)—Two fliers
with a non-stop hop from New York
to Rome as their goal, presumably
were spedeing over the Atlantic Ocean
today well on their way. >
Thef act that Cesare Sabelli and
George Pond were unreported since
leaving the North American continent
late yesterday caused no concern
among the associates they left be
hind
' IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VliffilNlA.
TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 15, 1934
Three Men Admit Parts In 1
Kidnaping Os Rich Oil Man
OfFICEMVEAL
Jimmy Kirk Named as Al
leged Brains of Plot In
Abductiorf of Wil
liam F. Gettle
MILLIONAIRI? FREED
IN RAID BY POLICE
Kirk Declares Only Three
Were Involved in Scheme;
Disclaims Knowledge of
Two Women in Custody;
Five Persons Placed Under
Arrest
Los Angeles, 'Cal., May 15 (AP)
Three men arrested in the kidnaping
of William F. Gettle, who was released
unransomed and unharmed last night,
were reported by authorities today
to have admitted participation in the 1
abduction of the Beverly Hills mil
lionaire.
Statements of the three, made in the
presence of police detectives, sheriff’s
deputies and post office inspectors,
named Jimmy Kirk as the alleged
“brains of the plot;” Larry Kerringan
as the man who guarded Gettles, and
Roy Williams as the one who aided
Kirk in seißingrthe miUkHvaire at his
summer horm> last V*§’k.
Under questioning by Captain Mor
ris G. Stensland. of the sheriff's of
fice, Kerrigan was quoted as saying
he was to have received SIB,OOO for
acting as Gettle’s guard and that Kirk
had ordered Gettle to write the let
ters regarding arrangements for de
livery of the $60,000 ransom.
Kirk, in his statmeent before the of
ficers, said the plot to kidnap Gettle
was his idea, but that Williams and
Kerringan helped to make the plans.
Asked if any one else was involved
in the plot, Kirk said:
“That is all.”
He said he knew nothing about two
womne now ■in custody.
Williams, in his statement, said he
and Kirk were the two men who kid
naped Gettle.
Officers found the retired broker
last night, bound to a bed and with
his face covered with a court plaster
mask, in a little house in the foot
hills town of La Crescenta .only a few
miles from here. >
They arrested five persons in con
nection with the kidnaping, which
occurred five days ago.
GOVERNOR BLACK TO
RESERVE BANK POST
'Washington, May 15. (AP)—Eu
gene Black, of Alabama, will re
sign as governor of the Federal
Reserve Board when Congress ad
journs to assume his old post as
governor of the Atlanta Federal
Reserve aßnk.
Black came to Washington at
the request of President Roosevelt
more than a year ago, with the
understanding that he would serve
temporarily.
TWO OFFICERS ARE
ACCUSED OF MURDER
Birmingham, Ala., May 5. (AP) —
Two Jefferson county officers today
were arrested on murder warrants and
in SIO,OOO bail in connection
With the killing of two Negroes in a
battle near Ishooda mine of the Tenn
essee Coal, ron and Railroad oCmpany
i last Tuesday night.
Good weather was reported over the
oceana nd they were not due to sight
land until they touched France some
3,700 miles out of New Yorx.
John Carrisi, who did the engineer
ing for the flight, estimated that they
would reach their goal between 9 and
10 p. m., eastern standard time, to
night and he said no concern would
be felt until well after those hours.
Kidnap Victims Both Released
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WILLIAM F. GETTLE
William F. Gettle, 47-year-old Bev
erly Hills, Cal. millionaire oil man, was
releaesed last night from his kidnap
ers after being held five days follow
ing his abduction from his palatial
estate near Los Angeles Police raid
ed the lair of the kidnapers and ar-
Liquor Law
May Remain
Unchanged
Legislature May Pre
fer Status Quo To
Stirring Another
Wet-Dry Fight
Dnllr Dispatch Dnmii.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKERVILL
Raleigh, May 15.—What wlil the 1935
General Assembly do with the liquor
question? Will it continue to do noth
ing and leave the Turlington act on
the ibooksu ntouched, making the
State a haven for the bootleggers, or
will it revise the Turlington act and
put in a system of strict regulation?
These questions are being asked
quietly in political circles both here
and in other sections of the State, al
though there is very little open discus
sion since most candidates and most
party leaders do not want the liquor
question to become involved in either
the Democratic primary June 2 or in
the election in November. Most ob
servers here are inclined to believe
that the 935 Gen aval Assembly will
again sidstep any consideration of the
liquor question and refuse to change
the Turlington act, ust as the 1933
Assembly did, and for the following
reasons:
1. —Any tampering with the State
prohibition law would stir up another
fight between the wets and drys of
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Prices Os
Textbooks
Not Fixed
Dally Dispatch Bni-eas,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKEBVIMi.
Raleigh, May 15—The prices which
the children and parents in the State
will have to pay for the nwe text
books just adopted hy the State Board
of Education are not known yet,
since the board not yet decided
on the method of distribution. The
board is expected to meet Thursday to
on whether the books will be distri
buted through the present State
Schoolbook Depository, owned by Al
fred Williams and Company of Ra
leigh, whether the books shall be sent
on a consiggnment basis to the various
county and city superintendents or
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JUNE ROBLES
rested four suspects. Little six-year
old June Robles, daughter of a weal
thy ranchman of Tucson, Ariz., was
freed from a dungeon prison in the
Arizona desert last night when an
anonymous letter from Chicago to the
governor of Arizona gave instructions
as to her location.
Doumergue Calls
-For Big Defenses
Paris, May 15. (AP)—Premier
Gaston Doumergue solemnly warn
ed the Chamber or Deputies today
that France’s defenses must be
strengthened on land and sea and
in the air.
The premier went into the Cham
ber lobbies and tallied personally
with the deputies on plans for a
speedy enactment of the proposals.
NEW U. S. AGENTS
AFTER TAX ONLY
■ i
Not Interested In Suppress,
ing Liquor Selling, But
in the Money
Daily Dispatch Barcas.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J V. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, May 15 —The hew “special
investigators,” as the government now
calls what were formerly called “reve
nue agents” or “red legs,” will arrest
those found to be selling liquor on
which the Federal tax of $2 a gallon
has not been paid, those who are
found manufacturing liquor without
a license or those selling liquor with
out a government retail liquor deal
er’s license, Collector of Internal Reve
nue Charles H. Robertson said here
today.
“The Internal Revenue Bureau is
not issuing any licenses (to manu
facture liquor in North Carolina, so
that any one found operating a li
quor still or manufacturing plant can
be arrested and prosecuted for man
ufacturing liquor without a license,”
Collector Robertson said.
“It is also illegal for any person to
have in his possession for purpose of
sale any liquor upon which the Fede
ral liquor tax of $2 a gallon has not
been paid. But even though this tax
has been paid and a person is found
selling this liquor without the regu
lar Government retail liquor dealer’s
license, he can be arrested and prose
cuted for selling liqquor without a
license.” * i
But if any one can gain possession
of any liquor, pay the government tax
of $2 a gallon and then buy a retail
liquor dealer’s license, which costs
$25, he cannot be bothered hy any
government “investigators” or "reve
nue agents,” Collector Robertson ad
mitted. He pointed out, however, that
they must have the $25 liquor dealers
license, which permits the sale o’ spir
ituous and malt liquors both, rather
than merely the Federal beer license,
which costs only S2O. in order to be
free from danger of arrest and prose
cution under Federal tax laws.
While the list of those in North
Carolina who have paid the Federal
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HUGE SUM SBUGHT
TOTAPER OFF ALL
$940,905,000 Earmarked by
President for General
Relief and Public
Works Purposes
HUNDRED MILLIONS
FOR ROAD BUILDING
40 Millions for Navy’s Ship
building and 35 Millions for
Public Buildings Construe,
tion; Warns Against Ap
propriation in Excess
Washington, May 15. (AP)—Presi
dent Roosevelt asked Congress today
for $1,322,000,000 to taper off emer-'
gency expenditures during the coming
government year.
The main portion of the fund— s94o,-
905,000—was assigned by the President
for general relief and publis works
purposes. He asked discretionary
power to use it as demands require.
Out of this, however, he has tagged
$100,000,000 for road construction, $40,-
000,000 for starting the navy ship
building program, $48,00,000 for the
Tennessee Valley Authority, $35,000,000
for public buildings construction ,and
$5,000,000 for the inter-American high
way.
The appropriations would increase
the government debt to the all-time
peak of $31,834,000,000 for June 30, 1938
as fixed in the two-year budget sub
mittede to Congress in January.
Pointing to a pay-as-you-go basis for
the 1936 fiscal year the President
warned in his message today:
“In my judgment an appropriation
in excess of the above amount would
make more difficult if not impossible,
an actual balance in. the budgeet in
the fiscal year 1936, unless greatly in
creased taxes ar'e provided.
“The present estimates should be
sufficient, as a whole to take care ot
the emergencies of relief and of or
derly re-employment, at least until
the early part of the calendar year
1935. If at that time conditions have
not improved as much as we hope to
day, the next Congress will bee in ses
sion, and will have full opportunity
to act.’
WIRE CHARGES FOR
PRESS ARE PROBED
Raleigh, May 15. (AP) —The State
Utilities Commission today opened an
inquiry into drop and loop charges
made by the telephone and telegraph
companies on leased wire facilities
used iby press associations and other
subscribers. i
J. L. Horne, Jr., publisher of the
Rocky Mount Telegram, appeared be
fore the Commission as a representa
tive of the North Carolina Associated
Press Club, and explained that he was
acting in his own behalf and in behalf
of the club.
AFFRONT CHARGED
BY SENTOR GLASS
Washington, May 15. (AP) —Sen-
ator Glass, Democrat, Virginia,
said today that failure to appoint
him as a dbnferee on the stock
market contjol bill was “an af
rront and intended to be.”
I
Second Big
Cloudburst
In Tiberias
1,900-Year-Old City
Near Jerusalem Is
the Scene of Two
Catastrophes
erusalem, May 15. (AP)— A •£&
ond cloudburst within 24 hour*
struck the 1,900-year-old city of
Tiberias a)t noon today shortly
after the 17 persons drowned in
yesterday’s deluge were burled.
Another heavy death toll among
children, tene of whom were killed
yesterday, was feared as a result of
today’s rain.
The water swept down the hills for
25 minutes like a river
Stocks of goods were carried out
of shops, and houses were emptied of
their contents.
The entire population of Tiberias
fled as best it could to higher ground
outside the city. ,