HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
central
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
ROOSEVELT
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Teacher Allotments For State Schools Coming Year Are Announced
HENDERSON GIVEN
93 TEACHERS AND
VANCECOUNTY MO
58 White, 35 Negro Teach
ers For City and 58
White, 42 Colored
In County
TOTALS FOR STATE
16,348 FOR WHITES
Forty Less Than Last Year,
While Colored Is 6,512
Compared With 6,588 Last
Year; Additional Allot
ments To Be Announced
Later On
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Raleigh . June( 27. (/p) —The State
School Commission today announced
piol'minary allotments of 10.348 white
public school teaechei 5 for next win
ter. compared with a first allotment
last year of 16,388.
Theallotment of Negro teachers for
r.ext winter aggregates 6.512 compared
Tvith 6.51.8 last year.
Leßoy Martin, secretary, issued a
statement explaining that 16,538 white
teachers were finally allotted last year,
nearly 200 after the schools opened,
and that “it is expected” more will
be allotted this year later. About 40
teachers have been withheld from al
lotments pending further study of
transportation problems and possible
consolidation of small high school. 9
Vance county was allotted 58 white
teachers and 42 colored, making a
total of 100. The city schools of Hen
derson were allotted fifty-eight white
teachers and thirty-five Negro teach
ers. baking a total of ninety-three.
HELD FOR HARBORING
OF JOHN DILLINGER
Minneapolis, Minn., June 27 (AP)
Pat Reilly, former St. Paul baseball
club mascot, sought for weeks on
charges of harboring John Dillinger,
desperado and fugitive gunman, was
surprised in bed today and arrested
by Department o fJustice agents.
Noted Authority
On Bridge Passes
At Philadelphia
Pnailedlphia, June 27. (iff*)—Milton
C Work, instructor and advisor to
millions in the international realm of
auction and contract bridge, died early
today in a Philadelphia hospital. He
was 69.
The Philadelphia card expert who
gave up a promising law career to find
a fortune in popular interpretation of
the laws of bridge, fell victim to in
testinal disorders that harried him for
months.
His first book, Issued in 1893, was
‘ Whist of Today”. With the advant
of bridge, he became a fan of the new
favorite and soop learned he could
win consistently by following certain
laws he found Inherent in the game.
Boy Only
18 Admits
Abduction
Columbia. S. C., June 27. (IP)— Paul
Griffin, 18-year-old white youth, was
said by police today to have confessed
to the single-handed abduction of two
Prominent up-state men and a series of
burglaries here.
Chief of Police W. H. Rawlinson
•'aid the young man admitted early
today that he had forced A. B. Bryan,
Clemson College extension editor, and
J. E. Groce, Lyman mill personnel di
rector, to drive their car s into the
country at pistol points recently and
robbed them.
Griffin waived a preliminary hearing
today on two charges of burglary and
cne of highway robbery with firearms,
lodged against him locally, and was
bound over to the Richland court of
general sessions under $3,000 bond. He
temained in jail in lieu of bail.
Chief Rawlinson said any action by
Spartanburg of Greenville authorial®*
on the abduction cdtfltessions, which
be and Detective R. F. Broom obtain
ed, would have to be deferred until the
disposition of the Columbia charges.
Should the youth be convicted here,
Powlinson said, he could be turne
« vmi for trial up-state after nerving h s
time here.
Henderson D
"Don’t Take My Job Away,” Plea
finmaf kwt a ls?i> n A St l be , P ro Posed amendment to the publishers’ code
wa, nf a i» e i N tk A W S IC J? would forbid employment of newsboys under
I* th » T C i ode heann S in Washington by Graydon Tolson, 11,
T f honikf o hf Id 'i 1 !u Ve a news P a P er route. I make $7 or $8 a month.
Lno blc y cle . w i th m y earnings and opened a savings account. I
hope to save enough to pay my way through university.” Graydon, one
of thousands of young business men imperiled by the oropial, IS
shown on his route. (Central Press)
Waverly Mills Pickets
In Brush With Rail Men
Shots Are Fired and Sticks Thrown in Disorders in Con
nection With Laurinburg Textile Strike; Car of Sea
board .Agents Halted by the Pickets
Laurinburg, June 27. (IP) —Seaboard
Air Line railway special agents of
Hamlet and a former Richmond coun
ty sheriff reported a brief brush with
Waverly Mills pickets in which shots
were fired and sticks thrown here
early today.
The agents—C. R. Long and E. R.
Hewitt —and J. S. Braswell, the former
sheriff, said they were en route
through the strike section to “check a
freight train” when pickets attempted
to stop theeir automobile and theft J«iil
down a barrage of sticks. The agents
said they stopped, explained their busi
ness, ‘‘cussed out” the pickets and
drove on.
GET-TOGETHER FOF
TRUCKS IS DENIED
General Motors Man Dis
putes Rumor About Him
self, (‘ford, (Chrysler
Washington, June 27 (AP)—Norman
H. Harg, General Motors official,
termed “absolutely false” today charg
es made to a House committee that
lie suggested a “get together” of Gen
eral Motors, Ford and Chrysler bid
ders for a “three-way split” of army
motor contracts.
The charges were made yesterday
before a House Military Affairs sub
committee by R. Paul Sabine, local
board agent, who added he had turn
ed thumbs down on the alleged “pro
position.”
Harg, managing director of Fleet
Sales for General Motors and now in
Detroit, issued his denial through
Joseph Woodside, Washington man
ager of Fleet Sales for General Motors
and former assistant to Comptroller
General McCarl.
Woodside sai dhe would appear be
fore the committee tomorrow to pre
allegations—“made twice under oath
sent a formal statement from Harg
to the committee.” The committee
and to voice his own denial of Sabine’s
leld no hearing today.
WOOLEN STRIKE!ON
MONDAY IS LIKELY
Washington, June 27 (AP) —
Doubt that a strike of 75,000 work
ers In the woolen manufacturing
industry, already called for Mon
day, could be averted,
ed today by Joseph SylvTaTtlnion
organizer, after a conference with
NBA officials.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBT.TSHF.TI
rn«™ SED WIRE SERVICE OP
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
HENDERSON, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 27, 1934
TO VETO FARM MORATORIUM
When they returned, the trio said,
“six or eight” shots were fired as the
drove along, but the three man said
believed the firing merely was an act
of intimidation rather than an effort
to wound any one.
NEGOTIATIONS HALTED AS
MILLS DECLINE OVEKTUKIi
Lauringburg, June 27. (#*) —Negotia-
tions between employers and striking
employees of the Waverly Mills, Inc.,
were apparently at a standstill otday
after the management was said to
have rejected a union overture on pro
cedurel ooking to arbitration.
Salisbury Grocer
Is Held Up, Robbed
In Broad Daylight
Salisbury, June 27 (AP)—T. C. Earn
hardt, groceryman of this city, was
the victim of a daring daylight rob
bery on South Main street near the
business section about 10:30 o’clock
this morning. Two strangers travel
ing in a black co*ach forced Earn
hardt’s car to the curb, leveled a gun
at him and demanded his money. He
handed over a bank book containing
about S4O, it is fiaid. The men drove
off toward the south and no trace of
them has been found.
TARHEELS WT
Secretary Cancels Engage
ment About Routing of
Parks Highway
Washington, une 27. (Jp) —Plans for
a North Carolina delegation to talk
with Secretary Ickes about the route
of the proposed sotmlc highway be
tween the Great Smokies and Shenen
doah National Parks have been can
celled.
Cancellation of the conference was
announced last night from the office
of Senator Baney, who had made ar
rangements for the meeting tomorrow.
The announcement said the cancella
tion was made at the request of Sec
retary Ickes. It added that, while
there is no assurance of a later meet
ing, one may be arranged if consid
ered desirable by the secretary.
athi Btspatrb
IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
IESe
IS DDE FDR JULY 1
Some of Old-Timers in State
Collecting Office Will
Be Given Gate on
Next Monday
i.
IT IS IN INTEREST
OF STATE ECONOMY
Stedman Thompson, Dan
Terry, John Dorsett and
Others Understood Al
ready To Have Been Noti
fied They Will No Longer
Be Needed After July 1
Dully l>l*p:itrh Burma,
In tbe Sir Wnltrr Hotel.
BY .» C BASK Ell VIM..
Raleigh, June 2T*.—A further shake
up in the Department of Revenue as
the result of the reorganization still
in process in that department is re
ported as likely to take place July 1,
although neither Commissioner of
Revenue A. J. Maxwell or Assistant
Commissioner M. G. S. Noble, Jr., will
confirm the rumors. There have been
indications for a week or more that
something was “in the air” in the
revenue department, however, and it
is expected that several will get notices
before Saturday that their services are
no longer needed.'
Among those reported as likely to
be dropped from the payroll of the
department,' effective July 1, in the
interest of and effi
ciency in the operation of the depart
ment, are the following:
O. Stedman Thompson, former as
sistant commissioner revenue, but
for the past several months assigned
to no definite duties other than as act
ing secretary of the State Board of
Assessment. Thompson has been con
nected with the Department oLJßeve
nue for more than ten years, most of
this time as assistant commissioner.
He is from Morehead City.
Dan W. Terry, formerly head of the
franchise tax division until it was
merged with the other divisions in the
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CITY CLERK Is'DEAD
AT ROANOKE RAPIDS
$
Roanoke Rapids, June 27 (AP) —A.
L. Clark, 52, died here today after sev
eral months of illness. Clark, city 1
clerk here for 23 years, is urvived by
his widow and seven children.
Harriman Is
Given Term
Os 4y 2 Years
New York Banker
Sentenced for Vio
lating Bank Laws;
He May Appeal
New York, June 27 (AP) —Joseph
W. Harriman, former president of the
Harriman National Bank and
Company, was sentenced to four and a
half years in prison today on convic
tion of causing false entries in the
books of the bank.
Federal Judge John C. Knox direct
ed that Harriman be “turned over to
the custody of the attorney general
of the United States for confinement
in the penitentiary for a period of
four and one half years on each count
on which he stands convicted.”
The court inadvertently neglected
to state that the sentences be con
current, but said later that was what
he meant, and he had ha phrase in
sered in the record.
Harriman was convicted by a Fede
ral court jury last Tuesday on 16
counts of an indictment charging fal
sification of the bank records and mis
application of funds of the bank.
Execution of his sentence was de
layed until next Tuesday morning to
permit him to appl yto the U. S. Cir
cuit Court of Appeals for a further
stay.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Fair tonight and Thursday; not
much change in temperature.
Slated for Communications Body
' [’’l! I 0 sumi H . I.—. ’ 11.1... ,
E. O. S. C. Hooper
These men are mentioned as likely members of new Federal Communica.
turns Commission, which will control radio, telegraph and telephones in
S; S k ! E , u^ ene Miss.; Thad Brown, Ohio; Harold A.Lafount.
Annbif?S d Prfl? M Snle v *l**" are members of old Radio commission
i« v R ' Ne , w , York congressman. S. C. Hooper is a captain
m the : avy long regarded as one of the greatest living radio engineers
Dr. Irvin D a Stewart is radio adviser o£ the State Department. '
'Central Press)
Says No Professor Will
Lead Roosevelt Astray
Farley Tells Rotary Convention President’s Head Is Cool
and His Feet an the Ground at All Times; New Deal
Thought Out By Roosevelt Himself
Detroit, Mich., June 2*. (/P) —Post-
master General James A. Farley assur
ed delegates at the convention of
Rotary International today that there
is no danger of any college professor
leading President Roosevelt off on a
haphazard adventure.
He told them that the President’s
departure from the old practices of
rugged individualism was long plan
ned and is now beginning to pay divi
dends.
“I know of no man wita a more
efinite mind than his,” said Farley.
“I know of no executive less likely
to be swayed by impractical theories,
MTOELEDT
First Time In Two Decades
Without Apprehension;
Cardenas Winner
By TRENS AGENCY’
Mexico City, Mexico, June 27—For
the first time in two decades, no one
is looking forward with apprehension
to Mexico’s forthcoming presidential
election—the first Sunday in July.
General Lazardo Cardenas is candi
(Continued on Pane Three.)
Test Case Brought Before
Utilities Body; Bell
System Is Heard
Raleigh, June 27. (/P) —In a test case
for telephone rates in North Carolina,
the State Utilities Commission today
heard the Southern Bell Telephone
and Telegraph Company start present
ing evidence purporting to show why
its rates should not be rduced 20 to 25
per cent in Raleigh.
Today’s hearing was limited to
Raleigh rates and Commissioner Stan
ley Winborne announced action on
those in other cities would be held
in abeyance pending the outcome of
today’s hearings.
W. D. Duncan, assistant chief ac
countant of the telephone company
in Atlanta, was the only witness heard
this morning.
His testimony included figures con
tending that the Raleigh exchange
made a net profit of $104,472.96 in 1933,
a yield of 5.82 per cent on an invest
ment estimated to be $1,794,610.17.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY,
regardless of their source, than the
President.
“To listen to our critics, one would
think that the various elements of the
recovery program were hapha»»rd ad
ventures, made on the spur of the mo
ment, because some professor whisper
ed to him.
“Thisp rogram was worked out in
Mr. Roosevelt’s mind before he was
even nominated for the Presidency.
There is nothing impulsive about him,
except the impulse to serve his coun
try, and you may be sure that his
head is cool and his feet are on the
ground at all times’”.
New British Note
Seeks New Accord
On War Debt Here
London, une 27. (JP) — A new
British note was cabled to the
British embassy in Washington to
day, in which the British govern
ment emphasized its desire to ne
gotiate a permanent war debt set
tlement with the United States.
Foreign office officials declined
to reveal the exact nature of the
note, except to say: “It is quite
short”.
The British policy or the past
in reference to the desire for a dis
cussion of a ful] settlement of the
debt question was understood to
haVe been re-stated as part of the
communication.
I NS*U BODY
Group ‘Studying Unemploy
ment Surety Has Big Op
portunity, He Says
Raleigh, June 27. (^P) —Governor Eh
ringhaus today told his commission
appointed to study unemployment in
surance that it has a vast problem be
fore it, but held in its hands the oppor
tunity to render real service to th
State.
The governor advised the group to
outine its own methods of procedure,
and decide whether or not it will study
Old age insurance at this time. He
pointed out that the committe«*’i»ri
mary function was to study the unem
ployment insurance proposal, and to
decide whether it would consider the
question front* a State or national
scope.
“This is a very, very fine group
which I know will render the State an
intelligent and patriotic service”, the
governor said.
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President Advised Senate
Investigation Attorney
Will Serve For
One Year
TRADE COMMISSION
MEMBER TO FOLLOW
James M. Landis Will Likely
Succeed New York, Attor
ney at End of Year; Fraz
ier-Lempke Farm Mort
gage Bill Believed To Be
Unconstitutional as Passed
v i
Washington, une 27. (^P)— Congres
sional leaders said today they* had
been informed President Roosevelt
would veto the Frazier-Lempke' bill
granting a partial moratorium for she
years on paying off farm mortgage.
Attorney General Cummings yester
day submitted a report to the Presi
dent on the constitutionality of. t£e
measure, passed during the closing
hours of the recent Congree*
The bill would permit farmers to
scale down their indebtedness and de
tain possession of their properties for
six years at a rate of one per centr a
year on the re-appraised values of
their* land.
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PECORA READY TO SERVE
MARKET BOARD FOR YEA*
Washington, June 27. (£>)— President
Roosevelt received word today thjit
Ferdinand Pecora; counsel for
Senate Banking Committee, would
serve for a year as chairman of
new securities an exchange commif
sion # • ■
While the President ua» Indicated
he has not decided definitely on the
membership of the commission, £ is
now generally taken for granted that
Pecora will get the chairmanship. .
James M. Landis, a member of the
Federal Trade Commission, had been
mentioned as the possible chairsjnt
(Continued on Page Three.)
President
Near End
With Bills
Washington, June 27 (AP) —{Presc-
ient Roosevelt toda yneared the last
of the huge batch of bills passed by
Congress.in its closing rush and turn
ed to the task of selecting the men fer
the newly-created government agen
cies.
Working unt” 1 o’clock this morn
ing, Mr. Roosevelt signed 124 me6«-
ures. He late*- acted upon 15 more.
Sixteen measures remain to be dis
posed of, including the farm bank
ruptcy and grazing bills, whose con
stitutionality has been questioned by
adminisrtation experts.
The President is still planning, ta
leave Saturday from Annapolis, Md.,
on his cruise to Hawaii, but he is keep
ing his schedule open and may pqst*
pone it until Monday if he finds him-,
self too crowded for time.
Endurance
Flight Is
Broken U#
Meridian, Miss., June 27 (AP)'—A
broken cylinder last night ended tha
attempt of the Key Brothers to set a
new endurance flight record after
they had spent 123 hours in the air.
Official time of the landing was
given as 10:45 p. m., last night. Oh*
of the cylinders of the motor of the
plane worked loose, but was tempor
arily repaired. It soon gave way
again, however, and fear that the cy
linder would be hurled into the pilot’s
seat brought the decision to come
down.
The brothers, A1 and Fred Key, said,
they had not given up hope of break
ing the present record, and announc
ed they would make another attempt
as soon as the necessary arrangements
can be made. :