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! 11KNDKKSON I GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR No Trace Os Lost Pacific Plane PEACE PRIZE DONOR REPORTED PARTY TO GERMANY RE-ARMING Nobel, Ltd., Munitions Firm in London, Winked at Violation Os Treaty ALLIES ASSENT TO GET REPARATIONS Raised No Objection Be cause They Were Obtain ing German Payments Thereby; Nobel Could Have Halted Procedure; Sensation In Hearings Washington. Dec. 5. —(AP* —A state i. nt ihat Nobel. Limited. British 'Uinitions firm, founded by the do •!' i f the international peace prize, • i* guilty of “winking" at the rc ■ ning of Germany in violation of 'h, Versailles treaty, were presented i -lay to the Senate Munitions Com mit tee. The committee also received evid ■ ee that the State Department in ll'j.*) recognized the Allies were con iving with Germany in violation of t'»u Versailles treaty, because permit tioe the illegal manufacture of ex plo.-ives in Germany "swelled the re paint tens funds," Correspondence between the Du !nt company and its foreign de jartment drew the charge of "wink from Senator Vandenburg. Rt puhlican, Michigan who was conduct (Con tinned on Page Five.) STATE EMPLOYEES GIVEN THREE DAYS K ill igh, Dec. 5 iAPI— State em • vci will get thre days holiday for i ;.i istmas. The vacation period will if at noon on Saturday, Decem !"•’ 22. and extend until Wednesday a,Min. December 26. NEW PHONE RATES READY THIS WEEK Itaif.lt, Dec. T) (API —Stanley Win - id today he hoped to announce tele- Stote utilities commissioner, ; : ' rate reductions for cities and • wns in the State served by the Bell tern by the end of the week. Find Serum For Cancer In England Kills Cells Removed From Human Body Without Injury To Good Cells Guidon. Dec. 5. —(AP)—Discovery • f a serum which kills cancer cells afti i they removed from ’hi human body, and does no injury healthy human ti/ue so removed, was announced here today by Dr. Thomas Lumsden, director of the Condon cancer research laboratories'. Lumsden. one of the best known a ■nnng conservative cancer scientists, ■id the scrum cannot at present be. "• '•<! on human beings. He reported (Continued on Page Two) Parker Declines Motion To Quash Grice Charges Goldsboro, Dec. 5. —(AP) —A crowd •climated by officers at 1,500 milled ■ ibcut to* •''•urt house here today as ■ torneys begat 'he process of select ing ;» jury to tr> Mrs. Ruby Grice, •"(•-yenr-old widow and her brother, Donald Sasser, for complicity in the Gayiug of her husband. The court house seats only 450, and all spectators were barred until the 350 veniremen and she principles and their relatives had been admitted and had found seats. Immediately after court was con Heititrrsmt Hatlii Die patch LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Woman “Public Enemy” Held t - l fi t .. y £ : % ' . | -M.s. j Mis. Helen Gillis, wife of “Baby Face” Nelson, is held by Federal i agents following her capture after j the slaying last week of two Federal | officers who killed her husband. Both are among the last of the notorious Dillingei gang still living and at large. When Nelson’s wife fled after the slaying she became the nation's first “woman public enemy.” HAMILTON MAY BE M CUSTODY ALSO Many Rumors Spring Up Following Capture of Nelson’s Widow U. S. SLEUTHS SILENT Refuse To Comment oil Information Obtained in Grilling of Baby Face s Widow Following Her Arrest Chicago. Dec. 5. —(AP —Possibility that John Hamilton, ace gunner of the Dillinger gang, is already under arrest, was one of a number of ru mors that cropped up today following revelation that Mrs. Frclen Gillis. widow of "Baby Face” Nelson, has bfcen held by Federal agents for sev eral days. Government manhunters, seeking Hamilton as the accomplice of Nel son in the slaying of two Department of Justice operatives, refused to com ment or to indicate if Hamilton’s trial (Continued on Page Four) threeTilipinos DEAD IN TYPHOON Manilui P. 1., Dee. 3.—(AP — Three Filipinos were killed and many; others injured today in a small town near here in the eighth of a series of typhoons to sweep the islands in recent months. vened, the defense moved to quash the indictment, to dismiss it and to continue the trial until another term of court. Judge R. Hunt Parker overruled all the motions. Hugh Dortch and N. W. Outlaw, attornyes for Mrs. Grice and Sasser, gave no reason in asking that the indictments be quashed. In arguing for dismissal of this they contended the defendants were placed in double jeopardy since they had been indict ed separately, arraigned and the charges later nolle prosed. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VHKdNIA. WAYNICK PLEASES AS NEW BEAD FOR j STATE HIGHWAYS - High Point Editor Consider ed Eminently Suited for Road Work Re sponsibilities IS NOT POLITICAL SELECTION AT ALL Waynick Made Remarkable Record as Reemployment Director; Newspaper Training Fits Many Men for Gruelling Public Serv ice Demanded In Some Jobs I*.-»iI » ItiMiiiteli lliirejm. In Hit: Sir Waiter llui«*l ( / ll* J. I’, IliixkrM lllr, Raleigh. Dec. 5. —Selection of Cupus M. Waynick. editor of the High Point Enterprise as assistant chairman of the State Highway and Public Works Commission, with the full authority of the chairman as long as Chair man E. F>. Jcffress remains incap aciated bv illness is being heartily commended on every hand here today In fact it is generally agreed that tile appointment as assistant chairman is in fact equal to the appointment as chairman .since Waynick will have as much authority as if he were chair man. and since few believe Mr. Jef fress will ever be able to again le turn to active duty as chairman, even though his condition improves mat erially over what it is at the present lime. The appointment of Waynick as acting head of the highway depart ment did not come as a very great ! surprise in informed circles hero, ; since many have felt for a number of weeks that he was among those ! (Continued on l’age Six.) Big Slice Os Niagara Collapses Niagara Falls, N. Y., Dee. 5. (AP) —A slice of rock estimated to weigh 200,000 tons dropped from table rock of the Canadian faJJs here late last night to chan ge the contour of the huge cat aract for the second tune within five months. No water was failing over table rock when the huge rock broke and plunged into the gorge on the Canadian side. The new break was believed to have been from 50 to 60 feet long and about 100 feet wide. The rock which fell was part of a sector on which tourists often stood. Explosion In Lenoir A Mystery i Kinston, Dec. 5.—(AP) — The | cause us a mysterious explosion reported to have been felt for for miles around today remained unexplained. The largest buildings here were * shaken and dishes crashed from ; tables. The prevailing theory was that the shock was the result of a meteor wiiicli fell somewhere in this section. Reports from various points in Greene, Craven ana Jones counties told of the shock being felt. (Iu) Shopping day s'till HENDERSON, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON DECEMBER 5, 1934 Pacific Fliers Missing At Sea T - ", " ’ 5 ;. ’ f"•- ' ..K fg. ' | B - v '4fp9 Us—■ j George Littlejohn Ulm and Littlejohn and their radio operator, in their huge plane, shown j above, have been missing at sea in the vicinity of the Hawaiian islands j after they were forced to bring their j land plane down in the ocean Tues- 1 Sloan Asserts NRA Has Lifted Textile Industry ml To Improved Conditions Competition Now Able To Function in Healthy Manner and Many of Industry’s Unemployed Have Been Given Work; Speaks At Annual Meeting New York, Dec. 5 (AP)—Under the NRA, competitive conditions in the nation’s cotton textile industry have improved, George A. Sloan, president of the Cotton Textile Institute, de clared today. Speaking at the annual meeting of the Institute, Sloan said: “By the code we attempted to create conditions under which competition could function in a healthy manner. We are learning by experience. Much remains to be accomplished.” Reviewing the past year in the in- Blaze Wipes Out Town In Virginia I lay si, Va., Dec. 5 (AP) —Fire to day practically wiped out this town of several hundred inhabi tants, burning all buildings in the town proper, except two garages and a small shoe shop. The fire was believed to have originated in a department store about 6 o’clock this morning. IGKES-MOFFETTROW WAS DEEP • SEATED l Moffett Wanted Private Fi nancing, Ickes Public, For Building By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff WTiter j Washington, Dec. s.—The recent row (which was a row of the most deep-seated character, though now it’s denied that it was any row what ever) between Secretary of the In terior Harold L. Ickes and Housing Administrator James A. Moffett de serves analysis, as to its real mean ing. The housing plan under Moffett’s management, as already been ex (Continued on Page Foui I WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair, slightly colder on the north coast tonight; Thursday in creasing cloudiness; slowly rising temperature. Caot. Charles T. P. Ulm day afternoon when their gasoline supply gave out. Ships and planes have been earching frantically over a wide area of the ocean since SOS signals came from tne plane, hut no trace has been found. the textile code, the processing tax dustry, Sloan discussed the efforts of and the recent textile strike. The code, he said, had relieved the pressure toward minimum wages, equalized conditions of competition and enabled the industry to re-absorb its unemployed. Machine hour limitations had brought the available capacity of the industry more nearly into balance with available demands, Sloan said, thus migrating somewhat the effect of the over-capacity of the industry. Christmas To Be Best In 5 Years Wave of Optimism Over Future Is Spreading Over the Entire Nation By LESLLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer New York, Dec. 5. —This will be the best Christmas in five years. A wave of optimism, more so among “hard-headed” business men than others, is overspreading the nation. Some of the financial men say out right that the present upturn is on the most solid footing of any in years Business has been gaining steadily since September. Large interests are eager that it con tinue. As they see it capitalism ac tually is on trial. For all they know, (Continued on Page Four) ASHEVILLE’S WEED AVERAGE 20 CENTS Asheville, Dec. s.—(AP) —The trend of early sales on the open ing of the hurley tobacco auction markets here today Indicated the day’s average would be approxi mately S2O per hundred. The first 100 baskets sold, ag gregating more than 6,000 pounds, brought an average of $19.88 per hundred. Sales wre«* expected by warehousemen to be In the neigh borhood! of 250,000 pounds. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY, Dozens Os Craft Search Water In Hawaiian Regions Guarded Mourner ■Joseph V. Stalin as Mourner « Army of police guarded Joseph V. StWn, dictator of U.S.S.R.. when he ttade one of his rare trips away lloscow to conduct investiga tion of assassination in Leningrad rs Sergei Kiroff, an aide often men tiojMd as liis possible successor. Stllfel will be pallbearer at Kiroff’g •tale funeral in Moscow, (Central Press) BRITAIN READY TO PATROL THE SAAR Offer of Troops for Purpose During Plebiscite Made To League SURPRISE BY FRANCE Announcement Made That She Will Have Nothing To Do With Any International Force Sent into Saar Basin Geneva, Dec. s.—(AP)—Captain An thony Eden, British delegate to the League of Nations, announced today that if France will agree not to send troops into the Saar basin territory, and if Germany is willing, Great Bri tain will police the Saar with British troops during the Saar plebiscite next month. The British offer created a sensa tion in the League of Nations Coun cil. The proposal was made to the council in full meeting. The Council already had heard a report on the outlook for the plebiscite. It specified that if the Saar votes in favor of continuing the present (Continued on Page Two) PICK CITY STREET JOBS FOR PAVING Raleigh, Dec. 5 (AP) —The State Highway and Public Works Com mission today started selection of construction projects to be done in municipalities of the State next year w r ith Federal money. A committee of the commission, consisting of Capus M. Waynick, new assistant chairman; Commis sioner W. H. Woodard and Act ing Engineer W. Vance Baise was named to confer with the Vir ginia Highway Commission re garding the location of a proposed road from Seaboard to Boykins. Warner Bros. Movie Lot Damaged By Great Fire Burbank, Cal., Dec. 5. —(AP) — Fire 1 swept the Warner Brothers First Na tional Studios here,' causing one death injuring 15 persons and doing dam age estimated at $.00,000 before it was extinguished early today. Albert Rounder, 65-year-old fire chief of the motion picture studio, died at a first aid station of heart failure, which doctors said was in duced by the excitement of the con 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY Hour Brings New Fear That Ulm and His Com panions Have Been Drowned FORCED DOWN WHEN GAS SUPPLY FAILS 23 Naval Ships Hunt All Night for Some Trace of 111-Fated Plane ? En Route to Australia from Califor nia; Trying To Chart Com mercial Route Honolulu, Dec. s.—(AP)—Through the air and over the water, army, navy and private searchers widened ™ e hunt today for Flight Lieutenant Chaiies T. P. Ulm and two compan ions whose trans-Pacific plane was forced to an ocean landing. Every hour brought new fear that the trim “Star of Australia,” a land, plane, had carried its three passen gers beneath the surging Pacific when gasoline gave out yesterday. An all-night cruise by 23 naval craft failed to locate a trace of the plane inw hich Ulm, Co-Pilot George Little john and Navigtaor-Radio Operator J. L. Skilling took off from Oakland Monday for Honolulu on a contem plated Australian flight. The trio was attempting to chart a commercial trans-Pacific flying route. The exact location of th e lukless adventurers was not known. SOS mes sages flashed from the plane yester day indicated it came down within 200 miles of Oahu, but Ulm said h® was off his course and frantically sought bearings. HOLLYWOOD FEARFUL OF SCREEN STRIKES Hollywood, Cal., Dec. 5 (AP)— Threats of a motion picture strike were heard today as Sol A. Rosen blatt, NRA film code administra tor, hurried to Washington after failing to effect a truee betwen producers, writers and actors. Spokesmen for the actors and writers guilds described the dis pute over working conditions as “more deadlocked than ever.” “DIZZY” DEAN WILL GET ABOVE $20,000 Bradenton, Fla., Dec. 5. — (AP) Jerome “Dizzy” Dean, star pitcher for the world champion St. Louis baseball club, said today his sal ary next season would be between $20,00(1 and $26,000 next year. Last yaer he received SB,OOO. STATE IRRIESAT HIGH CORN PRICES 1 Makes Expenditures Jump for Certain Essentials In Operations Daily Din put eh Harrat, In the Sir Walter Hotel, By J. C. UnttkervUle. Raleigh, Dec. s.—The high price of corn is causing A. S. Brower, direc tor of the Division of Purchase and contract, plenty of worry these days. Nor is it the liquid variety of corn that is bothering him, but just plain, old dry corn, on or off the cob. be fore it is converted into the type sold in fruit jars. For while the State does not buy so very much corn, with the possible! (Continued on Page Five) flagration. Rudolph Hoop, an actor, and Nick Potskoff, studio workmen, were the most seriously injured. Each suffer ed a broken leg, minor burns and bruises. Officials of the film plant said thel fire swept over about half the 80 acres occupied by the studio, but that the area was of minor importance xot the production of pictures.
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