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The Washington times., 1934-12-20
SINKS
8 VESSELS,
CR|PPLES2
Disabled Freighters Battling
Way to Port; Dutch Ship
Sinks After Ramming
BY International News Service

While gales which have taken a
toll of three vessels in the last
week continued to rage on the high
seas today, crippling two more
steamers, winter began to move
in on the middle west in earnest
with Subfreezing temperatures and
five-inch blanket of snow.
Coast Guard vessels were speed.
ing to the aid of ships in both the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in
response to S OS messages.
Its rudder smashed away. the
4,933-ton American freighter Sew,
erance was at the mercy of a
mountainous sea 19 miles off Fire
Island, N. Y. The Coast Guard
cutter Champlain was speeding to
the rescue of the vessel and its
crew of 33.
BritOn In Distress
The British freighter Benlaw'
ers was in similar distress off the
coast of Victoria, B. c., about 400
miles southeast of Dutch Harbor.
Alaska. Its lifeboats are smashed,
decks swept clean and propeller
fouled by the wreckage of its top
mast. The Coast Guard cutter
.Tallapoosa, stationed at Juneau,
Alaska, was steaming to the res.
cue. The Benlawers carries a
crew of 40.
Meanwhile, the Dutch steamer
Orania, rammed off the coast OF
Portugal yesterday, settled to the
bottom of Leixoes Harbor today
while 122 passengers and 156
crew members were given medical
attention in the town.
The Orania was added to the
Norwegian freightor Sisto and the
British freighter Usworth in the
Atlantic's toll of sunken vessels
for the week.
Illinois SnOwbOund
While high drama was enacted
on the seas, winter invaded the
Midwest, covering the area east
of the Mississippi with snow. The
average snowfall at Chicago was
49, inches and at Pana, ILL.,, meas
ured Z inches. Subfreezing tenn
peratures prevailed, with prom
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The Washington times., 1934-12-20
Police Wrath)
AsChief'sCar
Is Stolen

HEMPSTEAD, L. l., Dec. 20
N.N.S.) out and find that
stolen car and catch the thieves!
This is getting seriOus!"
There was something about
Police Chief Phineas A. Seaman
that made the members of the
force know he meant business
as he issued this order today.
They went to work and there
was no fOOling.
The stolen car belonged to the
chief. It was taken from a mu-
nicipal parking station back Of
the station house last night.
And that's not all
There were two new hats in
the machine, belonging to ladies
Of the chiefs family.
The Washington times., 1934-12-20
ParOled Convict
Seized at Prison

AUBURN, N. Y, Dec. 20 GIN.
S.. - Arrested as he walked
through the gates of Auburn
prison, free on parole, Herman
Gross, ii, was on his way to Phila-
delphia today to face charges of
assault and robbery growing out
of a $65,000 jewelry store holdup
there, December II, 1924.
Gross was sentenced to serve %
years in New York penal institu-
tionS for robbery on July 6, 1925,
and was paroled yesterday.
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GANG SEXES
$4,000
PAYROLL
Mais Identified As Leader of
Philadelphia Daylight,
, Robbers

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 20
l1.N.S.O.-In a bold daylight foray
four armed robbers raided a
branch office of the Philadelphia
" Electric Company here today and
escaped with Christmas payroll
consisting of $4,000 in cash.
The daring robbery was tenta-
lively tied up by police with the
criminal exploits of Robert Mais,
arch-killer and escaped convict,
hunted through the East. Investi-
eating authorities said two en-
ployes of the electric company
had partially identified the leader
of the holdup gang as MaiS, sus-
pected kidnap-killer of William
"Big Bill" weiss, Philadelphia
night life figure.
Their faces hidden by heavy
masks, the gangsters drove UP to
the branch office in a large sedan.
-Four robbers, each carrying q
sawed-off shotgun, leaped out Of
the machine and walked briskly
into the building.
After clubbing a watchman with
the butt Of a shotgun. the robbers
proceeded to the paymaSter's Of
flee, Denied admittance, they
shot out a glass panel and un-
locked the door. Twenty en-
ployes, awaiting wages at the
nav roll window, were instructed
to lie flat on the floor, face down
ward, while the thugs scooped up
two leather bags containing the
money.
Running to the street, the four
Joined a fifth man who stood
guard at the entrance to the
building and sped away.
The Washington times., 1934-12-20
z KILLED,
2 HURT IN
R|OT|NG
Courthouse Blasted, Burned
After Negro Prisoner Is
Spirited Away

SHELBYVILLE, Tenn, Dec. 20
G.N.SO Peace returned today to
riot-torn Shelbyville.
Their numbers reinforced five
fold, the band of Ill National
Guardsmen which yesterday with
stood the repeated assaults of a
bowling mob of lynch-maddened
rioters marched back into this
small Tennessee community this
morning and quietly reestablished
order.
There we're no disorders in con-
trast to day and night of wild
rioting in which the Bedford
county courthouse was dynamited
and burned after two white men
were killed and % wounded
battling militiamen for possession
Of a Negro prisoner.
Crowd Sullen
A sullen, ragged crowd of 800
men and boys ranged about the
still-burning ruins of the $150,000
courthouse, stood silently watch.
ing as 500 steel-helmeted guards
men, under command of ADJ. Gen.
j. H. Ballew, marched into town
this morning.
Heavily armed guards were
placed on duty at the county Jail
and at Negro hotel, fired by the
maddened mob last night. Other
khaki clad squads patrolled the
town.
The remnant of the drink
crazed mob of 1,500 that remained
in the fire-razed town square
this morning, gradually dispersed
with the military occupation.
Cut Fire Hose
Firemen, whose hose lines were
cut by the rioters last night,
poured streams of water into the
brick skeleton of the 75-year-old
court house to quench the remain.
ing embers.
Coming of the militia brought
a return of law enforcement.
Since yesterday afternoon, when
the militia withdrew with the
Negro prisoner, E. K. Harris, who
was on trial for criminally as
saulting a 14-year-old girl, after
fighting off a series of attacks,
the town was at the mercy of
the mob.
Civil authorities were powerlesS.
Fearful for his life, Sheriff John
Cant fled to Nashville yesterday
with his wife and two daughters.
The mob blamed him for the
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Gales and Sleet
Sweep New York

NEW YORK, Dec. 20 G.N.So
Gales threatened Atlantic shipping
today as New York emerged from
a deluge of rain and its first Sleet
storm of the season.
A blizzard which had blanketed
the Middle West was said to be
heading east and may strike New
York, weather officials said. Storm
warnings were issued south OF
Boston.
The Washington times., 1934-12-20
Gun Shells Burst
In $4,000 Blaze

HAGERSTOWN, Dec. 20.-Burst'
ing gun shells and high wind
hampered firemen in fighting
blaze which started in a hardware
store at Hancock, near here, early
today, causing damage estimated
at $4,000.
The fire destroyed the hard.
ware store and warehouse OF
Harry Exline and the plant Of
the Hancock News, published by
George Huber on the second floor
Of the store. Two other buildings
were damaged.
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PROBE.
WARNED Of
NEXT WAR
Du Pont Tells Quiz Conflict
Will Be "HeIP';; Cites
Need of Monarch
By WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON
International News Service

Any notwithstanding the United
States-requires an absolute mon
arch at its head" to wage a sue.
cessful war, Irenee du Pont, head
of E. I. du Pont de Nemours &
Co., declared today before the Sen
ate munitions inquiry.
Mr.. du Pont said the United
States should prepare now, in
time of peace, for the next war.
Lack of preparedness, he warned,
would lead to defeat, adding:
eff we have war, we will have
a hell of a time. The only way
to wage war is to have an absO-
lutte monarch at the head Of the
nation. Caesar found that out.
So did Napoleon"
Senator Nye (RO of North Da-
kota, inquiry chairman, provoked
Mr.. du Points statement by ask
ing him whether there was "any
fear of industry failing to respond
in time of war if there we're uni
Versal conscription of wealth and
industry"
Memo Quoted
Senator Nye read from a du
Pont memorandum quoting Col.
william N. Taylor, a du Pont Euro
pean agent, as saying:
"Since France has a uni
verSal cOnScriptiOn law, it would
enable Germany, with an army
of not more than 100000 men,
to defeat and destroy France in
the next war;"
Colonel Taylor based this view
on a belief that Frances produc-
ton of military powder would "be
set back six months" by the con-
fusion under the consumption law.
1renee du Pont insisted:
'Let me finish my statement
that the next war will be hell.
'"There is only way to pre-
pare for war. 1t is to prepare
for war in time of paece. We
will have a hell of a time in
war. Those are the only words
to use to describe it,
Senator Nye asked:
"Why, if we are to have a
hell of a time, do you urge us
to prepare for WARP"
Because if we are well
enough repaired, we will never
have war"
Senator Pope, O.), Idaho,
asked:
LOST MOTION"
"What about Germany?
Wasn't she prepared for WARP" '
"She was extremely well pre-
pared"
Senator Pope added:
"She was the best prepared
nation in all the world"
Mr.. du Pont replied:
eyes, for the purpose of
starting a war. She was pre-
pairing for world aggression,
not for self defense. don't
think the United States ever
would try a war of aggression"
Senator Nye replied:
"WouId there be any more
hell if we cOnScripted wealth
and industry in the next WARP"
Irenee replied:
at would lead to terrible
(Conffnued on Pare 2, Col. y
The Washington times., 1934-12-20
FIRST FAMILY
SENDS CARDS
BY International News Service

The Nations Christmas card
No. / was in the mails today.
From President and Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, simple
Merry Christmas" conveyed the
Yuletide greeting from the Presi,
dent and the First Lady to their
friends.
The card, six inches wide and
eight inches long, included an
actual photograph of Mr.. and
Mrs. Roosevelt sitting on a dark
leather davenport before the fire.
place of the Presidents second
floor study in the White House.
The Washington times., 1934-12-20
Off
For Record Flight

MIAMI, Fla, Dec. 20 G.N.SO.
Hoping to set his giant 212-mile-
an-hour Florida Filler" down on
Chicago airport within six hours.
Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker took off
here at 1920 a. m. today on the
return leg of his trail-blazing
flight inaugurating a new Chicago
Miami passenger route.
The Washington times., 1934-12-20
Dali Stock Seat
To Be Transferred

NEW YORK, Dec. 20 G.N.S).
The New York stock exchange
membership of Curtis B. Dali,
former son-in-law of President
Roosevelt, will be posted for trans
fer to Alpheus Beans, senior part
ner of Fenner and Beane, within
the next few days, it was learned
today. Mr.. Dali resigned from the
firm as of November 80. Pre-
sumably to take a post with Dis
tillers and Brewers Corporation.
He became a member of the ex-
change February q, 1880.
The Washington times., 1934-12-20

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any hour of the "a.
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For the correct time telephone
the office of THE WASHING
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any hour Of the "a.
The Washington times., 1934-12-20
Liquor Stores
ToOpen Xmas,
Neuv Years

Liquor stores here will not be
required to close Christmas and
New Year.
Permission to remain open
on the holidays has been
granted by the Alcohol Control
Board, it was announced today
by Isaac Cans.
Stores will be open Christmas
and on New Year from 8 a. m.
to IL midnight as usual.
Whenever you want to know the
correct time of day or night tele.
phone District 1000, the office of
THE WASHINGTON TIMES.
The Washington times., 1934-12-20
WASHINGTON FORECAST
lean TEMPERATURES

Fair and colder tonight; Friday
partly cloudy.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-11
N. R. A. Plea To
lncrea Rates
s Turned Down

\ Washington 50 The interstate
commerce commission turned down
the plea of the N.R.A. for an in
crease in railway passenger rates in
the southeast.
In a brief memorandum the
commission granted the Southern
Railway company permission to
continue charging one and one
|ralf cents a mile for travel in day
coaches and three cents a mile in
sleeping and parlor cars for six
months after May 81.
Similar permission was granted
to other carriers in the southern
territory if they wished to start the
one and one-half and three cents
rate or establish a two cent rate for
coaches if they so desired.
The permission was granted over
a demand by Sol Rosenblatt depu-
ty administrator, in charge of the
motor bus Code who told the COM
mission that the low rates charged
by the railway company are AUS
ing motor buses to lose money.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-11
French
Default On War
Debt Is Certain

Paris-The fourth Frenth de-
on the war debts to the
United States is considered certain
by high officials who spoke pri-
yately of the question.
These officials asserted no nego-
tiations regarding the debt "di-
|rectly or indirectly" have been in
progress recently and added the
situation is more confused than
The French position on the debt
lit was reiterated remained the some
as after the overthrow Of the gov
err1ment of Former Premier Edou-
ard Herriot who championed pay
ment.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-11
Candidates Must
Report On Expenses
BY May %

Raleigh-All candidates for
public offices in North Carolina
must file their initial statements Of
expenditures by Tuesday, May u,
according to the primary election
calendar compiled by the State
Board of Elections.
Candidates for state and district
offices must file statements with
the secretary of state. All candi-
dates for state senator in districts
composed of only one county, can
|didates for the house of represent
~tatives and all county officers must
file their statements with the SUI
court clerks in their respec-
tive counties.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-11
Gains In Indiana
Pleases Doughton

Washington-No n in admin
istration circles found more solace
land satisfaction in the election re-
suits in Indiana than did Repre-
sentative Robert L. Doughton of
Laurel Springs. chairman the house
ways and means committee and
North Carolina member of the
Democratic congressional COM
lmittee.
The election returns from In
diana are a barometer of the times"
said the veteran lawmaker.
Everywhere the people have
spoken at the ballot box they have
voted confidence in and satisfac-
Ition with the administration of our
President. As fast as one election
is held after another in various
states, the people have recorded
their approval of our great leader
and the policies which he is pur-
suing to restore the country to a
healthy and prosperous state.
Zone feature that is overlooked
by many of us is that in states
where dual primaries are held, the
large number of votes cast and the
increased number recorded for the
Democratic candidates are indica-
tive of the firmly established status
of our party. Not a single in
stance has a house Democrat what
has stood loyalty by the admins
tration been defeated for renomi-
nation. Thus all augurs we'll, and
forecasts are that the Democratic
losses in elections of the 74th cong
ress will be inconsequential.'
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-11
Badly Burned
AS Gas lgnites

Mrs. Lewis M. Miller of 51A
West Council street was critically
burned Tuesday morning about {
o'clock when a basin of gasoline:
with which she was cleaning floors
in her home, became ignited.
The fire was started apparently
from the short circuit of a floor
lamp connection, a spark leaping
into the gasoline and igniting the
fluid. Mrs. Miller screamed for
help, and with her clothing Attire,
rushed into the room of Edward
Fox who lives in the Miller home,
and he grabbed a blanket from his
bed and attempted to extinguish
the flames.
Mr.. Fox sustained painful burns
to the hands in trying to beat out
the flames.
Damage of several hundred dol
lars was done to the house.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-11
Farm Agents To
Survey, Make
Adjustments
Administrator Plans To Ger
rect Injnsfices In Cotton Crop
Control.
TENENTS PROTEST
1t Is Claimed That Tenants Are Be
ing Disseminated Against
By Landlords.

Washington-In an effort tt
rectify complaints that some shar'
choppers and tenant farmers hav'
been Disseminated against unde
cotton reduction contracts, tn
form administration has appointed
eight extension service agents tt
investigate and adjust" all viola:
Itions.
Al the same time. the admins.
tration disclosed it intended to re.
fer to this group a report made
public in New York by Norman
Thomas, the Socialist, in which the
cotton program is criticized:
The Thomas report, based on
survey of 500 tenants and share
choppers families in Missouri, Ark
ansas, Tennessee and Mississippi
said the acreage program is "un-
Il was fhesound ssritic3l reporf
made on TIE COTTON program. Ths
other was conducted for the depart
.ent BY Dr.. Calvin B. Hoover,
university professor, who
several months ago served the de-
partment as an advisor. This re-
port was made public ten days ago.
As an outcome of the Hoover re-
port, extension agents from eight
states were called to Wash
ington this week to study charges
that share-croppers and tenants
were being Disseminated against by
some landlords in the division Of
benefit payments made under the
program.
Their three-day conference wa:
concluded with the agents being
designated to work as field mer
for the administration ito investi-
gate and adjust all complaints, VIC
lations and misunderstanding und-
.er cotton adjustment contracts"
These agents r w. ]. Green OF
Saltwater, Okla; c.. C. Randall Of
Continued on page eight
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-11
Back Home
To Face Accusers
Fallen Utilities Czar Is Brought
Reck After Tago far Exi

S~~~l
Samuel Insult r6a fallen utilize
car, after an exileijof two years
is back in America to face charge;
of embezzlement, larceny, fraudu.
lent use of the mails and other ac'
cusations brought against him.
He would seek not only freedom
the aged prisoner said, but com.
|plete vindication.
II have made mistakes-bu'
they were honest Mistakes" HI
stated. "They were errors in jpdg.
ment, but not dishonest manipu.
!htions."
Those errors in Judgment" re.
|ferred to his activities as head o.
Ia far-flung utilities empire, the col
lapse of which resulted in charge
lof embezzlement, larceny, use o:
the mails to defraud and violation
of the bankruptcy act bein.
brought against him.
Swiftly and carefully govern.
|ment officials executed insult
transfer from the S. S. Exilona to
|Chicago-bound train.
A coast guard cutter met thu
steamship out at sea, and lnsul
was bundled aboard and taken tt
Fort Hancock, N. ].
There, a motorcade waited
and speeded him to Princeton
N. J.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-11
Legion Post For
School Supplement

The Samuel c. Hart Post of the
Legion at its meeting
Tuesday night unanimously in
dorsed the special school levy Of 10
cents on the 500 valuation, the
question to be submitted to the
voters of Salisbury on June 5. at a
special election.
The funds, if voted, will be US
ed for supp1ementing teachers
salaries and charging the educa-
tional system here during the
l934-35 session.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-11
NINE KILLED IN AIR
CRASHES SUNDAY

Nine persons were killed in three
lair crashes Sunday. A woman and
three men died near Houston, Tex,
lin the fall of a private plane; a
woman ond two men burned to
death at Fulton, N. Y, as a plane
caught fire after fall; two men
|were kill at New Market, N. J.,
when ship lost wing and fell.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-11
MICE BOOK

IT hope that's a nice book for
you to read", said the fond mother
to her young daughter.
"Oh, yes, mother, it's a lovely
book, but I don't think you would
like it. It's so sad at the end"
How is it sad, dear?"
"Well, she dies and he has to 60
back to his wife"
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-11
Passes Examination

Mrs. w. D. Kennedy, a register.
ed nurse of Salisbury, has been no.
titled that she successfully passed
the government civil service exami.
nation for graduate nurses.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-11
CANNON WINS

A confidence vote of 269 to
I17o accorded Bishop James Cannon
r,s smashed 4 vigorous move in
the juadrennial general sronfer<4s
lof tie Nethodist shurch to fees
the churchman to the sideline. The
conference OVERRIDE a recommended
ton of its Episcopacy committee
which voted for the superannua-
'tion of Cannon.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-11
FAMOUS MOTHER DIES

Mrs. Rebecca Doughton, mother
|of Congressman R. L. Doughton,
chairman of the powerful ways and
means committee, and R. A.
Doughton, long a public servant,
passed away last week at her home
lin Allegheny county after a pro-
|longed illness. She was sc years
'of age. Funeral services were held
at Laurel Springs.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-11
|UNVEIL BRYAN STATUE

A bronze figure of William Jen-
'nings Bryan the Great Common
err" was unveiled in Washington
last week, and was accepted by
President Roosevelt on behalf of
the nation, Joseph Daniels, Am
bassador to Mexico, and president
Iof the Bryan Memorial association
made the presentation address.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-11
IS. C. EXTORTION PLOT FAILS

An attempt to extort $4,000
J. F. Bland, wealthy Sumter
county farmer, was revealed with
the arrest Of Ole Mathis, 10, who
was charged with writing the ex-
Itortion letter. Officers revealed
that Bland last week received a
letter instructing him to put five
thousand dollars in small change
bills in a package and leave it at
Cane Savannah Station Sunday.
The letter was signed Southern
Gangsters'' and threatened death
if he failed to follow instructions.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-11
GOOD
MORNING

A local oil man u across the
country going to Jal a while back
He got off the road over in An
|drews county and finally got to a
desolate ranch house and asked
an old fellow who lived alone how
to get to Jal.
The rancher reflected. "Well,
believe | would go back about a
mile and take the first right hand
road. No, l believe I would take
the left hand road. Come to think
of it, stranger, if Iwas going to
get to jail | wouldn't start from
here at all. '-Exchange.
Girl-"Every time I look at you
L think of a great man."
Boy friend-''You fIatter me.
Who is it?"
Girl-"Darwin.'
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-11


tion Of criminal justice was ess:n-
,,tial, he asserted, in projecting 1.-THE
foundations of the security of So
iciety."
"No community can be trusted
ito promote social welfare which
docs not have the self-respect and
stamina to insist upon the enforce
ment of its laws"
The chief justice reviewed what
the supreme court, by authority of
congress. had recently done to ex-
|pediate the administration of Grim
|inal justice, and referred to the
great volume of work encountered.
Up to this date last term the
court had disposed of 756 cases,
and this term during the same
time. disposed of $50. He pre-
dicted that the present term would
dispose of about 100 more cases
than the last term.
He appealed to the bar to refrain
from bringing to the high court
cases lacking merit.
1.-THE spectacle of persons con-
victed of crime at large on bail
pending unnecessary delays on ap-
peal brings the processes Of the
courts into public contempt" he
added, giving statistics to show
that criminal justice is promptly
administered by the federal courts.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1934-05-11
10 PROBE SHARE CROP CHARGES
Hughes Says Enforce Law
NEWS
BRIEFS

DIES OF WRECK INJURIES
Norman Ward, 2~2-year-old tex
tile worker at Rockingham, died
in a Hamlet hospital from wounds
received when a roadster overturn-
ed.