HENDERSON gateway to CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR 11. S. READY TO REDUCE NAVY, WORLD IS TOLD * * * * * ********** ******* *** ******* * * a 9 Desperate Efforts Launched To Avoid General Strikes By Labor RECOGNITION FOR UNIONS IS CHIEF ISSUE TO BE MET Representatives of 300,000 Textile Workers Meet Code Authority Friday general strike in TOLEDO THREATENED Cotton Mill Workers De mand Revocation of NRA Order Cutting Textile Pro duction 25 Percent; Strikes Continue in the Carolinas Washington. May 29. (APl—After a confeionoce with steel labor leaders. Chairman Wagner, of the NRA labor heard, expressed confidence today that! a general strike in the industry could e averted and that the con troversy “hinged largely on union recognition’’. TEXTILE WORKERS MEET CODE ALTHORIT FYRIDAY Washington, May 29. (AP( —A con ference between the textile code au thority and leaders of the United Tex tile Workers was set today for Friday in an attempt to avert a threatened general strike in the cotton textile industry. The call for a conference with em ployers wae issued by Harry O. King, NRA division administrator, after Thomas F. McMahon, president of the United Textile Workers, had predict ed a general strike, unless the order curtailing production in the) indus try by 25 per cent for three months was rescinded. THREE GENERAL STRIKES IN THREAT FROM LABOR (By The Associated Press) Organized labor bore down today with threats of three general strikes. In the textile and steele industries and in Toledo. Ohio, shops, unions " on Pag* Six) FRANCE MAY JUNK ENTIRE AIR FORCE Paris, May 29. (AP) — Junking the entire French naval air fleet of 290 planese for a brand new force of 360 planes was reocm mended today in a draft of a re port by the Chamber of Deputies finance committee. Dern Warns Army Isn’t Sufficient Secretary Asks House Group To In crease Personnel To 179,000 Men Washington, May 29. (AP) —Secre- cy Deton told the House Military Committee today that he believed the armv as at present constituted could not perform its necessary mission of national defense. senate still embroiled OVER RECIPROCAL TARIFF Washington. May 29. (AP)—The Senate still was embroled over the re ri Piocal tariff bill today, while the Mouse sought a vote on the com promise stock market control meas ure. ■June 9 was mentioned as an ad journment date for the President deciding curtail his forthcoming trip a ibit to further that end. / Some new legislation progressed ' vi, h a doubtful future, due to ad ministration pressure for adjournment. Senate mining committee endors ec* s he bill to strengthen Federal oil control. Secretary Dern asked a oHuse com nfotee to approve an increase of army Personnel from 130,000 to 170,000, railing it essential for adequate nar t'onal defense. officers were mindful, mean whilfe. of threatened steel and textile j’Uikees as theey explored ways of Dr "'e'ng th differing parties together. Hettiteram Batin Btsmtfrlr BRITAIN PREPARED TO PAY PART DEBT TO GET AGREEMENT Mediator at Toledo 7 ft 7 Charles P. Taft Charles P. Taft, son of former President William Howard Taft, is attempting to settle the strike of workers at the Electric Auto- Lite company, Toledo, as media tor of the U. S. department of labor. LAST ALLOTMENTS OF “STRING-FREE” ROAD MONEY SOON After This Year State Must Match Federal Funds Dollar for Dollar When Given IT WOULD PROHIBIT DIVERSION OF FUND All Revenue From Gasolina Tax Would Have To Go to Road Purposes and That Only; Federal Funds To be Increased by the Present Congress Daily DiNpiitrk linrraa. In (hr Sir Walter Hotel. HV J. C BASKEKVILIj. Raleigh, May 29—Indicaions are that North Carolina will get its last allotment of string-free money from the Federal government for building highways this year and that in order to get any more Federal money, it will have to match it dollar for dollar with State funds, it is being pointed out here today as a result of the action of the Senate Committee on Roads. For this committee has just reported fav orably a plan to increase the Federal ✓Continued on Pace Two.i U. S. And Cuba Sign New Treaty For New Amities paviina, May 29. (AP) —Cosme dela Torriente, Cuban seoeretary of state announced today that the United States will retain its rights in the Guntanamo, Cuban naval base for the time being under the new Cuban-Amerlcan treaty to be signed at 3:30 p. nt in Washing ton. Washington, May 29. (AP) —The United States and Cuba are expected to sign a new political treaty today in which the Platt amendment is entirely <>limini.ted. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OIMTORTH CAROLINA AND VIfTOINIA. k*?™ SED WIRE SERVICE OF the associated PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 29, 1934 Will Send Nothing, How ever, if Roosevelt Holds “Token” Payment Is Default ADMINISTRATION IS SEEKING A WAY OUT Trying To See If Johnson Act Really Has Teeth In It; Russia Is Trying To Sell Bonds Here; Soviet Previ ously Listed as Defaulter London, May 29. (AP) —A strong hint that Great Britain is willing to make a payment of some sort June 15 on its war debts if it could be assured of participation by the United States in a conference to thresh out a final settlement of the wholep rciblem was given in official circles today. Should President Roosevelt hold that a token payment would not keep Britain from default, then it was be .lieved here parliament would put ria .foot down so strongly the government would not dare make a payment of any sort. Negotiations are still continuing be tween Sir Ronald Lindsay, British am bassador to Washington, and Ameri can officials there. This led to a belief that a so-called “bargain payment” may depend on the summoning of a conference on the entire issue. ADMINISTRATION IS SEEKING WAY AROUND JOHNSON ACT Washington, May 29. AP)—-As dip (Continued in Ptote Sixi Presbyterian Meet at Mon treat Stands by ArkaiK. sas Presbytery Montreat, May 29 (AP - )—The Gene ral Assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States, by a viva voice vote today refused to take ac tion against the presbytery or synod of Arkansas in th ecase of Dr. Hay Watson Smith, of Little Rock, who several years ago was acquitted on. charges of heresy. In taking this position, the assem bly voted against adoption of a min ority report of the judicial commit tee recommending that the memorial of Dr. W. M. MoPheters, of Charlotte, asking that an extraordinary judicial commission be appointed to act ad interim in the case, and report to the 1935 assembly be approved. The assembly voted to meet next year in Montreat again. (The Smith case brought about long debate that consumed virtually the the entire morning session. The majority report in the case was presented and argued for by Dr. W. E. Hill, of Richmond, Va., who re ceived support from Charles F. Cole, also of Richmond, who said: “It is the duty of the church to carry the word of the gospel and dispense with these other outside matters.’” The treaty, in the course of negotia tions for several months will replace the 1903 pact. The Platt amendment of the 1903 treaty is the one giving the United Stater the right to intervene in Cuba if such aettion if should be consider ed necessary for the maintenance of order and the proteition of American lives and property. The ameendment has long been bit terly attacked by all Cuban factions and has been considered in many quarters an outstanding bar to com plete amicable relations between the two republics. j WORKERS THREATEN GENERAL STEEL STRIKE IN JUN € " ri - U ; - : -*■■■ .... rir< . f (i> _ * 1 ''' .>•■■■ '' ..... nn . The map in the above layout shows the leading steel areas in the United States, which will be vitally affected in the event work ers carry out their announced in tention of staging a general steel strike on June 16. The proposed strike, which is being called by the Amalgamated Association of Thousands of Dollars Dam age Done to Crops, Pro perty, Shipping WIND AT HIGH SPEED Beaches 45-Mile Velocity at Charles ton; Winston-Salem Store Unroof ed In Hard Blow at That Place Charleston, S. C., May 29. (AP) —• After hurling itself from the tropics with almost hurricane ferocity, a storm which left thousands of dollars damage to crops, property and small shipping craft along the Carolina coast today appeaered to be spending itself in the interior. Whipping this old seaport at a velocity of 45 miles an hour, the wind, accompanied by torrential rains, swept away a number of wharves, inundat ed the lower part of the city, and sank a 65-foot yacht. Many smaller boats were washed away or sunk. After striking Charleston. *he storm seemed to veer inland. Georgetown, and Wilmington, N. C., seaports (Continued on Page Six.) Discharge Is Denied To Capone New Orleans, La., May 29. (AP) —A1 Capone, American No. 1 enemy of prohibition times, today lost his appeal for release from the Federal peni tentiary at Atlanta, Ga. The United States District Circuit Court of Appeals here denied the ap peal df the former gangster chief of Chicago for release from the peniten tiary on a writ of habeas corpus, where he is serving a tne-year sen tence for evasion of the incomee tax laws. The former beer and liquor baron brought the writ on the contention that the offenses for which he was convicted were barred by the three year statute of limits. Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, headed by Michael F. Tighe, left, has been met with a statement by Eugene B. Grace, upper right, president of Bethlehem Steel, that steel leaders intend to maintain an open shop policy in their plants. In the background is a view of the Weirton Steel com Fleet Arrives Thursday For Presidential Review 86 Fighting Ships and Their Auxiliaries To Steam Into New York Harbor Before Mr. Roosevelt; Navy Sec retary and Others To Be There Washington, May 29 (AP) —Several hundred tons of fighting steel will knife the sea off New York harbor Thursday when the fleet swings past President Roosevelt in majestic re view. Eighty-six gray fighting ships and thtflr auxiliaries, with many of their 40,000 men standing in salute along the rails, will sweep past the Presi dnt. From the deck of the cruiser India- Indications Are Month Will Show Heavy Titcrease In Number Daily Dispatch Bnrrn*. , In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J C. BASKERVILL. Raleigh, May 29 —Automobile acci dents have been unusually numerous over the state so far this month and while the exact number to date has not been tabulated, indications are that the total will be heavier than in May, 1933, when there were 253 acci dents, in which 64 persons were kill ed and 335 injured, Captain Charles D. Farmer, of the State Highway pat rol, said today. There have been more serious accidents in and around Win ston-Salem so far this month than in any other locality, with 48 serious ac cidents there. There have also been a good many serious accidents in or near Asheville and Greensboro. Reck less and careless driving is still the cause of a majority of the accidents,