HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
Unusually Heavy Vote Is
Cast In Primary Election
In All Sections Os State
SALES TAX FUTURE
IS BEING WRITTEN
AS BALLOTS FALL
Three Percent Sales Levy To
Be Determined in Per
sonnel of Legislators
Named
NO DISORDERS ARE
LEARNED ANYWHERE
Elizabeth City, Raleigh, Dur
ham, Henderson, Charlotte
All Report Heavy Ballot,
ing During Forenoon and
Early in Afternoon on
Many Candidates
Raleigh. June 2. (AP) —North Caro
lina voters this afternoon were report
ed is going to the polls rapidly to se
lect their party nominees for the No
vember's general election and in so
doing they wrote the fate of the
State's three per cent general sales
tax.
Thousands of political aspirations
were at stake as candidates from con
stable to congressmen were being
chosen, and the fate of the sales levy
lay in the personnel selected to sit in
the 1935 legislatures.
At Elizabeth City, in the east,
Raleigh. Durham and Henderson in
the central part of the State, and
Charlotte in the Piedmont, heavy bal
loting was reported.
No disorders had been reported
anywhere in the State this afternoon.
Relief Need
Laid Heavily
InTlieHouse
Appropriation Bill of
Near Two Billions Is
Before The Con
gress
Washington, June 2 (AP) The
Hous°, still tense over Its own recent
partisan and personal quarreling, had
a grim reminder today of the nation s
relief problem and that of the Fede
ral Treasury.
Recess of the Senate under the
agreement expected to result in a tar
iff bill vote at last on Monday, meant
al' the more notice for the almost sl.-
800,900,000 general appropriation bill.
It finally reached the House from
committee containing as well an in
direct authorization for additional bil
lions to be spent that none shall go
hungry.
Secretary Morgenthau learned,
meanwhile, that the eleven months of
the fiscal year ending June 30 have
brought Federal expenditures to ex
ceed $6,370,000. more than half of
which is deficit. At that, it’s a great
deal belter showing that President
Roosevelt figured on in January.
The House, working on legislation
far communication regulation at the
time, found out that, the appropria
tion committee went counter to the
president's wish to have fulldiscre
tion in use of the new relief .funds.
it would require for, example, that
not more than half a billion go to
PWA and $100,000,000 be used for
highways.
It was vet unclear as to what ex
tent Speaker Rainev would use his
newly voted dictatorial power to press
this major bill to passage.
The r*assive Democratic maioHtv in
creased his authority immeasureably
veeterdav after Renublican filibuster
faction had delayed the legislation
procedure for hours at the time.
Concerning over week-end develon-
m *nfa. NRA was still having trouble
fa its attempt to obviate a textile
sfaike. Unless Hugh S Johnson make
more progress with his suggestions
fan settlement, the projected strike
s farts Monday.
oenatorrs and representatives from
draught states were told at the Farm
AH ministrat.ion that a comprehensive
Pfan for relief would be presented
'* ft er a conference with the President.
Monday. In addition to cattle biivine
pf farts are on to obtain reduced
fafaght rates on feed inbound and cat
t,e outbound in effected sections.
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Recovered from his recent illness, John D. Rockefeller leaves the station
at Princeton, N. J., on his return from his annual Winter vacation at
Ormond Beach, Fla. The 94-year-old oil magnate seems as hale and
hearty as ever. (Central Press)
ICKES CLAIMS HE’S
Says Congressmen Didn’t
Like Diversion of SIOO,-
000,000 Fund
Washington, June 2. (AP) —Secre-
tary Ickes says congressman have
‘"cussed him out” because he jumped
a $100,000,000 public building program.
Testifying before the Houss Appro
priations Committee, he said at least
half a billion dollars would be needed
to supplement the $3,300,000,000 outlay
authorized ac year ago for publi
works.
In the midst of his testimony, maae
public today, the administrator was
criticized by Chairman Buchanan,
Democrat, Texas, for using the sloo,*
000,000 for other purposes.
“In the matter of public buildings-,
Buchanan said, (‘you realize that
when this administration took office
there .was $100,000,000 authorized by
Congress for public buildings”.
“Os course, the members of Con
gress from those districts in which
the buildings were to be built) noti
fied their constituents, chmbers of
commerce, etc., that they had that
particular city on the dotted line for
a public building”.
He said Congress later permitted
use of the $100,000,000 for CCC camps,
the understanding that, the buildings
would be constructed by PWA fund*
This was not done and congressmen
grew issatisfied.
Ickes made this reply:
“They have come down and cussed
me out”.
He added that the purpose of the
PWA outlays was relief and that he
had found many of the building pro
jects were not economically justified.
He said some Federal buildings stick
out like sore thumbs”.
More Aid
For West
Expected
Washington, June 2. (AP)—Mem
bers of Congress from the midwest
expressed the opinion today that ad
ditional funds woulcLbe voted if found
necessary to aid drought victims.
This appeared to be the consensus
following a meeting of the senators
and representatives with Chester C.
Davi3, the farm administrator. Davis
said a comprehensive plan for relief
would be presented after a confer
ence Monday with the President. Mr.
Roosevelt talked with Washington on
the telephone today, but whether per
taining to drought relief was not
made known. i
Some members thought the Presi
dent would send a special message to
Congress early next week.
At the Wjbite House it was said
therew as no indication that the
President had a special message in
mind, although he had been following
developments closely. -
WEATHER
FOB NORTH CAROLINA
Partly cloudy, probably scatter
ed showers tonight and Sunday;
little change in temperature.
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the associated press..
' HENDERSON, N. C. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 2, 1934
Two Men Are Held
As Counterfeiters
Hertford, June 2 (AP) —Two
men were being held in jail here
today for Federal officers on a
charge of issuing counterfeit money
after they were arrested late yes
terday afternoon at the Chowafi
river bridge and approximately SSOO
in bogus money had been found in
their car.
The men, armed with a revolver
and driving a black sedan (Ford
V-8), were arrested by Perquimans
and Chowan officers after a S2O
counterfeit bill had been given to
a Perquimans merchant In ex
change for merchandise.
The men gave their names as
Harry L. Wagner and Ralph P.
Perry, of Richmond.
Say England
And U. S. In
Debt Accord
Payment June 15 Is
Looked for; Roose
velt Message N o
Surprise in London
London, June 2. (AP) —Reliable
sources said today that Great Britain
has apparently reached an under
standing with President Roosevelt on
the war debt question, and will make
a payment in June. The onry com
ment in official quarters, however,
was:
“We are studying Mr. Roosevelt’s
message with much interest”.
It is known that the message
sioned the British government no sur
prise of any kind, and indicated that
both Washington and London knew
each other’s views before Mr. Roose
velt’s message was sent to Congress.
A formal communication regarding
the message chiefly as his desire to
give Congress a history of the problem
up to date and feel that it was in no
way unfriendly to Great Britain.
Election
Returns
Returns from today's primary
election will be announced tonight
by the Daily Dispatch, and the
public is invited to be guests of
the paper. Arrangements for
handing the crowd in the street
outside the office will be made,
and the results of the balloting will
be given just as fast as received.
All election officials are urged
to report their resultsto the Dis
patch office as quickly as the
count is completed for all offices.
And the public is earnestly re
quested to stay OUTSIDE the of
fice and NOT come inside to in
terfere with and slow down the
tabulation work.
Returns will be given on the
* Congressional contest from all
over the district.
ITALY WILL FIGHT
FORHERSELF ONLY
IN THE NEXT WAR
Mussolini Exacts Pledge
from Great Band of Sol
diers That They
Are Ready
SAYS HARD TIMES
MUST BE EXPECTED
II Duce Warns His Troops
That Relief Need Not Be
Looked for Any Time
Soon; They Tell Him They
Think They Will Win In
Next Conflict
—I
Rome, June 2. (AP)—Premier Mus
solini told 10,000 war volunteers today
that Italy will fight her next war for
herself alone and not on behalf of
any other nation pretending to be her
allies.
“taly’s volunteers, if war is neces-
Jsary, will shed their blood only for
taly,” leclared II Duce. ‘Experience
has shown them that itd oes not pay
to help by land and sea the people who
pretend to be our allies”.
Mussolini was interpreted as refer
ring to France and her World War
ally, Serbia, now part of Yugo-Slavia.
France, he has said, did not give Italy
.the colonial territory promised in the
ondon treaty of 1915, following which
Italy entered the war.
The volunteers gave the premier a
tremendous affirmative shout when
he asked them whether they were
ready to march as in 1914 and 1915.
They shouted, “Yes” again when
he asked:
’Do you feel that tomorrow, if it is
necessary to fight that victory will
embrace our flag?”
II Duce said Italy would have con-'
tinued her foreign policy of collabora
tion with all peoples, but it was nec
essary for other nations to cooperate,
too, and, because this was not mathe
matically certain, and was not a fact,
it was necessry to be prepared.
Speaking of th4 economic situation,
Mussolini said:
“Not only are the times hard, but I
also want to add that you must not
hope for 4 easierTTmes to come.
“We must accept hard times. This
is why the people are offering today a
superlb spectacle of discipline”.
SAYSIESIUST
1 THEIR SCHOOLS
Allen and Martin Pleased at
Special Election Called
For Raeigh
Dn l»r Olapntpfe Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, June 2.—The action of the
Raleigh school board in deciding to
call a special election in July to vote
on a supplemental tax of 16 cents for
the purpose of giving Raleigh a nine
months school term next year, was
'heartily commended here today by
both Dr. A. T. Allen, State superin
tendent of public instruction, and De-
Roy Martin, secretary of the State
School Commission. This 16 cents tax
levy will provide an extra month of
school here without increasing the
present city tax rate, since two old
debt service levies amounting to 16
■ cents will be eliminated. This tax
wil' not only supply enough additional
funds to extend the school term t *
time months, bu will also make it pos
sible to supplement teachers’ salaries
here and add more teachers. The date
for the election has not been set, but
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New York
Greetings
For Navy
New York, June 2. (AP)—The Navy
moved up Fifth avenue at marked
steps today, cutlasses flashing a sa
lute to nearly 1,000,000 New Yorkers
who know a parade when they see it.
Over 5,000 men from the United
States fleet’s warships in unbroken
rank of white paraded up the ave
nue from Washington Ssuare to 59th
street. *
Taking the salute of the navy’s
fighting men were Mayor LaGuardia,
Davis S. Sellers, Major Gen
eral Dennis G. Nolan, commander of
the second corps area of the army, and
the navy's war-time chief, Josephus
Daniels, now ambassdaor to Mexico.
Gotham citizens, who might be ex
pected to adopt a 'blaze attitude to
ward parades, showered the swinging
ranks of “gobs”, with torn paper ea 4
ticker tape and cheered impartially
as division after division tramped by
to the music of their shipbands.
NRA Leaders Are Hopeful
Agreement Can Be Reached
To Prevent Textile Strike
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Secretary of State Cordell Hull
looks on as the Cuban ambassador
to the United States, Dr. Manuel
Marquez Sterling, signs the new
treaty between the United States
and Cuba in Washington. The
new treaty, which supplants the
Roosevelt Joins
In Groton Event
Groton* Mass., June 2. (AP)—
President Roosevelt returned to
Groton school today to participate
in the 50th anniversary of the
founding of this institution.
Arriving just in time for lunch
eon, the President ana Mrs. Roose
velt motored to the dining room.
As usual, the gates of Groton
were closed to outsiders. A tirowd
waited at the gates. Along the
way folks were at the roadside.
Newspaper men and photographers
were forbidden entrance to the
Groton grounds.
$1,000,000
Fire Loss
In Oil Well
Gasoline Blast Ig
nites String of Der
ricks at Huntington
Beach, Cal.
Huntington 'Beach, Cal., June 2
(API —Damages estimated at $1,000,-
000 by fire officials was caused in the
old section of the Huntington Beach
oil fields early today when a gasoline
blast ignited a string of oil derricks,
endangering the lives of about 25 per
sons, most of whom have been ac
counted for.
Earlier reports that one death had
Earlier reports that one death had
been verified by police proved erron
eous.
After burning for nearly three hours
the fire was brought under control by
firemen who expressed the opinion it
would be miraculous if all in the dis
trict had escaped. At that time police
said the heat from the ruins still was
so intense that a thorough check
would have to be delayed.
Authorities said the blast occurred
when a loading hose carrying high
test gasoline and loading to a truck,
broke, spraying the volatile fijel -into
fire box. Three men on the truck and
one in the refinery plant of the O. C.
•Field Gasoline Company sprinted out
of danger.
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EXCEPT SUNDAY.,
Dr. Sterling —-e*”"
paternalistic pact which has gov
erned the relations of the two na
tions since 1903, practically as
sures Cuban independence. The
new treaty now needs only senate
ratification before it cqji become
effective.
SALES TAX FIGHT
Real Estate Board’s Final
Jibe Back Features Cam
paign’s Close
Dally Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, June 2—The contest be
tween the sales tax and anti-sales tax
forces that has been under way for
many weeks, in which the anti-sales
tax forces have sought to nominate
only those candidates to the 1935 Gen
eral Assembly who afe pledged to op
pose the sales tax, reached its climax
today with both sides claiming victory.
“The people of North Carolina are
convinced of the unsoundness and un
fairnes of the sales tax and we are
confident that a majority of the can
diates for the nexxt General Assem
bly that are nominated today will be
pledged to oppose the sales tax and
seek its repeal,” Willard L. Powell,
executive secretary of the North Caro
lina Merchants Association, said to
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TO BeSiTTEO
Highway Officials To De
cide Soon About Taking
Over Causeway
Daily Dispatch Tlnremu.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J C. BASKERVILL.
( Raleigh, June fi— Aitnough much
data has already been collected by the
State Highway and public Works
Commission with regard to the three
toll bridges it is planning to take
over, none of this data will be made
public unti lit has been submitted to
entire commission and to Governor J.
C. B. jEhringhaus when the commis
sion meets here Wednesday, June 6,
Chairman E. B. Jeffress said today.
The three committees named by the
commission several weeks ago to ne
gotiate for the purchase of the three
privately owned toll bridges and
causeways the Wright Memorial
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Union Leaders Predict Full
Compliance in North
Carolina With
Strike Call
THINK NON UNION
MEN TO JOIN, TOO
Johnson Sees Good Pro
spects for Preventing Capi
tal-Labor Struggle That
Threatens To Rend Steel
Industry by the Middle of
The Month
chiefs held strong hopes today that
threatened strikes in the cotton tex
tile and steel industries would be
averted.
Despite a last-minute hitch that
deadlocked employers and union lead
ers in the textile controversy, Hugh
iS, Johnson expressed the opinion that
points at issue could be ironed out.
The recovery chief also saw pro
spects—possibly by means of a spe
cial labor board—of preventing the
capital-labor struggle that threatens
to rend the steel industry by the mfcl
die of the month.
Atlhough the textile strike calling
out more than 300,000 workers has
been set for Monday, Johnson was
hopeful.
After he submitted a peace proposal
to both sides, there was a rumor last
night that an agreement had been!
reached, but this was denied by Geo.
A. Sloan, head of the cotton textile
institute. Details of the pact appa
rently proved a stumbling block, al
though it was reported the plan in
general had been accepted by Thomas
F. Mahon, president of the United
Textile workers. ]
The threat of industrial war in steel
simmered today as leaders of the Am
lagamated Asociation of Iron, Steel
and Tin Workers retired so their
homes to study the situation.
UNION LEADERS PREDICT
100 PERCENT STRIKE HERE
Charlotte, June 2 (AP) —Union of
ficials today stood firmly by a predic
tion that only the rescinding of the
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Hopes That
Strike Can
Be Averted
State Labor Commis-i
sioner Thinks Both'
Sides Bull - headed .
in Textiles
Daily Diapatch Btfreu,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J C. RASKEHVILL.
Raleigh, June 2. —Although hoping
that some way will yet be worked out
to prevent the general textile strike
from taking place Monday, Commis
sioner of Laibor A’ L. Fletcher ad
mits the situation is serious and that
the strike is likely to occur unless the
union leaders and government boards
get together on some kind of agree
ment before that time.
“It looks to me as if both the labor
unions and the textile relations
board are both rather bull-headed,
and that if each of them would be
willing to relent a little more fee
situation could be worked out with
out a strike”, Commissioner Fletcher
said. “I am hoping, however, that
some kind of a truce can be worked
out before Monday”.
Whatever degree of prosperity has
been regained here in North Carolina,
especially in the textile manufacturing
centers, will suffer a tremendous set
back and probably be wiped out alto
gether if this strike takes place, Com
missioner Fletcher believes.
“The better business condtiions that
have prevailed for a year or more in
the textile industry, especially the cot
ton tetile industry, have been among
the leading factorxs in the degree of
economic recovery we have had hers
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