i HINDERS ON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROUN A
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
NORTHERN DEMOCRATS WANT HOUSE CONTROL
Inpuiry Demanded
By Senator Borah
Os Relief Outlays
Idaho Republican Independ
ent indicates Funds
Have Gone For
Political Purposes
OVERHEAD COST IS
CALLED APPALLING
Administration Expense
Half of Full Amount Pro
vided in Some Cases, Sen
ator Says In Statement;
Declares the Load Is Heavy
Enough At Best
\\';i-diington. Nov. 8 <AF> Senator
Month today demanded an investiga
tion bv President Roosevelt or Con
gress of the administration of relief
snenditures, asserting there was
'shameless waste" in doling out the
fund.
The Idaho Republican independent
did t >t say so specifically, but infer
ied that relief money in many cases
had itone for political purposes.
There is one thing about this mat
ier of expenditure for relief that must
have attention, either for Congress or
for the executive department.” Borah
-aid on returning to Washington from
the West.
Every one wants t ose those who
ecu relief get. relief, but millions
uveor teach those who need it.
‘The amount expended before it
gets to these in need is appalling.
I have had brought to my attention
instances in which the cost or ex
pensc of administering a fund was
bout half the fund to be administer
ed.
“Now the load is heavy enough at
best, but this shameless waste, if not
worst, will have to have an end, not
only in the name of the hungry and
the needy, but in the interest of de
cency. ’’
Seek Cut In
Process Tax
On Tobacco
Hearing (ji\cn By
AAA to Chewing
lobacco Manufac
turers in Industry
Washington. Nov. 9 <A! * > Red no
tions in the processing tax on tobae,-
used in the mnnnfnetlire of ehew
iii" tobaeeo was proposed today at. ••
hearing before A,A A. officials.
Spokesmen for the industry con
buidcd the present rate of G.l cents
no hurley, 1.2 on flue-cured. 2.9 cents
nn fire-cured, and 3.8 cents on dark
nil-cured were too high and necessi
tated the production of smaller plug
b» keep prices down.
The hearing was the first of two
< beduled for today and others are
expected to follow.
Cigarette manufacturers who use
fine-cured tobacco have given notice
they intend to seek a reduction in
the processing tax on that type.
A hearing will be held this after
anon on the processing tax for cigar
leaf tobacco used in the manufac
ture of scrap, chewing and smoking
tobacco.
As the hearing was in progress,
representatives of the cigarette in
dustry met to continue discussion of
■ code for that industry, one of the
largest, not yet codified.
Bankhead Is Against Any
Cotton Increase In 1935
Moultrie, Gu„ Nov. 9. (/I*)—'The 193 b
■otton crop of the United States
f'louki not exceed 10,000,000 bales,
•Senator John H. Bankhead, Democrat,
Alabama said today in criticizing- re
ports from Washington that the De
partment of Agriculture was con
templating allowing an acreage in
e ease of 15 or 20 per cent for next
.Year.
“Ts such action is taken, it can be
for only one purpose, and that is to
increase the size of the crop, and
H atlit Btspatrh
New Time Set in
(ioast-( Toast I lop
Newark, N. ,i„ N„\. «>. (,VI“)
< 'api.iiin Eddie Rickenbnckcr's
plans for a new transcontinental
spe< d plane lm\ ( > eonie through.
After breakfasting in l.os Ango
(•>. tiie war ace, with two eo-pi lots
and three passengers, flew into
the Newark airport last night in
his big twin-motored air liner, all
set for dinner in New York.
Ills time was 12 hours, three
minutes and 50 seonds.
I hey took off from tile union
airport. Los Angeles, at 8:12 a. m„
yesterday and landed at 8:15 p. m„
eutting 58 minutes and 10 seeonds
from Kickenhackcr's old record.
DEATH AND ILLNESS
IKE HEAVY DRAIN
ON STATEOFFICES
Dr. Parrott Passes Only Lit
tle Over Two Weeks
After Death of Dr.
A. T. Allen
JEFFRESS LIKELY
NEVER TO RETURN
AH Were Ardent Ehring
haus Supporters and Gov
ernor Will Feel Their Loss
in Coming Legislature;
Parrott Will Be Very Hard
To Replace
Daily IRispateli llnreuo.
In llm* Sir tVtiller Hotel,
It} .' IT. Itasker\ llle.
Raleigh. Nov. 9 Meath and sick
ness arc pining phantom hands in
Mu- "N< w Peal” of the IChringhaus
administration. Already within the
space of less than three weeks death
bus struck twice into the official fam
ily of Governor ,I*o. R. Khringhaus,
taking Pr. .1. M. Parrott. State
health officer. November 7. and Or.
A. T. Allen State superintendent of
public, instruction, on October 20. For
more than nine weeks now Chairman
K. R. jeffress. of the State. Highway
ami t'indie Works Commission, has
been very seriously ill, with the
chance for his recovery becoming less
and less hopeful.
All three of these State officials
were strong supporters of Governor
I.Chringhaiis and his administration
and many believe the effect of their
removal from the scheme of things
here may materially hamper the gov
ernor during the forthcoming General
Assembly. While Clyde A. Erwin
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Paschall Girl Is
Sent Up for Long
'l ime on Forgery
Raleigh, Nov. « <Al*) Miss
Catherine Coleman, daughter of
the postmistress at Paschall, hear
Henderson, was sentenced to three
years at Alderson, W. Va., follow
ing her conviction on charges of
forging postal money orders in
i district court here today.
thereby reduce the price of cotton”,
the co-author cf the Banknead cotton
production control a.et, which limited
the 1934 crop to approximately 10,-
000,000 bales.
Speaking at the dedication of an air
port here, Senator Bankhead said he
had heard no demand form farmers
anywhere for an increase in acreage
over this year, and that the “demand
seems to come from exporters” and
from theorists and professional econo
mista in Washington.”
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VUYRnIA.
Leased wire service O 9
IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS*
HENDERSON, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 9, 1934
New Faces in United States. Senate Are All Democrats
Fourteen new faces will appear in
the United States senate when
congress convenes January 3
and every one belongs to a Dem
ocrat, owing to the greatest
political triumph since the Civil
Gunmen Get
$21,000 Sum
From Bank
Bank Officials And
Members of Family
Held Captive A t
Their 1 iomes
Norfolk, Vs».. Nov. !> (A|*)
Three rniM ♦!•** Ik’Lay
National bank here of $21,000 t!»!**■
morning and pscmimml . They
four persons captive most of flic
night, lined up seven employees
as they waited for a time flock to
open the vault ami slugg»al a bank
offieial.
At the home of Paul Cut/, bank
cashier, the gunmen held captive
Ole Cladcn, assistant eashier, his
mother, bis brother and Mrs.
Paul Chit/.. Cut/, was out of town
and his five-year-old daughter
was left throughout the night un
disturbed .
At the bank ,1. ,1. DeLay, pres
ident, and six bank employees
were held under guard from the
time of their arrival until the time
cloek opened the vault.
AIRPLANE REPORTED
TO FALL IN FLAMES
Beacon, N. Y., Nov. 1) (AP)
State troopers reported to Cor
poral E. d. Cathey, of the State
police, today that an airplane had
fallen in flames near Bear Moun
tain bridge on the Hudson river
and that the pilot had bailed out.
Talk Dole
Instead Os
Real Jobs
By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
Washington, Nov. 9.
relief, i\ the form of the dole, has its
advocates, as preferable to public
works, except of an unquestionably
necessary character, to meet the
problem of widespread destitution
during the coming winter.
I have had occasion to remark on
thisd ifference of opinion before, but
a new issue arises in connection with
the controversy, which seems entitled
to consideration.
Straight-out relief’s proponents ar
(Coiitmuud oh Pago Sis.)
war in an off-year election. The
Democrats actually gain 10 seats
in the senate, increasing their
total to <O. The new senator's are
(1) Walter D. Chavez, N. M.;
(2) Joseph F. Guffey. Pa.; (3)
4 Perish In $2,000,000
Blaze 111 Newport News
Chesapeake and Ohio Grain Elevator Burns After In
ternal Explosion; Bodies Believed in Smoking,
White-Hot Ruins of 175-Foot Building
Newport News, Va., Nov. 9. (/pj—-
Still smouldering ruins remained to
be searched today for the remainder
;>r four persons believed to have lost
their lives in the $2,000,000 fire which
last, night destroyed the giant Chesa
peake and Ohio railway grain eleva
tor.
Starting with a dull internal explo
sion somewhere in the top of the
building just before closing time yes
terday afternoon, the blaze spread
with such rapidity that only four of
T0 ASK NEW SIGN-UP
Farmville Meeting, How
ever, Fails To Name Du
ration of Contracts
Farmville, Nov. 9 (AP). —Tobacco
growers in every section of Eastern
North Carolina were on record today
for wanting the AAA to start a new
“sign-up’ for curtailment of next
year’s crop.
Between 1,000 and 5,000 farmers,
warehousemen and tobacconists, meet
ing here yesterday, adopted a resolu
tion calling on the AAA to take this
step, and asking the imposition of the
maximum of 33 1-3 percent penalty for
over-production.
No mention was made in the reso
lution of the length of the proposed
new crop curtailment program.
10,000 Persons At
Funeral of Victims
of Election Riot
Hazeltown, Pa.. Nov. 9 (AP)—A
silent crowd of 10.000 persons, includ
ing Democratic party leaders and vic
torious candidates today attended the
mass funeral of five men slain in an
election eve parade at Kelayse, moun
tain mining town.
State police helped count and town
officers kep miles of automobiles in
orderly motion as the throng pressed
into three churches and filled the
surrounding streets.
WEATHER
FOK NORTH CAROLINA
Fair tonight and Saturday;
slightly warmer Saturday,
Edward R. Burke, Neb.,* (4) A.
Harry Moore, N. J.; (5) Sherman
Minton, Ind.; (6) Francis T. Ma
loney, Conn.; (7) George W. Rad
cliffe, Md.; (8) Vic Donahey, O.;
(9) .Tames E. Murray, Mont.
its eight occupants were able to es
cape, and two of them suffered in
juries.
Somewhere in the smoing ruins of
the 175 feet, high building in the ashes
of the 300,000 bushels of grain it con
tained are the bodies of the four men.
Fire Chief James H. Donnelly saw
early this morning that it would be
24 hours or more before the ruins
would be cool enough to be examined
and he doubted whether there would
be any trace found of the missing men
at that time.
RESPONSIBILITY IS
ON THE DEMOCRATS
Bailey Grateful for Victory,
But Sees Heavy Duty
On The Party
•►llilV Phpitpl' UUMIIB,
•i» the Air iValbr Hotel,
Uy J, C, Uaskervllle.
Raleigh, Nov. 9.—The outcome of
the election in both the State and na
tion is eminntly satisfactory, but ear
ns with it a very grea responsibiliy,
Senator Josiah W. Bailey said here
today, in commenting on the results
(Continued on Page Four)
Tanker Explodes
Loaded With Oil
Upon Mobile Bay
Mobile, Ala., Nov. 9 (AP)
The tanner Dalingu. outbound
from Mobile with a cargo of oil,
exploded in Mobile Bay, 17 miles
below here, shortly before noon
today. One member of the crew
was reported killed and 12 In
jured.
The tanker was proceeding down
the bay when an explosion occurred
amidship, and the cargo of gasoline
and oil took fire Seamen were thrown
into the water of the bay, with their
clothing in flames.
Fishing boats nearby went to the
aid of the seamen, rescuing the 12
brought to the hospitals here, includ
ing Captain Fitzgerald, master of the
vessel, who had compound fractures
of both legs.
Fire swpet the vessel as the high
ly inflammable cargo was scattered
about it. ,
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
(short term); (10) Rush D. Holt,
W. Va.; (11) Lewis B. Scliwellen
baeh, Wash.; (12) Theodore G,
Bilbo, Miss.; (13) Peter G. Gerry,
R. 1., and (14) Harry S. Truman!
Mo.
ELECTION REALLY
SETTLED ND ISSUE
New Deal Endorsed In Ab
sence of Any Other Af
firmative Program
SINCLAIR IS NOT* ALL
His Defeat In California May Serve
Only To Accentuate Radical
Undertakings Some
where Else
Uy LESLIE Kid USE
(Central Press Staff Writer)
New York, Nov. 9. —Now that the
election has passed, men are begin
ning to sense tha tit has settled no
issue.
An endorsement of the New Deal
was registered—because there was no
other affirmative program offered
and because the people believe that
President Roosevelt ought to be given
an opportunity to go through with
whatever addition plana he has in
mind.
Where Next?
The defeat of a Sinclair with an
EPIC platform in Californiad oes not
end evolutionary movements.
In fact, those movements may be
accentuated by the defeat of Sinclair.
Other persons, more subtle and
shrewder or more tactful may, in
(Continued on Pago Five)
IREDELL OUTLAW IS
INDICTED AS SLAYER
1 Statesville, Nov. 9. (AP)—An
Iredell county grand jury yester
day returned a true hill charging
Ralph Davis, outlaw, with mur
dering Sheriff G. C. Kmiball. No
announcement was made regard
ing a date for the trial, but court
attaches believed it might be
called next w'eek.
Note Believed Mailed By
Kidnap Suspect Examined
Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 9. (/if*) —The
Department of Justice, it has been ax%-
thoritatively learned, has been inves
tigating a note received here tty
Thomas H. Roginson, Sr., on the
theory it may have been written by
his fugitive son. the alleged kidnaper
of Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll.
The note was received from Rob
inson last week, and th e Tennessean
said it had been turned over to him
by District Attorney General J. Carl
ton oser, who gave it to the Depart
ment of Justice.
i'vdfcitu agents .wae known to lie
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CLAIM SOUTH HAS
BEEN “IN SADDLE”
PAST FOUR YEARS
i
Drive To Capture Speaker*
ship Is First Sign of In
ternal Rivalry In
The Party
NEW YORKCLAIMS
RIGHT TO SPEAKER
Development Tops List Os
Others as Democrats Di
gest Unprecedented Vic
tory Achieved at Polls In
Tuesday’s Elections; Roos
evelt in 1936
Washington, Nov. 9. (/P)— I The first
sign of internal rivalry in the Demo
cratic party sinee Tuesday’s victory
raised it to its highest pinnacle ap
peared today. Certain Democrats
north of the Mason and Dixon Ime
opened a determined drive to capture
tb speakership of the House, for which
tiie South also is contending.
Declaring that the South has been
"in the saddle” in the House for four
years, because it held the majority
leadership and the chairmanship of
all major committees, these Demo
crats asked more power. They em
phasized that northern Democrats
now have more seats than the South.
Representative Martin J. Kennedy,
Tammany Democrat, who disclosed
the drive, said he believed '‘New York
is entitled to the speakership”.
This development topped a list of
others as Tuesday’s smashing dry-up
for President Roosevelt’s party open
ed almost limitless possibilities.
James A. Farley, national chairman,
predicted that Mr. Roosevelt would be
re-elected in 193 G by a verdict “prac
tically unanimous”.
The Republican party, he said, “is
positively through”.
The American Liberty League, quiet
before the election, jumped into the
picture when its president, Jouett.
Shouse, said at Lexington, Ky., that
it would launch this month a drive
for T,000,000 members. Denying em
phatically that “league was organized
in definite opposition to the present
administration”, he said it would r‘op
l>o.se any attempt at a perversion of
American principles, no matter from
what source such attempt may come”.
Nazi Work
Secretly In
Saar Areas
Alleged To Have 10,-
000 Persons Trying
To Influence Com
ing Plebiscite
Geneva, Nov. 9 lAP) —The Saar
region territory governing commis
sion reported to the League of Na
tions today that the Nazi German
front in tiie Saar had a secret police
force of 10,000 working in the inter
est of the annexation of the Saar by
Germany.
The commission declared it hud
seized documents proving that the
German front and the secret police
are terrorizing such members of the
population as are suspended of being
opposed to the annexation of the ter
ritory by Germany, and that news
papers and the German wireless are
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(Continued on Page Five.)
investigating in the hope tha/t tha
note might give some clue to the
whereabouts of Thomas H. Robinson,
Jr.
Robinson, Sr., received it within a
few days after he had been dismissed
from custody of Fedarl officers by
the United States commissioner here.
The Tennesseean quoted a part of
the note, which wag unsigned, as say
ing:
“Congratulations. I have beecp
traveling* but am here now.”
The envelope was postmarked Clu*
ca D u -s mJttJ