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HENDERSON i i ATE WAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY FIRST YEAR FEAR 40 DEAD AS HOTEL BURNS BITING COLD GRIPS THE COUNTRY FROM MAINE TO FLORIDA Disastrous Fires Add to Suf fering Along With Tem peratures Near Zero Level NEW YORK THROWING OPEN ITS ARMORIES Relief Workers Pressed To Care for 10,000 Homeless; Midwest and Northwest Have Extremely Cold Weather; Even Florida 1 eels the Cold ;JB\ tile Associated Press.) i -jin Main- to Florida and through ■ c'-ntiid ureas us the nation there ■ i biting cold today. Disartrour fire! added to the suf -. • i *g. i i lAiding Mich.. 11* persons wore 'Uiiowu dead ar.d nearly 100 were un ■i oun'e.l for as the result of flames •■•liich 'Wept through the Kerns hotel, in Typi'oi Lake, .V Y., 22 persons l ; of t itun children—were driven ' *t o . üb-z ro temperatures when fire • i • < rov 'd a tenement building. In Now York City two men died ■ ’.in 12-degree cold. The city plan ' d to upon its armories to 10,000 • amok' - ind furnish them with hot | • d't'e'’ Fcicrusts of snow added new • oirie.- to hard-pressed relief agen- j Sir inches of ice covered central Mdiir !sk“ : Chicago dug out of a I'.t inch i owfall; Boston had a 55- r i' cord cold <>f five degrees: snow •' ' Georgia nnd the deep South, 't Owl'.- H<*ad. in the New York viironduks. reported IT degrees be ■» Oiitiou.? estimated at SIOO,OOO was j i.'*d hv fire of undetermined origin I " uvi: levelled two main buildings of j C: i uninishield Shipbuilding Coin l’< oy plant ut Somerset. Mass. A fir-man who fought flames which •Ii tr.iy.d tin* four-atory factory of 'in Allanic Rag Company in Balti f""i•. Ml last night was in a cri n-il rendition today. One fireman "•to kill'd and 11 injured combating '•i* fire. v.Mi*' •••mpvratures of zero or low w«*re recorded in Minnesota, lowa a Michigan, the South suffered •• upon innately. Readings under 20 *’• zrvs were common in Georgia, and • ahann. Atlanta and Birminghanj ""ill reporting rninimums of 18. Even klorida felt the. frigid waath- Jacksonville reported a minimum '>■' Tampa. 39 and Miami 48. Louisville. Kv.. and Asheville, N. j with 12 and 14. respectively, re corded the lowest temperatures Tues day morning. Trawlers | Vlllatteras Are Ashore I j Moated by .Heroic Efforts of Coast (iuardsmen Just off the Inlet Munteo. Dec .11 (APl—Three fish ing trawlers wiiich w*ent ashore on : hat *.eras inlet bar this morning at 20 o’clock, while one of the worst I ’-ceniber snow storms in th‘e history i. ' the Dare County Weather Bureau wept the coastland, were floated lat ■ ’ in the day by a crew from the Hat leras Inlet coast guard station un ■ t command of Captain Bernice Mal bnce. A 30-rnile gale and blinding snow combined to constitute one of' the worst threats to navigation the coast country hus known this winter. Coast guard crews all along Dare’s 25- miles of coast, were on the lookout this afternoon. The boats which were floated today, '.tier going ashore at Hatteras Inlet, nore the Bitzy C.. and the Mary, of New London. Conn., and the Lado ■ ’ ace, of Philadelphia. The Bitzy C v.us so badly damaged that coast guardsmen took her to shallow wat •i” t for repairs. A. W. Drink water, in charge of the Weather Bureau, here, which has been in operation for the past 30 'nils, said shortly after noon that the temperature was 28 degrees and that the wind was from the north Mritiirrsmt Bailtt Btajiatrhl LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF •i’HE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Creators of Great Duke Fortune ? r,‘ h; 1 illiilil T C :c Wlmk Hhl JmrmpMm M ' RjMP? ‘ ft] |y& f mM . irA, Above is James B. Duke, whose benefactions created the Duke En dowment. which hat» come to be a blessing to thousands in the Carolinas. and below is his father, Washington Duke, founder of the huge tobacco industries from which was drawn the wealth that made these things possible. IBJMOFE LIMY BOOK Founder of Duke Endow ment Started as Poor Farmer Boy in 60’s WAS A HARD WORKER learned Rudiments of Business With His Father and Saw Tobacco Business Grow To Im mense Proportions Dufly Dispatch U«rcu«, In the Sir Wulter Hotel, By .* C. Himkervllle. Raleigh, Dec. 11.—The meeting of the members of the board of trustees of the Duke Endowment here today is focusing attention upon the un usual life story of Janies Buchanan Duke and his phenomenal rise from an obscure farmer boy to one of the greatest industrial leaders of the en tire coluntry. In many ways the ac tual life history of James B. Duke is more thrilling and more interesting than any of the fictional stories ever ' written by Horatio Alger or other au th'orss who have written countless : stories of how boys with humble be , ginnings have risen to fame and for ! tune by overcoming difficulties. Duke was born on a farm near Dur ham December 23, 1856, and was nam ed in honor of James Buchanan, then recently elected President of the Unit , de States. Like many other Southern I families, the Duke family had suf -1 sered much misery and privation dur ing the Civil War. and at the end of the war was left in almost complete poverty. Wfhile the father was away at the front during the war. the Duke family had been compelled to sell the farm to a neighbor. Although this (Continued on Page Four) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair, slightly colder on the | coast tonight; Wednesday fair. | slowly rising temperature. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. BENEFICIARIES OF DUKE MONEY MEET FOR CELEBRATIONS Over 200 Executives of Par ticipating Hospitals t Or phanages, Schools Unite ENDOWMENT SET UP JUST TEN YEARS AGO Visitors at Raleigh Gather ing Inspect Methodist And Catholic Orphanages And Rex and St. Agnes Hospi tals Are Guests at Lunch eons Raleigh. Dec. 11 < AP» More than 200 executives of participating hospi- j tals. orphanages and educational in stitutions today celebrated here the e.- 1 tablishment ten years ago of the Duke Endowment for philanthropic pur- . poses in the two Carolinas. The visitors were taken on an in spection tour of Rex hospital, the 'Methodist Orphanage, the Catholic Orphanage and St. Agnes hospital, beneficiary institutions here, this j morning, and lunch was served the : white visitors at the Methodist Orph anage and the colored guests at St. Agnes. rest M. Lester, of New York, seere- At a public meeting tonight. Dr. For tary of the Carnegie Corporation, will make the principal address, and Nor man A. Cocke, vice-chairman of the trustees of the Endowment, will re port on the work it has done. Governor Ehringhaus will make the address of welcome and will immedi ately leave for Washington. Chicago Is Choked By A Blizzard Chicago. Dec, 11 (APi A blinding j blizzard that stalled traffic and sent ! Chicagoans scurrying to cover had j subsided today. Striking yesterday, the snow stall- j ed automobiles and snarled traffic so i badly that scores of loop workers j spent the night at hotels rather than risk trying to go home. Traffic was near normal, however, today. More than ten inches of snow fell and drifts were piled high in the streets. The weather Bureau describ ed the freak storm the worst the city has experienced for six years. Two men dropped dead while walk- ; ing the snow-laded streets. Heart at- i tack, induced by exertion, were given i as the cause of the deaths. Hauptmann Plea Seeks Complaints Flemington, N. J., Dec. 11 LAP) — Bruno Richard Hauptmann stood handcuffed in county court today for 15 minutes as he listened to prelimi nary arguments in his attorney’s de mands on the State for a bill of parti culars on the indictment that he murdered Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.. The argument on the bill of parti culars was short-lived, for Supreme Court Justice Thomas E. Trenchard. who presided, postponed healings in the matter until Thursday, when the defense requested that he fix a date when Edward Reilly, chief defense counsel, could be present. CummingsAndMorgenthau Compete As “Policemen” Washington, Dec. 11.—(AP)— A friendly rivalry for the title or the administration’s No. 1 policeman ap pears to ibe developing between At torney General Cummings and Secre tary Morgenthau. Soon after Cummings took over the Justice Department, he began an anti crime drive, Public enemies, one after another, were eliminated—men like George “Machine Gun” Kelly, Harvey Bailey, John Dillinger and “Baby Face” Nelson. Cummings himself announced the arrest of Richard Hauptmann in the Lindbergh kidnaping case. He told HENDERSON, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 11, 1934 Balkan Quarrel Is Ended As Great League Triumph FOLLOWS CLOSELY SAAR SETTLEMENT TO ASSURE PEACE Both Hungary and Yugosla via Approve Resolution Deploring Alexand er’s Death STATESMEN* FREED OF GREAT WORRIES Budapest Government In structs Its Envoys At Ge neva To Vote for Proposal After Lengthy Study; Hun gary Asked To Punish Guilty Geneva. Dec. 11. —(AP) —A threaten ; ing Yugoslav-Hungarian quarrel was i ended today and the agreement hail ed by Geneva statesmen as a notable triumph for the League of Nations. Especially gratifying to them was that it followed closely the removal under League auspices of another Eu ropean war threat. This was the Saar basin territory plebiscite, on which a Franco-German financial agreement was made last week, and a solution reached on the difficult problem of policing the territory during the vote. Both Hungary and Yugoslavia, at a session of the League’s Council last night, approved a resolution “deplor ing" the assassination of King Alex* ander of Yugoslavia at Marseilles Not a dissenting vote was cast. Hungary was asked, in a tactful way. to take “punitive action against any authorities whose culpabilities have been established,” and to “com municate to the Council the measures which it takes to this effect.” , Both Yugoslavia, which had charg j ed Budapest with complicity in tne j assassination by harboring terrorists. ; and Hungary appeared satisfied. Statesmen of major European pow ; ers were vastly relieved when the | governmen at Budapest after study ing a draft of the agreement, instruct (Continued on Page Four) WAR DEPARTMENT HELPED DUPONTS Reserve Army Materials Of fered To Help Fill Japa nese Orders | Washington, Dec. 11,—(AP)—Testi mony was presented to the Senate Munitions Committee today that the DuPont Powder Company arranged with the War Department in 1922 to get reserve army materials to make t cartridges for sale to Japan, i Major K. K. V. Casey, DuPont, sale* | director, testified thuc after arrange -1 ments were made with the govern ment, the company found it could get the materials elsewhere. “But you had made the arrange ments with the department to get the supplies from army reserves?” Sen ; ator Clark. Democrat, Missouri ask ■ ed. “Yes,” Casey replied. ‘‘The army was willing to help us to tide us over.” Casey explained the company ar i ranged to get 160.000 rounds of am | munition from army reserves to fill the Japanese contracts. newsmen how many bullets were found in “Baby Face” after his en counter with Justice Department agents. He called the national crime conference now in progress. Then the Treasury got busy, Mor genthau announced a fight to the fin ish on bootleggers. The progress of this drive is announced regularly. Internal Revenue detectives made new efforts to get gangster aveders of income tax laws. When “Dutch” Schultz surrendered in New York last week, the Treasury said the last of the big racketeer-income tax cases was nearing conclusion. ON HUNGARIAN-YUGOSLAV border 11.,.-..I 1 .,.-..T *■ ■ —-~ 11 . r - .•••.•; ... v fr■ ' # . , j,”” t ' ' V • 'H A' 4 ? ' gs& x mitirinnfin'iiiMiinfTim-iinnniiiiiiiiii inn jHB Above is the market place at Szeged, Hungary, which is crowd ed to capacity, as pictured, now that many of the 27,000 Hun garians expelled from Yugoslavia are using it as a haven, it is lo New Money Given For School Buses Washington, Dee, 11 (API —The Public Works Administration an nounced today the grant of $183,600 allotted to the North Carolina State School Commision for con struction of 750 school buses had ben increased to $197,000 to cover increased cost of construction iobSSis Growers Over State Voting on Control of Produc tion for 1935 College Station, Raleigh. Dec. 11- Tar Heel tobacco growers began vot ing in the Kerr-Smith referendum this week, E. Y. Floyd, of State Col lege, said today. In each county, he said, the farm agents will se the day for voting, which must be some time between now and December 20. Polls will be set up in each community so that every grower will have a chance to vote. Throughout each county, the voting places will be open for one day. In addition, one poll in every tobacco (Continued on Page Three) Business Is Better Over Cotton Area College Station, Raleigh. 11—A marked improvement in business conditions of the cotton belt has ac companied the rise in farm income, says Dean I. O. Schaub, of State Col lege. The cotton farmers’ cash income from lint, seeded, and benefit pay ments during the first nine months! of this year was 36 per cent higher than the income for the correspond (Continued on Page Four) PUBLISHED EVERY AFTBRNOOH EXCEPT SUNDAY, cated on the Hungarian-Yugoslav ian border. Below is the vital spot not far from Szeged that marks the triple boundary of the two aroused countries and Hu man ia. i Ann Cannon May Aot Get Huge Estate Only Relatively Small Personal Holdings Due, Court Clerk Thinks Winston-Salem, Dec. 11.—(AP;-*. Only the relatively small personal es tate of Smith Reynolds is subject to North Carolina’s intestate laws and the trust fund left him iby R. J. Rey nolds, Sr., is not subject to distribu tion under these law’s, Clerk of the Court William E. Church stated today. The trust itseir is entirely separate from an “estate.” and its distribu tion will be governed by the terms of its creation —in this case the will of the late R. J. Reynolds. If the will of Smith Reynolds, filed in New York in 1931, and already contested, is declared invalid, then the $25,000,- 000 trust fund w’hieh is not an “es tate,” according to Mr. Church, will be distributed under the original Rey nolds will in the absence of any fa mily agreement. This will provides that Smith Rey nolds should receive his share of the trust estate when he became 28 years of age. If he died before attaining this age, then the trust would foe di vided among his issue on the date he would have become 28. In the event 'Continued on Pajte Three. 1 (II) Shopping dtiijs till Christmas i 6 It loday TWO SECTIONS. FIVE CENTS COPV ISSpeLre NEAR ZERO WEATHER Many Guests of Lansing, Mich., Establishment Jump to Streets, Others To River MANY LEGISLATORS AMONG THE GUESTS Had Gathered At State Cap ital for Special Session; In tense Cold Causes Tremen dous Suffering Among Sur vivors Who Escape Lansing-, Mich., Dec. 11.—(API—An early morning- fire in zero weather turned the Kerns hotel here into a death trap today, and, with twelve known dead, police and firemeo pre dicted that the number of fatalities might reach forty. Their escape out off by the flames, many guests jumped from upper win dows. some to the street, others into the Grand river, which flows at the rear of the hotel. A score of more of the guests were legislators here for a special session. Five of the known dead drowned. Five others died of injuries suffered in leaping to the street. F'leeing wit nesses told of stumbling- over th«* body of David Monroe, the assistant hotel manager, who apparently died of suffocation or injuries. An incomplete list of injured in hos pitals stood at, 27. No complete list of missing could be compiled because tbo hotel records including the register apparently wer® destroyed. Police and firemen, how ever, isaid they beli-aved the hotel ruins, still blazing fitfully, and too hot to permit investigation, contian ed probably 20 ibodiOs, and that pos sibly almost as many drowned in the river. State Senator John Leidlein, of Saginaw, was missimg, and a fellow legislator who pounded at his dooi* with the flames ticking up at his heels, said he was unable to arouse him. Apparently he perished. Tt was apparent that with the hotel records missing, it might be days be fore the full extent of the tragedy could be told. Intense cold, only a few degrees above zero, added to the suffering of the guests who were injured, and those who fled in scanty attire. The fire was discovered about 5:30 a. m. on the second floor of the hotel iby a watchman for the Lansing State Journal, whose building is nearby. The cause had not be ascertained, but early reports were said it started iu a guest room. LINER RAMS FERRY IN FRISCO HARBOR San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 11 (AP)—- The coastal liner Kuth Alexander, bound in from Seattle, rammed the ferry boat Calistoga in the bay here today, but apparently no one was in jured. State Near The End Os Grice Trial Defense Expeted To Offer Its Testimony! Speedily at Golds boro ! f Goldsboro, Dec. 11 (AP) —Several witnesses went back to the stand to complete State’s evidence today In the trial of Mrs. Ruby Grice and her brother, Donald Sasser, charged with complicity in the slaying of the wo man’s husband, for whose death one man already is scheduled to be elec trocuted Friday. Sheriff Paul Garrison took the stand again after leaving it last night when court adjourned. He testified as to investigation and following up of clues which led to arrest of Rufus Hatterfield. the man under death! sentence. The prosecution rapidly neared the end of its case as the morning wore on. with indications the defense would plunge immediately into evidence tending to refute charges that thb 30-year-old widow and her brother had anything to do with the ambush* ing of Herbert Grice, an iron worker* at his home here the night of October! 22, 1933. Satterfield was the State’s star wit* ness yesterday, being brought herd from State’s prison at Raleigh to give! his testimony, ,
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