f trtVPKfttON,
gateway to
CENTRAL
CAROLINA.
YEAR
(HIKE SITUATION
j[ THOMASVILLE IS
|ET DURING DAY
Workers Appear Reluc
tant To Cause Trouble
They Promised At
Chair Factory
UNLOADING of cars
forbidden by them
g u t Foremen Go Into Plant
for Work; Rockingham
Cotton Mills Post Notice#
They Will Not Reopen As
Long As There Is Much
Denger of Violence
Aug 29 i AP*—-Thomas
. ~.**< ru.ition remained quiet
. , ■* - • -• skcrs appeared reluc
... 'rouble they promise'.!
•-> T mu-viUe Chair Company
-■ i • i,| ;»nd unload box cars
Y .. thv strikers said they
» . r it;, o prevent the an load
•; ; >ats ,>r th eloacbng of a
;m » - irn.tu.e for shipment un
>< w ,’k »<»s done by mill offi
. !■ I r, •• hned labor.
Tii a number of fore
-rr-:*i ‘h- null presumably to
■ * \ Ahile the strikers, num
j 1••• voiced no protest.
!"< KIM.H VM MILLS TO
KFMAIX CLOSED WHILE
Aug 29 <AP) —A
y.ivmen: ra' they would remain
r -<t •*» - h-te is so much friction
izi -> Tr-i-h danger of violence.”
•-U l ‘ >rs of three cotton mills j
vr» • 'li’> wr.«re 1.200 textile workers i
•- - r •; *”
Noted Easing In
Mortgage Demand
Is Now Reported j
"»«Mr*ftf>n. Aug. 2*.—(AP) I
r *»rrlil,r» H For: , chairman »f the 1
H-x-, l.«sn Bank Board, said to- j
th*r* had been a noticeable
-*in< ~( the mortgage sttwatton
f »ce of developing plans by
'h» h,M»rd to put the system's {
'"the hanks Into operation.
Th* hoard was working oat er
inrenents today for opening the
'’twtai stock subscription hooka In
'nrt *us districts and was con
'tdarint appointees for tho 12
<firectnr*tev
Th* fourth district hank will be
at H Inaton-Sa’em. X. C.
Elections
Group Gets
Acquittal
'•rth MllUesboro, Aug. 29. |
Light Watauga county
rats were acquitted by m
!'*' her* today of charges of e!ec
!t,’n frauds growing out of the
isto g*n*ral election.
Tt ”' jury received the case In
FH*rti court shortly before 7 p.
•" Saturday and retired about
*hr*» h'»irs later.
T'dax fudge Johnson J. Hayes
’r-ned roan st 9:05 a. m„ and a
"Minutes later the lury return
* acquittal verdict.
I»ur<ng the trial the prosecution
'Mrgert that the defendants pre
’'n,f'l ''allotting In the Laurel
rh “ l precinct, while the defense
"'-lufered W | fh th * cta | m that He
."•hlic Sr , s caused the de’ay.
local Politics Blocking
City And County Mergers
I>la«*lrk Rarril,
li Sir V\ nltrr Hotel.
' • ■' « BAttKKHVIM..
At i g 29 Although several
""' 1 '■ounties in the State have
' l '- n < "bout consolidation of
county governments for
■k.\[ “ ir ’ indications are that
' ”' r, l>'lations are Just about aa
' I ’< mg place as ever, accord-
M Johnson, director of
’- ' '' nment.
" ‘ "isolidationa. such as have
kidered hy Durham and Dur
j,., ' Charlotte and Mecklen
-A lr ‘ ’ and s «veral others, would
... t ' , “Uy be | n the interest of bet
■’ mp nt. at less coet which
tower taxes, wit ha stnfle
r ‘ A f,,r both the city and the
' ’hnson says. But the one sec
„ -’and* in the way of con
• ► ’ i' local politics —for none of
holds lobe with either
'r*. r ro,,nt y *s going to take a
f,T‘ ' J<s his or her Job by advo- (
f*i' n ' T hing that would tend to
h number of employes, John
-i-i koviib it
Itettitersmt 2Bmhi Hfsmrtrh
FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
He Would Succeed Mayor Walker of New York
Should Mayor James J. Walker of
New York be removed by Gover
nor Franklin D. Roosevelt he
would be succeeded autoniatical
Tropical Hurricane Is
Moving Rapidly Toward
Miami Area Os Florida
Farm Bank May
Be Given State
Rafetgh. Aug. 29 (AP)-Angus
W. McLean, of Lumberton, former
govsraar and now chairman of the
North Carolina committee seeking
a Federal agricultural credit cor
poration for this State, expressed
the hope here today that some Tar
Hee! city would be selected as the
home of the corporation for the two
Carolina*. Georgia and Florida.
Thursday of last week Governor
McLean said members of the North
Carollns committee appointed by
Governor O. Max Gardner appear
ed before the Reconstruction Fin
ance Corporation directors in
Washington and presented the
claims of the State as a whole.
chlmr¥~
HARD UPON JAPS
Latter Retaliate At Mukden
With Planet and Bombs
On The Raiders
Mukden. Manchuria. Aug. 29. (AP)
—The planes and bullets of war spread
terror through this key city of Man
churia today after hundreds of Chin
ese raiders had sprung up in the night
and dealt a swift blow at the heart'
of the Japanese military system.
Before daylight most of the many
small bands of Chinese had vanish
ed, but large concentrations of Chinese
guerillas were reported only Tour miles
away. At daylight Japanese bombers
took the air with orders to get them.
In Mukden proper, the largest city
of rich Manchuria, all was confusion
after a night of panic during which
the big arsensal and Japanese air base
was fired. The city's entire fire de
partment was battling these blazes
this morning.
son points out.
Would Be Better Off.
"There is no doubt that all of the
counties in which the larger cities are
located would be better off and the
cities would be better off, if they
should consolidate and have omv one
set of officials and employe* for both
the ctiy and county.” Jonnao,! t,ays.
"This system would bring about some
economy in the coat of government,
though not as much as some think,
since It would still be necessary to
have a clerk of the superior court, a
shreiff, a tax collector and other of
ficers. But they could do the work
for the entire area. The tax collector,
for instance, could collect the taxes
for both the city and county, and the
shetff could head the police depart
ment tor the entire area There could
i be a combined city and county man
, ager and a combined city-county
board of commissioners, whlefc would
levy a single ts rate for the entire
(Oontlntttd on Past
ONLY
DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED
HENDERSON, N. C. f MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 29, 1932
ly by Jof.ph •. .itKec, president
of the board of aldermen. Mc-
Kee, a Tammanyito and former
school teacher, wouid hold office
Will Strike Between Miami
and Key West Sometime
Tonight, Weather
Bureau Says
RED CROSiTMAKES
PLANS FOR RELIEF
Telegraphs Agents To Keep
Close Watch On Disturb,
ance Moving In From Car.
ibbean; Reported To Have
Wind Velocity of 42 Miles
An Hour
Washington, Aug. 29—(AP)—The
Weather Bureau reported this after
noon receipt of a report from the
steamship Cudahy that the distur
ance moving toward Florida carried
a wind velocity of 42 miles an hour.
The observation was made CO miles
southeast of Miami.
The bureau said tho disturbance was
still moving toward the southern part
of Florida, and should strike between
Miami and Key West ionic time to
night.
STORM CENTER IS MOVING
SLOWLY OVER CARIBBEAN
Havana, Cuba, Aug. 29. -(AP— San
Marinno Lanca, director of the Celen
conservatory', said today a storm cen
ter of great intensity is moving slow
ly westward across Caribbean sea,
centering this morning west of Nas
sau. He said it probably would cross
southern Florida in about seven hours
but he did not indicate a probable
point where the storm would hit.
RED CROSS PREPARING TO
EXTEND ALL AID NEEDED
Washington. Aug. 29. —(AP)— The
National Red Cross today telegraphed
its agents to keep close watch on the
tropical disturbance heading for the
Florida peninsula and make any re
lief preparations necessary.
HEADED IN DIRECTION
KEY WEST, BUREAU HEARS
Miami, Fla., Aug. 29.—<AP)— The
tropica) disturbance moving into Flor
ida is southeast of Miami, and is
headed in the general nirection of Key
West, the weather bpreau reported at
Boil APPROVES
NO SUPPLEMENTS
Kqualizing Body Finishes
Examination Os Six
Months School Term
Ditllr DltMirk Berena.
la the Sir Walter Hotel.
■T J. C. B.tSKKBVItt
Raleigh. Aug. 29. —No supplements
for the salaries of any teachers, prin
cipals or superintendents were ap
proved by the State Board of Equali
zation tn its meeting here from Thurs
day through Saturday, and at which
almoat all of the 100 county supple
mentary budgets for the elx months
term ware examined and either ap
proved or revised. The only budgets
not acted upon were those from Guil
ford, Durham and New Hanover. Both
Guilford and Nsw Hanover asked for
large supplements w/tlle the Durham
(Ooßttiffl m. Page Five.) m
IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
till the next mayoralty election.
He is shown In various poses be
neath a panorama of lower New
York.
Mollison Plans
Ocean Take-Off
Si. Johns. N. B„ Aug. 29.—(AP)—
Captain J. A. Mollison, homeward
bound after his solo flight across
the Atlantic, nt Nerepls Station,
where he landed yesterday in the
fog, refueled and took off at 11:0*
a. m., KST., for Hynoy. Nova Scotia,
on his way to Harbor Grace. He
was expected to reach Sydney In
three hours. If the weather is good
he will go to Harbor Grace. Other
wise he ’rill remain at Sydney for
the night.
FARM CONVENTION
OPENS IN RALEIGH
f
Dr. R. B. House, of Univer
sity, Speaks At Formal
Start Tonight
BAILEY ISON PROGRAM
Senator And Congressman Warren To
Speak, In AddJtirM to Organiza
tion's Own Officer* And
Some Others
Raeigh Ai- 29.-—(AP) —Two
of the beat tobacco experts of the
United) Stateg Department of
Agriculture today accepted Invita
tions to speak at a special tobacco
meeting here Wednesday morning
during the annual farmers’ con
vention at State College. E. Y.
Floyd, extension tobacco specialist
of the college, announced that Dr.
W. W. Jorney, recognized through
out the world as an authority In
totiacco, and F. B. Wilkinson, who
developed the present grading sys
tem used In the government grad
ing service, had accepted Invlta
(Continued on Page Five.)
INSTITUTIONS CARE
FOR 16.519 IN N.C.
Represents Decrease of 64
For Month of July, Re.
port Indicates
Raleigh, Aug. 29.~tAP>—The total
population of the penal, charitable and
correctional institutions operated by
the Stqte and counties on July 31 was
16,519. a decrease during July of 64
persons, the State Board of Charities
and Public Welfare reported today.
There were 6,336 persons confined in
the three State hospitals at Raleigh,
Morganton and Goldsboro, and at Cas
well Training School as July ended, it
was shown
The Orthopedic hospital at Gastonia
and the State sanatorium had 479
inmates at the end of the month.
Homes for Confederate veterans and
widows and county homes bad 628 oc
cuponts July 31 and correctional in
stitutions had 992 persons.
Prisoners in State highway camps
decreased 142 during July to 4,304 and
the population of State’s Prison fell
off five to 2,803. There Was a total of
7,159 State prisoners. Including women
at the farm colony.
The 925 prisoners shown in county
Jails July 31 was an Increase of 120
for the month
weather
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fstr tonight and Turn day. • -
‘ . » r'* i
ALABAMA MOTHER
DROWNS HERSELF
AND 1 WREN
Third Daughter, Age 10, Es
capes From Her Mother
and Leads Rescuers
To the Scene
go fifteenlmiles
ON FATAL MISSION
Woman Carries Two Small
Children In Arms and
Leads Other One Until Lat
ter Breaks Away; Motor,
man Who Stopped at Lake
Informed by Child
Tuscaloosa, Ala., Aug. 29 ( AP)
Mrs. William S. Simmons, 25, wife of
a watch repairman- took her three
small daughters to a lake here last
night, under the pretense "to baptize”
them and drowned two «f them and
herself, but the other got loose and i
found refuge on an island. The sur-!
vivior, Louise. 10, was found on the
Island an hour later by a mntorman i
who stopped at the lake to refusal.
She directed searchers in the recovery
of the bodies of her mother and two |
sisters. She said the mother, the sei-!
ler of religious literature, brought !
them from their home 15 miles from
the lake, and waded out in the water
with Dorothy and Majorie in her arms.
Louise said she was led along by her
hand, but succeeded in breaking loose
just before Mrs. Simmons and the
other girls sank, although her mother
tried to drag her under.
WALKER HEARING IS
DELAYED BY DEATH
Albany, N. Y.. Aug. 29. (AP)
Governor Roosevelt announced today
that the hearing of charges against j
Mayor James J. Walker would be ad- i
journed until the funeral of the
mayor’s brother. George Walker, who
died at Saranac Lake today.
Supreme Court Is
To Open Fall Term
Tomorrow Morning
Raleigh. Aug. 29.—(AP)- The State
Supreme Corn; tomorrow will sit to
hear oral appeal arguments from the
first judicial district as it starts its
fall term of hearings.
Attorneys representing the State of
South Carolina are expected to ap
pear before the cour asking it to grant
a writ of certiorari to bring before
the high tribunal the habeas corpus
proceedings at Sylva by which Ray
Bailey, alias Ray Keith was granted
his freedom while under arrest on a
South Carolina murder warrant. j
Bailey was charged with the mur
der of A. B. Hunt. Greenville, S. C..
policeman, on last May 1. He was ar- j
rested In a Sylva hospital the next 1
day while suffering from gunshot '
wounds, which he alleged he received j
in North Carolina.
Judge Walter Moore granted him
his freedom on a writ of habeas corpus ;
after Gov. O. Max Gardner had honor- ,
ed requisition papers for his return I
to the Palmetto State. i
A specially set case to be argued
this week Is that in which the Lll-1
lington Stone Company is challeng- j
ing the right of A. J. Maxwell, com-1
missioner of revenue, to tax gasoline j
used In quarry machinery. I
Ebbing Immigration Tide
And Declining Birth Rate
Suggest Evil Times Ahead
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Washington, Aug. 29.—For the first
time in American history, more emi
grants left the United States during
the fiscal year 1931-2 than there were
immigrants admitted.
Secretary of Labor Doak reports the
score of 103.295 to 35,576, with satis
faction.
It scarcely can be interpreted other
wise than as an admission of unpre
cedentedly hard times in this ocuntry.
However, as Secretary Doak sees the
situation, workers here at least are to
be congratulated upon having 67,719
fewer pairs of hands to compete with
their own.
Considering the matter thus, his at
titude is understandable.
Popular opinion unquestionably Is
in hearty agreement with the labor
secretary’s view that the Washington
governments present policy of dis
couragement of further immigration
errs, if at all, only in not yet having
gone far enough.
The secretary, indeed, continues vig
orously to push his campaign to drive
out every alien, already here, whom
he can possibly find an excuse for de
porting.
A few experts alone, sensing what
such activities are leading up to. re
gard the outlook uneasily.
Between America’s declining birth
PUBLISHED EVERT AFTERNOON
EXCEPT BUNDS T.
Cotton Ten Cents
On Bullish Report
Os Declining Crop
Friendly 'Enemies’
4 H
T .
Despite the strained lelai’oh-. tnat
exist between their respective coun
tries, these distinguished visitors
from Japan and China to the Insti
tute of Politics at Williamstown,
Mass., seem to be on the friendliest
terma. They are Dr. T X. Koo
(left), of Peiping. China, and f)r.
Inazo Nitohe. of Tokyo, member of
the Japanese Home of Peers, and
former Under-Secretary of tii*
Leacue of Nath ti*
GENERAL SALES TAX
LOOMS AS CERTAIN
Railroad, Tobacco And
Power Companies Lining
Up Behind Plan
MERCHANTS OPPOSE IT
Some Delegate* to Chicago, Alt«> in
1933 Legislature, Said To Have
Been Kntertalncd By SaJct.
Tax Advocate*
l>!<t|ia(rh Harm*.
In Ik* Mr Muller llolrl.
!IY J « . n AMvK.lt VI 1,1,.
Raleigh, Aug. 29. A tremendous ef
fort will be made to enact a general
sales tax in the 1933 General Assembly
and this effort is very likely to suc
ceed, according to those who have
been studying the membership of the
fUate Senate and House in the ap
fproachtng General ssembly. The
luxury' lax forces will again make an
effort to enact a luxuary sales tax.
under the leadership of Senator John
Hinsdale, of Wake county. The anti
sales tax group is also expected to
make a fight against both forms, and
if it can get the support of the luxury
(Continued on pßge Three.)
rate and the practical cutting off of
additions from overseas, they foresee
the beginning presently of an actual
population slump, which, to the scien
tific mind, suggests disaster a few de
cades hence.
"A stationary population.” says Dr.
O. E. Baker, senior economist of the
agriculture department, and one of
the foremost vital statisticians, "is
not so bad.
"Growth undoubtedly is more stim
ulating. Still, France, for example,
remained at a standstill, as to the
number of inhabitants, for some gen
erations. with no indications of de
terioration. In fact, the fall in Its
birth rate probably was accompanied
by a corresponding rise in its people’s
standard of living.
"But what would be the effect of
an out-and-out dwindling In numbers?
The truth is. there is no historic pre
cedent, on which to base a conclusion,
but all reasoning hints that it would
have grave consequencee.”
“Prior to the eighteenth century,*
continued the scientist, "the world's
population probably had been approxi
mately stationary for an indefinite
period, at 400.000.000 or 500.000,000 half
of them in India and China
" The eighteenth century saw Eu
“ “ ‘
. (Continued on Page Three.)
6 PAGES
TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPS
Sensational Advance Con.
tinued Under Another
Wave of Buying In
New York Market
ICO PERCENT RISE
SINCE JUNE LOWS
First Time Cotton Has Sold
At 10 Cents Since Hoover
Moratorium Over Year
Ago; Crop as Whole Has
Lost Ground In Past Two
or Three Weeks.
Nek York. Aug. ?«.—<Al\)
Continuing Its sensational advance
cotton reached lo cents a pound
today, under another wave of buy
ing, spurred by bullish crop re
ports. The July position attained
this le\el. which represent* an ad
vance of nearly 100 percent for the
I low level of June.
This marks the lirst time cotton hri
1 sold at ten rents .since the Hoover
moratoruni i:»!<y lom summer. The en
tire list was strong, with net gains
ranging from sl3" ;o rr, H hale.
In its weekly xurvey. the New York
Cotton Exchange Mo vice says it is
generally believed by c»op observer*
’hat the crop as a whole has lost
ground during the past two or three
■veeks. The beginning of picking, it
is claimed, is finding that plant de
terioration and boll weevil damage has
been more serious than estimated.
t hree Burlington
Men Are Held In
Durham Robbery
Burlington, Aug. 29.—(API—Po
lice i-erc were advised today that
urham officer* were holding three
Burlington young white men for
invfwtigatton into the $13,909
1 Fidelity Bank robbery In West
Durham last week.
Police *aid they learned Bryant
Shaw, Haillr Kelley and Theo
Lamm were the three held, and
that I jvmin, arre*ted by Kinston
officer*, had a large sum of money
In his |HM>Ne**ion at the time ha
was taken into custody.
Sterling Is
Now Ahead
Os Ferguson
Dalla*, Texas, Aug. pS.—(AP)—•
Governor K. 8. Sterling’s lead over
Mr*. Miriam A. Ferguson, for the
Democratic gubernatorial nomina
tion mounted to 3,479 on additional
return* from Saturday's primary
election.
The latewt tabulation by the elec
tion gave Sterling 496,318 votes
and Mr*. Ferguson 492,889. this
wa* for 281 counties of the State,
Including 189 complete.
AIR RACE PILOTS <ft
THREATEN STRIKE
✓
Claim Posted Prizes Only 2g
* Percent of Those Ad,
vertised There
Cleveland. Ohio, Aug. 29 (AJP)—A
threatened strike of pilots participat
ing in the national air races here was
averted today when a compromise be
tween them and air race officia'r was
reached after an a 11- -morning confer
ence.
Approximately 60 dissaiUfied pilots
had signed a petition asking that
prizes for the cloned course free-for
all r i.'i- Ht> Joublec. They claimed
the posted prizes amounted to only 28
percent of those advertiser.
HIGH SPEED MARK MADE
IN FLIGHTS FROM WEST
Kansas City, Aug. 29 (AP)— Living
up to their advanced pmllctlons of
record-breaking afeed, four pilots
rocketed eastward today toward
Cleveland at 250 mile? an hour and up
ward in the trans-continental air race
from Los Angeles.
Unofficial figures showed that Cob
onel Roscoe Turner, of Hollywood, was
setting the p?ce On <s»« first leg of
the daeh, wi'.h an average of about 275
miles per hour, up to his first refuel
ling point, Colorado Springs, Col.