IIENDLUSON
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
TWENTY-FIRST YEAR
SILVER BLOC WOULD RAID TREASURY TO PAY BONUS
U.S. May Finance Municipal Power Plant For New York Citv
GEISSWAMIIC
EAR (PRESIDENT
Groundwork Laid for Pos
sible Construction Os
Plant to Supply Met
ropolitan Area
PKIVATE COMPANIES
CHARGING TOO MUCH
City Administration Has Re
fused Bids Offered for Sup
plying Next Year’s Power
on Grounds They Are Too
High; Navy May Make Its
Own Power
Washington, Dec. 19. (APi—Presi
dent Roosevelt and Mayor LaGuardia,
of New Yotk. laid the groundwork
for jK)ssib!e construction of a
municipal power plant for the metro
polis.
Washington, Dec. 19. (AP)—Presi
d* ni Roosevelt is ready to lend Fed
rial funds to New York or other
i ilics for construction of municiapl
power plants if investigations prove
th'V can be operated cheaper than by
private companies.
This was made known today at
the President’s semi-weekly press con
ference in giving his views on cur
rent topics.
The President took up the ques
tion today with Mayor LaGuardia of
New York and City Commissioner
Division. They have refused bids of
private companies to supply next
year's i>ower on the ground they were
exorbitant.
It was disclosed also that the navy
i making a study to determine
wclithcr power can be obtained cheap
(Conlitmed bn Page* Foul >
Warnings
Os Storm
Are Given
Washington, Dec, 19 <AP) ->The
Weather Bureau today issued the fol
lowing storm warning:
“Advisory 9 a. m.: Northeast storm
warning ordered Boston to Nantucket,
southeast storm warnings south of
Nantucket to Norfolk, and southwest
storm warnings south of Norfolk to
Jacksonville; secondary disturbance
over Georgia will move northwest
ward with increasing intensity and
cause strong northwest winds and
gales early tonight. Boston to Nan
tucket. Strong southeast winds and
gales this afternoon south of Nantuck
et to Norfolk, shifting to southwest
late this afternoon or early tonight,
south of Norfolk to Wilmington, and
strong southwest winds this afternoon
and tonight between Wilmington and
Jacksonville.”''
Beach Area
Hunted For
Rich Lady
Mrs. Elliott Schaff
ner, of Rich Cloth
ing Firm, Missing
at Carmel, Cal.
Carmel, Cal.. Dec. 19.—-(AIM—■
A report that a screen had been
ripped! from a rear window in the
home of Mrs. FJliot Hokes Schaf
fner spurred authorities today in
the search for the missing Chi
cago woman in the belief she pos
sibly may have been kidnaped.
Carmel. Cal., Dec. 19 (AP)—The
nigged country and beaches around
Carmel were searched today for Mrs.
Elliot Boke Schaffner, 39-year-ioid
member of the wealthy clothing fam
ily
Apparently clad only in night
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Important questions involving States supreme court in Washing- j After a short session, the court
constitutionality of the NRA ton, meeting for the first time in | recessed until Jan. 7to prepare
were taken up by the United the new building pictured j opinions in many cases.
New Communist Inquiry
Looms On Capitol Hil
Russia Accused of Faliling
To Live Up To Her Pro
mise in Recogni
tion Accord
REBELLION URGED
BY PRETTY GIRLS
Work Among Men . ; In Na
tion’s Armed Forces Seek
ing Disloyalty and Sabo
tage; State Department to
Be Asked Whether or Not
Soviet Pledge Is Violated
Washington, Dec. 19 (AP)—A new
investigation of charges that Soviet
Russia had failed to forbid groups
within her control to seek the over
throw of the American government
was in the offing today on Capitol
Hill.
'William Green, president, and Mat
thew Woll, a vice-president, of the
American Federation of Labor, made
the accusation before the House com
mittee named to investigate un-Ame
rican activities.”
Yesterday Commander V. L. Kirk
man. of the navy, testified that com
munist agitators including young and
pretty girls, sought to incite the na
tion’s armed forces to “disloyalty”,
“sabotage,” and “rebellion” by fra
ternizing with them and distributing
circulars.
Today Chairman Mcßeynolds, Dem
ocrat, Tennessee, of the House For
eign Affairs Committee, said it would
be “only natural for him to ask the
State Department” whether a Soviet
pledge had been violated. The pledge
was made by Maxim Litvinoff when
the United States recognized Russia.
TO RUSH THROUGH
TEXTBOOK BUYING
Hint That Powers Want Job
Over Before General As
sembly Convenes
Unity Dispatch Msreaa,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
Br J. C. Bnskerville.
Raleigh, Dec. 19. —The agents of the
text hook publishers whose books are
on the “approved” list selected by
the State High School Textbook Com
mittee, an on which bids will be
opened tomorrow by the State Board
of Education, are busy presenting the
merits of their books in the daily
hearings that have been going on
since Monday. Each company which
has a basal text on the list is per
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“weathlr
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy, with rain, chang
ing to snow in the mountains to
night; colder in central and east
portions tonight; Thursday, fair
and colder.
WHERE U. S. SUPREME COURT PONDERS FATE OF NRA
HENDERSON, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON DECEMBER 19, 1934
Claim Diilinger
Paid for Freedom
Chicago, llec. 19.—(Al»)— The
Daily News today said it had
learned that John Diilinger bought
his way out of the Crown Point,
Ind.. jail last March on a promise
to pay .SII,OOO. Diilinger, it said,
kept his part of the bargain, but
that one of the middle men kept
part of the money, and those who
aided him in the escape actually
received only about half that a
mount.
Not Likely
YetToName
An Engineer
Waynick Wants
Choice Defer red;
Wright Bridge Issue
To Be Settled
Daily Dispatch Barena,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
By J. C, Buskervllle.
Raleigh. Dec. 19—While the State
Highway and Public Works Commis
sion is in session today for the first
time since it selected Capus M. Way
• nick as assistant chairman, with full
powers of the chairman during the
absence of Chairman E. B. Jeffress.
it is not expo 'ted that the commis
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Life Sentences >
Given Kidnapers
In Florida Court
Miami, Fla,, Dec. 19 (AP) —Life
sentences were meted out here to
day to four men who pleaded guil
ty to kidnaping Dr. Santiago Cla
ret, former Cuban editor, on De
cember 9, forcing him to sign a
check for $16,000.
Indictments charging the men,
who included Dr. Claret’s chauf
feur, with kidnaping for ransom
punishable by death in Florida,
were returned by the grand jury
yesterday.
• Throwing themselves upon the
mercy of the court, the men plead
ed guilty on arraignment before
Circuit Judge H. F. Atkijsonths
this morning.
The State, chiefly because Dr.
Claret was not injured, did not
press for the maximum penalty.
Dr. Claret related details of the
abduction to the court, and he was
followed on the witnes stand by
detectives who received the con
fession of the accused mea
legimSSe
Governor Believed To Favor
Idea, as Furthering
Local Government
Economy
POLITICIANS WILL
OPPOSE IT HOTLY
If Too Many County Gov
ernments, Then Too Many
County Superintendents,
But Politics Enters Again
There; Little Success Is
Looked For
Daily DiMpatcfc flareua,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
By J. U. BaaKervllle,
Raleigh, Dec. 19. —County consolida
tion is regarded more and more as
likely to be given much consideration
in the forthcoming General Assembly,
although most political observers here
agree that in spite of the millions of
dollars that could be saved by de
creasing the number of counties in
the State, it is going to be very dif
ficult to bring about any actual con
solidations. The county officials in
the 100 counties are already probably
the most influential politicians in the
State. If any move s made to deprve
any of them of their offices and sal
aries. they can be depended upon to
put up a terriffic fight and bring tre
mendous pressure to bear upon the
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TEAR GAS IS USED
UPON MOB AT TRIAL
Shelbyville, Tenn., Dec. 19.
(AP)—Using tear gas bombs, Na
tional Guardsmen today repulsed
a crowd that tried to break thro
ugh the lines and get into the
court house where a Negro is be
ing tried on a charge of an as
sault on a white girl.
English Woman Executed
Despite Appeals To King
Hull, England, Dec. 19.—(AP) —
After appeals to the king and queen
had failed to save her life, Mrs. Ethel
Lillie Major, 42-year-old mother of two
children, was hanged today at Hull
prison.
A black flagw as hoisted over the
penitentiary when she went to her
death, the first woman to be Execut
ed in England in eight years/ Until
the end, she maintained she was in
nocent of the charge of murdering
her husband by poison.
Three hundred curious persons idly
milled about outside the prison as
she mounted the gallows. The trap
was sprung at 9 a. m. (4 a. m., east
ern standard time), Two grim-faced
BUSINESS HEADS TO
PLEAD COOPERATION
IN RECOVERY DRIVE
Would Not Specifically
Name Roosevelt Admin
istration In Stand
Taken However
OLIVE BRANCH WILL
BE EXTENDED FREELY
90 Executives Meeting At
White Sulphur Springs
Mapping Program To Be
Carried to White House Be
fore Congress Arrives; To
Fight Extreme Laws
White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.,
Dec. 19.—(AP) —Business leaders of
America have virtually decided to ad
vocate cooperation with the govern
ment without specifically naming the
Roosevelt administration.
Convened here as the “joint busi
ness conference for recovery,” some
90 top executives found themselves
in accord today on several principles
which were being summarized In a
preamble extending the olive branch
in broadest terms.
The executives were expected to
carry the results of their deliberations
to the White House immediately, to
indicate the business viewpoint be
fore Congress convenes.
The business men, further, were
prepared to offer their aid to the
President in combating extreme leg
islation.
KIDNAP TESTIMONY
BY JOHNSTON GIRL
Smithfield, Dec. 19.—(AP) —The en
tire morning session today was taken
up with cross-examination of Camelia
Price, one of the alleged victims, as
the State continued to build its case
against nine defendants whom it
charges with kidnaping three John
ston county girls and taking them
to New York for immoral purposes.
The girl testified she left her par
ents’ home in early summer, when
Clinton Beasley, one of the defen
dants, came there to work. She de
clared Beasley showed her cat bones
and told her he could bewitch her
and make her do as he wished.
NATIONALIZING OF
LANDISU.S.AIM
That Is Program Toward
Which Present Govern
ment Is Moving
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
Washington, Dec. 19. A program
for land nationalization evolves itself
more and more clearly from admin
istration plans looking toward the es
tablishment of a subsistence farming
system, as well as toward improve
ment in urban housing conditions.
Secretary of the Interior Ickes’ ad
vocacy of the governmental construc
tion of some billions of dollars’ wortn
of inexpensive but comfortable and
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policemen paced back and forth,
keeping the crowd on the move.
Final urgent appeals for clemency
by Lord Mayor Stark of Hull, the
last addressed to Buckingham palace,
were fruitless. The appeal to the king
and queen was turned over to the
home secretary’s office, which replied
tersely:
“The decision of the home secre
tary is already known.”
The jury which convicted Mrs.
Major had recommended clemency.
No one in Hull seemed to take
much interest in her case, except the
lord mayor, as Mrs. Major’s home was
in the little village of Kirby-on-Bahi,
where a 15-year-old son, a nine-year
old daughter and her aged father live.
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According to a cable unearthed
in the files of the state depart
ment at Washington which he sent
to President Wilson, America’s
war-time ambassador to England,
th« lata Walter Hines Page,
above, ‘declared that the U. S.
must go to war against Germany
to maintain its powerful foreign
trade position. “tJnless we figlit;
Germany, America cannot mako
a direct grant of credit to Eng
land or France,” Page assertedly
told Wilson.
F ormerHead
Reserveßanl*
Passes At 55
Eugene R. Black, Os
Atlanta, Victim Os
Heart Attack A t
Home There
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 19 (AP) —Eugene
R. Black, former governor of the Fed
eral Reserve Board, died at his resi
dence here today.
Mr. Black resigned his post recent
ly as head of the Federal Reserve
Board, a position tc which he was
drafted by President Roosevelt, to re
turn to his old job as governor of the
Federal Reserve Bank of the sixth
district here. He was 55 years old.
'Since his return to Atlanta, Mr.
Black had been serving as liaison of
ficer between the banks of the coun
try and the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation.
Members of the family said a doc
tor was called to the residence last
night after Mr. Black complained
of being ill. He had been slightly in
disposed for the past three days. He
was stricken with a heart attack at
4:30 a. m., and died two hours later.
• He was a son,in-law of Henry W.
Grady, the journalist.
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AS PART OF FID
Nevada Democrat Who
Headed Silver Group
Last Session Is Lead
ing the Movement
IT WOULD PREVENT
PRINTING OF MONEY
Would Also Reassure Busi
ness, Stimulate Silver Buy
ing as Well as Pay Sold*
iers; Opponents Say There
Isn’t Enough Silver hi
World To Pay Bonus
Washington, Dec. 19.—(AP)— A
new plan designed to help pay the
soldier bonus and strengthen the posi
tion of silver is to be brought be
fore the silver bloc of the House soou
after Congress convenue3.
Proponents say the government
could getp art, at least, of the money
to pay the bonus immediately by ap
plying the silver “seigniorage” ip the
Treasury. This is the "profit” the gov
ernment makes by setting $1.29 an
ounce as the price of silver bought
from miners, but taking half of that
sum as “seigniorage.”
Representative Scrugham, Demo
crat, Nevada, who was head of the
silver bloc last session, sait today he
plans to call the group together to
consider the plan.
Supporters say ti would have a
threefold result: Provide money for
the bonus, stimulate silver buying
and counteract any fear fn business
and financial circles that the bonus
might mean printing press money.
So far, however, the Treasury .1*
estimated to have realized less than
$100,000,000 all told on silver seigior*-
age. In circles critical of the plan
it was said there was "no tenough
silver in the world to pay the bonus
from seigniorage.”
The bonus is estimated to call for.
$2,200,000,000 if paid in full at once/
Silver men countered by suggesting
the use of some of th4( profits on de
valuation of the dollar.
Prominent
Lawyer Is
Found Dead
Nahant, Mass., Dec. 19 (AP) —P.
James Mahoney, 38, of Swampscott,
wealthy and prominent Lynn lawyer,
was found fatally wounded with a
bullet wound in the heart in a Nahunt
roadway early today. He died en
route to a hospital. Thomas L. Lark
in, chief of police, said it had not
been determined whether he had been
slain or was a suicide, but, he said, in
dications were he had been slain.
Mahoney was found lying in a road
in a sparsely settled section by John
IF. Boney, who told police he was
breathing at the time he found him,
A revolver was found near the body,
Boney summoned neighbors and lifa*
honey was rushed to a Lynn hospital*
where he was found to be dead.
Chief Larkin said he had learned
that Mahoney had engaged in an.
argument with three men in the Eagle
Auto Club in Nahant last nigfyt. One
of the men told police that he left;
the group and went to Lynn. The
other two were being questioned at
police headquarters.
Rescue At
Sea Writes
New Glory
. BY FRANK E. GANNETT, ’
Publisher, Gannett Newspapers.
Copyright by the Associated
1934.
Aboard the S. S. Europa, at Sea,
Dec. 19. —(AP) Sixteen men peril
ously near death on the storm-crush
ed freighter Sisto owe their lives to
day to a gallant lifeboat crew from
the passenger liner New York.
Amid storm-lashed seas, the Sisto‘3
crew was taken from the sinking
freighter last night while four ves
sels, including the palatial Europa*
stood by, playing searchlights on that
scene.
The rescue of the 16 men of th«|
Sisto, a Norwegian boat, was accom
plished apparently none too soon, foil
the little vessel was in a helpless con*
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