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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR 15 KNOWN KILLED IN CANADIAN iAIL WRECK FINDING MORE MONEY BIGGEST JOB FACING COMING LEGISLATURE Increased Appropriations Demanded on All Sides By Various State Agencies SESSION TO BEGIN TWO WEEKS HENCE At Least Part of Salary Cuts Imposed on Teachers And State Employees Two Years Ago Must Be Re stored; Highway Surplus Will Be Target Unllf D|*patck Hareua, In the Sir Welter Motel, By J. C, llaekervllle. Raleigh, Dec. 26. —The biggest pro blem before the new General Assem bly, which will convene here two weeks from today, is going to be that of finding several millions of dollars <>i additional revenue which most peo pic agree must be found to rescue the State's schools, higher education si institutions and State departments and increase the more necessary ser vices of the State government, accord ing to the opinion here. With a ma jority of the members of the General Assembly already pledged to increase teachers’ salaries, which means that they must increase other State sal aries. too. the effort to obtain this ad ditional revenue, ranging from $3,000.- 000 to $6,000,000 a year for the next two years will undoubtedly over hadow everything else. With the State departments, schools uni institutions already asking $lO,- 000,000 more than was appropriated (Continued on Page Four) Two Men Drowned As Car Goes Off New Bern Bridge New Kern, Dee. 26.—(AIM •lames It. Bell, 24 of Bridgeton ami Andrew W. Overman, 20, of the Marine Corps, at home for a < hristmas vacation, were drowned in Neuse river at 11:15 o'clock last night when their car, driven by Overman, crashed through a guard rail into six feet of water. Boil's body was found In the car when it was pulled from the river at 12:30, while that of Overman was recovered later by a dragging party from the Coast Guard cut ter Pamlico. Overman had brought Bell to New Bern to get medicine for his sick mother. The accident occur red on the return trip. Coroner G. M. Henderson and other county officials expressed the opinion that. Overman's car was hit by another whose driver failed to stop. No inquest was held Abduction Case Nears Jury Stage Judge Daniels Ord ers Acquittal For One; Other Eight Go To Jury' •Smithfield, Dec. 26. —(AP) —Judge Frank A. Daniels, presiding over the tiial of the nine persons charged with kidnaping three Johnston county girls today ordered the acquittal of Almon Keen, one defendant, after the State completed its case, and the defense decided to offer no testimony. Judge Daniels overruled a motion of defense counsel for a directed ac quittal for Arthur Krane, of New York, another defendant, who Is charged only with Ihe kidnaping of Camelia Price. The jurist also denied motions for « non-suit for the other defendants, Alex Beasley, Clinton Beasley, Nellie B Beasley, Ua Beasley, Pearl Beas ley, Margaret Lee Keen and Mrs. Sarah Beasley Krane 1 . John J. Meara, New York lawyer, i' presenting Krane, lodged the mo tion in his behalf while E. J. Wel lons, of the Johnston county bar, (Continued on Page Four) Hinthcrsmt LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF VHB ASSOCIATED PRESS. “Enemy” at Liberty |H|i ' ' * KaHi H| m “Dutch” Schultz, one of the ranking public enemies of the country, won his freedom from Albany, N. Y. jail for the holidays when an obliging friend posted $75,000 in Liberty bonds as bail. He is seen leaving to enjoy the Yuletide. (Central Press) J.A.Hartness Passes With Heart Attack Former Secretary of State of N. C. Dies at His Home At Statesville Statesville, Dec. 26.—(AP)—James A. Hartness, 71. former secretary of state, died early today at a sanitarium here following a heart attack. The widow of the former State of ficial. who was a practicing attorney here in recent years, was at his bed side. Yesterday just before noon Hart ness suffered the sudden heart attack and was taken to Long sanitarium, where death came at midnight. He had been in good health. His term of secretary of state of North Carolina began in February, 1928, when Governor McLean appoint ed him to thfti position to succeed the late W. N. Everett. He was elected clerk of Iredell County Superior Court in 1898,, and every four years was re-elected to that office until he re ceived Governor McLean’s appoint ment. A year after he began the practice of law, Hartness married Miss Jennie Henderson, of Rowan county. Eight children survive the union. Several years after the death of Mrs. Hart ness he married in 1923 Miss Annie Sloan, of Winston-Salem. Funeral services will be held at 3:30 p. m. Thursday here at the First Presbyterian fchurch, Rev. C. E. Rynal, will conduct the services. DENYTHAIGUFFEY PUT BURNS ACROSS New Democratic Senator From Pennsylvania Not So All-Powerful By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Sta ffWriter Washington, Dec. 25.—'Joseph F. Guffey, who will take his seat Jan. 3 as one of Pennsylvania’s pair of sen ators, succeeding David A. Reed, de feated last November for re-election, is being advertised as having assured the choice of Congressman Joseph W. Byrns of Tennessee for the speaker ship of the House of Representatives when the national lawmakers assem ble. To form this claim “guff” would, be too cheap for witticism to pass muster, It, is hooey, however. Guffey did not. authorize the pub (Continued on Page Two) ONLY DAILY i OFfSr 1 URGED President’s Mississippi Val ley Committee Offers Far-Reaching Proposal WOULD TIE IN ALL NATION’S SUPPLIES Unification of All Electric Lines To Create Giant Pool of Cheap Power and To Assure Stability Is Recom mended In Report Sub mitted Washington. Dec. 26 (AP) —A far reaching proposal for Federal control of the transmission of the entire elec tricity supply of America was urged upon President Roosevelt today in a report by his Mississippi Valley com mittee. The group of scientists and techni cians whom the President directed to study ways of developing resources in the great valley urged unificiation of all electric lines as a means of cre ating a giant pool of cheap power, and of promoting stability. It also suggested a billion dollar 20-year program of public works in the valley, and recommended that all dams built to aid navigation or flood control be used to generate power as well. Even the remotest hydro-electric development would be tied into the common nationwide system under the plan. Headed by Morris L. Cooke. Phila delphia consulting engineer, the com mittee emphasized the “plan does not involve the question of public or pri vate ownership of either generation or distribution.” “Government control of transmis sion, however,” it said, “is fundamen tal. This goal does not involve neces sarily any great nicrease in the num ber of publicly-owned lines especially if the private companies cooperate in effecting unification. Meanwhile, there were two other, developments in the utilities field. From the Public Works Administra tion figures were garnered showing that allotments totalling $47,000,000 have been made for municipal power plants, and nearly $200,000,000 for Fed eral power works. PWA officials made plain they would continue to as sist cities where municipal projects face legal battles. Wharfage Charge Increase at Norfolk Emphasizes Terminal Need Dally Dlapateh flarena, la the Sir Walter Hotel, By J. V. Baakervllle, Raleigh, Dec. 26.—Another discrim ination against North Carolina mer chants and shippers who have been getting commodities by water to Nor folk and from there to North Caro lina points by truck or inland water way, has just been called to the at tention of State officials here, as a (Continued on Page Four) Hunt Two In Death Christmas Wilmington, Dec. 26 (AP)— A coro ner’s jury moved today to fiv respon sibility for the death of Cole G. Prid gen, a linotype mechanic, who was fatally injured in an altercation at a downtown estabishment which police have raided twice within ten days. The 33-year-old mechanic was found lying in the doorway of the place Sun day night, and he died at a local hos pital yesterday afternoon without ever regaining consciousness. One man was being held pending conclusion of the coroner’s investigation of the kill ing and a second was being sought. The man detained was J. B. Lewis, who with Luther Hargrove, the man sought, were arrested in a raid on the establishment December 15. Lewis was arrested for alleged violation of the prohibition law, and an ordinance against operation of slot machines, while Harbrove was arrested on a charge of gambling. ... NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. HENDERSON, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 26, 1934 ' -SUE PERRY —— TOGETH^R^O^^^^^US ihe entire Roosevelt family of i grandchildren and the president’s I Roosevelt, are expectecT at the four.sons ai4 one daughter and j mother. Mrs. Sarah. Delano | White House this Christmas., To Quicken Electrical Purchasing Washington, Dec. 26—(AP) —An ef fort to find means..of stimulating pur chases of electrical appliances thro ugh regular private utility channels is being tne.de by Piesident. Roosevelt. He said today at his regular press conference that the government is seeking to be helpful to private utili ties in setting up a program, similar to that of the electric home and farm authority in the Tennessee Valley, to aid in financing purchases of elec trical appliances. His theory is that by encouraging the utilities to produce appliances for the home and farms on a large scale the price can be considerably reduc ed. The presidential attitude was inter preted as a distinct willingnes by trie adminitration to cooperate with pri vate utilities in effort to obtain cheap er power Some of the utility heads have pledged cooperation to Mr. Roosevelt. The Edison Electric Institute has started court action against the ad ministration power program seeking to test the constitutionality of the Tennessee Valley Authority act. Ellsworth Meets Byrd Party Soon Two Antarctic Ex ploring Groups' To Unite at Bay of Whales Shortly Wellington, New Zealand, Dec. 26. —(AP) —Lincoln Ellsworth, Antarctic explorer, and his pilot, Bernt Bal chen, were reported today to have made a successful airplane flight across the Antarctic from Deception Island to the Bay of Whales. The flight was made yesterday, Christmas day. The report did not say whether Sir Hubert Wilkins, partner of Ellsworth on the expedition, was in the planer It did, however, say that the mem bers of the expedition intended to have a great time in their encounter with the expedition headed by Ad miral Richard E. Byrd at Litt’3 Am erica. The steamers Bear of Oakland and Jacob Rupert, of the Byrd expedition and the S. S. Wyatt Earp, of the Ells worth-Wilkins group, will meet at the Bay of Whales in then ext few weeks. SIB,OOO Payroll Taken By Four Highwaymen In South Carolina Hold-Up Shoot Tires off Automobile of Three Guards Having Springs Mill Money and Escape; Police Dragnet Spread for Robbers Stir'bunding Territory Lancaster, S. C., Dec. 26.—(AP) — Four highwaymen robbed three guards of an SIB,OOO String Mill pay roll four miles from h|re today after shooting the tires off the guards’ au tomobile. The four, escaped, but police and scores of citizens immediately be gan a search. The payroll was being taken from Lancaster to Chester, where there are other units of the textile mills, at the time of the hold-up. The bandits escaped in a (Pontiac) lOBE SENT BACK May Be Taken From State Hospital and Put In Cen tral Prison Daily Dispatch Damn, la the Sir Walter Hotel, By J C. Baakervllle. Raleigh, Dec. 26. —Removal of the criminal insane prisoners from the State Hospital for the Insane here back to the Central Prison, so that they can be more adequately housed and ■ guarded, will probably be re commended in the report of Commis sioner of Paroles Edwin M. Gill to Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus, it was learned here today from an authori tative source. If this recommendation is made, as is now expected, it will ge in line with the opinions of a good many here who have become con vinced that the place for the crim inal insane prisoners is within the cells and behind the bars of the Cen tral Prison, where armed guards are 4 (Continued On Page Four.) CLAIM HAUPTMANN SEVERELY BEATEN New York, Dec. 26 (AP)—Dr. Thurston H. Dexter, Brooklyn phy sician, today declined to confirm or deny a published report that he had found evidence of a “ter rible beating” on the body of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, await ing trial on a charge of murdering the Lindbergh baby. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudy and much colder tonight and Thursday* PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY, sedan. Officials of the Springs mills here said th amount of the loot was ap proximately SIB,OOO, but that a posi tive check could not be made imme diately. The three guards remained at the vicinity of the hold-up with police and several hundred citizens as a search began. Police immediately broadcast warn ing over the State and officers in nearby communities posted guards on all roads. lij Government Order May Drive Some Idle Money Into Investment By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer New York, Dec. 26. —Reduction of the maximum interest rates that banks mayp ay to depositors may drive some idle money to investment. At least, that is a government expec tation. How much, nobody knows. The Federal Reserve Board directed that 2 1-2 per cent shall be the maxi mum which could be paid on any thrift and time deposit by banks which have insured deposits— which means virtually all banks. In New York City, thrift interest rates ahve been much lower than that for some time —and there has been no decrease in deposits. Belief is expressed in New York (Continued on Page Four) Cohoon To Serve 60-Days Term In Cumberland Jail Fayetteville,, Dec. 26. (AP) —Walter Li Cohoon, Elizabeth City lawyer, will expiate the horse-whipping of a brother member of the Pasquotank county bar by serving a 60-day sent ence in the Cumberland county jail. Although the offense was committed in Elizabeth City, the former member of the State Highway Commission was given the privilege of picking his own jail and he chose the Cumberland county jail. Mr. >_! 'lioon wrote Sheriff N. H. Mc-< Geachev tc expect him jsuiut-ry a* FIVE CENTS COPY I "— 1 ON REAR CARS OF EXCURSION TRAIN More Thain Score Injured, Some Critically, as Loco motive Runs Into Switch VICTIMS MANGLED IN THE WRECKAGE Excursion Train Is Laden With Merry Holiday Trave lers, and Had Run Into Sid ing With Hot Box; Victims Apparently Are All Ca nadians Hamilton, Ontario, Dec. 26.—(AP)— The splintering wreckage of a Christ mas excursion train was searched to day for additional victims as officials of the Canadian Railways opened an investigation of a collision last night which took at least 15 lives. More than a score of persons were injured, some critically, when the De troit to Toronto Express tore into the rear of the stationary excursion train on a siding at Dungas, sceven miles from Hamilton. Nine women were among the* man gled victims of the disaster whose bodies have been recovered, Ibait as yet are unidentified. Additional dentils were feared. Officials of the railway said the cause of the accident appaerntly was an open switch, and promised an in tensive investigation. Laden with merry holiday travelers, the/ excursion train was bound from London, Ontario, to Toronto. Most of the victims, all f whom apparently were Canadians, were residents of those two cities. Two wooden cars at the rear of the excursion train, which had been swit ched onto a siding because of a “hot. box,” were crushed, and many pas sengers, creaming in agony, were pin ned for hours beneath the wreckage. The alertness and quick thinking of Engineer B. Burwell, of the speeding train from Detroit, was credited by (Continued on Page Foul) State Has 3 Holiday Fatalities Charlotte, Dec. 26 CAP)—-Only three deaths attributable to accidents were counted today as North Carolinians looked back on what was generally reported to be the “quietest and sanest” Christmas celebation in years. Osby Howard 26, Cedar Fork farm er, was killed near Morrisville when the autobile in which he was riding overturned. Edward Brantley, 28-year-old farm er was killed when he was hit by an automobile near Wilson. Luther Walser, 55, a Lexington fur niture worker, was fatally injured when his car turned over near Lex ington. 6 Are Dead In Collision At Crossing Car Skids on Frozen Street Striking Grand Trunk Train In Chicago Chicago, Dec. 26.—(AP)—Speeding into Chicago an hour late, the/ Inter national Limited of the Grand Trunk line, today crashed into an automo bile at a crossing near suburban Har vey. All occupants of the car, believ ed to have numbered six were killed. On/e victim was believed to have been John Burk, of Chicago, associat ed with the relief organization at Chicago Heights, 111. The automobile was southbound in Halstead street a heavy travelled highway through the suburb. As the car approached the tracks, the driver saw the train bearing down and made a frantic effort to stop. The wheels failed to hold on the snc*w-covered pavement and the car skidded intcf t-- - train,
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