"®¥fv°Tn
CENTRAL
CAROLINA-
NINETEENTH year
Death Toll Is Now 22
In Texas Storm Region
From Sunday Hurricane
Most of Fatalities In Village*
Or on Farms Some 30
Miles Back From
Galveston
CROPS ARE RUINED
WITHIN WIDE AREAS
Vicinity of Galveston And
Houston Raked at Night by
Hurricane Sweeping In
From Tumbling Waters of
Gulf of Mexico; Texas
Hard Hit
4 . Ain 15. <AP> The death
... pi an - * t (■» .2 today as (ai ming
~„i r. • near the (Julf coast sur
, f ( widespread damage from the
.. ,f a. huiucane that raked the
, v i'( Houston and Galveston
st'ai'lJ' night.
>.t • ot the fatalities were in vil
■J?,. ,>r on (aims about thirty miles
w, < <!,' l it ve t>>n. where the greatest
•: i* storm apparently center
s,- .• whirled inland from the
of the Gulf of Mrx
■r p- weie ruined over a wide
r. r if the coastal country, the j
v-nie? being in Texas.
ltoleigh Man Held
For Attack Upon
..Young Cary Lady!
Keleigh. \iir. 15.—CAP)-W. J.
l.*»re , irf. of 314 West Morgan
street, wax being held in
eltv ail here without bond on a
rlurp of having rrlmuuuiy at- 1
lurkH Miss IJnda Naomi Mor- !
*tn. tounc soman ot Cary.
The alleged attack, police aid,
«re«rrrd In I awrenee’s ear near
he onukirta <*f Raleigh last night.
rtt> Prosecutor l>. Station In
cise (hi* morning said Hlm Mor- j
i- mditlon was each that she
"Hid n it appear In coart, and no
•!«te was set for a preliminary
!*esrlnr. On advice of his attor-
Lawrence refused to discuaa
the case.
DURHAM BANK NEAR j
REQUIRED STOCK!
Durham Aug. 15. ( AP' —Three j
n f solicitation has brought the |
re rga ruzd‘i .n of The closed First Na
'*'na' Bmk of Durham within SBO,-
r '" "f *he $300.1)00 capital stock neces
«rv
TV g -a ■ is to have the institution
r»d'. ? i open by October 1. Judge R.
H Svke< chairman of the reor- 1
fsnua'i-n committee.
Two Badly
injured On
Fish Truck
"i'rpington. Aug. 15,—(AP)—A
n * fk loaded with 21 fishermen
°n » curve near Iceland
tk in ) M ring two men seriously.
“ :«rt> was en route from
'•■'shun tr» Wilmington to fish.
f M Eller, 52, of R. F. D.
s *H»bury, was brought to
hospital here. His recovery la
•"'ihfful.
J »k ' ot Sa’lsbury, was the
„ n '»n seriously Injured.
of the party said he
.. v ,a n d >*ng condition when
w,t him. The truck which
, ‘“ rt,,rn ed on a curve wan driven
U>, '‘ r EU*r. who suffered la
cerations.
Evidence Is Completed
In Trial Os Lancaster
h ' Aug. 15 lAP)-Evi
-Jir , A '' ' "nupleted t-xfay la the
, r .., . ' W. N. Lancaster,
ft. . “ A ‘ '‘‘ niurder of Haden
h * young writer replaced
tioiu otf Mrs. J. M.
A 'ustralmn aviatrbr.
A './ opened immedtaie
>-’■pulated time limits tor
•<IJr. WS H S Henry M.
date’s attorney,
. - tr Pi 'Merution, with crtti
fharaoter* of Captain
4n , . , nti M '• Kefch-MlUer, and
" k or. th~ credibility erf fee*
Hrnttersmt
FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Scopes for Congress
mTu
John ['hotnas Scopes, central fig
ure in the famous Dayton,
evolution trial, has been ap
proved for a congressional nomi
nation by the Socialist party stata
executive committee at Louisville.
Ky.
bmkW
PLANS MAY BRING
FURTHER REQUESTS
Authority To P«y 2.5 P«r
c*nt on Debt Rxitt In.
In Raleigh
OTHERS CLAIM SAME
PROGRAM OF RELIEF
But No Other County Hat
Had Kind or Extent of
Buncombe's Financial Dif
ficulties; Bond-Holders
Who Took Paper Have
Agreed to the Rate
■
Dally Dispatch Bsrtss,
la the Sir W'n!t-r Ustrl j
Raleigh, Aug. 15.—Authority of the
"Local Government Commission given
Buncombe county Friday to allow that i
county to pay 2.5 per cent on its bond
ed indebtedness raises an interesting
speculation in Raleigh as tc whether
there will be many such requests
made or granted during these excep
tionally hard times.
Buncombe county’s borrowing rate
for its bonds is probably a little the
rise of five per cent. The county ex
panded tremendously and borrowed
to the hilt. It suffered a terrific
slump in real estate values. It was the
scene of the greatest bank wreckage.
Notwithstanding, it cut about SI,OOO
a day from its expenses and was
among the very first to adjust Itself
to the new conditions. It was out of
the question to ask Buncombe to pay
its whole debt, greatly inflated by all
the artificial elements introduced Into
the county, and to pay that total ob
ligations with dear dollars.
The commission would have grant
(Continued on Page Five.)
HOOVER CAMPAIGN
QUARTERS OPENED
New York, Ang. lA-r(!AP)
Eastern headquarters for Presi
dent Hoover's re-election campaign
were formally opened today en the
sixth floor of the Waldorf-Astoria
hoteL
testimony.
“Frxxn this woman, weak physically
and weaker mjaally,” he said, “came
testimony tending to show that this
awful tragedy was suicide. One of
her lovers Is dead, and she is doing
what you would eocpect. Shs is pro
tecting tile lover who is Still aJiwe. ”
He called Lancaster's testimony- a
“self-serving profession Os Innocence”
and the “Story of a schoolboy oar#-
fully metnorizesd
Closing of testimony brougt* to IB
end nearly two weeks of seiuatfcx*!
descriptions <rf the Urea <rf the two.
ONLY DAILY
newspaper pma.ißHßn
As Jimmy Came Marching Home
A reception worthy of a conquering hero was accorded office. Here is the populm Jiminv (arrow) arkrmwl
Mayo, Walk,, h,. ~, &w York [torn th. .d,m* th, cheat, "£t,™ he Mk«
Albeak hearing that may rc.uk in hu removal from toward on exit ot Grand Gemini Terminal. 1
Tobacco Moving j To Market In
Border Belt; Prices May Rise
Florence. Aug. 15.—(AP)—District
jpjbacco growers today awaited open
ing tomorrow of markets of bright 1
leaf crops for their first definite in
dication of 1932 prices.
The singing shadows of the au« -!
tioneers appeared in warehouses in
nine South Carolina towns. Six mar
kets in border counties of North Caro
lina. included in the belt, also will
open. |
DEM WS HAVE
LAUGH ON G. 0. P.
Republicans In This Stale
Worse Off Than Demo,
crats In 1928
ALL OVER PROHIBITION
Opposition Can Make No Political
Capital This Year Out of Smith
Attitude In Campaign
Four Yean Ago
Dull? Dluditrk rsarena,
la tk« Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, Aug. 15. Democrats dis-:
comfited hopelessly four years ago !
when they went to the woods for votes I
on a State platform pledging the most
faithful allegiance to the eighteenth
amendment, which their presidential
candidate refused to defend, have now
a hoes laugh on the Republicans In
North Carolina, who are worse off.
President Hoover’s Thursday night
position. whi< h Candidate Jake New
ell says is in exact accord with the
national Republican platform, is never
theless a terrible affront to State Re
publicans. Democrats do not agree
that Mr. Hoover has gone farther on
the prohibition question than his
platform goes. Bat Democrats who
could argue four years ago that A1
Smith did not repudiate his 'platform
by his platform by his telegram to
the national convention before It had
adjourned, are not so certain that they
can harmonize Mr. Hoover and his
party, Mr. Smith pledged his best to
enforcement of the eighteenth amend
ment and dry Democrats said their
national platform was an enforcement
rather than an endorsement. Many
Democrats feel that the Republican
platform is neither an enforcement
nor an endorsement, and that Mr.
Hoover Is neither for enforcement nor
for endorsement. He is simply op
posed to the saloon, but In favor of
passing the buck to the states.
At any rate, the beautiful Repub
lican picture of A1 Smith, his brown
derby, and his little brown jug are
now horrible anarchroniams. There is
no capital to be made of the Smith
attitude. The Republicans have all
their ingenuity consumed in making
their tnharmony more dulcet to a
country which is now little disposed to
stop short of complete renunciation
of ail *>&st legislation on the liquor
question. If Senator Jake Newell real
ly wishes to debate the liqor question
he might get an argument with Mr.
Hoover. ,
Violent Week-End
Deaths Number 10
In North Carolina
Charftott* Aag. t&— -(AF>— The
automobile. Ike train, and the
pistol ha d combined today in a
Moody anion to give North Caro-:
Htt a toil of ten easaaltlee over
the week and A desen fr ßreaks
wave tojared.
HENDERSON, N. C„
Batin Bispatrh
IN THIS SECTION OF ]
MONDAY AFTERNOON,
Farmers hauled ttA golden weed Into
the market confm*nt of securing
higher prices tha& were paid last
year. For one thing, South Carolina's
crop is estimated at 36 per cent of
normal. Likewise ‘North Carolina’3 1
crop is smaller, estimates said.
GEORGIA BELT TO START
SALES ON NfcXT THURSDAY
Atlanta, Aug. 15. (AP)— South
Forest Fire Fund
To State $50,000
Wld|k Ari'r/Si.—<i APl—North
Carotins will receive *60,600 es Fed
oral funds under the Clarke Me
Nary law this year for forest fir*
control. Char toe H. Flory, assistant
state forester In charge of fire con
trol, said today.
The amount represents a de
crease of $6,320 from last year's
allotment. At that, however, the
State will receive the third largest
of Federal funds, with only Georgia
and Florida exceeding the State in
this respect.
North Carolina’s total forest fire
budget calk for the expenditure
of $1 J 0, 314 for protection .
FIRST FEDERAL AID
LEniNG TOMORROW
175 Miles of Road To Be
Contracted To Be Near
Million Dollars
Dally Dispatch Boreas,
la the Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh, Aug. 15.—First lettings un
der Federal aid and relief funds voted
by the last Congress will take place
tomorrow In the State Highway Com
mission offices.
There will be nearly a million In
money and 175 miles included In this
biggest of lettings since Chairman E.
B. Jeffress took over the work. When
the commission cast up the projects
and found a million gone there was a
wide “w-h-e-w” uttered by Member
Leland Kitchin, who declared that he
did not know millions any longer
exist.
There will be a big bridge over the
Yadkin near where Montgomery, Da
vidson, Randolph, Rowan, and Stanly
meet. There is no other spot in the
State where the counties come to such
a conjunction. But the new bridge
will be above this freak in geography.
This bridge is to be built in pdrt by
the Aluminum Company of America
which has a habit of submerging lands
and bridge structures now existing.
(Continued on Fage Sight)
WORKERS IN RUSSIA
LEAVE THEIR JOBBS
Moscow, Aug. 15,—(AF) —Die- ;
satisfied with low wages and In
ferior living conditions, between ;
tMM sad *5.000 miners in the
Donbas coni fields, have walked
out on their jobs In the past two
months.
weather
FOP NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy tonight and Tuee
day; pessUy riwwera^ln^ the
ehaage to juiijuintos.
NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA,
AUGUST 15, 1932
Georgia’s tobacco season will open
Thursday with growers hoping for
improved prices because of a short
crop and higher quality leaf. The
Georgia production was estimated by
the Department of Agriculture at be
tween 15 and 30 million pounds this
year, as compared with 59.000,000
pounds last year, and the grade of
cured tobacco was reported as much
better.
COALITION CABINET
HKEIYINGEH
General Kurt Von Schleither
May Succeed von Papen
Ministry
WOULD PUT HITLER IN
Affdbie Soldier-Junker, Now Minister
of Defense and Re<ft»gntxed Dow
er In Present Regime,
Rising to Front
Berlin, Aug. 15.—(AP) A prob
ability that General Kurt von Schleis
her, the affable soldier-junker, who
is minister of defense and the recog
nized power in the present cabinet,
might be Germany’s new chancellor
appeared today.
With the country quiet over the
week-end, following the collapse of
the bid of Adolf Hitler, Nazi leader,
for the chancellorship Saturday, party
newspaper began putting out feelers
today for a coalition of the Hitlerites
and Centrists, with General von
Schleiaher at the head as a neutral.
Investigation of
Death Gates Boy
Is Being Pressed
Edenton, Aug. 15.—( AP)—Officers
investigating the apparent slaying of
John Burch. 17-year-old youth in
Gates county, near here, today sought
to determine whether there was any
connection between it and three un
solved slayings in Perquimans county
two weeks ago.
Tiurch was found dead on a high
way Saturday morning, and several
hours later Collie Burch, middle
aged Bertie county farmer, and his
son-in-law, Walter Chappell , were
arrested to connection with hts
death. Confined in separate jails, they
professed Innocence.
YOUNG BOY FOUND
DEAD AT MAYFIELD
Reidsvifc, Aug. ffc;—(AP)—Royall
G. Priar, 17, son of Will Priar, of
the Mayfield section, was found dead
today behiod a barn on a Negro’s
farm near Mayfield.
There was no mark? or bruisps to
indicate what caused his det*h and
the coroner began an Investigation.
OVER TWO THOUSAND
APPLY FOR JOBS
Rtorigh. ~AwtTIL-VAT)—At
4 Mop today ton ton *4lO per
< mu hdd applied to the Wake
County Welfare Department for
toto an. State highways to be
ctonto with emergency Fed
aahl aid toads, H. D. Farrell. to
1 *«**•«. r , "r*
PUBLISHED EVERY AJTTERMOOE
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Walker Is To Face
Accusers At Probe,
As He Has Desired
Ttalv’s New Envoy *
[B Se
I 'jh hi, m,
• " ■
Ihe newly appointed liab.tn Am
bassador to Washington, Augusto
HoSho (above) is well known in the
capital having started his diplo-
a ,A C S?. re * r *n attache in
1910. Signor Rosso was connected
with the Foreign Ministry in Roma
director general of League of
Nations affairs. He is forty-seven,
earner Talks if
CHAIRMAN FARLEY
AS TO PROCEDURE
Will Leave Soon for Home
In Texas, But Will Re
turn to New York on
September 12
PAYS TRIBUTE TO
GOVERNOR SMTIH
Says AI Would Have Made
Country One of Its Great
est Presidents; Concludes
Conference In Albany
With Governor Roosevelt
About Itinerary
New York. Aug. 15 (API --Speaker
John N. Garner, D< mocratic vice
preeidenitFal candidate, arrived here
today after a conference with his run
ning mote, Governor Roosevelt,, and
prepared to make further campaign
plans with Chairman James A. Far
ley.
Garner said he would stay here two
dhys. then go to Washington to attend
to some personal affairs, and then go
home to Twxas, returning her on Sep
tember 12.
By that time Governor Roosevelt
will be ready to start his intensified
speaking campaign.
Tribute to Smith.
John N. Garner, Democratic can
didate for the vice-presidency, said
today he still believed former Gover
nor Alfred E. Smith would have made
one of the greatest presidents the ■
country ever has known. Both Garner
and Bmith were candidates for the
nomination, which was given to Gov
ernor Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Albany, Aug. 15.—< AP) - Speaker
John N. Garner completed his first
(Continued on Pace Elabt > *
Swearing In New Cabinet
Members Elaborate Event;
It Is Almost Theatrical
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Washington, Aug. 15. —Swearing In
a new catytnyt member becomes a
more elaborate proceeding with each
succeeding' ceremony.
The fuss made over the administer-,
lng of the oath to Roy D. Chapin the
other day, as successor to Robert P.
Lem not at the head of the commerce;
department, outdid the investiture fit
Secretary of the Treasury Ogden L.
Mills earlier In the year, just as that
surpassed Secretary of Labor William.
N. Doak’s a year and a half ago, and;
as Doek’s threw Secretary of' ,War'
Patrick J. Hkrley's entirely. id the
shkde—and so on, back to tlfe -dawn
of American .history or. ct the pee- 1
> •
8 PAGES
TODAT
FIVE CENTS COPS
I
Governor Roosevelt I* Ex
pected To Call on Seabury
i To Produce HU
; Witnesses
HERRICK TELLS OF
STOCK TRANSACTION
Seabury Contends It Was at
Walker's Request, While
Latter Disputes It; Park
Commissioner Requested
To Testify By Roosevelt at
The Hearing
Albany, N. Y.. Aug. 15.--(lAPl
Mayor Walker, of New York, demand
ing the right to face his accusers,
may have that oportunity early this
week at the executive investigation
of his fitness to retain the office to
which he twice was elected.
As today's hearing opened, it was
freely reported that Governor Roose
velt conuucting the public investiga
tion of charges against the mayo:,
would today or tomorrow call upon
Samuel Seabury to produce some of
those who testified against the mayo:.
Mrs. Walker, who has recovered
from her illness of last week, and Ed
ward L. Stanton, former secretary to
the mayor, may also be summoned to
testify.
Park Commissioner Walter R. Her
rick, whose testimony before t|xe Hof
stadter committee contradicted that of
his friend. Mayor Walker, was here
today at the request of Governor
Roosevelt to testify at the hearing.
Herrick told of a stock transaction
which Seabury contends was entered
into at Mayor Walker's request. The
mayor disputed Seabury's contention.
Mrs. Bost Says
Relief, Estimates
Being Received
RaJHgh, Aug. 15.—(APIMr*. W.
T. Boat. Slate eommlaslonqr Os
public welfare, said today tfcat '
estimate* of relief needs from
tv boot 93 counties had been re
ceived hy her office.
Mr*. Bost said that field agents
would be sent Into the sections
which have not made reports, and
that the surveys would fully co* er
each county in the State before tt
Is completed.
vi ]
Southern
Cuts Fare
To ly 2 Cents
Washington. Aug. 15.—(AP)— The
Southern Railway today notified the
Intc.-state Commerce Commission that
shortly it will reduce passenger fares
to one and a half cents per mile be
tween 46 points in North Carolina and
26 Tennessee destinations. The fares
would become effective September 15.
’t'he notification was in the form
of an application asking the commis
sion to waive rules to permit filing
of a blanket supplement to its pas
renger tariffs on statutory notice.
The reduction involves both on*
way and round trip coach fares and
wilt expire November SO, unless re
newed by the carrier.
Goldsboro and Winston-Salem are
■ the principal North Carolina ctlies af
fected.
•
sent administration or something.
Two or three factors counted toward
the creation of the superior magnifi
es nse of Secretary Chapin s induction
into office.
L The setting.
For sheer etagance Buckingham pa
lace has nothing to offer in compar
aion with the chiefs quarters in the
of bureaus and miscellaneous com
recently-completed Commerce Depart
ment building.
2. The attendant functionaries.
The commerce department person
nel of today includes at least a dozen
assistants, divisional chief’s directors
(Continued o» Pago BgbL)