HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
OVER $13,850,000
TO LIGHTEN DEBTS
Home Owners Loan Cor
poration Lends $8,429,279
To 3,338 North Caro
lina Applicants
$5,422,683 IS LOANED
IN SOUTH CAROLINA
But Both States Far Down
List In Nation as Whole in
Number of Loans Granted
During Year’s Operation of
Corporation; 22 States Are
Ahead , «# &
Washington, July 10. (/p) —More
ihan -13.850.000 has been noured into
North and South Carolina to relieve
distressed urban home owners by the
Home Owners Loan Corporation in
its existence of slighrtv more than one
year.
A total of 3.338 loans aggregating
$8,429,279 was mad* 1 to North Carolina
lioim* owners in the period from June
13 1933, when the corporation came
into existence, and June 29, while 2,-
300 loans aggregating $5,422,683 were
made during that time in South Caro
lina.
Howev-r. both states were down
ia, list in the number of loans giant
,J. There were 22 states .-n which
more than 5.000 loans were made, the
summary of operations by the 11. O. L.
C. reveal' d.
Tne average loan to North Carolina
home owners was $2,52b, r/hile the av
erage in South Carolina was $2,358.
American League
Leading National
In Baseball Game
New York. July 10. (AP)—After
being held scoreless the first three
innings by Carl nuhbell, the
Americans pounded Lon Warneke
and Van Mungo, scoring two runs
in the fourth and six in a wild fifth
inning rally to take an 8 to 4 lead
over the Nationals today in the All-
Star baseball liattl** before a crowd
of 52,000 spectators. Earl Averill’s
triple and double were big factors
in the Americans’ double-barrelled
rally, which knocked Warneke out
of the box in the fifth.
Big T extile
Strike For
Ala, Plants
30-000 Workers Said
lo Have Voted To
Strike for Less
Work, More Pay
Huntsville, Ala., July 10. (/p)BThe
Times today saidapproximately 30,000
♦rxtile workers In Alabama mills have
votedto strike and that a meeting
would be held in Birmingham Sunday
to vote on a striked ate.
The paper quoted John Dean, per
son representative of the United Tex
tile Workers of America, and Albert
W. Cox, State reepresentative, as say
ing the strike already has been voted,
asking shorter hours, nav increases
and changes in working conditions.
Headquarters for directing the
strike, if calh-d, will be located in
Huntsville, one of the largest textile
centers of the State. During the past
ten days, the paper auoted Dean as
saying, every one of the 42 locals met
and voted for the strike.
3,000 Persons Measuring
750,000 Contracted Farms
Very Few Farms Have Been Found Excess Plant
ings Over Allotments for Tobacco, Cotton or Corn;
Local Farmers Employed for the Most Part
College Station, Raleigh. July 10—
The task of measuring 750,000 cotton
tobacco, an dcorn fields to determine
whether they are within the require
ments of AAA crop control contracts
is getting under way in North Caro
lina. < .♦ |
The State has been divided into
seven districts and a crops of meas
ures is visiting every farm covered by
a contract. When the personnel is
completed, the corps will consist of
3,000 measurers.
The measurers, selected from 4*jaoxig
a.*'' fcSKSIERiON,N.a
Hettiteraim Statin Htsnatrb
Hitler To Defend
Course In Meeting
Os The Reichstag
Berlin, July 10. i/P)GChancellor Hit
ler today called the national Reich
stag, rubber stamp of the Nazi dicta
torship, into session Friday for “an
accounting of the second revolution”.
Silent since the climatic events of
June 30, “Der Fuehrer” himself will
mount the forum of the national par
liament at 8 p. m. to address the na
tion and the world upon questions
th|t Germans and foreigners have
been asking in explanation of the exe
cutions attending the Nazi "purging”
process.
Almost simultaneously with the
BAILEY MAY FEEL
Political Events In State Re
cently Show Senator in
Bad Light
Dull S' DlM|»n*«'h !I*rrii*.
In the Sir Wuller Hotel.
nr J. c .JJASKEttv
Raleigh, Juiy 10.—Friends of Sena
tor Josiah William Bailey believe that
there will be forthcoming from him,
maybe immediately, but certainly at
no distant time, a statement disclaim
ing interest in some of the political
combats of his appointees and other
alios a succession of recent events
making this statement, in the opinion
of those friends, necessary.
The latest of these was the sena
torial contest in Guilford between Dr.
Jchn T. Burrus and Editor Capus M.
Waynick. In that struggle it is well
(Continued ** Page Five.)
leading farmers in the respective coun
ties, are provided with steel wires 100
feet’long and a method, of calculation
whereby they can determine the area
of each field.
Their work also consists of compar
ing the land retired from production
with the cultivated fields to see whe
ther the retired acres are of good aver
age fertility, as reuqired by the con
tracts.
Bo far, said Prof, David S. Weaver,
(Co-ttiuacr gu. Page sr.xz.}
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
leased wire service of
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.,
as^an Flights Guard Against Far East Peril
A/
bombing plane
Mass flights to Alaskan ports by
army and navy planes during
July are regarded by military ob
server* as preparedness against
danger from the Far East,
considered one of the zones in
which another war may start. The
HENDERSON, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 10, 1934
program calls for ten army bomb
ing planes, led by Lieut. Col.
Henry Arnold, to' fly across Can
ada to Fairbanks, and a coast
wise flight of 12 naval seaplanes,
commanded by Lieutenant Com
mander J. W. Shoemaker, to
chancellor's announcement, secret or
ders were issued in Munich to a sec
tion of storm troops to turn in their
arms, which were described as ‘‘state’s
property". It was presumed that the
order came from Victor Lutza, new
head of the storm troops.
The Reichstag under the chancel
lor’s policy, is called together only
upon the most important occasions,
when the attention of the entire world
is focused upon the meeting for the
purpose of having the representatives
of the people endorse hlg actions and
words by laud acclaim.
Toll Eliminated
For Wrightsville
Raleigh, July 10. (AP) —Charles
Ross, general counsel lor the high
way commisision, announced this
morning that all difficulties had
been straightened out for the pur
chase of the Wrightsville Beach
causeway by the State and that
the structure would be relieved) of «
tolls at noon today.
Also freed of tolls at noon today
was the Atlantic Beach bridge and
causeway at Morehead City.
But Hitler As World Power
Has Passed, Is View of
Wall Street
By LESLIE EICHEL
(Central Press Staff Writer-
New York, July 10. —It is important
to get the cold-blooded reaction of
New York’s business world to German
events.
The opinion there seems to be that
turmoil will rule Germanv for a long
time. Hitler as a world power has
passed. It is doubtful that he could
even put through a war now to con
solidate the various groups at home.
And Hitler is dead because Ger
many has no credit. Before it all ends,
other nations will have to come to the
succor of 65 million Germans. It was
other nations which drove Germans,
in desperation, into the hands of men
whor uthlessly victimized them. The
Versailles treaty stands indirectly
charged by economists with the ter
roristic events of today.
New York financiers believe that
the eceonomic world has received a
serious setback through Germanp’s
condition. Germany has been a great
(.CG-tlaUed Page Ptteo
Dutch Harbor.. .'A visit to Alaska
by Secretary of Commerce Daniel
C. Roper is part of the plan, th*
announced intention of his visit
being to study possibilities of
aviation development. The route*
arc mapped above.
i
Democratic iCangressmen
Who Needed Help Are
No Little Peeved
THEY EXPECTED HELP
Roosevelt Has Dropped Hint to Alpha
betical and Other Officialdom
To Make No Speeches
This Fall
By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
Washington. July 10. President
Roosevelt’s admonition to his cabinet
officers and their underlings not to
make political speeches during the
coming congressional campaign period
has great excited Democratic senators
and representatives who are running
for re-election next November.
These candidates were counting on
what thew describe as "administra-
The were not expecting the White
tion support’’ in their fights.
House to issue a blanket appeal to
the country to back up its policies by
choosing another overwhelmingly Jef
fersonian Congress. President Wilson
tried that, and got the reverse of what
he had asked for. The average Dem
(Cortinuad on Page Five.)
RALEIGH TELEPHONE
HEARINGS RESUMED
Raleigh. July 10. (#*) —The State
Utilities Commission today resumed
its hearings at which the Southern
Bell Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany is attempting to show cause why
its rates in Raleigh should not be re
duced 20 to 25 per cant. ’■S/. E. Dun
can. chief assistant accountant for the
company in Atlanta, presented another
mass of figures on capital investment
and earnings.
Press Gets
Slap From
Nazi ChieJ
Berlin, uly 10. (JP) —Paul Joseph
Goebbels, Nazi minister of propaganda
read the riot act to the press of the.
world tonight, especially the French
and English press, in an address in
ternationally broadcast.
“I call you all to witness,” he said
to an invisible audience of many mil
lions in describing the suppression of
the second revolution, “that there have
been cases of lies, slander and mirsep
resentation of the true mets such as
are almost without parallel in jour
nalism”.
A large part of the foreign press, he
charged, ‘has ‘earmarked upon a cam
paign of lies, which in Its malicious
-1 ness can be compared only with the
campaign of atrocity tales that were
set in the scene against Germany dur
ing the vass'\
37 Freight Cars Derailed
At Morrisville, With Heavy
Death Toll Feared Likely
Barthou States Britain
Will Help If Aid Needed
Accord on European Politi
cal Situation Reached
at London, French
man Says
SATISFACTION WITH
RESULTS EXPRESSED
No Formal Pact of Any Kind
Is Signed, but Britain and
France Have Reached
“Friendly Understanding”,
and *‘l Am Very Content,”
He Asserts
London, July 10. taP) —Louis
Barthou, French foreign minister,
indicated today on his departure
that Britain will go to the aid of
France in case the Franco-Belgian
area is invaded by a foreign
power.
Leaving for Paris after two days of
momentous conversations with British
officials, he indicated further that
Great Britain had sanctioned, in prin
ciple, the eastern security pacts in
which France is participating, al
though Britain was not a signatory.
The French statesman departed at
3:30 p. m., declaring that France ana
Britain are agreed on the European
situation. He expressed the highest
satisfaction with results of his visit,
eriterating that no formal pact of any
had been signed, but that the
two nations had reached a “friendly
understanding”.
“Wle French and British discovered
we are agreed on the European situa
tion,” Barthou said, indicating that
the British acceded to most points of
the French proposal.
‘‘l am very content,” he added.
Leas Are Eligible
To Honor Grade at
The Penitentiary
Raleigh, July 10. (A s )—Luke Lea,
former United States senator and
newspaper publisher in Tennessee, and
his son, Luke Lea, r., today became
eligible to be made honor prisoners
at the North Carolina penitentiary,
where they are servine sentences for
bank law violations.
Warden H. H. Honevcutt said he
knew of no marks against the Leas,
and L. G. Whitley, who has charge of
prisoners, said he had not
yet conferred with Mr. Honeycutt
about advancing the Leas, but knew of
no reason why they should not soon
become honor men.
<* __
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Generally fair tonight and Wed
nesday, except probably showers
on the northeast coast.
Presidents to Greet President
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Harmodio Arias Dr. Enrique Olaya Herrera
President Roosevelt will be the guest of these two Latin-American
presidents and old friends during his cruise. Both Harmodio Arias,
president of Panama, and Dr. Enrique Olaya Herrera, president of
Colombia, are former ministers to Washington and Arias visited the
White House recently. (Central Press}
PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY*
Four Eggs at Onco
r
..... .
NRA or no NR A, when this
Elyria, 0., hen makes up her mind
to lay eggs she lays eggs. Here
she is shown with her owner,
Charles T. Schue, a city fireman,
and four eggs she laid all at once.
The hen weighs 18 ounces, the
eggs six.
REPUBLIC STEEL’S^
Relations With Union Sev
ered in Fear of Radical
Labor Control
PLANTS NOT WORKING
Lack of Orders Blamed by Manage
ment on Labor Situation; Radi
cal Group Among Leaders
in Strike Demand
Warren, Onto, July 10. {IF)— Repub
lican Steel Corporation—the third
largest in the industry—severed today
its contract relations with the Amal
gamated Association of ron, Steel and
Tin Workers in its Warren district
endured for 20 years.
The Warren district plants of Re
public normally employ about 5,000
men, but are now not operating, due
toa lack of orders, which the manage
* Continued on Page Four.l
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8 OTHERS SENT TO
DURHAM HOSPITALS
s
Fire Breaks Out Quickly In
And Around Six Gaso.
line Tank Cars And
26 Box Cars
15 TO 20 HOBOES
RIDING THE CARS
Impossible To Explore Deb*
ris for Others Until Raging
Inferno of Fire Is Checked;
Merchant Near Tracks
Loses $15,000 of His Pro
perty
Morrisville, July 10. (/P)—Thirty
seven freight cars of a 61-car South
ern Railway freight train derailed
here this morning with a possible loss
of more than two lives, while eight
persons taken from the wreckage
were rushed to Durham hospitals.
Fire quickly broke out in and
around six gasoline tank cars and 26
box cars and this afternoon they
were still a blazing inferno, which
made it impossible to explore the deb
ris for bodies, but Coroner L. M. War
ing, of Wake county, said members of
the train crew told him they thought
they saw two persons cair«rht In a car
which burned.
The coroner said the crew members
expressed the belief there were 15 to
20 hoboes on the train, and there was
no way to check definitely on pos
(Contlnued On Page Four.)
Keeper Os
Big Bridge
Is Killed
Carrituck, July 10. (/p) — David Lind
say, 64»-year-old keepeer of the Coin
jock bridge, was instantly killed about
7:30 o’clock last nfght when the bridge
draw fiew into the air after workmen
had severed bolts holding the gears in
place and Lindsay’s hold on the bridge
railing was wrenched loose.
The man fell to his death 90 feet
below, striking a concrete -abutment
and then falling into the water. The
body was recovered about 30 or 46
minutes later.
Five workmen were nreparlng to
put in new gears. Lindsay stood on
(Continued on Page Four.)
2 Convicts
Kill Man In
Siler City
Shooting Follows Re
fusal of Oil Man To
Help Them Make
Good Escape
Siler City, July 10 (AP>—Al C.
Routh was fatally shot at his home
here late last night, and early today
two escaped convicts were captured
by officers who quoted the pair as
confessing the shooting.
Police said the men said they shot
Routh when he pulled a pistol from
his pocket after refusing to help them
escape. Routh, 38, was manager of
the Standard Oil Company here.
He died shortly after the shooting
without making a statement.
Officers said the convicts—Harry
Baxter and John D. Willis —escaped
from the Chatham county road camp
Sunday night, with a third prisoner.
It was not known where the third
man was.
After the capture early today, Bax
ter and Willis were taken to State’s
Prison at Raleigh.
The two were quoted as saying they
approached Routh at his home and
(Csattsued Os. your.).