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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.
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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
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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. <For Hill and Owen R.
Robertson, of Hillsboro, were nomi
nated to represent the sixteenth sen
atorial district, composed of Durham,
Alamance, Caswell and Orange coun
ties.
According to tradition and an oral
agreement, one of the two senators
is supposed to alternate between Dur
ham and Orange counties, so that
since Durham had a senator two years
ago, no candidate from Durham was
supposed to have offered for nomi
nation this time.
But Senator Hill was not at all
pleased with the manner in which
the Senate and the entire 1933 legis
lature refused to redistrict the State
into new senatorial districts. He was
also none too pleased with some other
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BROTHERS HELDIN
COLUMBUS SLAYING
Whiteville, N. C., May 6 (AP) —Cecil
and Garland Stevens, brothers, were
held today for grand jury action fol
lowing the death of Warren Inman,
44, unemployed father and several
children, who was fatally injured in a
fight Sunday night.
Officers said Cecil Stevens was al
leged to have struck the fatal blow
with a smoothing iron and that his
brother was held as an accessory.
Inman lives at Boardman.
vast area, thousands of acres of
farm land have been without
water so long that the crops have
been totally destroyed. This sec
John D. M. Hamilton, of
Kansas, Also Nominated,
But Former Ambassa
dor Is Favorite
ELECTION TO OCCUR
LATER IN THE DAY
-Message Is Sent To Former
President Hoover Thanking
Him for His Services To
The Party and Wishing
Him a “Restful Retire
ment” in Private Life
Chicago, June 6. (AP) —The name of
Henry P. Fletcher, of Pennsylvania,
and John D. M. Hamilton, of Kansas,
were placed in nomination today for
chairman of the Republican party’s
national committee, with Fletcher’s
election apparently assured.
The selection of Henry P. Fletcher,
of Pennsylvania, as chairman of the
Republican party was today
as harmony ruled at the meeting after
two days of controversy.
Fletcher’s chief opponent, Walter S.
Hallahan, announced his withdraw
and his support of the Pennsylvanian.
Faction differences betfeeu support
ers of former President Herbert Hoo
ver and those demanding new party
leadership also seemed to have been
settled as the committee paused to
send a telegram to the former presi
dent," wishing him a restful retirement.
The telegram said:
‘‘The Republican National Commit
tee, in meeting assembled, sends you
most Cordial greetings and reiterates
its appreciation of your devotion to
our country’s best interests and your
substantial contribution to the up
building and advancement of Ameri
can ideals of government. We express
the earnest hope that you may be
spared for many years to enjoy the
well-earned gratitude of your country
men”. „ - 1 wj#'
The committee, setting out the
party’s platform for the fall elections,
announced a ‘‘liberal and progressive
attitude, but declared war on govern
ment domination”.
The party leaders, approving a four
paged ocument drafted by a ‘policy
committee’, recognized that the coun
try has been "backward in social legis
lation,” and said such questions “de
mand attention by the government”.
They declared, however, that Amer
ican institutions are in greater danger
than at any time since the foundation
of the republic” of being engulfed by
the authority of “an all-powerful cen
tral government’’.
COLUMBIA’S BERTH
HANDED ASHEVILLE
Asheville, June 6. (AP)—The Colum
biaf ranchise in the Piedmont League
was officially transferred to Asheville
j today by President Dan W. Hill, fol
lowing a poll of league directors, none
I of whom voiced opposition.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
tion of land near Pierre, S. D.,
once a great field of wheat, now
is overgrown with thistles, Uu»
only Diant able to survive.
Tar Heel Youths
Ride With Death
tually at their fingertips, two boys
hitch-hiking on ther ear of a
Pennsylbania railroad elect/Io loco
motive were arrested when the
train reached Philadelphia last
night.
The boys said they were broth
ers, John and James Deßerry, 17
and 14 respectibely, of Whiteville
N. C.
Railroad detectives said many
projections near where they sat on
the locomotive were heavily charg
ed with electricity, and had they
touched them death would have
been instantaneous.
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TOR BfiIDGECOST
*
Highway Commission Talks
Plans for Buying Three
on the Coast
Dolly Dispatch Bureau.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY J C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, June 6—“ What price toll
bridges?” is being considered by the
State Highway and public Workers
Commission in session here today. The
thre committees, composed of mem
bers of the commission .appointed
several weeks ago by Chairman E. B.
Jeffress to negotiate with the owners
of the three privately owned toll
bridges or toll causeways in the State
are expected to report their findings
today. The two bridges and one
causeway are the Wright Memorial
Bridge, three miles long, across Cur
rituck sound from Point Harbor to
“the banks" in Currituck county, con
necting the mainland with the road
that leads down to Kill Devil Hill,
Kitty Haw’k and Manteo; the bridge
acros Bogue (Sound, from Morehead
City to Atlantic Beach and the cause
way leading across Wrightsville
Sound to Wrightsvill* Beach.
The resolution adopted several
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Threat Os Steel Strike
June 16 Is Heard Again
(By the Associated Press)
The strike situation:
Field workers, saying Hugh S. John
son’s plan for a separate labor board
for the industry is not acceptable,
renewed threats of a general strike
June 16.
John Knudsen, 51, is second man to
die from injuries suffered in riots
May 15 in strikes of Los Angeles long
shoremen. 1
Two persons injured in clash at Nor
wood, Ohio, between working and
ia Pages
1U Today
TWO SECTIONS.
FIVE CENTS COPY
BO RESTRICT
Growers Not Signing Volun
tary Reduction Agree
ments Would Be Given
Crop Quotas
MAJORITY VOTE IS
ALL THAT’S NEEDED
Penalty Tax for Growers
Producing Tobacco In Ex
cess of Their Allotments Is
Provided in Measure, In
troduced and Sponsored by
Judge Kerr
Washington, June 6. (AP)—Side
tracking plans for immediate consid
eration of the Lozier farm industrial
census bill, the House today took up
the Kerr tobacco production control
measure with a view to action before
nightfall.
The tobacco bill, requiring
either to sign reduction agreements or
receive arbitrary quotas set up by the
secretary of agriculture, was taken up
under a rule with only a majority vote
necessary for passage.
Similar to the Bankhead cotton con
trol law, the bill would provide a
penalty tax for growers producing to
bacco in excess of their quotas.
The measure was introduced by
Representative Kerr, Democrat, North
Carolina.
BELGIAN CABINET
RESIGNS IN BODY
Brussels, Belgium, June 6 (AP)—
The Belgian government headed by
Count Charles de Broqueville resign
ed today.
Count de Broqueville and his min
isters had been in office since Decem
ber 17, 1932.
Momentous
Happenings
At Capital
Administration
Moves Swiftly At
tacking Myriad
Problems of Hour
Washington, June 6. (AP) The
capitol fairly vibrated, with activity
of historical significance today, with
Federal control of stock exchanges be
coming law, wide tariff adjustment
authority for the President on the
verge of law, silver arguments rever
brating in the Senate and preparations
for drought disaster relief on an un
precedented scale.
On top of all that, there was over
whelming Senate committee rejection;
of the House bill to let veterans cash,
in now on their war bonus.
It became plain, too, that President
for coonstruction of the giant St.
Roosebelt still is seeking agreement
Lawrence seaway. Both the Canadian
government and Seenate opponents of
the rejected treaty will be consulted.
Noon was his time for signing the
stock market bill that also modKß|s
the securities act. At that hour to*
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striking employees of Jtemington*
Rand, Inc.
CLake vessels are hampered in Chi
cago river and harbor by strikes of
700 tugmen and firemen for rights of
collective bargaining.
Several persons are injured in Bes
semer, Ala.
Officials of International Longshorsf
men’s Asociation reject proposal for!
I settlement of Pacific coast strike.
Minor disturbances break out in
strikes of 900 packing plant worker*
'at Oklahoma City„ i i