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HENDERSON gateway TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST year STttL UNION INSURGENTS PREPARE TO FIGHT Bandits Shoot Up Bank At Magnolia; Two Men Wounded Robbers Meet Hail of Load From Hastily Assemb led Citizens; Two Be. lieved Wounded bank official and CITIZEN ARE SHOT Policeman on Guard at Bank Blazes Away at Bandits, Who Had Concealed Them selves on Top of Bank Vault During Night; Jump Down and Start Firing Magnolia. June 9 CAP) —Two band its shot up the Bank of Magnolia at opening time today, leaving two men wounded as they blazed their way to waiting cars with an undetermined amount of loot. The bandits mat a hail of lead from hastily assembled residents as they sought to join waiting confederates ar.d two of them were believed wound ed Thev fled, however, toward Wil mington. using a dove-colored sedan bearing Virginia license 90786, and a giack red-trimmed (Plymouth) coupe stolen at the time of the robbery from John Oroom, Magnolia business man. The wounded men were J t N. Horne assistant cashier of the bank, who received a scalp wound, and T. M. Soger*, local business man .who re lived a serious leg wound. L E Pope, policeman, who was on fiard at the bank following two sim ilar hold-ups in less than 18 months, said he turned a shotgun on the band it* and saw one of them fall and then get up Some one of the score of cit izens who joined the attack on the bandits was believed to have inflict ed a woutid on another. Two of the bandits had concealed themselves on top of the bank vault during the night. Pope said he and Home were discussing an investiga tion of the mysterious Virginia sedan *hen the bandits leaped down, firing T hat appeared to be machine guns. Pope said he ducked out the front door and started firing back into the 'ink and his shots quickly aroused the town. Lea Denies Crookedness With Bonds Famous Prisoner At Raleigh Issues I-ong Statement on 1 ennessee Scandals Paieigh, June 9. (AP) —f-.uke ea, •'■"mer United States senator, now serving a prison sentence here for a ok law violatioLn, today asserted " a 1.200-word statement that what * re Purported to b* forged bonds of Anderson county, Tennessee, put up ** security for a loan he secured In ■ *shvin e have not been in his pos ,Sess‘°n at all since they were attested bc valid bonds by Attorney Charles Hugiey, 0 f Jackson, Tenn. s statement set forth that the r nds he saw which were described juid attested to as genuine and valid y county officials of Henderson Cc ' J nty were on yellow paper, ana Points out that now it is sqtf »*nuine bonds were on green paper. ee said he exercised the utmost i" faith in the purchase of bonds Purported to be forgeries, and added: 1 guilty of no wrong doing”. ABOUT 8200.000 IS INVOLVED IN ALLEGED BOND SCANDAL Nashville, Tenn., June 9. (AP)—A Viy l S< ' andal Involving approximately wW.OOfi of assertedly bogus county se •;rtiAS stirred the Tennessee State a Pi f ol today, and at the same time investigation was under way into Q - e validity Os $40,000 of collateral by T,uke against a loan. t 'county securities were repra r,pfl as isnu#a of Dyer and Hender in counties. Attorney General David * ' nay, of Jackson, said he had been • uiinpd the securities were issued (Continued on Page Two.) HwtSfTSntt Hath; Hismtfrh —— ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIlfflNIA. * Serious Blast In Ford Motor Plant Norfolk, Va., June 9 (AP)—Two men were burned, one probably fatally, and another was hurt in an explosion of undetermined origin at the Ford Motor Company plant here shortly before noon today. DOWELLCLAIMING MAJORITY AGAINST STATE SALES TAX Merchants’ Secretary Says He Has Margin in Senate and House of 1935 Assembly ADMINISTRATION IS NOT OF THAT MIND Points to Wide Sales Tax Majority in Seats Already Assured in Senate; Second Primaries Necessary In Number of Counties To Pick Nominees Dnlly Dlwpntoh Boren* In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. r U ASKER V ILL. Raleigh, June 9 —A majority against the sales tax in both 'the Senate and House of the 1935 General Assembly was claimed here today by Willard L. Dowell, secretary of the North Caro lina Merchants Association, on the basis of incomplete and unofficial re turns from the various counties. He declined to give the number of mem bers of either hause which he thought would be opposed to the sales tax and in favor of its repeal. ' “I want to wait until the official re turns are in and until we know posi tively who have been nominated be fore I give out any figures,” Dowfell said. Administration leaders here, how ever, smiled broadly at Dowell’s claims and maintained that in the 1935 Senate, among those already nom inated and sure of election, 28 are for the retention of the sales tax, five be lieved to be favorable to it and only 11 definitely opposed to it, and in favor of its repeal. Since nothing like a complete list of those nominated fCAntlnnAri on Pasta Twal Damage Will Be Terrific In Salvador Number Killed I n Hurricane Will Be Large; Rain 25 Inches in 24 Hours San Salvador, El Salvador, June 9. (AP) —(By Pan American Airways Wireless) —Stragglers sloshed through the jungle on foot and by mule-back to the copitol to Ly to report terrific damage in six provinces from Thms day’s rainstorms —a rain which is still continuing, although the wind! has fallen away. Just how great the loss of life is cannot yet be ascertained, although there is every indication that the num ber killed will be large. The govern ment Observatory found 25 inches of rain fell in the 24 hours of June 7. Practically every road in the coun try has been washed out and the In ternational railroad of Central Amer ica will be unable to re-establish its lines for at least two months. The national railroad line has been replaced from Cepio del Mino to Ag juctle, but all the rest of the right of-way is washed out. LB *!I ED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HENDERSON, N. C. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 9, 1934 ’ Finals at Carolina Get Under Way 1 «"| 58888381.-_ 5 S| /Sm t, Asst: o is., it-\ —rHli wTlil Qo\f. d.C, B. i !■■■■*» Mswracoflfc tt&BßK&iisßZa WOOLLS** H/£V977(££f /W, 2>£V 44f 9A/4rf 9 0, H//H&TOM 9 44G y*Vo<?0 Here is a view of the setting and some of the principal figures in the University of North Carolina’s 139th commencement, which opens Sunday, June 10, and continues through grad uation exercises Tuesday evening. The setting shows a portion of the crowd of more than 5,000 that attend ed last year’s commencement and the speakers’ platform in Kenan Stadium, where the graduation exercises will be held again this year at 7 o’cloch Tuesday evening. | ndividuals pictured are Harry L. Hopkins, who will be the principal Stage Set For Starting IL N. C. Commencement Noted Alabama Divine To Preach Sermon; Relief Administrator Harry Hop kins To Deliver Address Tuesday; Daniels and Graham Are Also To Speak Chapel Hill, June 9. —The stage was set today for the opening events Sun day of the University of North Caro lina’s 139th commencement program which is expected to bring back to the Hill an unusually large number of alumni and other friends of the Uni versity. The exercises will get under way to morrow morning at 11 o’clock when Dr. Henry M. Edmonds, pastor af_£fca Independent Presbyterian cnurch of jAla., will jpreach the baccalaureate sermon in Memorial Hall. The next event will be a lawn con cert by the University baaa under the Davie Poplar at 4 o’clock, to Jte fol lowed H»y a concert of the North Caro lina Symphony in Memorial Hall at 5 o’clock and a concert on the More head-Patterson Memorial Chimes at 5 o’clock. Reunion suppers for classes will be held at the Carolina Inn at 7 o’clock. The final event of Sunday’s program will be a presentatlox «»f Shubert’s “Mass, E Flat” in the Hill. Hall of Music at 8:30 Sunday evening. Monday will be alumni day when hundreds of old grads will return to the campus. Features of the day’s program will include class reunions in o’clock, at which Ambassador Jose ixerrard Hall from 10:30 until 1 phus Daniels and President Frank P. Graham will speak; President' Gra ham’s reeption to seniors and their parents from 5:30 to 6:30; the Caro lina Playmakers at 8 o’lock and the alumni reception and ball at 9:30 o’clock. Tuesday will be commencement day proper, when class day and gradua tion exercises will be held. The day’s events will culminate in twolight ■ . graduation exercises in Kenan Stadium at 7 o’clock when Harry 1,. Hopkins. Federal elief Ai>- ministrator, will deliver the baccai speaker at the graduating exercises Tuesday evening; President Frank P. Graham, who will preside at Tues day’s program, and who will be one of the principal speakers at the alum ni luncheon at 1 o’clock Monday; Gov ernor J. C. B. Ehringhaus, who will present the diplomas to some 400 graduates; Ambassador Josephus Daniels, wno will be one of the princi pal speakers at the alumni luncheon; Dr. Henry M. Edmonds, of Birming ham, Ala., who will deliver the bac calaureate sermon Sunday morning at 11 o'clock; Comptroller Chailes P. Woollen, who is always an imp >r ant aurate address and Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus will present diplomas to some 400 graduates. President Frank P. Graham will preside and deliver a brief farewell address to the grad- ISBBge Illiterate Mill Worker Ad mits Burnings “Just for the Excitement” Raleigh, June 9 (AP) —At a brief preliminary hearing this morning, Charlie Lassiter, 24-year-old illiterate cotton mill worker, was ordered bound over to face superior court on charges of incendiarism by Magistrate J. B. Danielley. Lassiter was he dlunder $2,500 bond in connection with a series of fires in the Falls of Neuse community, near here. Captain W. A. Scott, deputy fState insurance commissioner, said the yruth had confessed burning five buildings “just for the excitement.” Scott said he planned to ascertain if Lassiter were connected with a series of unexplained fires in Wake Forest, but Lassiter steadfastly claimed he had nothing to do with’ the Wake For est blazes. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Showers Sunday and in west and central portions tonight; Some what warmer in west and central portions tonight and Sunday. figure in arranging the program for University commencement commence ments; Virgil Weathers, president of the graduating class and president elect of the student *body; Dr. Wm. M. Day, who is serving as faculty marshal for this year; James G. HaneS, of Winsson Ssllem, who is chief alumni marshal; Judge Francis D. Winston, who will preside over the alumni class reunion program in Gar rard Hall at 10:30 o’clock. Monday morning; and Dr. Hubert B. Hay wooti, president of the General Alumni Asso ciation, who will preside over the alumni luncheon Monday. ASK ME PAY 10 STATE’S EMPLOYES Girl Fainting from Hunger While on Job Arouses State Officials Dally Dispatch Bares* In the St* Walter Hotel. BY J. r BASKERVILL. Ralgeih, June 9. —When girl em ployes of the State getting only S3O a month start fainting from hunger while at work, it’s time to do some thing -About it, according to State Treasurer Charles M. Johnson. He believes that these State employes, working on starvation wages much lower than the wages paid school school teachers, deserve just as much sympathy and consideration as do the school teachers. y The question of low salaries paid by the State has come sharply to the fore here this week as the result of the fainting of one of the young women in the stenographic division of the de partment of revenue a few days ago and the statement by the doctor who was called that she was suffering from lack of proper nourishment —in other words, starving. The name of both the young woman and the doctor are known to this correspondent, who has carefully checked the facts in the case. Commissioner of Revenue A. J. Max well said today that “readjustments” in the salaries of these low paid em ployes are (being contemplated soon. It is understood that tins particular employe was one who was given a job under the old Civil Works Adminis tration at S3O a month and that she asked to be kept on at that figure rather than lose her job entirely *?nd not have any work. “It is ad isgrace for the tSate or North Carolina not to pay its employes a living wage and to have girls faint ing while at work from lack of food,” Mr. Johnson said. “If a school teacher had fainted from hunger while teach ing in a class room, it would have been played up by every newspaper in the State. But there are some 23,000 school teachers and only 350 State em (Continued on Page Two.) PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY* Workmen’s Group Bitterly Rejects Johnson Proposal Bolivia May Hit Back at the U. S. La Paz( Bolivia, June 19 (AP) — Bolivian newspapers today propos ed an embargo on United States goods in retaliation against the United States embargo on further shipments of war materials to Bo livia and Paraguay, at war in the Chaco Boreal. > ROOSEVELT SEEKT 525 MILLIONS FOR President Sends Request To Congress Before Sailing Down Potomac for Week-End HE WANTS RIGHT TO SPEND AS HE LIKES Latest Report of Darrow Re view Board on NRA Goes to White House and Will Be Published Later; Still Seeking Way To Avoid Big Steel Strike Washington, June 9. (AP) —The gov ernment strove today to ease a costly disaster of nature, the drought, and to obviate a potentially costly man made disorder—a steel strike. Before cruising down the Potomac to rest from hard week. President oosevelt Rrequested a Congressional appropriation of $525,000,000 ‘‘to tect people in the stricken region from suffering, to move feed to livestock and livestock to feed, and acquire and process surplus cattle to provide meat for relief distribution. He wanted the spending of the money which is certain to be made available left to administration discre tion . > Hugh S. Johnson and steel union leaders, meanwhile, sat down in an other endeavor for agreement that will prevent a strike late next week. The name calling spirit which both sides evidenced last night was absent, but there were no definte assurances of progress. The administration program made some headway at the Capitol. ‘ The Senate approved the compromise on the bill for Federal supervision of radio, cable, telephone and telegraph services. / Japs Talk Failure For Navy Meet See No Progress At All In Forthcoming London Naval Con ference London, June 9. (AP) —Informed Japanese quarters in London predicted today the flat failure of preliminary naval conversations Vo oe opened here shortly by world powers. The same source expressed fear, also, that the 1935 naval conference would be a failure. ‘’Nothing much can be accomplished at the preliminary discussions,” the authority said, ‘‘and the world can be sure the conference of 1935 will be doomed unless the powers are willing to consider Japan’s defensive needs. Japan is expected to seek naval equality with Great Britain and the United tSates next year, rejecting the 5-5-3 ratio. On the other hand, it is understood here, Great Britain or the United tSates, or (both, probably will resist Tokyo’s claims. 6 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Swear They Will See Roose velt, Present Own Plan and Hurry Back Home To Fight BOARD IS ACCEPTED BY STEEL MASTERS Agreement Reached Be tween Them and NRA Ad ministrator, But Union Leaders, Using Profanity, Blaze Away at Johnsonj In Their Determined Refusal Washington, June 9. (AP)—Amid a roar of bitterness, steel union insurg ents resolved today against a peace plan approved by Hugh S. Johnson and the employers. They swore to see President Roosevelt today, present him a plan of their own and then hurry home “prepared to light”. The threat of a steel strike, which many officials fear would hog-tie the recovery drive, seemed still ominous. About the plan for a peace board to si-tile capital-labor figats-a plan which Johnson said he “practically prescribed” and which the steel mas ters accepted last night—the interna tional president of the steel union, Michael F. Tighe, remained firmly silent, y Johnson and the insurgents whaled away at each other—using such phrases as “hell” ana •‘bluff” and “damnable”. We are done with you and your Iron steel institute board”, a score of the leaders said in a statement. Recently a group of leaders of local unions—declared by President Tighe to be without authority to speak for the international—suggested Johnson could learn something by walking up to an open hearth furnace and get ing his summer pants scorched. Johnson, in a radio speech last night, answered what he called “these ataa teur leaders”, .FORMER PATROLMAN ACCUSED OF THEFT Dally Dlapntvh Unreal, In the Sir Wnlter Hotel. BT J C. BASKERVILL. Raleigh, June 9. —J. F. Shaw, for merly a corporal in the State High way Patrol, but who resigned by re quest several weeks ago when charg ed with the embezzlement of $756.83 of State money by Commissioner of Rev enue A. J. Maxwell and Director L. S. Harris of the motor vehicle bureau, is now out under SI,OOO bond. He will come up for preliminary hearing on Wednesday, June 13 In city court in Gastonia, where he had been in charge of the highway patrol in that dis trict. Reports here today were that while the amount charged against him in the first complaint was $756.83 that this amount had not increased to more than SBOO. Shaw’s home Is in Samp son county. Harmony Is In Evidence At Geneva Delegates Look To Mussolini -Hitler Meeting To Find Way to Accord Geneva, June 9 (AP) —Harmony sue ceeded dissension in Geneva today as cheered supporters of disarmament looked to the expected meeting be tween Europe’s most powerful dictat ors, Mussolini of Italy and Hitler of Germany, After a general exchange of com pliments, several leading figures to the arms cdnference left. Work on actual disarmament is not antimipated until Germany accepts or rejects the latch string held out for her re-entry into the conference. Italian delegates made known that Mussolini would confer personally with Hitler. Official confirmation waa lacking from Rome. j
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