HENDERSON
gateway TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
Roosevelt Reviews Mighty U. S.
NRA Heads Move To Prevent Cotton Textile Strike Monday
lOHNSON SUMMONS
ONION MIS FOR
McMahon Called Into Par
lay in Effort To Avert
Tie-Up of Textile
Industry
MOVE UNEXPECTED
BUT HOPEFUL ONE
Roosevelt May Take Hand if
NRA Chiefs Are Unable to
Halt Walk-Out; Another
Conference Is Set for To
morrow To Consider Some
Settlement
Washington, May 31. (AP)- Thomas
F McMahon, president of the United
T-x'ile industry for Monday, was'
-ummoned today to a conference with 1
Hugh S’ Johnson, NRA administra- ;
tor.
Johnson’s request ror the conference i
today was unexpected. Johnson, the 1
cotton textile code authority, Robert i
Bruere, chairman of the cotton textile I
industrial relations board, and union j
offirials were to meet tomorrow in an j
effort to avert the walk-out.
The possibility that President Roose- |
velt might take a hand personally in !
the negotiations if hs NRA leutenants |
were unable to avert the walk-out war
seen n some quarters.
Rich Auto
Man Flees
Kidnapers
London, May 31 (API-Three at
tempts to kidnap members of his fam
ily at nis home at Beverly Hills, Cal.,
have been graphically descriDed by E.
F. Cctd. American automobile and ■
airplane magnate, to English acquaint |
ances. • .[
One of the attempts involving the
use of a mysterious airplane was said
to have resulted in the advice of a
California police chief to the Ameri
can millionaire to take his family out
of the United States for an extended
visit abroad.
It was learned definitely today that
Cord has been In England since the
middle of April, a date corresponding
to the sensational kidnaping cases of
William F. Getlle in California and
June Robles In Arizona.
Cord has taken a home in Surray
for the summer, and it was said he
does not intend to return to the Unit
ed States until the kidnaping scare
has died down.
Threats Os
Big Strike
Facing U. S.
Steel and Textile
Plants Menaced;
Other Workers May
Also Go Out
Washington, May 31 (AP)—ln
ternational office* of the steel
workers' union today repudiated
"tatements of the so-called “rank
and file” committee of the organ
isation, and said after a eonfer
en •». with Hugh S. Johnson, NRA
'hief, they were promised the re
'•s*«d steel code would be reopen
**! if their demands were con*id-
f ‘ r **d worthwhile by the adminis
trator.
<B.v The Associated Press)
• trike threats hung over the steel
cotton textile! ndustries today as
* '-‘tional Guard troops mobilized at
tkin. 111,, scene of new disorders, in
le capital-labor strife.
A general strike of textile workers,
Active Monday, was ordered by
-"mag f. McMahon, president of the
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iKwiJirramt tDatlit
Arms Conference
Leaders Work To
Prevent Collapse
Threatened in Cuba
Freeman Matthews
Following on the heels of the r#-
cent attack on Jefferson Caffery,
U. S. Ambassador to Cuba, threats
to Freeman Matthews, First Secre
tary of the U. S. Embassy in Ha
vana, giving him “two weeks to
leave Cuba,” brought statement
from President Carlos Mendieta
that the government is determined
to take drastic action on terrorists.
(Central Press)
SALES TAX FIGHT
GROWS HOTTER AS
VOTE TIME NEARS
Flares Into Open Despite Ef
fort of Anti-Sales Taxers
To Work On
Quietly
DOWELL QUESTIONS
OPINIONS OF PRESS
Queries 22 Newspapers as to
Their Stand on Sales Tax
as Permanent Revenue
Measure and as to Increase
in Rate of the Sales Tax
Levy
Dally Diapntcli Rurena,
In the Sir Wulter Hotel.
BY J. C. RASKERVILL.
Raleigh, May 31.—The bitter and
intensive fight for control of the next
legislature that has (been going on for
months between the anti-sales tax
forces and the sales tax” forces, and
which for the most part has been con
ducted as quietly as possible, has flar
ed out into the open during the last
tfew days, despite the efforts of the
, anti-sales tax forces to keep it under
cover. It is agreed here mat the mer
chants and others who have been car
rying on the campaign to nominate
only thosqj candidates to the 1935
General Assembly who are pledged to
vote against the sales tax, have been
, aidde in their efforts to keep it quiet
by the unusual public interest in the
various congressional campaigns and
in the many hotl ocal campaigns.
The sales tax and anti-sales tax
fight flared into the open here this
week, however, as the result of the
telegram sent to 22 newspapers in the
State by Williard L. Dowell, executive
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FOR HIRE TRUCKS
SHOULD REGISTER
Dally Di pntrk Hnreaa,
la the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C RASKERVILL
Raleigh, May 13. —The recent state
ment issued by President Roosevelt
permitting small industries to adopt
their own codes subject to the appro
val of General Hugh S. Johnson, does
not apply to the motor trucking indus
try. according to R. S. Koonce, of
Raleigh, chairman of the North Caro
line Code Authority for the trucking
industry. It will, therefore, be neces
sary for all owners of trucks for hire
in the State* to register at once
throughout the State. The time limit
for such registration, however, has
been extended to June 14, Chairman
Koonce said.
ONLY DAILY
WIRE SERVICE OF
the associated press.
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIIIStfNIA.
HENDERSON, N. C. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 31,1934
Geneva Parley Is In Recess
After Tiff Between Brit
ish and French
Delegates
DEMONSTRATIONS OF
POWER ELSEWHERE
Roosevelt’s Review of Big
gest Fleet Ever To Pass Se
fore an Executive Is Held
at New York; Japan
Launches New Cruiser;
Chaco War Continues
(By The Associated Press)
Following a tiff between French and
British representatives, the disarma
ment conferenece was in recess today
at Geneva. The disarmament leaders
spent their holiday trying to save the
parley from collapse:
Meanwhile:
The biggest display of naval power
in the history of the United States—
-96 warships—passed in review before
President Roosevelt;
A French fleet set out from Lorient
to determine the effectiveness of coast
defenses;
Germany celebrated the anniversary
of tfle naval battle of Jutland, which
both that nation and Great Britain
claimed to have won during the World
War;
Japan launched its new cruiser, Mi
kuma, which carries fifteen six-inch
rifles, and is expected to do 33 knots;
The bloody war in the Chaco Boreal
between Paraguay and Bolivia went
right on, although Bolivia asked the
League of Nations to fix responsbility
under Article XV of the covenant and
take definite action.
ROBBERS HOLD UP
BANK IN OKLAHOMA
Kingfisher, Okla., May 31 (API-
Two men robbed the People's Nation
al Bank here toda yand escaped with
approximately SI,OOO, releasing un
harmed a girl bank clerk and three
employes taken as shields two miles
west of the city.
Threatens
Suicide By
Dynamite
Alameda, Cal., May 31 (AF) —High-
ly nervous and suffering from hunger
and lack of sleep, Frank Bennett, to
day sat in his automobile, believed to
contain dynamite and nitroglycerine
as police sought to talk him out of
his mad scheme to blow himself to
bits.
Police, risking their lives to ap
proach the man, failed in their at
tempt to make him abandon his weird
plot. His 14-year-old daughter, Vir
ginia, left school to plead with him,
hut officers feared to let her ap
proach.
The officers feared Bennett, weary
from a sleepless night, would relax
his grip on a detonation switch believ
ed to be wired to 48 sticks of dyna
mite and a gallon of nitroglycerine.
“This is the best means of suicide,”
Bennet ttold Inspector A1 Sturtzinger
and Policeman George Risso as they
talked with him as he sat in his auto
mobile on marshlands some distance
from buildings.
Election Officials Urged
To Phone In Vote Quickly
Registrars and judges of elec
tion ini Saturday’s primary are
urged to telephone or send the re
turns from their precincts to the
Daily Dispatch office as quickly
as possible Saturday night Fred
S. Royster, chairman of the Vance
Board of Flections, has asked all
officials to count the congressional
vote first and to telephone or send
the results to him or to the Dis
patch promptly without waiting to
count the other ballots, but then
As Navy Primped for Presidential Parade
463 Midshipmen
Given Diplomas
Annapolis, Md., May 31. (AP)—
From the hand of Rear Admiral
William D. Leahy, chief of the
bureau of navigation, 463 midship
ment of the United States Naval
academy received thetfr diplomas
today, commissioning 332 of them
as ensigns in the line of the navy.
In bidding the graduates fare
well, Rear Admiral Thomas C:
Hart, retiring superintendent of the
' academy, said:
“Wherever and whatever you
find yourselves, remember that you
are trained for service, and that
service comes before self”.
MALPROTS
Men Sent Out to Farms and
Camps for Remodeling
At Raleigh
Hnlly Dispatch Burma,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
BY .1. C RASKERVILL.
Raleigh, May 31. —Fewer prisoners
are confined in the Central Prison
here now than in many years, since as
many as possible have been sent to the
various prison farms and prison
camps so that the work could proceed
on remodelling and fireproofing the
.prison, Deputy Warden L. G. Whit
ley said today. Only about 327 pri
soners are now confined in eCntral
Prison here now, although as many as
700 have been kept there in the past.
About the only ones there now are
dangerous long termers that cannot
be sent to road camps or farm prisons,
those under death sentence and await
ing eecution and those physically un
able to do road or farm work.
All of the remodelling and fire
proofing is being done with prison
labor. Colonel Luke Lea, former
Nashville publisher now serving a
term in Central prison, is acting as
one of the time keepers on the re
modeling job.
WILLIAM AND MARY
COLLEGS HEAD DIES
Norfolk, Va„ May 31, (AP)—Dr. J.
A. C. Chandler, president of Wililam
and Mary College, died here in Pro
testant hospital today at 12:29 a. m.
to count the rest of the ticket as
rapidly as possible and send that
in quickly. Mr. Royster will be
at the Dispatch office for the eve
ning. The telephones in the Dis
patch office are 500 and 610>.
The Daily Dispatch will an
nounce the returns as fast as they
are receieved, and the public is
requested NOT to come inside the
building, as all available quarters
will be necessary to afford free
rein for the workers in their
tabulations.
Silver Bill Goes
Through In House
Vote Is 268 to 70, and Meas
ure Goes to Senate, Where
Early Passage Is
Expected
OPPOSITION UNABLE
TO MAKE PROGRESS
Collapses in Crucial Test
After Filibuster Tactics To
Defeat or Broaden {Pill;
Would Permit Silver As
Backing for Fourth of U.
S. Currency
Washington, May, 31 (AP)—The
House today passed and sent to the
Senate the administration silver bill,
which has as its objective the use of
silver to comprise backing for a quar
ter of the United States currency, as
compared with three-quarters back
ed by gold.
Early favorable Senate action is ex
pected.
Opposition that yesterday resorted
to filibustering tactics in moves eith
er to defeat or broaden the measure
collapsed today when the final vote
was taken.
Members of the Democratic silver
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41 Deaths
Is The Toll
Os Holiday
Memorial Day Cele
bration Costly To
Nation in Human
Life Snuffed Out
(By The Associated Press)
The nation paid with at least 41 lives
for its Memorial* Day celebration.
Crowded highways 13 lives,
the heaviest toll; drownings 8; air
plane crashes 7; automobile-train
collisons 5, and other causes 8.
An airplane crash at Yarrelton,
Texas, took two lives, another at
Mansfeld, Oho, two; one near New
castle, Ind., two, and one at Chcago,
one.
Automobile accidents killed four in
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WEATHER
’ FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Generally fair tonight and Fri
day; somewhat wanner in the in
terior.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY-
Newest Aircraft
Carrier Is Ready
Newport News, Va*, May 31—
(AP)—The U. S. S, Ranger, new
$21,000,000 aircraft carrier, will be
formally delivered to the navy by
the Newport News Shipbuilding
and Rrydock Company about 3 p.
in. Monday, according to present
plans,
A skeleton crew of shipyard men
will take the vessel to the Hamp
ton Roads naval operating base,
where Captain Arthur L. Bristol
and his Ranger personnel will be
placed In charge.
68.000 STILL ON ”
RELIEF IN STATE
About 8,000 of That Num
ber Are on Work Re
lief Projects
Dally Dispatch Bureaa,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. IIASKERVILL.
Raleigh, May 31 —There are still ap
proximately 68,000 cases on relief in
North Carolina, of which about 8,000
are on work relief projects and the
remainder on direct relief, Mrs. Thos.
O’Berry, (State relief Administrator,
said today. It is hoped the number
of work relief projects and the num
ber on work relief can be materially
increased in June, since many projects
have had to be stopped until the al
lotment of additional funds has been
received from Washington for June,
Mrs. O’Berry said.
An allotment of $300,000 for farm
rehabilitation work has just been re
ceived, which will enable this work to
proceed more rapidly and make it pos
sible for whatever other allotment is
received to be used entirely for other
relief projects. This $300,000 just re
ceived was the amount asked for In
May, but which has b®en received
about a mont hlater. It is not known
whether the second $300,000 asked for
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HUTTON TO BRING
DAUGHTER TO U. S.
Southampton, England, May 31.
(AP)—Franklin L. Hutton, American
millionaire, has arranged statee room
accommodations for his daughter,
Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani, to
return to New York with him June 6,
but has not provided accommodations
for her husband, Prince Alexis Mdi
vani.
Hutton will arrive here tomorrow.
,His arrangements for the return be
came known today.
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Fleet
PRESIDENT GREETS
Secretary Swanson and Anr
bassador Daniels by His
Side as Mighty Ships
Pass By
21 GUN SALUTE IS
GIVEN PRESIDENT
Reminiscent of Fleet Review
by Daniels and Roosevelt
16 Years Ago After War;
Manhattan Skyscrapers
Roar Back Echo from
Naval Vessels
U’ s. S. Indianapolis, Off Ambrose
Light, May 31. (AP) —The battleship
Pennsylvania, flagship of the United
States fleet, steamed past President
Roosevelt aboard the cruiser Indiana
polis shortly after 1 p. m’ f eastern
standard time, today.
The Pennsylvania’s passage marked
the start of the biggest peacetme re
view in the history of the United
navy.
The President stood on the forward
deck, flanked by Secretary of the
Navy Swanson and Josephus Daniels,
ambassador to Mc-xioo. and secretary
of the navy in the Wilson adminis
tration.
years ago raniels and
Roosevelt, then assistant secretary of
the navy, reviewed the fleet when it
returned from war duty in European
waters.
The President was dressed in a blue
suit. i
As the Pennsylvania steamed by, It
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Boxer Os
Winston Is
Shot Dead
Winoton-Salem, May 31 (AP) —Jos-
eph (Kayo) Wiles, prize fighter of
this city, was shot and killed early
this morning, and C. L. Collins wound
ed in what police described as a
drunken brawl at a barbecue stand
near Walnut Cove. C. E. Burton, em
ployee at the stand, is being held for.
the shooting by Sheriff J. J. Taylor,
of Stokes county, pending an inquest.
Burton told officers that the two
men, accompanied by Collins’ wife,
appeared at the place and started a
“rough house," which was climaxed
by Wiles drawing a pistol and snap
ping it at Burton. Burton then drew
his pistol, he said and killed Wiled
and wounded Collins. Mrs. Collins
was said by officers to have verified
Burton’s story. , f
Democrats
Will Select
Mew Judge
State Executive Com
mittee To Fill Va
cancy; Primary Bat
tles Center
Raleigh, May 31 (AP)—-With mem
bers of the North Carolina Demo
cratic Executive Committee from all
parts of the State beginning to arrive
for a special meeting of the group to
night, political gossip on capital street
gained momentum today.
Talk of the campaign now being 1
waged in every part of the State, pre
liminary to State’s primary occupied
the center of the stage.
There was little talk about the prin
ciple busines the executive committee
will have before it—the nomination
of a Democratic candidate to run for
associate justime of the State Supreme
Court in the place of the late Asso
ciate Justice W. J. Adams.
It was generally believed that Judge
Michael Schenck, elevated from ther
superior to the supreme court bench
by Governor Ehringhaus to fill the
unexpired term of Justice Adaitts,
would be nominated without opposi-
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