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"HENDERSON OATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR 11. S,, BRITAIN AND JAPAN Siege Is Lifted Against Riotous Toledo Strikers 1 509 Employees Hemmed in Electric Auto-Lite Plant Are Released By Guardsmen RAIN aids troops TO RESTORE ORDER Soldiers Throw Cordon Around Affected Area and Oust Disorderly Strikers; Bayonets, Machine Guns and Rifles in Evidence With Guardsmen Toledo. Ohio, May 24. (AP> The siege of rioting strikers, which kept 1,500 employees of the Electric Auto- Lite Company hemmed in the plant during all night disorders, was lifted today by detachments of Ohio Nation al Guardsmen. The troops reported all was quiet as evacuation of the embattled plant started. Rain and the long-awaited arrival of the troops had thinned the crowd of nearly 10.000 strikers, sympathizers and spectators which thronged the streets around the plant last night to less than 100. Bayonets machine guns appeared, J and the guardsmen threw a cordon | around an area six blocks long and one block wide, and the remaining I Isttikeis were forced to withdraw. Sporadic pistol shots had been heard ! until a few hours (before the troops arrived, forming a military force aid (Continued ou Page Four.) Two Suspects in Robles Kidnaping Taken at Tucson Tucson. Ariz., May 24. (AP)—Joe Newton, mail train robber, and an un identified man were questioned by authorities today in connection with the kidnaping of June Robles, six year-old heiress. Experts were called in to compare fingerprints of both men with those found on articles in the desert dug out in which June was held prisoner for 19 days. Officers said Newton, alleged parti cipant ir. the $2 000,000 mail train rob bery at Rondout. 111., had made no statement in regarding the kidnaping. He was taken into custody to explain nocturnal trips he was reported to have made between here and a mine in Mexico. i Investigators declined to disclose w hat clues, -if any. led to the deten tion of the other suspect. William Jackson, l. S. Collector, Is Killed By Auto Charlotte. May 24 (AP)—William W. Jackson, of Charlotte, an internal revenue collector, was almost instantly killed early today when he stepped into the path of an automobile in front of his residence, police reported. K D. Reel, og Camerton. driver of the car which struck Jackson, was detained at headquarters while police investigated the accident. Ministers Faith Now Questioned Montreat, May 24 (AP)—A renewal of the tive-year-old charges involving ’he orthodoxy of a leading minister’s beliefs and a movement for a reduc ’ion of expenses confronted commis sioners to the annual General Assem of the Presbyterian Church in the nited States as they gathered here today for the formal opening of the t early meeting. The reputed views of Dr. Hay Wat- Smith, pastor of the Second Pres \vhler'an church in Little Rock, Ark., ''hich were brought into question in f ea of 1929, and which have material for discussion at au/ 191 subsw< luentI uent assemblies, are the Meet of an overture to be present the meeting on behalf of a South ■"''loia presbytery. Stgpatrij Is Ex-Ambassador to Belgium Dies 9 \ ... 9 Mfev.';.'-’.’. % \ wear (tOA/r/i/E\ BRANP WHITLOCK BELGIISsi Brand Whitlock Dies At Cannes, France, After Bladder Operations Cannes, France. May 24. (AP) — Brand Wihitlock. former United States ambassador to Belgium, died here to day. Mr. Whitlock, who was 65 years old, died at noon. He had been ill for some months. He was taken to a hospital March 5. and underwent a serious bladder operation at that time. He had ibeen improving slowly, and friends said they thought he was on the way to recovery. A seconu operation was performed yesterday for the bladder ailment, and wards to be excellently. How the famous diplomat appeared after ever, today his heart failed. Mrs. Whitlock was with him throughout his illness and at his bedside when he died. Schwab May Quit Steel Institute; Predicts Profits New York, May 24. (AP) —Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the Beth tie hem Steel Corporation, and chairman of the American Iron and Steel In stitute, today announced his intention of tendering his resignation from the institute. The veteran steel master said, however, that he did not know whether the resignation would be ac cepted . The Betthlehem chairman told the members of the institute if the steel industry’s current operating rate of 55 per cent of capacity can be con tinued. the prices schedules for the third quarter will permit most steel companies ‘to earn something on their investment’'. POMDANDSABELLI LAI AT CARDIFF First 1934 Atlantic Fliers Still Having Trouble With Plane Cardiff, Wales, May 24. (AP)—Cap tain George Pond and Lieutenant Cesare Sabelli arrived at the airport here today with the engine of their trans-Atlantic plane, [Lonardo de Vinci, knocking and smoking. Thy had flown from Port Talbot, Wales, where they were forced down earlier In the day in an attempted non-stop flight from Dublin to Rome. The motor that failed them just as they reached land after flying the At lantic cut out again at Port Tolbert, disappointing the two fliers once more They made emergency repairs at Port Talbot and reached Cardiff with out mishap. Geeral repairs will be effected here (before they start out again. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OFNORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. wire SERVICE OF the associated press. HENDERSON, N. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 24, 1934 Faces Crisis .. • *• < >: jfp£ mm ' liihnnnnnn <9 Premier Saito Revelations of scandal in Japanese Treasury Department, following ar rest of Kideo Kuroda, vice-Minister of Finance, has placed cabinet of Premier Viscount Makoto Saito in position as target of anti-govern ment agitators. Premier Saito and other cabinet members are closely guarded. (Central Press) Prospect Is Projected From Administration’s Silver. Aid Program At Washington SUBTLE INVITATION BY THE PRESIDENT Roosevelt’s Silver Message to Congress -Contained Hidden Suggestion To Foreign Nations Plagued With Money Troubles; London’s Alarm Is Ignored Washington, May 24. (AP).—The prospect of a new international mone tary discussion projected today from the administration silver-aid program. Hidden in President Roosevelt’s, sil ver message to Congress was a subtie invitation to foreign nation plagued by money troubles to seek a silver solution for their problems. Nations were not named, but inti mations were that Mr. Rosevelt had Great Britain, Germany, France and Japan in mind when he said: “The ebb and flow of values in aJ • Oontiniiwi on "Page Tlicm i 147,426 In State Still Unemployed Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel. lIY r. BASKE.RVILL . Raleigh, May 24.—Through May 19, the various offices of the Na tional Reemployment Service in the State had placed 2,283 persons in obs since May 1, State Director C. 11. Waynick announced today. Phis still leaves 147,426 on the rolls as unemployed and wanting jobs mt still unplaced, he pointed out. Employment Service Even Furnishing Baseball Jobs Dully Dispatch Barena In the Walter Hotel. BY J. •' BABKERVILL. Raleigh, May 24. request to pro vide two first rate baseball pitchers for one of the better minor league baseball teaems has ust been received by th central State office of the Na tional Re-employment Service here, it was announced today iby State Direc tor C. M. Waynick. Officials of the reemployment service have been ac customed to getting calls for brick layers, carpenters, plumbers, me chanics and all sorts of tradesmen, but this is the first time the office here has hada request for it to find and place some baseball players. “ were fortunate, however, in find ing one baseball pitcher who had reg istered with the service and we are pSeSeys PLANNED IN 1935 Agreement on Control of the Pacific Is Problem Likely To Have Right of Way JAPAN WOULD ALTER 5-5-TNAVAL TREATY Swanson Says United States Will Consider Extending Its Naval Bases In Pacific In Japan Insists On In. creasing Ratio of Navy To This Country Washington. May 24 (AP) The United States> GGreat Britain and Japan were said authoritatively to day to be engaged in preliminary con versations concerning the feasibility of holding discussions on naval ques tions prior to the Washington naval conference next year. William Phillips under secretary of state declined any official comment on the question, but itt was understood the first overtures for an exploratory survey of naval questions came from Great Britain and Japan. Japan, through official spokesmen, has announced on. numerous occasions that she would demand a revision of the present 5-5-3 naval ratio estab lished at the London and Washington conferences. Japanese officials also have sug gested that a preliminary discussion between the three nations on ques tions especiall pertaining to the Paci fic would go a long way toward clear ing the atmosphere for the general conference, Secretary Swanson said yesterday at his press conference that the United States would consider extending its naval base in the Pacific if the Jap anese insisted on increasing the ratio of their navy to that of this country. EDGECOMBE FARMER BELIEVED SUICIDE farboro, May 24. (AP) —Lindsey Gardner. 65, Edgecombe county farm er, was found dead of gunshot wounds at his home near Pinetops today. Of ficers said the death apparently was a suicide. U.N.C.Man Picked For U. S. Office Murchison Named by Roosevelt for For eign-D omestic Commerce Bureau Washington, May 24. (AP) —Presi- dent Roosevelt today nominated Clau dius T. Murchison of the University of North Carolina, to be director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Willard Thorp, an Amherst profes sor. recently resigned the post after his nomination had been rejected by a senate committee. The committe contndd Thorp had not had sufficient practical experience for the department of commerce as signment. John Dickinson, assistant secretary of commerce, insisted that politics was Iback of the rejection. already out hunting for another, so we are confident we will be able to fill this - request”, Director Waynick said. "While this request did not come from one of the big leagues, it did come from one of the better teams in the minor leagues and the obs should pay very well if the pitchers supplied really make good”. Since there is no telling what sort to requests the reemployment service will get, Director Waynick advises all professional (baseball players, wrestl ers, boxers and others who do not have obs and who would like to get jobs in these lines of work to register witth the nearest reemployment serv ice offices, since under the law the service cannot go outside those who are registered with it. SEEK ARMS ACCORD Democrats Mass To Delay Permanent Bank Insurance; Senate Discusses Tariffs Victim of "Lover Lane” Attack \ L. y JB& msm> Wm jjjip? ... p) wn No thought of their impending ordeal dampened the happiness of Miss Fannie Kurz and her fiance, Milton J, Brown, of Fredericksburg, Va., when a friend made this snapshot. Now both are in a critical condition as the result of an attack by a maniacal assailant in a lover’s lane near Fredericksburg (shown below). (Central Press) , Ford ‘Thwarting’NßA, Court Holds; Machado Now Sought By Cuba Washington, May 24 (AP) —Assert- ing that Henry Ford is “thwarting the national recovery act,” Justice Daniel W. O’Donohua ruled in the District of Columbia Supreme Court today that government agencies could not be compelled to buy Ford products. CLUB WOMEN ASK CONTROL OF SALE OF ALL FIREARMS Hot Springs, Ark., May 24 (AP) —An emphatic demand that regulation and sale of pistols and revolvers be includ ed in the firearms bill now before Congress was sent to the House Ways and Means Committee today by the Council of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, in convention here. CUBA MAKES FORMAL DEMAND FOR MACHADO EXTRADITION Havana, May 24 (AP)—The Cuban Utilities Commission Puts Auditors To Work on The Figure Dully Dispatch Bircai In the Sir Walter Hotel, BY J. r OASKERVILL. Raleigh, May 24 —The analysis of the inventories of its properties re cently submitted to the State Utilities (Commission by the Southern Bell' Telephone and Telegraph Company, to determine whether they are reason able or excessive, has already been started, it was learned here today. Leonard A. Blackburn, of the engi neering firm of Slaughter, -Saville and Blackburn, of Richmond, Va., employ ed by the Utilities Commission to as /CV»nHniiprl nn Paso Thr«*».> WE4THEH FOR NORTH CAROLINA Mostly cloudy, probably local showers tonight; Friday generally fair; cooler in northwest portion. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY* State Department today handed Jef ferson Cafferey, the United States ambassador, documents for the for mal extradition of former President Gerardo Machado for. his certification qf signatures, Mr. Cafferey said he would return them tonight, after which the Cuban officials will dispatch them to the United States. SAYS NEW DEAL IS LIKE GOLDEN RULE PRINCIPLE Cleveland, Ohio, May 24 (AP) —Aft- er hearing Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes liken the principles of the New Deal to the Golden Rule, the General Assembly of the Presby terian Church in the United States of America opened its formal sessions today. The election of a moderator was the principal business of today’s session Number Much Under April; Convicts Realizing Futi. lity of Flight Daily Diapatch Ba/eaa, In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. C. BASKEBVILL. Raleigh, May 24. —Although three prisoners) escaped from two camps yesterday, the number of escapes so farthis month has been considerably smaller than last month, according to Director of Prisons J. B. Roach. Only six prisoners have escaped from the entire prison system this week, with its more than 7,500 prisoners while four of these were recaptured. These figures include the three prisoners who got away yesterday. There were more escapes in April than in any month since the State prison system was consolidated with the highway prison camps under the State Highway and Public Works Commission, with 114 escapes and 77 captures. This ump in the number of escapes in April was attributed by (Continued on Page Three.) 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY » Extra Lang Working Days Face Senate To Get Vote on Roosevelt-Backed Measure LEADER ROBINSON DEFENDS THE NRA Cites “Very Substantial” Progress by Business; House Next Week To Pass Communications and Bil. lion Dollar Deficiency Bill, Bryns Predicts Washington, May 24 (AP)—Today brought disclosure of a first faint ap proach to the 1935 naval conference, but Congress was too busy with tariffs and deposit insurance legislation to pay immediate heed. For long it has been plain that Ja pan’s wish to get more than its pres ent battle strength would make for difficulty. So special significance was attached to news that the (United States, Great Britain and the Asiatic powers already are exchanging views. The only present question .however, is whether the three countries might (Continued on Pane Three j Lutherans Talk About Conditions At Lenoir-Rhyne Wilmington. May 24. (AP) —Comple- ttion of the election of delegates to the United Lutheran Church of Amer ica convention at Savannah, Ga.. Oc tober 15, and appointment of commit tees marked the business session of the 130th annual convention of the United Evangelical Lutheran Synod of North Carolina here today. The synod discussed at length the situation at Lenoir-Rhyne College. The Rev. R. L. Fritz, a professor at the college, and a former president, declared rumors circulated as a re sult of the college’s financial situa tion, the recent death of Dr. E. J. Sox. professor of Bible and religion, and resignation of Dr. H. B. Shaef fer. president, and Dean S. F. Hack man, demanded that the synod ask the trustees to make immediately “a definite and constructive announce ment” of he future of the institution. Surgeons Unable To Operate After 1,000-Mile Flight os Angeles. Calif., May 24. (AP Naval surgeons who flew 1,000 jnilea across the sea today to succor William Albert Robinson found his appendici tis too serious for an immediate op eration, and ordered him rushed to Panama from his honeymoon yacht at Tagus Cove, Galapagos Islad. Ending a 12-hour dash from the Canal Zone, two United tSates planes landed tonight near the Ketch, on which Robinson, Cambride. Mass., tex tile engineer and explorer, lay help less, his bride by his side. Relief For Mays3,B6B For Vance Raleigh. May 24 (AP)—The St*te Relief Administration reported to day that Asheville will get $Bl,- 495.91, and Buncombe county sll,- 585.03 to expend on relief in May to lead the State’s 100 counties in total allottments. Allotments included: Vance, $3,- 868.88; Wsarren. $1,629.16; Franklin, $5,11151 and Granville, $2,549.87,. j
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