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F»'r WEATHER and colder tonight and Thur» day* Sill* (LtM£5 s GOOD AFTERNOON A woman driver in Kansas City collided with four cars at one time. Women generally are good drivers, but when they're not, they make it worth while. i mil 23 N°' 2Z1 HENDERSONVILLE, N. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1934 SINGLE COPIES, FIVE CENTS m ROOSEVELT PUSHES RELIEF PROGRAM! 2*11 iSTEADING H RELIEF IS fOBLEM HERE 0| Officials Call for ingestions on Large and Small Scales ECURITYlFOR many ffiDED—HOLLOWELL By NOHOLLOWELL L»c»l Re':ef Administrator r>.e K*r..:c.->i>n county emerg f.; a: '.iteration is jpiv ■co>ra: 1 to a program U -av :eud '<> colonizing or -1 several relief » <0 to better enable r': a 'i: their economic •-.a. ials are call f:r. :hc . . for constructive * i- to workable plans on c ;ra:: a:.: iarge scales and . : for such op ic.-ns. "•ere arc -ard working and Kfr-.C far. iies on relief who re -a: -evi-ral "bad breaks"1 j v.!: T.f.': v-rv little supervi-j 1.: c" Some of these l > - small unproductive c of orly three or four acres, r hae no stock and few is. La.-: rs are not advanc tit!r. any assistance. Others a -rx. ;v\s and are facing K*k v ":'ar economic prob EL need constructive en rar-rent. They are able to :s; ■-.e:r crops with only lit " There are others • ire w: Hint* workers and 1.:;* ••.«ff:oient food crops r~r. .->>e supervision. F.»r- are ur. ier consideration • I- var.ee to these three K>. ::i" f officials will con (ra.-v practical plan, even to ?xte- f buy;ntr large boun :e; : and—mostly developed [feral purpose and with or ■ Such lands V-: be accessible ar.d if not 1 B 4 they should be near j ■oooi bus route. V'v has a workable plan? F:o as owner or agent has "er to sell or rent for a ■ of nan? ■ Eil relief officials would Hod to have properties sub written descriptions, terms, etc. Only the V able types of relief •uej would be assigned to1 ■ oropenies. ^Paethinsj must be done to Be economic security to many Wjjr oeople. The program and ot tne nast will not accom family independence. It Problem. Temporary re ■ tone will not be the cure. ■J*community problem. The tthought and wisest of :$ mcmmutj. There is ••timty of dv->!ng something scale—something con and of national impor "ease let us have your ffi BANKERS', mientbad! I Dishonest as a Rule, W's Legal Advisor Tells Convention I J* ORI.KAN'S, La.. Nov. 14. ' Bar.<• ar"1. brokers have 'r:-"y f >onr judgment, hut r>f i >honesty, Col ® A. Lockwi'»d. legal ad f T th" Now York Curb Ex * * : V~> National Asso * of ...4 Commission V-iiav. '■ 'X »rises have been ■'"v-;., a* t'r.tj county fairs, ' '■'■'""rTi't beinjf that W»I;c paid a nickle to throw ! i'. the donkeys and could '•hings at the exchanges for rer in history has there been * *I*b investors could fwl K investing »n than today, he said, ■formation respecting the (£" v' ; on file in Wash er?5- I i-4 under control PWi ■ n board. The themselves, the prac ®reon, their members, and us who use the facilities are subject to the commission." ClJniNG REELECTED feQUEKQUE. N. M., Nov. Lyt—United States Senator utting has been re ^ the U. S. senate by a EL0;. ' •-H2 votes over his CT i!c opponent, Representa t. J,r - Chavez, according to .^returns from the state's -cincts. Totals of the 761 : Cutting 75,926; GOVERNMENT INSTITUTE WIDELY BACKED A unique illustration of the non-partisan character of the In stitute of Government appeared yesterday as leaders of both po litical parties in North Carolina joined together in supporting its aims and purposes and in urging the rank and file of the people without regard to party to parti cipate in its purposes. These party leaders, shown above, are, from left to right, top row: J. C. B. Ehringhaus, governor of North Carolina; Clif ford Frazier of Greensboro, Re publican candidate for governor in the election of 1!>32; J. Wal lace Winborne of Marion, chair man of the state Democratic ex ecutve committee, and W. C. Meekins of Hendersonville, chair man of the state Republican ex jecutive committee. Bottom row: Mrs. Charles W. Tillett, Jr., of Charlotte, vice chairman of the state Democratic executve com mittee; Mrs. F. Eugene Hester of Reidsville, vice chairman of the state Republica nexecutive com mittee; Doyle D. Alley of Way nesvlle. president of the Young Democrats of North Carolina, and Baxter M. Linney of Lenoir, president of the young Republi cans of North Carolina. A demop.straton of this non partisan attitude is provided in the opening meeting of the 1934 sessions of the institute in the Wake county courthouse in Ra-: leigh Thursday evening, Nov. 15, at 8 o'clock, when Major L. P. I McLendon, chairman of the state board of elections, together wth leaders of both political parties, will discuss the conduct of elec tions in North Carolina. Leaders of both partes urge state and local officials and citi zens to attend and participate in these sessions of the institute. In addition to state and local lead ers the sessions of the institute, which start Thursday and end Saturday morning, will feature Judge Florence K. Allen of Ohio, first woman judge of the United States circuit court of appeals; Dean Roscoe Pound of the Har vard Law school, and William Stanley, assistant attorney gen eral of the United States. NEW BILLS AID | DICTATORSHIP OF HUEY LONG 44 of Them Being Pushed Through Legislature; no Opposition BATON ROUGE, La., Nov. 14. (UP)—Forty-four bills, strength ening Senator Huey P. Long's dic tatorship in Louisiana, were pass ed to final reading in the house of legislature last night. Not a single legislator raised his voice to oppose a bil. Last night's session lasted only an hour. It was a foregone conclusion that the house would pass all the bills today and send them to the senate, which according to pres ent schedule, will enact them in to laws shortly after Thursday midnight. Long rammed the bills through the house ways and means com mittee earlier Tuesday in a two hour session, interrupted only by the stubbord "nay" votes cf Rep. Jack Williamson as the "Kingfish" took up each bill and "explained" it. They provide : A two-year moratorium on all debts, with a provision that seiz ures and foreclosures be halted | immediately. The state administration to take, control of municipal police and fire departments; of the sewerage and water board and the court-; house commission in New Orleans.! The jrovernor to fill all vacant offices in wards, municipalities j and parishes by appointment. Authorizing the state to regul ate city tax assessments. Officers of the state bar asso-: ciation to be elected by the peo i pie Abolishing all elections until ; i»36. | A minimum wage scale for! workers on state projects. I Long said the moratorium1 ' would apply to private debts, but not to Home Owners' Loan Cor poration debts. "We are taking care of the HOLC loans through a federal act, the Frazier-Lemke bill. "There's judges on the bench in this state that are so hard hearted and inhuman they can't see anything but dispossesing some poor devil and taking away from him everything he's got in times like these. If Europe couldn't pay us $14,000,000,000 in debts, we're not going to force the American people to pay $250, 000,000,000 in debts they haven't got the money to pay." Defending a bill to consolidate state and national elections into i one election in the fall, Long said ' it would save the taxpayers money. l. Senator Sees New Prohibition Era Is Drifting That Way, Says Sheppard of Texas WASHINGTON, Nov. 14. (UP) America is drifting toward anoth er prohibition era. Senator Morris Sheppard, Democrat, Texas, au thor of the eighteenth amendment said yesterday. "The reaction in favor of re peal has just about run its course," he said. Sheppard already has introduc ed a resolution to reinstate prohi bition on the statute books. The commerce department re ported America now was consum ing almost as much beer as it did before prohibition. In nine months of 1933, there were 832?301,644 gallons produced compared to 852,921,219 gallons in 1919. K1DNAPMAN IS ACQUITTED ■ Judge Meekins Directs j Verdict After Testimony as o Insanity | RALEIGH. Nov. 14. (UP)—A directed vevdict of acquittal freed the Rev. Ralph H. Askew, 28. Goldsboro Four Square gospel J evangelist, at his trial here on charges of staging- a fake kidnap ing of himself last August and demanding $25,000 ransom from his wife for his safe return. Federal Judge I. M. Meekins1 granted tbe prosecution's motiof after defease attorneys presented three physicians who told of a streak of insanity in the defend ant's family. Lay Leadership Is Men's Club Topic H. H. Ewbank Offers Pa per at Nov. Session The November meeting- of the ; Men's Club of St. James Episco ' pal church wis held last night at the home of Leming Grimshaw, in : Flat Rock, with about 20 present. H. H. Ewbank, president of the club, presided, and read a paper on the subject of Lay Leadership in the Church. Following reading i of the papei a discussion of the i subject was held with general em J phasis being placed on efforts to | arouse more interest on the part of laymen in the work of the church. Refreshments were served fol lowing the business meeting by ' Mrs. Grimshaw. FREE IRELAND I IS STILL GOAL DeValera's Party Again Makes Him President as Convention Held DUBLIN, Irish Free State, Nov. 14.— (UP)—In annual convention , here Tuesday, the Fianna Fail, ' President Eamon de Valera's par ty, adopted a resolution reaffirm ing its aims to secure unity and independence for Ireland as a re public. Speakers declared opposition to settlement of the nation's econom ic conflict with Great Britain, de claring England "denies us of the right to declare a republic." They reiterated the party would remain unsatisfied until Ireland was com pletely free politically and eco nomically. The Fianna Fail convention re elected Eamon de Valera presi dent of the party. Long Cancels New Football Junket KNOXVILLE, Nov. 14. (UP). Senator Huey P. Long cancelled his plans for a football junket to Knoxville with Louisiana State team for the LSU-Tennessee game December 8 because West brook Pegler, syndicate column ist. wrote an article placing po litical significance on Long's ear lier Vanderbilt junket. Long said he feared he would be misunder stood if he made the trip. SHERIFF JAILED IN ALABAMA CONTEMPT SUn Ignores Order Withholding Election Declaration Un til Vote Counted absenteiTballots CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE FORT PAYNE, Ala., Nov. 14. (UP)—Circuit Judge A. E. Hawk ins ordered Sheriff W. S. Tope to jail for an indefinite sentence late yesterday alleged contempt , of court in a locai political I wrangle. Sheriff Pope, a Republican had ignored a court order issued by Judge Hawkins, a Democrat, de signed to restrain the county elec tion board from declaring Repub lican candidates in last Tuesday's | election winners until all ballots had been counted. Democrats contended that tabula tion of 213 absentee ballots, thrown out by Republican elec tion officials because they were j not mailed to the polls, would as sure election of their candidates to county offices. COURTHOUSE UNDER NATIONAL GUARDS Eighty national guardsmen, or dered here by Gov. B. M. Miller when feeling between the two political factions became tense, guarded the court house as a pre cautionary measure during the contempt hearing yesterday. Judge Hawkins indicated that he would keep Sheriff Pope in jail until the latter and his Republi can associates on the county elec tion board agree to issue an elec tion decalartion which would in clude the controversial absentee ballots. _ Coroner John Baxter, a Demo crat, took over the sheriff's office temporarily. Sheriff Pope s de puties were suspended and he also was fined $50. It was believed the defense would appeal to the supreme court. Judge Hawkins said he personally regretted having to pass the jail sentence as he had known Sheriff Pope for 25 yeais and never had any ill feeling against him. . | Atty.-Gen. Thomas E. Knight, Jr., has ruled that the controver sial ballots should be counted and that then the proper procedure • would be for the Republican forc I es to contest the election if their j nominees were defeated. SCORES OFFICERS GETTING CONFESSION BAY SPRINGS, Miss., Nov. 14 (UP)—Kermie Jackson, 13-year old boy charged with murdering his sister, Hester, was ordered re leased under $1,000 bond yester day, until the next term of cir cuit court. Chancellor A. B. Amis issued the order after a habeas corpus hearing where he criticiz ed Jasper county officials for ob taining several alleged confessions from Kermie without warning him that anything he said might be used against him. WRIGHT REACHES ATHENS ATHENS, Greece. Nov. 14.— ! (UP)—John H. Wright, an Amcr- j ican entrant in the recent Eng- ! land-Australia air race, arrived ! from Cyprus yesterday, on his j way to Rome, next stop in his re- I turn flight to London. | M'KELLAR ASKS ROOSEVELT TO DELAY INTERPARK ROAD ACTION; SCORES DECISION; - 1 Declares Ickes' Choice Violates Rules of Fair Play; ! Graham Champions Welfare of Wage Earners; Frazier-Lemke Act Is Held Valid CHATTANOOGA. Nov. 14.—I (UP)—Senator Kenneth McKel lar today appealed to President Roosevelt to delay final action on Secretary Ickes' decision award ing the park-to-park highway to North Carolina instead of placing half of it in Tennessee. McKellar said Ickes' decision i violated the rules of fair play af- I fecting the two states. GRAHAM WOULD AVOID "FALSE PROSPERITY" WASHINGTON, Nov. 14. (UP) President Frank P. Graham of the University of North Carolina today opened the national confer ence of industrial, labor and so cial leaders with a warning that failure of the new deal to lay the foundations for individual and ec onomic security would mean a re turn of "false prosperity, certain j to collapse." As chairman of President j K">oseveIt's advisory council on ! economic security, Graham said ; that economic recovery must go j hand in hand with the laying of foundations tor security of homes, I jobs and wealth for 44,000,000 American wage earners. MORTGAGE MORATORIUM AT IS SUSTAINED LOUISVILLE, Nov. 14. (UP) The Frazier-Lemke farm mort gage moratorium act was held valid today by Federal Judge j Charles Dawson in a test suit I brought by Louisville Joint Stock I Land bank to prevent application I of the law in the case of William ! Redford, Hopkinsville, Ky., farm-' er. Nurse to Testify In Kidnap Trial ! Betty Gow, nurse-maid in the home of Charles A. Lindbergh when the aviator's son was kid naped and murdered, is reported to have been summoned to the United States from Scotland to testify in the New Jersey trial of Bruno Hauptmann, who is charg ed with the murder. Her import ance, officials say, "cannot be overestimated." COAL MEN OF REGION TO WAR AGAINST TVA Said The Vision Asinine;' Socialization of Indus tries Its Only Hope CINCINNATI, 0., Nov. 14.— The first gurts of an organized campaign against the federal mov ement's hydro-electric program have been fired here by Appala chian Coals. Inc., which is mail ing thousands of copies of a booklet that brands TVA as "The Vision Asinine" and explains, with graphic illustratioas, the dis astrous consequences to private business which will result if the government's program is carried out. The booklet, "Hydro Power vs. Steam Power," is replete with costs and figures gathered, in most instances, from government sources. While it calls attention to the loss in tonnage for the coal mines and the railroads, if the numerous hydro-power proj ects are actually built, the book let presents the problem from the standpoint of private business in general rather than from a strict ly coal angle. Using the TVA program, al ready under construction, to il lustrate the "recklessness" of the plan, the booklet says in part: "When the TVA finds itself with a huge investment in power facilities and an enormous sup ply of electric power, it must for its own salvation develop and or ganize a power market not now existent. That means the promo tion of government-subsidized in- j dustries in direct competition j with existing private industries, j This promotion has already start-! ed." _ I Officials of Appalachian Coals, Inc., which is the huge marketing,: agency for approximately 250 southern bituminous coal mines,; advise that the organized cam- • paigrt ajrainst federal hydro-pow er includes an advertising sched ule and group meetings through out the country where speakers | will explain that ultimate social ization of industries will be ne cessary if the government is to dispose of the huge excess of so called "cheap" electricity it it tends to develop. In this connec tion, "Hydro Power vs. Steam Power," emphasizes that the ex isting supply of electricity in the Tennessee Valley is double the present normal deand and that, despite this fact, the federal gov ernment is undertaking to double the presort supply. HALT ANTI-JEWISH PRESS VIENNA, Nov. 14. (UP)—The government has closed down four anti-Jewish periodicals on the grounds they were endangering public order, it was learned last night. Final naturalization papers to 76 Polish Jews without a coun try whose preliminary papers the former Vienna city socialist gov ernment had accepted, have been refused in this anti-Jewijb trend. BLAME MURDER OF NASHVILLE GIRL ON FIEND Dorothy Ann Distelhurst's Body Identified; Head Crushed by Blow FATHER FLIES HOME: U. S. ENTERS CASE NASHVILLE, Nov. 14. (UP) — The body of the child found in a shallow grave near the county tu berculosis hospital last night was positively identified today as Dor othy Ann Distelhurst, 6, who dis appeared from a street there Sep tember 19. Attorney General J. Carlton Loser announced identification af ter Dr. Leonard Pogue checked records against the dental work of the body. The child's head had been crushed by a hammer blow. A rag was stuffed in the mouth Department of justice, state and county officers today joined forces in an attempt to solve the crime. Officers temporarily abandoned the kidnap theory, leaning' to the belief that the child was slain by a fiend who buried it in the spot where it was discovered by two negroes. Ransom notes are now believed to have been sent either by a crank or someone attempt ing to capitalize on the child's dis appearance. FATHER ATTEMPTED CONTACT WITH KIDNAPERS NEW YORK, Nov. 14. (UP) — Alfred E. Distelhurst today left by plane for Nashville after a fu tile wait at a hotel for communi cations from an alleged kidnap gang which was supposed to have abducted his daughter, Dorothy Ann, for a $5,000 ransom. Distelhurst collapsed last night when informed the body of a young1 child had been found in Nashville, Tenn., near where his daughter disappeared, although identification was not then com plete. » He recovered, however, when word came that members of his family and friends had not been able to identify the body. He has been here for a week attempting to contact the alleged kidnapers after receiving a note directing him to New York to await further instructions. Distelhurst, a 44-year-old World war veteran, came here last Wed nesday but did not reveal his [search for his child until Monday. SCHEEL BACKS INSULL VIEW Lost $400,000 But Be lieves Magnate's Methods and Motives Honest CHICAGO, Nov. 14. (UP) — Fred Schrell, former vice presi dent and director of Utility Se curities company, who lost $400, 000 in the collapse of the Insull utilities empire of which he was a part, testified in his own de fense yesterday that he still be lieves Insull methods and motives I were honest. I Schell. one of 17 defendants in the $143,000,000 mail fraud trial, j was president of the company I which handled the marketing de 1 tails of InsulPs financial maze. "I had." he said, "and still have | full confidence in the executive committee and the board of di rectors of Corporation Securities company and the other Insull companies. "I believed the stock offering circulars distributed by Corpora tion Securities company to be true then, and I believe them to i be true now. I bought stocks for Utility Securities company on the strength of those circulars." The government contends Cor poration Securities was a dump j ing ground for worthless Insull 1 stocks and that circulars it put ; out misrepresented values. GERMAN DICTATOR TO SET ALL PRICES | BERLIN, Nov. 14.—(UP) — j Carl Goerdeler, in his first decree S since appointment as Reich's price commissar, yesterday banned in dependent fixing of prices. Introduction on the market of any new products without his per mission also was banned. The de cree forbids wholesalers from at tempting to dodge former con tracts through delays or delibery of inferior jjoods, and warns co operative stores to cease efforts to raise price sin member branch es LEGISLATION I CONFERENCES ! IN PROGRESS Emergency Council Sub committee Named Today i to Unify Spending # JOBS AND INSURANCE ARE MAIN OBJECTIVES Uj WASHINGTON, Nov. 14. (UP). President Roosevelt announced creation of loan committee to oi>- || tain co-operation among: federal if agencies which lend fiovernment funds. He explained that th'_' i committee is to function, a^ a sub-committee of the emergency council and will he headed l\v Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr. The president plans to take i millions out of the breadlines and guarantee aid and medical eavo to the nation's needy and help less, were expected to be pushed forward sharply at a conference of social, labor and industrial leaders here today. The meeting president's com ic security in of preparing t of social legisl duced in the 74th congress. phases of the problem were to he j surveyed at round table confer- u] ences during the day, after which Mr. Roosevelt was to meet the u'l group at the White House. Representative Hamilton Fish, Jr., R. N. Y., in a letter to Fed eral Relief Administrator Harrv L. Hopkins last night demanded that 11 relief workers in Putnam county, N. Y., be discharged f->r "coercion, duress and intimida- jl| tion of voters receiving federal . d aid. He enclosed what he said was a photostatic copv of a letter writ ten by the relief workers an-l sent to unemployed and needv voters in his county, which said in nart: "Your very existence is at stake. You can save a job for yourself and make iobs for your relatives or friends onlv by going to the polls on November f» and supporting all Democratic candi dates." Secretary of Labor Francos Perkins said yesterday the com mittee on economic security would make every effort to sub mit a well rounded proeram of social legislation to President Roosevelt by December 1. She said, however, an additional two weeks beyond that date might be necessary to complete the iob. Chief points in the legislation, she indicated, will be: Unemploy ment insurance, dependency and relief, provisions for old age se curity, assurances against eco nomic hazards and increased upr of the federal employment serv ice. The conferees today. Miss Per kins said, are approaching th" problem of unemployment from two directions—assurance of rm ployment and insurance for un employed. She explained that by this is meant the need of Ion? range planning to prevent pe riodic drons in employment and also facilities to care for the idle until they can find work again. I Solves Mystery Of Stolen Milk Officer Arrests Negro; Fails to Give Bond City police this morning solved the mystery of the missing milk bottles. For some time residents of Fourth avenue west and that sec tion have reported that the milk was stolen from their doorsteps soon after delivery by the dairy. Chief Otis Powers assigned a number of officers to cover thai part of town after the milk de livery and this morning Russell Proctor, young negro, was arrest ed by Officer Ernest Thompson on a charge of stealing milk from the porch of C. L. Grey on Fourth avenue. The negro was bound to the recorder's court under $200 bond, and is in jail in default of bond. He told officers that he was hungry, but Chief Powers check led up and reported that the ne |gro'9 father had been buying | about $7 worth of groceries each iweek for his family. POSTPONE TRIAL HAVANA, Cuba, Nov. 14.— (UP). — Trial of five Cuban youths charged with plotting to assassinate U. S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery was suspended until the defendants obtain coun sel. The young men were ar rested October 23 at a corner frequently passed by Caffery on 'his way to work,
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