HENDERSON
gateway to
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
11. S. READY TO REDUCE NAVY, WORLD IS TOLD
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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was rescinded.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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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,
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WCATHIir
FOB NOBTH CABOLINA
Occasional rain tonight; Wed
' nesday fair and warmer.
PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY*
pany, at Weirton, W. Va., and
center, a worker of the Weirton
concern. This company, headed
by E. T. Weir, lower right, was
the scene of recent labor difficul
ties resulting from a dispute on
the bargaining clause of the NRA
steel code. The ease was taken
to U. S. courts.
napolis, Mr. Roosevelt will watch the
first bulwark of national defense glide
by.
By his side will he Secretary Swan
son and other dignitaries.
From the battleship Pennsylvania
carrying the four-starred flag of Ad
miral David Sellars, commander-in
chief of the fleet, the vessels shring
to the comparative pygmies— a host
of 1,190 and 1,090-ton destroyers, swift
and lean. |
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LOWER® RATE
Want Loop Charges Reduc
ed by Phone Companies
Over The State
Dally Dispatch Unreal*,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, May 29.—A reduction in
the charges made by telepnone com
panies in the State for wire circuits
used by newspapers in the reception
of news by printer machines, known
as “loop and drop” service, to not
more than the prevailing charges for
telephone service in the cities and
towns where they are used, also that
these reductions be made retroactive,
was asked by the State Utilities Com
mission in a brief filed here yester
day Iby J. L. Horne, Jr., publisher of
The Evening Telegram, Rocky Mount,
in behalf of the North Carolina Asso
(Contmufid from Page Six.)
MANCHUKUO RULER
RUMORED VERY ILL
Feiping, China, May 29. (AP) —
Reports from Chinese sources to
day said Emperor Kang Teh, of
Manchukuo, formerly Henri Pu-
Yi, was stricken ill with typhoid
at his palace In Hsinking.
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Norman Davis Tells Disarm*
ament Conference At *
Geneva of Nation’s
Attitude
NAVY STATEMENTS
LOOK TO 1935 MEET
Envoy Declares People of
United, States Are Aroused
At Great Evils in Munitions
Traffic, and Government
Is Ready To Join In Sup- •
pression
Geneva, May 29. (AP)—Norman H.
Davis, American ambassador-at-large,
told the nations of the world today
that the United States is willing to
join them “in ’a substantial and pro
portionate reduction or naval ton
nage”, and is likewise willing to join
an international agreement regulating
sales of war materials.
His decelarations were made at the
opening of the international disarma
ment congress, attended by represen
tatives of the leading powers.
His statements regarding naval re
duction were anticipatory of the great
paval conference of 1935, which will
Seek to supplement the present naval
agreement by which Great Britain,
thee United States and Japan are arm
ed at sea on a 5-5-3 ratio.
Ambassador Davis announced that
out by an international agreement an
the United States is willing to work
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Planes Will
To Gettysburg As
Roosevelt Talks
Washingon, May 29. (AP)—The
Was Department onnounced today
that two squadrons of trie second bom
bardment group and two squadrons
.of the eieghth pursuitt group station
ed at Langley Field, Va. will fly over
the Civil war battle ground at Gettys
burg, Pal., tomorrow afternoon just
before President Roosevelt delivers his
Memorial Day address.
Major Herbert A. Dague willl ead
the flight.
NO EXPECTATION OF
JOHNSON QUITTING
Washington, May 29. (AP)—Ad
ministration sources reaffirmed
today there was no expectation of
Hugh S. Johnson’s early depar
ture from NRA.
Permanent
Arms Body
Is Sought
Russia Sees Collapse
of Present Meet;
Wants All Arma
ments Scrapped
Geneva, May 29. (AP) —The inter
national disarmement conference ad
journed this evening until tomorrow
morning, when ouis Barthou, French
foreign minister, and Sir John St
mond, British foreign . secretary, will
speak.
In the morning the League Council
will consider the question of the war
in the Chaco between Paraguay and
Bolivia.
Maxim Litvinoff, foreign commis
sar for the Soviet Union, proposed
that the conference be made a per
manent body to safeguard the secur
ity of all nations and safeguard peaofe.
He said that the conference now
lieved that the present non-reconcilia
continue or collapse. He said he be**
tion of divergent opinion made it im
possible to find a solution of the
, problem of disarmament and declared:
“Army peace is only an armistice—
It is a negation of the basic principle
of the Kellogg anti-war pact”.
Then he suggeste completee renun
ciation of armaments. j