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HENDERSON GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-SECOND YEAR {ISOOOO VOTED TO PROBE IITUTY LOBBY CRAVEN COUNTY AND NEW HANOVER VOTE STRONG FOR LIQUOR Make Six To Go for Control, But New Hanover Can’t Open Its Stores Even Now NINE MORE VOTING ON NEXT SATURDAY Two Others To Follow on Tuesday in Deciding On Opening Whisky Stores Under County Control; Supreme Court To Pass on Legislature’s Ruling Raleigh, July 3 (AF)—New Han over and Craven counties today had joined four other counties in over whelmingly voting for establishing of liquor stores, but the former county stood restrained from opening dis pensaries until the Supreme Court passed on the legality of the act. which authorized the referendum. Wilson. Edgecombe. Vance and Beaufort had previously voted to leg alize liquor stores, and in Wilson the first liquor store was opened yester day and did an initial day's business of $1,003.79. as 825 bottles —pints and quarts were dispensed. The opening of the store in Wdlson marked the first time in 28 years that liquor was sold legally in North Caro lina Plans ai p now under way to open dispensaries soon in the other counties, except New Hanover, which have voted sot liquor control. Referenda will he held Saturday in nine more counties —Pasquotank. Mar tin. Halifax. Carteret Onslow. Pitt. Lenoir Nash and Warren. Greene ard Rockingham counties will vote next Tuesday. Acts passed by the 1935 legislature authorized elections in 18 counties. (Continued on Page Flvr.) F irst Liquor Is Sold at Tarboro During the Noon Tarboro. July 3 (AP)—The first sale of legal liquor to be made here in over a quarter of a century went over the counter at 12:30 p. m. today following completion of plans by the board of control, and from early in dications gn seemed to be predomi nating in sales. T T. Thomas, prominent Tarboro merchant, was credited as being the first man to make a purchase. Everything went off in an orderly manner, wth a small crowd on hand for the opening, which had not been publicized. The store is located op posite the county court house. John Cheshire is the manager. I IIILE GLORIA IS PLACED WITH AUNT Supreme Court Affirms Lower Court’s Ruling on Little Rich Girl New York, July 3 (AP)—The appel late division of the supreme court to day unanimously upheld the decision of Justice John F. Carew which award ed the custody of eleven-year-old Gloria Vanderbilt to Mrs. Gertrude Whitney, her paternal aunt. The appellate division, in part, ruled “If the" relator (Mrs. Gloria Mor gan Vanderbilt, mother of the child (Continued on Pass* Tbrea.! Mount Vesuvius Is In Violent Eruption Naples, Italy, July 3—(AP)—Mount Vesuvius erupted with a tremendous explosion early today, blowing a piece of its cone from the crater into the air. The explosion tore an aperture in the cone from which lava was flow ing copiously. Soon afterwards anoth er opening appeared at the base of the cone. The explosion occurred be fore daybreak and the discharge of Hmtiteramt Daily Dispatch ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. * New Vice Crusader I g Mpf :: Jblv v ■ ii Thomas A. Dewey Assured complete freedom of ac tion, Attorney Thomas A. Dewey, former assistant U. S. attorney at New York, has agreed to under take the task of conducting a smashing drive against vice and racketeering in New York City, He was named by Gov. Herbert H. Lehman. New Wilson Liquor Store Is Curiosity Attracts More Peo ple on That Ground Than Customers; Bootleg Prices De cline. Dally Dispatch Barca*, In the S|r Walter Hotel, BY i. C. 3ASKERVILL. Raleigh. July 3. —Curiosity attract ed more people to the first liquor store legally operated in North Car olina in 26 years than anything else, when the first Wilson county A. B. C. store opened in Wilson at 11:05 o'clock Tuesday morning. For while more than one hundred people were on hand when the store opened, not all of them were prospective customers and many of did not even go into the store after the doors were opened, although most of them went inside to look around and gaze at the rows of bottles on the shelves and scan the price list posted 0 n the wall. From the outside, the Wilson coun ty liquor store, located on the main street of Wilson, loos more like a grocery store than anything else. In fact, until recently the building oc cupied by the A B. C. store was a grocery store and some of the same shelving is now being used, although the interior has all be repainted and remodelled and has a counter running caross the entire front of this store. Back of this counter are the shelves (Continued on Pago Flvn) burning lava and sparks lighted up the heavens for miles. Residents of Naples rushed to their windows in alarm at the the roar of the eruption. Lava also was flowing from the opening at the base of the cone. It was believed that unless the eruption increased considerably in in tensity there would be no damage to property. The lava flow remains in the enormous crater of the volcano. Li BIASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. HENDERSON, N. C. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 3, 1935 ALASKAN COLONY UNDER FIRE \ *' r ' ’G- ; j|j*yg||j|| pi .->*■ # . Jjjj iswi-flwsaggaß ■ ■ > By Pacific Aerial Survey This aerial photograph shows progress made at the U. S. govern ment’s new settlement in the Matanuska valley of Alaska. Condi tions here have been under fire before the U. S. senate. The dark patches are plowed ground. The area of lightness at the foot of the mountain is caused by arid dusk, although it looks as if it yvere water. 17 American “Liberals” Seeking To Investigate Cuba Placed In Custody League of American Writers Sent Them Down, But They Are To Be Deported As Undesirable Aliens; To Be Put Back on Boat On Which They Came Havana. July 3. —(AP) —The Cuban government clamped 17 Americans in to the Tiscornia detention camp to. day, thwarting their plans to inves tigate indications of "complete des truction of civil liberties in Cuba.” Clifford Odets, young liberal play wright, and chairman of the commis sion to investigate social and labor conditions, said their project was up set and that they were in doubt as to what recourse to take. Police said the entire party prob^ COL. OLDS IS PAID RALEIGH TRIBUTES Familiar Escort of School Children on Capital Tours Dies at 81 Raleigh, July 3. (API —Raleigh to day paid tribute to Colonel Fred A. Olds, 81, founder of the North Caro lina Hall of History, and for many decades a familiar figure on Capitol Hill, where he escorted thousands of school children on tours of the capi tal. Colonel Olds died last night at State Hospital where after an extended ill ness. His failing health caused him to retire as collector for the Hall of History esven months ago. The fun eral will be held at - K o’clock this aft ernoon at Christ church, with Rev. Harvey A. Cox, assistant rector, of ficiating. Burial will be held in Oak. wood cemetery. STATE OFFICES TO BE CLOSED FOURTH Raleigh. July 3. —(AP)—All 'State officers here will be closed for the entire day tomorrow for the usual Fourth of July holiday. Most of Raleigh business houses also will close, as will county, city and Federal offices. There is no spe cial celebration planned here. ably will be deported aboard the liner Oriente, sailing for New York at 8 p. m Reliable sources said the govern ment considered the visitors’ mission to be more of agitation than of in vestigation.) Therefore, they were deemed undesirable aliens. Police bore down on the Oriente when she docked last night and sur rounded the commission, named by (CnutLnuert on Pago Five) TOLLS LIFTED ON COASTAL BRIDGES Fourth of July Visitors Won’t Have To Pay To Cross Sounds Now Elizabeth City. July 3. —(AP) Fourth of July visitors to North Car olina beach resorts won’t encounter any toll bridges. Tolls of the last of the two such bridges in North Carolina the Wright Memorial bridge and the Roa noke Island bridge—will be removed at midnight. A deed conveying the Wright Mem orial bridge over Currituck! Sound to the State Highway and Public Works Commission was signed here late yesterday and Charles Ross, com mission attorney, said the tolls would be removed at midnight tonight. The State paid $150,000 for the Wright bridge. While members of the Dare county commissioners agreed last night at a (Continued on Page Five.) IfjSTHIR FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Generally fair tonight and Thursday, except probably local thunder showers Thursday after noon in extreme west portion; slightly warmer Thursday in in terior of north portion* SENATORS DECIDE ON INVESTIGATION OF POWER GROUPS I House Inquiry To Start On Monday Into Activities of Lobby on Hold ing Bill BLACK, OF ALABAMA, HEADING CAMPAIGN Special Senate Group Would Be Appointed by Vice- President Garner, and Be Directed To Make “Full and Complete Investiga tion” at Once Washington, July 3 (AP)—With the House already arranging an investi gation of lobbying on the utility hold ing company bill, the Senate Inter state Commerce Committee, with an appropriation of $150,000. The committee approved a resolu tion introduced yesterday by Senator Black, Democrat, Alabama, to autho rize creation of a special committee of five to make the investigation. The resolution now goes to the Sen ate Audit Committee, headed by Sen ator Byrns, Democrat, South Caro lina. which must approve the appro priation . The special committee would be ap pointed by Vice-President Garner. It would be directed to “make a full and complete investigation of the lobby ing activities in connection with the so-called ‘holding company bill’.” The House Rules Committee plans to open an inquiry on Monday under authority of a resolution approved by the House yesterday. MOTOR MAGNATE OF PRANCE PASSES ON Paris, July 3. — (AP) —Andre Gustave Citroen, 57, the “Henry Ford of France,” weakened by grief over the difficulties of his business, died in a hospital today after a lingering illness. Citroen’s vast automobile plant, once estimated to be worth two billion francs, was forced into re ceivership December 21, 1934, and its founder finally was forced out of any) active management of his company. Italians in Fight With Ethiopians Ababa. July 3.—/(AP) —Un- confirmed reports today said that heavy casualties had been sustained in a battle* between Italian and Ethiopian forecs on the frontier of Eritrea. No details were immediately available. At the same time, it was reported that 5,000.000 cartridges consigned to Ethiopia from Belguimf were being held up at a French Somliland sea port by French authorities. TEN NEW CASES OF PARALYSIS TURN UP Make 288 for Year, and Five New Typhoid Cases Bring Total to 163 Raleigh, July 3.—(AP)—Ten addi tional cases of infantile paralysis were reported in North Carolina today to push the number of sufferers from the disease this year to 288 Previous to this year, the high mark for cases in a 12-month period was 133 cases in 1929, health board records show. ' Duplin, Durham and Franklin coun fContinued on Pago Three! raMto Can Be So Levied As to Ac complish Almost Any Desired Purpose By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington, July 3.—(The late Henry T. Rainey, speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives, was one of the ablest authorities in the (Continued on Page Tw<i) PUBLISHHD HVBRi AFTERNOOH RXCHPT SUNDAY. ROOSEVELT STRIKES BACK UPON CRITICS OF RELIEF PROGRAM She’s "Serious” Now x, M fjyPr Hi 1 IH Hs fM 1 hK lllllfl | ■MiKSTp. \ -^9 After having made a successful comeback on Broadway in musical comedy, Libby Holman, widow of the late tobacco scion Smith Rey nolds, is making a bid for honors in serious drama at a summer theater in Ogunauit, Me., where this new photo was snapped. (Central Press) Blease May Seek Office As Senator Fiery South Carolin ian Attacks Byrns as Enemy to States’ Rights Columbia. S. C., July 3. —(AP) —At- tacking United States Senator James F. Byrnes, for “attempting to destroy states’ rights.” Cole L Blease, former senator, and governor, announced to day he would run against Byrnes next year “if necessary.” “If it is necessary to defend states* rights,” he said, “I’ll be in the cam paign. I don’t want to do it. I’m out of politics and I want to stay out, but if it is necessary to defend states’ rights. I’ll be in the campaign next summer to teach the younger genera tion what their fathers fought for and what their mothers suffered from “Jim Byrnes ought *> be read out of the Democratic party for attempt- - ■ . - k I* Vint.inner) on Page Five! Roosevelt’s Fight Without Precedent Since Jefferson President’s Blast Against Utilities Lobby Delivered hi Furious Anger; Denunciation of Holding Company Bill in House Openly Cheered By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer New York, July 3. —Probably no president since Thomas Jefferson has had such a contest with Congress as President Roosvelt has had in the last few weeks. Many other presidents have ibeen at odds with Congress. That, indeed, is customary. But few if any have had the nature of contest that President Roosevelt has had —except Jefferson. Jefferson forced the Senate to have its sessions in public—instead of se cretly. And Senate sessions have been in public ever since. The people would 8' PAGES , TODAY FIVE CENTO COPY Denies Small Projects Con stitute Return to Old CWA Idea of Affording Jobs PERMANENT CIVIC IMPROVEMENT CITED Ickes Has Control of Pro jects Over $25,000, And Hopkins Under That; Washington Hears Huey Long Barely Escaped Jaw- Breaking Blow at Dance Washington, July 3.—(AP)—Presi dent Roosevelt struck back today at public criticisms that many small pro jects contemplated under the works relief program persented a return to the abandoned civil works program. At his press conference he read a partial list of some of the undertak ings planned in Alabama, which in cluded many permanent civic im provements as contrasted with the temporary character of some of the work done under the WA. The same principles, said the President, applied to the other 47 states as well. Giving a more detailed definition of his works-relief plan, the President classified projects costing more than $25,000 as under the jurisdiction of the Public Works Administration, headed by Secretary Ickes, and those costing less under the Works Pro gress Administration headed by Har ry L». Hopkins. i While his conference was being held, a House committee began an arrangement for opening Monday of charges of lobbying for and against the “death sentence” in the public utilities holding company bill, -which the House eliminated against the President’s wishes. A similar probe was ordered by the interstate commerce committee of the Senate, whose Democratic leaders, meanwhile, proffereed a compromise in an effort to achieve some gain for the administration of the “death sen. tence” proposal. Official Washington was treated to (Continued on Pago Two) BELKBOyj3^ Greer, S. C., Child Missing Since Saturday; One Ar rest Is Made Greenville, S. C., July 3. —(AP)— Belief that 13-year-old Audrey Jonee, of Greer Hill, has been carried by abductors to Washington, D. C., was expressed by local officers today as Federal agents began their investiga tion. _ F. D. Jones, father of the child, told county officers that bureau of In vestigation agents had taken up the search "for Harold BishoD and Kath leen Long, named with Botch Long, another woman, -in a warrant sworn to before Magistrate Marvin R. Reece of Greer, charging abduction of the child. Botch Long posted bond yesterday and was released. The alleged kidnapers took; the child from near the home of her par. ents Saturday ngiht. be outraged if the Senate should try to conduct its sessions in secret now. But the work of the modern Con. gress is done in committee. And com mittees perform their real work In secrecy. Thereby lies the na ger. For in committee, members secret ly have tried to emasculate or kill the Rooseveltian measures, the ad ministration charges LOBBIES The President’s blast against the (Continued on Page Five)
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