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'ijiSpii^oNn GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA. NINETEENTH year War On Radicals Pressed By Legion Stevens Declares Man, National Commander of Legion, Addresses State Con. vention In Asheville pacificts invade NATION 5 SCHOOLS Before Has Legion Been Called Upon To Bat. tl e Obstructionist* as Now, He declares; Tells of Year's Activities; Business Session Is Held Itbrullr. -Tilly IH.—(AP)—Norh f,r>Uni» legionnaires took over lAeitte t«Kla\ l>>r their annual r nirnlion. cheered >n addrnu of ,1-ir national cmunnndcr and r«mpkc*ii preliminary organize- I ii>n of th<* (hr»*e day Mession. Rf >orl» of Mai * nfflcfPi rom jOrlrt nurd of today’s business -u*hsj. as tin* Stair department .-M of the American lesion and Itt a<!ted organization talked over vniodo of 1917-1918 and realities rs i as:. TornemV* business promised tt hr tkc high spot of the con ontws. *.<• oftiver*. will be elected •V irit contention city will bo (ban tad several controversial •Bfitk.Bs. including payment of j *»ms certificates, '♦ill be passed ' upoa I | A-ficn”r July 18.— t AP 1 —Henry L. I S'f'er; jr. or Warsaw. national' cf.TTii.idcr made the principal ad- 1 <?•*?? t day as the North Carolina de- < rt-me/i* of the American Legion held :h* first ha-mess session of its an-i r t! convention here. s:»ven< *a<d the Legion thi* year has bc»i called upon as never before to I ccTibat the growth of communism. ! :i licil pacifism and propaganda of ] c'her ,-übersive groups, and declared: ' Effort? of ultra-pacifist? to break devn th“ basic national defense sys trn of the United State? have not* -ten confined to legislation, but have 1 ccr.Mnued to expand in our schools i i*d colleges. Th* American Legions j lu< met this movement through ac-1 ti’.'ies of the American commission I 'vhich ha? used every effort possible’ to assure the continuation of our cit-| Jen? military training corps and R. i 0 T C units in high schools arid ec leges.' STEVENS TELLS RECORD FOR YEAR NOW Cl-OSIN O T A *heville. July 18—The American ] -*gion has demonstrated thia year . •h»; it remains true to its ideal of | PAtriobc service in time of peace as i r. time of war. and It Is closing the lesion year for the coming national in Portland, Ore.. Sept. W| * long liat of victories and to its credit. Henry - ens Jr . national commander, ** l< l here today. *s? th» honor guest and speaker *’ "* department convenUon of the for. of North Carolina, his home rj‘ M st»v»n? paid high tribute to the 'Continued on Page Three > Gardner Becomes Hero In Refusing To Cut Salaries hundreds of State Employee* Who Berated Governor for Previous Cuts Now B leas Him For This Friend ly Act; “Anti's 44 Lose Their Argument In (k t Si, u.Krr Hofei. . ■*, «'• B\IKK.nvII.T, f * ' July 18.—Governor O. Max jr p ‘'* r '* * h « hero of Dthe hour here 3r . a a '* l ~ h urcause hr refused to make *' ,|iT 'ui , «l ruts in the salines of * e '')v.i<,yp H f , r reduce the al h;- ri ’- f, ' r 'he .schools - which would , n ci * Hr violation of the V *° hr ' n ß about a tech- H.r.i '* <l " rinz of the State budget. f,f State employes who bere "‘ l*erated him and abused in ' ' ' !l * salar y feductiona made "* ' f are now blessing him for ha (j ‘vo PreSerVed * or them what they Th<- t j a ’'•'•“nsu* of opinion here both ■ 1 ■’ hiul business circles, Is that < ~' ardm ’ r made the moat ffi , r * nr ° u ' decision of his entire ad tnik» atlon wh en he decided not to I tg , e any more salary slashes, but • akP the human angle into con- 1 C f U ( /’ lon an d to disregard the clamor es »v° demanding a cold balancing V rp hl,r>,fet as well as those who *l,„ a special session of ‘*mhu ,nme duck " 1931 G«n«r*» Aa hi<! ►** '* i;,ries the State employes f> n . "* r ‘ r,,t another 30 to Ju per 1 h aKr * ed that many of them «u:rui . v ° t>wn red uc*d to such cir u,at they could not have t Batin Blsnatrh FULL LBASED WIRE MRVICB OF TH* ASSOCIATED PR**l» Addresses Legion In Asheville 1 & —-—- a Lml nfask inp “ j—y HR v Jk b m i HL j. JwaHiSr jhß Henry L. Stevens, Jr., of Warsaw, national commander of the American Leg.on. wa« the principal speaker at he first business session of the an nual convention as the North Carolina ! department of the Legion in Asheville j :oday | Heat Deaths In South Hit Mark Os 33 i i Some Relief From i | Torrid Weather Ex i perienced in Show | ers Over Week-End 1 i I j Atlanta. Ga, July 18.—(API—The I r.outh. counting itk dead at 83, today i felt a measure of relief .from its first | heat wave, of the season after a Sun j day of scattered ahow'trta and cloudy ’ skies. Temperatures that set season highs all the way through the 90’s to the low hundreds, slid backwards slightly yesterday over most of Dixie and forecasts of more local rains and clouds gave promise the slightly cool er weather might continqfl for & day or so. A week of blistering sun and l scorching heat had seen 12 die in Louisiana, eight in Tennessee, five in ; Alabama, three In Georgia, two each j in Mississippi and Arkansas, and one ! in NortH Carolina. rendered service, if not to conditions of actual want. The result would have I been the serious demoralization of all j State activitlee. If the salaries of the ( 23,000 school teachers had been re- j duced further—and it Is agreed that the school teachers have been and still are greatly underpaid—there is no doubt that the State’s echool system would have suffered materially. It la also agTeed that the political effect of additional drastic cuts in salaries would have been detrimental and that widespread dissatisfaction with the emocratic party would have resulted. The anti-administration fac tion In the party, represented by Josephus Daniels. Lieutenant Gover nor R. T. Fountain, John Hinsdale and others, would have made great capital out of it, as they already tried to do when they thought these cuts Imminent, It is not thought likely, of Bourse, that the anti-administration faction in the Democraitc party, headed by Daniels. Fountain. Hinsdale and the others who have been and still are bitterly anti-Oardner. will now ap prove of the governor s action in re fusing to cut salaries, although for the past week they have been apparently championing the cause of the State SB £?I? ML. ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER Red . March on Capitol Balked by Police np mss .sm mm nr 1 I SSVhI Bio » 1 ip m F*n ■ mmUmßr m I Hil r m& I■l i 8 .* ■ i HH ms. 9H*' ~t I "H'iL'MMBBWHr gvdjg M*' m Sml HiTr : TiTnnirTi inpiwpKft w This crowd, composed of war veterans who hav«j, banded themselves with the Communist element of the Bonus Army, is shown with placards outside the Con gressional Library following their unsuccessful at- * temot to join the insurgent bonus marchers who , Discouraged As Congress Quits, Many In Bonus Army To Move Also Wasting* ym. July 18 (API Dis couraged because Oongresu has quit, a good many of the bonus seeking army had decided today the best tilling to do was to go home. A long line formed this morning In front of the Veterans Administration, where transportation is available for KAYE DON SETS NEW BOAT SPEED Englishman Wrests World Wat er Record From Gar Wood of America 1 buss. Loch Lomand, Scotland, July' 18.—(AP)—iveye Don. British speed boat racing king, today won back fori England the world's water speed rec-1 ord. setting a new mark • of lltf.Bl j miles per hour, the average of two; runs over the mile course on Loch 1 JLomand in hij boat, Miss England ' 111. The new mark topped by more than t eight miles an hour the previous rec-j ord. held by Gar Wood, of Detroit J Wood’# record, set in Florida waters, i 'vtes 111)726 .miles -Don brokt the i record twice In two hours today. On J his first run. made shortly after 5 a. m., he roared over the courst a mlie up and a uiile back at an aver age speed of 177.43 miles. An hour later, he and his 22-year-old me chanic. Dick Garner, climbed into the Miss England 111 again and set out for a second try. The first mile lap. from south to north on the second run. was covered at 120.50 miles an hour, and the southward lap at 119.12. an average of 119.81. ,i SIOO,OOO Damages In “Third Degree” Death Is Sought Mtneoh, N. Y„ Uuly 18.—<AP> Nassau county is to be sued for 3100,- , 000 for the death of Hyman Stark, j who died after "lengthy interrogal j tion." during which he received almost; countless bruises and had his Adam's i apple smashed. Samuel Leibowitz. attorney, an nounced during progress of a John Doe inquiry into the death that he had been retained by Stark’s family to sue for the amount of money the former convict and narcotic might have been expected to earn during an honest lifetime. District Attorney Elbin Edwards sought to show through a succes sion of police witnesses, all of whom waived immunity, that Detective Joseph Hlzenski, the son of the as saulted woman, was trying to sheld the one realty guilty of killing Stark by "taking the rock” himself. 100 Poisoned By ~~ ! Food Served For Communist Meet Massilon. Ohio, July 18.—(AP)— More than 100 persons were suf fering today froma malady be ttered to be ptomaine poisoning, apparently from food eaten at a luncheon held In connection with the Comrrtunlst party’s State rati fication convention here. J rUBUSHED IN THIS- SECTION OF NORTH CAPnI iwa -aKm HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY .j AFTERNOON, JULY 18, 1932 |4>ickeied the National Capitol. Police barren entrance the demonstrators, but picketing continued in effort lo prevent adjournment of Congress until payment of ! ponus has been approved by the solons A large force police in case of disorders. i the veterans. Officials were forced to set up emer | gnecy office space in the corridors to handle the applications, j Meanwhile, two veterans were ar j rested for attempting to organize a i protest meet ng outside of police I court where four of their comrades Germany Will Ban All Demonstrating Berlin, July 18.—(AP)—The Gor naan government a decree today nannTng all outdoor demon:" J stratlons following a week-end of political rioting In which 15 per sons were kll'ed and scores Injured. The cabinet was faced with » number of other possiMtltlea, such as the declaring of a state emer gency as demanded by various po licial groups, forbidding the wear ing of uniforms as the Centrists and trade unions want or outlawing the Communists mm the Nazis de manded, but it considered a general ban on all outdoor processions I demonstrations the most effective method of avoiding further bloody wee’, ends. EOUCATORSHAPPY AT GARDNER MOVE Leaders Say Schools Have Been Cut Virtually To Bone Already DsllV Dl«p*lr» Bsreas. la the Sir Walter Hotel. BY J. C BASK Kit VI 1,1. Raleigh, July 18.—The decision by Governor O. Max Gardner not to make any cut or reduction In the ap propriations for schools, most of which goes for teachers salaries, as well as to make no additional reduction in the allotments to the various State in stitutions and departments, and his decision no tto call a special session of the old 1931 General Assembly at this time, is heartily approved by the educational leaders of the State. Among those giving their hearty en dorsement to Governor Gardner's ac tion are Clyde A. Erwin, president of the North Carolina Education Asso ciation; Dr. A. T. Rllen, State Super intendent of Public Instructions; Dr. Frank Porter Graham, president of ihe University of North Carolina; Dr. E. C. Brooks, president of State Col- i lege, and many others. "I think Governor Gardner has done a great thing for the schools by re fusing to withhold any of the appro priations for school purposes." said Dr. Alien. "Any one who has been in touch with the schools this past year knows that they have been operating on an almost bed-rock economy basis and that they could not have with stood any further material reduction in appropriations. I am delighted that Governor Gardner saw fit to take the action he did.” President Erwin, of the North Caro lina Education Association, made the following statement, after reading Governor Gardner's announcement: ”1 have just read the statement by Governor Gardner .outlining his fiscal fCnntinqed on Page Four) WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. ! Generally fnlr tonight and J Tuesday, __ i were on trial for trying to picket the \Mh;te House Saturday night. When the rush at the bureau start ed, a total of 2,119 railroad tickets had bene issued up until 9 o’clock since the transportation bill passed nearly two months ago. Conveyance ' by auto had been furnished for 324. 400 EMPLOYEES AT . HIGHPOINT STRIKE Hosiery Workers Protest Sharp Cut In Wages In Eight Factories High Point, July 18.—(AP)— Four hundred employees of eight High Point hisiery mills walked out today in protest against wage cut*. Officials said the strikers were principally "boarding room”, workers. The employees came to work today and then quit in orderly fashion at 9 a. m. The workers are non-union. Not all the strikers were affected by the wage re-adjustment, some maintaining they stopped their work in sympathy with those whose wages had been affected. Strikers said a reduction was made a week ago. One mill was said to have cut its scale from £2 to sl-50 per 100 dozen pairs of hose. Strikers said one per son could hardly handle more than 100 dozen a day, and that they want ed the scale raised to $2.50. Woman Is Blamed In Fatal Shooting Os County Officer Fort Mill, S. C., July 18.-(AP) A coroner’s jury investigating the fatal shooting of Elliott Harris, of the York county police, held today tfcat Harris came to death "from gunshot wounds at the hands of Beatrice Fer guson.” Harris was fatally shot yesterday when he attempted to arrest Clyde Snipes on a charge of reckless driv ing. As he snapped his handcuffs on Snipes and was leading him to & po lice car. the Ferguson woman, with whom Snies was riding, crept up be hind the officer, pulled his pistol from its holster and shot him four times. Clyde Morton, of Rock Hill, an other passenger in the car with Snipes, the Ferguson woman and Edna Milling also of Rock Hill, was ordered held as a material witness. State Will Probe Prisoners Escape In Davie County Raleigh. July 18.— (API— L. G. Whit ley, Inspector of the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare, will go to Davie county this afternoon to in vestigate the escape of ten prisoners from a State Prison camp there Sat urday night. The convicts, who were engaged in highway work, were undjer direct su pervision of the State Prison proper and not of the highway prison de partment, Chairman E. B. Jeffress, of the highway commission, said this aft ernoon. The highway department was noti fied that a truck seized by the con victs had been found in good con dition. but no details as to where it was located were given. ' PUBLISHED EVER! AFTBRHOOM ■XCBPT SUNDAY. Hoover Will Sign - Tomorrow Nation’s _ \ Big Relief Measure Ex-Ambassador Dies ■ I I Pv m .* ' Hk IT V JULES J. JL’SSERAND Paris. July 18. < AP)— Jules J. Ju»- serand, former French ambassador to the United States, died at 8 o’olock this morning. He was 77 years old last February. For some time he had been suffering from a kidney ailment, but. although hts health was delicate, his death was not expected. uHdlada” SIGN NEW ACCORD FOR ST. LAWRENCE; Provides For Joint Construe, tion of Great Lakes. River Waterways Development TO SHARE EQUALLY IN $543,000,000 COST 27-Foot Waterway From Sea To All Great Lake* Ports of United States and Can. ada Will Admit 90 Percent | of Ocean Shipping of World, Hoover Says Washington, July 18. ( AP) — The long awaited treaty between the Unit ed States and Canada for the tre mendous St. Lawrence seaway and I power project was signed thia morn- j ing. I Coincident with this action by Sec- ‘ retary Stimson a: d Minister Herridge, of Canada, President Hoover heralded the accomplishment in a statement as “the redemption of a promise which I made to the people of the Midwest." ( The agreement, which remains sub-' ject to legislative ratification in both countries, called for splitting in half f the estimated $543,000,000 cost for 27- 1 foot watrway from the sea to all j Canadian and American points on the ! great lakes. * "Such a depth." wrote the President. 1 “will admit practically 90 percent of! ocean shipping of the world to our j lake cltiee of New York, Ohio. Michi gan. Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and' Minnesota." Disposal of the 1 100.000 horsepower i which is expected to be realized on ! the American side of the international; section, is reserved for settlement by j thia country. Secretary Hyde Charged Os Contraditting Himself On Forestation Viewpoint By CHARLES P. STEWART | Central Press Staff Writer Washington, July 18.—" Some pages , in human history,” began Executive j Secretary Ovid M. Butler of the Am erican Forestry association, reading; from a proof of what is to be the lead j Ing article in the August number ofj the association’s magazine- American ’ Forests, "reflect no credit upon man* j .kind." . : j “First in importance is that page which describes man’s treatment of the soil. Man was placed in a garden He has. transformed vast areas of it into desert. .He has destroyed U>e cov* er qn thousands of .acres; he has laid waste wide stretches of pleasant coun try; he has made human life all but impossible In many piece.” Secretary 'Butler looked up. "This article," be explained, "is entitlsd "The Coot shd Cure of Erosion.' Orig inally it was delleverd as a speech, at, 6 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY! Completion of $2,122,000,. 000 Measure Saturday Wrote Finis to Con. gress Session j PRESIDENT OBJECTS TO SOME PORTIONS But Will Accept It Anyhow; Draws Sigh of Relief At Ending of Eight Months Sitting of Law-Maker* and j Spends Week-End at His Rapidan Camp Washington. July 18.-(AP*- The precedent-destroying first session of the 72nd Congress is over- and Preai dent Hoover tomorrow will sign the $2,122,000,000 relief bid writing "finis if not "well done” to one of the leg is lators’ biggest Jobs. Thus will become law another of the pieces of legislation that decide tradition and stretch this last mee*- ing of Congress into its eighth hectid month before adjournment at 11:23 p. m. last Saturday. Like most of the congressmen, Mr. Hoover took advantage of the let-up buainees to leave town. He went to his Rapidan camp. Later a statement was issued in his name, saying that, "although there are some secondary features of the measure to which I have objections," the chief executive will sign the relief bill tomorrow. HOOVER MAY SIGN HOME BANK BILL President Ha» Sent It To Comptroller For Study Os Currency Washington. July 18 (AP)—Al though iPretmient, Hoover has eent the home loan bank bill to the comp troller of the currency fbr study. Sen ate loaders predicted confidentially before the session ended that ha l would sign the measure, j The chief executive has constantly i sought ••stabHa/honent of banks to akl i n financing homes, but the provision attached to the measure for currency, expansion caused him to ask for * report, from the comptroller. TYie amendment, sponsored by Sen ator Glass, Democrat, Virginia, a j former secretary of the treasury, { would give national banka authority , to issue bank notes backed by gov- I rrnment bonds not heretofore elig ible as security for currency issues. , Man Is Released ,mi After Questioning In De“ath of Girl Greensboro. July 18. —(AP)—Police * today released I. R. Yarborough, of High Point, after questioning him in 1 connection wirth the death in a hos ■ pita! early today of Miss Pauline ! Jackson. 18. 1 The girL'y death was attributed ta I poison. Yarborough told police he called on Miss Jackson at the home of her sis ' ter, anft that, while they were alone j in the house, except for two -mail ! children, she drank a disinfectant. our association's annual meeting ia Baltimore in June, by an eminent au thority. who welcomed the opportun ity, he said .to emphasize the danger to the very civilization of any nation so short sighted as to permit wide spread deterioration in the fertility of its land. “That even & great country may suffer dire affliction, from its in habitants’ neglect of their most funda mental resources, he pointed out thus; " ‘China provides the classic ex ample of how regions can be devas tated by the destruction of forests and resulting soli erosion’ “ There are those, no doubt.’ ac cording to his article,” continued Sec retary Butler, still reading. “ *who think of forestry as primarily a con servation program designed to pro tect our forests as a source of wood (Continued on Page Six) i !•! s Iff
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