HENDERSON, GATEWAY TO central CAROLINA. NINETEENTH YEAR High Court W on't Hear Davis Plea Asheville Banker It Refuted Appeal For Review Os Conviction In North Carolina Hl. WAS HEAD OF ASHEVILLE BANK In Going To U .S. Supreme Court. He Claimed State Statute Under Which He Was Convicted Wat In valid at Construed by Courts In Thit State n. Oct. 17 l AP)—Wai- L\i former president of the , Hi k and TriW Company. of , N C . which ciosed In 1930. !-. ! i re.:rw today by the 3a i ii of hiß conviction in tjia > m courts on the charge . statement on th2 f n rs ’h' hank . .vi- m n meed to imprpUon : f- ru five to sewn years on .n addition to be sent , n for conspiracy with • r [ i jiul Luke Lea. Jr., to mis . -.1 :jr having misapplied the Central Bans and Trust v r m> if Asr.»vlUe. N. C. [r.e b.na nad J 16.000.000 on de p - j r.ii appi-oxlmnaeiy 18.000 de- P' * J ‘ * ‘ .< v. .v iu!d have the sentence, •'.was a;»rt poved by the North ; ;i S ipreme Court, set a-Jde on ,nt that the State statut- un •v• cr he was prosecuted was in vtTued by the State court. >n to being sentenced to t i i harges of conspiracy with 1■ > j- 1 Le ■ Jr., to wisappphr and I • - misapplied the funds of Dank and Trust Company. •\' i > Davis waa convicted on ■*vif >jf having swam to a fate - v of th ■ condßbw* f tha Snteh ■ - • -jv banking ofPetals. Major Crops Are Short This Year Over This State :li’Ch Oct 17 —< ' i m<»jnr agricultural crop* in v "h Ciroiina. except peanuts, hay. * ■ v-®* oats and barley. Is i. •• t r - being amp ler this ye«- I • 'he five-year average, the Fed » >•,•»> Crop Reporting Service an • 't today. V S>ate "extremely dry dur • i ii • August and September. ‘ h a- the bays, fruits, roin • •-,'r*** showed "considerable -c -.voiarkable thing." the report that cropi have made even ' • fields this year.” Police Hunt ForManWho Is In Prison He Was Incarcerated L>r Larceny While Law Searched For Him i “’■“viile. Oct. 17.—(AP)—A story 1 - man sat in State Prison uiw h, ‘‘ r wr ‘ name while officer* 1 ‘ h “ country for him and “ h,i Partner was on death row fonviction in the same klll ' ' rPv raled today by Fayetteville ■ihers of the sheriffs office said • ian was Elvin White. Negro, d >u, a charge of slaying N. H. -torekeeper of Cumnock, near r.l last June IS. and that ha imprisoned, serving a sentence while his companion. Har ‘ ■’illHce. waited to be electrocuted - P* rry slaying. % ifter Perry was shot in hie ■' w bich time a friend, Tom ; v ' : also fatally wounded. Chatham county, where on a charge of lar " • «ffirp rß revealed. ‘ was tried under hie own ‘ o to Sute’e Prison, u- w., mcercerated while the . ' 1 for him tn connection ■ m-ihi*. killing at Cumnock. c .‘ ' r escaped, and ciruulat’ ~ im as watitcd for the *• •’ * The InformOtiow , r,, unty. where Perry wn ' < “fticers there recognised t ~ aph as tt.e man they WMtt® charge of murdci. i Umitersmt llaiht ©tapatrh r o» L Tw5*HBwJ nXB ■MBVICB or a®»ociat»d prim Huge Audie nee Hears President In Cleveland «■»—m-i— - . t Thompson Provident Hoover Inpalls £j ro . v[t President Hoover is seen delivering the second formal speech of his cam paign before an overflow audience at CtevMandf* huge Publtfc HhlA Left Torrents Drench Carolinus; Little Likelihood Os Floods Chariot t, Oct. 17.—(AP)—Torren tial rain* that poured over most sec tions of the Carolina* over the week end, causing a serious ainiroad acci deßt here overflowina rty^ r blypkinr highways ana crop damage, stopped early today, but promised to begin again tonight Rivers in various sections continued to rise .throughout the day and the dther rains are predicted giving prom ise of flooding lowlands and damag ing many farms. Four trainmen of the Seaboard Air- Line Railway were in a hospital here Ferguson Extortion Attempted Former Employe Ar rested In SIO,OOOI Plot On Shipbuild ing President Newport News, Va.. Oct. 17.—(AP) —An attempt to extort SIO,OOO from Homer 1* Ferguson, president and general manager of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Com pany and president of the First Na tional Bank of Newport News, led to the arrest and filing of charges today against Herbert Young, 41, former ehlpyard employee. Police, who have been investigating . the case since Thursday, disclosed the plot after charging Young with at tempted extortion. While four leilers written to the Ferguson home did not say that one r of the two children, who now are home, would be kidnaped or harm i ed, one of them said: | “One of your friends come r. r r and his children are safe.” The first of the letters was sent t through the mail and received at the Fferguson -bonje September 27. Others I followed at weekly intervals. - i. They said that a hold-up and rob . bery of the First National Bank, of r which Ferguson is president, had been • planned originally, but the olan had » been etahdoned because of the pro - bebility es bloodshed and »■"- ~f life -1 The third letter was sent O'* -* v er 11, telling Mr. Ferguson to await Imtruc s tkms came In a special delivery let i ter October If, instructing him Ac be I. at a specified point in Warwick • county with $10,060. c It warned Mm that there would be men on hand who “know how to a haadia if"* I** 1 ** gun*, end net to ia i muM of police and detectives ft wrnttoJSepieee end found Mmand u a companion in a parted automobile t in the vicinity. , k They arrested bdth on ‘ “ h “not of good fame, but Mu » released ; th« companion « toW, i.wiieei.w* mM w t- potto* today to reesmM* that in the letters, _ NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THI| SECTION <3* NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. ONLY DAILY HENDERSON, N. C„ MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 17, 1932 :;to right: Carmi Thompson, local Re-; i publican chairman; President Hoov- 1 er. David S. Ingalls. Republican can- j I tor governor of Ohio, and | today suffering serious scadlds re ceived when their freight train was derailed on a fill near here yesterday. Flood waters of a creek had uqder minsri ito fiH -•- - Weather Bureau officials measured Marion's rains today and found seven inches had fallen over the weew-end. All bottom lands were flooded. LITTLE LIKELIHOOD OF EASTERN RIVER FLOODS Raleigh. Oct. 17. —(AP)—Lee Den son, in charge of the United States Weather Bureau here, said today it Jap Writer Says Stimson to Quit Shanghai, Oct. 17.—(AP)— Resig nation soon of Secretary of State Henry I* Stimson because of “over playing his hand” in regard to the Manchurian regime of Manchukuo was predicted here today by K. K. Kawakami, Japanese political writ er and Washington correspondent of the Tokyo newspaper Hoc hi Shimbun. Kawakami, well known for his writings in the United States, ar rived today from a tour through Manchukuo. ! statefairgiveT RATHER BLACK EYE Some Profess To See Aband onment of Exhibition In The FdtUre Dnlljr LHspateh Baresa. la the Sir Walter Hotel« BY J. O. RAHKRRVII.L. Raleigh, Oct. 17—While the State Fair is undrstood to have "paid out” financially and thus to have paid for itself, the conditions that existed this past week in the midway, where gam bling concessions ran full blast until finally closed by the Wake county sheriff and the Raleigh police, has given the fair a very distinct black eye. according to a great many here. Manager T. B. Smith, of the fair, and Commissioner of Agriculture W. A. Graham, under whose direction the (Continued an kegs Sts.) GARFIELD SPEAKER AT HISTORIC MEET Ritelgh. Oct. IT.—(AP) I—The 1 —The thirty tttfonif »a«m«i session of the North Literary and Historical'*dk*- •oolntlon will be held her* on De cember 1 to l Dr. A R. Newsome, secretary, announced today. The principal speaker win be Dr. Harry Augustus Garfield, a son of Preeidmt James A. Garfield. He was fuel administrator under , President Wilson during the World War. Since 1806 he ha* been president of Wil- JjJL College, Wllttametoo, pass, Postmaster Walter F Brown, whose home is Toledo, O. Hundreds of po lice guarded the president. i was “very doubtfuT'f whether heavy ! rains over the Stats since Friday would cause floodedVstreaihs In -the "-■"The Gape Fear? fa? and* Roanoke rivers have been very low, making j close to ail time low records,” Den son said. “Much of the steady rain seems to have soaked into the earth, and I do not now anticipate any ma terial floods in the east, but in the west, where rivers have not been so low, and where the run-off is quick, the Catawba, and Yadkin rivers are I already in flood.” Papers Are Opposed To Hoover Win S c r i p p s - Howard Group, Cannot “Underwrite Roose velt” In Advance New York. Oct. 17.—(AP)—An edi torial published in all Scripps-Howard newspapers today expressed the op inion that “the nation will be better served if the Hoover administration Is not returned,” and at the same time stated ** we cannot underwrite a Roosevelt administration in advance." "Despite the effectively critical and enlightening campaign of Norman Thomas, the Socialist candidate, who promises to poll an extraordinary vote,” said the editorial, “the defeat of Hoover must mean the election of Roosevelt. “Whether a Roosevelt administra tion can meet the challenge of the na tional crisis, we do not know. We merely know that he and his party offer a fresh start, and we believe a better chance. “Since Roosevelt has to prove himself a great leader, since the men in his party with whom he must work in Congress have yet to demonstrate outstanding leadership, we cannot un derwrite a Roosevelt administration in advance, but we can say that Rooee velt’s expressions of political philoso phy are expressions of the philosophy in which w# believe. “As liberal* we have- supported Roosevelt in New York a*, governor and a presidential candidate when ever he was on the liberal side. We shall continue that policy during the campaign and if he enters the White House. “It is our hope that he and hi* party will merit such support increasingly.” WEATHER - FOB NOBTH CAROLINA. dandy with «»■ la mat and «pcireaM north |p«?rtton» taolgltt pnW# la iAt P«ti«« 1W day ttoraiaf; wt »® warn la «M* pwHiil Ta— day- • , Roosevelt Will Announce Opposition To Bonus Now, I ' New York Paper Declares DEMOCRATS HAVE REAL OPPORTUNITY IN PENNSYLVANIA Switch From Republicans So Pronounced Latter Have NoOffices In Pitts burgh Area CLEVER CONCEPT OF INDUSTRIES BARED Rumor Is They Are Piling Up Orders To Put Idle Workers on Job at Full Time Just Before Election; Big Contributors Flop To Roosevelt (Stopping off at Pitta burgh on hi atour of the country, Charles P. Stewart sizes up the trend la the politically important state of Pennsylvania.) By CHARLES P. STEWART Pittsburgh. Pa., Oct. 17.—Consider ing that Pennsylvania gave Herbert Hoover nearly 1,000.000 majority four years ago (987,796 to be exact!. It Is “going some” to claim that it will give a majority to Franklin D. Roosevelt next Nov. 8. Tet Democratic headquarters in Pittsburgh makes just that claim. From Pittsburgh's Republican head quarters comes no answering claim— for the excellent reason that western (Continued on Page Three.)^. ACCIDENT TOLL IN SOUTH IS 26 DEAD Atlanta, Oct. 17.—(AP)—Week end accidents cost the south 36 live*. 17 as a result of automobile mishaps on rain-swept highways. North Carolina reported two casua'ities. FATAL POLITICAL RIOTS IN GERMANY Berlin. Oct. 17—(AP)—Three were killed and a score were In jured in political riots ever the week-end. Granville County Note Sold. Raleigh, Oct. 17.—(AP)—The State Liocal Government ComntisSion )tcw day sold a 17,500 tax anticipation note Issued of Granville county Ho dhe Union Bank and Trust Company of Oxford at par, with an interest rate of six percent. Policemen Accused Os Conspiracy Government Charges Killing Os Two Men Was Out growth of Act Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 17.—(AP>— The government charged today that the hilling of a prohibition depart ment investigator and a Logan coun ty deputy sheriff at Russellville, Ky.. late Saturday were the outgrowth of an attempt by Logan county and Rus sellville officers to free prisoners taken in prohibition raids there. Frank A Mather, 49, prohibition investigator, and Bluch Soyare. 67, a special deputy, and superintendent of the Russellville waterworks were killed when they shot each other in a dispute at. a cabin in which pri soners had been corralled after being taken In raids. W. M. Woodruff, administrator tor the sixth district, comprising Ohio, Kentucky Michigan and Tennsssea. ordered warrants isseud for Mika Mc- Endree, Russellville chief of pokes; Dick Taylor, night patrolman there, and Jack Kemp. Logan county de puty sheriff, the party of officer* tatt entered the cabin. They were accused of conspiracy to rescue Federal prisoners; conspiracy to prevent Federal officers froua do ing their duty, and conspiracy to take seised property from the custody of Federal officers. _._ t 08 * yjL *■' * This is the new memorial to the Wright brothers, Orville and Wil bur, erected by the federal gov ernment at a cost of $275,000, at Kitty Hawk, N. C., tn commemo ration of the first successful flight in a power-driven airplane which took place at Kitty Hawk, Dec. 17, 1903. The monument, just com pleted. is 60 feet high. OEMOCRAISSPEED CAMPAIGN EFFORT 10 HIGHEST PITCH Ehringhaus And Reynold* Will Lead Verbal Bar rage Throughout The State Thi* Week WILL BE ASSISTED BY ABLE SPEAKERS Hoey, Bailey, Brummitt, Maxwell and Others Take To Hustling* In Behalf of Democratic Ticket; Win borne Urges Fight Right Up To The Final Bell UaUr Dlapafc* Rirraa. la the Sir Walter Hatel. HT J. <’ IIASKLH V ILL Raleigh, Oct. 17.—The most inten sive speaking campaign so far will be carried ou this week by the Dem ocratic speak?** being sent out by State Democratic headquarters here, with J. C( B. Ehringhaus and Robert R. Reynolds, the Democratic candidte for governor and senator, respectively, leading the verbal barrage against the Republicans. Apparently none the worse for his speaking engagements last Friday and Saturday, the first since an attack of appendicitis a week ago. Mr. Ehring haus today said he felt fully recover ed as he prepared to go to Hamlet, in Richmond county, for a speaking en (Ooutlnusd on Page Three.) STATEIPINANCES CAN EASILY WAIT Will Not Need Extra Legis lature; Maturing Notes Can Be Renewed EhUlr Dlapateh Bama, la the Sir Walter HH«\. ST J. C. RKKKRVILt Raleigh, Oct. 17.—N0 special session of the new 19*3 General Assembly is expected to be called by Governor O. Max Gardner, and present indications are that the members of this body will not come to Raleigh until time for the regular session In January. Gov ernor Gardner will not. discuss the Blatter. But btose close to him are convinced that he has no intention of calling a regular session unlsas some emergency not now anticipated arise. he State has R 000.090 In short tana notes coming due November as, and arrangements have not- yet been BMde for the renewal at thgse notea, Governor Gardner says, since it is tooj far abend to make such grranfe- Zt Is understood, however, that the holders of these notes have al fOunilmted