" HENDERSON,
gateway to
central
CAROLINA.
nineteenth year
PRESIDENT STILL
QUIET IN MEASURE
OF RELIEF BILL
President Adamant In Op.
position To Loan* To
Individuals
GARNER SAYS BEST
IS IN AGREEMENT
Frominent Breach Still Ex
ists Between Executive and
Judicial branches of Gov.
ernment Due To Pretiden
fTai Opposition
'A> ’ n.: -n July 8 'API—A two
v ... vt-nce between President
H .••• .-i ffirtte and house leaders
•■> >- 1.2 '“tO.OOO Wagner-Gsr»er
..«? b-i>ke up tod■. y with a
• ing between the Leg
* .* * 1 Executive branches.
i>, ;>-ner. however, told news
nv • . t'.'rr that the conferes
3• -t -'.dent were virtually in
a upon *H points in the
- g- - • • except the section deal
„• ■ •- > ndividuals. The pres
•• • n, ■ warned throughout ada
m:' - pp-*~ *:«n to this provision
t cuter* .u e in Deadlock.
’I-: July 6. (API A
!t • conference between
* M -i itid House and Sen
e' -u 'he unemployment re
•<y ended in a dead
* -*i'n pects that congress
' jrt (•( 2.122.000,1100 measure
> the White House.
• : :.cr took the floor and;
'• - ii.tent»on3 oi fighting to
'< J • cli. Hoovers views on the
U“.t r.
Oil Magnate, 93,
Hopes To Live 100
T ”\;own. N Y.. July 8 (AP)
L> Rockefeller, approaching his
■ s|< ’ 1 ' rthday on Friday, still believes
l ‘ i ‘ »:il live to be 100 years old.
H* told one of his employes that
he returned to his Poeantico
J. - estate last week in good health
•- - J 3:d year has been a quiet one
i'i will observe his birthday in
* Ame manner with John D.
"k-feiier. Jr., and his grandchil-
MOST GARDENS IN
19321 N HISTORY
Campaign Begins To Have
All Possible Food Saved
For The Winter
IlntlT IMapafe* Barra*.
In the air Walter Hat el.
nr j. r msHkRVILL
r --'-zb July 6 North Carolinians
- i iante.; more gardens, bigger
- : j and better gardens this year
‘ 4 “r before, according to a sur
•h. State made by the Qover
’ ' unci! on Unemployment and
' ‘ -■ Bu the mere planting of gar
tr ' 'he mere production of vege
“• ft-r immediate use as food, is
'Zh Preservation of food pro
fall and winter U3e is neces
-4,1 • *h« people of the State ex
* ' have enough to eat this win
t with dwindling in all!
” ** , i*’s in the State, with com
r h».its and all relief organlza
"-*rri put to it to obtain funds
to feed the needy, the
now determined to carry
he 0 f the State the necessity
r an”:ns{ drying, storing and oth
‘ preserving food for winter use.
' ,- h ’ha 1 ; idea in mind, the coun
ha-- made arrangements with all
radio -tations in the State to
adca=t definite directions on how
'"an preserve, dry, and otherwise
'"‘‘‘P various r-immon garden crops,
broadra ts will be prepared and
ered by Mrs. Jane S. McKlmmon
' - Tarrelia Morris and others of the
* 4 ' ' n * Demonstration Division of
v ’ College. Raleigh.
first broadcast, will be made"
Nation WPTF. Raleigh, begio
- '"day. July 6. Copies of these
will be furnished to the other
' '*ari., ns and rebroadcasted. Sta
’ ' v f'T Charlotte will begin its
id-'i * program July 7. at 10 a.
A Nations are to use 15 min,
for each broadcast, with music
an< i after the talks. All seven
. >rs win carry- the food preserva
- programs for a period of three
besides the speakers from
' T ’ Vp Allege: such State leaders as
, J M Parrott. Mrs. W. T. Boat,
A T Allen. Dean I. O. Schaub
' 1 ' ,her * who hold important State
l, " ,ns W 'H speak on the relstlon
; -f food preservation to ti.eir par
' ! At departments.
■ he papers are to have a big
m this preservation cam
iv «n.
HenJiirsmt BaiUt Btsrrafrh
FULL LKASKD WTItS MRv ira
or THI ASSOCIATED PRMI
Handshake Before the Gong
Made when they met at a recent baseball game in Washington D C
fUKTJiSr S r* k v er J °^ n N ? nce G * rner ot ** G extended
a cordial greeting to Vice President Charles Curtis. Although the
thU*hlLrh 9 V destiny had in store for him at that time,
this handshake might be taken as symbolic of the traditional, salute of
opponents m the boxing ring, for both men are now rivals for the Vice
Presidency.
Some Congress Economies
Not Clear To Average Mail
May Cost Public Sharply
By CHARLES P. STEWART i
Central Frees Staff Writer
Washington. July 6.—Among econo- i
mies proposed by congress recently!
are a few which it Is hard to believe
the public would have indorsed had
it understood them.
FOr example, transportation spe
cialists say it will prove to be de
cidedly at the public's expense if a
stop is put, by a drastic curtailment
of funds, to the interstate commerce
commission’s task of keeping the j
country's railroad valuations up to
date.
It may seem like a dull subject, but
explained by experts, it is quite in
teresting.
As most folk doubtless know, one
of the I. C. C.'s principal duties is
to prevent the railroads. If possible,
from overcharging their customers.
Years ago. the commission |
was young. It qtfickly became appar
ent that the*, prqbieqr "ot firing fair
rates, wax* a tfefy Tiff lcult one. It was
recognized thdt
were entitled tq rkiqdtiWble profits on
their investment* ih 4he various lines,
but the owners linsistde that they had
Invested a vast deal more than the
interstate commissioners thought like
ly-
According the I. C. C. undertook the
job of making its own valuations and
has been at it ever since.
It not only is an exceedingly com
plicated piece of work but it never is
finished, because a correct valuation
at one time by no means is correct
at some other time
ESSAY CONTEST TO
BE HELD ON FRIDAY
Four District Bepirsentstlvei Gath
ering In Raleigh Selected Fiom
7,00 u Entrants
Dally Dispatch Barena,
la the Sir Waiter Hotel.
RT J. C. BASKKItVILL.
Raleigh, July 6 For the State
championship and first prize of SSO
and a one-yeareollege scholarship,
four district representatives, winners
in elimination contests in which 7,000
students from 127 state high schools
participated, will compete here Fri
day, July 8, in the finals of the fifth
annual essay contest of the North
Carolina Cotton Growers Cooperative !
Association.
The contestants are: Mildred Price, [
of Garner, Wake county, represening j
the central district; Mildred Davis, |
Severn high school, Northampton
county, representing the eastern dis
trict; Pauline Hill, Stony Point, Ire
dell county, representing the Western
district: and John Ousley, Lillington,
Harnett county, representing the
Southern district. All will speak on
"Cotton Production in North Carolina
—How to Make It Profitable.”
For the purpose of the contest the
cotton growing area of the State was
divided Into four districts as follows.
Central district, represented by Miss
Price: Wayne, Wilson, Wake. Chat
ham, Greene. Lenior, Johnston, Dur
ham. Franklin and Warren counties.
Southern district, represented by
Ousley: Harnett. Sampson, Cumber
land, Robeson, Hoke, Duplin, Bladen,
Scotland, Moore and Lee counties.
Western district, reprssented by
Miss Hill: Anson, Mecklenburg. Ca
barrus, Rowan. Davis, Rutherford,
Catawba, Lincoln, Stanly, Richmond,
Union, Iredell, Alexander, Cleveland,
Polk, Gaston and Montgomery.
■•stern, represented by Miss Davis:
Northampton, Hertford, Nash. Hali
fax, Vance. Pm Martin, Chowan,
Bertie, Gate** ku«xvoii*he. Granville,
Beaufort, Perqui
<MHß enuntiea.
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS. SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VISINIA.
ONLY DAILY
Illustratively, America's great era
of railroad building was during the
post-Civi! war period, at the begin
ning of which construction cost 3 were
high, but finally they began to de
cline. and during the early 1890’s were
at an extremely low level.
The companies wanted their profit
allowance to be based on their in
vestments, made when prices were
high.-Their customers wanted them
based on*what it would cost to re
build the lines at the later, reduced
level.
This question was wrangled over for
decades, until finally the World war
dame, followed by Jpost-War condi
tions again, and, once more, fancy
prices.
Meanwhile a long term of years had
elapsed during which the roads Lad
been pretty thoroughly rebuilt and
completely re-equipped at a low price
level. Naturally the owners imme
diately abandoned their old contention
that their charges should be based
on (he past low level and set up the
argument that the basis should be t'r e
new high one.
Some time before the crash of 1929
the federal supreme court rendered a
decision upholding their contention.
The decision was not in a railroad but
in a waterworks case; nevertheless
it sustained the “reconstruction cost”
doctrine, for which the railroad own
ers had been fighting.
Shortly prior to the 1929 crash the
roads had succeeded ih getting their
Continued on Page Stx.t
MBlmT
ACQUHTEDBY JURY
Defense Holds That Shoot
ing of Lover Was Acci.
dential Affair
London, July 6 (AP) —Elvira De
lores Barney accused of the murder
of her lover William Scott Stephens
was acquitted today by a July -of
both murder and manslaughter counts
against her. She was also exonerated
on another indictment "charging at
tempt to do Stephen bodily harm. The
jury was out a little more than toNo
hours.
When she realized the jury had-ac
quitted her, Mrs. Barney coUapeed
and was carried from the courtroom
unconscious. Her mother who was
present also collapsed, but was soon
revived. Stephen, on of a prominent
'financier, was fatally shoi In Mia.
Barney's apartment the night of
May 31.
17ie defense was that the pistol
was discharged accidentally as the
two struggled for tts possession. Mrs.
Barney testified tha* she had threat
ened to commit uiclde and Stephens
seized her pistol from its hiding place
and started to leave the
when she pursued, resulting in the en
counter which cost Stephen his Use.
WEATHER
’ FOB XOBTH CAROLINA.
Fair tonight and Thursday with
the execution of thunder showers
on the i4>rtheast portion Thurs
day afternoon. __ __
HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 6, 1932
FOUNTAIN’S GAINS
DUE TO LANDSLIDE
TOBOBREYNOLDS
- -- ;•*
His Supporters Tried To
Liftk Up Morrison and
Ehringhaus Candida,
cies Together
CITED LEADERS WHO
BACKED BOTH MEN
Gardner Was For Ehring
haus and Morrison, and So
Was George Pou, Pete
Murphy and Others, It Was
Claimed; Pou’s teller
Given Wide Publicity
Unity DlnpntrX Rerfm,
In Ik*- Sir Wnllfr Hatel
nr j. c. iiaskKitvii.i,
Raleigh. July 8. —The phenomenal
gain in strength made by Lieutenant
Governor R. 1. f ountain in his con
test with J. C. B. Ehringhaus for the
Democratic nomination for governor
between the first and second pri
maries, was undoubtedly due to the
success of his efforts and those of his
supporters in tying his own campaign
onto the coat tails of Robert R. Rey
nolds, the successful candidate for the
nomination for the Senate against
Senator Cameron Morrison. Not that
thri was the only factor involved, for
there were several others. But reporta
coming In from various sections of
the State, especially throughout the 1
eastern section, Indicate that this fac
tor was undoubtedly the most potent.
In fact, Ehringhaus really did well
to come through the Reynolds land
slide with a majority of 10,000 votes
over Fountain. But for the intelligence
and cool-headedness of the majority of
the Democrats in the State, and for
Jiis own ability in handling his cam
paign. Ehringhaus would undoubtedly
have been engulfed and buried, a ma
jority of the political observers here
agree. Under ordinary circumstances,
with any movement having the mo
mentum of tbtrvnovWietrt to ouet Sen
ator Morrison and nominate Reynolds
in his stead, would have swept along
with it any candidate that could have
tied his campaign to its kite tail, as
Fountain sought to do. True. Foun
tain's attempt to get washed into the
gubernatorial nomination by the back
wash from the Reynolds speed boat,
almost succeeded. Yet it is significant
that while Reynolds won his nomi
nation by a majority of more than
100,000 votes. Fountain failed by 10.-
000 votes to defeat Ehringhaus.
This means that out of the 215.761
who voted for Reynolds there were at |
least 50.000 voters who- had thought
the matter over and decided that!
F.hrin-haus was a better man for j
governor than Fountain and that
there wax no real foundation for the 1
claims mauu by th3 Fountain forces
that a hook-up existed between
Ehringhaus and Morrison. As a re
sult, Reynolds received approximate
ly 50,000 more votes than Fountain
received, while Ehringhaus received
within 38,000 as many votes as Rey
nolds, In spite of the campaign wag
ed by the Fountain forces to con
vince the voters that Ehringhaus and
Morrison were running together with
the backing of the same "machine.”
There is no doubt but that Foun
tain and his supporters di dalmost
everything possible to make the vot
ers believe a link-up existed between
the Ehringhaus and Morrison cam
paign organizations, and thus more
or less compel the Reynolds support
ers also to support Fountain, in spite
of the vigorous denials of the mana
gers of the various candidates. They
pointed to the fact that Governor
Gardner was for both Ehringhaus and
Morrison, that Pete Murphy was sup
porting both of them. Then when they
got hold of the letter written by
George Ross Pou, superintendent of
the State Prison, urging his friends
-to support both Ehringhaus and Mor
rison. the Fountain supporters were
jubilant. 'Hundreds of thousands of
copies of the George Rosa Pou letters
•were printed and distributed as proof
of their, contention. It is agreed that i
this letter.tof Pou'* probably coat
Ehringhaus 25.00 C votes, especially in 1
the eastern part 'it. the State.
But htis Tine ol argument did not
.work so well in the Piedmont and
western section of. the State where
the Reynolde-Ehringhaus forces pre
dominated in .the first primary and
where it Was evident, no agreement
existed between the Ehringhaus and
Morrison forces. So in many of these
counties Reynolds and Ehringhaus
came off well in the lead in the sec
ond primary, indicating that the vot- !
ers were selecting their candidates in
dependently and that they believed
Reynolds and Ehringhaus the better
men for the respective nominations
that Morrison and Fountain.
Thus while Fountain gained some
50,000 votes over the number he re
ceived in the first primary, the fact
that he was not able to gain enough
to forge ahead of Ehringhau*. is .re
garded as a tribute to the intelligence
of the Democratic voters in North
Carolina and especially to the intel
ligence of the 50,000 who voted for
Reynolds but who refused to be led
into voting for Fountain by his ef
forts to tel Ehringhaus up with Mor
rison and turn the anti-Morrison pred
judlce against Ehringhaus as well.
Alfred E. Smith Announces Thai
He Will Support Roosevelt In The
; Forthcoming Presidential Race
- _jji_Race for Garner’s Gavei
With tin. nomination of Speaker John Nance Garner of iexu& lor the
v ice Presidency, another contest is brewing within the ranks of the Demo
cratic Party as ambitious solons cast anxious eyes upon the gavel which
may be relinquished by Speaker Garner after the next short session of
Congress. Here are live favorite entrants in the race for the post now
occupied by the Vice Presidential nominee. Top left is Rep Joseph W.
Byrnes of Tennessee, veteran chairman pf the House Appropriations
Committee; top right. Rep John J O’ConW of New York; lower left. '
Rep. William Bankhead of Alabama, assistant floor leader, and at lower
right, John McDuffie of Alabama, who nominated Garner at the recent
convention. In center is Rep. Henry T. Rainey of Illinois, who acted as
Speaker during Garner's recent illness and is considered the likelieat
candidate to succeed to the gavel.
Smith Reynolds Kills
Self In Winston-Salem
Residence This Morning
20-Year-Old Heir Os Tobacco Fortune Commits Suicide
On Sleeping Porch Next To Wife'g Bedroom
No Reason For Determined
Winston Salem, July 6 (AP>—
Smith Reynolds youthful heir t,o to
bacco fortunes shot end fatally
wounded himself today o n a sleeping
porch adjoining the bedroom of his
wife the former Libby Holman,
Broadway “Torch Singer" in his home, i
Whether the 20-year-old youth who ;
took Miss Holman for his second wife i
a few months ago intended to kill j
himself or accidentally fired the fatal
shot was in doubt.
Dr. W. N. Dalton, coroner, after !
the invest!gation said he was con-
CUB shortstop” !
ESCAPES DEATH
1
Pretty Woman Cashier
Shoots Twice At Wil
liam Jurgen
Chicago. July 6.—(AP)—William
Jurgen, shortstope for the Chicago
Cube, barely escaped death today
when a young woman came to hie
room and shot him twice and then
turned the gun on herself. Neither
one was seriously wounded, however.
The woman, a pretty brunette, gave
her name as Violet Alii of Chicago. I
She gave her occupation as cashier of t
a North side Chicago store. At the I
hospital where she was taken along
with Jurgen, she refused to say why
she shot him.
REYNOLDS LEADS
IN GRANVILLE VOTE
Oxford, July 6 —Official tabulation
of the votes In Granville county show
that Robert R. Reynolds led Senator •
Morrison by 92 votes for the long
teem and 76 votes fCr the s*»6rt term. .
Votes received by each candidate
were: Reynolds. 1,607 votes and Morri
son, 157(1 vote*. . .*
J. C. B. Bbringhaus gained 141
votes over Richard T. Fountain in the
gubernatorial mce. IChringfcaus got
IM9 vote* end Fountain MBS votes.
'*• ; 1
PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOOM .
BXCBPT SUNDAY.
vinced the death was a suicide or was
accidental, but that it might be seve
ral days before he would b ready to
rnder a verdict, deciding between the
two possibilities. He said he learned
of no motive for a suicide in his in
i veetigation.
Reynolds, youngest son of the Ute
|R. J. Reynolds, who built a fortune
from tobacco, died in a hospital at
dawn, four hours after he was brought
there unconscious from the buiiet
wound. He never recovered con
sciousness.
Movement of Job
Hunters. Results
In Million Jobs
New York. July 6.—(AP)—Officials
of the drive to obtain a million job 3
for a million men announced today
that the goal had been reached. The
movement wa3 conducted under the
auspices of the American Legion and
other organizations.
Hoover Signs
Wheat Measure i
WaAington, July 6 (AP)—President
Hoover today signed a cxmgrgessvo nal
resolution to provide 46,000,000
of wheat and 500,000 bales of tcotlon
from the farm board for use by the
Red Cross for the needy.
TOie supplies will supplement the
small amount of wheat stUl remaining
from the 40.000.000 bushels provided
by the congress some months ago.
To Print .Ely Speech
• Boston* July 6 • (AP)—The demand
tor copies of the speech by Governor
Joseph B. Ely placing in nominarVon
Alfred E. Smith as a Democratic can
didate for the presidency has reached
such proportions that the speech will
be printed in booklet form, the gov
ernor's office announced today. The
first copies wil be sent to WHti&ms
college, the governor’* alma mater.
6 PACES
. TODAY
FIVE CENTS COP’S®
Says That He Will Hava
Nothing To Do With
The Third Party
Work
HAS RECEIVED MANY
PARTY SUGGESTIONS
People Who Are DUsatisfied
With Present Status Ask
His Support In Organizing
Independent Party; Says
That It Is Not Practical
Now York. July 6.—TAP)—Alfred
E. Smith announced that he would
“support the Democrat party.” Tha
*ormor New York governor said he
would have nothing to do with any
political party that he considered such
a party impractical.
"Kpr that reason." he said. "I will
supp \ t the Democrat party.” Ha
made no mention by name as Gover
nor Franklin D. Roosevelt whom ha
unsuccessfully opposed for the presi
dency. He said that he had received
thousands of telegrams and letters
containing suggestions from all parts
of the country.
"Most of the suggestions" his sta e
ment said, “urged the organization of
an independent political party. Thesa
came from people dissatisfied wi;h
the condition of both parties. I say
it is not practical in our country to
start a third party this time as
it would simply register a negative
vote which would accomplish nothing
for the people in their hour of need."
Flyers Land
In Germany
After 18 Hrs.
■ - ■ i
Berlin, July 6.—(AP)—Captain )
Bennett Griffin and James Mt- j
tern round-th-world flyers brought j
their red, white and blue ship )
down at Berlin, a little more than j
18 hours after taking off from J
Harbor Grace, N. F. They had j
been sighted more than two hours j
before landing over Hanover. J
It developed |Lhere wtw some {
bad weather between here and |
Hanover and the globe ctrclers |
had been obliged to gq out of {
their way. __ £
Florida Town Is
Sold Out For SIOO
Tampa, Fla., July 6 fAJ?)—Sun City*
a town 25 miles south of here, that
started out a few yr.-ars ago to jo
moving picture colony was sold to*
day at public auctior. for SIOO.
The town's principal assets are 4
power and light plnnt valued at sloo,*
000 and a large movie studio.
The purchaser xvas W. W. Staple*
of Orlando. Fla., who held a SSO,GOQ
mortgage on the town.
Stewart Faces %
Possibility Os f !
T*eg Am putatiort
Boonfi. N. C.. July 6—fAP)—Wad*
Stewart, faced the possibility of hav
ing h#i leg amputated today because
he r<- isted arrest on a charge of •»-
saulting Fred Sanders and his wife at
Sander's home in the Silverstone seo>
ti or.i.
A. A. Terry, shot Stewart tn tba
f.nee with a shotgun about one half
mile from the scene of the assault
when Stewart refused to be arrested.
BDNUSMARCHERS
HELD BY POLICE
Officers Deny Men The
Right To Organize Pan.
handling Campaign
Washington. July 6.—(AP)—Capitol
police today voiced an emphatic “no”
in response to requests from bonus
marchers for permission to organics
a concentrated panhandling campaign
within the District of Columbia.
The request to campaign for fund*
was based on the contention that the
veterans constituted an qrgaaicattoQ
similar to Red Croea. '