foiNPERyON, I GATEWAY TO I J .Vntral IfABOI-INA- NINETEENTH YEAR | wo Men Arrested While Trying To Force Victims To Withdraw Bank Funds Richmond Bsnk With Kidnaped Men When Officers Plant ed Ther? Nab Them HIGHWAY robbery is CHARGE BOOKED; \; r ji?v Said He Was Lured t-.rin His Home on Excuse of Straightening Out His {rrcrne Tax and Then Wag Kidnaped; Men Wanted In West Virginia - . •• ' V* A:g 2 AP' - Two t .. , names of Jack Ur .'on, \V Va,, and \ n 21 Wheeling. W. , • i here today as they ova ’’■omp■; ny : nv robbery w*‘b hooked against the ~.-n who were arre.-Ted by of . . ; n the honk following • • r*tv.-! was b*» ! ne brought *• - n enforced withdrawal of .■VJT3I DCOr.W. , - . prisoner- were undergo ■ ■■ • g a? police headquar •_ wh > wi*h Robertson was , ... •here told a story of hav "l from his home last r r; -edlv to straighten out • i\ returns, only to find - . *i iped by several heavily who demanded 110.000 in en t cabinet, the power be ' , h ' affable but decisive , '—neiHi von Schleicher, in h” A "'*ciated press last night nT intended to stay in ''' ~ rteirhstag if neces ! '■ v">l«’nce continued in vtr , 'he Reich today, aJ fi‘*a!itiea were maiked ujj. Hroitersmt Bdiltt Btauairfa XULL LBABKD WIRB nivira or TH* ASSOCIATED Hoover Campaigner fp, s' i J Senator helix Hebert (above) of Rhode Island has been named chair* man of the Hoover campaign com mittee for the bast. He will make his headquarter* in New York, Serving his first term in the Senate, Hebert nas been a staunch supporter of the President. bSsoldlT PRESTIGE ON WANE Failure of His Debt Proposal To Incite “Backfire" Is Evidence INTEREST IjT SLIGHT Anti-Canceilationists Have Little Fear That Even He Can Sell His Idea To Country; It Is Very Unpopular By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington. Aug. 2.—Evidences are beginning to multiply that Senator Wifllam E. Borah is no longer taken as senous.y ao tie used to be. His recent proposal of another world conference, to consider post war problems in general and war debt revision or cancellation in particular has not produced the powerful reac ;ion that it certainly would have pro duced, coming from him. a few years ago. It is not so much that the chorus of approval of the senator’s plan is somewhat lacking in enthusiasm, thro ugh that is true, too; the significant thing is that the chorus of opposition to it Is not as vehement as might have been expected. It amounts, in deed. to nothing heartier than a some what indifferent “Pooh, pooh’! ! It is not so long since opponents of any suggestion made by Senator Borah were prompt to wade into it with ail possible vigor, recognizing that they had no time to lose in doing all the damage to it that they could, if they hoped to prevent him from (Continued on Page Pour.) Seeking Plan To Put Men To Work On The Railroads Waahlngton, Ang. t. —(AP)— The Reconstruction Finance Cor poration today began a series of conference* with railway execu tives and officials of the Interstate Commerce Commission In an ef fort to find away to pnt a large number of men to work on the railroads. No conclusions were reached at a three hour conference this morning. Another will be held to morrow. - - <; . ; Drive On Dare Blockaders Nets Many Who Surrender Manteo, Aug. 2.— CAP) —With the threat of many warrants hanging over their heads today, confused Dare county rum runners either fled to the swamps or surrendered to the police as a huge drive against the blockad ers got under way. Prohibition officers captured a rum boat, invaded filling stations, arrest ed “big boys” and “little fry,” and went into Tyrrell county, where they arrested the captain and engineer of the Fort Landing-East Lake ferry bout. While thejr forked the* received JjgWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA ONLY DAILY Opens Dry Campaign * " V '' > AjgjJr Jj \ Selecting Chicago for hia head quarters, because of its proximity to Evanston, 111., home of the W. C. T. U.. William D. Upshaw of Atlanta, former congressman and now presidential candidate of the Prohibition party, launches his campaign. He advocates spending unlimited funds and the use of the army and navy to keep the nation drv. STATE CHAIRMAN IS TO BE CHOSEN IN PRESENT WEEK Ehringhaus and Reynolds To Meet In Raleigh And Come to Agreement Gn Their Man MONEY A BIG ITEM TO BE CONSIDERED Morrison Only Man In Party With Real Long Green, and the Party Can Hardly Call on Him After Squat, ting on Him As It Did A Month Ago Dally Dlupnfrt Rurrnt, ' la tfc* Sir Walter Hotel RV J. C. BASK Bit VILL Raleigh. Aug. 2 —North Carolina Democracy's chairman will probably be chosen thi3 week when J. C. B. Ehringhaus, candidate for governor, and Robert R. Reynolds for the Unit ed States Senate, meet and attempt to asree on a State leader. I While the State executive committee does the choosiqg in such services, it is not written that this functionary ever has been chosen without san ction of the candidate for governor. (Continued on Page Four) ROOSEVELT TALKS RAILROAD PROBLEM / Holds Conferences With View To Outlining Pol. icy In Speech Soon Albany. N. Y., A eg. 2 (AP)— Be- Uevving that the financial troubles of the railroads are one of the country’s major probbleme. Governor Roosevelt. (She Democratic presidential nominee, is studying “railroading'' In prepara tion for a campaign speech on the subject, supposedly the Columbus, Ohio, address. Ahead of the governor lie a series of conferences on the railroad prob lem, fin»t wiith rail executives and ■then wSth the heads of the great mil unioQs. a few liquor law violators who thought it best to surrender. Roland Sawyer, one of these, vol untarily made a trip to Willtamston and surrendered on eeargee of selling, manufacturing and possession of li quor. Agents carried their raids into Washington county, and spread it through this general section, but the big blow was expected with the ser vice of many warrants prepared as the result of weeks of Investigation by officials. HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY ’ AFTERNOON, AUGUST 2, 1932 WAR PREPARATIONS IN SOUTH AMERICA ARE BEING PUSHED Neutral Governments Work Feverishly To Restrain Paraguay and 80. livia From Clash OVERTURES io FAR ARE ALL REJECTED Paraguay‘Disclaims Respon. sibility for Reprisals, And Bolivia Is Indifferent to Peace Movei, Declaring Her Right to Banks of Paraguay River i ( By the Associated Press.) Preparations for-war continued In the jungles of the disputed C haco territory between Paraguay and Bolivia today, while neutral governments worked behind the scenes for a basts of arbitration. All recent overtures to this end have been rejected. Paraguay ha* said she will not be responsible for re prisals against Bolivian ’•aggression." Bolivia was indifferent to the last note of the neutrals as well- Meanwhile, the Bolivian people heard the governmtnt decision to set tle the sixty-year-old boundary argu ment. even if it meant war with Paraguay. “Hiatoiically we have a right to the banka of the Paraguay river.” said the last Bolivian note, and mili tary preparedness went on apace. Hundreds of Paraguayan youths swarmed army headquarters to be the first to enlist in the general mobili sation authorized by congress last night. The foreign minister advised the League of Nations Council that Bolivia had violated the articles of League covenant. NEPHEW OfVmITH KILLS W. E. WEBEL Deputy Sheriff Vincent J. Glynn Kills Man As H© Flees Con - tempi of Court ’Warrant New York. Aug. 2.—-(AP)—Deputy Sheriff Vincent J. Glynn, nephew of j former Governor Alfred E Smith, shot! and killed Walter Edward Webel. Jr., i today after, he said. Webel struck him and fled In an effort to escape ser vice on a contempt of court warrant. ! Webel and Inez Murray, both resi- j dents of Brooklyn, were married when j minor and the girl's parents succeeded ! in having the marriage annulled. A child v-a • born and Webel was! ordered by the court to pay $lO a' week for its support. Having fallen [ far in arrears, a warrant was issued on a charge of contempt and Glynn ' was given the warrant to serve. LENOIR FACTORIES TO BAN OUTSIDERS; Lenior, Aug. 2.—< AP) -Thirteen I officers of 21 furniture factories and i textile plants of Lenior and the sur I rounding communities decided in a I meeting here to cooperate in a move- i ment to "weed out” employes from! other cities who are “robbing" local I people of employment. F. H. Coffey, president of the Cham * her of Commerce, one of the leading furniture manufacturers, called the conference between the manufactur ers and a committee representing several hundred unemployed furniture and textile workers. BEER BILL PASSES IN PENNSYLVANIA Harrisburg, Pa., Aug. 2 (AP) The House today passed a resolu tion to permit the manufacture of beer In FCfcinsylvavnia when and If authorized by Federal Law. The vote was M to 68. Group Is Hunting . a Drunkard Saved With Prohibition Raleigh. Aug. 2—(AP)—Four college students working under the wusptoes of the Prohibition research Committee of New York arrived in the North Carolina capital today “looking for one drunkard who has been saved by prohibition.” “We have not found that man yet, and we have travelled more than 9,000 miles in the last ten weeks from coast to coast,” said Paul Morris, a University of Wis consin student, and director of the group. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA. .. Partly cloudy tonight and Wed nesday; not much change In tern perature. _. Warrants Charge Bonus Mew With The Larceny Os Tents From National Guard Units "Where Do We Go from Here?” • —s———— ■f -- -/ r. i " ?*« 2 v U n-.sn t much ).:*( s piece of Dread and an apple—but .it served as a meal for timer Paul, evicted member of the Bonus Army his 12-year-old daughter Martha and son Billy aged two. Paul, who was a sergeant in the A E F with two years overseas service, and his family had no where to go when evicted from their shack by troopa following the not is Washington. Deficit Os $263,290,620 First Month Os New Year Shortage More Than First Month Last Year, Despite New Government Tax Program ; Receipts Less And Ex penditures More Than In July, 1931 Washington. Aug. 2.—(AP) - The government ended the first month of (he present (1933) fiscal year with a deficit of $263 290,620. which was $62,000,000 greater than for July a year ago. Though the deficit for ihe first month was larger, there was a bright 'spot in the situation, because SIOO,- 000,000 of it was due to money paid LANGASTERTRIAL BEGINS AT MIAMI Australian Aviatrix Involv ed in Slaying of Man In Her Homs Miami, Fla., Aug. 2. —( AP)—Cap tain W. N. Lancaster, formerly of the British air corps- went on trial in Dade county circuit court today charged with murdering Haden Clark, a young writer, In a love triangle in volving Mre. J. M. Keith-Miller, the Australian flier. Clark was mysteriously shot April 21 in the bedroom he and Lancaster occupied in her home here. James M. Carson, chief of the de- 1 sense counsel, moved in vain for a continuance of the trial until Septem-, her 15, as soon as court opened. He asserted Dr. P. L. Dodge, a spe cialist who was to be one of the chief witnesses is ill in Boston and unable to attend the trial. Judge H. E. Atkinson denied the motion after the roll of 100 prospective jurymen was called. Sherman Law Being Tested In Federal Anti-Trust Suit Asheville, Aug. 2.—(AP)—Witnesses in the government's anti-trust suit against Appalachian Coala, Inc and 136 coal operators, today testified be fore a three-judge Federal court here that they bought coal from particular mines instead of fro mmining areas. The suit involved a test of how far the Sherman law goes In controlling formation of cooperative groups and the government la seeking to dissolve Appalachian Coals, intending it is In a combination in restraint of trade. The defense, however, contends con tracts between members and Ap palachian Coals are only contracts in volving no agreement for the regula tion of production or price. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTIRNOON ■XCBPT SUNDAY. to the adjusted service cettifSeate fund from which World WaWr vet erans draw their bonus. During the month, the government collected from all sources $87,764 206 and spent $351,054,827. The receipts were approximately $32,000,000 less than collected in the first month of last year, and the ex penditures $30,000,000 greater thaq those of July. 1931. STATE BONDS HAVE STAGED COMEBACK Gardner Determined To Leave Office With Credit Unimpaired Dnlljr Dtwpnfrh Rirroi, In the Sir W'nlt.-r tlolrl BV J. t. ItIMKKHVILL Raleigh, Aug. 2. - North Carolina bonds have staged quite a come-back and small investors are taking them in lots not hitherto known. Governor Gardner says, in commenting upon the good showing that State paper is making these days. A Raleigh bank is carrying a series of advertisements asking for bonds of all sorts and maturing at all times. The North Carolina bond. Governor Gardner has said publicly, must bear ; par. He has observed the great num- j ber o small investors who are putting I their savings into their common-, wealth s agreement to pay. The local I bank began specializing in North Car-! olinas some weeks ago. At that time they could get six percent without trouble, but they can’t. There is great demand or them at 5.50; that figure probably will drop. If there Is any where in the country a conspiracy against the North Carolina bond, that cabal is not deteoted by the local bank, which deals in money with all parts of the country. At the approach of virtually, all maturities of State paper there is a (Continued on Page Three.) BERT OWENS GIVEN LONG PRISON TERM Greensboro. Aug. 2.—(AP)—B%rt Owens, who pleaded guilty to the hold-up of a store here July 9, was sentenced to State Prison for from 10 to 15 years in superior court here today. The sentence is to run concurrently with the one given him for an assault on W. E. French. Norris Homer. 18, who participated in the hold-up with Owens, was sent to prison for from seven ot ten years. 6 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPU SECOND MAN DIES FROM INJURIES IN EAST WEEK’S RIOT Military Funeral In Arling. ton Cemetery Accorded Man Shot Dead Last Thursday CORONER'S JURY IS BEGINNING INQUIRY croups of Washington Vet erans Escort Body Id Grave: Value of Tents Al legedly Stolen Is Placed $1,200, But Is More Than That, Off ■cert So\ Johnstown, Pa., Aug. 2. —(AP) Warrants charging larceny of Na tional Guard tents were served to day on William Waite, commander of the camp of the bonus expedi tory force here. A John I)oc warrant was served on he camp commander. Another war rant specifying that property was stolen was served on Isadore Kenner, and he was taken before United States Commissioner Ray Patton Smith. The officers kleo have warrants naming Flank Muggie and Buck Rey nolds. The warrants place the value of the tents at $1,200. but the officers said in connection with the change they were told the shelters were worth $3 - >OO. One case of typhoid was reported today at the bonus expeditionary force camp here. The victim is Harry Lowery, J 5. of Tampa, Fla. MILITARY FUNERAL IN ARLINGTON IS ACCORDED Washington, Aug. 2.—(AP) —A mlll ; tary funeral in Arlington National Cemetery was held today for William Hushka, a Chicago bonus seeking was held today a few hours after a second iContinued on Page Three,) fSix Drowned When 1 Home Carried Away By Flooded Creek Lexington, Ky, Aug. 2.—(API- Six persons drowned today when their home was swept away by a flooded creek In Jessmine county, ton miles from Islington. | The victims were trapped when high waters from Hickman creek carried their house away. The heaviest rain ever recorded in this section fell early In the day, being guaged here at 7 1-* Inches and causing damage esti mated at many thousands of dol Burlington’s Poison Case Is Clearing Mail Order Bride and Roomer Held In Man’s Death of Two Months Ago Burlington. Aug. 2. (AP>— Tangled rircurnstanres surrounding the poison death of Duncan Stewart here Mav 22 began to straighten out today with p •Voroneri* verdlpt that Stewart's 01811 bride and a former roomer in thtir home "are probably guilty." Two months after it began the in vrrtijf»tion. the coroner’s jury ordered Mrs. Stewart and George Mcßee. the former roomer. heW to Superior Court for grand jury action. Snecificalty the iury held that Stewart s death was "caused by poisoning, and that Mrs. Stewart and George Mcßee are pro bably guilty, and we recommend that they be held for further investiga tion." Police became suspicious of Stew art’s death and helted funeral ser vices et the grave to begin theig,piobe. Mrs. Stewart met her husband thro ugh a matrimonial agency.