HENDERSON,
gateway to
central
CAROLINA.
i___
mneteenth year
fdOMBIANMOBOF
1010 DEMANDING
WAR AGAINST PERU
Go Down Into Their Pocket,
book and Jewel Cates To
Provide Money To
Finance It
cip.OOO.OOO CREDIT IS
PASSED BY SENATE
Action Follows Report Os
Seizure by Peruvian Citi.
Ts n' of Columbian Fort on
Am won River; Merely Re
atonal Affair, Peruvians
Explain
■ _ . < lombia, 19.—<AP>
■> , iu'l Colombians clamored
• 1 « *i with Peiu and went
• r |Mvrketbo.,ks and their
• • provide furuL to finance
Tc passed a biU authoriz
- . •rimiifn; to arrange a ere
>’■ • |or national c’jv
" -i followed a report of the
• September 1 by Peruvian
. : *he Colombian fort of
’he Amazon river,
w c-ded to Colombia in
• 1 i:y treaty with Peru in
-b ’he Peruvian government
■ Ciloitibla ’hat a.s far as it
Peruvian ?o'diers were In
be -seizure and that It was
ii's ionnl rtfair. The milling
i whu h filled the streets here
‘ iv.wn with Sanchez Cer
’ J '■!. Sanrhez Cerro is president
VIRGINIA BORROWS
5283,367 FROM R. F. C.
"’ ■hington. Sept. 19,—( API—
C K-ronatruction Finance Cor
!»-rvt„r> t«l»y loaned Virginia
I-* meet emergency relief
n " l’ in Halifax, Pulaski and
u '*r i .untie*.
Franchises
Sought By
Bus Lines
Corporation Com
mission to Have
Hearings Tomor
row On Petitions
Made .
2'n. Sept. 19.- (API-The State
1 t-t Mon Commi.-rsion tomorrow
• 1 a number of hearings relat
bu« company franchises.
r 'ir >lina Rapid Transit Com
•' Charlotte, will ask the group
• • i’ n rehearing on its petition i
fr nchise to operate virtually a;
• i ie night express service.
’ ‘ P and F Motor Transit Com
"f Wilmington, is seeking per
*o extend its lines from Ham
*• Charlotte, and H. Kirk and
f :■ *• vof Wilmington Is asking an
:--n from Fayetteville to War
oil i-i al-o protesting that the
' Miller Motor Express, operat
m Atlanta. Ga.. to P'ayettevllle.
'’mg truck franchise rights
F ive‘t»ville to Wilmington.
I Inly Eight School Boys
h\ Highway Prison Camps
»Mal of 16,177 Prisoner* Handled First Year of Opera
tion; 17 Prisoners Died; Larceny Crimes Lead, and
Laborers Predominate In Classification
r • * -b. Sept. 19—(AP* Os the|
pi '■■nera handled during the
’ ■ '• ‘*<l 1931-32 by the State High
-I’iMon Camps, when the average
population was 4.163, only eight
'"‘‘H were “school boys” and 1,-
-* "'•it' unemployed.”
' • fi-ral year 1831-32 was the first
‘luring which the highway prison [
nave functioned and the aver
l'i!y population reported by Sam
' •'* supervisor, to E. B. Jeffrese,
r ' commission chairman, was
Mmately 600 per day more than
l lH«en figured the campa would
led upon to care for.
On j 1? Prisoners Died.
’vere 67 camps. 36 of theist of
■ i“ot type, operating during the
» .ul they employed 633 men. thu
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of collecting va| u «Be i f ♦ T" B(,rmud «- for the purpose
made h.« t fi d *J* w * s m rh,? b * n thal Or. Bee be
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the globe has windows for making undersea observations.
Thomasville-High Point
Groups Go Back To Work
Strikers Go Back To Jobs on
Terms Made at Confer
ence With Gover
nor on Saturday
SOME STILL IDLE
FOR TIME, HOWEVER
High" Point Silk Mill Offi
cials Say All Will Be
Taken Back Soon as Ord
ers Justify It; Only Day
Shift Is Working In High
Point So Far
High Point. Sept. 19.—< AP)— Ap
proximates 790 strikers went back to
work here and at Thomasville, near
here, today, working at lengthy time
but leaving, at the same time, some
.V)0 worekrs still idle.
Officials of the Stehli silk mills Lere
and the Thomasville Chair Company,
at Thomasville. announced their
plants would reopen today, following
conferences Saturday with Governor
Gardner. At the silk mill approximate
ly 300 "workers went back to work
after several weeks, leaving many out
of work.
Stehli officials said the remaining
workers would be restored as soon as
conditions permitted and a night shift
would be resumed as soon as orders
permitted. Only the day shift was in
operation today. Between 300 and 400
workers returned to work at Thomas
ville but a similar group remained
idle.
ADDITIONAL WORKERS AT
THOMASVILLE TO RETURN
Thomasville, Sept. 19.- ( AP) - A
total of 677 idle operators of the
Thomasville Company ended their
three-week'3-old strike today and re
turned to work, while 100 others pre
pared to follow their footsteps tomor
row.
T. A. Finch, president of the com
pany, said half of 200 employees left
idl? today would be given work to
morrow morning, and that others
would be taken care of later if pos
sible .
Th** strike here broke up today fol
lowing conferences over the week-end
with Governor Gardner, mill officials
and strikers’ Representatives.
report showed.
Out of the total of 16.177 prt'ners
handled, including those who evved
only sentences of 60 days or more on
ly 17 prisoners died during their in
carceration and 11 of these were Ne
groes.
The highway department took over
3,690 prisoners when it was created,
received 12,139 from courts, and par
role violators and escapes recaptured
brought the total of prisoners handled
during the irst year the department
unctioned up to 16.177. Os these 10,302
were Negroes and 53*75 white*.
During the year 10,580 persons sen
tenced completed hteir terms. 825 con
victs escaped and total discharges
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ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPE R PUBLISHED
Hunting Season to
Be Best In Years i
I
Raleigh, Sept 19 (AP)—The beat
hunting sea* *i In years for North
Carolina gunners was predicted to- !
day by Stat eGame Warden Charles '
H. England, who said a "bumper I
crop" of quail was in prospect.
The major hunOig seasons in the
Stave open November *O.
A contributing factor in the mnl- I
tipilcation of quail. England said,
is the large scale breeding of this
bird that has been carried out dur
•lg Ute last several years at the
State game farm near Asheboro and
hy individuals.
GERMAN YRESENTjT !
BRITISH ATTITUDE
Govern me n t Spokesman
Takes Issue With Note
on German Equality
Berlin. Sept. !9.—(AP)—A govern
ment spokesman today took tasue
with the "unfriendly form" of yes
terday's Britioh note opposing Ger
many';) procedure in demanding arms
equality.
"It goes without saying," he said,
“that we cannot accept with reason,
the memorandum, according to which
Germany, of her own accord and with
out compelling reasons, faced a po
litical issue of vast implication.
"The unfriendly form which clothes
the charge that we proceeded in a
manner practically wrong, and cal
culated to disturb the harmony be
tween the nations does not hold the
truth of these charges.”
Well Known Artist
Who Went Bankrupt
Is Called Bv Death
*
New York. Sept. 19.—CAP)—James
Stewart Carstairs. famous artist, who
recently filed a petition in bankruptcy
renounced art and denounced the Am
erican people as a race of "rogues
and children,” died today in an am
bulance.
Cause of death was not immediately
determined, sind detectives were as
signed to investigate.
'When he died, Carstairs, who was
40 years old, was being taken to a
hospital from the Blackstone h6tel,
where he had been living for about
two weeks.
In his room the detectives found two
bottles which had contained a steep
ing portion and they expressed the
opinion that the artist might have
taken an overdose.
Carstairs. wose paintings have been
exhibited in New York, London’ and
Paris, and who was generally rank
ed as among the foremost artists of
the day, filed a voluntary petition in
bankruptcy on April 4 last>He listed
his UablUtes at $06,407 and hs assets
at a book value of'HST.SOO. *
At the aucton sale of his belong
ings, however, only $7,000 was obtain
ed, and Upon that occasion he bitter
ly renounced this art and railed
against Americans as rogues and chil
, dren, "ruled by morons.” .....
HENDERSON. N. C., . MONDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 19,1932
Balli} Btapcrfrl)
IN T HIB SECTION OP NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
DEMOCRATS RALLY i
AT HIGH HIT IS
SIGNIFICANT EVENT
Every One InjGood Humor,
Hatchet Buried and AH
Expecting Victory
In Noupmber
808 REYNOLDS IS
BIG SHOW, HOWEVER
Senatorial Know*
Nearly Name
and Is Center of Attrac
tion; Ehringlaus Almost as
Popular; Gardner Gets
Big Hand
v
Unity Dlfcpetrb Onrenn.
In (be Ur Walter Motel.
RY J C IIMKEHVILI,
Raleigh. Sept. lShj—if the Democrats
throughout North Carolina, both
young and old. are as enthusiastic
now as the more than 4.000 who gath
ered near High Point Saturday after
noon for the barbeeue and rally given
by the Guilford County Club of Young
Democrats, the Democratic party will
roll up one of the. largest majorities
It has ever polled In this State, ac
cording to most of those who attend
ed this rally. Sines the rally was the
first of any size and regarded as only
the beginning of the Democratic cam
paign in North Carolina, the general
belief is that the enthusiasm shown
there is only a beginning and taht
by November ever* nook and cranny
of the State will over with
a dynamic enthuslhsm for the entire
Democratic cause, from Franklin D.
Roosevelt down to constable.
If there is any vestige of discord or
division In the, ranks of the Democra
tic party, it was not evident among
the thousands front sections of the
State who attended the High Point
rally. There were Democrats from the
Piedmont. There were Democrats
from both east and west. There were
old Democrats and middle aged Dem
(Continued on Page Pour.)
Blockaders
Lose In War
With Police
Are Subdued After
Brandishing Their
Clubs and Blocking
Highways
Worthington. Minn., Sept. 19. —
(AP>—Brandishing clubs and block
ing roads with steel girders, heavy
wire cables and spiked belts, farmer
pickets seeking higher produce prices
went into action today and soon aft
erwards lost In their first brush with
the law.
Sheriff Eldon Rowe and Deputy
Sheriff Albert Devine went to the
aid of S. V. Calvin, a farmer living
south of here, and rescued Calvin's
load of sheep after the pickets un
hitched his team, tied the horses to
a telepone pole and ran the wagon
load into a ditch.
Led by M. B. Miller, vice-chairman
of the Nobles county unit of the State
Farmers Holiday Association, which
defied the parent body in establish
ing picket lines, upward of 300 men
(Contloued on Page Four)
legislators™
FIVE STATES MEET
Asheville Gathering to Plan
Work of 1933 General
Assemblies
Richmond, Sept. 19.—( AP)— The
first definite step toward legislative'
planning will be ’taken at a regional
conference of legislators and state of-!
flcials from five southern states at
Asheville September 22 to ‘24. J.
Vaghan Gary, of Richmond, secre
tary of the conferen.e, announced to
day.
The conference, arranged by the
American Legislators Association, will,
be attended by legislators and offi
ciate of five states which are to holdi
legislative sessions next year—North
Carolina, Georgia. Tennessee and
West Virginia and Virginia.
The general conference is aided by
state conferences In each of the par
ticipating states. Important problems
of the five states to be faced in com- 1
lng session of general assembles n*
the participating states will be dis-<
cussed, Mr. Gary, a member of the;
Virginia House of Delegates, said.)
Particular stress will be laid, on em-;
ergency problems and tins ness.
Roosevelt Takes Campaign
Into Montana As Thousands
Greet Train A long The Way
SCENE OF~ ROOSEVELT SPEECH
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This is the scene of Gov. Frank
lin D. Roosevelt's speech at Salt
POLITICAL ORATORY
TO FLY THIS WEEK
Democratic and Republican
Candidates Warm Up
To Campaigns
EHRINGHAUS TO OPEN
Speaks Tonight In Rutherfordt'*i And
Go Further West ; Reynold* Opens
Drive; Jake Nevwell To
Speak
Raleigh. Sept. 18.- (AP) Political
>ratory will fly thick and fast in
North Carolina this week aa Demo
cratic and Republicans candidates be
gin to warm up for their campaigns.
J. C. B. Ehringhaus. Democratic
for governor is scheduled for four
addresses in as many days, beginning
tonight at Rutherfordton.
Tuesday, the Elizabeth City man
(Continued on Page Four)
KENTUCKY TROOPS
REINFORCE JUDGE
Convenes Fall Term of Court
To Investigate Latest
Feud Outbreak
Manchester, Ky., Sept. 19.—(AP)
In the same court house from which
hidden marksmen yesterday killed two
men and wounded another. Circuit
Judge William Lewis, backed up by
National Guardsmen. convened the
fall term of court today to inquire in
to the latest outbreak of Clay coun
ty's ancient and bloody sued.
Th» State troops were stationed on
the court house square where but 24
hours ago death waited for any one
bold enough to walk and across which
bullets flew which killed Common
wealths Attorney Frank H. Baker
and John Brookman, who rushed to
his side as he fell.
Frank Young. 40, was shot in the
hip and another bullet forced Wiley
Baker’s aged mother back intp the
house after se had trietl to go to hes
son’s rescue.
The two victims of a feud that is
traced bac# to Civil War days by
some old residents lay for nearly four
hours until GoOferncy Ruby Laffoon
sent troops and the marksmen in the
court house and nearby hills fled.
Other men known to be “enemies
of the Baker family were sai<t to have
slipped quietly out of towq beforfe the
troops arrived, but many of them wane
armed when they left, against the
possibility of attack In the hilte.
WEATHER
FOB NORTH CAROLINA.
Slightly olotedy tonight and
Tuesday; probably showers in
west and central portions Tuesday
and extreme southwest portions
late tonight; warmer In extreme
east portioar tonight .
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j Lake City, Saturday—the Mo*
I mon Tabernacle.
UTIUTY COMPANIES
EACE HARD BATTLE
Statewide Association Now
Forming Aims at Rate
Reductions
GATHERS - MOMENTUM
Group Originating In Charlotte Tak
ing t>n Mort- Serious Proportions;
May Offaet Utilities’
Lobbyists
Dallj l>lapnl<*h llarran,
In Ike Sir Walter Hotel,
nv J ( DA SK i:H V1L.1,.
Raleigh, Sept. 19. The power and
utility companies In the State are go
ing to have a real fight on their hands
to maintain anything like their pre
sent rate structures if the Fair Utili
ties Rate Association, now making a
Statewide drive for members, suc
ceeds in getting the 30,000 members it
has set as its goal, according to op
inion here
The objective of the Fair Utility
(Rate Association is to secure fair and
uniform rates for utilities users thro
ughout North Carolina, as well as a
fair return for the utilities companies,
the rates and returns to be based up
on impartial appraisals of the pro
perties of the utility companies. The
rate association maintains that at the
(Continued cm Pace Four)
EIGHT MEN INJURED
IN AUTO COLLISION
Wilmington, Sept. 19—(API—
Eight men members of the crews
of the government dredges Henry
Baker and Comstock were injured
when their automobiles collided
during a heavy fog five miles
south of Southport today. One of
the injured was in a critical con
dition.
The machines crashed head-on
on the Georgetown highway. All
the Injured were taken to South
port, about 20 nitlese from here,
for treatment
William Allen White Has
Plan To Protect Right Os
Constitutional Amendment
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Washington, Sept. 19 —Attorney
General Will jam DeWitt Mitchell,
who rates as one of the beet lawyers '
in the -United States, having just
broadcast his views concerning "Me
thods' of Constitutional Amendment in
Particular Relation to Prohibition
Proposals,” the occasion strike* ms as
appropriate for a broadcast
of the constitutional ideas of an indi
vidual whom I regard as one of the
greatest editor*.
I mean Wll ham Allen White of the
Emporia (Kan.) Gazette.
Some time ago Editor Wblto pub
6 PAGES
TODAY
FIVE CENTS COjPl
CHEERING THRONGS
MEET NOMINEE AT
STOPPING PLACES
Idaho City Turns Out In
Great Numbers as Train
Halts Half an Hour
at Pocatello
THREE HOUR STOP
IN BUTTE, MONTANA
Governor Then Starts For
Seattle, Wash., for Pause
Tuesday Morning; Second
Week of Three Weeks
Swing Across Country I*
Begun by Party
Bn Route to Butte. Montana. Sept.
19 ( AP) Sweeping northward thro
ugh the mountains in Idaho, the home
state of Republican Senator William
E. Borah. Governor Roosevelt today
brought his presidential candidacy in
to Montana, with a three-hour stop
at Butte.
At 1 p. m. the Roosevelt special was
scheduled to resume its journey into
‘-he Pacific Northwest, with the next
stop at Seattle, Tuesday morning.
Entering upon the second week of
his three weeks swing into 21 stat« 3.
stretching from his home state of
New York to the Pacific coast, tha
Democratic nominee laat night made
appearances at Ogden, Brlghtan and
Cache Junction. Utah, and McCam
mon. Pocatello and Idaho Falls.
Idaho. Crowds ranging from a few
hundred to cheering throngs of 5.-
000 to 6.000 at Pocatello were at the
station to meet Mr. Roo«ex r elt. The
train stopped at the Idaho City for
30 minutes.
Sen. Davis
Is On Trial
In Lottery
Government Calls
Accused Official
“Mussolini Os The
•Moose’* Order -
New York. Sept. 19 tAP)— Describ
ed by the government as a "Mussolint
of the Moose." and charged with par
ticipation in lotteries for hie own fie
nancial benefit. United States Senator
James J. Davis, of Pennsylvania, for*
mer iron puddler and later secretary
of labor under three presidents, went
cn trial in Federal court today.
The jury wan selected In lees than
two hours, with two understudy Jury
men to prevent possibility of mistrial
by sickness of a juror.
The afternoon session began with tha
opening statement of Assistant U. 8*
Attorney Louis M. Tre&dweH.
Treadwell said documents would bs
introduced to show that Senator
Davis piraHtfed personally by mors
than SIOO,OOO by alleged lotteries held
in connection with the activities of tha
Loyal Order of Moose, of which Davis
Is the national head. He asserted that
Davis knew all about the alleged lot
teries.
lished an editorial expressing his opin
ion to the pressure of wet sentiment
was reaching the danger point, due
to lack of a means of testing itself and
thus proving, to its own satisfaction as
well as the satisfaction of otherr
whether or not it was in an actusl
majority.
Not only as coming from a dry
(since I take it that the Kansan so
classifies) but because Editor Wtaltq
is Editor White, ttvis seemed to me sn
Interesting utterance and I wrote t-, its
author, asking him what he thought
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