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HOOVER’S MANAGER
FORMER JOURNALIST
Ben S. Allen Believed His
Ghost Writer and Ad
vance Man on Trips
By CHARLES I*. STEWART
Washington, Nov. 28.—■'"A ghost
writer is all right, but not a staff of
ghost writers. The members of a staff
clash, disagree, conflict and con
tradict #>ne another.”
The /Speaker, now a publicity ad
viser in Washington, was connected
with the (3. O. P. national commit
tee’s press service during the Hoover
regime.
He was comparing the style of the
ex-president's recent speeches with
thes tylc of those he delivered while
campaigning in 1928 and 1932 and be
tween times, as White House tenant.
Throughout the 1928-32 period he
had a ghost writing staff. It is of rec
ord that his inagural address went to
the government printing office for 22
.sets of corrections. It isn’t reasonable
to expect a speech which has been
so thoroughly revised, to have much
spontaneity.
Now. however. the Californian’s
talks are gingery.
The Washington consensus is that
today he has a lone ghost writer.
BEN ALI EN IT?
This ghost writer, is supposed to be
Ben S. Allen, who is traveling around
in advance of the ex-president, or in
tiis company, presumably to “fix
things” in his behalf or to advise hint.
Ben Allen is a smart newspaperman
and a capable press agent.
He was an Associated Press cor
respondent in London when the
World War broke out.
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acquainted with Hoover, then a resi
dent of the English capital, he was
conscripted by the California engi
neer to aid in the transfer of strand
ed Americans to their home country.
Subsequently he assisted his chief
in Belgian relief work. «,
When Hoover came to the United
States as food administrator Allen
came, too, as his publicity represen
tative.
VANISHES
Later, upon Hoover’s gravitation
into the cabinet, Allen vanished from
the national capital.
Maybe he did not like the idea ot
being merged- as a mere member,
into a publicity staff. Anyway, he
went to California and engaged in
journalism in Fresno. Some say that
Hoover backed him financially, but
that is pure gossip; inmaterial also.
At all events he presently was grad
uated into the job of publicist for the
California prune industry.
At the current moment he appears
to be managing Hoover presidentially.
S. C. Road Body
Hits Opposition
{Continued from Page One.)
magistrates, and other county law
enforcement officers likewise, to re
fuse to recognize such arrests.
He charged the highway agents
were illegally appointed. A mirnbei
of old highway employees and offic
ials have been dismissed since the
governor's seizure of highway affairs.
Gov v -or Johnson ousted a political
ly hostile highway commission of 14
with a company of militia October 28
and set up his own highway board.
Japanese Rushing Huge Air
Base To Rapid Completion
(Continued from Page One.)
at Tsang Chow has rebelled and is
marching northward aroused Jap
anese military apprehension today
that the hitherto bloodless autonomy
movement might emerge into open
hostilities.
Japanese advices said 709 troops
revolted at Tsang Chow, 50 miles
south of here, and were trying to
join the campaign further north for
secession from the central govern
ment.
HENDERSON, (N. CJ DAILY DISPATCH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28,1935
VERY FEW (TO
Roosevelt Administration
Offers Cautious Man No
More Than Hoover
By LESLIE EICHEL
New York, Nov. 28.—Pity the cau
tious man—or woman. He does not
know which way to turn with his sav
ings.
He finds the New Deal administra
tion no better than the Old Guard
Hoover administration, when it comes
to speculation. Both have seemed to
encourage it.
No brakes are put on run-away
stock market prices by the Roosevelt
administration. Every device is used
to raise commodity prices. Specula
tion is termed prosperity. And every
body is supposed to be happy, al
though 11 million persons are jobless,
return on savings is lower than ever
and taxes denude earnings. Debts are
decreed as virtues, because they cre
ate a heavy turnover. And spending
is considered a means toward en
larging savings.
High prices for stocks can benefit
merely a few, at best. Those are the
few who bought stocks when they
were at bargain levels, and sell at
the peak—if anyone is so fortunate
as to know when the peak is reached.
The cautious investor cannot buy
now. He can leave his money in the
bank. (At least, the banks are safer
now than they were under the old
regime.) But the return on savings is
so small that one virtually is pen
alized for having money. Banks can
not invest it with hope of a fair re
turn. Insurance dividends also are
dropping. The large institution, no
less than the small saver, can find no
safe place to put money where it will
bring a fair return.
WHY A RETURN?
Once more we hear the question:
•‘Why out there to be interest at all?
It is not a divine right that money
loaned out or put “into a piece of
paper’ bonds) shall increase in value
constantly.”
That is true enough (say the econ
omists who uphold interest), except
for two contrary reasons:
1. If we are not to have interest,
then we must change our state into
pure collectivism, in which all the
wealth would accrue to the state —
supposedly, the whole people.
2. If we do not have bonds, in which
interest accrues, it will help nothing
to adopt the alternative now pro
posed-nprinting money against the
stores of gold and silver the nation
now possesses. Why? The money
printed is likely to depreciate at a
greater rate than bonded interest is
likely to accrue.
It is true that an increase in bond
ed debt beyond the value of the sav
ingss of a nation is as dangerous in
flation as printing money in the same
equivalent. But that is not an excuse
for either, these economists conclude.
Ehringtiaus Recently Got
New York and lowa ‘Told’
(Continued from T*age One.)
dency, went after the New Deal.
It was after the senator spoke, in
which address he said he would not
discuss politics, that Governor Ehring
haus declared amidst the roars of
laughter from the audience that if the
senator would come to North Caro
lina sometimes and actually talk poli
tics, his excellency would like to hear
him and intimated that he could get
accommodation if the senator desired
to talk politics jointly. Senator Dick
inson, doing the New Deal to death
with Democrats, quoted Governor
Samuel J. Tilden of New York, “who
was almost elected president once.”
The North Carolina governor replied
that where he came from people still
think Tilden was elected. The Tam
many sachem gave a vigorous cheer
to that sally.
What Governor Ehrlnghaus did tell
the lowan was illuminating, so much
as that there have been subsequent
efforts to check up on the State.
North Carolina, Governor Ehringhaus
said, pays more taxes into the fede
ral treasury than any other, saye two
states, and gets hack les in propor
tion to the taxes paid than any other
state. The natives had not heard
that. They imagined that they were
paying for hordes of North Carolina
unemployed, but the governor inform
ed them that North Carolina, after
getting all the relief and everything
else from the Federal government
pays a net into the national treasury
of about $150,000,000. With that sum
the Tar Heels could pay lowa’s defi
cit and help substantially to keep
New England going.
The story was so startling that New
York newspaper men called on capi
tal correspondents to help them find
flaws in tire executive’s speech, but
what the governor said in good-na
tured retort to the non-political (?)
speech of Senator Dickinson was am
plified in a later utterance giving a
great array of figures in support of
the position made known i n New
York.
The tremendous Federal taxes paid
by the State of North Carolina, Gov
ernor Ehringhaus observes, find North
Carolinians skeptical and they think
there is something phoney about that
tax reproduction. The easy way of
getting rid of the thought‘is to as
cribe the Federal taxes to the whole
nation —North Carolina gets this
bounty by tobacco. But the excutive
reminds the makers of that explana
tion that Michigan, New York and
other states which have tremendous
industries, are fed by the country just
as North Carolina is. The Tar Heel
State grows, manufactures and sells
tobacco. The natural thing is for the
money to drift Washington-ward, but
to go direct from where it is made
The governor’s ‘non-political speech’
turned out to be excellent politics in
that it caused some anti-New Dealers
to make some studies which did the
commonwealth a world of good The
North Carolina executive is pleased
lo have the country’s incredulity certi
Tied by a little inquiry from the ou “"
i side. >
PARIS CENTER OF^
Laval’s Fight In Parliament
Is Watched; Attacked
From Two Sides
(By The Associated Press.)
The center of interest in the Euro
pean situation, engendered by the
Italo-Ethiopian war, moved to Paris
today, where Premier Laval carried a
fight for the continuation of his gov
ernment to Parliament.
Laval has come under fire from
two opposing French factions, one of
which considers his attitude toward
Italy as insufficiently friendly and
contrary to France’s best interests,
while the other side considers him too
friendly to Italy and in opposition to
the ideals of the League of Nations,
with which the French consider their
security to be closely linked.
The impetus of fresh leadership
was added to the Italo-Ethiopian war
today as Emperor Haile Selassie de
parted from Addis Ababa to join his
army in the north, and Marshal Viete
Badoglie started inland to command
his Italian columns.
The emperor of Ethiopia left his
capital by automobile, heading for
Dessye. whereh is troops are concen
trated.
Further Delay In
Durham Bank Case
Is Being Sought
Dully Di.spsitcli Iturean,
In tbe Sir Waller Hotel.
BY J. C. BASKERVILIiG,
Raleigh, Nov. 27. —Another delay in
deciding the case of Mrs. Annie Tan
ner, of Durham, against the Amer
ican Tobacco Company and others, in
which complaint in the Federal court
a receivership is sought for the trust
ed assets of the old First National
Bank, is announced.
The Tanner case was heard on
briefs, argument and affidavits two
weeks ago and yesterday Judge I. M.
Meekins heard further debate. He has
been asked to dismiss liquidating
agents C. B. Sherman and Vv. K. Rand
who, allegations set forth, are stock
holders in the Depositors National
Bank which has succeeded by reor
ganization the First National Bank.
There is no attack on the new bank,
but it has been made a party defen
dant in the action which W. B.
Guthrie declares is brought in the in
terest of IgOO depositors in the old
First National.
At the first hearing before Judge
Meekins he was asked to make an or
der that an auditor he named to as
certain the assets remaining in the
hands of the liquidating trustees. The
receiver of the First National was C.
H. Dixon. He retired in 1933. Attor
neys Guthrie and Guthrie declare that
he handled the receivership in a high
ly satisfactory and efficient way.
They ask the court to make an order
giving the plaintiffs an opportunity to
see what assets Mr. Dixon turned over
to the liquidating trustees.
Judge Meekins continued the case
yesterday afternoon awaiting upon
some agreement as to the facts. He
will return here December 10 to make
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Yeats Record-Breaking One
For Red Cross Relief Work
From Nome, Alaska, to the Keys of |
Florida, and from the coast of New
Jer.se> to the far-flung islands of the
Pacific, disaster workers of the Amer
ican Red Cross in the past year aided
in bringing order out of chaos in
the greatest number of catastrophes
in any of the 54 years since Clara
Barton founded the nation’s disaster
relief agency. Sam Alford, chairman
of the 1935 Roll Call said in a stater
ment today.
“Occurring with a frequency that
exceeded the annual disaster average
of the last decade by over 50 per cent
the merciless forces of nature crack
ed down on one hundred and sixty
hapless communities in thirty-seven
states and three insular possessions
of the United States,” Mr. Alford said.
Withholding krnly the destructive
earthquake from her repertoire of
calamities, Dame Nature released her
wrath on the Western Hemisphere in
a tirade of tornadoes, raging floods,
dust storms, shipwrecks, and hurri
canes. Fires, epidemics and mine ex
plosions also called out the Red Cross
disaster forces.
Tornadoes led the list with fifty
death-dealing twisters swirling thro
ugh all parts of the South and Mid-
West. Fires, one of which reduced the
City of Nome, Alaska, the blackened
ashes were second with thirty-eight,
and floods, with twenty-nine, were
third in number.
“Texas, suffering twenty-one disas
ters, was the hardest hit state in the
Union, while in the East the only
states to escape serious damage were
Alabama, Delaware, New Hampshire,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Ver
mont” Mr. Alford continued.
“The largtst of the recent disaster
relief operations of the Red Cross fol
lowed the Florida Hurricane of Sep
tember third which took toll of over
400 lives. Even before the storm
struck,” stated Mr. Alford, “national
disaster relief workers weres peed
ing to Florida, and chapters in its
path warned to be prepared to render
aid. Prompt emergency and rescue
work by the Red Cross in cooperation
with federal and local forces were fol
lowed by the Red Cross taking charge
of rehabilitation for the civilian fam
ilies affected. Temporary housing and
feeding was discontinued as fast as
the Red Cross could rebuild and re
pair the homes of those in need.”
One of the most damaging floods
of this summer was that which oc
curred last July in the Finger Lake
section of New York, which claimed
thirty-six lives and destroyed or dam
aged five thousand homes. Ninety
Red Cross workers were engaged for
nearly three months in assisting the
families affected to get back on their
feet. Approximately half a million dol
his decision. When he declared that
Mr. Guthrie would not forfeit any
right to go into the State courts to
ask a receivership Mr. Guthrie said he
preferred to remain in the federal
courts.
The case has had tremendous In
terest in Durham where the old bank
had so long and illustrious a career
under General Julian S. Carr, and
later W. J, Holloway, president. Out
of this wreck in 1932 came the new
Depositors National which has had an
even greater succe&s. But there is
quite a stir up now.
lars was expended by the Red Cross
on this relief operation.
Red Cross relief in all disasters
throughout the year went to 611,080
people, more than would comprise the
entire population of such cities as
Buffalo, Washington, Cincinnati or
New Orleans.
In its effort to better prepare its
chapter officials to meet the needs of
an emergency which may arise, the
Red Cross during the past year held
a series of special disaster institutes
throughout the country. Experienced
relief workers on the national staff
discussed disaster hazzards and the
best means of lessening the suffering
caused from storms, floods and other
emergency situations. Great stress
was laid upon the fact that the Con
gressional Charter of the Red Cross
commanded its 3700 chapters through
out the country to devise ways and
means of preventing disasters as well
as helping the victims of such dis
asters as were not preventable.
Both Carolina and Duke
Still In Rose Bowl Talk
(Cont ed from Payc c.yj.)
of Carolina gave the Durham team
such a boost as to make the country
forget the two defeats by Georgia
Tech and Auburn. Carolina’s walk
away with all other games except
Duke properly leaves that team with
high standing, it is said, and the Carl
Suavely wonder workings in two
years give him national standing. It
is recalled that Columbia University
got the hid two years ago and won
with a team rated low nationally.
In Chapel Hill today there was no
Rose Bowl enthusiasm, but it was an
nounced before the game which is
being played this afternoon, that if
the Tar Heels should beat Virginia
overwhelmingly there would he a new
consideration of the Chapel Hillians.
The Rose Bowl people arei n need of
a drawing team. The Tar Heels held
the spot light long. If they should
come back impressively this after
noon many fans believe they might
get the coast invitation.
Duke’s destruction of the Tar Heel
team as the event recedes loses some
of its impressiveness. The Duke
eleven was so well out-playec? by State
that only hog luck saved the Blue
Devils from a third defeat. The way
State pushed the line about and broke
up the backfield runs somewhat im
peaches the Blue Devils’ standing
even after the Carolina game. But for
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