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HENDERSON, GATEWAY TO CENTRAL CAROLINA. TWENTIETH YEAR WHUT DRIVE FOR SLASH 1933 COTION CROP 10 START MONDAY State College Extension Ser vice Completes Set-Up for Contacting 90,- 000 Growers QUOTA FOR~STATE TO BE 363,000 ACRES Final Instructions To Be Given County Agents and Workers Over Week-End on Return of Assistant Di rector From Washington With Information Raleigh, June 24 (AP)—<North Caro line | comiblned lagnlcvflturgl forcers, under the direction of the North Carolina Statq College Agricultural Extension Service, -will launch the Slate's cottiJon reduction camTjatgn Monday in 67 cotton growing coun- : ties. Instructional and preparatory meet j mgs to the campaign will continue j through Sunday and Monday and the I f, v 'tali cniotn reduction sign-up of 1 ?0.000 cotton farmers will begi n on Monday night. North Carolina’s quota to be re tired is 363 000 acres. Extension service forces have com pleted district instructional cam paigns in the cotton area, and re ports enthusiastic support and a gratifying reception of the cotton re duct'on plan by representative farm ers. bankers and business men. Final instructions will be given and other campaign workers over the county agents vocational teachers w;ek-€nd after the return of Charles A. Sheffield, assistant to the director, who was sent to Washington Friday night by Dean I. O. Schau.b, direc tor. to geh answers to questions which arose at district meetings htis week The cotton reduction contracts, with both plans for retiring acreage will be presented at community meet ings Monday. _ 0 SCOTCHMAN WINNER OF GOLFING CROWN Hoy Lake, jEngliand, Uune 24. (AP) —Michael Scott, 55-year-old in ternationalist, and member of a pro minent Scottish family, today cap tured the British amateur golf cham pionship for the first time, defeat ing Thomas Bourn, 4 and 3 in the 36-hole finals match. SUICIDE’S VICTIM DIES OF GUN SHOT Fayetteville, June 24 CAP;—Miss Fay Britten, wounded yesterday at Clinton by Raymond Green, who later committed suicide, died today in a Fayetteville hospital. She was shot at close range, just l'-low the left shoulder blade, with a shot gun. , \ Blood lira nlifusHonal Were Pesortjtd to in an effort to save her life. Formation Os Unions Now Urged illiam Green, Head of Labor Federa tion, Says Congress Has Paved Way ' v ishington, June 24.—(AP) — An a PP< al to unorganized workers of the n a'ion to unite “to obtain all the rig-h f - and benefits” of the national r : ov*jy a( »t, went forth today from Bre,-irif. n t William Green, of the Am- Federation of Labor. Meantime, off rials indicated that * general movement to organize in o rhe tries where the open shop or c f rnpsny unions prevail was already ’Heir r- wa y Htu j directed by .the feder ation. The hour has arrived when labor r:, n be free, free to organize,’’ Green’s letter, addressed to wage earn ‘ and . slaried workers everywbA e,” ' in. “C ngrsa has established your ! ;al rights to organize. Workers fv < ywh<. e should avail themselves cf opportunity thus prestn'-td.” mttmttßtm Bat lit Bispatrlr rTTT-— r~^ iLY DAILY PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OFNORTH CAROLINA AND VIISINIA. * FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. MOTHER DOOMED TO DIE IN CHAIR ||j| , v • >••• ... . Mrt. Mary Dach and her children. The first woman to be sentenced to death in Texas is Mrs. Mary Dach, a widow, shown with her three children, above. Convicted of the murder of a hired hand on INSURANCEAGENTS Seven Charged With Ope rating Mythical Life In surance Company DEATH BENEFIT PLAN Collected Weekly Premiums of 25 Cents, Mostly From Negroes Promising Benefits From SBO up to S2OO Durham. June 24.—(AP) —Seven Durham insurance agents today were cited to appear in court next week to answer charges of operating a my thical life insurance company. The charges were preferred by E. L. War ren of the State insurance commis sioner’s office. The seven are: J. E. Ferguson, fWade H. Crutchfield, George Ray, J. N. Roberson, Mack Messer, W. 'J. Nichols and John T. Blakessley. They were released on their own re cognizance. Warren said the defendants coher ed weekly pre’miums averaging 25 cents, mostly from Negroes, promis ing death benefits ranging from SBO to S2OO, and representing them as agents of a Raleigh benefit agency. Warren said he was told the agency was non-existent following an inves tigation after several deaths had oc curred. John M. Devane, of Fayetteville, Hurt In Auto Accident Rocky Mount, June 24. —(AP)— John M. Devane, Fayetteville lumber dealer, and prominent in State Demo cratic party affairs, suffered a slight fracture of the left temple and a broken leg when his automobile skid ded on a wet pavement and crashed into a stone wall here last night. His physician said his condition was “not serious,” and he expected him to be able to leave the hospital within a week. Rocky Mount, June 24 (AP) —John M. Devane, Fayetteville lumber deal er and chairman of the advisory committee of the State Democratic party, suffered a fractured skull and a broken leig v/ijen this automobile sk’dded and turned over todav. Dsvane was returning from Was’h- IhgtonL whfetije } (Senator Robert R. Reynolds and Representative Clark vesterday recommended his appoint ment as administrator of the public works program to be carried out in this State with thi e aid of Federal funds. He was taken to a hosp tal. His condition was descried as serious. Devane Was ass stH nt. manager so Senator Reynolds’ i r the l»st el ect‘ion. H 1 - was als o umber land county manager for Senator ,T. W. Bailev’s campaign when the sen ior senator defeated Sena,tor F. M. gumnoug*. ■■— REDUCTION HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 24, 1933 her farm near La Grange, Tex., Mrs. Dach has been sentenced to die in the electric chair. Mrs. Dach alleges she shot the man to save herself from an attack. Navy Suspending 5-Day Work Week Washingtm June 24 (AP)—The Navy temporarily suspended today its order for a five-day work week in the navy yards. The suspension was ordered by Assistant Secretary Henry (L. Roosevelt. It holds in abeyance the previous order that the five-day work week take effect on Sunday, June 25. The (order means navy yards will emtinue for the present on the fiv e and a half day week. working the half day on Saturday. Trend of Government Ex perience Demonstrates Futility, He Says (By Staff Correspondent.) Chapel Hill, June 24. —The whole trend of governmental experience de monstrates the utter futility of re liance upon arbitrary constitutional limitajtions to restrict and restrain tax levies Commissioner of Revenue A. J. Maxwell told those attending the Institute of Government here this morning, in discussing Article V of the proposed new State constitution. “The trend of -this experience and of the experience in other states de monstrates the truth that reasonable tax laws and reasonable tax burdens are not guaranteed or secured by ar bitrary constitutional restrictions,” Commissioner Maxwell said. “They Can land dio become jinconvenient. They can be and are the means of obstructing consistent structures of taxation to achieve the legislative aim At best, they give a false and un trustworthy sense of security and tend to obscure the literal truth that the responsibility must rest upon the cit izenship of the State. “The proposed Section V of the new constitution recognizes the utter fu tility of constitutional restraint that I have been discussing, and therefore iit submits general principle of limi tation and methods of restraint dhat will be more effective because they are not arbitrary in character and because tfyey are adjustable to condi tions as they may be. ’ “The most productive source of high taxes is an extravagant use of credit. (Continued on Page Six.) ABSOLVED OF BLAME FOR AUTO FATALITY Concord, June 24 (AP) —A coroner’s jury here today absolved J. B. Wal ker o;' Salisbury, of blame in the death of Janies H. Morgan 111, of Greenville, S C.. who died following an automobile crash near here yester day. Coroner I. A. Yow said witnesses testified that neither car was speed ing and the jury found the accident was unavoidable to a wet pavement. WORRIES GRAND JURY SEEKS TRIO CHAIN BANKS Guilford Jury Covers Terri tory of 12th Judicial District In Its Recom mendation solicitofTkoontz JOINS IN REQUEST Would Have Governor Eh ringhaus Order Probe of North Carolina, United and Psge Institutions; Re. port of Findings Is Made to Judge A. M. Stack Greensboro, June 24 (AP)—A State investigation of banks in the 14th judicial circuit) embracing guilford, Davidson and Stokes counties, was asked by the grand jury of Guilford county today. In a report to Judge A. M. Stack, th>y g,rand jury itecomvmended that Governor .Dhringhaus be requested to launch an: official State probe of the banking institutions having either their home office or branches in the district. •, , Solicitor H. L. Koontz is on rec ord as requesting such an investiga tion . ; Three institutions were named by the grand jury or Koontz —the Unit ed Bank and Trust Company, th'e North Carolina Bank and Trust Com pany and the Page Trust Company. The solicitor said it was his duty to ask the probe “because of the amount involved, the number of peo ple interested the extent of the institutions in question and the lack of definite facts available” to him. , » - - - - ... Conservation Camp Opens Near Durham On Next Tuesday Raleigh, June 24. —(AP) —Another civilian conservation camp. No. P-56, located three miles from Durham, will be occupied Tuesday it was announc ed today. Brigad.er General Manus McClos key, commanding officer at Fort Bragg, v here the men are-condition ed for. conscrva- On work, telegraph ed State Forester J. S. Holmes this morning that Durham’s entire con • tingent would move into camp Tues day, and that the camp at Stanton burg near Wilson would be completed at the same time. Locks For Cape Fear Are Asked Washington, June 24 (AP) —Repre- sentative Hancock, Democrat North Carolina, today said he understood epresentative Clark, Democrat, North Carolina, had received assurances from Secretary Ickes that the construction of a $1,500,000 lock and dam on Cape Fear river, 20 males south of Fay etteville would be one of the projects i n the public works program under the industrial recovery bill. Before leaving yesterday, Clark , conferred with Secretary Ickes on t'he ' project. MADE NO COMMITMENTS. ICKES TELLS THE ‘ PRESS Washington, June 24 (AP) —.Secre- tary Ickes today told newspaper men he had. “nxade no commitments” to Representative Clark. Democrat, North Carolina, and. a delegation which yesterday urged upo n him in clusion in the. public works program of a $1,500,000 allocation for a lock and dam, on the Cape Fear river. Ickes, chairman of the public works board in charge of the expenditure of the $3,300 000,000 said he had advised t'he group that th'e application for the work would have to come up through the State administrator, as yet to be appointed and that, this would be the policy throughout in handling such matters. LEATHER FOR NORT HCAROLINA. Partly cloudy, w th showers to night and possibly in interior Sun day; not much change in tem perature. * ..A ; v ffl - At top are some of the 24 giant Italian amphibian planes poised at Lake Orbetello, Italy, for the mass flight across the Atlantic to the Century of Progress exposi Dirigible Macon Is at Lakehurst Lakehurst, N. J., June 24 (AP) —The dirigible Macon, blinking her in <he early dawn, slid down out <he sky today to her new honid at the naval air station here. Officaliy commissioned as a navy ship of the skies, the vast dirigible flew from Akron, Ohio, where se was built at a cost of $2,450,000. She left Akron at 8:20 p. m., eastern standard time, yes terday, arrived over this field at 3:18 a,, m. and was made fast to a stub mooring mast at 4:20 a,, m., just eight hours after her depar ture from the Ohio city. ITS«TERMINAL l Governor and Council Os State Endorse $400,000 Loan by R. F. C. Daily Dispatch Btirena, In the Sir Walter Hotel. 11V .1. C. «ASKERVILL. Raleigh, June rr.—A port terminal at Morehead City with piers, docks and warehouse costing $400,000, is be lieved assured as the result of the action taken by the Council of State here Friday in adopting a resolution Morehead City Port Commission to the Reconstruction Finance Coropra tion for a loan with which to build the terminal. In this resolution, the governor and Council of State agreed to sponsor legislation in the nexet session of the General Assembly, to provide that in case the terminal does not earn income enough to amortize the R. F. C. loan, the State will make up the difference from the ren tal received from the lease of the At lantic and North Carolina Railroad to the Norfolk Southern. The Coun cil of State was so enthusiastic over the plan that it would have agreed to this now but for the fact that special legislation is necessary to en able it to do so. Now that the proposal has been endorsed by the governor and the council Representative Luther Hamil ton, of Carteret county, who presented the plan to the council, and who is also representing the port commis sion before the Reconstruction Fi (Continued On Page Four.) N. C. BANK ASSETS PUT AT $20,906,168 Greensboro, June 24—(AP) Smith Medlin conservator of the North Carolina Bank and Trust Company filed a complete state ment of the bank’s condition as of May 20 1933, here today. It listed ed assets and liabilities of $20.- 906,168 for the bank and all branches. PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY, LONDON tion in Chicago. Below are the members of the Italian air force who will man the fleet of planes. Inset, their leader, General Italo Balbo. * SEEN LOCK BOX Several SI,OOO Liberty Bonds and Other Valu ables Recovered TAKEN FROM CATAWBA Bebmged to President /of Bank of Catawba; Stolen When Bank Was Robbed Last Novem ber Found Near Charlotte Chicago, June 24.—(AF)— A locki box bearing the label of the Catawba Bank, Catawba, N. C., containing several thousand dollars worth of valuable, was found in the Catawba river today by a foreman working oiT the Wilkinson Boulevard bridge over that stream. A gold watch was engraved with the: initials: “C.H.L.” Frank Davis, the foreman, found the box in shallow water about 100 feelt from the Gaston county shore line. The river divides Mecklenburg and Gaston counties.• It contained among other things several SI,OOO Liberty bonds bank notes, notes now in force, cancelled notes, insurance policies, travelers’ checks, the watch and several empty money bags that had been cut open. The box wa slocked and the key still in the lock, he contents were soaked but the box had very little rust in it. Authorities said the box apparently had been thrown from an automobile crossing the bridge toward Charlotte. The box is about 20 inches long 12 inches wide and four inches deep. STOLEN WHEN BANK WAS ROBBED LAST NOVEMBER Catawba, June 24. —(AP) —The lock box found in the Catawba river near Charlotte today was stolen when the Catawba bank was roDbed last No vember bank officials here said. Dr. Fred Long, whose name ap peared on some of thei papers in the box, is president of the bank. Carlos Lowrance whose name also appeared on the papers, is Dr. Long’s nephew. The gold watch found was a Lowrance heirloom. RECOGNITION FOR RUSSIA IS SOUGHT Washington, June p4.—(AP)—The “United States Board of Trade” to day, in a formal statement, reemested President Roosevelt to restorer “‘full diplomatic relations with the Soviet government of Russia.” GIRL FALLS FROM AN AUTO AND DIES Fayetteville, June 24 )AP) —Mis® Lucile Kelly, 27, of Hope Mills, died in a hospital here today from in juries sustained Thursday when she fell from an automobile driven by J W. of Hope Mills A , FIVE CENTS COPY PARLEY COOPERATION FROM CONCERN FOR U.S. Mystery Surrounds Nature of Instructions Received Last Night by Aus- ■ tralian Delegate AUSTRALIA IS ONLY COUNTRY LACKING Americans Continue Effort To Obtain Cooperation; Hull In Statement i hose Who Are Seeking To Force Failure of Con ference Objectives London. June 24.—(AP)—Consider able uneasiness existed today at head quarters of the American delegation to the world economic conference as cO whether instructions Stanley x*. Bruce, Australian min ster to London received last night mean that his gov ernment will join other great wheat [producing countries in the American scheme for the restriction of produc tion. Mystery surrounded the nature of the communication to Mr. Bruce, who declined to discuss the matter with newspaper men. Americans were continuing their drive: over the week-end to obtain Australian adherence. Australia is the only nation lacking among the major producers, including Canada, Argentine and Russia, which already have g.ven the stamp of general ap proval to the plan. The week-end found a decidedly; more optimistic atmosphere: surround ing the conference than existed a few days ago, when the stabilization bat tle was at its height, and some* gold standard countries, including France, apparently were prepared to walk out of the parley if America should not stabilize immediately. With that question at least tem porarily solved, through a Franco- American reapproachment, achieved largely through the diplomacy of for mer Governor James M. Cox, of Ohio (Continued On Page Four.) A. C. L. CONDUCTOR DIES OF PARALYSIS Rocky Mount, June 24.—(AP) Thomas Owen Bunting, Jr., 63, At lantic Coast Line conductor of Wil mington, died in a hospital here to day from paraysis. The body will be taken to Wilming ton for burial. GOVERNOR ATTENDS ST. JOHN’S EVENTS Raleigh, Jun e 24 (AP)—Governor J. C. B. Ehringhaus and his private secretary, Charles H. Powell of Ox ford today attended thfei St. John’s Day' celebration at the Oxford Ma sonic Orphanage. Major L. P. McLendon, of Dur ham, was the speHj^X. Air Defense Os Germany Decided On Mysterious Raids of Propaganda Arouse Populace of The Whole Country Berlin, June 24.—(AP) —Air Minis ter Wilhelm Goering, struggling with a mass of thousands of telegrams from local chambers of commerce, trade unions and other organizations demanding air protection, decided to day immediately to place an orde: for the construction of two fast po lice scouting planes. He is convinced that these plane 1 are necessary, it was explained i: view of yesterday’s mysterious ai raids, in which handbills attackin the government were dropped on Bei lin. The ships will be used to purse and establish the identity of invadin foreign air raiders, it was said. “Yesterday’s air attack demonstra ed that our very existence is threater ed/’ declared State Secretary Eh: hardt Milch, of the air ministry speanikg in behalf of Captain Goei 6 PAGES TODAY
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