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
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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<r.> 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: <ake in the auto
' . ; <: ;• . settlement of
v ' ;■t-.y t rial answer
~ •. It is involved
7 Weirton steel fight. Thru
' Hainan's recommen
x '■ ■■ • is:• of the rail
*l ij a,-:, t ha* reached the
;1"' n <>t indus
-7
-<i-" prohibi
'•r'': i. :• : v !K-e by roads
;* organizations,
.'ul'.y : "oposes that
" : us;ng funds
•3 maintaining' "so-called com
^ *$." The language is
Miliar to that of the pending
. a?r;er 3:11 which would apply
'' ; :-try, and which
r-.u^-ht with every re
Vo:"' r n^
industrialists have told
1 '' : "n pa^re three)
I »l
U|)rary Board
Meeting Called
V Plans for Benefit
"«nt Next Week
IT1eet'nsr of the public
Taej^J"ard is scheduled for
8'e.V il!0rnine at 10:30
isewj.,. 'ne purpose of this
St ;»j\ r.t0 n'an for the bene
ibrj^ r ^ XVI-' he Riven at the
The -x. .eern.oon next week,
■^n, a- ) ,e ,s be decided
toafcd '' ',ar,°us committees ap
•fr ^ ; deliirhtful program
m.j-S ls beinjr prepared.
^ by \rr .ra^s CT*oup, direct
W ^'chael Schenck, will
Jjfle u;..en\'isical features;
^id-Fl-,. Child of the
in r u Dance,
*1Vtive ;,. arsre of several at
!® be B'o C? specialty numbers
*r e<* ^-v members of
^odeJo^n7'. W^ich «s one of
^ a certain ^ ef attractions
^ in « visitors, is
Jj'ch to r>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.