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r otVPFRyON, Gateway to Ventral CAROLINA. year THREE PLANES [DUALIZING BOARD IS FINISHING WORK ON SCHOOL ITEMS A|| Budgets From Counties Expect To Be In By That Time, Martin Declare* COUNTIES HOLDING TO STATE STANDARD largest Supplemental Bud get So Far Is From New Hanover. Asking $83,000; Forivth. Probably Richest County In State, 1* Asking For Only $347 It -i » IM«»ntrh n rrun, Ik i tor *|r U nllrr llutrl in .11 II I’.ltt II I. v 23 The Board of l -v -- ••xpe. *- to finish its ap , * ’h-» \ • inun county budgets • r’ ‘bp amounts received ... -r- yiv foi thp six months .• -nr when it meets here Thurs A'is I-' -V Ir’Roy Martin sec i - ■' ‘hr b >ard, said today. So 1 . v* .ini 85 of these bud- j I . » yo- received and it is ex-! r H tic i 'f them will be in by’ V ‘ dJV i y -e 8') of these county sup-! have already been ! > »; r.' *r. by the board which has \ •■» »'er. iency to eliminate all sup- | ; 'T.rr.*.- ' anything other than | ;< ras well as to eliminate i s ro.'w '■ f**t increasing the aal- j i *• <■' r:.r.cipals and superinten- j Vr - ->v* state salary' schedule, j e me •; ’h* k idgets. in addition to i ' —.’a ". r.; - rplements for school! p.r; «-■ ■ r’j :ied supplements to j ' r”‘ officials as wait All j f> • ».r. stricken out by the i ft"* 'he board so far has 1 i.o *■: •uppirments only where it I __._f ] C-v.:n>i»d on page TLree.) MISSION DOWNS 1 IWO HIGHWAY BIDS I Alio Makes Slight Changes In Several Other Projects; Vance Represented o ' , *V" , 1 A**) The State •• px-r. ' mmission today rejected ■' h[rj offered by contractors ’ projects at the letting last th* -light changes in several prr.jo- and formally approved - 4 *hei bid- subject to the approval ‘ h--i-rs, 1 Bureau of Roads. I from widely scattered ■r State numbering sev r - ..f citizens were heard in ’h i' various routes be includ-! r highway program now '/’ ‘ u w; ‘h Federal funds ; ' ' : '"'in»ie< represented by de *’ w“ip Vnnce and Warren. Make Rule i tor Minor ! Party Vote 0 on Ticket, * ust Have Petitions 1 JjKned by 10,000 ' (> tcrs a,-. . 3 *; -3 - 1 APi- The State ' r ». ! ' : ,f lert 'ons today voted ;>-• t ’'' , anv 'minor” political i •- -nured to present petitions i S',. legal registered voters rn ' **f Its presidential elec -1 Placed on tbis State’s bah - >• • ••mber. -.») 1 1 however, added a pro .p ballot contain blank «:,• r '* ’ h “ name of tha Demo try i electors, so c; may insert the name ’ r ' ,jn may desire and dl ■ J" l ' ,f «l county election of i> -h*. ' Hnd certify such names 'ri ‘‘b-erve h! . r r =r»ford Biggs, chairman \t y«'d explained that as be .'" ,ard should set the 10,000 law for the State l>r- , |, r ‘ ,hil > minimum, but the ■■ ' ' ket was not mentioned i ' with him unanl- A "'*s member absent. i HtntJirfrsmt FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Germany’s Sheet Anchor WI Jr - .w i -7 !—* Financial Leaders Fear Government May Venture Too Far Into Industry Socialization Seen If Present Trend Is Continued; Un less Employment Is Improved and Incomes Rise, Stiffening Commodity Prices May Bring Crisis This Is the first r>f two dispatch es on the newest drive for better business. By LESLIE EICHEL New York. Aug. 23 -Another con ference of business leaders with the government is to take place in Wash ington on Friday, August 26. Presi de® • Hoover, who called the confer ence. considers it “the greatest drive for >b«d!>r business that has taken place during the depression.” The majority of people—including those In Wall Street—exclaim "an- WTO DEATHS LESS" IN STATE IN JULY 54 Killed, 344 injured; Few er Cars on Highways One Explanation Dull} Dispatch norma, lo the Mir Walter Hotel. nr J t‘. MASKKH\ILL. Raleigh. Aug. 23- Automobiles kill ed 54 persons in North Carolina u July and injured 344 more in 232 ac cidents, according to figures released today by L. S. Harris, chief of thr automobile license division of the i part men t of Revenue. This brings the total number of automobile cas ualties in the State s ofa rthis year to 334 killed and 2,548 injured. In the same period last year, up to August 1, 373 person were killed and 2.593 in jured. In July of lair, year. 68 persons were killed and 462 injured in 301 accidents, thus showing a decrease of 14 in the (Continued on Page Three > Two Witnesses Are Heard In Trial of Election Violation North Wilkesboro, Aug. ‘-S3. (APl—Only two witneooea were heard daring the morning melon today daring the trial of eight men charged with violating the election law* by intimidating vofc- The wttneeeee were Alvin Can non and Monroe Ward. The defendants are among a group of M Watauga ettfsans In far alleged violation of the election law* In 193*. There are few separate eases, ONLY DAILY newspaper SPEEDING TO EUROPE: ether conference"! Security and commodity prices ere on the upgrade, business in general may follow-why have another con ference? That ig the atti ude, parti cularly of those who are beginning to fear government encroachment in business. Apparent Reasons for Meeting The conference probably has been called because security and commodity ipricea have risen while Industry has still receded. Jobs and income must (Continued on Page Three.) Jimmy Doolittle Lands His Plane In Thrilling Way Wichita, Kan., Aug. 23.—(AP) — Jimmy DooUttle. noted speed flier, made a spectacular landing with out Injury to himself here today after being kept aloft an hour and 45 minutes in his remodeled Laird Hudng biplane by faulty re tractable landing gear. The ship was damaged to such an extent It cannot be repaired in time for the Bendix trophy race from Los An geles to Cleveland next Saturday. BLOCUAK OFOMAHA FARMERS Milk And Cream Allowed to Pass Through Lines During Negotiations Omaha, Neb.. Aug. 23. —(AP)— The first break in the lowa farmers’ block ade of Omaha occurred today when the ban on milk was lifted by the picketing forces. Christian W. 3avcry, of Logan, lowa announced that all milk and cream bound for Omaha would be passed through the lines during nego tiations between farmers and milk distributors in Omaha and Council Bluffs. The negotiations started to day. Livestock and grain trucks, how ever. would continue to be halted by the blockade, he said. ’weather FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Wednesday; partly steady, not much change in tempers tn re. _ _ PUBUSHED HENDERSON, N. C„ TUESDAY Baflu IN THIS SECTION OF AFTERNOON. Tobacco Is Continuing Its Climb Steadily Advancing Price Levels Reportetfon Bord er Belt Markets For The Day FAIRMONT'S. SREAK ESTIMATED 12 1-4 C Lumberton Between sl2 and sl3 Per 100 Pounds By Es. timate; Mullins $4 to $6 Above Opening Day; 20 to 30 Percent Rise at Dil lon, S. C. ■ l By the Asi«ociati|d Press.! Steadily rising prices in South Car olina pud North Carolina border to bacco markets were reported today. At Fairmont, N. C.J the market opened 50 cents to (lmtronger. with sales estimated at 400.000 pounds, at an average of approximately per hundred, as compared with $8 and $9 the first day or sojof the season. All large buyers werf reported bid ding freely today, with some new .grades being put on. Lumbenon, c., r«%>orted estimat ed sales of 325.000 pounds, with the price avzrging from |l2 to *l3 per hundred pounds. Mullins, S. C.. reported the heaviest sales since the market: opened. Prices on the better grades [were up *4 to W prr 100 pounds ovef previous days, witih all grades carrying the general advance. Jr ... An increase of 20 T« all grades was reported at Dillon, S. C. Block Says He Had No Contracts New York Publisher Testifies in Walker Ouster Case Albanv, N. Y.. Aug. 23. ~<AP) —Paul Block, newspaper publisher, who ‘‘cut Mayor James J. Walker in on a stock market transaction." testified today at the ouster hearings before Gover nor Roosevelt that he never had had a business contract with the City of New York. Mr. Block, testifying before the Hofstadter committee, said he had opened a joint account for himself and the mayor after his young son. Billy, had asked him ‘‘how the mayor can live" on his salary. Block, appearing as Walker's witness before Roosevelt, ■said the mayor had been a "very inti mate frient for 17 or 18 years." Young Billy was In the executive chamber as his father testified. “Did you have in mlndd when this account was opened that you might I some day ask the mayor for a favor?" asked John J. Curtin. Mr. Walker's chief of counsel. Power Head Says 10 Pet. Rate Cut Would Be Loss Tillery, For Carolina Power And Light, Reads State ment at Corporation Commi sion Hearing on Charges; Henderson and 12 Other Towns Represented Raleigh. Aug. 23. —(AP) —A ten per cent reduction in rates would result In a loss to the Carolina Power and Light Company. P. A. Tillery, gen eral manager, declared today as the State Corporation Commission began its series of “conferences" to deter mine if any reduction in public utility rates could be made. Representatives of 13 towns and cities served by the Carolina company which maintains headquarters here, attended the conference, and, after Tillery had read a lengthy manuscript containing his company's reaction to rate reductions, pounded him with questions. When the conference adjourned for His patch NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. AUGUST 23, 1932 Set New Women’s Endurance Mark Mrs. Frances Marcelis (left), of Centerville. Miss., and Mrs. Louise Thaden. of Baltimore, landed their "Flying Boudoir’’ plane at Curtis Field near New York a few minutes after 5 o'clock yes’erday afternoon after be ing in the ptr continuously for 196 hours and five minutes to set a new SEN. GLASS CLAIMS - HOOVER DRY PLAN Says President Appropriat ed It In His Speech Os Acceptance HE OFFERED IT FIRST Proposes Allowing States To Deter mine Own Stand On Liquor, With Federal Government Bar ring the Saloon By CHARLES P. STEWART Washington. Aug. 23. —Within 24 hours after President Hoover had in troduced to the public what he says is his prohibition modification plan. ■Senator Carter Glass of Virginia had filed a counter claim to the scheme, on the ground that it is his brain child, which he accuses the White House tenant of trying to kidnop. And, indeed, if the Hoover plan is not the same plan that Senator Glass proposed in congress, toward the end of the last session, as a substitute for the eighteenth amendment, the two are so much alike that it Is hard to tell them apart. It was while Senator Hiram Bing ham of Connecticut was striving to nag the Democrats, on the strength »f the repeal plank in their platform. ,mto voting for his bill to legalize light beer (and the Democrats were endeavoring to sidestep it) that the 'Virginian offered his resolution, in an effort to block the Nutmeg states man. The Glass plan suggested: Return to the states of the right to solve the drink problem each for it iContinued on Page Three t luncheon. J. A. Taylor; Oxford, most prominent question - pro pounder, called a conference of the represen tatives to outline a method o< pro cedure whep the, meeting continued this aftemobn. > Towns ad<L cities represented were Raleigh, Asheville, Rockingham. Hen dersoia Sanford, s Clinton. Oxford, Goldsboro, Asheboro, Southern P/nes, Wendell, Clayton -and Roxboro. The Corporation Commission has summoned every public utility com pany in the State, including power, telephone and gas companies, to stew cause why a reduction in their rates should not be made. The conferences are to continue through next month. PUBUSHED IVBRT AJTTBHJfOON ■XCBPT SUNDAY. MORE TO I world's refueling endurance record for | women. Their pkine was in good con t on, and they appeared personally | none the worse for wear, except that Mrs. Thaden collapsed, but was short ly revived They passed the pre vious women's record of 123 hours last Friday. SOCIALIST MET ! TO GET BIG VOTE As Many As 2,000,000 May Cast Ballot for Norman j Thomas Thi# Year TO BE PROTEST VOTE But Many Will Desist Through Idta It May Hi 1 Ballot Thrown Away, i More Ib-ople Know Thomas Than Before Washington. Aug. 23. If all the peo- ' pie who have muttered this year that; they were going to vote for Norman. Thomas actually would do so there' would be a bad case of shakes and shivers in Wall Street, next winter.! The high-water mark of the Socialist 1 candidate's popularity probably came ! around the time of the national con- J ventions of the two major political | factions, when everyone realized that, here was another contest between the same old Republican and Democratic 1 parties, which looked more alike than I ever. I Being forced to choose between ! Hoover and Roosevelt was another j thing that seemed to irk a lot of peo- I pie after it became apparent that* Roosevelt wouldn't be blocked at j Chicago. It is probable that both the candidates were at about their lowest 1 ebb in public esteem, insofar as con-! cerns 1932. And it was then that you | heard so many voters saying, grimly ; and as if they expected to shock their ! listeners rather badly: “I'm going to i vote for Norman Thomas.” May Get 2, 900,0*0 Vote*. Os course a lot of them won't do ! anything of the sort. Many Demo-, crats who used to profess to despise Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt are | I (Continued on Page Three.) GINNINGS 261,193 I BALES 1932 CROP* i I More Than Last Year, But; Much Less Than Total | to Date In 1930 Washington, Aug. 23.—(AP)--Cot-l ton ginned prior to August 15 from! the growth of 1932 was announced to-1 day by the Census Bueau as having { totalled 261.193 bales, including 3.617 j round baled, counted as Jialf bales, and ; excluding (Inters. To that date last year. 90,608 bales, including 673 round bqtes, were* ned and In 1930 jrinnings to date were 572,810 • bales, including 13,209 round bales. Giafiings to August 16 include 71,- 063 bales of the crop of 1932 prior to August 1 and counted in the supply of season 1931 and 1932, compar ed with 7.307 and 78,188 bales of the crop of 1931 and 1930. 6 PAGES TODAY FIVE CENTS COPY! FOLLOW FLYING FAMILY IN' ONE PLANE ON EAST STAGES TO LONDON first Stop To Be St. Johns, Preparatory to Long Hops Across Stretches of Ocean OTHER FLYERS ARE HEADED TO NORWAY Non. Stop Flight To Rome Scheduled To Start Tomor row, With Mollison Pre. paring for His Return Flight To London After Soloing Over Last Week <By the Associated Press.) Three airplanes were speeding to ward Europe from America today two left from America today, two of them on an impromptu race to Oslo. Norway, ano two moie stood ready go tomorrow if weather conditions are favorable. Thor Solberg and Carl Peterson . took off before dawn from Floyd Ben nett field in New York for Oslo with one stop planned at Harbor Grace : n. f. I Four hours later they reported by ; radio that they were over Portland, Maine, slightly more than a half hour ! after Clyde A. Leaf and John Bocbkon soared aloft from a field of Barre. Vermont, with the sajne goal of Har- I bor Grace and Oslo. At the take-off the latter of the two (ilanes were not more than a bun ! tired miles apart. Later in the morning George Hut chinson and his flying family— him eclf, his wife and two daughters -with | h crew, of four more left Floyd Ben nett field for St. Johns, the first stop scheduled on a 4.200 mile easy-etage flight to London. William t’lrlch and Leon Pisculii and Edna Newcomer planned to leave to morrow on a non-atop flight to Rome byway of Florence, where Miss Newcomer is expected to leap out irr a parachute to enter Florence. J. A. Mollison, flier who completed the first solo flight from Europe to New York, wailed only favorable weather at Rosevelt field to start a return flight. Sheriff Swears Out Warrants For Three Brothers Concord. Aug. 23.--(AP> Sheriff Ray C. Hoover today swore out war lants charging three men with being accessories after the fact in the slay ing here of Jack Dee, and said he would swear out warrants tomorrow charging Lee Clayton ajid' Belvin Pen ninger wilh murder of Dees. Bnlh Clayton and Penninger are now serving terms In prison on other charges. Sheriff Hoover said ir. ex plaining why he was not swearing out the warrants immediately, although announcing the charge* would be brought against them. The three men charged with being accessories to the slaying are lison. Shoaf and Lonnie Penninger, all brothel’s of Belvin. Strife Now Threatens In Germany Death Sentences On Nazi Followers Stirs Hitler Group To Anger Berlin, Aug. 23.- < AP>—Five death sentences pronounced against as many Naxla prisoners in a Silesian court room served to wrest Germany closer to the brink of virtual civ4l war. The gravity of the situation was at tested in the splurge of the Fascist strong-man. Adolph Hitler—and that meant his powerful storm troops as well—to “Battle against a government tinder tjrhich this (the death der*< tencesi is possible." All eye* were focused on Chan cellor Franz von Papen and his gov ernment which promulgated the em ergency decree of August 9 under which the five men were tried. All Germany discussed the caee of the quintet, three of whom were Nazi followers and two were affiliates.
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