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VOL. 53—No. 213
SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS
Courts Block Long's Dictatorship
f- .? "h
REGISTRATION
tampering is
BEING BANNED
Action Comes as Result of
Court Suit Alleging
' Conspiracy
STATE POLICE BARRED
from NEW ORLEANS
NEW ORLEANS. La., Sept. 5.
,^-pi—Federal court intervened
! jpinst Senator Huey P. Long's
dictatorship last night. State laws
•o hav«? become effective Thurs
day n:,*M would have given him
Vroad executive powers.
An injunction was clamped on
'he registrar of voters' office,
which Huey has barricaded with
<tate troops. Registrar R. J.
Grejcorv. Huey's tool, was ordered
to cease any further scratching of
rtame* ani to immediately certify
the registration rolls.
The order was issued by Judge
Wayne G. Borah on petition of
two citizens. A. Morgan Brian
and Ernest P. Miller. The plain
tiffs sa i *bey were beinsr deprived
of the rights guaranteed them un
der the United States Constitu
I von. because their names had
V been scratched and they were
I prevented from voting in the Sep
I - 11 congressional primary.
Hiey has boasted that names
of >'5.000 "illegal" voters have
been scratched since he got pos
sesion of the rolls.
The suit was obviously inspired
hr Mayor T. S. Walmsley's city
forces. who_are opposing Huev.
fitv at*»>rney& conferred with
Judee Borah earlier in the eve
ning and later went to Gregory's
office and informed him that the
;u<k:e wanted to see him.
Huev Lonjf. Governor 0. K. Al
len. Adjutant General Ray Flem
ar 1 Registrar Gregory were
fhareed with "a conspiracy to de
plaintiffs and thousands of
other New Orleans citizens of
their rieht to vote." j
Recent political developments
•n Louisiana, including martial
!a* in New Orleans and the extra
session of the state legislature
*#re named as part of the con
spiracy.
INJUNCTION LIMITS
STATE POLICE ACTIVITY ;
BATON ROUGE. La.. Sept. 5.
'IP).—An injunction prohibiting
H'ter Lone's new state police from
evading New Orleans on election
day was issued last night by
Judge W. C. Jones in district
eourt.
The petition was filed by Mayor
'• S. Walmsley and other New
Orleans officials. It was directed
the State Bureau of Criminal
Identification, which has head
barters here and through which
Huey will manipulate the police
allotted to him in a new law
^nich becomes effective Thursday
""dnight.
The temporary restraining or
cer was made returnable Sept. 13.
•An days after the congressional
r-'mary. However, state officials
J*1 the right to come into court
» an earlier date to oppose the
d?". if they choose to do so.
Upton Sinclair
Happy After His
Roosevelt Visit
HJDE park, N. Y.. sept. 5.
Upton Sinclair, T>emo
cratic gubernatorial nominee °t
i <.alifomia, left a two-hour tea
1? conference with Presiden
Roosevelt last night convinced
that the new Heal and his epic
p an are one and the same.
The silver-Haired author and
°rmer Socialist, turned Demo
fy*t. nervously fipgered his
passes as he talked with Wash
:n«ton newspapermen, praising
tne chief executive but acrupu
louslv refraining from even in
rerrine what he and Mr. Roose
T<It discussed.
Observers felt, however, that
™th the administration recovery
Prop-am, the epic plan and even
Politics were on the agenda in
'P'te of the fact that it was
•treed the latter would be taboo
m the conference.
"I had the most interesting
•*° hours talk I ever had in my
Sinclair said. "I talked
*ith one of the kindsst and most
Kenial and frank and open-mind
^ and loveable men I have ever
1R«t. He talked for two hours
*n,l that was his fault not mine
told me to tell you that."
THRILL THRONGS AT NATIONAL AIR RACES
.
_ -
ABOVE — Beautiful precision
flying by nine navy pursuit
planes in "staggered" formation
was one of the features that
thrilled the crowd of 35,000
which packed the Cleveland, Ohio
airport for the National Air races,
along with hair-raising stunts and
speed events.
LEFT—The late Douglas Davis
of Atlanta, Ga., shown after he
crossed the finish line, the winner
in the Bendix Derby, speeding
from Burbank, Calif., to Cleve
land in t> hours, 26 minutes, 41
seconds. He was awarded the
Bendix trophy and $4,500 in
cash. Davis was killed instantly
Monday evening when his plane
hit the ground after one of the
sharp turns required at the py
lons.
RIGHT—Sharing the spotlight
with aces of the sky in the Na
tional Air races, Mary Pickford
is shown after she had awarded
the Bendix trophy to Douglas
Davis. She refused to discuss her
rumored reconciliation with Doug
las Fairbanks.
THREE BANDITS ROB BANK
AT LAKE CITY, S. C., OF $100,000
President Hoyt Carter and Cashier Stalvey Abducted
and Are Released 35 Miles Away
LAKE CITY, S. C., Sept. 5. I
(UP).—Three bandits robbed
the Palmetto State bank of
$100,000, abducting President
J. Hoyt Carter and Cashier
Fred Stalvey, releasing them
at Lamar, 35 miles away.
The bandits were traveling in
two automobiles, one of which >
was stolen.
The two bandits entered the
Carter home, threatening the
less they obeyed. .Their corn
entire family with murder un«
mands were obeyed. Carter was
driven to the bankj while the
third bandit accompanied Stal
vey, who was forced to open
the safe.
U. S. DEFICIT NEARLY DOUBLES
FIGURE FOR LIKE PERIOD IN '33
With Two Months of the Fiscal Year Gone Total Treas
ury Deficit Is Placed at $475,518,585
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5. (UP).
A sharp increase in government
expenditures during August placed
the treasury's deficTt for the first
two months of the new fiscal year
at $475,518,585, almost double
the amount for the same period
last year, it was disclosed yester
Hn v
The deficit on Sept. 1, 1933,
was $229,685,450.
August expenditures totalled
$513,699,696 compared with
$466,273,908 for July, the treas
ury's- monthly statement said. It
was the first increase since a
steady decline began last January.
Receipts however, rose to $285,
266,217, a monthly increase of
$68,076,414.
The nation's public debt stood
at $27,079,860,564 at the end of
August, the statement showed, as
compared with $27,189,245,812
the previous month.
Treasury officials pointed out
that this drop in the public debt
was due not to any change in pol- j
icy but rather to use of general
cash funds instead of resorting- to J
new borrowings.
Total expenditures for the first
two months of the new fiscal year
which began July 1, were $979,
973,605. the statement said, al
most djuble the corresponding to
tal of $580,687,515 for last year.
This increase was attributed to in
creased spending by emergency
agencies.
It was pointed out that the two
months total for this year was ap
proximately equivalent to the
peace time peak established last
January when $980,000,000 was
spent by the government in a sin
gle month.
YEAR'S BEST CALF
"The best calf killed here this
year" was reported today by Bob
Hancock of the Sanitary market,
who said be bought the animal
from Zeb Kirkpatrick of East Flat
Rock and that it weighed 177 1-2
pounds, net. It was ten weeks old
and was half Guernsey and half
Jersey. Th* calf was marketed
last Saturday.
'NEW DEALERS'
SCORE BOWER
Say He's Spokesman for
the Rich Who Exploit
Poor People
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5. (UP).
New Dealers yesterday answered
former President Hoover's charge
that the Roosevelt administration
is a challenge to human liberty
with sharp complaint that Mr.
Hoover in fact is a spokesman of
rich men who exploit the poor.
Mr. Hoover's first public utter
ance in 18 months since leaving
the White House was not regard
ed here as a bid for nomination
in 1936.
Friends of the former presi
dent believe he does seek, how
ever, to help shape the platform
upon which the Republican party
will oppose the New Deal. Mr.
Hoover was informed some months
after the inauguration in 1933
that his staunchest supporters in
Washington did not believe he
again could lead the party.
Writing in the Saturday Eve
New Deal policies under the head
ning Post, Mr. Hoover attacked
line: "The Challenge to Liberty."
His unexpected assault came with
in a fortnight of the formation of
the Bi-Partisan American Liberty
League pledged to defend the con
stitution. oppose radicalism—and
evidently to battle the New Deal.
Mr. Hoover charged New Dealers
were permitting "usurpation of
the primary liberties of man by
government." He wrote of regi
mentation."
Secretary of Interior Harold P.
Ickes answered for the adminis
tration :
"Mr. Hoover does not seem to
be concerned," he said, "with the
liberty of the average man and
woman to have decent living- con
ditions and jobs at fair wages.
The liberty he talks about, it
seems, is the liberty of the ex
ploiter.
"Mr. Hoover seems to be de
fending- the liberty of privilege.
(Continued on page 3.),
LAUREL PARK
CITIZENS CALL
FORM DEAL'
Abandonment, New Form
Charter, Tax Cuts Are
All Proposed
COUNCILMEfTREADY
TO CO-OPERATE, SAID
Possibility of a change in the
form of Laurel Park's municipal
government and of a changed
;et-up in the financial arrange
ments, especially as affecting the
councilmen, who may be replaced
by commissioners, and the reduc
tion of the salary paid to the tax
collector loomed following a
meeting of members of the Lau
rel ark Civic club held Tuesday
night at the city hall.
The meeting had been called
is a mass meeting, but, although
t is intimated that the bulk of
the people who are interested in
i change in the affairs of Laurel
Park are the sununer residents
;here, but few of these appeared.
Tuesday night's meeting fol
owed one by the city council of
^aurel Park, held at the home of
Mayor A. C. Hewitt, Monday
light. At that time, on motion
>f Dr. J. L. Weddington, Mayor
Hewitt named a committee on
vhich are A. S. Browning, Jr.,
chairman, J. A. Singleterry, M.
VI. Redden, J. S. Sargent, Sr.,
ind Oliver Fuller. This grouj>
ivas asked to act as a contact
committee with people who it is
said'would like a change in con
iitions in Laurel Park, <Vaw up
indT present recommendflions to
:he founcilmen for their consid
irntinn
Mr. Browning, as chairman,
will call a meeting of the com
mittee in the next few days. The
meeting will be restricted to
members of the appointed group.
When they complete their recom
mendations, these will be subject
to approval of another meeting
to be sponsored by the members
of the Laurel Park Civic club,
following which they will be pre
sented to a subsequent meeting
of the Laurel Park council.
Mr. Sargent, in his capacitv of
vice-president of the Laurel Park
Civic club convened the meeting
last night at the city hall and
outlined its purposes as develop
ed at at a meeting of that body
and at the previous meeting of
the Laurel Park council on Mon
day night.
He declared that he had re
jeived widehpread response to
the movement for a change in
the financial conditions of Laurel
Park and indicated that a peti
tion is now in circulation for the
iisbandment of the town charter.
He took the position that out of
a dollar that is levied in Laurel
Park, "the people get nothing."
Mr. Sargent paid high tribute
to Mayor Hewitt and to 0. B.
Crowell, city attorney, as citizens
and officials.
Oliver Fuller, after Mr. Sar
prent had completed outlining his
views of administration affairs,
stated that the cost of collecting
taxes of the town comprises 40
per cent of the income and that
the salaries represent 40 per cent
of the total of all that is col
lected.
H. Walter Fuller briefy out
lined the object of the meeting
as being for the purpose of devis
ing means by which the munici
pality "can be run more cheap
ly." , ,
He said that if the tax burden
is reduced it was necessary to
(Continued on page 3.)
Alleges Crooner
Breached Promise
Frances Singer Asking
$250,000 of Vallee
NEW YORK, Sept. 5.—(UP) —
A summons was served yesterday
on Rudy Vallee, orchestra leader
and singer, in what was described
as a $250,000 breach of promise
suit.
Attorney Hyman Bushel, speak
ing for Vallee, said the action was
brought by Frances Singer, of
Hewlett, N. Y., Denver, and Kan
sas City.
"In 1930," Bushel said, "she
wrote to Vallee from Denver pro
posing marriage. I have all her
letters. She said the songs he sang
over the radio were sung to her.
Her lawyer wants to settle out of
court. I wouldn't give him a
hearing."
CITY SCHOOLS
, REGISTRATION
TO BE FRIDAY
Slight Changes Made ii
Daily Classroom
Schedule
GET NEW~TEACHER
UNDER FEDERAL AID
Registration of high and ele
mentary school pupils for the
opening of the city schools nexl
Monday will take place Friday,
beginning at 2 p. m-, Supt. F. M
Waters announced today. Only
those pupils not previously en
rolled in the city schools will be
required to register, all elemen
tary pupils going to the Rosa Ed
wards school for registration and
high school pupils to the high
school building.
Slight changes in the daily
school schedule to enable pupils
to meet requirements of the sev
eral classes and to adjust them
selves better to the community,
also were announced. Buildings
will not be open until 8:25 a.
m., a study period will follow,
and the tardy bell will ring at
8:45 o'clock. The lunch hour
will extend from 12:30 to 1:30
p. m., the building not opening
until 1:10 o'clock, and the clos
ing hour will be 3:30 p. m.
No advance estimate of the
probable enrollment was avail
able today, but it was said that
all facilities are ready to receive
pupils and that a successful term
is anticipated.
Miss Snowe Bradley of Gas
tonia, hag been sent to Hender
sonville by the state department
of vocational education to under
take an enlarged program of
home economics education under
the same plan followed by voca
tional agriculture teachers in the
county. She will be employed
for 10 months in the class room
and in outside demonstration and
other work with girls and wo
men. Five-eights of her salary
will be paid by the federal gov
ernment under the George-Reed
vocational education act, this ar
rangement making it possible for
the high school to continue its
(Continued on page 3).
500 CARPENTERS ON
STRIKE AT MIAMI
MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 5.—(UP).
Five hundred carpenters quietly
struck yesterday in protest
against a wage of 75 cents an
hour.
Union leaders, in preliminary
negotiations with employers, said
the wage was 25 cents an hour
below NRA code requirements.
The strike affected all con
struction with the exception of
boat-building, maintenance and
planing mill work.
| Strike leaders assured contrac
tors and city authorities the
walkout would be conducted
without violence, disorders or
sabotage.
Although the issue directly in
volved a discussion before a code
hearing at Washington in April,
R. W. Pearman, NRA field agent,
said he would maintain a "hands
off' policy.
Ruins New Deal
Painting; Jailed
Six months in jail was the sen
tence imposed on John Smiuske,
shown here in court, for throw
ing naphtha on a painting that
scathingly satirized the New Deal
and especially the Roosevelt fam
ily, as it was exhibited in Tarry
town, N. Y. Smiuske ruined the
picture, he said, because he did
not like the idea of holding the
Roosevelts up to ridicule.
DESTROYED~PAINTING;
MUST SERV2 SENTENCE
YONKERS,. N. Y., Sept. 5.—
(UP)-—Supreme Court Justice
William F. Blakeley yesterday re
fused to free John Smiuktse,' the
man who destroyed "Nightmare
of 1934," a painting which satir
ized President Roosevelt, his fam
ily, his cabinet and his policies.
Smiuske is under sentence of
six months imprisonment as a re
sult of his action in throwing acid
on the painting at the Westches
ter Institute of Fine Arts, and of
then setting fire to the canvas.
"The rignt to criticize the' acts
of a public official by spoken or
written word or in caricature,"
said the justice, "is well recog
nized and His Excellency (Presi
dent Roosevelt) is not immune
from such criticism."
Sharp Drop For
Dollar Reported;
NEW YORK, Sept. 5.—(UP). .
The dollar dropped sharply in re- j
lation to foreign currencies late |
yesterday as plans of the treas
ury to convert maturing and called j
obligations totaling $1,750,000,- ,
000 shortly were jeopardized by a
sharp break in U. S. government 1
securities.
Sterling closed 3 1-4 cents
higher at $5.02, or 1-8 cent be
low the trip for the day. French
francs rose 1-8 point to 6.69 5-8
cents, or 1-8 point above the level
at which gold exports can be made
from this nation at a profit. Ger
man marks substituted an early
22 point loss with a 2 point gain
to 39.95 cents. Dutch guilders
gained 4 points.
Other major rates were 1 to 17
points higher, the larger advances
being recorded by the Scandina
vian rates which fluctuate direct
ly with the pound.
Canadian dollars spurted 19-32.
cents to $1.02 27-32. Far Eastern i
currencies and South American
units were steady to firm.
FUEL CODE AUTHORITY ENDS
WORK, RESIGNATION ACCEPTED
NRA Reply to Criticism Is That Its Intervention Was
for Protection of Public Interest
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5. (UP).
Declaring that "self government
of industry" can be continued so
long as indstry operates "in con
sonance with the interests of the
public," the NRA last night an
nounced that it had accepted the
resignation of the entire code au
thority for the retail solid fuel
industry.
1 !±.
The resignations were auunuv
ted Monday night, accompanied
by a statement declaring recent
NRA rulings had "emasculated"
the code for the industry and
left only a "skeleton."
The split was brought about
a ruling declaring that hence
forth any minimum price regula
tions would be set by the recov
ery administration, depriving reg
ional code authorities of the
privilege they possessed up to
that time.
In announcing acceptance of
the resignations, NRA said that
future coal price regulations
would be set by a special coal
1 price unit of the research
planning division, at the request J
of divisional code authorities
showing that emergencies exist
in their territories.
Replying to the code author
ity's claim that the ruling had
made the code "a futile and un
workable thing," Col. George A.
Lynch, NRA administrative of
ficer, said in a letter accepting
the resignations that the NRA
had intervened for "protection of 1
the public interest."
"The code required approval '
by the administrative appointee
on divisional code authorities 1
and provided for approval, disap- 1
proval or modification by the ad
ministrator (of all price fixing
regulations)" Lynch's letter said.
"The operation of the code 1
proceeded without specification
of such procedural matters until 1
it became apparent that actual
figures set by code authorities
for certain trade areas and pro- i
posed for others departed widely
from the principles of NRA upon «
which the marketings provision* I
yr?re known to b<? bwe4t" ' 11
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1CO-OPERATION
BOTH SIDES
NOW PLEDGED
President Acts on Recom
mendation of National
Lobor Board
violence"grows AS
STRIKERS INCREASE
HYDE PARK, N. Y., Sept. 6.—
(UP).—Upon recommendation of
the National Labor Relations
board, President Roosevelt today
announced he had decided to name
a special board of three members
to mediate the textile strike.
The President broke his silence
after reports from a dozen states
in New England, the East and the
South showed that the strike para
lysis is extending.
The Labor Relations board rec
ommended a mediation board aft
er reporting it had been unable to
bring peace to the textile indus
try.
PICKETS ARRESTED ALL
OVER STRIKE AREA
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5. (UP).
Union and industrial leaders to
day pledged co-operation to Presi
dent Roosevelt's mediation board
as reports of violence increased
and the textile code authority
charged intimidation of workers
by pickets.
A survey showed more than
50,000 recruits were added to the
strikers' ranks overnight, with a
total of 150,000 idle in the South;
100,000 in New England; 35,000
in Pennsylvania, and 20,000 in
other states.
Hundreds of pickets were ar
rested throughout the strike areas
as authorities combatted violence. j
In the South, peace officers are '
arming against actions of flying
squadrons touring mill districts
ind forcing the closing of plants.
Officers used tear gas to dis
perse 2,000 pickets at the Augusta
mill.
North Carolina union leader*
ordered picket* to "pat on the
brake*" at it was feared martial
law might be declared. \
Fifing squadrons from Kannap
slit and Lexington, N. C., failed
to close the Thomasville mill.
Police frustrated a squadron at
tempting to dose the High Point .
mill.
Forty state constables were is
sued tear gas and guns and or
dered to Bath, S. C., where flying
squadrons were reported to be ,
ipproaching.
John Peel, Greenville union vice
sresident, declared the strike is a
success, claiming that 200,000
nrorkers are out in the South.
One hundred extra officers were
•ecruited at Burlington, N. C.f to
:ombat pickets.
While pledging cooperation with
;he President, Francis J. Gorman,
strike chairman, said the strike
will continue.
FIRST SHOT FIRED
IN MACON FLARE-UP
lyiACON, Sept. 5.—(UP).—The
first shot of the textile strike was
fired over the heads of strikers
after strikers overturned an auto
mobile containing officials of the
Bibb Manufacturing company.
Fierce hand-to-hand fighting fol
lowed between 30 strikers and a
iozen police.
Officials then closed the mill
ind two others which have been
operating part time since the
strike began.
FULL EFFECTIVENESS
NEARS IN THE EAST
BOSTON, Sept 5. (UP).—The j
Mew England textile strike was
ipproaching full effectiveness to
lay as thousands of new recritits
twelled the strikers' ranks.
Observers reported more than I
J00,000 operatives in six states [•
ire out on strike.
Farmer Runs
Amuck And 5
People Killed
EAST CLINTON, HI., Sept. 5. ,
(UP).—Fred Blink, 45, farmer
ind truck owner, killed five
)ersons and probably mortally
rounded a sixth last night before
je Anally was wounded by police
)ullets after an unsuccessful at
empt to commit suicide.
The dead:
Mrs. Timothy H< Corrick, Jr.
John Hamilton, his farming
>artner.
Mrs. Jennie Walters, his house- /
peeper.
Harry Menzie.
An unidentified man believed j
tamed Webb.
Jane Lamb hospital authorities
aid Joe Collier, aged farm helper,
robably would die of shotgun ,
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