North Carolina Newspapers

;' HE^?.Rr: ON | gate" A ' J° I (ENT HAL CAROLINA. nineteenth year Vigorous Opposition To Compensation Insurance Raise Given At Hearing Industrial Representative* tli d Industrial Board Join In Deter, mined Protest CHARGES made by MAJOR MATT ALLEN -- jays Insurance Companies Have Had Heavy Losses Elsewhere and Trying To Make Employers Pay For. |t ; Accident Costs In State! Are Reduced A *> < AP>-~Vigorous ■ • proposed increase* of • :\ w irkmen # compen- ! . <* • ues in North Caro- j • t • h! iv by industrial ; • end *he State Indus- , • , - n s' ) public hearing , . • - B'«n*»y. State insur- J i"‘ ' •t'-’ | !" •iI A.len. chairman -f ( • . Commission. t barged <">mp*n ! es were ai- 1 •re up losses made In .n. by laising their - ■*> -i riit the burden on Cm- ! rnpames. he said rec . - • - 'tiffer»d looses of mil- ' . • ' I* in 'he mortgage busi - '*i- av.**age cost per ac- j . '. ‘h ir'itma under the \ nipen.-ation act had been j n the meeting was (€*- ; \ug:i o 30. Committees j . --niplovers and the insur- | • - • • w.il be named to meet j -t - i i-rnat Commission on ; i < )•. a f, empt to straighten j -• !."••- ts. BLi/e on German Freight Ship Is Finally Put Outj i Wrnuottnn. An*. 5.—(AP)— w ilminjton fire department, *"er a three hour battle*, early t du extinguished a fire that had r»-»d f„ r nesrh .’4 hours In the h .'ii ..f the German freighter p i,n-| The Roland put in here last , i n»ht nffrr failing to find fire •Thun* equipment at Southport. ! " fr-.m h<*re. The local fire ; s 'f and ,’T firemen assisted the i < h it « i r«M« of V 5 in nutting out 'hr hU/r. di«rn\rred at X a. m. 1 -4ie-|,, »hr nthe freighter waa ! ■ mi>« off xiuthport. Private Affairs Clark, Lancaster Aired For Court F 1 A'ig 5. (AP>— The r 'U'*nin W. N. Lancaster. : "f murdering Haden , -' 'I much their private as . ’’ "‘I i those of Mrs. J. M. ••vi*h whom each was in , *-h personal letters and '''• hry read in court today. 4 ' ' ' c v N. Vernon Haw • - leading and the crowd r * r room hung on every .. W| itten by Lancaster ‘ ! 1932, to Sunday, April ! financial and domestic . Miami and during his . w “d in search of employ- CONSUMER BLOCKS SUING OF TRADE Ca na inns May Not Be WilL ,n * To Divert $200,000,. 000 From U. S. " • Aug s—( AP>— ■"-m-umer was pointed .. ■'*“ v ,r * prove the great 's ’h® way of the pro '■ between $lO9 000.000 v- orth of Canadian T 'ited States to Great '• 1 ’''hed by the Toronto > • _ ,' rr -aving the United ' ' rl ' v Britain agreed to , conference following the * . r>a '' p ” r e waa denied by the L at Washington.) 1 'r-ide proposal waa “ 'et lav i n an official • ‘be imperial trade con v r '* :rl the Candlan gov mirip <tperjfic free trade ■ . , offers to the , ‘ ' : ’,‘ lnn ask, ng equal ad- E . ' ' radian trade In Great A LtteUE PERRY MEMORIAL. licttiicranu BaUu liauatrh LXABXD WIKX ajQRVICB or THI AMOCUTiD PMM In Latin Quarrel • ■ H R j| i(V ” " J I J These are the Cwo presidents of South America’s disputing na tions, near war as the result of a quarrel over the Gran Chaco dis trict, claimed by both Bolivia and Paraguay. Top photo is of Dr. Daniel Salamanca, president of Bolivia, and below is President Jose P. Guggiari, who has issued a call to arms in Paraguay. PMUAYJLII TRUCE APPROACHES Belief Expressed In Beunos Aires; Hope For Full Settlement Beunos Aires. Aug. 5. (AP)—A be lief that a truce was near between Paraguay and Bolivia in a quarrel over the Grand Chaco was expressed serai-officially today. The truce, it was said, would be pending new negotiations for a com plete settlement of the controversy, which already has been the subject of intervention by the League of Na tions. and a group of 19 Western Hemisphere nations, including the United States. TWO FLEEING MEN CAPTURED BY POSSE Hastings, Minn.,- Aug. 3. —(AP) — A posse captured two men shortly after one of them had snatched a deputy's pistol from his holster in the jail of fice today and killed the officer. They were rhased through com fields and woods until they gave up. Dewey Sharp, 33. St. Paul, a former convict, waa captured nearby after ‘he posse surrounded him. Harold Wilder, 29. St. Paul, was taken about two hours later. Young Democrats To Sell 25 Million Cakes Os Soap For Cleaning Up America Dallr ■*"***. I* the lit Waller Hoiei . Raleigh, Aug. s.—Toung Democrat* of America, Tyre Taylor, their priwl deht. said yesterday, are going to sell 25,000,000 cake* of soap with which to “clean up: America” in the Novem ber election. Mr. Taylor made public the gran diose and original scheme yesterday evening .though in announcing it he said the idea was given by Hal Slane, president of the Toung Democratic Clubs of California. The idea was so clever that the national organisation adopted it. Everybody uses soap at sometime or another. It is the dream of the Democrats to jet Republican NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS frECTrtftrOF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA ONLY DAILY Arms Group Home, And Disappointed h* ew . Aug. s.— < AP) —Mem JUST i^L eric * n me world dlaanunament confer ence returned from Geneva today on the liner Leviathan, disappoint ®d In some respects, but otherwise «M>ouraged by their six months of negotiations for limitation of man ktltlng war devlcea. lelonmeT ASACCEPTABLETO ROBERT REYNOLDS Whispered In Raleigh That Senate Nominee Will Deny He Ever Oppos. ed Durham Man McLendon is not ANXIOUS FOR JOB; But It It Rumored He Will! Become State Chairman If He Will Accept It; Other wise Wallace Winborne, of Marion, Will Probably Be; Selected Dellr Dl«p*ti'k Burras, In (hr Sir M nltrr lintel. Raleigh, Aug. 5. Stories from Dur-1 ham. chiefly underground, that Major L. P. McLendon, who managed the Ehringhaus campaign for governor, is entirely acceptable to Robert R. Rey nolds. as State chairman, bring also the news that Major McLendon has been persuaded not to decline the ; honor .though it does not appear that he is ready to accept. For some days it has been whis pered in Raleigh that Mr. Reynolds is going to deny that he ever opposed McLendon or said anything to that effect. It does begin to appear that C. L. Shuping. great manager in cam paigns, will not be pressed, and that the choice will flail on Mr. McLendon If he is willing. Should that turn not be taken, there is still a good com bination In Attorney J. Wallace Win borne. of Marion, who is a native of Albemarle section, a lifelong friend of (Continued on Page Six.) Bonus Army To Be Cleared by Night From Johnstown Johnstown. Pa.. Aug 5 (AP) —Eva- cuation of the stranded bonus army from its squalid suburban camp pro gressed slowly today, but Mayor Ed die McCloskey said the billets would be cleared by nightfall. A long line of rickety automobiles wIH begin moving during the after noon . McCloskey announced he had arranged wish, an chi company l to furnish gasoline and oil for every pri vate truck and automobile in camp. gardnertoshelby TO SPEND VACATION Governor Slips Out of Town Without Indication of Length of Time He Will Be Gone Raleigh, Aug. S.—(AP) —Governor O. Max Gardner left Raleigh this aft ernoon to spend his vacation in his home in Shelby. The governor slipped out of town without giving any indication of how long he will be gone. Mrs. Gardner accompanied him. Edwin GUI. private secretary to Governor Gardner, Is on his vacation, and Charles H. England, State game warden, who was secretary to former Governor Angus W. McLean, will as sist Thad W. Eure, assistant director of personnl. with the routine of tha governor’s office. purchasers not as converts, so much, but as supporters of the party work ers by putting money into the war chest. The primary purpose, of course, is to raise these funds, but the emblem is fetching. The clean-up has been long overdue. The Democrats lost the best chance to use both moral and material sapolio In 1924, but the coun try waa hog fat with alleged wealth then and the people cared nothing about cleaning up. The 1928 campaign might have been more seasonable, but prosperity that year was guaranteed by the Hoover penny and the oHover (Continued on Page Three.). HENDERSON, N. C„ FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 5,1932 LIBBY HOLMAN NOT YET UNDER ARREST IN REYNOLDS KILLING W idow And Pal Indicted In Reynolds Slaying Reynolds V* The Forsyth countw grand jury at Winston-Salem late y return ed true bills against " Libby Holman Reynolds (center), widow of the mil lionaire Smith Reynolds, (left), heir •to Reynolds tobacco millions, and Ab SIGNS OF REVIVAL OF BUIBSS NOW ' MORE CONVINCING \ Industrial Activity Really Quickening li* Addition** to Stock Market's Advance HINT OF INFLATION IS HEARD, HOWEVER Charge .Naturally Is Made That Administration Is Stimulating Business To Maintain Itself In Power; Plenty of Gloom Behind Scenes If Sought By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer Washington. July s.—Something re sembling an economic revival, in its early stages, has been In evidence lately, but how genuine It is is a hard problem to guess on. With a presidential campaign just opening, the charge naturally is made that friends of the present regime are engineering a temporary uplift to car ry the administration past next No vember. However, this accusation comes from folk who perhaps are un (Oontlnued on Page Five.) Crimes And Plagues In Manchuria Huge Property Loss And Many Dead In Flood and Disease Ravages H&rbfei, Manchuria. Aug. S (AP) —Flood, cholera, kidnaping and banditry are taking a grim t*Q of life in Manchuria. From all section* ’come reports of enormous property damage of thousands of village* wiped out, of tens of thousands of persons homeless. Rivers ate blocked with float ing houses, and drowned men and women and cattle. All the branches of (he Chinese Eastern Railway are paralysed. The trans-Siberian Express has been suspended, and the railroad stations are crowded with panic stricken women, crying children mid bewildered men. WEATHER FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Probably showers tonight and Saturday. .... .... ’ _ • , ' a ■PT , r " xIH I V vl! 1 jß*.' Libby Holman Walker (right), intimete friend of ; the dead man, charging them with the , slaying of Reynolds lasi month i n the palatial Renyolds mansion. Reynolds, on the outskirts of Winston-Salem. Lt was at first stated that Reynolds Granville Man’s Slayers Are Sought By Officers Still Dry Kansas (MHrr' * m mtm < ' Hr jfßpJr ,jJ|h That Kansas, first of the M dry“ states, is still safe from the wet in vasion is evident from thf results of the recent primary. Senator George McGill (above), an ardent dry, was renominated on the Demo cratic ticket as was Governor Hanry H. Woodring The Republican nom inees are also pledged to prohibition VICE CHAIRMAN SAYS INTERESTISGREATER Denies Farm Board Has De. sire To Dominate Coope rative Organizations Durham. N. H.. Aug. 3.—<AP> —Carl Williams, vice chairman of the Fed eral Farm Board, told the American Institute of Cooperation today that he was confident interest collected on more than 5400.000.000 lent to coop erative organizations would more than offset any losses. Williams, answering criticism of Farm Board policies, denied the board had any desire to dominate coopera tive organizations, as it had been charged by speakers in the past two days. Citing cases which. Williams said, disclosed evidence of inefficiency in State '-©rganizayons, he asserted that it was sometimes necessary for the bdferd to interfere for the protction of the producer, he mentioned two cot ton producing states. SHORT TERM TRUSTY HELD FOR MURDER Tucker Prison Farm, Ark., Aug. 5. —(AP) —Archie Jones, short term trusty who organised the break for freedom that cost Bfotfr convicts their lives yesterday, has been ordered held for the grand Jury by the coroner on a murder- charge. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY. r Bl JKBM* H Walker committed suicide. Forsyth county of ficials have been conducting a n in vestigation into the killing for a month, and the indictments were the result of evidence placed before the grand jury. Otto Lyon, Filling Station Operator on Oxford- Durham Highway, Kilkd TWO MEN ASKED FOR GAS AFTER CLOSING While Lyon Fumbled at the Door, One Drew Pi&tol and Shot Him; Wife SawTrag. edy from Window, But Unable To Say Whether White Men or Negroes Oxford. Aug. 5.- (AP> Authorities today sought two men who late last night shot and killed Otto Lyon, prominent Granville county farmer and filling station operator. Mrs. Lyon, who witnessed the shooting, said the men got her husband out of bed under the pretense They want-i ed to buy gasoline. She was unable to! identify them as white or Negro men. She said the men came to the Lyon home on the highway about 10:30 p. m.. and told Lyon their automobile had run out of gasoline, asking him to open his station locat ed a few yards from the house. Mrs. Lyon from a window watched them depart. She said while her hus band fumbled at the door of the fill ing station, one of the men drew a pistol and shot him down. A coroner's inquiry, originally sche duled for this morning, was post poned until Thursday pending develop j ments. Sheriff Davis, of Granville county, was in Durham checking re ports that the automobile bore a Dur ham license. Two Negro suspecs were taken into ' custody, but it was said they would probably be released, as they hnd not been connected with the crime. LONG TERMER GETS GOVERNOR'S PAROLE: Raleigh. Aug. s.—(AP)—Governor ! O. Max Gardner today paroled Oscar j McMillan, uplin county white man I who has served 11 years of a 20-; year sentence for the murder zT [ Weaver Pickford Negro. Eight other prisoners were paroled, j but 43 applications for clemency were ■ declined. Tyre C. Taylor, executive j counsel to the governor, announced. I New Building For South Is $213,569,000 In 1932 Baltimore, Md., Aug. 3.—(£Pl—-, Climbing consistently since April, con.-' struction contractors ip 16 southern states reached $218,569,000 for the first seven months of the year, with nearly 546,w0,000 in new contracts added during July, the Manufacture era Record tavs in its current issue, i published today. The $46,000,000 figure exceeds the 6 f PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPU SOLICITOR WONT SAV IF BONO WILE BE ALLOWED GIRL Higgins Declines To Say Whether He Will Ask First Degree or Lets, er Conviction MAY GET LIBERTY BY HABEAS CORPUS Not Certain Yet Whether Special Term of Court Wi.l Be Asked; Richard Rey nolds Sails From Rio To Investigate Into Brother's Death Here July 6 Cincinnati, Aug. 5 (AP) — i Libby Holman knows that North ; Carolina accuses her of murder in the death of her 20-year-oH husband, Smith Reynolds. Relatives revealed today she had been notified of the action of 1 the Forsyth county grand jury l but they would not tell where she i was when she received the infor mation, by what means she re ceived it, or what she said. Winston-Salem. Aug. S.—(AP) | Solicitor Carlisle Higgins, chief pro- , ! secuting offirer of this di3trict. re- I fu*cd to say today whether he will ■ consent to bail for Libby Holman Rey nolds. former Broadway theatrical fa vo?ibe. who %*«ns incßcted with 'Ab Walker here yesterday for the mur der _gf her husband. Smith Reynolds. Higgins fcaid Mm Reynolds can ob ‘ain her freedom pending trial only by habeas eorpu.i proceedings before a superior court judge. Ordinarily first degree murder Is not a bailable offense in North Carolina. Both Higgins and his assitant, J. Earl M< Michael. were non-com municative about the case, but tha j latter said it would be impossible for (Continued on Page Six) 4 ; Committee To Work On Home Bank' Prominent Citizens Named by Gardner To Push Campaign For State Ralsteh. Aug. s.— (AP) —Governor O. Max Gardner today appointed a committee of 14 prominent North Carolinians to launch a campaign to secure the location of a Federal home loan bank created by the last Con gress for this State. At a recent meeting of banker* and business men in the governor’s office. Gardner urged united efforts of the State to put forth and an nounced he would name the commit tee. Congressman Frank Hancock, df Oxford, was appointed chairman. Other members are: Judge Junius G. Adams. Asheville; Stewart W. Cramer, Cramerton; Word H. Wood, Char lotte; James S. Duncan. Greensboro; John Sprunt Hill, Durham; Charles E. Taylor, Wilmington; Cccrge F, cmis n. Goldsboro; W. C. Woodard, Rocky Mount: Clyde R. Hoey, Shelby; Julian C. Price. Greensboro; J. E. Brlnn, Sanfordo J. M. Broughton. Ra leigh, and R. M. Hanes. Winston- Salem. • April figure by 76 percent the may 1 total by more than 30 percent, and the June total by more than five per cent, the Record says. By including numerous small pro jects for which contracts were award | ed but which were not reported *ep j arately. the seventh month total is conservatively estimated at $280000.- 1 000.