HENDERSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY FIRST YEAR
MUNITIONS MAKERS REAP HUGE PROFITS OF 362 PRCNT.
EFFORT TO UNLOAD
COUNTY BONDS ON
STATE IS PLANNED
Life Insurance Companies
and County Commission
ers Believed Behind
The Agitation
WILL STAGE FIGHT
IN 1935 ASSEMBLY
It Would Necessitate Addi
tional $8,000,000 of Reve
nue Annually, and Some
Sec Wrecking of Highway
System by Need for Money,
If Measure Passes
Dally D|i*pnt«*k Rarrna,
la <he Sir Walter Holri,
Hr J. V. Ranker! IIIr. |
.Raleiuh, Pec. 13—Backed by the j
'•’2 life insurance companies and I
other holders of county and district.
t<>ad bonds, a powerful and deter
-1 dned effort is going to be made in
ihe rapidly nearing General Assem
bly to transfer the entire county and
district road bond debt onto the State
to be paid from State highway reve
nues. according to repotrs heard here
today.
Ts this effort on the part of the Big
New York, New England and other
life insurance companies, who hold
many of these county and district
road bonds, assisted by many of the
counties and the North Carolina As
sociation of couty Commissioners, is
successful, it would virtually double
the present State highway indebted
ness. It would also virtually double
the bond and interest payments now
being made from the highway fund
andincrease these from $8,000,000 a
year, as at present, to approximately
*l6 000,000 a year. In other words,
’his plan would divert a? least $8,000.-
iMX) a year now needed for highway
maintenance and construction to the
payment of the interest and princi
pal on county road indebtedness.
Tn order to get this additional SB.-
VOO.OOO a year for highway debt ser
vice. one of two things would be ne
cessary, according to those familiar
wHh the situation. The present taxes
on automobiles, trucks and gasoline
would have to be increased, or the
appropriation for maintenance of the
highways would have to be reduced
another <1.000.000 a year, in addition
to the $4,000,000 a year reduction
made by the 1933 General Assembly.
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COAST GUARD WILL
AID GROUNDED SHIP
Hatteras Inlet, Dec. 13.—(AP) —
A' coast guard crew from the Hat
teean Inlet and another from
Ocracoke have been dispatched
to rfiid the Sadie A. Nickerson,
which went aground five miles
northwest of here during Tues
day’s gales. A 75-foot coast guard
ImmU has also been sent to the
scene.
Processing
Faxes Rank
Stare High
State First on Cotton
and Tobacco And
Third in U.jS. On
All Totals
Washington, Dec. 13. —(AP) —North
Carolina ranked third among the
states in payment of processing taxes
through October.3l and led all states
in payment on cotton and tobacco.
Chester C. Davis, farm administra
tor. announced today total collections
in North Carolina were $41,256,015. a
figure exceeded only by Illinois. $91,-
990.189 and New York, $58,213,425.
Because large textile and cigarette
industries arc located in North Caro
lina that State paid $31,329,524 In pro
cessing taxes on cotton, and $7,628,54b
on tobacco.
Massachusets was second to North
Carolina in cotton processing tax col
lections, reporting $24,548,506 on that
commodity, while South Carolina was
third with $22,661,673.
New York was to North
Carolina in tobacco processing taxes,
with collections of $5,921,804. Vir
ginia was third, wth $2,530,379.
Processing taxes in the country as
a whole totalled $550,081,419. The two
Carolinas together paid more than
564.153.000 of that amount.
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9 NLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND ’ ’
□CASED WIRBJ BERVICB OF
YUK ASSOCIATED PRESS-
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Where Scores Perished in Tragic Hotel Fire
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Heic is a graphic air view of the Kerns Hotel. Lansing. Mich., showing the blazing building in which scores of
guests were trapped and burned to death or were drown-ed when they jumped into the icy waters of the Grand
river Horn bedroom windows. Six Michigan state legis-lators. who had come to attend sessions at the capital
building at Lansing, are reported among the dead.
Raid on ABC Office Might
Stir New Trouble in Cuba
Havana, Cuba. Dec. 13.—(AP)—The
strong ABC political society said
today an allegedly government-inspir
ed raid on its newspaper. Accion. is
“equivalent to a declaration of war.”
The statement of the society's cen
tral committee came as the govern
ment took every precaution against
uprisings. Rumors of impending re
volt raced over the island, torn by
months of political dissenion and
violence,
Last night a group of armed men
entered the editorial rooms of the
Might Ask
For Better
Enforcing
Governor Take s
Crack at Magis
trates, Advocates
County Mergers
Daily Dispatch ltnr<*:>«.
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
By J. C. Baskerville,
Raleigh, Dec. 13. —Will Govcrnoi J.
C. B. Ehringhaus make definite re
commendations to the forthcoming
General Assembly for the enactment
of new legislation designed to bring
about better law enforcement? Will
he auk the legislature to ablish the
arch and no-longenpieeded justices of
the peace courts, and for laws per
mitting closer cooperation with the
Federal government law enforcement
agencies?
These questions are being asked in
political circles here today following
the governor's address before the Na
tional CAime Conference in Wash
ington yesterday, in which he blamed
“the disorganization of law enforcing
agencies -within the states’’ for much
of the weakness of local law en
forcement. Governor Ehringhaus also
said that county governments could
“be run more efficiently and with
much less expense’’ if the counties
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Considers
Increases
In Tobacco
Washington, Dec. 13. —(AP) — The
Farm Administration today had un
der consideration a proposal to in
crease the 1935 production of flue
cured tobacco to equal world con
sumption.
The advisory committee of flue
cured growers, after a meeting here
, with J. B. Hutson, tobacco chief, re
commended 1935 production equal to
: 85 percent of the base acreage and
' production, instead of the optional
' 80 per cent this year.
' k <>Dx RNOON, DECEMBER 13, ,1934 except hundat. FIVE CENTS COPY <'•.
i newspaper Acciou. and forced nine
editorial workers to accompany them
to the outskirts of Havana, where
the victims were made to take castor
i oil.
Forts- armed police took over of
• j fices of then ewspaper. They told edi
tors “there will be no paper this
morning.’’ on orders of Colonel Ped
raza (chief of Havana police).
Rumors flooded Havana, which was
I on edge. The government has sus
. pended constitotional guarantees in
1 every province save one. Extra vigil-
Death List Rises
In Lansing Blaze
Lansing, Mich,, Dec. 18. —(AP)
As the sorrowful task of probing
the ruins of fire-swept Hotel Kerns
went, forward today. State police
listed 26 known dead, with 23
bodies recovered, 16 of them iden
tified.
Eleven bodies of which the con
suming flames left little more than
than skeletons, had been taken
from the ice -sheeted debris of
what once was on of the State
capital’s popular meeting places.
All were beyond identification ex
cept for a few personal effects,
such as rings or other trinkets,
found with some of then,,
mNWifr
IS ENJOYING BOOM
Influx in Advance of Open
ing of Congress Unusual
ly Heavy Now
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Pj»ss Staff Writer
Washington, Dec. 13.— A recent very
convincing-lookg tally oj a local
newspajier ‘Ldicutes that one reventn
of Washington’s population is on the
relief roll.
This hints at more than, perhaps,
suggests itself at first thought
The nub of the proposition is that
the capital, while not truly prosper
ous, in a basic sense, nevertheless ac
tually is booming.
Such being the case, with one-seven
the of its population on the relief roll,
what must be the status of othei
cities, which are far from being in
the boom-time classification.
THE WHY OF THE BOOM
The Washington boom is easy to
prove and not hard to account for.
Washington never was an industrial
center; therefore has no volume of
working-class joblessness to reckon
with.
Its workers are mainly in the gov
ernment service. Their incomes, tho
ugh somewhat reduced by depression
legislation, still are adequate, and as
secure as Uncle Sam can make them.
Moreover their number has been en
ormously increased (at an extremely
rapid rate, too) by recruits required
to man the multiplicity of the New
Deal’s alphabetical organizations. The
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s | ance was voted throughout the city,
i Many police appeared for duty
s ! armed with rifles.
Victims of the abduction last night
, said they believed secret police con-
• ducted th raid. When they returned
■ ’ to the office, telephone wires had
• been cut, typewriters!, overturned and
• papers scattered.
Although there were denials, it was
known there has been friction with
■ the army, and General Batistta
is making every, effort to eliminate
■ it.
LAST SCHOOL BUSES
INTO SERVICE SOON
State Acquiring 750 New
Ones This Year; Counties
Add to Number
Dully Dlspntck Bareua,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
By J C.
Raleigh. Dec. 13.—The last 75 of the
750 new school buses recently pur
chased by the State School Commis
sion with the assistance of the Pub
lic Works Administration in Wash
ington. are now being assembled here.
They will be ready for delivery to the
oody building plants py Saturday,
where the bodies have been complet
ed and are awaiting the 75 chassis,
according to C. F. Gaddy, director of
transportation for the State School
Commission. The bodies will be in
stalled on the cassis and the com
pleted buses delivered to the counties
by the latter part of next week. This
last batch of 75 trucks are the stand-
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4 Dead as
Residence
Is Bttrned
Bedford, Va.. Dec. 13.—tAP) —Hazel,
19. and three younger daughters of
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Nichols were
burned to death early today when fire
destroyed their farm home near here.
Names of the three other children
were not available here this morning.
Other members of the family were
more or less seriously injured, and
all who escaped suffered from shock
and exposure.
Information of the tragedy came to
relatives of the family here this morn
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WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair tonight, cloudy Friday fair
j not much change in temperature.
FOR HENDERSON.
For 24-hour period ending at
noon today: Highest temperature,
49: lowet. 29: southwest wind: no
rain, fair.
STARTLING FACTS
ARE LAID BEFORE
SENATE PROBERS
-r -
! Figures Reach Back to Pro
fits Garnered During
Balmy Days of the
World War
OTHER COMPANIES
MADE 20 PRCNT. UP
In Many Cases Profits Made
on Cost Plus Contracts,
and In Some Instances
Government Had Ad
vanced Money To Finance
Hurried Production
Washington. Dec. 13 (AP) Huge
profits, ranging as high as 362 per
cent to manufacturers of war mate
rials during the World War were dis
* closed today to the Senate Munitions
Committee.
This was developed shortly after
President Roosevelt had suggested
i close cooperation between his group
to formulate legislation to take the
profits out of war and the Senate in
i vestigators.
Investigatoi’s placed before the com-
I mittee figures from the internal reve
nue bureau showing profits for scores
of companies ran from. 20 per cent of
; invested capital to 362 percent.
Alger C. Hiss, committee investiga
j tor, who conducted the inquiry, deve
. loped that in many cases the profits
were made on cost plus contracts, and
; that in some instances cash was ad
vanced to th ecompanies by the gov
ernment to finance their production.
RELIEF DIVISION
NDT MAKING GIFT
Land, Livestock, Seed, Etc.,
Merely Lent to Families,
Ross Says
Daily- Dispatch Bareaa,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
By J. C. Baskerville.
Raleigh, Dec. 13. —“We are not giv
ing anything away to any one in the
rural rehabilitation division of the
Emergency Relief Administration, al
though a lot of people seem to think
we are,’ George Ross director of this
division said today. “What we are do
ing is to lend families land, live
stick. seed and the implements need-
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Two Mission
Workers in
China Slain
Shanghai, Dec. 13. (AP) —The deaths
of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Stam, Ameri
can missionaries, were reported to
the China Inland Mission office to
day in a cryptic telegram from its
Wuhu office.
The message read:
“Stams bodies found 15 miles from
Tsingteli.”
Further details were not included
in the message, and the mission of
■ fice her was extending every effort
j to obtain more information.
Since no mention was made in the
telegram of the two-months-old baby
of the young missionary couple, the
mission authorities did not know
whether the baby’s body likewise had
been found or whether the kidnapers
who captured the Stams in southern
Anhwei province several days ago
might be hiding the child.
Liu Cheng Hwa, governor of the
Anhwei province, informed the mis
sion office here the Stams had been
slain by their captors on a battle
field 15 miles from Tsingteh.
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days till
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WILLIAMS PREDICTS
NEW ERA WILL DROP
PRICE-FIXING IDEA
3 Boys Drown As
Ice Strikes Boat
Conshohocken, Penn., Dee, 13—
(AP)—A floating cake of ice,
smashing into a small boat as it
rode across the Schuylkill river,
sent three boys, muskrat trappers
to their deaths in the icy waters
today.
Although their bodies were not
recovered immediately, the boys
were identified by their families
as Joseph Murphy, 19; Stanley
Gerry, 16; and John Holden, Jr.,
16. all of Conshohocken.
ROOSEVELT SEEKS’
COOPERATION FOR
MONITIONS PLANS
Wants His Own Committee
and That of Senate .To
Unite Efforts in Next
Congress
TO TAKE PROFITS
OUT OF ALL WARS
President’s Appointment of
Special Committee Yester
day Irritated Senate Group,
But He Obtains Promise of
Coordination of Two
Groups
Washington, Dec. 13.— : (-AP) Close
cooperation between his committee to
take the profit out of war and the
Senate Committee investigating muni
tions was suggested today by Presi
dent Roosevelt
He made this suggestion during a
talk with Senator Clark, Democrat.
Missouri, a member of the munitions
committee.
When the President named a group
yesterday to investigate war profits,
several senators were irritated be
cause that action was taken before
they had finished their inquiry.
The President brought up the sub
ject, Clark said.
“Mr. Roosevelt told me he expect
ed his war profits committee to co
operate with our Senate committee,
and vice versa,’’ Clark added.
Bernard M. Baruch, former War
Industries Board chairman, who is
heading the Roosevelt committee to
draft legislation, said the President
and his group would consult freely
with members of the Senate and
House.
“I see* no basis for cc . between
the two committees,” CL . said, “We
are trying our best to get something
done.”
Life Term
In Slaying
For Texan
El Paso, Texas, Dec. 13. —(AP) —
Arthur C. Wilson was convicted of
murder for the desert slaying of Mrs.
Irene de Bolt, Cleveland, Ohio, widow
today by a jury which fixed his penal
ty at life imprisonment.
Before a court room crowded with
women, the jury so 12 men which be
gan its deliberations at 5:55 p. m.,
mountain time, yesterday, brought in
a written verdict.
Mrs De Bolt was found slain west
of Van Horn, Texas, November 7,
1933, her body stripped of clothing
and $1,650 in currency. Her automo
bile was missing.
The prosecution said Wilson, her
companion on an automobile trip
westward from Cleveland, had beaten
and strangled her to death for her
money. As Wilson, 29-year-old steel
chemist, was ld3 from the court reom,
he grinned at Leo Rattigan, a brother
of the slain woman.
Rattigan leaped to his feet and
swung his fist toward Wilson.
A deputy sheriff sprang between
the meL ci'.i averted rhe blow
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TODAY
Minimum Wages and Max*
imum Hours Will Prob*
ably Be Retained In
Reorganization
CHILD LABOR BAN
IS ALSO TO STAY
Collective Bargaining Guar*
antees and Provisions
Against Unfair Trade
Practices Likewise Includ*
ed; These Will Take Care
of Price-Fixing
New York. Dec. 13.—(AP)—Clay
Williams, chairman of the industrial
recovery board predicted today that
price-fixing will be eliminated from
the new NR A.
Sketching for a. ‘business meeting
his ideas on what that new NRa
would be, Williams foresaw that it
would continue:
1. Minimum wages and maximum
hours.
2. The ban on child labor.
3. The collective bargaining guar
antees.
4. Provision against certain unfair
trade practices.
Full compliance with wage and
hour provisions, Williams said, would
largely eliminate the need for price
fixing.
I am not unaware of the impor
tance in which some groups still hold
the provisions of their codes, that
were designed, inserted and insisted
upon as necessary to their chances
of prosperity,” he explained.
“And yet I raise before you tn»
question whether the problem of com
pliance with wage provisions and the
problem of price maintenance provi
sions are, in fact, two separate pro
blems requiring two separate answ
ers oi- whether, on the other hand,
the two are not so closely inter-relat
ed ehat the answer to th e first auto
matically solves the second for most
interests and businesses.”
Capt. McGougan Is
Found Guilty For
Conduct; Is Fined
Raleigh, Dec. 13 (API- Captain
Ernest D. McGoughan, of Company
L, 120th Infantry, Parkton, was found,
guilty of charges of being “drunk
while on duty,” and of speaking to
Lieutenant William D. Smith, “in an
insulting and disrespectful manner”
by a courtmartial which met at Fay
etteville last, month, and was fined
SIOO and ordered to be reprimanded,
it was revealed today.
Captain McGoughan was tried on
charges growing out of his conduct
while his company was stationed at
&nd near Fayettveille on guard duty
during the textile strike early in the
fall.
Adjutant General J. Van B. Metts
today announced the findings of the
courtmartial on orders of Governor
Ehringhaus, who, as commander-in
chief had reviewed the verdict.
Satterfield
Exection To
Be Friday
Slayer of Grice To
Die Following Ac
quittal of Widow
and Brother
Raleigh, Dec. 13—(AP)—Plans went
forward at State Prison today for the
scheduled electrocution tomorrow of
Rufus Satterfield, Wayne county man
convicted of the murder of Herbert
Grice, an iron worker, and Parole
Commissioner Edwin M. Gill said no
intervention was planned for the man
Satterfield was back in his little
cell on Death Row after going to
Goldsboro early in the week to testify
at the trial of Mrs. Ruby Sasser Grice
widow of the murdered man, and her
brother, Donald Sasser, who last
night were acquitted of charges of
complicity in the killing of Grice.
Warden H. H. Honeycutt, of the
prison, said Satterfield’s head would
be shaved late today, and the chain
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