I HENDERSON
| <t ATE WAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
REVIEW OF MOONEY
PLEA IS PROBABLE
IN SUPREME COURT
High Tribunal Orders State
of California To Show
Cause Why It Should
Be Refused
MOONEY ANXIOUS TO
GO TO WASHINGTON
Wants To Attempt to Con
vince Court He Was Con
victed on Perjured Evi
dence in Preparedness Day
Parade in San Francisco in
1916; Escaped Death
\V , Nov. 12.—(AIM— The
Cuotr today ordered Califoi- i
, u> diow within 40 days why ;i re- !
u hnuld no* he granted Thcfntm
J Mooney in his 18-year campaign lo
tpe -riving the reminder of his
sentence for complicity in the
'.•pi Sen Francisco preparedness day
’ I
Thrcuph his attorneys, the 51-ycai
«M San penitentiary convict |
■!; that he be brought to Wash
i .• m in an effort to convince the
■. nr: at a hearing that he was con
vfird on perjured evidence following I
i'h deaths of ten persons and the in- !
liny of 11 in the bombings.
'.L_declared the State admitted the I
lciuc was pi rjured but was powei
t.i sv ‘ aside the verdict if there *
ad been no error of law in the trial, i
Mct ney was originally sentenced to J
ih. but was commuted to life ini- j
i .-onnu lit following appeals from j
1 »* ident Woodrow Wilt jn and others
Onet before—in 1918—the Supreme
C art refused to interfere in the
M aiiev case. It decline to pass on the
ofusal of California courts to grant
him a new trial.
Mooney had sought unsuccessfully
• i e tain a writ of habeas corpus be
fore the lower court.
Bailey To
Head Big
Committee
Washington. Nov. 12 (API- A pro
te.-s of elimination today put Sena
tor Josiah William Bailey, North Caro I
lina Democrat, in line for chairman |
of the Senate Committee on Com
merce in the new Congress.
The position would be a promotion
f or tin- North Carolinian, who is now
'hairnian of the claims committee.
Bailey'.*- prospective promotion
"■lnc- as u result of the defeat in the
I'iimarit of Senator Hubert I). Step
>" 0.. of Mississippi, by Theodore Ml- (
!"•. Stephens was chairman of the ‘
Committee in the last j
Liquidation
Is Complete
(Jn 11 Banks
State Bank Depart
ment Mails Out
$182,214 In Checks
to 3,939 Depositors
I»n il< lliw|>:il<-*h *liir<;i*,
In (he Sir Waller Hold,
l‘-> ./. ilt.isl.cn ill**.
Bulcigli, Nov, 12.—Checks totaling
• 1 ■*2.21 1.50, representing dividend pay
to 2,939 depositors in seven
d hanks whose liquidation has
; ' been completed have just been
' i '* ,, u and mailed out by the State
king Department. Commissioner
Banks Gurney P. Hood announced
’inlay. These checks were mailed to
various liquidating agents over
' r "’ week-end and should be ready
h d( livery tomorrow morning. In
!l *l*Jiiion tq this. Commissioner Hood
denounced that the liquidation of four
othej banws had been completed.
Pin seven banks for which checks
tune been mailed out are: The Bank
1 ! Kalford, paying 7.5 per cent, di
•dend to 212 depositors in the a
r,“ unt of $1,234.61. This bank has al
":*dy paid the claims of its depositors
nul other creditors in full, amount
ing to $39,891 and these checks just
mailed out represent an extfa di-
V| d‘ nd or interest payment of 7.5 per
* ,; nt on their claims.
Bank of Lewiston, paying a nine
cent dividend to 231 depositors
m.d creditors amounting to $2,102.39.
Dii.s bank has already paid its de
positors and other creditors in full,
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rt nu Mti.iORIAL lIBWAk>
Hettfteramt TDatht Bistmtrh
WIKB BERVICB OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS„
State Seeks $2,000,000 By
Reynolds Estate Settlement
SOUTH HEADS BIG COMJvii fTEES
P*f£.V : r s |
Ruchanan Dou K ht„ n
Filling 16 of 20 important < li:ur
manships in the house of represen
tatives, the south will have a
strangle-hold on the new con
gress as a result oi the smashing
Democratic victories in two suc
cessive national elections. These
Seeking Kidnaped
Daughter in N. Y.
New York, Nov. 12 (AIM—A. I).
l)i**el hurst, of Nashville, Tenn.,
was in New York today hoping
to establish contact with the kid
napers of his six-year-old daught
er, Dorothy Ann. missing for near
ly two months.
Disselhurslsaid at his hotel that
he had come to New York City in
accordance with ransom note in
structions.
He said he was awaiting further
contact with the supposed kidnap
ers, and that he expected some
contact would be made today.
— .
ADVANCING COSTS
OF LIVING SERIOUS
Salaries for Most People
Have not Kept Abreast
of Conditions.
Ity CHARLES I*. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington. Nov. 12. —Advancing
living costs threaten to become a .se
rious problem to the national admin
istration and its supporters before
b< 1931-’3j season has advanced much'
farther.
The government's bureau of agri
cultural economics recently placed
Lite increase at 9.6 per cent, but the
upward tendency has continued since
then, and Uncle Sam's forecasters
predict that the rise will be uninter
rupted at least until next year’s crops
began to make their influence felt.
Besides, the agricultural economies
bureau concerns itself principally
with prices of foodstuffs —or raw pro
ducts. like wool and cotton, which sig
nify to the ordinary consumer only
-ifter they have passed through va
rious processors’ hands; or tobacco,
which isn’t eaten, in the generally
accepted sense of the term, but never
theless verges closely upon being one
of life’s absolute necessities to a large
proportion of the American people.
Rentals count, too —and. in most lo
calities, are mounting briskly.
INCOMES
Chairman Jesse Jones of the Re
construction Finance corporation put
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Children Feast
On Poison Syrup
Put Out To Rats
Denver, Col., Nov. 12.—(Al*) —
A feast on poisoned marshmallow
syrup intended for rats and mice
had caused the death of one
child today and another was cri
tically ill, hut physicians believed
they could save the lives of seven
other children.
Nellie Mueero, 17-months old,
died yesterday after she and the
other children had discovered
marshmallow-lined barrels in the
junk yard of a neighbor when
they chased a pet rabbit there.
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION
include tin "log three” commit
tees with the chairmen shown
above: rules, William Bankhead,
ol Alabama; appropr iati on s,
| James P. Buchanan, of Texas, ami
ways ami means, Robert L.
! Doughton, of North Carolina.
Engineers
I Urging New
Road Work
| •>-
State Highway Ex
perts Differ [With
Motor Club Com
mittee’s Stand
Daily Dispatch llurcan,
tu (hi; Sir Walter Hutrl,
II) •». Mankcrvillc.
Raleigh, Nov. 12.—While members
of the .State Highway and Public
j Works Commission and its engineers
I are in agreement with the special sub
committee of the Carolina Motor Club
in opposing any diversion of highway
funds to other than highway uses,
♦ here is considerable disagreement be
i tween these two groups with regard
i to the need for new construction.
In making the report of the sud
j committee on highway taxation before
a meeting of the directors of the Cai
; olina Motor Club here last week, Pro
j fesesor Malcolm McDermott, of the
j Duke University law; school, chair
j man of the committee composed of
! himself. Johnathan Daniels, editor of
The News and Observer, and K. R.
Curtis, superintendent of the Wilson
county schools, said the committee
was unanimously of the opinion that
no more highway construction was
necessary in North Carolina. The com
mittee strongly recommended $lO,-
000.900 a year as the mininum shoulu
ibe spent on the maintenance of the
more than 60,000 miles of highways
in North Carolina, as compared with
the $6,000,000 a year now being spent
on maintenance and pointed out that
from now on the cost of niaintenace
is going to increase, because of thi*
depreciation in tlit: roads. But it
strongly opposed by further provision
for new construction.
By opposing any new construction.
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THREE RESCUED BY
I STEAMSHIP AT SEA
i3O-Foot Craft Strikes Un
known Object off Coast
From Charleston
i. 11
Charleston, S. C., Nov. 12 (AP)—
j Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Regana, of New
j York, and Robert Velie, of Chicago,
I were rescued last night by the Cylde
j Mallory liner Henry R. Mallory after
their 30-foot craft, the Departure,
I struck an unknown object off Cape
j Romain and came very close to sink
i ing with the three still on board.
A second officer observed the dis
! tress flag flown by the small vessel
at 3:30 a. m., and informed Captain
J. E. Wood, who ordered the Mallory
about. She was brought to the lea.
enabling the trio to get aboard by
climbing the Departure’s shrouds.
HENDERSON, N. C. MONDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 12T1934
SEALE MAY SHARE
WITH HUGE CUE IN
TOBACCOFORIUNE
Amount of Inheritance Tax
Will Depend Upon Me
thod of Division
Among Heirs
COURT IS ASKED TO
DETERMINE RIGHTS
Judge McElroy Signs Order
at Winston-Salem Granting
ing State’s Petition for an
Intervention; Settlement at
Early Date Is Regarded
Likely 4 ,
Winston-Salem, Nov. 12—(AP)—The
State of North Carolina today step
ped into tile litigation over the s2g,-
900.000 estate of the late Z. Smith
Reynolds, seeing to cut a huge slice
o finhcritancc taxes from the fortune
before it is divided among the heirs
Attorney General Dennis G. Bru tu
rn ill filed an intervention in Forsyth
Superior Court on relaiton of A. J.
Maxwell, commissioner of revenue.
Judge P. A. McElroy signed an order
granting the State petition.
That a compromise settlrnent of the
estate is near was indicated by the
litigating parties. They joined in ask
ing that the motion of the Cabarrus
Bank and Trust Company be set for
a hearing this week, and the court
set Friday and Saturday, at which
time all parties arc to be represent
ed and their arguments heard.
The amount of inheritance tax
sought by the State will depend upon
the manner of distributing the es
tate. The court is asked to determine
the right of the variobs parties, and
the amount of taxes to which North
Carolina is entitled.
It was learned that the inheritance
tax would amount to about 2,000,000
on a three-way division; that is, be
tween Anne Cannon IT. Christopher
Reynolds and Libby Holman Rey
nolds.
541 NEW PROJECTS
OF ERA FOR STATE
Figures Are for September
and in Addition to 816
Others.
Dully Dist»iil«-I» Hurl-sin,
■ u tin- .Sir tVullcr MuD-l,
Uv ,1. liuskervilli*.
Raleigh, Nov. 12. —An analysis of
work relief projects under the North
Carolina Emergency Relief Adminis
tration shows that a total of 541 pro
jects were approved during the month
of September and are now in opera
tion. During the same month, work
progressed on 816 projects which were
listed as incompleted prior to Sept.
1. Projects that were started under
the CWA and listed as completed dur
ing the period from April 1 to Sept.
1 totaled 120. Propects that were
started under the CWA and complet
ed under the ERA during the period
from Sept. 1 to Oct. 1 totaled 61. Man
hours worked on the incompleted pro
jects in operation during September
totaled 712.328.
The city of Asheville led in num
ber of new ERA propects approved
during September, with 19. Asheville
also led in the number of incomplet
ed projects worked on during Sep
tember, with 28.
Among the units, besides Asheville
leading in number of new ERA pro
jects approved during September were
Cabarrus county, with 16; Robeson.
14; Lenior, Richmond, Union, and
Vance. 13; Anson. Cumberland, and
Perquimans 12; Halifax. Surry, and
Raleigh, 11: and Chatham. Clay.
Franklin and Moore. 10. There were
10 State projects in this classifica
tion .
Iredell, with four, led in the num
ber of projects started under the CWA
and completed under the ERA during
the period from Sept. 1 to Oct. 1.
Os the CWA projects completed un
der the ERA from April 1 to Sept.
1, Carteret led with eight and Cleve
land was second with six.
Asheville, with 28, led in number of
incompleted projects worked on dur
ing September. Three counties were
second under this classification. They
were, Henderson, Iredell, and Lee,
with 22 projects each.
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Fair and continued cold with
heavy frost tonight; Tuesday fair,
with slowly rising temperature.
OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIIFTNIA.
FARMERS IN SLATE
BENEFIT PAL 4 IN
Tobacco Growers Get Half
Amount Paid to Novem
ber 1, AAA State
ment Says
OVER $101,956 PAID
GROWERS IN VANCE
$71,616.18 to Tobacco
Farmers and $30,340.48 to
Cooperating Cotton Farm
ers Under Crop Control
Act
Washington. Nov. 12 (AP) North
Carolina tobacco growers have re
ceived one-fifth of the $25,285,531.47
the Agricultural Adjustment Admin
istration has paid out in rental and
benefits to farmers who cooperated
iu 'he weed control program.
Tor Heel weed growers, the admin
istration announced today, have been
paid more than $500,000 of the total,
or more than 20 percent.
Rental and benefit payments, total
ling; $10,706,124.11, the department re
vealed. had been paid to November 1
lo North Carolina farmers who co
operated in the tobacco, cotton, eorn
liog and wheat reduction programs.
Colton farmers have been paid s|,-
891.184.01, while participants in North
■Carolina in the corn-hog program re
ceived $108,711.09. Wheat growers,
small in number, have been paid sll
-for their cooperation.
Edgecombe county farmers received
a total of $334,801.80. of which $106.-
980.20 was for cotton benefit payments
ami $107,818.01 for tobacco payments.
Vance county received a total of
$101,956.56 of which $30,340.18 was for
cotton payments and $71,616.18 for
tobacco payments.
REPUBLICAN GAINS
IN STATE PLEASING
Democrats Wish They Had
Gotten Still More as
Check on Blocs.
Hally Disimleh Unread,
In (he Sir Muller Hotel,
tlj .1 l), ltiiNkervHie.
Raleigh, Sept. 12.—While they are
not willing to be quoted and are not
“telling the world,” a good many
Democratic leaders here and else
where in the State shedding no tears
over the slight gain made by the Re
publicans in the State legislature, in
which there will be a total of 14 Re
publicans—twelve in the House and
two in the Senate—on the basis of
latest returns. In fact, some the Deni
ocrats frankly wish there could have
been a few more Republicans in each
house, on the theory that if there is a
good sized representation from the
minority party, there is less likelihood
of blocs and factions developing with
in the majority party.
Back in the 1929 General Assembly
for instance, there were 47 Republi
can members. 35 in the House and
12 in the Senate. It is recalled that
in that session the Democratic ma
jority stuck together and worked har
moniously and that it was not split
up into factions and glocs, as was
the- case in both the 1931 and 1933
session of the legislature. For when
the Republican minority was that
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First Methodist Church
Dedicated With Sermon
By Bishop Paul B. Kern
$60,000 Mortgage Burned in Presence of Congregation
That Fills Auditorium to Capacity at Sunday Serv
ice; Other Preachers Participate
With Biship Paul B. Kern, of
Greensboro, in charge of four annual
conferences of the denomination in,
the Carolinas, preaching the sermon,
the stone edifice of the First Metho
dist church here was formerly de
dicated at special services held at
the 11 a. m. hour Sunday morning.
A congregation that filled the church
to its capacity attended.
The dedication followed payment
last week of the last remaining ob
ligation on a $60,000 bonded debt
Element made at ithat time bejng
owed Richmond banks, the total set
-536,043. The money had been raised
in a campaign the congregation had
carried on during the past four or
five weeks.
Rev. D. E. Earnhardt, now closing
his fourth year as pastor of the local
church, who led the debt-raising drive
was in charge of the services. In ad
dition to the bishop, several preach
ers of the North Carolina Conference
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
GREAT SMOKY PARK
HIGHWAY IS ROUTED
IN NORTH CAROLINA
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Youthful AUssistant Secretary of the
Treasury Man iner S. Eccles succeeds
Eugene Black as Governor of the
Federal Reserve Board. He was Salt
Lake City banker before appointment
to treasury post, his first public office
ARMISTICE BRINGS ~
FRENCH DISORDERS
Renewed Outbursts Between
Political Factions Mar
Day’s Events
SEVERAL ARE INJURED
General Fight Occurs at Lille and
ltiotiug Ureas Out at Sarboime;
Demonstrations Against
Heriot.
Paris, Nov. 12 (AP) Armistice
Day was a signal for renewed out
bursts between rival French political
organizations, their hatred fanned by
the fal lof the Doumerkue cabinet.
Gunfights in Paris and street brawls
in several other centers and towns
punctured the nation’s honors to her
war dead. Several persons were in
jured.
There was a general fight at Lille
when Nationalists jeered a parade of
Socialists and communists forming
an anti-Fascist affair.
There was rioting in front of the
memorial to war dead at. Sarbonne,
with communists and their oppon
ents exchanging blows.
Demonstrations against Edouard
Herriot, former premier, held respon
sible for the downfall of the Doumer
gue cabinet, occurred in Paris and
elsewhere.
SIX RESCUED FROM
LAKE BY A CUTTER
Toledo, Ohio, Nov. 12.—(AP) —
Six persons suffering from, ex
posure were rescued by a coast
guard cutter today from their
cabin cruiser the Sylvia, aground
off Tutrle Island, about five miles
from here, in Lae Erie.
The Sylvia had been missing
since yesterday and fears had
been expressed for the safety of
those aboard.
wex’e present for the occasion, incluu
ing Rev. T. G. Vickers, pastor of the
Methodist church in Oxford, who was
pastor here w'hen the new church wu.-
launched ten years ago; Dr. F. S.
Love, of Raleigh, presiding elder ol
the Raleigh district, in which Hend
erson is located; and Dr. M. T. Ply
ler, editor of the North Carolina
Christian Advocate. Other former pas
tors of the church had been invited
and were expected to be present, but
they were detainer" at the last min
ute.
The dedication exercises were brief
and simple. The entire service lasted
a little over an hour and a half. After
the usual opening service, including
two anthems by the choir, came the
dedicatory sermon by Bishop Kern.
The pastor then called on J. H.
Bridgers, who presented the cancell
ed mortgage, and gave a brief resume
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6'^pages
TODAY
FIVB CENTS COPY
Secretary Ickes Overrules
Board of Three, Which
Had Allotted Route
To Tennessee
SIXTEEN MILLIONS
PROVIDED FOR ROAD
Connects Shenandoah And
Great Smoky National
Parks; Scenic Highway
Reaches Down by Blowing
Rock, Asheville and Way
nesville Sections
Washington, Nov „2 (AP) Secre
tary Ickes announced today he had
chosen the so-called North Carolina
route for the southern section of the
Bhenandoah-'Grqat Smoky Mountain
National Park scenic highway.
The secretary overruled ‘the find
ing of a board of three, which recom
mended the route suggested by Ten
nessee.
The selected route runs from Blow
ing Rock, south along the Blue Ridge
and the Mount Mitchell and Craggy
ißilges near Asheville, N. C., thence
into the Mt. Pisgah range, running
sharply northwest along a line on
that range west of Waynesville, with
an entrance into the park as a. point
where it will connect with the New
found Pap highway near Cherokee.
N. C.
Tekes, who made known his decision
iii letters to Governor Ehringliaus, of
North Carolina, and Governor Hill
Me A1 ester, of Tennessee, said his se
lection was influenced by the fact
that there is now an entrance into
the Great Smoky Mountains Nation
al Park at Gatlinburg, N. C.
The scenic highway, to cost more
than $16,000,000. will connect the
Shenandoah National Park in Vir
ginia and the Great Smoky Mountains
National park in North Carolina and
Tennessee.
LURING H ALS AND BAILEY
ARE EXTREMELY PLEASED
Raleigh. Nov. 12 (AP) Governor
Ehringliaus and Senator J. W. Bailey
two of the leaders in the fight to
bring to North Carolina the main en
trance to the Great Smoky Moun
tains National Park from the park
to-park scenic highway today express
ed themselves as extremely pleased
when informed the State had won its
'battle.
1 he chief executive and senator
were doing an Armistice Dav parade
together when told that the route had
been accepted.
1 hat is great, marvelous,” they
both said at almost the same time.
GOVERNOR OF TENNESSEE
VERY MiJCll DISAPPOINTED
Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 12 (AP)
Governor Hill McAllister today said
lie was “very much disappointed” at
the action of Secretary Ickes in se
lecting the North Carolina route for
the southern section of the Shenan
doah-Great. Smoky Mountains Na
tional Park highway.
Carolinas
Observing
Armistice
(By the Associated Press)
The Carolinas today wound up a.
three-day celebration of Armistice
Day with parades, barbecues ami
speeches, ringing with pleas for
larger military forces.
Because Armistice Day fell this year
on Sunday, some of the celebrations
were staged on Saturday and other
towns and cities waited until today
to have their celebrations.
Special services were held in a
number of churches yesterday, and in
South Carolina Governor Blackwood,
called for a two-minute silence over
the State at 11 a. m. Sunday.
ALABAMA SHERIFF
Court Holds He Failed To
Obey Orders in G. O. P.
Election Probe
Fort Payne, Ala., Nov. 12.—(AP>—
Sheriff W. S< Pope, of De Kalb coun
ty, today was cited for contempt of
court by Judge A. E. Hawkins, pre
siding in De Kalb circuit court, for
alleged failure to obey orders of the
court in an inquiry into last Tuesdays
general election.
Sheriff Pope was ordered to appear!
at a hearing tomorrow morning at IQ
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