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""heNDERSON, gateway to CENTRAL. CAROLINA. nineteenth YEAR liISMET CALLS FOB DEATH UPON GUILLOTINE t, ream s at Court During "Hi. Trial in Paris Tri. bunal That He Want* To Be Killed OUTBURST COMES AFTER ARGUMENT Hu Attorney Asked That th? Jury Pass on Gorgu. [off's Sanity, Whereupon Prisoner Shouts, “Take My Liss!“ and Yells Am a Living Corpse* 4 p,n« July 27 AP)- Paul Gor — rff ebtxr historical outburst* been frequent during hts trial ,„ f (h» »».*»«matk>n of President Paul Qr'jiivr ,rre*mcd again today that «r»nrni to dir on the guillotine. Hi» stternev asked of the court to prmr the )uhv to decide on the de murs sanity. The prosecution ob »«#e»tinr tint the Jury should ir.»nrme onl ytwn questions—wheth v G’rfjloff killed the preeldent. and it, Urr the crime was premeditated. j. *,« th»n that the Russian leap ti ?s hi» fert- Tit* ®y lite'“ h* cried. “Lay me k to gulllottne? Vhe French riart ha* killed my ideal and my prr l »m a living corpee. I do not vur tr live.'' S!tWGE STORY OF HIE BY YOUTH Kill. Aunt and Almost Kills Uncle for Wrong of His Father San Jote. Cat. July 27—(AP>—A rrtnge »tory of revenge, which led a | 3Srear-old youth to kill hts aunt and j attempt to slay his uncle, a wealthy Kinila importer and exporter. to | nengf a wrong done his father. wa3 1 tail by San Jose authorities today, j The youth. George Doug lea Temple-' ton. Jr.. University of California stu-'. drnt. authorities said, confessed In Oakland. Cal., where he was arrested ' •arty today. H» was orougi.t here to be charged. wi*h murder for the knifing early rwterday of Mrs Lillian Babcock. Meanwhile. William R. Babcock. i»td of the Philippine delegation to tie Olympic games, and former bual- i partnr of Templeton s father. *; dangerously wounded In a Palo At'o hospital, where a blood trans ?«»ion was ordered. Uov. Ely Is taller On Hoosevelt ***** N. Y . July 27 (AP)—Qov- Jo »*Ph B Ely. of Maaaacbu • sought adherence to the Alfred L. Smith in the Dem « c National Converge i battle, , • i*d >n A'i.„ny at middiy today , * amed.ateiy went into conference .etnor rtanklin D. ht‘.s d»n, .i nominee. * rno: motored d'rectly »o „*^ r!:u ;Vo moasion from hia home • •••'• find, J|<H Clusterjj about nrmui cn was u siseabte T>'. °\i r corresoondents. , lk> ? executive wha .... If cared to ray nytfUng re 'n* "PoCs that hts business was 9 2 ,# purpose of eradicating the • mu the force of Roove •nd Smith. b* ,ly Mld “wouid ! w*' ** for w to «y now. before hit -* allled w t , b Governor Rooae- brought Is Now Serious, ith No Relief In Sight Complicating State". Proble mln Caring For Needy Next Winter, Since Foo d and Feed Crop* Are Not Being Produced lor Preservation ! ), "r Olnp*t f | Karras, „ "» * ,r w «'»" «•**'. SsU, k i. ~*•• «*'Kim VI I.*, v o ,„ >t Juli 27 The drouth which -rh r 2^ n * ral ov *“r almost all of ;e -Juiv “'‘‘‘' na <*ncr the first week 1 toita.nl '^’ W ** ro, nin* itnoui, *nd U(S wh * r^l 'err or O. Max Gardner ■ » more *nc nior.. concern. Msnitersmt Batht Bismrfrti FULL Laiiap am. Or THR AB«Ot;iATB , t ) ¥Ssss»t* GRAIN PIT FIGHTS CLOSING ORDLK r? -r=.- nB ißan m, Hi - ■■ r*lp *f IT .flßHfi |H. fH t>iij|i S Officials of the Chicago Board of Trade; led by Peter B. Carey, itg president, below, are mapping their court battle to nullify the order of the Federal Grain Future commission which would close the greatest grain exchange in the world for 60 days, beginning August 8. The hearing which resulted in the closing order was held before the commiaaion, composed of three cabinet members, based on a charge of the Farmers National Grain corporation that the board had violated the U. S. grain futures act in refusing to approve ita application for membership in the clearing bouse. C. E. Huff, upper left, is president of the Farmers National Grain corporation. Other photos thow the exterior of the Board of Trade building in Chicago and a view of the huge trading floor. East And Midwest Will Get Most Os Campaigns Roosevelt To Begin Hi* Drive Next Month Soon After Hoover Make* Acceptance Speech as Republican Candidate; Farley Talks With Leaders New York, Ju!y 27.—(API— Governor Franklin D. Knoaevett will make his first political talk since he accepted the Democratic Presidential nomination at Chi cago on July 30 at Albany. Roosevelt headquarters announc ed today that the governor would •peak on that day from 8 t<o 8:30 p. m.. Kaatern standard time, the address being broadcast over WEAF-NBC network. Although this will be the first Southbound Road To Ask Right To Drop Passengers Raleigh. July 27.—(AP)—The Win ston-Salem Southbound railroad to morrow will petition the State Cor poration Commission for permission completely to discontinue ita passen ger service between Wadesboro and Winston-Salem, deaplte a ruling of 'he commission Monday that it has no power to allow such requests. The commission's order earlier this week applied directly only to the At lantic and Yadkin dailroad. which vought to stop all passenger trains be *ween Sanford and Mounts Airy, but it was understood to set a precedent for future decisions. * since Ite continuation will tpAke the State's relief problems this fall and winter much greater. It is already com pile sting the survey of the relief needs of the State being made by eereral State agneiee with a view to determin / Continued on Pm 9eW>i j(^ NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED ONLY DAILY political balk since the convert- j Mon, Roosevelt headquarters said it would be "informal," and was not considered as the formal opening gun of the campaign. The subject will be, "The Democratic Program.” Washington, July 27.—(AP)— The East and Midwest, it seemed certain today, will get the brunt of the po (Cot'Unued on Page Seven.) MANY ASK HIGHWAY WORK Commis*ion Stormed And And Swamped By De. mands for Federal Aid Dally Dispatch Hama, la the Sir Walter Motels >; ltT J. C. lUVKF.RVILL. Raleigh, July 27-With scores of delegations composed of hundreds of persons to appear before the State Highway Commission yesterday, the commission was not able to do any thing except hear these delegations and was forced to postpone all its business until last night. It had aa its major task to decide what Federal aid projects it Would seek to sef con structed first Under the new Federal aid highway construction law just passed by Congress that makes $5,- 800.000 available for immediate high way construction in North Carolina. Word of the allocation of this money to North Carolina had already gotten out over the State with the result that hundreds of. members of delegations were on hand here to ask the highway commission to pave or Improve this road or that road in this or that county. Many of these dele gations seemed to have the idea that (Continued on Page Two.) LEATHER FOB NORTH CAROLINA. 'Local thundershowers tonight piul Thursday; tittle, change in.-, temperatura. il HENDERSQN, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 27 1932 \ IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA NEW AMERICAN LINER PREPARES FOR MAIDEN VOYAGE Jfte*.'* 7 ?' IT ft. r™*M B Ta^l^B The liner Manhattan, new queen i of the American-built merchant maxige, is shown on her trial trip, 9f**- DARK HORSE FROM EASTERN CAROLINA LIKELY CHAIRMAN rew in Raleigh Political Cir. cleg Think Those Prom, inently Mentioned Will Win WALTER WOODSON'S GEOGRAPHY WRONG Lindsay Warren Would Be Highly Appropriate From East*» Standpoint, But No Congressman Has Ever Had Job; George Free man Might Land Post flnll) lMxpiilik Rnri‘ll*. In the Sin Wnltcv I1ut«l nr a.«. im<4mmviu. Raleigh. July 27.—With the date for the first meeting of the new Btate Democratic Executive Committee set for Tuesday. August 9. by retiring Chairman Odua M. Mull, of Shelby, speculation as to who will be named aa as the new chairman continues to J (Continued no Pate Two) FOUR WHITE MEN ; HELD IN SLAYINGi j Confess Being Present When I Fayetteville Merchant Was Wounded Fayetteville. July 27.—(AP)—Four young white men were bound over to superior count today to fight for their Meets under charges that they mur dered A. C. Willis, grocer here. June 11. A coroner's J>ry verdict sent the quartet to the higher court, and marked them all equally guilty in the death of Willis, who was slain when he attempted to resist the efforts of four men to rob hi min his store. The prisoners are Willie Jones. I Charlie Jones. Roy Adams and Jack Webb, all of whom admitted to police I they were present when Willis was I fatally wounded. None. however, j would admit firing the fatal shot. They sat in recorder's court room! here and heard Detective C. F. Jones I and Police Chief J. R. Jones repeat | the confession they said the four made after their arrest several days ago. Rosenwald j State Fund Withdrawn Raleigh, July 27.—(AP)-The Julius Roeenw&Jd fund, which in years past has given well over a'million dollars to aid the education of Negroes' in North Carolina, has practically with drawn its gift to the State, it wk* learned today from Dr. A. T. Allen, State superintendent of public in struction. The Roaenwald fund had pledged the State 130,000 to be used in defray ing the cost of a practice school and girls dormitory at the Negro school at Fayetteville, but requested that the State try and secure this from some other source at this time, r. Allen said, and the General Education Board in New York, has taken over the pledge. The Roeenwald fuDnd has aided Negro education throughout the South for about ten veers. Dr. Alien said he had not been Informed definitely, but assumed that curtail* vat w*a belfcg made in every ; state. , . ; I preceding her first voyage from J New York to Germany. The new $10,000,000 giant of the United | Future Os 100 American Branch Plants In Canada At Stake In Conference Ottawa, Canada. July 27 <AP)— The future of more than 100 Ame rican branch plants In Canada rep resenting an Investment of about $500,000 000, was 1 1 the balance to day as an imperial trade confer ence committee took up the ques tion of "empire content." Empire content” la the percent age of empire materials for labor 7 PERCENT DECLINE IN COSTOF LIVING Drop Felt Between Decem ber and Jane, Labor De. partment Reports 9.7 PERCENT IN YEAR j Nearly Five Percent Older 1917; House Furnishings Down 15. S Percent »nd Food 1 *.« Per cent as Highest Washington. July 27.-(AP) A l seven percent drop in the cost of liv , lng between December and June was i reported today in a Labor Department ] study of expensse of working men. Living costa In June were 6.9 per-1 j cent less than in December, 1931: 9.7! I percent below June. 1931, and 4.7 per-: i cent less than in 1917. Food costs droppec 12.4 percent be- j tween December. 1931. and June. 1932; | clothing 1.7 percent; rents. 10 percent; I fuel and lights five percent; house furnishings 13.3 percent, and misccl- ! ianeous expenditures 2.2 percent. The average coat of living, the de partment said, was 20.3 percent less than in June, 1929, with food decreas ing 31.3 percent; clothing 20.8 percent; 1 rents 16-9 percent; fuel and lights 10.3, house furnishings 22.7, and mis cellaneous expenditures 2.5 percent. I MANY COUNTIES TO I REDUCE TAX RATES | But Debt Service Require-! ments Will Booit Levy 1 In Some Counties UallT DhyatPt Itareaa la the Sir Walter Hotel, nv j. r ntsKtißvii.L. Raleigh. July 27.—The tax rates that will be levied in most of the counties this year will be less than the past year, although In some few counties the rates will probably have to be slightly increased to take care of increased debt maturities, accord ing to Charles M. Johnson, director of local government. All county bud gets should have been completed and adopted by the last Monday in July, although a good many counties have not yet Completed their budgets. These budgets' must be completed and the tax rate for the coming year levied by the second Monday in Aqguat, wftich is August 8. Johnson pointed out. Judging from those counties which have already adopted their budgets for I n.ext year and fixad their tax rates, the tax rate in moat counties should I be somewhat less than the past year," , | Johnson said. "A great many counties have alrady etakn advantage of the opportunity afforded them under the local government act to refinance their notes and bonds, so that they will have leas in interest and principal to meet this year than last, with the result that they will no thave to levy as heavy a t«* for debt kervtee as in the past. A largfe number of cdunttee (Continued on Mg* Seven) PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. I States Lines is in command of Capt. George Fried, hero of many sea rescues. which an article must contain to qualify for customs entry under empire preferential tariff rates. At present, with certain excep tions In individual distances, the standard of empire contents now Is 50 per cent in Canada nd New Zealand. 75 percent In Australia, and 25 per cent i n the Irish Free the United Ktigdom and South Africa. Lea Hearing For | New Trial Is Had , i Asheville, July 27.—(AP)—Judge 1 J. H. Clements, of Wins ton-Salem, today denied a State motion to dis miss a petition for a new trial for Luke Lea, Lake Lea, Jr., and Wal *•«« B. Davis, and ordered attor neys to proceed with reading of affidavit-; preparatory to giving arguments. Attorneys for the trio then began presentation of petitions, legal docu ments and affidavits, after which the motion for a new trial will be argued. HOSIERYWORKEfiT SEEK COMPROMISE Offer of Mill Owners At High Point For Last Scale Is Refused High Point, July 27.—(AP)— The strike of 6,000 hosiery mill workers Inaugurated July 18 In protest against a wage cut remain ed unaett'ed today. Employees yesterday voted to reject an offer by the mill owners to restore the wage scale In ef fect before the last reduction. Instead, they proposed a com promise between that scale and the rate of pay In effect April 1. The mill management offered to pay S 2 per 100 pairs of boarding room work: the strikers, who had been asking 52.26, said they would accept S2.lt 1-2. SITUATION SERIOUS IN BRAZILIAN STATE Montlvideo. Uruguay. July 27. — (APl—Reports from the Brazillian state of Rio Grande do Sul today said the situation was tense there aa a re sult of a decision of the state presi dent to support the revolt In Sao Paulo state. World Economic Parley To Revive International Trade Urged By Rainey Bv CHARLES F. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington. July 27. -"When Rome fell a depression followed from which the world was 600 years in recover ing," observed Congressmen Henry T. Rainey of Illinois, Democratic lead er in the house of representatives and veteran ot a third of a century of na tional legislation. "Unices today’s statesmanship is of the wisest, it may easily be that we ate now gt the beginning of a similar period of chaos.” I had called to ask the Illinois law maker w*at he thinks of the prospect of speedy economic Improvement from 8 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS coma GOVERNMENT MOVE AGAINST VETERANS COMES TO A HALT Treasury and District of Co. lurabia At Loggerheads As To Method of Procedure NO CERTAINTY AS TO FUTURE ACTION 25 Bonus Marchers From Texas Camp In Charlotte, And It Is Said There 1,000 Former Service Men Will Start For Washington By Next Saturday Washington. July 27.-(AP) Tho •onus army today apparently won an mportant victory toward retaining heir camp on lower Pennsylvania -.venue when District of Columbia commissioners and Treasury official ailed to agree on means of evicting hem. PeJham D. Glassford. superintendert if police, said after the conference hat "there will be no Illegal use of he metropolitan police department.” idding that " any action to be takea against the veterans now is up to the Treasury."' " There is now," Glassford said, "no -ertainty when any definite course will be decided upon.” The Treasury after several post ponements has decided upon evacua ion at 7:30 this morning, but noth ing happened. ,000 FROM CHARLOTTE TO LEAVE FOR WASHINGTON Charlotte. July 27. <AP> Twenty- Ive bonus marchers from Texas camp d here today, while a mass meeting nd demonstration by marchers from 'Jorth and South Carolina was being >lanned for Friday night. Veterans are expected to come here or the meeting from both states, and eaders announced an army of 1,000 vould leave here Saturday for the capital. Large Deficit By ' Coast Line Shown In Month of June Wilmington, July 27 (AP)—A defi cit of 471,745 iu net railway operating noome for Judh was today in ;h»> monthly atetem«nt issued by til* Atlantic Coast Line ratio rad congnsy here. . i Railway operating revenues forth 6 :aim* period totalled 2,726.296. June operating revenues for 1981 were $4,573,258, and for 1930 were $4 - 382,876. Operating inoome for tha same month in 1931 was $310,026 and for 1930 was $20,038. Farm Board Probe Now Under Way Washington, July 27.—(APV—Chair man McNary. o ft he Senate agricul ture Committee, after a conference at the White House today said he had informed President Hoover that the investigation or the Farp.i Board would begin today nr tomorrow. McNaty said arrangements had been made for two experts to begin at once a detailed .examination of *£ of the board's transactions and ac tivities. “Our two investigators,." McNarjr said, will examine in the ".Most minut* detail all of the board's loans to co operatives, its dealings <vitb ita af filiates. and. In fact, all rl the board's loans, the amounts paid and tha amounts repaid.” the recent additions <rf $2,128 000,000 to the Reconstruction P inance Corpora tion's resources. The 'white-haired mar shal of the Jeffers ontan forces in the popular congre wionai chamber shrugged pessimistic illy. “The Garner relief feature, which alone promised to "vest*the R. F. C. with certain powers of real helpful ness, was cut out, of the plan.” he said, "to save tl>4 measure from a presidential veto. V/bat remains can not accomplish mtaeh. Toward the "sets-liquidating enter prises” which the R. F. C. now has (Continued on Page Four) ,
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