F»" T«>-y WEATHER . armer tonight and d * ©tmes - GOOD AFTERNOON "Germany," ifeelmi Adolf Hit ler, "i» entering Utopia." Utopia, if you care to look it up, is Greek for nowhere. HENDERS0NV1LLE, N. C., MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1934 SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS KClOANS MILLIONS BELOW ESTIMATES W „ * * 9 9*9 9*9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 wa//ace Denies Faith In Enforced Control its Strong Appeal for Voluntary Efforts to Solve Problems ,_jslUGHT IN SUCCESS BY CODES | • \ . April 2. — Secretary of Agriculture », frequent target of p that he is fostering regi on of agriculture, stated [his skepticism of the merits iole farm regulation here . His statement was made c address before a regional (fence of dairymen and con it a strong a; jea! for volun frf: :ts the farmers to j production control and the iw of other agricultural 015. expression of reluctance to ce the compulsion principle interpreted as a reply to ,cion critics who recent ci* particularly severe in tug that the new deal seeks blish collectivism and to it agriculture. Bt c. c. nicolet , Press Staff Corespondent WASHINGTON. April 2. (UP) than half a year's experi with codes in industry «phasized two fundamental ftUe ath of long It fulfilment of the Roosevelt li of industrial self-government i state co-operation. Little gnu has been made toward tins a solution for either of First. Shall the employer-em i;e relationship be one of bene it owner paternalism toward ters. or one of strict manage :-employe equality in nego i:-. ■ /r a code i 'V be et' A".: •• N n-> real line r«TT" :hf -hall the anti tv • • ■ {'T ■ ic• ■. i by some t;r T.rL.?> of kr >\vrnment regu tof coded industry? * - ■; :• ••>.;: >ye question f r-fr/.u.'.;.. whether company • .r • „- with special lt«»:r-.r.t favo-?. are to be This v.a< the point *'-1 a: t indus -7 -ee v ^unds with boar.j ^ kase new books. i ^Piri? ,(>mbers are earnest * "*y b«. i e P,roP^sed benefit ?* a WLar**,v attended, anc ■ ,reCeivni lp con^rihution wil 0v*c fojett "r *^is essentia WHITMIRE 'ACCEPTS' ROLE OF 'MUGWUMP' APPLIED BY GOV. EHRINGHAUS IN SPEECH Horsewoman's Hurts Fatal Dean of American horsewomen, Mrs. Thos. Hitchcock, Sr., above, of New York, who was injured in a fall last December 26 at 'Aiken. S. C., when her horse was taking a hurdle, died yesterday. Mrs. Hitchcock, 68, was the mother of Tommy Hitchcock, famed polo star. CAPITAL PRESS PRAISES WIRT Educator at Gary Calls Attention to "Blood I less Revolution" WASHINGTON, April 1. (UP). An editorial in the Washington Post was referred to yesterday by Mrs. Wiiliam A. Wirt, wife of the Gary, Ind., educator, as stat ing clearly the reason for her husband's "brain trust red plot" charges. The recent editorial read in part: "Dr. William A. Wirt x x x deserves credit for just one im portant and specific contribution. "He has helped to concentrate widespread attention on the fact that much current legislation has implications, and would institute changes, going far beyond the immediate evils at which it seems to be directed. "The fact that a number of measures sponsored by the ad ministration have no connection with economic recovery, and are far more likely to protract the depression than to shorten its course, is what Dr. Wirt has very propely emphasized. NOT INSTIGATING A 'RED" MAN HUNT GARY, Ind., Apil 2.—(UP).— Dr. William A. Wirt, Gary edu cator, denied last night that his recent criticisms of the "brain trust" were caused by a desire to "look under beds for commun ists." Wirt's charges that a member of the "brain trust" told him that the "trusters" were plotting a revolution have caused a furore throughout the country. His statement last night was given out by his wife, who has turned their home into a busy workshop since the charges first were made and had assisted him in an attempt to answer ques tions. The statement was as follows: "I am not seeing red nor am I going around looking under beds for facists and communists. I am not engaged in a manhunt. I merely want to call the at tention of the nation to the fact that the so-called intellectual radicals are changing our govern ment without a revolution of bloodshed. The intellectual radicals have been out in the open talking for this revolution and working for it. I respect them for their can dor. I believe that as American citizens we should be permitted to discuss our government open ly and freely and change the form, if we want to do so. "I am merely asking the Amer ican people to decide that ques tion. [ "Do we want to go tins par (Continued on page three) > Declaring that if he must be come a "muirwamp" in order to criticize the governor, R. L. Whit mire, former state senator and candidate for the solicitorship of the 18th judicial district, today replied to a statement made by Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus in a speech at the Jackson Day din ner in Raleigh Saturday night, by saying that he would "gladly as sume that role rather than be come a rubber stamu Democrat." Mr. Whitmire had previously charged Governor Ehringhaus and State Chairman Winborne with manipulating the appointment of election boards in several coun ties in the district in favor of his opponent, Solicitor J. Will Pless of Marion. His statement today reads: "If the newspapers have cor rectly quoted him, Governor Ehr inghaus, in his speech at the Jack son Day dinner in Raleigh on the 31st, cautioned the democracy of the state to clear its ranks of the 'mugwump' who attacks his party, its leaders and record, and gives the Republicans ammunition to use in campaigns." 1U"""6 «SVViIV.J - t-> governor and the state chairman with manipulating the election machinery of the state in the in terest of the candidacy of Mr. J. Will Pless for solicitor of the 18th judicial district, I assume that 1 am one of thfcse referred to by the governor as a 'mugwump' who 'furnishes campaign ammunition for the Republicans.' "When the governor removed Mr. Hamrick of Rutherford coun ty from the state board of elec tions and placed the law partner of Mr. Pless on that board, and when Mr Winbourne of Marion, state Democratic chairman, for mer law partner and close friend of Mr. Pless, rejected the recom mendations, in whole or in part, of the county chairman of Polk, Rutherford and Yancey counties, all in the 18th judicial district and then had the state board, on which sat the partner of Mr. Pless, to appoint men to the coun ty election boards of these three counties who were acceptable to Mr. Pless, and over the objections of the three county chairmen, it was the present leadership of the Democratic party, and not the 'mugwumps' who put campaign ammunition in the hands of the Republicans. "All my life I have been a loyal and active Democrat. I am still a 100 per cent Democrat and will remain so through November, ! the Ehringhaus - Winborne - Pless machine to the contrary notwith standing. But I deplore the fact that the present state Democratic leadership has failed to live up to the glorious record of the party j in the past, and that the governor is forced to invoke the doctrine of party regularity to shield him self from criticism rather than permit his acts and leadership to speak for themselves. And if I must become a 'mugwump' in or der to criticize the governor, then T willingly assume that role ra ther than become a rubber stamp Democrat. And I believe there are many more in Western North Carolina whose views in this re spect are similar to mine, so many in fact, that unless all signs fail, North Carolina, after January 1, 11934, will have at least one 'mug wump' solicitor. "And since I am now a 'mug wump,' and 'mugwumping' is my proper place in the party, I charge the administration at Raleigh with sending the word down the line that the officials and guards at the state prison camps are ex pected to vote for Mr. Pless. "The glad tidings have already been received at the Henderson county camp." 10 ARE CANDIDATES FOR POSTMASTER AT FLETCHER OFFICE Ten persons are candidates for the postmastership at Fletcher. They recently took the civil serv ice examination, and from their number three names will be cer tified to Congressman Zebulon Weaver and he will designate his choice to the postoffice depart ment. The applicants are: Geo Carroll Sales,, Walter F. Bagwell Mrs. Ada T. Gosnell, Preston A Sigmon, Harry C. Jones, Mrs Diana C. Thesa, Hamilton Tweed Thomas James Curran, Luciui Virgil Boyd and R. Waltei Fletcher. He Tightens Up On NRA News »»«*»».. . . Charges were made that the cover was placed on the "goldfish bowl'' in which Gen. Hugh S. Johnson assured the nation it could see all NRA operations, when Alvinj Brown, above, NRA executive of ficer, decreed that the press get information only from the public relations unit, none to be given direct to reporters. MANY VIOLENT DEATHS MARK E ASTER IN 11 Higgason, Asheville Pho tographer Among Fatalities j RALEIGH, April 2.—Suicides, shooting and automobile acci- i dents during Easter had cost five lives and left eight persons injured in North Carolina last night. At Raleigh, Jean T. Nelson, 28, history professor at N. C. State college, committed suicide early Sunday morning by inhaling car bon monoxide gas through a hose attached to the exhaust of his autmobile. Nelson, a native of Ozoan, Arkansas, left two notes, one expressing a wish that his body be cremated and the other saying, "I am a nervous wreck." Wade King, 52, took his own | life by asphyxiation in a physi cian's office at Winston-Salem yesterday. No motive could be ascribed. E. G. Hensley, employe at Grove Park Inn, fashionable Asheville resort hotel, was shot I fatally and W. P. Hensley, hisj cousin, is held on a murder j charge. Police said the men quarrelled over W. P. Hensley's wife. Mrs. Mary B. Sears of Durham, was killed instantly this morning in an automobile accident near that city in which four others were injured. The machine hurtl ed an embankment. The injured: C. A. Crabtree, 28; Mrs. Julian Pickett, 41, and Clyde Rigsbee, 25 of Durham, and Donnie Yates, 25, of Morrisville. Mrs. V. L. Bidgler, Mrs. L. G. Steel and Herman McAlister, all of Albemarle, are in a Salisbury (Continued on pace three) < INSULL UNDER ARREST; TO BE EXTRADITED Turkish Authorities Hold Him Subject to Action for United States two ohkTbankers UNDER INDICTMENT ISTANBUL, Turkey, April 2. (UP)—Samuell Insull was placed under formal arrest today by •Turkish authorities, preparatory to turning him over to the United States for extradition to face trial in Chicago. Insull was arrested at Little London hotel, where he had been under close police guard since he was taken off the chartered Greek steamer, Maiotis, yesterday and held by the courts to be subject to extradition. Insull consulted local lawyers but it was not believed that the purely executive process of sur rendering him to the United States would be long delayed. TWO OF CLEVELAND'S BANKERS INDICTED CLEVELAND, April 2.—(UP) Kenyon V. Painter, director and big game hunter, and Wilbur M. Baldwin, president of the Union Trust company here at the time it failed, were indicted today by yd county grand jury for the mis application of Dank funds. The grand jury based true bills on evidence that loans totalling more than $3,000,000 were made to Painter, improperly secured, and that collateral once posted was withdrawn without a corre sponding reduction of the obliga tion. CONGRESSMAN POU EXPIRES Native of Alabama Served From North Carolina for 30 Years WASHINGTON, April 2. (UP) Rep. Edward William Pou, Dem-j ocrat, North Carolina, dean of the house of representatives and chairman of the powerful rules committee, died here yesterday of a complication of diseases. He was 71 years old. Pou had been in ill health for several years but his condition did not become serious until three days ago when he was ordered to bed by his physician. Speaker of the House Henry T. Rainey last night expressed sor row over the passing of the vet eran legislator and made arrange ments for joint funeral services by the house and senate at 2 p. m. today. "I have lost a warm friend and a good colleague," Rainey said. High tribute to the dead legis lator was paid Sunday by a col league, Rep. Alfred Bulwinkle, Democrat, North Carolina. "North Carolina has lost one of , its greatest public servants," Bui-1 winkle said. "During the thirty (Continued on page three) STABILIZED MARKET FOR i MIXED VEGETABLES WILL BE ! OFFERED COUNTY GROWERS Seaboard Railway Representative Says Local Produce Best for Shipping; Will Present Plan at Ed neyville Wednesday Night A movement to establish a sta bilized market for mixed vegeta bles grown in Henderson county will be advanced Wednesday eve ning when J. C. Bennett, agricul tural agent for the Seaboard Air line railway wlil speak on the project at Edneyville, explain a contract which his company has approved, and probably accept signatures to the contract. E. T. Frisbee, vocational agri culture instructor, said today that Mr. Bennett will be unable to meet with farmers of the Fletch er and Dana communities, as pre viously planned, and that they are invited to attend the Edney ville meeting. It will begin at 7:30 o'clock. The plan as proposed is to sta bilize the mixed vegetable and; truck crops market by securing > sufficient acreage to warrant hauling the produce, perhaps daily, in the marketing season, to Rutherfordton, where it would be shipped to Robinson Bros., large produce dealers at Plant City, Fla. Mr. Frisbee said several crops grown in this country are better for shipment than those grown in other sections, among these being squash, cucumbers, beets, carrots, turnips and toma toes, and that the project has an excellent chance to succeed if1 farmers and truck growers will lend their co-operation. 1 Meekins Strength Indicates Election To Chairmanship Candidate for Republican Leader Advised of Enough Ballots to Elect on First Vote; C. F. Toms Named County Convention Chairman <$>, Republicans of this countj gathered some 200 or more strong at the county courthouse on Sat urday afternoon to endorse W. C Meekins, former judge of countj recorder's court, for the chair manship of the state executive committee, and the Hendersor delegation of 22 votes was in structed by the convention tr vote for Mr, Meekins on ever} ballot in the convention. Mr. Meekins, meanwhile, dur ing the afternoon and early eve> ning was • receiving telegram: from many counties of the state telling of the pledging of dele, gates to his candidacy in the con^ vention. Mr. Meekins stated on Satur day night that a conservative tab ulation of delegations showed that he would enter the convention foi the first ballot for chairman with a minimum of 725 votes, more than enough to insure his elec tion. Referring to the contest in the Guilford county convention, Mr, Meekins characterized it as the final effort of a falling organiza tion attempting to show th^t \\t did have some backing, at l^ast a\ home. Guilford is the home coun ty of Chairman James S. Duncan, Mr. Meekins' opponent for th« chairmanship. Explaining the contest in Guil ford, Mr. Meekins stated that 35 of the delegates from that count\ elected to the state conventioi were opposed to Duncan, but thai an attempt was being made to in struct the entire convention vot< of Guilford. The regular plan of organiza tion, he said, calls for one dele gate from each precinct for eacl 50 Republican votes cast in thi last election. It also provides tha' if only one precinct delegate ii present in the convention he shal be allowed to cast the vote of th( entire precinct. tin J.L 1 i m r " iicii uic uenmim lur a. iui call by precincts was made in th< Guilford convention, Mr. Meek ins said, the chairman called foi a vote of those present. By this method one precinct in the High Point section having 600 voters was allowed only one vote on thj convention floor as only one dele gate -was present, while a Greens boro precinct having only 50 voters was given seven votes in the convention. The High Point precinct was faorable to Meekins and the Greensboro to Duncan. The vote in the convention on this method was 58 to 54, a total of 112 votes, when there should havo been more than 200, and of this Meekins said that 150 were fa (Continued on page three) FATHER, SON FACE CHARGES Cases Against Lannings Are Removed to Re corder's Court Durin Lanning and his father, Terrell Lanning, faced charges of assault and other charges before Magistrate H. L. Pace this morn ing as a result of an alleged al ttrcation at East Flat Rock Sat urday night. Durin Lanning is charged with assaulting U. G. Patterson, Ers kine Fisher, Jess K'ohardson and W. A. Bennifield, with resisting arrest, being drunk and disorder ly, and. using profane language ir a public place. The elder Lanning is chargec with assaulting H. L. Pace, mayoj of East Flat Rock, with resisting an officer, beintr drunk and disor derly, and using1 profane language in a public place. Durin is under $200 bond am his father under $500 bond foi their appearance in county re corder's court next Monday, the cases having been moved to th; higher court. Durin Lanning is charged witl assaulting the four men on th< streets of East Flat Rock, whih it was said this morning that th< elder Lanning assaulted Mayoi Pace in the town office at Eas Flat Rock. A Vanderbilt Asks Divorce The only daughter of the late Geo. W. Vanderbilt, from whom she inherited $50,000,000, Mrs. Cornelia Vanderbilt Cecil, above, has asked court permission in , Paris to sue John Francis Am i herst Cecil, a former member of the British diplomatic corps, for . divorce. The couple, married in . 1924, have two sons, age 8 and 4. t \l\ FROM HhKt i LEAVE FOR CCC CAMPS SUNDAY County Boys Leave Ashe ville for Fort Bragg Sunday Afternoon Twenty-four Henderson county boys left Hendersonville Sunday morning1 at 7 o'clock for Civilian Conservation Corps camps. The boys underwent examina tion in Asheville after a prelimi nary test in Hendersonville. They left Asheville at 6 o'clock Sunday afternoon for Fort Bragg in the south central part of the state. While at this camp the boys will go through a conditioning process of about two weeks and then will be consigned to some camp un known to the local relief office. The following boys were select ed last week by the local office of the emergency relief and taken to Asheville in a group Sunday morning: Ulysses R. Bell, Horse Shoe, route 2; Alvis Caroway, Hender sonville, route 4; Gforge Capps, Flat Rock; Douglas H. Drake, Hendersonville, route 4; William Odell Drake, Hendersonville route 4; Harry B. Flynn, Henderson ville, route 2; Ulysses S. Grant, Hendersonville, route 2; George Hoover, Hendersonville, route 2; Gwin H. Hyder, Hendersonville, Rt. 2; James Hall, Etowah; Leon Hardin, 624 Kanuga street; Her ' bert A. Hughes, Zirconia, route 1; Harvey E. Hamilton, Jr., Hen dersonvillte, route 1; William J. Jackson, 822 1-2 Dale avenue; ! Glenn Willis Lanning, Henderson | ville, route 4; William Glenn Mc Minn, Hendersonville, route 5; I Robert J. C. Quinn. Henderson •| ville, route 4; J. C. Ross, J., East I Flat Rock; A. Burgin Russell, Sa luda, route 1; Gardiner Marvin j Shipman, Penrose, route 1; Julian I F. Stedman, Hendersonville route j 4; Herbert W. Bradley, Hender sonville; James Patrick Burns, ! Zirconia, route 1. NOTED MAN SLAIN . 11 MOBILE, Ala., April 2. (UP), s Thomas A. Hart, 45-year-old na i tionally known social worker and i former official of the Mobile • Transient Bureau, was found shot ; to death yesterday in an alley near two vacant houses. SAY TRADE SO GOOD COIN NOT BEING NEEDED No General Revision for Securities Regulations Expected This Term LEAS IN~LAST PLEA AGAINST EXTRADITION WASHINGTON, April 2. (UP) Loan commitments of the He construction Finance corporation have fallen off $500,000,000 un der Roosevelt's budget estimate as the result of improving eco nomic conditions, Chairman Jesse Jones said today. Since the start of the year Jones said the HFC had received $250,000 in repayment of old loans and at the present time has a harrowing capacity of $1,000,' 000,000 above commitments. "Conditions are getting better throughout the country and bor rowers are not taking as much money," Jones said. RAYBURN SAYS LAW NOT HURTING TRADE WASHINGTON, April 1. (UP). There will be no general revision of the securities regulation act of J 933 by this session of congress, Chairman Sam Rayburn of the house interstate commerce ccom mittee said today. There will be minor changes in the act, how ever, he said. Answering new attacks on tho securities act by the chambers of commerce, Rayburn asserted that the small flow of capital into new securities was due to a lack of market rather than too string ent provisions of the act. COURT WILL ACT ON LEAS' APPEAL SOON WASHINGTON. April 2. (UP) Luke Lea appealed to the su preme court today to forestall the extradition to North Carolina of him and his son, Luke, Jr., where they are under sentence in connection with the failure of the Central Bunk & Trust com pany of Asheville. Papers con taining the Leas' plea were docketed by the court after fil ing by counsel on the last day permitted. The court will soon announce whether it will consid er the case. If it refuses, no further recourse would be avail able to the two men in their fight against extradition. The court, almost a year ago, refused to entertain an appeal from their conviction. MISS CARLISLE IS KIDNAPED Daughter of Local Camp Operator Found Sun day, Unharmed VALDOSTA, Ga.. April 2.— (UP).—Miss Marynelle Carlisle, 17-year-old daughter of H. G. Carlisle, widely known plant grower, was found unharmed but bound and gagged near her home Sunday after being kidnaped Sat urday night. The girl said one man, whom she could not describe, had ab ducted her from the garage of their home, saying he needed money. A note was left at the home during the night demanding $1,000 ransom for her return. After several hours search, the girl was found blindfolded, gagged and bound to a tree near her home. Police had no clues last night. FATHER KNOWN HERE J. G. Carlisle, mentioned above, the father of Miss Marynelle Car lisle, is known in this section as the establisher and operator of Camp Carlisle, which has been in I operation the past two summers WILLIAMS WITHDRAWS FROM GREEN RIVER RACE B. W. Williams, who recently announced that he would be a candidate for township constable on the Chimney Rock road, in Green River township in the Democratic primary in June, an nounced today that he was with drawing from the race. Mr. Williams stated that he had considered the matter further, and had decided that he would not seek the office.