Tw'o More Days Os Dispatch' Cooking School At Stevenson Tlieatre -HENDERSON GATEWAY to CENTRAL CAROLINA twenty-first year KERR TOBACCO BILL TO PASS IN HOUSE I ATF IN nAY Winston-Sa lent Two EUROPE IS SOLIDLY LINED UP AGAINST AMERICA ON DEBTS Cheers Ring Out Every where on the Continent for Britain’s Deci. sion To Default UP TO WASHINGTON, IS THE CONSENSUS General View Is Complicat-! ed Issue Is Brought To Head and Hand of United States Is Forced; France Happy To Find Britain As 1 Bedfellow on Debts (By The Associated Press) The capitals of Europe were lined up solidly against America on the war debts question for the first time to day. It's up to Washington" was the consensus as ch ers rang out almost everywhere except in the United :tate-= for Great Britain’s decision to default, and the sentiment was general ■hat the complicated issue had been drought to a head and that Amarica’s :and was forced. A conference for a full ani final settlement of the issue was England’s goal. France, happy to find Britain a bed fellow in default and a logical leader in moves for settlement, turned to its tasking of borrowing nearly $200,000.- 000 to pay for a military preparedness program. Italy, it was indicated, would follow ir. London s footsteps. The developments encouraged Ger many to hope that its foreign creditors would now be more lenient. Newspaper comment generally said world recovery and international amity would be greatly forwarded if ar. er.d to the question should be reached. The House of Commons and the English public gave enthusiastic en dorsement of the government’s stf>E. France Now Moving For Arms Pact Barthou’s Proposal At Geneva Gives Primacy to French Safety, However Geneva June 6. (AP) —Conbinced a t no other delegation would make a concrerp move to sabe the stalled dis armament conference, Louis Barthou, French foreign minister, presented a ■e*olu*ion today in a last-minutee ef ‘ort to effect a compromise. It was understood,, however, that jkrthou's plan would give primacy to Fiance' thesis of security. Uhe rea ction refers to methods of getting - rmany to return to the conference, w ' > " as setting the minimum work the conference. ( Gne delegate dcsecribcd the resolu !on as a “small oliveb ranch". Others the French move would ln cur considerable opposition. Nations of the world, many of them came to a showdown today on Whether they would disarm. A coni- I'nmise plan calculated to "save the acfi of the disarmament conference . as the only apparent alternative to c °mplete collapse of the negotia tions. Peering behind thee personal squab as found on* hope in all- convention that the world’s P e aoe was at stake. As sug S Arthur Henderson, president 1 tne conference, millions of youths’ * s might be the price of failure, /or this reason, it was felt, renewed mi Sht find a path across the Stacies. VIATHtR" for NORTH CAROLINA Probably showers tonight and inursday; somewha cooler in n " r, b and east portion Thursday. ]HwtJirrsnn Whale Washed In Cape Fear River Wilmington, June 6 (AP)—A 50- foot sperm whale washed ashore on a shoal in the Cape Fear river, about 16 miles south of Wilming ton, this morning. It is now high and dry on Church’s Shoal, and fishermen who found it are making arrangements to move it to a point of vantage where it may be seen. The whale is estimated to weigh approximately 75 tons. BROOKS AND FOUST REIMS CAME AS WASEXPECTED Real Reason Was Not Their Age or Incapacity for Service, as Was Contended BOTH WERE OUT OF SYMPATHY ON PLAN Never Favored Greater Uni versity Merger, Fearing Their Institutions Would Lose Their Identity In Large Measure; Specula tion on Successors Daily Dispatch Barca* In the S*. Walter Hotel. BY J. c BASKEItVILL. Raleigh, June 6. —Action of the board of trustees of the University of North Carolina in retiring Dr. E. C. Brooks, vice president of State Col lege and Dr. J. I. Foust, vice presi dent of the Women’s College, Greens boro, at salaries of $4,000 a year with the title of ‘‘vice president emeritus’* did not come as much of a surprise when the board met here yesterday. In fact, it has been known that this action was considered last year, but that it was postponed because the time did not seem to be quite right then. The only element of surprise in the meeting here yesterday was (Continued on Page Four.) DARE COUNTY MAN DROWNS IN SOUND Mantec, June 6. (AP) Daniel Franklin Sawyer, of Buffalo City, Daree county, was drowned yesterday near his home when the 'boat in which was sailed with three eother men turn ed over. The others saved themselves, but Sawyer was unable to swin. Saw yer was unmarried. U. S. Wins $2,000,000 In Money In English Derby Epsom Downs, England, June 6 (Ap) Windsor Lad, an outsider in the betting, today won the 156th run ning of the English derby. Easton, second choice in the wager ing, was second, and Colombo, the fav orite, third. Windsor Lad quoted at 100 to 1, car ried the silks of the Maharajah of Rajpipla, while Easton rperesented Lord Woolavington. Colombo, unbeat en in nine previous races, carried the silk of Lord Glanley. Colombo, which beat Easton by a length in the 2,000 guineas, went to the post the choice at six to four of the crow dos 250,000, including the king and queen. Easton was sold aft er the 2,000 guineas by Ralph Strass ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER leased WIRE SERVICE OF the associated press. HENDERSON. N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 6, 1934 Women Perish As Fire Damages Home TRAPPED IN SLEEP IWO LOSE LIVES IN Residence of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Carter Damaged in Early Hours of the Morning DEAD WOMEN SLEPT ON SECOND FLOOR Draft Created as Window Is Broken by Man and Wo man in Flight from Death Turns Upper Story Into In ferno And Makes Wo men’s Escape Impossible Trapped in Sleep, Two Lose Lives In Midnight Flames Winston-Salem, June 6 (AP) —Trap- ped in their room as they slept, and overcome by smoke, two women per ished this morning when fire badly damaged the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Carter. The dead are: Misses Ethel Massen gill. 23; formerly of Raleigh; and Miss Audrey IDllen Angel, 28, native of North Sydney, Nova Scotia, and resi dent of this city the past seven years. Mr. and Mrs. Carter were sleeping on the first floor of the residence and were the first ones out of the! structure. Two other occupants of the house, H. G. Moore and Miss Mary Carter Nooe, escaped also. The fire was discovered about 12:45 a. m. Mr. Moore ,who was peeping on the second floor, was awakened when the curtain to the window of his room caught fire, and gave the alarm. He broke the glass in a window and with Miss Nooe /went out on a roof and fence to the ground. As the glass was broken a draft was created and the flames quickly spread through the upper floor, mak ing it impossible to rescue the two women. Cooley To Be Elected On July 7 Raleigh, June 6 (AP)—Gover nor Ehringhaus today called a spe cial election for Saturday, July 7, in the fourth congressional dis trict to fUI the vacancy caused by the death of Representative Ed ward W. Pou on April 1. Harold D. Cooley, of Nashville Democratic nominee for the regu lar term In the November election will be the Democratic candidate in this district, which sent Mr. Pou to Congress In seventeen suc cesive Democratic victories. Hobart Brantley, of Spring Hope, the Republican nominee in the November election, will op pose Mr. Cooley. burger, of Philadelphia, to Lord Wool avington, for $75,000. $2,000,000 IN PRIZES COME TO THE UNITED STATES Dublin, Irish Free State, June 6 (AP) Nearly $2,000,000 goes to the United States from the Irish hospital sweepstakes funds as the result of the running of the derby at Epsom Downs today. The amount of prize money to be distributed to American ticketholders totals $1,901,859 distribute das $957,600 to holders of tickets on Windsor Lad, the winner, Easton second and Colom bo third, and $944,259 to holders on ! horses which did not place the win -1 ners of residual and consolation prizes. fUatUt Bisnatrb ; PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. * ONLY THISTLES SURVIVE AS CROPS DIE IN DROUTH l Although scattered rains in sec tions of the middle west have given promise cf relieving the severe drouth that has gripped the Henry P. Fletcher Now Seems Sure Os Post Os Chairmanship Os G. O. P. Federal Loan Bid Eight Times Over Washington, June 6 (AP)—The Treasury announced today sub scriptions approximating seven bil lion dollars had been received on its June 15 offering of $800,000,000 in new securities. j J °SrySei Upset the Old Apple Cart In Grabbing Senatorship Out of Tufn Bally Dispatch Bureau. In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J C. BASKEItVILL. Raleigh, June 6—Political circles here are still chuckling at the man ner in which John Sprunt Hill, of Durham, kicked over the old political apple cart, threw tradition to the wind by breaking the old sensational dis trict agreement as to candidates, ran for and won the nomination to the State Senate in spite of the efforts of several able political strategists in defeat him.