HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
WEST COAST FEARS FOOD SHORTAGE IF STRIKE GROWS
Menace Os Revolt Removed, Hitler Declares In Defense Os Killings
SEEK PEACE PACE
FOR EAST EUROPE
TO PREVENT WARS
Britain and France And
Italy In Accord In Efforts
To Stave Off Fu
ture Clash
BRITAIN MAKES NO
FURTHER ALLIANCES
Sir John Simon, Foreign
Secretary, Reassures House
of Commons as Barthou in
Paris Starts Work on East
ern Pact; Italy Agrees
With England
London, July 13—'AP'—Great Bri
tain has reinforced the pact of Lacar
no, hut has not entered any “select al
liance" with any country, Sir John
Simon, foreign secretary, declared to
day before the House of Commons.
In his anxiously awaited statement,
on continental affairs, Sir Jonh said
the recent Anglo-French conversations
had resulted in a greater feeling of
peace and security in Europe and will
greatly improve conditions on the con
tinent if powers affected fully enter
the proposed eastern regional agree
ment.
Ke added that Premier Mussolini of
Italy agrees with Britain as to the ne
cessity of an eastern pact—“eastern
Locarno” as it has been called —and
fully approves of it.
Sir John supported the statement of
Louis Barthou, the French foreign
minister, when the latter left London,
that Britain and France were coope
rating in trying to perfect permanent
peace in Europe. . j*
BARTHOU STARTS WORK ON
EASTMAN PEACE PROJECT
Paris, July 13 (AP) —Foreign Minis
ter Louis Barthou began work today
on his peace project, an eastern Euro
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Morehead City’s
Port Development
To Start Monday
Washington, July 13 (AP)—Pre
liminary work on the s2,<jpo,ooo
port development at Morehead
City, N. C., will start Monday, M.
R Beaman, general manager of
the Morehead City Port Commis
sion, said here today.
Beaman came to -Washington to
look over plans for the project. He
said army engineers would be sent
to Morehad City Monday to make
a general survey of the harbor and
study the tides.
The War Department has allo
cated $1,550,000 public works mon
*W to dredge the Beaufort-More
head City channel to a depth of
30 feet. Actual work will begin
when $425,000 in PWA funds is
made available to the port com
mission for construction of ter
minal facilities.
Two Killed
In Riots At
Cleveland
Man and Negro Wo
man Dead in Dis
orders At County
Relief Office
Cleveland, Ohio, July 13. {IP)— Two
persons were killed and three injured
today in a riot at the Cuyahoga coun
ty relief administration offices in
downtown Cleveland.
The gunfire started after some one
■n a crowd of relief applicants grabbed
a riot gun from a policeman in a
squad which had been sent to quell a
disturbance.
A Negro woman was shot down and
dieda few minutes later.
A man believed to have been named
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First photos to reach the United States from Berlin since the “Bloody
Saturday” of the Nazis show how soldiers and police now watch the
citizens in Berlin at every turn since Hitler regime’s continuance waa
threatened. Germans, as the pictures indicate, literally live under guns.
(Central Press)
SAYS NOTHING NEW
IN SALES TAX RULE
Many Merchants Commend
Change In Regulations,
McMullan Says
Dally Dispatch ISa<*ens.
in the Sir Walter Hotel,
BY J. f'- It ASKER. V ILL.
Raleigh, July 13. —There is nothing
in the new reguratlons governing the
administration of the sales tax chang
ing the rules that have been in effect
from thef irst with regard to passing
the tax along to the public, Harry Mc-
Mullan, chief of the assessments divi
sion, pointed out today, despite the ob
jection raised by Willard Dowell, sec
retary of the North Carolina Mer
chants Association. While the law
does provide that the tax shall be
(Continued on Page Five.)
Girl Is Attacked
Then Is Murdered
At San Francisco
San Francisco. July 13.
ently attacked and then slain, the
body of an eight-year-old girl was
found in the yard of a *ouse near
here today.
The girl, Elaine Watson, disappeared
last night. Police said the body was
half buried.
A middle-aged man, who gave his
name as Albert Rushe, was taken into
custody for questioning.
Police said he lived in the house
where the girl’s body was found*
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HENDERSON, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 13,1934
State Department Replies
With Underhanded Apo
logy for Remarks
Washington, July 13.
plying to an official German pro
test against the anti-Hitler utter
ances at Waterloo, owa, of Hugh
S. Johnson, the State Department
said today it was “to be regretted
that the position occupied by the
recovery administrator made it
possible for remarks uy him as an
indfividual to be misconstrued as
official”.
The department maae this state
ment in explaining a visit to Sec
retary Hull’s office today by Dr.
Rudolph Leitner, charge d’affaires
of the German embassy, to pro
test Johnson’s speech.
In his Waterloo speech yesterday,
the NRA chief said conditions *1 Ger
many made him “very actively sick.”
“The idea that adult, responsible
men can be taken from thefr homes—■
stood up against a wall —backs to
rifles —and shot to death—is beyond
expression,” he added.
Secretary Hull declined to answer
questions asked by newspaper men
I concerning any other phase* of Gen
eral Johnson’s speech or the German
government’s protest.
He also declined to say whether the
State Department considered the
statement made to Lnieer by Hull
could b considered as closing he epi
sode, or whether any further action
by the government was anticipated.
“BRUTALLY FRANK"
DECLARATION MADE
Limits Himself In Address
"Only In Extent of My
Regard for Reich's
Interests"
REVOLT NOT”MADE
WITH ANARCHISTS
"But as Executives We Have
Removed the Regime Os
Revolt,' 'Chancellor As
serts to Reichstag and The
World; Events "as Sad as
They Were Menacing'*
(Copyrighted by The Associated
Press)
Berlin, July 13 (AP) —Chancellor
Adolf Hitler told the German people
and the world today that he would
make a brutally frank declaration of
events, “which will live in the mem
ory of our history.”
Speaking before a packed audience,
which included the German eichstag,
the chancellor told, the waiting throngs
they had been called “to give me a
chance to explain events.”
“The content of my declaration will
be brutally frank,” he said.
He said the events of which he in
tended to speak were “as sad as they
were menacing.”
“I must limit myself,” he said, “only
in the extent;,of rx> /ypegard for the in
terests of the reich and otherwise for
a feeling of shame.
“We have not made a revolution as
anarchists. {But as executives we
have removed the regime of a revolt.”
Tobacco Farmers
Are Carrying Out
Reduction Pledge
Washington, July 13 (AP)—J. B.
Hutson, chief of the farm admin
istration’s section, said today that
tobacco farmers were making acre
age reductions which they agreed
to last winter.
The July report estimated the to
bacco crop this year at 1,039,517,000
pounds. This is the approximate
figure set for limitation of ibis
year’s crop, Hutson said.
The prospective crop is as much
below the annual world consump
tion of United States tobacco as
the 1933 crop was above, he added.
In addition, farmers have made
progres toward reducing surplus
stocks, Hutson said, asserting this
year’s crop would result in remov
ing approximately 20 million
pounds of the 950,000,000 pounds of
surplus.
State~Will
Bear Down
On Evaders
30 or 40 Merchants
Who Have Refused
To Pay Sales Tax
Will Be “Shown”
Dully Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Wulter Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKERVILL.
Raleigh, July 13.—The Department
of Revenue is about ready to “crack
down’’ on some 35 or 40 merchants,
almost all of them in Winston-Salem,
who so far have refused to make any
returns or pay any of the sales tax to
the State, it was learned today from
authoritative sources. It is understood
that all efforts to make collections
from these merchants have failed,
that most of them have flatly refused
to even make any returns during the
past year and have virtually defied
the Department of Revenue to collect
(Continued ** Pag* Five.)
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Fair tonight and Saturday; Not
much change in temperature.
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At special meeting of Reichstag, Chan
cellor Hitler is expected in first
speech since Germany’s “bloody Sat
urday" to make public events that led
Cotton Is Highest
For Past 4 Y,ears
New Orleans, La., July 13. (#») —
Cotton futures bounded; up to the
best prices since 1930 here today,
making gains of $1.60 per bale in
late trading, and going past the
13-cents per pound mark.
Navy Plans
Addition Os
5 9 500 More
Part of Plan In Work
ing Toward Treaty
Strength for Fleets
By 1942
(Copyright by The Associated Press)
Washington, July 13. (JP) —Looking
toward treaty strength by 1942, the
navy has adopted a plan calling for
5,500 more enlisted men and the laying
down of 19 new ships in the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1936.
This “operating force” plan would
give the navy 88,000 men, as compar
ed with 82,500 during the present year.
The new ships would Include 12 de
stroyers of 1,500 tons each, two de
stroyers and fives übmarines.
A high navy official said the build
ing program is being pointed toward
(Cortinuftd oi» Page Five.)
Dollfuss
Cleans Up
His House
Vienna, July 13 (AP)-Chancellor
Engelbert Lollfull began sweeping out
his own official house today in his
drive against Nazis and their cam
paign of terror. A clean-up of State
police is under way. There has been
much dissatisfaction at the failure of
law-enforcement agencies to stop al
most daily bombing and other acts of
sabotage throughout the country.
Several police officials have been
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EXCEPT SUNDAY.
to “purging” of Nazi ranks. Here the
Reich dictator (1) is shown address
ing all-Nazi Reichstag with- Prussian
Premier Goering (2) stated under the
huge swastika.
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He Could Have Republican
Nomination In A Walk
But for His Age—
-71 in 1936
VANDENBURG BEING
TALKED AS CHOICE
Michigan SeTnator Consider,
ed by Conservatives To Be
Safe Man; But Republi
can Progressives Hope To
Go Roosevelt One Better in
Radicalism
By CHARLES F. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
Washington, July 13. —Senator Wil
liam E. Borah is too oid to be nomi
nated for the White House.
He is just past 69. He will be 71
about the time the 1936 national con
ventions are being held. If he were
to he nominated and elected he would
b almost midway between 71 and 72
by inauguration day. How dependable
his health is, also is a doubtful issue;
he underwent quite a prolonged hospi
tal siege and an operation rather re
cently. In view of his age questions
(Continued on Page Two.)
18 Months Old Soin of Hart*,
dale, N. Y., Broker Miss
ing for Whole Day
Hartsdale, N. Y., July 13. (/P) —
Fresh hope that Bobby Connor,
missing since yesterday afternoon,
is still alive came this afternoon
when police found a long lost rat
tle belonging to the 21 months old
boy deep in the woods surround
ing his Hartsdale home here.
Hartsdale, N. Y., July 13. (JP) —
■Search for an eccentric peddler as the
kidnaper of 21-months-old Bobby Con
(Coatiaued oa Peg & Two.).
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A GENERAL STRIKE
Workers In Portland and
Los Angeles May Join
Those in San Fran
cisco Shortly
HEALTH; AUTHORITIES '
JOIN IN THE FEARS
Sympathetic Walk - Outs
Threaten Serious Situation
in Great Cities Along The
Pacific; Food, Gasoline and
Fuel May Run Short If
Crisis Develops
San Francisco, Cal., July 13. (JP) —
Housewives and men in the street
felt the Pacific coast maritime strike
today as an increasing number of
labor unions joined the movement to
warda general strike in the San Fran
cisco Bay area.
Shortages of foo.i, gasoline and fuel
became an actual threat.
Witha move toward a general strike
gaining headway in Portland, Oregon,
and rumblings of a similar movement
heard in Lo s Angeles, the San Fran
cisco strategy committee called a
meeting of all unions this afternhon
at which a general strike is expected
to be demanded.
Nearly 100,000 workers in San
'Francisco and the trans-bay cities of
Oaklandßerkeley and Alameda have
pledged themselves to walk out 111
sympathy with 27,900 striking mari
time workers if the strategy commit-
Abernethy Files
Counter Suit On
Sanitarum Plea
New Bern, July 13 (AP) —Answer-
ing a suit of the. Washington Sanita
rium, Inc., for collection of an alleged
debt of $1,415.26, Representative C. L.
Abernethy, Mrs. Abernethy and C. L.
Abernethy, Jr., have filed in superior
court here a counter claim of $35,000
and costs against the hospital for “mar
licious and wanton and willful abuse
of the process of the court.”
The counter claim advances the
contention that, the sanitarium suit,
which was filed here May. 19, was part
of a wrongful scheme to intimidate
the defendant into paying an exces
sive bill.
Pay Raise
Likely To
Teachers
Martin Says Federal
Aid Will Likely As
sure Ten Percent
More Salary
Raleigh, July 13. (JP) —Leßoy Mar
tin, executive secretary of the State
School Commission, returned to
Raleigh today from a trip to Wash
ington, expressing the opinion there
was some hope that North Carolina
teachers may receive a 10 per cent in
crease in salary next fall.
“The ultimate decision In the mat
ter must of necessity rest with the
governor and the commission,” Martin
said, “but there is a possibility there
may be an increase of ten per cent.’*'
The commission will meet her in
a couple of weeks, Martin said, and
will probably consider the matter
then. At the same time, bids for the
purchase of some 750 buses with funds
made availableb y the Federal Public
Works Administration will be consid
ered.
Should teachers’ salaries be increas
ed, it is understood the increase would
be made purposely to place annual ex
penditures above State appropriations.
It was pointed out by State officials
today if the State launched a school
program which used all of its money;
in seven months or less, the State
could assume the status as all other
tates and ask Federal fund to keep the
chools froia closing