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HENDERSON gateway to CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST year House Gets Kerr Bill Tomorrow Billion Dollar Gain Shown For National Bank Assets First Two Months Os 1934 ASSETS NEARLY UP 10 23 BILLIONS IN MARCH 5 REPORTS Deposit Liabilities Just Un der 19 Billions, Each Up More Than One Billion COMPTROLLER GIVES FIGURES IN SPEECH Addresses Golden Anniver sary Meeting of Texas Bankers Association At Dallas; Figures Are Elabo. rated by Mr. O’Connor In His Address There Dallas. Texas. May 17 <AP>—A bil lion dollar jump in national bank as sets and deposits in the first two months of 1934 was announced today by J. F. P. O’Connor, comptroller of the currency He said assets increased from $21.- 747.483.000 on December 30. to $22,- 941.1733,000 on March 5, while depos its liabilities went up $1,200,605,000 to $18,790,487,000. O'Connor gavp the figures in an ad dress at the 50th anniversary meet ing of the Texas Bankers Association. It was the first public statement of re (Continued On Page Four.) STATEHOPESFOR LARGER ROAD FUND Much Benefit To Be Lost, However, Unless U. S. fund Is 100 Millions Dispatch Bureau, In flic Sir Walter lintel. HV .1 C. HASH RR V ILL P.aleigh, May 17 —North Carolina will get only about $1,300,000 from the Public Works Administration if the latest, recommendation of President Roosevelt for some $100,000,000 more for public works projects goes through Chairman E. B. Jeffress, of the State Highway and Public Works Commis sion. said here today. He is hopeful, however, that Congress will increase this appropriation to fit least 3200,000,- f >9o in which event this State will bet about $2,500,000 additional for new (CoriMrnie** or Two* ~ l Four Condemned Men To Die Bank Robber-Slayer mid Ambush Murd erer To Be Electro cuted Tomorrow Raleigh. May 17 (AP)-Early this afternoon it appeared that two of the four men scheduled to be electrocuted tomorrow would he executed, with exe cutive clemency at least temporarily laying the other two sentences. Vl >ke Stefanoff, one of th efour men 'uider death sentence for the kill— lnK of a Taylorsville bank official in 9,1 attempted robbery, will probably £ r ' to the chair, as will James Shef eld, of Haywood county, convicted 0 ’he ambush murder of James Miller. Judications were that Governor Eh ’’ughaus will give respite to R. E. High Point, convicted along 1 Stefanoff, and to John Lewis Ed toarfls - Mecklenburg Negro sentenced du-!" fr>r mur< J er ing a street car con r> - .. I ML Heuiteramt Satin Btsuatrli Europe To Hold Up Arms For South American War (By the Asociated Press) Europe took a drastic step today to ward ending a war in South America and looked to the United States for backing in its move. Great Britain proposed to the Lea gue of Nations that no more arms and ammunition be shipped to Para guay and Bolivia, which have quar reled for 50 years and fought desper ately for four over the sovereignty of the Chaco Boreal, a huge wilderness in the center of the continent. TABOR TROUBLE Ilf GREAT LAKES AREA THREATENS TIE-UP Worker* at Buffalo Quit In Dispute Over Wage* and Hours, and Other* Are Voting LONGSHOREMEN ARE IDLE IN THE WEST Troops Asked at Seattle To Guard Non-Union Work er*; Truck Driver* Strike at Minneapolis, While School Teachers Near Scranton, Pa., Quit (By the Associated Press) Labor troubles broke today ugon the Great Lakes, where a general strike of tugmen was threatened, while employer worker truces ended other disputes. 'At the port of Buffalo, firemen, linesmen, captains an dengineers of the Hand and Johnson Tug Line quit work in a dispute over wages and hours. Towing activities were at a standstill Strike votes were being taken at other lake ports. At Cleveland tugmen voted to con-« tinue work through today pending a strike decision. Several thousand seamen walked out on the Pacific coast in sympathy with striking longshoremen. Mayor John F. Pore, or Seattle, appealed to Secretary of the Interior Ickes for Federal troops to guard non-union stock workers. Truck drivers demanding union re cognition and a closed shop agree ment struck at Minneapolis and sought to tie up all vehicular traffic (Continued on "’ace Two.) FIRINGINIAICDUS DENIED BY RUSSIA Official Moscow Statement Says Photos Were Made of River Posts Moscow, May 17 (AP) —An official denial was made today of allegations that Russian frontier guards fired directly on a Manchukuoan river steamer on which Japanes reports, said one Manchukuoan sailor was kill ed and another wounded May 12. The Soviet government’s official ver sion of the border incident was given in a dispatch from Khabarovsk, Sib eria. While sailing up the Amur, near the mouth of the Bijan river, the Khaba rovsk dispatch said, the boats ap proached the Soviet shore while per sons aboard began openly taking pho tographs of the Russian banks and hor der guard posts. While the vessel failed to obey Sov iet guard signals to halt, the guards fired three blank shots as a warning. ONLY DAILY WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION CAROLINA AND VI#INIA. * HENDERSON. N. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 17,1934 Great Britain's proposal was agreed > to tnthusiastically by representatives of France, Italy, Spain, Australia, Czechoslovakia and Argentine. At the same time Great Britain cab ■ j led her ministers in Paraguay and ! Bolivia to warn the two battling na tions that “His Majesty’s government disapproves of the warfare.” It was indicated that the coopera tion of the United States would be impoi tuned by the cooperating na i tions. Attempting To End Laurinburg Strike Luurinburg( May 17 (AP) —State labor leaders came here today in an fefort to find the basis for set tlement of a strike of approximate ly 300 of the Waverly Mills’ 00 em ployees. Workers walked out yesterday at one of the company's plants, claim iqg the company was using the system. STATEFULLYABLE TO PAY TEACHERS Could and Would Have Been Done Even Without $500,. 000 U. S. Fund Dally Uispiitch Darmii, In the Sir Wultrr Hotel. BY J V. BABKEHVILL. Raleigh, May 17 —Teachers who have been told they would not have been paid in full for their last month of teaching but for the efforts of Dr. A. T. Allen, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Jule B. War ren, secretary of the North Carolina Education Association, in getting $500,000 in relief funds from the gov ernment, have been misled. The facts are, according to a statement just is sued by Leßoy Martin, executive sec retary of the State School commis sion, and carried in part in the News and Observer here, that all of the teachers would already have been paid in full for the final month but rCnn’imiPil on Pace Two.) Dalrymple Is Attacked By Hurley Washington, May 17 (AP) —Patrick J. Hurley, secretary of war in the Hoover administration, today demand ed that a Senate committee require ■A. V. Dalrymple, former prohibition director, to prove' his story of a “con spiracy” to keep Republicans in the prohibition service, or “convict him of criminal libel.” Hurley tola the Senate committee that statements by Dalrymple that he and five others held a secret meet ing in Hurley’s Virginia home and “plotted” to rid the dry unit of Demo crats and retain Republicans were maliciously false. Dalrymple, now a special assistant to the attorney general replied that he was prepared to meet Hurley’s chal lenge. “I’ve said I would produce the peo ple who made these statements, whe ther true or not.” Hurley, indignant, said th estate ments made yesterday by Dalrymple were such as to disqualify him for public office. Pending before the committee is a resolution by Senator McKellar, Dem ocrat, Tennessee, requiring hundreds of employees reinstated in the Treas ury’s beverage alcohol division to stand civil service examinations. f' u Kidnaped Child Was Held In Desert Prison Bp' J|; ■■■ Bk W RmniinniraiiHßag ■ m i gpp fll, WMimM denSntacts ROOSEVELT YACHT P. A. S. Franklin, of I. M. M. Lines, Says He Never Sent Messages To Vacation Ship MAIL CONTRACTS AN ISSUE IN DISPUTES Franklin Says He Never Sent Messages of Any Kind To Kermit Roosevelt on Board Astor Yacht Where Presi dent Was Fishing Some Weeks Ago Washington, May 17. (AP)—P. A. S. Franklin, president of the Interna tional Mercantile Marine Corporation, said today he had not any company messages to Kermit Roosevelt, vice president of' the line, while Roose velt and President Roosevelt were guests aboard Vincent Astor’s yacht off Florida thiss pring. Franklin made that statement to newspapermen just before the Senate air and ocean mail investigation com mittee resumed its hearing on the con nection of the International Mercan tile Marine with mail contracts. Astor was called to testify today. “I never sent any messages of any kind to Kermit Roosevelt while he was on the yacht Normahal, or at any other time, making any suggestions (Continued on Page Five.) MANN ACT CHARGES LODGED AT MIAMI Miami Fla., May 17 (AP) —Federal charges of Mann act violation were filed today against a man who said he is Leonard C. Schofield, former Chi cago insurance broker, who, with a woman identified by State authori ties as Mrs. Mabel K. Miller, wife of former Mayor Victor K. Miller, of St. Louis, was taken into custody here on statutory charges. United States Commissioner J. C. Morcock said the Federal charges against the man were filed by a spe cial government agent, who, with State authorities, is investigating the case. Government Payments To Farmers Are $9,172,589 Washington, May 17 (AP) —The Farm Administration since January 1 has paid out $9,172,57 in rental and benefit payments to cotton, tobacco and corn-hog farmers. An announcement today said pay ments were distributed by commodi ties as follows: Tobacco, $6,635,367; cotton, $2,246,- 217, and corn-hogs, $281,003. In the tobacco program, growers of flue-cured tobacco are receiving a major share of the payments, with a total of $5,923,077 paid to date. The administration has received 103,412 contracts and 48,834 applications for price qualifying payments, of which gHHrc|mfS|».: ; If > .^Of k| < %®WW. ixsM??* Ht,, *% %: These are the first photos from the scene of the kidnaping of June Robles, right top, six-year-old Tuscon, Ariz., child, following her release from her desert prison where she was held for 19 days in a coffin-like box in a shal low grave a few miles from her home. To Check T elephone Statement Utilities Commission To Satisfy Itself of Accuracy of Charg es Set Up Daily Dispatch Rnrens In the Sir Walter Hotel, BY I. r UASKERVII.L. Raleigh, May 17. —In addition to try ing to track down the charges made by the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company to newspapers and the Associated Press for loops and drops, the new State Utilities Commis sion is going to make a detailed study of every statement and invoice sub mitted to it (by the various telephone companies doing business in North Carolina with a view to bringing about as material a reduction in rates as possible, Utilities Commissioner Stan ley Winborne announced here today. But this is not all. Wherever there is any doubt in the minds of the com missioners as to the accuracy of any items contained in any of the state ments submitted by the telephone (Continued 't Page Five.) 74,501 contracts and 31,441 applications for price-equalizing payments have been approved. Distribution of flue-cured payments by States were: Florida, $93,233; Geor gia, $969,536; North Carolina, $3,214,- 431; South Carolina, $1,173,655 and Virginia, $412,198. Administration officials declared payments to cotton growers are being made at the rate of $250,000 per day, and that the first installments of ap proximately $50,000,000 will he in the hands of cotton farmers within the next six weeks. Thus far checks representing $2,- 246,217 have been distributed. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY., Top photo shows a view of the box all or it was dug up from the ground with CJarence Houston, county prose cutor. whod iscovered the hide-out, holding the steel bar to which she was chained. Below, is seen the hole lead ing to the'hide-out. 2nd Mine Blast Is Fatal for 14 Brussels, Belgium, May 17 (AP) —Fourteen men, members of a res cue party trying to clear up the mine blast which killed 43 Tues day night w«re killed today in a second explosion in the Paturages Au Mies mine. They were caught by an explo sion of firedamp as they sought the bodies of three miners unrecover ed from the former blast. The whole population of the min ing area was thrown into conster nation by the new trabedy. SEELY BRINGS PEP TO UTILITIES BODY Former Big Business Man To Put Breeziness In State Hearings Daily Dl 'patch Hnrean, In the Sir Walter Hotel. lir J. C BASKERVILL Raleigh, May 17.—There is a lot of difference ibetween the new Utilities Commission and the old decrepit Cor poration Commission. Utilities Com missioner Stanley Winborne long ago indicated he was not in sympathy with the long delays and procrastination of the old Corporation Commission, of whicn he was the minrity member. He immediately went into action when he became commissioner. It is evident now that Associate Commissioners Frank Seely, of Asheville, and Frank W. Hanft, of Chapel Hill, are going to help increase the speed with which the commission is going about its business. Indications are, however, that Com missioner Seely is the member who is going to step on the accelerator the hardest. For both Commissioner Win borne and Associate Commissioner Hanft are lawyers and accustomed to the more or less leisurely procedure permitted in all courts. But Seely is a man of big business affairs and used to having things move swiftly, and (Cortinuad ou Page Five.) WEATHER FOB NORTH CAROLINA Mostly cloudy and slightly warmer tonight; Friday fair and warmer. 8 PAGES TODAY five CENTS COPY A SS CONTRDLIASURE Growers Who Produce Less Than 2,000 Pounds Are - Exempted From the Provisions TAX RANGES FROM FOURTH TO THIRD Will Be Applied To All To bacco Produced Outside Voluntary Reduction Allot ments Except Small Farm er’s Crop, as Provided In Amendment Washington, May 17 (AP) —The House Agriculture Committee agreed today to order the Kerr tobacco pro duction control bill favorably report ed tomorrow after clarifying amend ments have been written into it. As agreed to by the committee, the bill exempts growers who produce less than 2,000 pounds of tobacco in a crop year fro*i its taxation feature. , This tax, which will range from 25 to 33 1-3 per cent of the market value will be applied to all other tobacco pro duced outside of the farm adminis tration’s voluntary reduction allot ment, except Maryland, Virginia sun cured and cigar leaf types. The ekact tax will be fixed by Secretary of Ag riculture Wallace. Eligible growers who have failed to cooperate in the voluntary reduction plan will be given 30 days after pas sage of the hill in which to sign a re duction contract. Louisiana Negro Held Accused of Extortion Notes Lake Charles, La„ May 17 (AP)—- John Colins, 37, a Negro, was under arrest today in connection with an attempt to extort SIOO,OOO from C. H. Austin, wealthy president of the steve dores associated here. The Negro, a former railroad work er, was arrested yesterday by Depart ment of Justice operatives when he went to the spot an extortion note di rected the money be placed . Collins stoutly denied writing the note or being connected with the plot. The letter, received by Austin Tues day, warned him that “you may in form police at your own sorrow,”’ and directed him to place the money in a wooded section. Quarrels In Congress To End Session Gold-Silver Debate Unequalled Since 19th Century Looms in the Senate Washington, May 17 (AP)—lt be came more evident than ever todgy that time-marked quarrels are going to make this congressional wind-up anything but placid. Already the Senate was in tariff throes, the House bill for presidential trade bargaining powers bringing % argument reminiscent of historical dis putes. And, taking share at the White House, was a Roosevelt recommenda tion for a bi-mentallic money policy, potentially the forerunner of the greatest “gold-silver” debato since the 19th century. Four other messages, with disputes a probable offspring of each, were scheduled before the attempt to ad journ June 5 On two subjects, war debts qnd munitions, the President was expect ed to give information or state vie vs. On the other two, cocoanut oil im port levy, which he opposes, and so cial reform legislation which he fav ors, he was expected to make definite recommendations. The House, meanwhile, had today to deal only with the Federal contribu tions to the government of the Dis trict of Columbia.
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