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GATEWAY TO
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CAROLINA.
TWENTIETH YEAR
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Los Angeles Driver Leads Indianapolis Race At Half Way Mark
Tar Heel Driver
Forced From Race
By Motor Trouble
42 Drivers in All Roar Away
as Signal for Start Is
Given on Speedway
Course
HUNDRED THOUSAND
PEOPLE ATTENDING
Weather Is Ideal as Sun
Shines Brightly and Strong
Breeze Blows Aloft; Gray-
Haired Freddie Frame,
1932 Winner, of Los Ange
les, Leads Start
Speedway, Indianapolis, May
30 (AP)—With half of the
distance behind them, Babe
Stapp, of Los Angeles, was
leading the 500-mile automo
bile race today at the end of
250 miles, with a record
breaking burst of speed.
42 DRIVERS START WITH
SIGNAL AT THE OUTSET
Speedway, Indianapolis, Ind., May
30. —IAP) —Risking their lives at
every tur/> of the wheels, 42 drivers
rear'd away at 10 o’clock today in
the start of the 21st international
fOO-mile automobile race at the In
dianapolis motor speedway.
As aerial bombs exploded in the air
as the starting signal, the cars, roar
ing and snorting flashed away to a
flying start three abreast and 14 rows
deep.
Leading the pack was gray-haired
Ft? id p Frame, of Los Angeles win
ner of the 1932 evfent, driving the
same front wheel drive eight cylinder
C3t wi s h which he won a year ago.
At the time of the start it was
f Unrated that the attendance was in
the ne ghborhood of 100,000 spectators,
with additional thousands still stream
ing through the gates enclosing the
peiilous two and a half mile brick
track.
The weather was perfect for the
race There was a strong breeze aloft.
The sun shone brightly down from a
sky fleeced with pearl-gray clouds.
After <0 miles the car driven by
Paul Best, of Matthews, N. C., was
forced out by motor trouble, and that
reduced the field to 41.
McMillan Is
< governor Os
N. C. Rotary
Red Springs Man
Elected at Wrights
ville Meet; Newsom
Is Chief Speaker
V’ilmington, May 30.—(AP) — Dr.
Hr-roe D. McMillan, of Red Springs,
v,; i , lrcted governor of the 57th dis
tl int Rotary International, and W. C.
J f, < '■ of High Point, elected secretary,
■' i tlie group began its two-day an
-1 nal convention at Wrightsville
k-ach today.
B< leer ion of the next mee ting place
< r s he hody, which embraces North
ar >fl South Carolina, was to be de
< d<,i at the conclusion of today’s bus
niet-s session.
McMU'an and Idol were the only of
h ■t ' elected today. The other of
-1 t . aio appointive.
W. Phillips, of ureensboro, re-
A governor, presided over the
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Huey P. Long
HUEY LONG NAMED
IN $250,000 SUIT
Wife of Former Louisiana
Governor Charges De
faming Character
SUING IN "LOUISIANA
Alleges Senator Had Her Ejected from
State House at Baton Rouge and
Called Her “Drunken,
Cursing Woman’’
Raton Rouge, Da., May 30.—(AP) —
Senator Huey P. Long today was sued
for $250,000 damages by Mrs. Anne
Ectar Pleasant, wife of former Gov
ernor Ruffin G. Pleasant, who alleg
ed that Senator Dong had defamed
her character and had had her eject
ed from the State House during the
1932 session of the legislature.
The suit was entered in East Baton
Rouge district court.
Describing herself as a Taw abiding
citizen,” who “deported herself as a
woman of respectability, character
and honor,” Mrs. Pleasant charged in
her suit that Senator Long called her
a “drunken, cursing woman” in the
office of the State supervisor of pub
lic nccounts, and that at his orders
she was arrested and put out of the
State House.
The suit said the damages were
,asked because of the “consequent
hurt” to Mrs. Pleasant’s feelings and
her “humilitation and mortification.”
Two Negroes Are
Being Hunted In
Death of Woman
Spartanburg, S- C., May 30. —(AP)
-Authorities announced today they
hrd found “two reputable white men”
who said they had seen *wo Negroes
yesterday near the spot where Miss
Velma Martin was beaten to death
and Martin Stone, her escort, serious
ly wounded.
' Sheriff Sair. E. Henry declined to
make public lhe names of 'he men.
He said the description of the pair
corresponded to that given by Stone.
Meanwnile. possemen scoured this
section in an effort to locate the kill
ers and authorities concentrated on
finding the owner of a walking cane
found near Miss Martins body.
HENDERSON, N. C., TUESD.
They Came Down Smiling
1 '
Though only aviation cadets, Edwin D. Avary and William Altenbure
(shown, top), are already members of the “Caterpillar Club,” that or
ganization of airmen who have saved their lives with parachutes. Lower
shows the wreckage of Altenburg’s plane near San Antonio, Tex., fol
lowing a mid-air collision with Avary’s ship. Both young men are in
training at nearby Randolph Field.
Germany Advises League
To Lay Off Jewish Issue
Council at Geneva Told To Keep Hands off Internal Af
fairs of Germany; Question Already Submitted to
Jurists of League for Early Consideration
Geneva, May 30. —(AP) —Germany
in diplomatic phraseology told the
League of Nations Council today to
keep its hands off the question of Ger
many’s treatment of the Jews.
The Council, however, without Ger
many’s vote, proceeded to submit the
juridical aspects of the problem to
jurists with the understanding that
there will be a complete airing of the
entire matter later.
This action followed Germany’s re
fusal to accept a council report on
the treatment of Jews in German Up
per Silesia.
Friedrich von Kellar, the German
delegate, declared Franz Bernheim, a
German Jew, residing in Upper Silesia
H JOB CENTER AGAIN
I
Both Jeffress and Pou Fac
tions Claim Their Ap
pointment Likely
GOVERNOR TO DECIDE
Early Selection by Ehringhgaus Ex
pected; Jeffress as Business Man
and Pou as Poliiiciajn ,
Are Sized Up : •
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
BY .1. C. MASKERVILL.
Raleigh. May 30.—The contest go
ing on between the friends of Chair
man E. B. Jeffress, of the State High
way Commission and Superintendent
George Ross Pou, of the State Prison,
in -endorsing each for the appoint
ment as chairman of the new State
Highways and Public Works Commis
sion. continues- to be the center of
{attention and speculation here, de
spite the fact that there are many
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on whose recent petition the report
was based, is not of Silesian origin,
and has no right to raisei the ques
tion of the application of German laws
in Silesia, nor to speak for the pop
ulation.
On May 20 the League decided to
give “urgent treatment” to Bern-
Jaeiim’s petition, complaining thtt
Germany's treatment of the Jews
violates the German-Polish conven
tion guaranteeing protection to the
life and liberty of alii inhabitants.
The Council’s report said the laws
in question Involve restrictions in va
rious forms which would apply only
to persons belonging to the Jewish
population, an din violation of the.
Polish-German convention.
COLOMBIA TEXTILE
STRIKE BROADENED
Ware Shoals Workers Strike
as Wake Increase Is
Given One Plant
Ware Shoals. S C , May 30—
(AP) —The Ware Shoals jMt* m
facturing Company where 1,200 cot
ton mill workers struck last night
resumed operations with a coni)*
plete shift this afternoon. Thie
management had announced the
mill would be opened at nooi for
those desiring to reutm to work.
Virtually every employee went U>
his post at that time.
Columbia. S. C., May 30. —(AP)
Workers in the Ware Shoals Manu
facturing Company’s cotton mills to
day joined operatives of two other
iScuth Carolina textile plants on strike
while a walk-cut in a fourth had been
settled by a wag? increase
The Ware Shoals workers, about 1,-
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Y AFTERNOON, MAY 30, 1933
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Two Guards Also Taken and
Trio Used as Shield To
Force Way From
Penitentiary
BREAK IS MADE AT
HOLIDAY BALL GAME
Officers Later Overtake
Fugitives’ Automobile but
Fear to Shoot Lest They
Hit Guards; Convicts’ Car
Continues on Westward
Through State
Lansing, Kans., May 30.—(AP)
Kirk Prather, warden of the Kansas
penitentiary, and two or three guards
were kidnaped today by a group of
armed convicts, wiio used them as
shields to escape. Another guard, John
Stewart,,- was wotthded when he at
tempted to prevent the break.
Shortly after their escape, the
Dcuglas county sheriff was inform
ed by deputies stationed about -ten
miles from Lansing that the convicts
had changed cars and were travelling
west on Highway 40. Witnesses to the
escape said* the prisoners drove away
in two automobiles.
A. J. Graham, assistant warden,,
said that two guards, L. D. Laws,
and John Sherman, had been taken in
addition to the warden.
Other reports said hat three guards
had been kidnaped.
The break occurred during a Mem
orial Day baseball game at the prison
between two American Legion teams.
One prisoner sneaked up behind the
warden and pinned his arms a.s the
warden was watching the ball game.
The escaping convicts used Warden
Prather as a shield in getting out of
the prison.
OVERTAKE FUGITIVES BUT
CAN’T SHOOT AT PRISONERS
Lawrence, Kans., May 30. —(AP)
Officers pursuing the escaped Kan
sas penitentiary convicts, came upon
the fugitives at Linwood, Kans., east
of here, but were unable to fire upon
them for fe'ar of striking two guards
held on the running board as shields,
a report to the Douglas county
sheriff’s office said.
Former Commander of Lost
Dirigible Testifies In
Congress Probe
Washington, May 30 (AP) —Com--
inlander Charles E. Rosendaihl, first
coirimlander of the lil-fated Akron,
testified at the joint congressional in
quiry todav that he would have taken
A course different from the one which
carried the navy airship to disaster
off the New Jersey coast April 4.
A survivor of the Shenandoah
crash in Ohio in 1925 and later com
mander of the Loj Angeles, Ros-ui
dahl, said he could not believe that
Commander McCord, of the Akron,
had all weather data available when
bo took off.
The only other deduction from the
airship crash in arriving at the cause
of the disaster, Rosendahl said was
“wholesale disregard of information,
to this I cannot subscribe."
“If you ihad been in comimland that
night,” questioned Representative Del
aney. Democrat, New York “would
you have gone ou tthat night?”
“I would have taken a different
course, at least,” replied Rosendahli.
WEATHER
FOR NORT HCAROLINA.
Showers tonight; Wednesday
generally fair, except showers on
the coast. ,
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTMKNOOM
EXCEPT SUNDAY,
White House In
Spirited Denial
Os Late Reports
To Economic Meet
CAME:: COU ZENS
COOZENMEO TO
Michigan Senator Appoint
ed by Roosevelt To Round
Out Delegation
WILL SAIL TOMORROW
Others Are Hull, Pittman, Jdcßeyf
nolds and Ciox; Johnson and La-
Follett** Declined Appoint
ment by President
Washington, May 30—(AP)—Sen
ator Couzens, Republican, Michigan,
today accepted appointment by Presi
dent Roosevelt as a member of the
American delegation to the London
economic conference.
H»i is the first Republican to be
named, the other members selected so
far being Secreary Hull; Senator Pitt
man, of Nevada; Representative Mc-
Reynolds, of Tennessee, and James M.
Cox, of Ohio.
The delegation sails tomorrow aft
ernoon from New York for the Bri
tish capital.
Couzens was asked by the President
to join the delegation only yesterday.
Previously, Senators Johnson, of Cali
fornia, and LaFaUette, of Wisconsin,
had expressed regret in declining to
serve.
Banker Had
Bought Big
Lot Stocks
W. J. Holloway, of
Durham First Na
tional, Involved In
$82,000 Shortage
Durham, May 30. —(AP)—The gov
ernment today introduced evidence in
'Federal court here purporting to
show that W. J. Holloway, former
president of the closed First. National
Bank, of Durham, on trial charged
with embezzlement, purchased for him
i self and others large blocks of Cities
Service stock during May, 1930, and
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Dealing With European
Debtors Individually and
Separately, State,
ment Emphasizes
INSISTING UPON
PAYMENT JUNE 15
Secretary to President Issues
Statement Setting at; |Re*
Rumors of New Deal in
Negotiations; Roosevelt is
Not To Seek Powers From
Congress
Washington, May 30.—(AP) — The
White House today emphatically de
nied a new revival o freportg that
President Roosevelt was negotiating
for partial payment of war debts.
As has been asserted repeatedly, it
was emphasized in sources close to
President Roosevelt that he is dealing
-with European debtors individually
and separately. According to all the
outward signs, he is insisting on pay
ment of the June 45 Installments.
Some newspaper dispatches publish
ed today (not distributed by The As
sociated Press) and purporting to tell
of a new course being taken by Mr.
Roosevelt, prompted the following
statement from Stephen T. Early, sec
retary to the chief executive:
“Press reports stating that the
President will use treaty powers to ad
just the debts, or would permit par
tial payment on the principal or tha
amount in default, are pure specula
tion, with doubt as to the word ‘pure.’
“The President at this time has no
such intention and probably never
will pursue such a course”
It has become definitely known that
Mr- Roosevelt will not propose that
Congress give him specific power to
revise the debts.
However, congressional leaders un
derstand he will inform Congress be
fore adjournment of the status of th>
war debt negotiations which he is
conducting alone.
Roosevelt’s
Program Is
Pressed On
Senate, Prepares
Vote on Money Bill
and Bi - Metalism
Plan Is Approved
Washington. May 30. —(AP) — Con
gress spent Memorial Day in advanc
tog President Roosevelt’s donTssitfa
recovery legislation.
The Senate drove ahead toward '<.
vote on the half billion dollar inde
pendent offices appropriation bit
with its additional economy power,
for the President.
The House itself was not in see*
sion, but its committee were busy
Ready to resume the spectacular in
vestigation tomorrow into the opera
tions of J. P. Morgan and Company
the Senate Banking Committee de
cided to ask its counsel, Ferdinand.
Pecora, to give a report in a morning
executive session o nthe -evidence, he
intenijs to submit in toe probe.
The committee made this decision
after Senator Glass Democrat, Vir
ginia, committee member, had renew-
I ed demands to know the course Pe
cora is taking.
A resohd on was adopted by the
House Foreign Affairs Committee in
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