HENDERSON,
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA.
TWENTIETH YEAR
MORGAN WITNESS BANES
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“Get Fast Action, ” Roosevelt’s Final
72 Students Graduate In
Largest Class In History
Os Henderson High School
DR. HAROLD MEYER
DELIVERS ADDRESS
TO THE GRADUATES
"Six Key Words of Modern
Pioneering” Theme of
Professor From State
University
CAPACITY AUDIENCE
FOR FINAL PROGRAM
33 Boys and 39 Girls Receive
Diplomas; Miss June
Hardee Valedictorian and
Miss Marjorie Gerber Sal
utatorian; Rollins and
Payne Speak Also
Seventy two students, constituting
the largest class in the history of the
Henderson high school, were graduat
ed last night at the final exercises of
the 1933 commencement, held in the
South’and theatre, before an audience
that thronged the large hall virtually
to its capacity. The address was made
by Dr. Harold D. Meyer, of the Uni
versity of North Carolina, whose sub
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Acquittal Order
In Holloway Bank
Case Is Refused
Durham, May 31. —(AP) Judge
Johnson J. Hayes, in Federal court
here today, denied a motion for a
directed acquittal verdict in the case
of W. J. Holloway, former president
o fthe closed First National Bank of
Durham, charged with embezzlement,
and ordered the case to proceed to th<*
jury.
Arguments were immediately opened
an hour and a half allotted to
each side, and the prospect was that
the case would be received by the
jmy late today.
HENDERSON LOBBY
EXPENSES LISTED
E. F. Parham and B. H.
Perry Included in State
ments Filed at Raleigh
Raleigh. May 31. —(AP) —Preston
Satterfield, of Roxboro, paid Nathan
Lunsford, a luberman and L. M.
Carlton, an attorney, both of Roxboro
e total of $456.80 to lobby during the
1933 legislature, for a tow to shorten
'he seperation per.od necessary for
divorce in North Carolina.
Satterfield paid Lunsford $351.80,
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WomanNowOnDeathßow
For First Time In 17 Years
Ra'eigh, May 31— (AP)— For th©
fust time :n 17 years "death row" at
State’s Prison here houses a woman
prisoner condemned to die.
Sarah Black. 28-year-old Negress,
f l 'evicted of murdering her husband
iri Wilson county, faces electrocution
r >n June 30. Notice of papeal to the
State Supreme Court was served in
Superior Court in Wilson, but the
Plea has not been perfected, so far
as Warden H. H. Honeycutt, of the
5 11 on. knows.
Ihe woman contends that Robei-t
Co'lins shot her husband to death.
at her trial Collins testified he
thot Black once and that Sarah com
limtltersmt Urnht Htspatrir
uir the associated press.
CLASS OF 1951
Henderson High School
ROBERT GREENE, JR.
I President
JOSEPH FRANKLIN MILLS, JR.,
Vice-’President
JUNE HARDEE
Secretary
MARJORIE GERBER,
Treasurer
MISS LILY KYLE,
Sponsor
MISS MAXINE TAYLOR,
. Sponsor
WILIiIAM LYON ADCOCK.
HARRY STANTON ANDERSON.
SARAH ELIZABETH BASS.
JAMES HOPE BULLOCK
ALEXANDER DEAN BUNN.
WALTER BHODIE BURWELL.
WILLIAM S. CHURCH.
DAVID T. CLAYTON, JR.
RICHARD ERSKINE CLEMENTS
JR.
BETSY HINTON COOPER.
JAMES RUSSELL COWARD. t
ANNIE MAE CULLEY.
’ ROBERT G. S. DAVIS, JR.
GEORGE P. DIAMADOUROS.
MARGARET LEE DORSEY.
FRANCES ANN ELLINGTON.
EDITH WOODLIEF EVANS.
BEATRICE LEIGH FALKNER.
EVELYN PENDLBV GARRETT.
HAMILTON HICKS FALKNER.
CLARA SAMPSON FENNER
MARJORIE ELAINE GERBER.
ROBERT GREENE, JRI.
DURWARD HALL *
JUNE HARDEE.
NANNIE MAE HARPER.
GARLAND HARRIS.
EDNA MAE HOBGOOD
MARIETTA GRANDY HORNER.
DOROTHY PENDLETON HUNT.
I
Hessee Sentenced by Small;
'Negro Accomplice Sent
enced To Die
Durham. May 31-—(AP) Will H.
Hessee was sentenced to life imprison
ment in Statee’s prison today by
Judge Water H. Small following
Hessee’s conviction of being an acces
sory to the slaying last February of
J. N. Lasater.
Hessee was convicted of offering
S2OO for the slaying to Theodore Coop
er, Negro, who was sentenced to die
in the electric chair October 20 fol
lowing his conviction of first degree
murder.
The State alleged that Hessee hired
Cooper to shoot Lasater so that
Hessee and his wife could benefit un
der Losater’s life insurance, which
named the Hessees beneficiaries.
Prior to passing sentences, the de
fense attorneys renewed motions to
have the verdicts of yesterday set
aside, but these were dnied, and the
attorneys later gave notice of appeal.
Cooper is not privileged to bail, but
Hessee’s ball was fixed at $25,000.
pileted the murder. Collins was con
victed of having a part in the shoot
ing and was sent to prison while the
woman was sentenced to die.
Sarah says she is innocent of the
crime.
Should the sentence of the Wilson
court be carried out, Sarah would be
come the first woman to he electro
cuted in the State, though some 125
men have died in “the chair since
it was ins'aled in 1910.
The last condemned woman on
death row was Ida Ball Warren, of
Winston-Salem, whose death sentence
was commuted by the late Governor
Locke Crai gin 1916. „ : _
ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OP NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA. ' 1
VELMA JOHNSON.
KENNETH WILSON KING.
LUCY ARMISTEAD KING.
G. W. KNOTT, JR.
ALBERT GLENN LANCASTER
RUTH COSTELLO LOUGHLIN.
ZAZELLE COSTELLO LOUGHLIN.
MARY HELEN LOWRY
FRANCES MARTIN.
JOHN MacMILLAN.
JAMES COBB MILLS.
JOSEPH FRANKIftN MILLS, JR
AMY MURRAY.
EMMA LOUISA NOELL.
MAMIE RUTH PARTIN^
ADELE POWELL.
ELSIE POWELL.
LUCILLE MINELLE RANKIN
ETHEL JANE RIDOUT.
LOUISE JONES RIDOUT.
CHARLES EDWIN ROTH.
JOSEPH PARKS SATTERWHITE
ELSIE ELIS SAVAGE.
THOMAS H. SMITH.
ROGER DURHAM SPRUILL.
WILLIAM CLARENCE STAIN
BACK, JR.
JEANETTE WIMBERLEY STAL
LINGS.
ANN SHAW STEVENSON
SIDNEY SIMMS STEVENSON.
JOHN WILLIAMS SUSTARE.
MARION DORSEY TILLOTSON.
MAXINE TILLOTSON.
MARGARET PRISCILLA TURNER
ETHEL CLAIBORNE TYLER.
EDWIN G. WATKINS.
WILLIAM THOMAS WATKINS
JR,.
DOROTHY WILLIAMS WESTER.
JOEIi CLAUDE WHALEY, JR.
GRACE LEE WHITE.
POLLY ANNE WILLIAMS.
f!idTm®
ON APPOINTMENTS
Designation of i {Revenue
'Commissioner Especial,
ly Urgent, in View of
Sales Tax
MAXWELL EXPECTED
TO BE KEPT THERE
Harrelson Likely To Stay In
Conservation Department,
With Greatest Uncertainty
Over Jeffresg and Pou for
Highway-Prison {Post Yet
To Be Filled
Daily Dispatch Bnrenv,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
«T .1 C. UASKKHVILL.
Raleigh. May 31. —Governor J. C.
B. Ehringhaus may announce his
slate of appointment® when he re
turns here from New York on Thurs
day or Friday, it was learned today.
It is true that yesterday he again
declined to give any indication as to
when he intends to announce his ap
jpointments. when questioned by news
paper correspondents. But later he
confided to a friend that he intended
to work on his appointments while
going and coming from New York
and indicated that, he might have
them ready to announce on his return
here.
“It was suggested that he go to
New York by airplane rather than
.by train,’’ this friend said. “But he
said he preferred to go. by train this
time since he wanted to utilize the
time on the train between - here' and
New York to work on his appoint
ments. He evidently did not want to
get up in the air when he made up
his mind oil these appointments.”
If Governor Ehringhaus does man
age to make up his mind concerning
who he is going to appoint to the va
rious positions he must fill and an
nounces his decision before the end
of th te week, tons of worry will be
lifted from the shoulders of the va
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HENDERSON, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 31,1933
AMERICANS LEAVE
OPENING JUNE 12
Spokesmen and Aides Set
Out To Translate Into
Action U. S. Bid for
World Concord
rooseveltTstakes
HOPES ON RESULTS
Sequence to White House
Conferences With Foreign
Statesmen Recently Held
Here; Prominent Leaders
Make Up Delegation from
the United States
Washington. May 31. —(AP)— The
United States delegation headed today
for the world economic conference at
London, w.th one final terse instruc
tion from President Roosevelt:
“Get fast action aud cut the speech
es short.”
On that the diversified group of
spokesmen and techhical aides set out
to translate into accomplishment Mr.
Roosevelt’s bold bid for world con
cord, stabilization of currencies, lower
tariff barriers, higher prices, more
credit, employment and business.
Behind their campaign at the con
ference, opening June 12, were the
painstaking consultations with for
eign eaders at the White House and
State Department, upon which the
President had staked much of his
hope for success.
Boarding an early morning train to
make tt 2 o’clock ET sailing of the
S. S. President Roosevelt, the group
was heoded by Cordell Hull, secretary
of stae. It left Washington at 7:55
a. m.
The American delegation consists of
-Secretary of State Cordell Hull; Sen
ator Key Pittman, Republican, of
Nevada; Representative Mcßeynolds,
Democrat, of Tennessee; enator Couz
ens, Republican, Michigan; and James
M. Cox, of Ohio, Democratic can
didate for president in 1920.
Rotarians Close
Their Convention
At Wrightsville
Wilmington, May 31. —(AP) — Two
addresses, awarding of prizes and «
farewell 1 luncheon today ended the
57th district convention of Rotary In
ternational at Wrightsville Beach,
near here.
Cameron Beck, personnel director of
the New York Stock Exchange, and
Dr. Julian S. Miller associate editor
of the Charlotte Observer, were the
final speakers before the deleegates
from the North and South Carolina.
Red Springs and Greensboro clubs
were awarded the attendance prizes
and Greensboro, the only city to ex
tend an invitation, will probably be
awarded the 1933 convention. De
finite announcement is to be made
later.
Beck urged a greater understanding
of the problems of the youth of to
day.
Miller urged more interest in gov
ernment and politics. He referred to
tlie last North Carolina General As
sembly as “typical of the shifting
sands of sentiment,” and said that
“many congressmen when they go
home this summer will be able to
consider the bills they passed.”
Raleigh Side Show
Shorts About the Political Situation
In the State Capital
Dally Dlapatch Bare**.
In tlte Sir Walter Hotel.
nv_j c. BASKEnriHi.
Raleigh, May 31. —Rabbits and cat
fish almost wrecked tbei game laws of
the State and incidentally the State
Department of Conservation and De
velopment during the recent session of
ihe 1933 General Assembly. The boys
who have wanted to hunt rabbits
when and where they pleased and to
fish for catfish under the same con
ditions have been riled ever since the
State-wide hunting and fishing laws
were passed. They had more strength
and support in the General Assembly
that just closed than in any previous
assembly for several yelars and were
determined to do everything possible
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WfATHfR
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Fair tonight and Thursday.
MORE HUGE PROFITS
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Word To Economic Envoys
RELEASE COST HER FATHER $30,000
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This is Miss Mary McElroy, 25-year
old daughter of City Manager H. F.
Elroy of Kansais City, who is
ing from her experience at the hands
of kidnapers. After being held over
night by her abductors, Miss McElroy,
who is prominent in Kansas City so
Senate Nears Vote On
Pay For War Veterans
House Rules Committee Approves Civil Service Investiga,
tion; Air and Ocean Mail Contracts To Depend on
Salaries Paid to Company Executives
Washington, May 31 —(AP)-'The
Senate neared a vote today on the
half billion dollar independent offices
appropriation bill nearly all of which
goes to war veterans, while the House
moved on to consideration of a mea
sure setting up the new farm credit
administration.
Tihe J. P. Morgan banking invest
igation again held major interest, but
many senators also paid close atten
tion. to controversy injected into de
bate on the independent office s bill
by reason of the cuts in veterans
compensation.
One of the admendments voted in
the Senate debate would cancel air
and ocean mail contracts granted by
the government if the holders pay sal
aries to executives in excess of sl7,r
Armistice
Now Signed
In Far East
Designed for Breath
ing Space and Gives
Up No Rights, Pre
mier Says
Shanghai, May 31 (AP) —A
formal armistice in the North China
warfare wtas signed today by mili
tary representatives of China and Ja
pan at Tangku.
The truce provides, first, for the
demilitarization of the area bounded
by the Great Wall on the north, the
PeipingLMukden railway on the east
and the Peiping-Suiyuan railway on
the west; second for the dissolution
of the Chinese volunteer corps in this
area ; third, for the resumption of rail
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PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY,.
MARY McELROY
ci&ty circles, was returned unharmed
when her father paid $30,000 ransom.
Pol e were not informed of the kid
naping until the younf woman was
returned because of a threat to kill
the girl if they or the newspapers
were notified.
500. . ' - . ;I!| II I
The House Rules Committee gave
legislative preference to the Peyser-
Wlagner measure setting up a nation
al employment service by coordinat
ing Federal and State services and)
approved an investigation of the civ
il service Commission.
The object of the civil service probe
if voted by the House, would be to
determine whether members of Con
gress have exceeded State quotas in
obtaining appointments to Federal
positions.
At the request of President Roose
velt, the Senate added $48,000 to the
independent offices bill for American
participation in the International In
stitute of Agriculture at Rome. The
House last week Tcilled an appropria
tion for this purpose.
NE savedfrommob
Lone Day Policeman At Cal
houn Falls, S. C., Gets
Pair To Safety
Calhoun Falls, S. C., May 31.
(AP) —Two Negroes held in connec
tion with the slaying of Miss Thelma
Martin, of Spartanburg, were spirited
away, to another jail (Abbeville) this
morning when striking employees of
the Calhoun mills threatened to lynch
them.
George P. Edwards, policeman said
the mill workers congregated about
this Abbeville county town’s small
caiiboose, and made repeated threats
against the Negroes.
Edwards, the town’s lone day police
man, was forced to handle the situa
tion virtually alone. Edwards said he
warned the crowds that the men,
whose names! he said he did not know
were held ony as suspects and argued
with them against any violence.
With the crowd quieted for a brief
j time, Edwards arranged to have the
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8 1 PAGES
, TODAY
FIVE CENTS COPY
FAMOUSPERSONS
ARE AGAIN SHOWN
AS BENEFICIARIES
George Defends
Practice as One To Dis
tribute Risk of Under
writing Stocks
OVER 300,000 SHARES
OF UNITED INVOLVED
Woodin, McAdoo, Pershing,
Norman and John W.
Davis, Raskob and Lind
bergh Named in Third
Compilation of Individuals
Profiting in Dealings
Washington, May 31 (AP)—New
tales of fabulous profits and. f ambus
persons favored were unwound upon
todays resumption of the Senate’s
investigation of J. P. Morgan and
Company.
Upon presentation of a third list of
persons allowed by the wealthy house
to make inside bargain purchases of
George Whitney, a partner of
the bank, defended the practice as
one to distribute the rick, of under-'
writing.
IN lames of celebrities, old and new,
were contained o n this latest, the
third such compilation, this one deal
ing with the sale of over 300,000 units
of United Corporation stock to al
most 300 parties at some $7,000,000
below the market prices. Included
again were William H. Woodin, now
secretary of the treasury; Senator
William G. MlcAdoo, General John J.
Pershing Normlan H. Davlsi John
W. Dav.s John J. Rttskob and Col.
Charles A. Lindlbergh.
A new name was that of Edigar
Rickard, New York mining engineer.
As to the list of customers selected
for sales of stock, Whitney said crea
tion of these “was on the theory of
distributing risks that we didn’t con
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Cotton Hits New
High of the Year
In $1.50 Advance
New York, May 31.—(AP)—Cot
ton pushed more than $1 a bale
higher today to new record levels
for the season and year.
The market showed its widest
swing and greatest activity at and
shortly after the opening, when
contracts were bid up from $1.40
to $1.50 a bale on strong Liver
pool cables and in response to yes
terday’s sharp advance at New Or
leans.
Late in the forenoon the mar
ket eased slightly from the high
est levels under traders' realizing.
In later dealings the price range
narrowed, although the market
undertone remained firm*
11 Kansas
Fugitives
Uneaught
Warden and Guards
and Women Host
ages Freed by Es
caped Convicts
Lansing, Kans., Mlay 31 (AP)—
Eleven convicts, including three kill
ers were at large today, but the six
hostages they took" in their Memorial
Day escape ffrom the Kansas State
penitentiary here, were safe.
Warden Kirk Prather who leaves
office today, and two guards were re
leased last night in the cill country
of northeastern Oklahoma by s’?
of the fleeing prisoners and Tetumec
at 7:15 a. m.
Three women whose car Was com
mandeeied by the other five, report
ed this morn'rig they were safe a:
Pleasanton. Kans.. about 10b mile.'
south of Lansing, near the Kansas
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