HENDERSON,
GATEWAY TO
CENTRAL
CAROLINA.
TWENTIETH YEAR
DEBTS must be adjusted, couzens advises parley
Merchants Agree
On Fight Against
Sales Tax Levies
State Convention In Wins
ton-Salem Are Uncer
tain, However, on Me
thods To Pursue
FORMINGPOLITICAL
GROUP BEING URGED
Others Suggest Separate Or
ganization, Such as “Con
sumers League,” With
Every Opponent of Sales
Tax Eligible; President
R. R. Gay Is Presiding
Winston-Salem. June 26.—(AP)—
With more than 500 delegates on
hand, and the State sales tax foremost
in the minds of each the North Car
o.ina Merchants Association opened
its annual two-day State convention
h-re today.
R. R. Gay, of Rocky Mount, presi
dent of the organization, called the
convention to ord^r.
Mayor George W. Coan and T. B.
D xon, ptesident of the Winston-
Salem Merchants Association deliver
ed addresses of welcome .The re
sponse was made by T M. Hunter,
of Fayetteville.
More delegates tvere arriving hour
ly. and W. L. Dowell of Raleigh,
executive secretary, said his predic
tion that 1,500 members would regis
ter for the convention would be ful-!
filled by nightfall.
Meanwh.le. there was a consider
able Informal discussion in several
groups as to whether or not the as
sociation should organize as a poli
tical unit to fight the sales tax.
Wlhile virtually al lwere agreed on
a fight, there was a sharp differ
ence of opinion as> to how the fight
should be made. Sotne delegates ad
vocated using the present organiza
tion as political unit to fight the sales
tax. while others suggested a separate
organization, such as a “consumers
league,’’ which would be open to mem
bership to any one who opposed the
tax. ” ■
With this difference of opinion,
delegates said that any effort that
might be made to commit the asso
ciation probably would not formally
reach the flour until tomorrow.
Weaver Improved
Following Injury
In An Auto Crash
Durham, June 26. — (AP)—Represen
tative Zebulon Weaver of the eleventh
North Carolina district was improv
ing here today in a hospital where
he was taken after bein ginjured in
an automobile accident in Granville
county Saturday. Weaver, whose col
lar bone was fractured expects to be
released from the hospital the latter
part of the week.
Will Review
All Claims
Os Veterans
Hines’ Bureau De
cides To Act Quick
ly on So - Called
‘Presumptive’ Cases
Washington, June 26 (AP) —A deci
sion by the Veterans Administration
s o s-t uip special boatrda of five
members in th e areas of the regional
offices to review presumptive dis
ability cases was disclosed in letters
■firm Frank T. Hines, administrator
of veterans affairs, to members of
Congress. '
H:n s said it had been decided to
ssk governors, senators and the board
oi trade or chamber of commerce in
farh siate to submit nominations for
three of the five members to he ap
po nted by th P President. The other
'wo will he Veterans Administration
member*.
Ihe rev ewing boards provided for
the veterans compromise enacted in
1 or closing hours of Congress will go
ov "f the cas’s of veterans whose ♦jtu
pensation is being paid on the pie
''motion that ailments resulted fvoan
service , _ . j _ ; r i.!.Aikl
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Action of Judge James E. Horton
{above), of Decatur, Ala., in or
dering a third trial for Heywood
Patterson, one of eight defendants
in the Seottsboro cause celebre who
was found guilty in a second trial,
is subjecting him to both praise and
condemnation. Judge Horton pre
sided at the second trial.
HOSPITALINMATES
MAKE VAIN BREAK
Six Negroes At Goldsboro
Insane Asylum Fail To
Obtain Liberty
HOLD OUT ALL NIGHT
Four Are In “Criminally Insane”
Ward and Other Twio Are Pat
ients; Surrender on Threat
Os Tear Gas
Goldsboro, June 26.—(AP)—Six in
mates of the State Hospital for Negro
Insane here made a vain break for
freedom last night, officials revealed
today but. submitted peacefully this
morning after standing off guards
during the night, when they partially
wrecked one of the wards.
Four of the six were committed to
the hospital as criminally insane. The
other two were patients.
Hospital attaches said one of the
leaders was Jake “Sunshine” Jones,
convicted in Wake county and sen
tenced to life for the murder of a
filling station attendant.
George Foster a Negro guard, was
on duty, and said he suddenly saw the
six advancing on him. He suspected
(Continued on Page Five.)
NORMAN DAVIS OFF
TO SEE THE CHIEF
New York. June 26.—(AP)—Norman
H. Davis, United States ambassador
at-large, left his home in New York
today for Boston, from which point
he will go to a point to confer with
President Roosevelt.
Roosevelt
Yacht Now
Fog-Bound
Lake Bay, Rogue Island, Maine,
June 26.—(AP)—President Roosevelt
today was fog-bound in isolated north
ern Maine aboard the schooner yacht
Amberjack II in the same spot where
20 years ago he was forced to remain
four days and nights because of si
milar weather conditions.
The President, however, was hope
ful that mists rolling in from the sea
would lift in time for him t 0 move
a little farther to the eastward by
nightfall.
During his enforced idleness, the
skipper spurn yarns of the sea with
his youngest sons, Franklin, Jr., and
John in the warm little cabin of the
Amberjack 11. Later if conditions im
prove, Mr. Roosevelt plans to do some
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ONLY DAILY
d™ Kay
THROUGHOUT STATE
Hundreds of Workers Out
Talking With Farmers*
In the 67 Cotton Grow
ing Counties
FOUR MILLION BALE
REDUCTION IS GOAL
North Carolina’s Quota Is
363,000 Acres To Be De
stroyed; Two Types of
Contracts Are Offered
Farmers; Government To
Pay for Abandoned Crop
Raleigh, June 26.—(AP)—North
Carolina’s cotton reduction pro
gram swung into operation today,
but cannot get into full swing un
it i l tomorrow, so >an additional
seven days has eben allowed for
♦he campaign, Dean I. o. Schaub,
of N. C. State College, announced
today.
Federal authorities in Washing
ton today granted the extension,
Dean Schaub said, due to the fact
that final instructions and
blanks due to he received by
county workers today were not
ready.
Dnlly l)ispnl< h mired*.
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
MV .1 C. UASKERVILL.
Raleigh, June 26.—Hundreds of
workers are out talking with cotton
farmers today in the 67 cotton grow
ng counties in North Carolina ex
plaining to them the provisions of the
contracts in the Federal government’s
cotton acreage campaign in which it
is hoped to destroy enough of this
year’s crop to bring about a reduc
tion of 4,000,000 bales. The quota as
signed to North Carolina is 363,000
acres, and Dean I. O. Schaub, of the
Agricultural Extension Division of
State College in charge of the acre
age reduction campaign in this State,
believes that this quota will be ob
tained by the end of this week. No
definite figures on the number of con
tracts signed or the number of acres
that will be destroyed are expected by
Dean Schaub until Wednesday or
Thursday, although enough contracts
may be signed before that date to
Show a definite trend
The * acreage reduction campaign in
this State is expected <to move ahead
morel rapidly than in a number of
the other cotton states, owing to the
(Continued on Page Five.)
STATE CONTRACTING
60,000 TONS OF COAL
Awards Being Made for School Next
Winter «t Prices Slightly
Higher Than 1932-33
Unity Ulapatck Barrna,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
f»T J. C MASKER.VII,I,.
Ra/jUjfg'h, June 126„t —Contracts fori
60,000 tons of coal to be used in the
publ.c schools of this State next win
ter, have just been let by the Di
vision of Purchase and Contract. The
greatest portion of tms coal was pur
chased at prices ranging from 75
cents to 95 cents per ton at the mines,
although some smaller quantities of
more expensive grades were purchas
ed. Most of the prices obtained were
only slightly higher than prices paid
last year, according to A. S. Brower
director of the divsion, and these
prices are also subject to whatever
increase becomes necessary to take
care of the wage increases in th coal
filds that may be ordered by the Fed
eral government under the nwe in
dustrial recovery act.
Director Brower and the State
School Commission are now making
every effort to get their orders for
the greater part of this coal in to
the producers before the new wage
scale and th 9 resulting higher prices
go into effect. The increase in wages
is expected to increase the 'price of
coal pr ton at the mine from 20 to
25 per cent, Brower sajd.
Rotary Meeting
Opens at Boston
With Big Crowd
Boston, Mass., June 26. — (AP) —As
delgates and their families poured in
to Boston today for the formal open
ing of the 24th convention of Rotary
International it was a far cry from
the first meeting of that organiza
tion in Chicago in 1910, when 60 men
gathered to adopt a constitution anC
elect Paul P. Harris founder of the
first Rotary club, president.
Shortly before the gavel sounaed
for the opening session today, more
than 6,000 delegates other members
and their families had registered in
th huge convention headquarters in
Mechanics Hall. ,
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HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 26, 1933
JOHNSON GETS BUSY WITH AIDES ON RECOVERY
* v; ' y £ *
General Hugh S. Johnson is shown
with the group of economists and
business and labor leaders whom
he has named to assist him in a
program for national recovery, at
the first meeting in Washington.
Left to right, standing, Joseph
Franklin, president of the Inter
Wilmington Gets
Big Sugar Cargo
Wilm’ngton, June 26.— (AP)—
The largest shipment of sugar ever
imported from through Wilmington
was being discharged today from
the Norwegian freighter Marian
for distribution in the Carolinas.
Consist ng of 52,000 bags, the
sugar arrived yesterday from
Hershey, Cuba, byway of Havana.
The customs duty will amount to
$109,200.
S MEN RESENTED
But $4,500 and $5,000 Pay
for Ehringhaus Appoint
ees Is Explained
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
Daily Dispatch Bureau,
MY J. C. DASKERVILL.
Raleigh, June 26. —State department
heads and employes here are anything
but pleased at (the high salaries being
paid some of Governor J. C. B. Eh
tinghaus’ new appointees while all
other State employes have had their
salaries reduc'id 38 per cent under
what they were getting in 1931. They
are especially displeased at the sal
‘ary of $5,000 a year being paid to
Dr. M. C. S. Noble, Jr., newly ap
pointed executive assistant commis
sioner og revenue while under the
38 per cent salary cut Commissioner
of Revenue A. J. Maxwell will get
only $4650 a year .although it is in
dicated that an adjustment will be
made so that he will get more than
his new assistant. They salary of
Harry McMullen, newly appointed di
rector of the sales tax division of
the Department of Revenue, has been
fixed at $4,000 a year, although the
salary of Assistant Commissioner of
Revenue O. S. hompson is now only
$2,812.50 and will be only $2,907.25
after July 1.
Not Playing Fair.
A good many citizens and taxpay
ers, as well as State employes, feel
that Governor Ehringhaus is not
'playing entirely fair either with the
(people of the State or the other State
employes by allowing such large sal
aries for his new appointees, accord
ing to expressions of opinion heard
(Continued On Page Ftaiir.)
Remainder
Of' Forest
Corps Off
Raleigh, June 26. —(AP) —All of
North Carolina’s original quota of
conservationists will be moved from
Jhe conditioning quarters at Fort
Bragg to their permanent locations
or into temporary camps on the mili
tary reservation before the end of
June, to make way for 650 veterans of
wars to be enlisted in the corps in
July, it was announced today.
Under a presidential order, North
Carolina is to have- 650 in the veterans
corps of 25.000.
This week’s full contingent of the
conservationists are expected to oc
cupy camps at Stantonsburg, in Wil
son county; near Durham, in Durham
county and near Walnut Cove, in
Stokes county.
Other state camps will be occupied
shortly, _ .... _
national Boilermakers’ union;
John Frey, of the metal trades de
partment of the American Federa
tion of Labor; Edward F. Mc-
Grady, former legislative repre
sentative of the American Federa
tion of Labor; Sidney Hillman,
president of the Amalgamated
Names Os Gold Hoarders
Will Soon Be Published
Attorney General Cummings *
Says Most Emphatically
Names Will Be Given
Public
PROSECUTIONS ARE
THEN TO BE BEGUN
Data Against So-Called De.
liberate Offenders Being
Assembled and Every Op
portunity To Comply Will
Be Given; • Much Is Al
ready Returned
Washington, June 26.(AP) —Names
of gold hoarders who refuse to return
the metal in compliance with Presi
dent Roosevelt’s orders soon will be
published b ythe Department of Jus
tice.
Attorney General Cummings said
today prosecution would follow pub
lication of the names, and the only
thing that was causing delay was
that th department desired to have
all its evidence completed before pre
senting a case to court.
“Most emphatically there will be
/prosecution of gold hoarders,” Cum
mings told newspapermen. “The 1 data
against what you might call deliberate
offenders is being assembled, and
they will be prosecuted. Before we
reach the proscution stage, however,
I intend to publish the names of those
persons known to be holding gold in
defiance of the President’s orders.
The attorney general said the cam
paign by the department to get
hoarders to turn in gold had resulted
in $23,000,000 being resorted to the
banks. He added that he wished to
present persuasive campaigns to be
carried out to give every body the
fullest chance to “do his duty to the
government and if they do not pres
sure will be put on them.”
Cummings said on June 24, 185 per
sons holding $1,141,819 of gold had
defied the government by refusing to
return it. It is this list he 1 plans to
publish.
Episcopal
Bishop Is
Forßepeal
Nashville, Tenn., June 26. —(AP) —
Listing four specific reasons, a state
ment today from the Right Rev.
Thomas F. Gailor om Memphis,
bishop of Tennessee: and former head
of the. Episcopal Church of America,
said, “I am in favor of the repeal of
the eighteenth amendment.”
The reasons were enumerated as fol
lows :
“The amendment was adopted with
out a just and adequate effort to as
certain the mind and will of all the
people
“The law has incited and encourag
ed crime and lawlessness of every
kind and has taken revenue from the
government Ipnd given it to boot
leggers and racketeers
‘‘l am in favor of the repeal because
as a Southern man I have been
taught to believe in State’s rights
“The repeal of the amendment will
leave the decision of the question of
prohibition to the individual states
and will not abrogate any law on the
subject that the people of Tennessee
may see fit to enact.” ,
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDATv
Clothing Workers. Left to right,
seated, Rose Schneiderman, sec
retary of the Woman’s Trade
Union League; Secretary of La
bor Frances Perkins; General
Johnson; Dr. Leo Wolman, eco
nomist, and John L. Lewis, presi
dent of the United Mine Workers.
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Seek Dismissal
Os Mellon Suit
Washington, June 26.— (AP) —
Attorneys for Andrew W. Mellon,
former secretary of the treasui*y,
and a group of other forme Trea
sury officials asked the District of
Columbia Supreme Court today to
dismiss a $220,000,000 suit against
♦hem charging they defrauded the
government in the settlement of
foreign steamship company taxes.
PREDICT MCEST
Washington Expects Farm
ers To Exceed All Ex
pectations in Plan
Washington, June 26 (AP) —Farm
act administrators predicted to news
paper men today that cotton farmers
would evceed all expectations in
agreeing to curtail production as a
week-long campaign to that end was
launched throughout the South
Meanwhile, plans were announced
for a companion effort to start the
prqpcsed wheat reduction drive by
J uly 1. |
Chester Davis, cotton production di
rector, said “the cotton plan provides
the most generous offe rever made
the American farmer,” and asserte
that advance indications of the re
sponse of farmers point to success.
C. A. Cobb, cotton production
chief, contended the camjpaign is
“better organized” than the wartime
Liberty Loan drives, and the 20 000
workers will be in the field during
the eek to hold meetings with farm
ers.
Davis emlphasized that administra
tors are seeking a substantial reduc
tion in this year’s potential crop
rather than the plowing up of a large
area.
Cotton yields vary widely, se said.
Railroads
Sharing In
Big Upturn
New York, June 26 (AP) —May ope
rating results of railroads that have
so far reported for that month re
flect the substantial upturn in in
dustrial activity. i
The first 18 carriers to file stato
ments had aggregated net operating
income for the month of $16,549 000,
against $9,938,000 in May 1932, an in
crease of 66.5 percent. In April their
total net operating income was off
about 17 percent from the same month,
last year.
Gross revenues totalled about $93,-
914,000, against $95,755,000 in the last
1932 months a decrease of 1.9 per
cent as against a decline of 16.5 per
cent in April gross from the same
month last year. j , ;
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By U.S. DELEGATE
Some Form of Permanent
Bpdy Must Be Establish
ed to Handle The Va
rious Claims k '
WAR DEBT IS NOT
MENTIONED THERE
No Invitation to Debtors To
Scale Down Their Obliga
tions, and Is Certainly Not
Intended as Invitation To
Default, Senator Says In
Speech
London, June 26 (AP)—-Senator
James Couzens, of Michigan, Ameri
can delegate, stirred 1 the world econo
mic conference today by declaring in
a speech that the world's debt struc
ture must be adjusted
He emphasized the necessity of or
gnizing creditors throughout the
world and of establishing some form
of permanent body to act in an ad
visory capacity between organized
creditors and organized debtors.
The Republican senator did not
mention war debts but referred to
indebtedness in general. He warned
that “this is in no sense to be con
structed as an invitation to debtors
able to pay to scale down their obli
gations.”
“Certainly it is not a n invitation to
default,” he said.
He urged worldwide action to raise
prices and to increase the demand for
raw materials in his address, made
before the sub-commission on imme
diate measures for financial restric
tions.
The senator asserted he did not be
lieve that “prices could b e raised bby
monetary means alone.”
Textile Man Dies
Os Auto Injuries
In Morehead City
Morehead City, June 26. —(AP) — J.
E. Hardin, secretary of the Proximity
Manufacturing Company of Greens
boro, died in a hospital here today
from injuries sustained several days
ago in an automobile wreck.
Hardin, who was about 60 years old,
died of a heart complication resulting
from chest injuries sustained when
his automobile overturned as he and
two others were on the way to the
ocean to fish.
Harry Dribben, of New York, was
killed in the crash and Richard Mit
chell, cf Greensboro, was slightly in
jured.
The crash occurred about four miles
from here on June 6.
Markets Os
Nation Rise
Rapid Pace
Cotton and “Farm
Belt” Stocks Boom;
Cotton Up $3 An 3
Wheat Also Soars
New York,
and the “farm belt” stocks boomed
in the New York markets today as
Chicago grain prices soared spectacu
larly.
Iti very heavy trading cotton fut
ures climbed $2.50 at $3 a bale, reach
ing the highest levels in about two
years. Buying poured into the mar
ket from numerous sources and
positions so|d> above ten cents ai
pound'. 1 i
Wall Street traders hastened to buy
the farm imnlements and mail order
stocks, but the rest of the market,
though firm, was rather narrow and.
dull > * >4)
WEATHER
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
I Generally fair tonight and Tues
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