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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR ROOSEVELT MOVES TO » ¥ # at « Britain Will Not Act Against Japan Unless United States Joins In CABINET’S POLICY BITTERLY ATTACKED IN HOUSE DEBATES Foreign Secretary Says Eng. land Has Never Signed Any Treaty To De fend China MANCHUKUO NO. 2 IS DECLARED JAP AIM Member of Commons Says British Vacillation and Weakness of Policy Is Helping Japan’s Hand in China and Urges Joint Ac tion To Halt Tokyo May 18. AP) —-Sir John Simond, British foreign secretary, de clared today that Oieat Britain is not planning to "preserve” the integrity ot China, and will not participate in di rect sanction against Japan or any other power in other parts of the world unless the United States gives itst full cooperation. Reaffairing Great Britain’s determi nation to ’.respect” China’s political integerity, Sir John asserted: .‘Great Britain has never signed any treaty to preserve the territorial Integ rity of China.” Referring to the demands of some of the opposition that Great Britain embark on a policy of economic sanc- Mns in an effort to forestall any war, the freign secretary declared: ' Economic sanctions cannot be ap plied without ther isk of war. And we cannot undertake any system of sanc tions or effective action of this type unless the United States cooperates” Simond re-affirmed Great Britain’s desire to reach an agreement at Gen eva on disarmament and sa:d Great Britain already has set an example in the reduction of arms and now it is up to other nations to follow suit. Charles that aJpan is planning to (Continued on Page Four.) Condemned Man Admits Other Crime Before Going To Electric Chair, Stef anoff Admits Four Bank Hold-Ups Raleigh. May 18 (AP)-*— Officials of State Prison gave out this afternoon a sworn confession made by Mike Stef anoff shortly before he went to his death in the electric chair today, im plicating himself and others in four i'lorth Carolina bank robberies, besides the one which resulted in his sent ence to be electrocuted. Stefanoff, 45-year-old Bulgarian, w ho made his home at North Wilkes boro, was put to death in connection with -he death of T. C. Barnes, a Tay lorsville bank cashier, during an at tempted robbery last July. Three other men, B. G. Green and Lester Green, father and 3on, and B. " intli|ii"d on Pag* 81*' Two Murderers Executed At State’s Penitentiary Raleigh, May 18 (AF>—.Mike Stef anotf, 45-year-old native of Bulgaria, and James Sheffield, 47-year-old man Canton, today were electrocuted at N orth Carolina’s State Prison for mur der. Stefanoff went to the chair first. Neither he nor Sheffield had any th‘ng to say in the death chamber. The Bulgarian was accompanied ,nto little room by a Homan Cath olic priest, while two Salvation Army officers walked “the last mile” with Sheffield. , Stefanoff was one of four men con MctuSrrsmt Dmtii Hiauatrh GETTLE KIDNAPERS GET LIFE ililßnri * *i m m rMliali Tl I Sentenced to life prison terms after admitting the kidnaping of William F. Gettle, California millionaire, James Ward Kirk, left; Larry Kerrigan, center, and Roy Williams, are pictured behind bars. KERR ScO BILL Judge Kerr, Its Author, Asks To Offer It In House Monday With Amend, ments Attached VOLUNTARY SIGN-UP IS TO BE REOPENED All Eligible Growers Would Be Given Further Chance To Escape Heavy Penalties of Growing Tobacco Out side Range of Acreage Con trol Contracts Washington May 28. AP) —The House Agriculture Committee today .reported favorable the Kerr tobacco production control bill, and asked Rep resentative Kerr, Democrat, North Carolina, to re-introduce it as amended by the committee in the House Mon day. No changes were made in the bill today. Under it a tax ranging from 25 to 33 1-3 per cent of the market value wyuld be levied on all tobacco marketed except Maryland tobacco, Virginia sun-cured, cigar leaf tobacco and tobacco grown by farmers who produce less than 2,000 pounds in a crop year. The bill, designed as a “protective measure” in the Farm Administra tion’s voluntary tobacco reduction ■campaign, carries an amendment re opening the voluntary plan to all elig ible growers. ! Cooperative growers In the volun tary plan are to be issued tax payment warrants for the amount of poundage allotted them. These warrants would he accepted in payment of the tax. Non-cooperattives and cooveratives de siring to market more than their share would be labile for the tax. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Fair tonight and Saturday; slightly warmer tonight . victed, of the murder of T. C. Barnes, official of a Taylorsville bank. The four tried to rob the institution last July, and when they were resisted they killed Barnes and seriously wounded Solon Little, another bank official. Sheffield was convicted of the am bush murder of James Miller, of Hay wood county. The man was charged with Killing Miller when he attempt ed to slay James Welch, with whom he had had a number of quarrels. H ttook two shocks to kill Stefanoff and three shocks were necessary to kill Sheffield. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OPMTORTH CAROLINA AND VimNIA. leased wire service of the associated press* HENDERSON, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 18, 1934 Son of Mayor of Elkin Is Suicide Elkin, May 18 (AP)—Joseph E. Kojall, 20-year-old son of Dr. M. E. Royall, ‘mayor of Elkin, was found shot to death in his bedroom at his father’s home early today. A charge by the shotgun owned by the young man had struck him in the throat and ranged upward through his head. Coroner R. E. Smith, of Mount Airy, said no in quest would be held, as it plainly was a suicide. !l ™SME But Attacks on Roosevelt Bill Scarcely Dent Demo cratic Hopes DELAY BANK HEARING NRA and Steel Industry Almost Agreed on New Code To Dis place That One Which Ex pires End of This Month Washington, May 18. AP) —Republi- cans hammered away me the recipro cal tariff bill in the Senate today without perceptibly dimming Democra tic hopes of passing it. The House being in recess, the de bate was the undisputed central focus for sight-seeing crowds. But signifi cant news also was being written Iby committees. Approach of adjournmentt brings with it the ineveitable crash where many bills are flattened out for every one that merges into law. So commit tees were anxious to get their pet leg islation in favored position. Among measures reported favorably for consideration were those for tobac co production control to lend t farm ers who want to redeem property fore closed on them since mid-1931, and tot set up a national board of 36 to arbittrate railway labor disputes. The House Banking committee post poned further hearings on the deposit insurance extension bill until new leg islation embodying a closed bank pay off featutre could be drawn up. Senator Davis and andenberg car ried the Republican cause against em- (Continued on Page Three.) TOILId™ Action of Governor and Highway Commission Endorsed by Public Dnily Barcas, In the Sir Walter Hotel, BY J. C BASKERVILI, Raleigh, May 18—The action just taken by Governor J. C. B. Ehring haus and the State Highway and pub lic Works Commission to rid the State of toll bridges and thus make it possible for those who visit the State’s leading beaches to reach them for the CONTROL ARMS TRAFFIC Two Newton Officers Badly Shot By Machine Gun Gang asSm TO MAKE INQUIRY Patrolman and Deputy Sheriff Investigate After Car Had Aroused Their Suspicion MACHINE GUN POKED OUT OF THE WINDOW One Man In Sedan Orders Patrolman To “Stick ’Em Up” as He Approaches and Then Opens Fire; Officers Shoot Back as Machine Flees Rapidly Newton, May 18. (AP) —Two officers were seriously wounded here early to day by machine gun fire from a smal’ sedan which they had sought to halt. Becoming suspicious of three men wno drove in and out of the city dur ing the es.iiy morn in?' hours. Patrol man Anhui Huffman calcJ Deputy Sheriff Ray to Us assistance and sought to halt ti* car (Chev rolet) wh.ch bore Tent i ssee license places They said a machine gun was pok ed through a window as they ap proached and a haii of lead met them. Then the car sped away before resi dents, hearing the shooting, reached the spot. The officers were taken tot a Hic kory hospital, where they were said to he dangerously wounded, although the full extent of their injuries had not been determined. Pitt said the Tennesesee car halted and that Huffman walked up to it and reached in for a bottle of liquor in the rear seat. One of the men, he said, cried ."Put em up”, and start ed firing immediately. • Huffman was shot through the abdo meen and one arm, and Pitts through the hip. The officers said they drew their guns as they fell and emptied them as theeir assailants drove off. Both expressed the conviction they had at least hit the fleeftig car. The man, with what appeared to be a machine gun continued his staccato firing, Pitts said, and bullets plowed into the street near where the officers fell. iirst time without having to pay heavy bridge tolls, has not only met with tremendous approval throughout the eastern part of the State, but almost everywhere else, according to reports reaching here today. For every one who has been going to Wrightsville Beach or Atlantic Beach across the sound from Morehead City or to Kitty Hawk, Nag’s Head or Manteo for va cations or on fishing trips, is now re joicing at the expectation of at lasa being able to visit these places with out having to pay bridge tolls. The most rejoicing, however, is coming from the people in the imme diate sections served by these bridges and causeways who have been com pelled by business and necessity to use them and pay the tolls on them. While the causeway and bridge to Wrightsville beach and the bridge across Bogue Sound from Morehead iCity to Atlantic Beach are probably used more by pleasure seekers and vacationists than any others, there are stil many who are compelled to use these bridges almost daily or even oftener in their business. The Wright Memorial Bridge, however, from Point Harbor over to the banks, must be used daily by hundreds of persons who live down in Dare county, as well as by hundieds of tourists and vacationists. | » One of the things people here in this section are wanting to know is whether or not the Highway Com mission will extend the roadway all the way across to Wrightsville Beach' if it purchases and take sover the causeway or builds a new one, or whether they must still pay toll to the Tidewater Power Company and ride one of its street cars even after they get over to the beach. Since the highway commission is just starting its investigations and negotiations, the answers to these questions are not yet known here. Lightship Dead Recovered v ; -—. ■ i —— m* i ■ ■■■■'■ ■■■■■■■ 11 1 ■■■■ Copyright. 1934, N. T. Journal Lifeboat of the liner Olympic nears the vessel with bodies (arrows) of two ipembers of the crew of the ill-fated lightship Nantucket picked up from the sea. (Central Press) State Must Choose Its W ork Plan Whether To Keep Unneeded Employ ees or Add to Unem ployed Is Problem Daily Dispatch In the Sir Walter Hutel. BY J. C. BASKERVILL. Raleigh, May 18.—Shall the State government maintain unnecessary or inefficient employes on its payrolls merely to kepe from adding them to the unemployed? Or shall it insist upon the same efficiency in organi zation and adhere to the same princi ples followed in private business? About a week or ten days ago, Com missioner of Revenue A. J. Maxwell announced that 11 employes of the De partment of Revenue were being dis missed for the sole reason that their services were no longer needd as a rsult of the reorganization of the de partment. Some weeks before this four or five other employes of the Department of Revenue were being dismissed for the sole reason that their services were no longer needed as a result of the reorganization of the department. Some weeks before this four or five other employes had been dropped. Present indications are that before the reorganization of the department is completed in all divi sions, that some eight or ten more will be dropped, not because they are in efficient (but because they are no longer needed. This action came as no particular surprise, however, since it has been known here ever since Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus took office, and espe cially since the 1935 General Assembly met that greater efficiency in the ad ministration of the State’s various ac tivities was going to be sought. The 1933 General Assembly tried to bring about a reorganization of several State departments through special leg islation, although most of this was blocked by politics and failed to ma terialize. But for almost a year now, Commissioner A. J. Maxwell and As continued on Page Four.) PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY* NEK! LETTING FOR HIGHWAYS JUNE 5 About Half Million Dollars Worth of Road Jobs To Be Awarded Daily Dispatch Barms In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. r BASKERVILL. Raleigh, May 18 —The next letting of construction projects to be paid for from the State’s PWA allotment for emergency highway construction, will be held June 5, at which time it is hoped to open bids and award con tracts amounting to at least $500,000. While some of the projects to be in cluded in this letting have already been approved by the Bureau of Pub lic Roads in Washington, the entire list will not be definitely knowp until next Friday, May 25. It is expected that this letting will bring the emergency highway con struction program launched a year ago with the $9,500,000 PWA appro priation for this State to about three fourths under way or completed. Whether or not the last link in the Soco Gap road, from Soco Gap to (Cherokee, will be included in this June 5 letting is not known and will {Continued on Page Six.) Strikes Continue Over Many Sections Os U. S. KBy the Associated Press) Truck driving in St. Paul joined the ranks of strikers today, bringing mot or truck transports in the twin cities almost to a standstill. School children in Old Ford, Pa., tug boat workers in Buffalo, N. Y., and at four Ohio ports on Lake Erie, and 12,000 Pacific coast longshoremen also were on strike. A steamship loaded with steel for the new bridge across San Francisco hay was held at its pier in Philadel phia by a strike of the crew. Picket ing the pier, the seamen jeered long 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY PRIVATE INDUSTRY It Is Not Possible To Control The Business By Isolat ed Action of Any One Country WANTS ARMS MEET TO STAND FIRMLY Hopes Coming Geneva Con vention Will Provide For Supervision and Control of Arms and Munitions Manu. f acture; South America War Aimed At Washington, May 18 (AP) —Presi- dent Roosevelt 'asked the Senate to day to modify the Geneva arms and ammunitino convention in a move toi obtain control of the traffic in muni-- tions. “The private and uncontrolled man ufacture of arms and munitions,,” the President said, “and the traffic there in have become a serious source of international discord and strife. It is not possible, however, effectively to control such an evil by the isolated ac tion of any one country.” The message made no reference to the British proposal for a world em bargo on arms and munitions ship ments to the warring nations of Bo livia and Paraguay, but it was be lieved the President sought the treaty ratification to join in that effort. Mr. Roosevelt also urged that the world disarmament convention recon vening on May 29, set up authority 1 “for the supervision and control of the traffic in arms much more far-reach ing than those which were embodied in the convention of 1925,” which Is now before the Senate. The president further wholehearted ly endorsed the Senate investigation (Continue-** on Page Six) COASTAL WATERWAY DREDGING AWARDED Washington, May 18 (AP)—The War Department announced today award of a contract for dredging the intra-coastal waterway from C&pai Fear River, N. C. to Winyah Bay, S. C, to the Standard Dredging Company! of New York for $318,747. Reynolds , Bailey To Be Heard Washington, May 18 (AP) —The Sen ate patronage investigating commit tee decided today to hear Senator Bailey and Reynolds, North Carolina (Democrats testify tomorrow regard ing their experience in seeking ap* pointments in the alcohol control unit. The committee is investigating assei! tions —which have been denied—by* A. V. Dalrymple, special assistant tot the attorney general, that Patrick Si Hurley, former Hoover secretary of war, and five others formed a con spiracy to keep Republicans in of fice. shoremen for not joining the strike of West coast dock workers.' A Chicago teamsters’ strike, mark ed by threats of violence, ended when employees of the Wilcox Coal Company voted to join a new union affiliated with the American Federa tion of Labor. The dispute had last ed for three days. Nearly 5,000 striking Truck drviers picketed road into Minneapolis. Sev eral bakeries closed and stock ran low in grocery stores as truck operations ceased, threatening the city’s food supply. i
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