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HENDERSON gateway to CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR TOBACCO. CONTROL LAW WILL BE STRICTLY ENFORCED Roosevelt Sounds Bottle Cvy Foy DemocYtic Campaign FINDS AND FOES ME PONDER TALK BY THE PRESIDENT Substantial Gains Over De pression Reported In Night Address To The Nation CALAMITY HOWLERS LASHED VIGOROUSLY President Stresses His Fut ure Program ‘ For the Se curity of the Men, Women and Children oFtTTe Nation; Roosevelt Speaks From White House Washington. June 29. —(AP)—Presi- dent Roosevelt's rushing of *‘die hards" and his pledge of a vaster New Deal promised today to resound in the campaign for the fall elections. Friend and foe alike studied the "report to the in which the President claimed Hsubf/antiail gains " lashed at prophets of calamity »*rd stressed his future program “for The security of the men, women and children of the nation.** Sitting in the oval room of the White House, in the steaming heat of a Washington summer, the President gave a radio talk last night in which he: 1 Praised Congress as the most un partlaan since the “time of President Washington hirtiself.” 2 Cited statistics to show gains in •wages, employment, farm prices and consuming power. S. Struck at “plausible self-seekers and theoretical die hards’* who “tell you of loss of individual liberty.” 4. Declared the “most fociferous of HENRY COTTON WINS BRITISH GOLF OPEN Sandwich England, June 29 (AP) — Henry Cotton, 27-year-old British pro fessional, today won the British open golf championship with a 72 hole ag gregate of 283. tieing the record for the tournament created in 1932 by Gene Sarazen. (Continued On Page Pour.) Efforts To End Strike Collapsing Outsiders Asked To Take Charge Os Se rious Situation At Laurinburg Laurinburg, June 29 (AP) After weeks of conferences between labor representatives and the management, negotiations looking to settlement of the 45-day old strike of employees of the Waverly Mills, involving 800 tex tile workers, were reported today by R. R. Lawrence, president of the State Federation of Labor, to have collapsed completely. Lawrence said labor leaders would appeal to the State NBA Compliance Boai d to intervene. Although the mill management refused to issue any sort of statement, it was generally under stood they had asked the State Tex tile Industrial Relations Board to take over the case. Score Os Deaths Blamed On Heat (By the Associated Press.) More than a score of deaths were attributed today to sizzling tempera tures that scorched much of the con tinent from the Rockies to the At lantic seaboard. Generally speaking, no immediate relief was in sight. Os the midrfwestern statjps, lowa apparently was the hardest hit, with itmuteramt Hath* Htsimt th ROOSEVELT SIGNS MEASURE RELAXING WAR WIDOWS’ PAT Also Acts on Farm Morajto torium and Railway Pen sion Bills, But With holds Statement PRESIDENT PLANS TO LEAVE SUNDAY Will Board Cruiser at An napolis, Md., Late Sunday Afternoon for Cruise to Latin-America and Hawai ian Islands; Waits Also for His Son Washington, June 29, —(AP)—Presi- dent Roosevelt today approved a bill liberalizing laws covering compensa tion of World War widows and or phans. The President also acted upon the farm mortgage moratorium and the railway pension bills, but deferred an nouncement of their disposition until he could prepare a statement later in the day. Driving toward a clean-up of gov ernment affairs, the President de finitely fixed his departure for his Hawaiian cruise for late Sunday aft arnoon from Annapolis, Md. Another day at the White House gives him a further opportunity to look over more completely the per sonnel for the new stock exchange and communications commissions. Mr. Roosevelt is listening to all classes of thought on the men to take over supervision of the stock ex changes and the nation’s radio, tele phone and telegraph services. He has conferred with Raymond Moley. for mer assistant secretary of state; Ber nard M. Baruch, retired New York financier and economist, and Post master General Farley, chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Another reason impelling the Presi dent to defer for a day the start of (Continued on Page Three.) six deaths, three due to prostration and three to drownings. A maximum of 107 degrees was reached at Water loo. Many of the victims in other states died when they took to the water to escape the baking? heat. Nebraska counted three dead, Illinois one, Mary land, 3; Michigan, 4; Ohio, 4; West ern Pennsylvania, 3, and Indiana, 2. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPE R PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OIMIORTH CAROLINA AND VimNIA. leased wire service op THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. German Military Powers May Bring Back Kaiser The form D oorn ' Holland. Von Neur*th *° V ° M H,ndenburg * Von Paper, A prediction that the former Kaiser Wilhelm will be back in Geiv many before 1935, either as a private citizen or an official in a “new deal”, is made by well-informed political observers following the speech of Baron Franz Von P&pen lipping into the Nazi regime of Chancellor Adolf Hitler. Reported as active in the attempted HENDERSON, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 29, 1934 Man Electrocuted, Line Is Dynamited, In Utilities Strike Milwauke, Wis., June 29 (AP) —A pole carrying a high tension power line today was dynamited at Vernon Center, 25 miles southwest of here. It was the first instance of the use of explosives in the Milwaukee Elec tric Railway and Light Company strike. * One death in a new outburst of vio lence spurred peace-makers on to re doubled efforts to end the strike of union employees of the Milwaukee Electric Railway (Company, which threatened today to spread to other industries. The Rev. Francis J. Haas, of Wash ington, chief conciliator of the Na tional Labor Board, sought the quick es tmethod of putting a stop to the Payrolls Robbed Os Huge Sums Osawatomie, Kans., June 29 (AP) — Two armed men. obtained between $25,000 and $30,000 here today in a hold-up, executing the robbery as the payroll of the Missouri Pacific rail road was being transferred *to the post office from the railroad station. The money, which was addressed to a local bank to be used in payment of wages at the Missouri Pacific di vision shops was in a mail sack. A postal employee was met at the station by hte two men who forced him to accompany them four blocks away where they had a motor car parked. At this point, they took the money and drove off. An official at the bank said the con signment amounted to between $25,- 000, and $30,000. * Neal and Others Won’t Resign Off NRA Review Body Washington, June 29.—(AP) — The future of Clarence Darrow’s NRA Review Boarl is uncertain. The board has submitted to President Roosevelt its thirj and last report on the blue eagle codes. Harrow has resigned, effective to morrow. But the other three boarl mem pers have not resigned, an) liwfffl officials said they io not tend to. Those remaining are W. W. Neal, Samuel C. Henry and Fred P. Mann. overthrow of Hitler are—besides Von Papes— Baron Konstantin Von Neurath, foreign minister; Lieut. Gen. Werner Von Blombere minister of war, and the old war general, President Paul Von Hinden burg, who already has expressed approval of Von Papen’s onen criticism of Hitter’s dictatorship. Den reign of violence after Eugene Doma galski, 24, leader of a band of strike sympathizers and pickets died last night after a raid on the company’s huge Lakeside power plant. Domagalski was electrocuted and died en route to a hospital after he had been hurled to the ground by an electrical charge when the iron fence post he was usin gto batter a path into the generating plant swung against a switchboard. Meanwhile, while rioting persisted on other scattered fronts last night, 35 representatives of 25 building trades and craft unions voted unani mously to call a general strike of nearly 6,000 men in their lines in sympathy with the utility strike. “BIG FOUR" MNL TRAINISLOOTED Ten Sacks of Mail and Ex press Rifled on Car Near Chicago Indianapolis, Ind., June 9. —(AP)— Ten sacks of valuable mail and some express were rifled on Big Four train No. 34 somewhere between the Illinois Central station, Onicago, and Kanka kee, 111., late last night, it was revealed by postal officials here today. J. A. Moran, chief clerk of the fifth division of the Post Office De partment, said the thieves got into a storage mail and express car and loot ed it of all valuable mail and ex press. Cerks in an adjoining car were unaware of the robbery until after the train left Kankakee. The robbers, postal officials said, could have left the train at the 53rd Street station, Chicago, the 63rd Street station, or at Kankakee. Postal inspectors were examining the car and records this morning to determine the amount of mail stolen. TERMS RELAXED FOR ARMY AUTO BIDDERS Washington, * June 29 (AP) —Bid- ders for War Department automobile contracts hereafter will not be re quired to certify that they had not employed lobbyists or other agents to solicit the business. This ruling was made today by Harry H. Woodring, asssitant secre tary of war, following a ruling by J. R. McCarl. the s<Sj£iptroller general, that such action would tend to pro mote competition. ? Rentals Os % $7,019,861 To Farmers Os That Sum- Dis bursed In North Carolina, $4,447,945 Was for Tobacco Washington. June 29.—(AP) —North Carolina farmers who cooperated in crop reduction programs received $7,- 019.861.24 in Federal rental and bene fit payments through May 31, John B. Payne, comptroller of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration reported todav to Administrator Cheater C. Davis. Tobacco growers received the great est amount, $4,447,945,95, while cotton farmers were paid $2,*934,669.74 in ren tals and benefits for acreage reduc tion. WJheat growers received $37,245.- J 5. Payments by counties included the following, the name of the county, the (Continued On Page Four.) Famous Turk Dies At the Age of 160 Mlggkg||j| UK. ZARO AGHA Istanbul, Turkey, June 29. —Zaro Agha, the “Old Man of Turkey", who claimed to be 160 years of age, died to day, He had been seriously ill for many days in the children's hospital here. Late in April the old man, horn, according to his birth certificate at the time the first Continental Con gress was called in the United States, was taken to a hospital withan acute gland and bladder disorder. He was also being treated for (Continued on Page Three.) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY* Adamowicz Plane Hops Over Ocean Harbor Graoe, Newfoundland, June 29, —(AP) Benjamin and Joseph Adamowicz, aviation alven turous brothers), swung into the eastern sky shortly after dawn on their projected trans-Atlantic flight to Warsaw, Poland, their ancestral home. The winl was light from the west and the weather clear as they hop ped from Harbor Grace airport. im But Big Gasoline Compan ies Have Stranglehold On North Carolina Gas Situation PRICES SIX CENTS ABOVE VIRGINIA’S Some Think North Carolina Is Hoisted To Make Up for Drop In Virginia; Gover nor May Not Be Able To Do Anything at Meeting Next Tuesday Daily Dispatch Burma, In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY 3. C QASKERVILL. Raleigh, June 29.—The motoring public in North Carolina, which pays the gasoline and oil companies not less than $66,000,000 a year for gaso line, to say nothing of the oil, which probably swells the total to $100,000,000 a year, is hoping that Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus will be able to do something to bring about lower gaso line prices in North Carolina at the conference of oil company represen tatives he has called to meet here Tuesday, July 3. But those who know of the stranglehold which the big gas and oil companies have on this busi ness in North Carolina and how they control both the independent dealers as well as their own company-owneA stations, frankly doubt whether the en Page Four.) VIRGITOM^ Causing North Carolina Bootleggers To Complain of Competition Dnlly Di»pntch Bareai, In the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J C. BA«KERVILL. , Raleigh, June 29. —The low prices being charged by the Virginia State liquor stores for legal liquor and for what they call “domestic” liquor, is causing North Carolina bootleggers to complain that they cannot compete with the Virginia liquor, either in price or quality, according to reports heard here, n Virginia, liquor is sold only in state-owned liquor stores and no state tax is imposed, the state getting its revenue entirely from the profit on the sales of the liquor. The Virginia liquor commission also licenses small stills, and agrees to buy the output of these stills at a rea sonable profit. It rectifies and bottles (Continued on Page Three.) Teddy Roosevelt Estate Sued By N. C. Bank Head Raleigh, June 29. —(AP) —The North Carolina Banking Department is su ing the trustees of the late Theodore Roosevelt, president) of the United States, for SIO,OOO. C. R. Taylor, head of the bank li quidating division, said today he had completed testimony in New York in which Gurney P. Hood, bank commis sioner, on relation of the Page Trust Company, seeks to have the trustees the Guaranty Trust Company and 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY setupto Sect i “• > . 33 IJ31 J 3 Percent Tax Levied by Kerr Act on Crop In Excess of Govern ment Quotas GIVE CERTIFICATES ON VOLUNTARY CUTS “ * ». Acreage Reduction Cam paign Also Reopened For 30 Days To Allow Growers Not Yet Signed Privilege of Doing So; Are Limited To Quotas, However Washington. June 29.—(AP)— The Farm Administration anj the Trea sury began today to set up machinery for compulsory control of the tobacco crop under provisions of the Kerr bill, signed late yesterday by President Roosevelt. The bill levies a 33 1-3 percent tax on all tobacco grown in excess of government-assigned quotas, based on the voluntary acreage reluction pro gram, with certain exceptions. No limit was placel on the crop by the bill, which provides the Issu ance of tax-exemption certificaes by the Treasury to each grower for his quota unler voluntary acreage reduc tion contracts with the Farm Admin istration. The bill also reopens the acreage reluction campaign for a 30-lay period to give growers who have not yet signed reduction contracts the pri vilege of doing so. Although the act levies a 33 1-3 per cent tax on all tobacco soil in excess of quotas,, contracting growers will (OoniimiM) on Page ThrM.) Scorching Note Sent To Berlin -- - * Hull Protests Mora torium and Tells Why Finances Are In Bad Way Washington, June 29. —(AP)— Th# United States protested tolay against Germany’s moratorium on $1,500,000,- 000 in obligations held by Americans, blaming the reich’s financial plight on Nazi policies. ) Secretary of State Hull hanled the German charge d’affaires a note last night which said: ‘?The German government is no loubt aware that '..its policies have created opposition in many parts of the world, which has expressed itself in. various trale conflicts, and th# probable reduction of Germany’s cap acity to transfer.” Hull did not mention anti-Jewish measures which have brought boy cotts on German gools, but observes agreed his note was broad enough to mclule such policies wtAiiitiT FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair tonight and Sat urday, except scattered thunder showers in west portion Saturday ' afternoon. FOR HENDERSON For 24-hour period ending at noon today: Highest temperature 98; lowest, 78; no rain; southwest \vlnd; clear. ' others pay a stock assessment of $lO,- 000. Taylor said the trustees of the Roosevelt estate came into possession of SIO,OOO of Page Trust Company stocks in 1931. and were ordered along with other stockholders to pay an as sessment after the bank was closed, last year. Decision in the case was reserved in New York Supreme Court until after attorneys for both sides submit further briefs.
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